sandspar

36 ms·

661.
by sandspar 3y ago
The fact that you call them the "owning class" makes it seem like you're not interested in fair handed analysis.
662.
by sandspar 3y ago
> YouTube tests adding large, bright, and attention-grabbing thumbnails to the bottom of the player. It seems like some people are better able to handle visual noise. The idea of having autoplay videos on news websites is unthinkable to
663.
by sandspar 3y ago
Be aware that a book like this is selling you something. It's biased. It's going to paint a one-sided picture that best supports its case.
664.
by sandspar 3y ago
Seems unnecessary to jump on the guy for his word choice. It's easy to do and it makes you look good when you can give a little speech correcting him. But I don't think it really helps anybody. It seems more like a flex of your ed
665.
by sandspar 3y ago
You're doing the same thing, "resulting" because this time he almost got away with it. In reality, a scheme like this would work maybe one in twenty times. "Think in bets" on a 5% chance of success.
666.
by sandspar 3y ago
People who comment without reading the article are likely the vast majority I'm afraid.
667.
by sandspar 3y ago
From ageism to sexism in a single comment thread.
668.
by sandspar 3y ago
Firing him would remove him from where he can do harm. What would prosecuting him do?
669.
by sandspar 3y ago
Flight crew have other things to do then count 200-odd squirming people and are flight attendants supposed to memorize unoccupied seats or carry a clipboard up and down the aisles?
670.
by sandspar 3y ago
Your post contained a possible misconception, that being legally barred from using race at all means they functionally don't use race at all.
671.
by sandspar 3y ago
Colleges still use race in admissions. They just obfuscate it slightly. For example, they preferentially admit people by zipcode, i.e. by the degree to which the neighborhood is non-white, non-Jewish, and non-Asian. They encourage applicant
672.
by sandspar 3y ago
I want to say how much this means to me that you wrote this. I feel hopeful again. Thank you.
673.
by sandspar 3y ago
Interesting! A couple of years ago, I attempted to begin "learning to draw well" (technique focus). I did the first couple of lessons on the Watts Atelier online course and attended several life drawing sittings. It didn't st
674.
by sandspar 3y ago
That "sitting in chair looking out the window" pose is a Martin Scorsese or Sopranos type pose. The elderly gangster in the old folk's home etc.
675.
by sandspar 3y ago
This is also literally one of the most complex, relationship-based, and opaque to outsiders communities on the planet. Try to wrap your head around the unimaginable clout and favor calling that this took to develop. "Exclusive" is
676.
by sandspar 3y ago
In Michael Mann's secret room, a red telephone rings...
677.
by sandspar 3y ago
"Social skills practice with AI" is another word for brainwashing, basically. Brainwashing often rotates around ethics, specifically ethics as depicted by social models ("influencers"). And it uses social anxiety as a pr
678.
by sandspar 3y ago
Current LLMs also do nothing but reflect your own culture back to you. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude are American products and reflect an establishment American worldview. Specifically an American culture worldview that's a mix between Silic
679.
by sandspar 3y ago
I could see AI being similar to the domestication of wolves. Humans encounter superior species, we co-opt the species to both species' benefit. Maybe AI would benefit from keeping us around. For example, we could test paths for it. Kee
680.
by sandspar 3y ago
Thanks for the write up. Where do you see this going? For example, what will Spotify's front page look like in two years?
681.
by sandspar 3y ago
Happens in sports. Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile in 1954. Before this it was thought to be impossible. Within 3 years, 16 other runners also broke the 4-minute barrier. Their equipment was the same as before; it was a mental thing
682.
by sandspar 3y ago
"General-purpose" computer seems like a misnomer.
683.
by sandspar 3y ago
I think about this at the gym. I feel very proud of myself when I can go from being 1% as strong as a front-end loader to being 1.1% as strong. The king of my gym, the most high status guy there, is up to maybe 3%.
684.
by sandspar 3y ago
Flight simulators are set to benefit from AI. Imagine talking to an AI Air Traffic Control that understands natural language. Imagine walking down the aisle of your plane and overhearing AI people's conversations.
685.
by sandspar 3y ago
Sounds like a highly competent, publicly spirited woman.
686.
by sandspar 3y ago
Some people like having an edge. Athletes especially. If Neuralink takes off then I'd expect athletes to be among the first adopters.
687.
by sandspar 3y ago
Fantasy arises with despair. ChatGPT: "Pandora's Box is a myth from ancient Greece. Opening it released all evils into the world, leaving only hope inside once closed."
688.
by sandspar 3y ago
Young and savvy people will uninstall Instagram and TikTok if the apps get infested. Trend setting teenage girls are interested in watching humans talking, not in watching Beeple videos.
689.
by sandspar 3y ago
They use his Chinese-sounding name in the title. The rumblings of war.
690.
by sandspar 3y ago
Why is there always this kneejerk "bad!" reaction to AI? You don't think there's any conceivable way that this may actually help people? You don't think that Stanford Medicine may know a bit more about the problem s

More ›