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by repolfx 7y ago
That's not what prefer means. By your logic just as many people prefer to fly in private jets as fly economy, but that's a meaningless statement - they don't prefer it, they prefer cheaper options and to spend the money on ot
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No, that's just a standard Marxist lens on things. Nobody in Wall St was let off the hook because incompetence is not illegal, nor should it be. The masses aren't about to engage in counter capitalist revolution any more than they
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That assumes it's possible to retain a deep understanding of a company or industry whilst being outside of and focusing full time on "money management". It's the same school of thought that says corporate management is a
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That's a contradiction. It's not the wisdom of the crowds if only a few hundred people are really looking at things. The whole point of that expression is that you need a crowd , to avoid groupthink, capture etc
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No, he's right. Uber loses billions because they subsidise rides. That's easy. Anyone can sell a dollar for 80 cents.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Well, not exactly. Android has mich higher market share than iOS. There's not just as many preferring iPhones, not even close, though it may feel that way in certain geographies.
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She wasn't getting abuse because she was a woman, she was getting abuse because she's a feminist picking fights with all men, and engaging in nasty witch-hunt behaviours. Literally, "men are biased against women even if they
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by repolfx 7y ago
By those metrics many of the industry's top companies and engineers would get a fail grade.
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But resolving that problem is exactly why the policy is someone has to move. You seem to be arguing that such relationships should never even start at all, that if it starts wrong it can never be fixed, which seems way over the top.
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Why should it be the manager who gets moved and not the subordinate? The manager is almost by definition more important to the company, and it's a consensual relationship that both agreed to and both knew the rules. Blakeley is claimin
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Like I said, with the right technology in place I'd reconsider. I'm not emotionally attached to the union as many seem to be and the rest of the UK gets a terrible deal from Scotland in so many ways. My primary concern is that upo
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The problem is then their grade ends up being heavily affected by the quality of work done by other people. It'd be impossible to objectively grade such a task. The key difference between university and work is that in the former you a
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You can argue that about any limited resource for which firms are in competition, like land. Unlike most resources though, Google ads take into account a quality score, so if one of those merchants is lower quality than the rest e.g. users
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Maybe the UK should split - it's certainly pretty painful trying to keep it together. Despite that I would have recommended Scotland vote to remain a part of the UK. Inconsistent? To a point yes, but with better technology, I might hav
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by repolfx 7y ago
It says: In working with CBP, ICE, or ORR, Google would be trading its integrity for a bit of profit, and joining a shameful lineage. We have only to look to IBM’s role working with the Nazis during the Holocaust to understand the role tha
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't think there's any reason for an economy where people save responsibly to be stagnant. That's the error central bankers make. It's sort of like saying if you're not constantly taking ecstasy then your life is
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by repolfx 7y ago
Europe should never be united. That's a terrible idea: why would you concentrate and centralise power to such a massive extent? Power corrupts and the EU institutions are already riven with it, the last thing people in Europe need is a
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by repolfx 7y ago
The "misery" of the southern countries is merely one of not being able to spend profligate amounts they haven't earned on sustaining unaffordable social policies. To take the most extreme example, Greece, and some problems ev
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by repolfx 7y ago
This isn't capitalism you're seeing at work. It's literally caused by market manipulation by a central bank - and central bankers are central planners! There was a good article in the Telegraph the other day by someone who us
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by repolfx 7y ago
Saving doesn't always mean saving money but rather saving value Well, this is the crux of the issue. In the language I learned (British English) the word savings does refer exclusively to cash. Investment is an entirely separate conc
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by repolfx 7y ago
Europe isn't doomed and it can't have financial flaws because Europe is a continent. Its population isn't going anywhere. The EU might well be doomed - it seems that's actually what you meant? I've noticed it's
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Are you sure you read their announcement blog? You seem to believe that they didn't say what they spent an entire blog post saying. Here it is again. https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/ They said
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You're conflating environment and reading of written opinions. People are products of their experiences, sure. That experience is much wider than "possibly bot authored comments on social media", but OpenAI is acting as if it
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It's down at the moment with an error about capacity, so presumably not behind a CDN.
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They said they wouldn't release the biggest model because it could be abused to make bots that sway politics. Consider the chain of reasoning required to believe that.
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But I don't decide anything based on reading social media comments unless it makes a good point, which GPT2 text never does (so far). I honestly wouldn't care much if I was reading stuff written by bots, as long as I didn't w
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Damore didn't say that, but that didn't stop lots of people lying about what he wrote. I guess those few of us who actually read his memo will have to keep repeating this over and over against the wall of lying about it, but one m
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by repolfx 7y ago
The sudden lurch into paranormal book review at the end is interesting. I guess it's because it went down the path of, "How do we do it? How do we get there? Stay tuned and we’ll let you know." ... that last sentence is pro
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Meanwhile, misuses of ML are proliferating without limits Are they? Where? For all the hype I haven't seen any obvious abuses of AI. I've seen better speech recognition and a few other useful things. I've seen stuff that&#x
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OpenAI is run by people who believe and spread horror stories about how AI can totally change society, for better or worse. I think this is reflective of a substantial disconnect and polarisation in society, because OpenAI's position

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