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by renjimen 3y ago
Unfortunately, labor laws are harder to change than your perception of pain.
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Many military applications, obviously. Most of that is intentional harm. There’s a lot of unintentional harm in software too, such as biases in models for medical insurance companies, policing and the justice system.
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by renjimen 3y ago
Well yeah. Lead in food is very specific. Software is very broad. Nobody said all software was bad.
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by renjimen 3y ago
Great idea! I’ll be trying this out as my news source. One suggestion (maybe you’re already doing this), but it’s not just sensationalism but also the bias towards negative events being reported that could be addressed. “If it bleeds it lea
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by renjimen 3y ago
We use software to make all kinds of harm preventing and harm causing decisions. Military, medical, social, policing, financial. Pretty much all aspects of life
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by renjimen 3y ago
Ah, sorry. I guess I misunderstood. Thanks for clarifying!
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Productivity is a narrow metric for the success of society. Without these kinds of regulatory non-productive industries you would likely have fewer and worse social services, such as roads and the police. You would also be exposed to more r
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by renjimen 3y ago
The intention is to protect the rights and wellbeing of citizens. It’s short-termism to allow unfettered productivity gains at the expense of the populace.
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by renjimen 3y ago
Exactly. If they’re not willing to understand and vet their own tech in the face of basic regulation, then no thank you. Sad the US population will once again be guinea pigs for these disruptive technologies
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by renjimen 3y ago
That’s a wildly sweeping statement. I am assuming you don’t live in a functioning social democracy. You should try it some time, it might restore your faith in the ability of centralised power to improve the lives of its citizens
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by renjimen 3y ago
Then it should be factored into the profitability of starting in the AI sector. And just like for tax, there will be new external audit services that lower the costs of these overheads. In a way, these regulations create whole new kinds of
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by renjimen 3y ago
What? I don’t follow the logic. How could regulation in favour of protecting the rights of citizens over corporations be intentionally facilitating scammers?
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by renjimen 3y ago
But software can do obvious harm. This is surely one the most important lessons of the internet era
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by renjimen 3y ago
Thanks for replying! Also, great username, great band. I totally agree there are different strokes for different folks, and some sectors are really well suited to solo work. I personally enjoy the security of working for a company and havin
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by renjimen 3y ago
Well yeah, but we're unlikely to ever live in a world where there aren't paid jobs. Personally, I enjoy working with people. I may not make as much money as going solo but holistically my work life is improved by having colleagues
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by renjimen 3y ago
> Staying in any company right now is a negative return; you are wasting personal leverage. I think it's a bit sad that the only benefit someone can see in their workplace is their salary. Also, I get the feeling this person has nev
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by renjimen 3y ago
I thought the same, but they're actually below geostationary orbit. They have 12 hour orbits. Also, they don't orbit the equator, which is required for a geostationary orbit. See my comment above with more details.
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by renjimen 3y ago
I thought the answer to this would be simple but it's pretty complex! From a Quora answer: > They are in 12 hour orbits because that is the result of optimizing the number of satellites needed to cover the Earth, plus having at leas
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by renjimen 3y ago
Even trying to select text is a nightmare. Notion can’t make up its mind between selecting text or selecting the objects that contains the text. I wish there was a markdown mode with a live preview, then I would never use the rest of the No
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by renjimen 4y ago
Undergraduate, yes
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by renjimen 4y ago
I can think of a few. Uni interview at Cambridge for physics, I was asked to: derive the equation of motion for some coins sliding into each other on a table, and identify the oscillatory nodes of a tea cup struck with a spoon. Needless to
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by renjimen 4y ago
The Tazmanians are a perfect example of this. They were separated from mainland Australia around 10,000 years ago by rising sea level. In that time they regressed technologically to the point where they had only 24 distinct tools compared w
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by renjimen 4y ago
Sam Altman actually identified customer service as the industry most likely to be downsized due to ChatGPT.
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by renjimen 4y ago
You might like Alastair Reynolds’ earlier works too. His short story collections are a good place to start (Zima Blue, Diamond Dogs).
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by renjimen 4y ago
Most satellite imagery companies (Planet, Maxar, Satellogic etc.) allow users to pay for "tasked" imagery over an area within a given time window. This article doesn't explain why this Sony effort is the first of its kind in
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by renjimen 4y ago
> Do you know what p hacking is? Yes, I work in statistics. P-hacking can be detected and should be exposed during proper peer review and by providing underlying data and methods for reproducibility. It would be nonsensical to throw out
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by renjimen 4y ago
This sounds like a very bad implementation of 4-day work week and is not representative of my 4-day work week arrangements at my current and previous employers. It's a shame this comment is top of the comments because 4-day work weeks
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by renjimen 4y ago
> Because you can find a study saying almost anything today. That's a strawman argument for this study, which is not anecdotal but a large scale study with a statistically significant cohort. > Much of the logic i'm seeing a
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by renjimen 4y ago
It's so strange to me how opposed to 4 day work week most of the comments here on HN are. It seems like the main grievance people have is how businesses will be affected (despite the study showing negligible or positive impact), while
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by renjimen 4y ago
Very cool. Making attractive and readily understandable shaded relief is a real art. Curious to see how well this generalises to morphology outside the Swiss Alps.

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