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> Study Shows Anti-Piracy Ads Often Made People Pirate More This is actually quite logical: if people pirated much less, these "anti-piracy" organizations would lose quite some funding from the movie and recording industries. S
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> It makes you feel stupid, but it's just an illusion. You realized where the mistake in your flow of thoughts is. This is, as I wrote, a good sign.
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> Can you help me be smarter? If you want to become smarter in math: Plan to understand work that some Fields medalists of your choice produced. If available, get a modern textbook treatment of their work (these, in most cases, are bette
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> They see these weird characters and it looks like gibberish and they assume that the people who understand this gibberish are somehow on another level of intelligence. Honestly: if you come to such a (dubious) conclusion, the conclusio
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> You’ll be happy to know that pickups are actually more dangerous for their driver. Mostly because they’re more likely to spin out or roll over. Just a consideration: Would integrating 5-point harnesses and an rollover cage into these t
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> The author may also benefit from investing some of their mental capital (I'm not being sarcastic, they're obviously very intelligent) into learning how to play the games I am not aware of any good systematic textbooks on this
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Concerning sources: I don't know about Australia, but in Germany this knot is illegal to own and carry this knot if it is additionally weighted with, for example, metal balls . Sources: Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org&#
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> So what if Microsoft is such an activist? Then Microsoft should very clearly state this so that customers who don't like this ideology know that they are not desired, and can get away from Microsoft products as far as possible for
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> I believe the idea is that society is prejudiced/biased, so training an AI using data from that society would perpetrate that bias. So there needs to be some manual correction. These activists are free to write their own code that
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> I don't think, e.g. being able to handle black faces correctly is some sort of massive ideological commitment. But tend people tend to insult everybody that does not care so much about such a topic as racist.
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> Whatever Copilot says, is said by Microsoft too, by extension. Whatever text I write in Word, is written by Microsoft too, by extension? *not*
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> There are actually corner cases here, although that’s not what usually comes up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex No biologist would claim that the sex is constructed.
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> Some models describe reality better than others, some are useful, some are harmful. The idea of science is to get rid of models that are wrong.
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Solution: let the user choose their political stance on such a polarized topic in the Copilot settings so that the user gets suggestions that fit his stance.
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> ReCaptcha does a similar tactic but rather than unsolvable it's a stream of the most annoying captcha -- "select all of image until none are left". In such a situation, I often think: isn't the fact that one makes &
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A VC fund will only get money if the risk-adjusted rate of return is greater than the rate of interest; otherwise backers of the VC fund invest their money elsewhere. This means that VC have to become more selective with respect to the star
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> They always say that what matters most to them is the founders. How can they learn to know people in 10 minutes? This is not (necessarily) a contradiction: they are interested in founders who can easily be marketed. ;-)
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> In addition there have been competing products launching within same batch This could actually be a strategy: look which of these companies "sticks" and convince the other companies to become acqui-hired by this likely winnin
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> I always find it amazing that applicants only have 10 minutes to present themselves. Consider this as a strong sign that YC is looks for companies that are an "easy sell" to VCs (the same holds for products that such companie
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> at some point in their process they borrow money I would be somewhat careful with such claims. As an investor who has money available, you have two options (in this example) where none involve borrowing money: a) invest in some startup
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Sure, but investors don't always act perfectly rationally, but also on soft criteria such as sentiment.
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> Unless all companies do things in such ways, equally inefficient Keep in mind that there also exists competition from companies from other countries, such as China.
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> “the market” will fix all inefficiencies. The market does fix many such inefficiences - just not in the way which most people imagine. It is rather that the market fix is that in the long term [!] such companies will go bust or at le
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> users hate [...] "engaging" content shoved down their feed. I don't think I really understand your argument: if the users hate the content, it is in my opinion not "engaging".
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> perhaps we should consider the well-being of a user and bake that into our algorithms. It might not be as profitable The problem rather is: how are we supposed to algorithmically measure the well-being of a user?
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> but the requirement to provide non algorithmic alternatives for content feeds. "Non algorithmic" means "some human creates the content feed by hand". This is also not free of lots of biases and what news portals in
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> Is it your position then that since the developers had neutral intent, therefore the algorithms do not need to be adjusted? No, my position is that since the developers had neutral intent, it is defamation to claim that these algorit
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> you can filter out toxic content from other engaging content. If this is your stance: what algorithm do you propose to separate content that is "toxic" from content that is "non-toxic"?
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> If it's known to be a correlation, then it's disingenuous to say they're innocent for simply wanting to amplify engagement. But if it's know to be just a correlation, it is a defamation to claim that this was done

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