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by scarmig 3y ago
LLMs are an obvious threat to web search, and guaranteed Google is already seeing their effects. What they have done is given people an alternative to interacting with human knowledge via Google search. It was falling in quality before, but
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by scarmig 3y ago
> One bad bug or hack could kill millions if self driving cars become ubiquitous. Every year, human drivers kill around 1.2 million people every single year ( https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail&#x2F
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by scarmig 3y ago
I can name two times in the last five years where, biking, I had a worse encounter than described (though I reserve judgment of fault until more details come out). Including one that required hospitalization, where the human driver decided
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by scarmig 3y ago
If you had to pin it on a single actor, Google. Ads have corrupted the original vision of the web. When you offer a path for other actors to monetize the web, they will, and Google did that more than anybody.
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by scarmig 3y ago
As another Xoogler, I'd dispute some of your points, though I agree with the rest: 1) The Cloud Console is very meh compared to the AWS frontend. Slow and cumbersome. Otherwise GCP is generally playing catch-up, though it's closed
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by scarmig 3y ago
Neurons have the ability to self-organize into an information processing device, though. Researchers have taken rat neurons, grown them in a petri dish, and taught them to play (a simplified version of) pong [0]. A better vat might genuinel
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by scarmig 3y ago
Ah, yes, the photorealism will definitely confuse people and make them think Taylor really did have an orgy with everyone on Sesame Street.
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by scarmig 3y ago
On the topic of cherry picking and vapes, one of the biggest absurdities is that it's now cheaper and more convenient to purchase meth or fent in San Francisco than it is a flavored vape. I can respect people having different levels of
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by scarmig 3y ago
It depends not just on absolute level of ease but relative. Suppose having and raising a child takes some normalized 100 units of work and some basket of luxuries takes the same 100 units. Even if having a child drops to 50 units of work, i
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by scarmig 3y ago
It took Google a decade or (overly generously) two to give up all moral principles. OAI did a speed run.
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by scarmig 3y ago
It's a very comfy feeling to fall asleep on top of piles of cash.
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by scarmig 3y ago
I agree reporting bias could be a thing, but there are statistics like completed suicide which are less susceptible to it (though still present; you can imagine a suicide being declared an accidental death to help a family "avoid embar
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by scarmig 3y ago
There are many examples of countries run by a republic of the elites that predate modern England. Venice, Greece, various Indian city states. You can always draw distinctions between them, but they don't seem fundamental.
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by scarmig 3y ago
Much of that displacement was internal to San Francisco, and the movement of a constant number of homeless people from one area to another can still be net positive, if the area displaced from is denser and more economically productive. Ext
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by scarmig 3y ago
Start by making sure the densest and most economically productive parts of the city are clean and safe. Recover its tax base. Then start extending the same solution to improve the situation in more marginal neighborhoods.
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by scarmig 3y ago
I can't speak to 30 years ago, but from 20 years ago to 4 years ago, SoMa and Market were definitely much better than they are today. I've been physically attacked twice since 2020 in SoMa.
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by scarmig 3y ago
The solution San Francisco implemented during APEC is an existence proof that such a solution actually exists.
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by scarmig 3y ago
Keep on doing the temporary solution and you have a permanent one. Perhaps it costs more, but I'm more than happy to pay taxes to ensure public order and cleanliness are maintained. The problem being public safety, not the national hom
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The Language of Astronomy Is Needlessly Violent and Inaccurate(scientificamerican.com)
5 points by scarmig 3y ago|0 comments
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by scarmig 3y ago
So, instead of using Kagi, you'd use... Google? Bing? Baidu? Do you really think no one with views you find objectionable will profit from the success of those alternatives? And Kagi's sin is being twice removed from Brendan Eich,
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by scarmig 3y ago
Since I was curious too, I dug up this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847503/#:~:tex... Multiple males do mate with the queen, with the everted endophallus acting as a signal to other males an
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by scarmig 3y ago
Reminds me of the famous feminist quote: "Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are o
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by scarmig 3y ago
I'd concede that it's rare (though not unheard of) for someone to explicitly say "men who commit suicide deserve it." But that's too narrow a definition. It's incredibly common (including in the comment I was r
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by scarmig 3y ago
1. Male and female suicide attempts are fundamentally different qualitatively, as evidenced by the fact that men succeed at approximately 10x the rate of women (and, to preempt the usual response, this extends to places where guns are illeg
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by scarmig 3y ago
We absolutely do say exactly that, in (lack of) action and word. And the people who shrug at male suicide do matter: they design public policy that results in the outcomes. A "fun" fact: the majority of men who commit suicide do s
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by scarmig 3y ago
There have been literally thousands of articles and blog posts that point out in the headline that men kill themselves far more than women do. People don't care. Maybe there's an advantage to identifying a primarily male-affecting
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by scarmig 3y ago
1. I have plenty of bones to pick with Haidt, but he's not one to deemphasize male suffering for the purposes of politically correct rhetoric. He explicitly points out in the article that even now, teen male suicide far outpaces teen f
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by scarmig 3y ago
An equally likely outcome: "What is your mother's maiden name?" "Oh, some random collection of letters and numbers... I think there was an a and a d in it?" "Ah, okay, what info or money do you want?"
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by scarmig 3y ago
There's always a strong tension between the two points: 1) School closures were good, kids weren't harmed at all and it saved lives! 2) Schools provide the basis for future success and are critical to our social and economic well-
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by scarmig 3y ago
On the other hand, there's a deep learning deficit that that generation will never recover from. That has costs too, and people trapped in a bad economic situation because of shitty schooling have reduced lifespans as well.

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