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481.
by roughly 1y ago
> AI engineers need to start thinking like engineers By which they mean actual engineers, not software engineers, who should also probably start thinking like real engineers now that our code’s going into both the bridges and the cars dr
482.
by roughly 1y ago
You mean this one? https://www.un.org/unispal/document/commission-of-inquiry-re...
483.
by roughly 1y ago
Again, prior reporting on the IDF’s computational efforts do not indicate that less collateral damage was a driver - quite the contrary, the algorithm was being used to pad out targeting lists: https://www.theguardian.com/wo
484.
by roughly 1y ago
> I believe it also to be true that the IDF do not want to kill civilians, and that their target is only Hamas. I think it’s this second assertion that relies on facts not in evidence. Previous Guardian reporting on IDF use of compute fo
485.
by roughly 1y ago
I think the roadmap to the anarchist view is simple enough in theory - break up large companies, redistribute large piles of wealth, establish laws enforcing size limits, and, following that, scale government back and delegate decision-maki
486.
by roughly 1y ago
I am specifically not arguing the state has a monopoly on violence - as with the GP, people are imputing arguments I’m not making. It’s the fact that the state cannot have a monopoly on violence that forces the state to be powerful enough t
487.
by roughly 1y ago
How is an entity with a monopoly on violence not the most powerful actor in the room? And in what way is administering the peace not constraining other actors?
488.
by roughly 1y ago
Make sure people understand why you're making the tradeoff you're making, and also make sure they know you're taking the fire for it if you were wrong and they were right, not them.
489.
by roughly 1y ago
Ah, thank you, I was misremembering. That sounds more feasible.
490.
by roughly 1y ago
The state holds the guns, and if it doesn't hold the guns, it's not the thing I'm referring to as the state - fundamentally, the power of the state is the power of violence. Other actors may possess other types of power and o
491.
by roughly 1y ago
That's fair. I think a lot of reactions, mine included, are because most of the time when someone discusses the downsides of a large state, they're advocating for a small one from a libertarian lens, so I think I imputed motives t
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by roughly 1y ago
> While a democratic state is different than a private organization in that it derives legitimacy from its voters This is exactly the key core distinction. The purpose of the state is to be the most powerful organization in the room - to
493.
by roughly 1y ago
Notably all of these choices and policies didn’t fall from the trees, but were come to after seeing what happened in their absence.
494.
by roughly 1y ago
I seem to recall the mechanism for anesthetics being something like temporarily depolarizing the mitochondrial walls to shut down ATP synthesis, so that might point towards where the effect is originating.
495.
by roughly 1y ago
Some additional context: Colin Woodard wrote American Nations ( https://bookshop.org/p/books/american-nations-a-history-of-t... ) a bit over a decade ago, which goes into much more detail on these groupings. By and
496.
by roughly 1y ago
Something that stuck out on this was the notion of the LLMs as models of human knowledge, and the notion that we could "see the gaps". There's been an interesting debate* in journalism over the concept of neutrality - what it
497.
by roughly 1y ago
No, that’s precisely what creates the dilemma - do you have a moral or ethical right to take the life of a sentient being to save your own? Do you have a right to do so repeatedly over time? What makes your life worth more than those you’re
498.
by roughly 1y ago
It’s the fact that there’s no good answer that makes it a dilemma
499.
by roughly 1y ago
With microorganisms it’s particularly interesting because the time and space scales are so different there’s no coherent narrative between humans and bacteria - it’d be like a species of sentient space nebulas seeding a promising planet wit
500.
by roughly 1y ago
The fact that brain organelles start spontaneously firing in synchronized patterns when they reach a certain size is enough to give me serious pause about anything trying to use brain tissue. We don’t quite know what consciousness is, but w
501.
by roughly 1y ago
Microorganisms get interesting because they’re simple enough that we can see all the parts involved, but complex enough that we can see what looks like intentionality in their actions. We consider them Alive, but we also know all the mechan
502.
by roughly 1y ago
It absolutely is, and for some goddamn reason everyone always gets mad at the immigrants instead of the bosses.
503.
by roughly 1y ago
The hollowing out of the middle class in the US isn't because of immigrants, it's because of a sustained campaign by capital to reduce the power of labor over the last 50-odd years and to concentrate wealth as best they can. Immig
504.
by roughly 1y ago
It’s broadly agreed that he’s referring to Sagrada, yes - the omitted sentence in my quote is “it has four crenelated spires the exact shape of hock bottles.”
505.
by roughly 1y ago
I think there’s plenty of interesting debates to be had about immigration policy and its effects on the labor market, but one thing worth noting here is that the primary problem that damn near every other country on earth has isn’t immigrat
506.
by roughly 1y ago
I did not know that! Thank you - updated, except for the quote from Orwell, who gets to show his ass even further thanks to your correction.
507.
by roughly 1y ago
> we really don't want actively suicidal pilots We do not, and so providing pilots with the ability to seek help and support seems like what we'd want to do. The degree to which mental health has been pathologized is unhealthy
508.
by roughly 1y ago
I would very much like for the author to be able to memorialize her partner in a way that she feels offers a testimonial to someone who was such a big part of her life. If she's able to do that right now, that's fantastic (and thi
509.
by roughly 1y ago
To be clear, I'm not advocating for chemical intervention - I think a competent therapist/grief counselor can help process and metabolize the change. I also am not suggesting that the ideal goal is that the author feels no grief,
510.
by roughly 1y ago
I'd echo everyone else on how awe-inspiring this building is. One thing that's particularly interesting is that, while the outside is extremely cluttered and ornate, the inside is almost spare by comparison, and achieves a level o

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