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by revelio 3y ago
See, this is exactly what we're talking about. Firstly, every day is clearly not a celebration of men. This is exactly the same lie that the feminists pushed in the Slack channel. A "celebration" has lots of very specific asp
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> the predictions weren't based on a "perfectly understood relationship" I pull this part out because it's key to so many of the disputes and is why climatology is such an incredibly divisive field compared to other
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Will only help if the problem is actually social media but the articles Haidt assembled to show that had a lot of problems. Social media might be a confounder or symptom rather than a cause.
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Reasonableness is hard to determine ahead of time, or even to define. Here's something I've seen happen. A couple of women in a corporate Slack channel says, hey CEO, what are you going to do to celebrate International Women'
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by revelio 3y ago
You're talking about the CV that lists "promoting CO2 capture" and "co-founding Delaware's Green Building Council" as evidence that he's deeply embedded in climate denial. That's as convincing as &quo
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by revelio 3y ago
And now people start to understand why ad targeting developed...
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Did you check that receipt? It talks about one organization, the "Caeser Rodney Institute", which received a $10k grant from an organization that disperses tiny grants to all kinds of random groups, like diabetes research and the
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by revelio 3y ago
Uh huh. They were happy to use those measurement techniques just three years ago when they were predicting doom. They didn't even start measuring fish species until the 2019 survey. Now the coral has unfortunately rebounded, their prio
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by revelio 3y ago
https://careers.bbc.co.uk/
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The article you yourself cited is headlined, "Record coral cover doesn’t necessarily mean the Great Barrier Reef is in good health".
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That's a non-sequitur.
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What exactly are you talking about then? What does this imaginary money get spent on, if not people? This whole idea is a classic conspiracy theory. Do you realize that? Obviously the only way to shape discourse is with people, because disc
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by revelio 3y ago
> Dr Emslie, who leads the ... monitoring, says the rise in coral cover was expected, given the relatively benign conditions Was it now. A Guardian news report featuring Dr Emslie in March 2019 has one of his colleagues saying this [1]
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by revelio 3y ago
That's a lot of smears and hypotheticals, isn't it? You have to rely on those because the claim isn't true. If Shell are really spending billions then it should be trivial to find armies of thousands, or tens of thousands, al
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by revelio 3y ago
They're only using the same strategy as climate academics themselves: the current diagram with the tree ring only data [Briffa’s] somewhat contradicts the [Mann] multiproxy curve and dilutes the message rather significantly.
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by revelio 3y ago
Several of the possibilities you raise here are disproven by real world data. W.R.T. corals, claims of coral reefs being harmed by climate change have been discredited in recent years. Although scientists claimed for years that the corals w
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by revelio 3y ago
Who is spending "billions of dollars shaping discourse" exactly, unless you mean governments and their academics? The idea that people don't trust climatologists because they get paid not to is simply an absurd lie. It'
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by revelio 3y ago
There's a graph here of both levels and the derivatives. https://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/carl/words/keeling.jpg Growth rate is very stable. You could almost put a ruler against the absolute line. As you say, people
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by revelio 4y ago
He's saying that won't work, because the goal is not actually to fingerprint or mark users. It's to ensure that the thing connecting to their servers at that moment is a web browser and not something pretending to be a brow
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by revelio 4y ago
Not sure what you mean by oberon-like workflows. IIRC the new gen graphics frameworks have their origins in work by AMD.
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For context, Loopt raised $39M and was then acquihired for $43M by a bank that scrapped their product and used the team to write a mobile banking app. So the VCs got out but doubtful that anyone involved in Loopt got rich out of it. Also th
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by revelio 4y ago
I don't mean to be too cynical. I think a lot of the advice in this article actually rings true and aligns with my personal experience. No advice on something as vague as success can be comprehensive and OpenAI may just be an exception
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tl;dr "prestige" academia claims sexism against women is everywhere: > In the most prestigious journals and media outlets, which influence many people’s opinions about sexism, bias is frequently portrayed as an omnipresent fact
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GPT-4 is pretty clearly not just public data + public papers. It's a lot of optimizations and other things on top of what is itself a lot of optimizations and other things that led to GPT-3. We're going to have to wait and see if
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Isn't that a repetition? Predictions based on assuming a perfectly understood relationship that led to 6 degree predictions, combined with no reduction in CO2 growth and yet a much less than 6 degree rise = way off base. What else woul
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by revelio 4y ago
Good point but Bing Chat seems like an example of why OpenAI's mastering of RLHF has been so critical for them. Honestly the more time you spend with ChatGPT the more absurd fantasies of evil AI takeover look. The thing is pathological
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> The British viewed themselves as superior and apart from their conquests, which prevented their conquests from coming to identify as “British” Not really no. The British ran the empire with famously small numbers of actual Brits on t
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The idea that Brexit was ever about "isolationism" is one put about by its opponents. The people who actually campaigned for Brexit were almost universally free trade lovers, with the uneasy coalition with the working classes bein
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It's probably not directly useful for physicians except as a teaching aid, but I have a friend who runs a small local business and she sometimes finds it difficult dealing with problem customers when she's tired or upset. As she i
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CO2 levels have continued on their long term trend since it started to be measured so no, there's really nothing that's been done and actual warming since the mid 70s is way way less than 6 degrees. All projections of such levels

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