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871.
by saghm 5mo ago
"These burgers are pure beef! Obviously what people mean is that beef is one of the ingredients. Everyone knows that the plastic is added in, there's no conspiracy here"
872.
by saghm 5mo ago
Thanks for that context! I didn't want to speak beyond what I was familiar with, and I genuinely wasn't sure how widespread this was.
873.
by saghm 5mo ago
Yeah, that's basically the point I was making. The fact that it was this way before and is again now might lead someone to think that there's nothing we can do about it, but clearly there was something we did about it, and now w
874.
by saghm 5mo ago
If you ignore everything that happened in between 1903 and today, it might seem like we've never made any progress on this, but at least in the US wealth inequality was demonstrably not as much as an issue for some of the time in betwe
875.
by saghm 5mo ago
It's also not a bad thing to keep pointing out something that is wrong if it keeps happening. The alternative is just silently deciding to accept it as normal and fine, which is clearly worse!
876.
by saghm 5mo ago
I don't have to agree with everything someone says to agree with one of the points someone is making. This point happens to be a good one, independent on my views of anything else that he (or his organization) might say
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by saghm 5mo ago
Next time you're going to work for an hour, ping me, and I bet I can surprise you with how much less productive I am than you
878.
by saghm 5mo ago
What's funny is that this apparently wasn't something that the Uber COO seemed to think about when their company is arguably one of the most successful ever at the "subsidize to drive down costs until you capture nearly the e
879.
by saghm 5mo ago
In other words, people who are productive get more done when you scale up what they're already doing, and people who aren't productive will not magically become productive when you scale up what they're already doing. That&#x
880.
by saghm 5mo ago
Someday maybe Goodhart's Law will be intuitive to people making decisions like this, but not any time soon I guess
881.
by saghm 5mo ago
I'm either impressed by whatever spam filter you having literally zero false positives or negatives, or I'm confused about what you think it means to "be sure".
882.
by saghm 5mo ago
Okay, so then they should stop doing stuff like trying to push people to log into Windows with Microsoft accounts instead of offline credentials and then using that as an excuse to send out inane marketing emails that no one wants. "We
883.
by saghm 5mo ago
I honestly don't get why anyone would choose Python over Ruby other than network effects (which just shifts the "I don't understand why they chose it" to the earlier developers rather than eliminating it), but it's
884.
by saghm 5mo ago
> Where are the interface boundaries? Why are there methods that are 200 lines long? This is not a dis at the author, and it's not really about "code quality" per se, whatever that means. It's just that if someone wou
885.
by saghm 5mo ago
I've seen this point before, and it's a reasonable one, but I think there's an important distinction: some people are interested in seeing paintings in a museum but not photos, and others might be the opposite, and this is fi
886.
by saghm 5mo ago
> Of the set of people who have the idea to do this, who think to ask an LLM for help, and who can pay for the hosting, how many do you think would have been stopped by googling wordpress tutorials? In the past six months I've organ
887.
by saghm 5mo ago
I still appreciate your point here too though; when I'm concerned about a hypothetical change in a system ending up negative in the long run, failing to account for existing precedents for mitigation is something I want to be corrected
888.
by saghm 5mo ago
Fair enough. Unfortunately, as the trials in the recent lawsuits against Live Nation has shown, the venues are stuck between a rock and a hard place because they risk losing the ability to book some of the top artists if they try to switch
889.
by saghm 5mo ago
Fair enough, I wasn't precise. There isn't one single objective way to do this math because, as you point out, different assumptions will lead to different results, and it makes it impossible to do neutrally. My reaction to the pa
890.
by saghm 5mo ago
> The owner takes the risk that there is no (or negative) money left over after paying employees and all other costs. As a result, if there is money left over, they get to keep it. I suppose I should remind you that the vast majority of
891.
by saghm 5mo ago
Sentiment analysis on text predates LLMs by quite a bit, and it's not exactly a secret that pretty much all of the major LLM products have been tuned to take into account inferences about how the user is feeling (e.g. the sycophancy be
892.
by saghm 5mo ago
If a giant monster tries to eat my house in one bite without asking me for permission, and my house has a closet full of bleach, it's hard to claim that I'm poisoning the monster. Maybe the monster should think about whether it re
893.
by saghm 5mo ago
Well, they've clearly done a good job of learning how to deal with the weather in those places, so it's unfortunate that Florida never has any severe weather that can cause flooding for them to have learned from before rolling out
894.
by saghm 5mo ago
I haven't seen the data, but I have sitting strong reason to believe that roads with no cars on them cause fewer motor vehicle accidents than ones with any distribution of human and/or autonomous vehicles, so I'm not comforta
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by saghm 5mo ago
Okay, but what about the hundreds of clones of this driver who have identical education, behavior, no sense of individual identity to attribute their actions to separately? Certainly we don't wait for every one of them to kill a child
896.
by saghm 5mo ago
> ... which is different from the child whose body got folded in half by someone looking at their phone? Fair enough, we can apply the same standard: just like the humans who drive like that aren't allowed to drive anymore, the auto
897.
by saghm 5mo ago
Floods might be an edge case in the Bay Area, but if you're trying to drive along the Gulf of Mexico it's probably something you're going to want to plan for. I'm not sure that adding an override will help by the time yo
898.
by saghm 5mo ago
> And still things like a flooded roadway completely throw them. I guess that's what you get when you test your cars far 20 years in a state that's almost perpetually in a state of drought. On the other hand, as someone who gre
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by saghm 5mo ago
> The huge advantage they have over people in general is that ideally if they figure this out then it will stay figured out. Then they can slowly role out and watch for the next hitches from new situations. Sure, because human drivers fa
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by saghm 5mo ago
I'd argue that complaining about using combined "greater than" and "less than" operators instead of the caret is about the same size of molehill as complaining about the usage of it. Seeing either of them in depende

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