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by runako 1y ago
> disagree with the need to have them at any cost. I think we can all agree with that. I think a sane position is to return to the level of state support of e.g. the 1960s or 1970s. This worked in a substantially poorer US until we chose
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by runako 1y ago
That's great, I live in a HCOL area in a Southern state and McDonald's here also pays higher than federal minimum. BUT in other parts of the state, especially rural areas, there are definitely jobs advertised for < $8/hr.
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by runako 1y ago
Yes. Water systems, trash collection, fire departments, parks, etc. generally are cost-effective and well administered that they are typically excluded from these discussions. K-12 is particular is an area where critics demean public system
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by runako 1y ago
> I've noticed reduced hours, reduced staff, and increased prices Anecdotally, this also describes how things have played out in the South generally. (Southern states generally have no set minimum wage, so they mostly default to the
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by runako 1y ago
> What stops the higher ed players from regulatory capture of the state agency in charge of those subsidies and milking that cow for all it's got? Yes, you are correct that a corrupt state will deliver poor results. A key bulwark ag
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by runako 1y ago
They consider all those factors and then aim for a mix. No admissions board wants a class of 100% track stars or 100% economic hard-luck cases or 100% rich kids, etc. But they are faced with a bunch of kids who meet the GPA etc. criteria an
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by runako 1y ago
As I understand matters, it started in the 70s and 80s as states pulled back from funding public institutions. This funding was the mechanism which allowed public institutions to be affordable to families such that a person could pay for a
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by runako 1y ago
Really depends on who's paying the bill, and how much gets done between interventions, right? Inverting the problem, one might ask how best to spend (say) $5,000 monthly on coding agents. I don't know the answer to that.
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by runako 1y ago
re: the comments that Opus is not cost effective...The whole sales pitch behind these tools, and quite specifically the pitch OpenAI made yesterday, is that they will replace people, specifically programmers. Opus is cheaper than a US-based
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by runako 1y ago
ChatGPT training is (advertised as) off by default for their plans above the prosumer level, Team & Enterprise. API results are similarly advertised as not being used for training by default. Anthropic policies are more restrictive, say
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by runako 1y ago
That's my point. It is a thing that is known and obviously a big negative, but yet failed to leave a lasting mark of any kind.
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by runako 1y ago
For sure, although I'm fairly certain there is a difference in kind between the outputs of free and paid users (and then again to API usage).
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by runako 1y ago
> great lengths to assure is not incompatible with > "Fake it till you make it" I don't know where they land, but they are definitely telling people they are not using their outputs to train. If they are, it's not
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by runako 1y ago
> presumably LLM output is going into the training data of later LLMs The LLM vendors go to great lengths to assure their paying customers that this will not be the case. Yes, LLMs will ingest more LLM-generated slop from the public Inte
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by runako 1y ago
I'm not critiquing its ability to judge its own capability, I am pointing out that it is providing false information to the user.
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by runako 1y ago
> specific to robots.txt > poor summarization of data I'm not really addressing the issue raised in the article. I am noting that the LLM, when asked, is either lying to the user or making a statement that it does not know to be
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by runako 1y ago
Relevant to this is that Perplexity lies to the user when specifically asked about this. When the user asks if there is a robots.txt file for the domain, it lies and says there is not. If an LLM will not (cannot?) tell the truth about basic
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by runako 1y ago
We already have legal remedies for libel and defamation, I am not suggesting we remove those remedies. What is being discussed here is adding harsh criminal liability ultimately for expressing opinions, since we know that two people can exp
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by runako 1y ago
> Provably false As far as I can tell, nobody has offered (or likely can offer) proof of anything on either side and yet people are talking about long prison sentences for speech.
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by runako 1y ago
> very predictable outcome for an apparently innocent man None of this is obviously accurate. More to the point, no court can adjudicate the "predictable outcome" of a letter or whether the reasons were malicious.
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by runako 1y ago
> punish accusers of provably false allegations as harshly as the accused would be. Are you aware that here you are arguing for criminal sanctions on the order of 10 years in prison, for writing a letter? You probably should expand on th
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by runako 1y ago
Even the very dedicated would have trouble maintaining two residences (DC & home district) on the median income.
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by runako 1y ago
This looks really cool, congrats on the launch! Suggestion: redo the demo video showing the call to the restaurant. As a Google user, I couldn't help but notice the button in the result to make a reservation (without using Piper). My 2
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by runako 1y ago
> three dimensions they can differentiate on: cost, speed, and quality The fourth dimension is likely to be the most powerful of the differentiators: specificity. Think Cursor or Lovable, but tailored for other industries. There's a
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by runako 1y ago
Context is important here: a 20% increase in price to consumer is not going to be perceived as "not dramatically higher". Focusing on tech for a moment, we are discussing this in the context of a good that normally decreases in pr
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by runako 1y ago
Toyota, Lexus, Subaru, Honda. Not sure if Hyundai & Kia are quite as reliable, but if not it's on them because they have some of the best warranties in the industry.
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by runako 1y ago
My comment, like OP, was specifically about the US. Burn it down has a worse track record here than working in the system.
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by runako 1y ago
OBBA is important context because it was just enacted this month and it demonstrates clearly that the deficit and debt are not political priorities. Any argument put forth by the administration that enacted the OBBBA concerning debt is tran
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by runako 1y ago
> If you're ok with increasing debt to fund UN (and thousand other things) then come out and say so. Yes. I am okay with increasing debt (currently costing 2% after inflation) to increase long-term US stability and competitiveness.
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by runako 1y ago
As here, is often ignored are two levers available to resolve our debt. > The argument "we're $35 trillion in debt so it's not a big deal to add 0.01% to it" This is not the argument. The argument is more along the li

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