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by scarmig 5mo ago
IIRC Cruise got into the most trouble not because of the accident itself, but because it tried to hide evidence from and deceive regulators.
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by scarmig 5mo ago
> or not
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by scarmig 5mo ago
I don't really care if you classify it as a choice or not. One set of actions results in more CSAM than others. Just because you don't like the implication of there being tradeoffs doesn't mean there aren't tradeoffs.
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by scarmig 5mo ago
Having tens of thousands of decentralized, independently moderated servers would result in an order of magnitude more CSAM being shared than having a few oligopolies. The abusers just have to find the weakest link, and that weakest link wil
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by scarmig 6mo ago
One thing we should be happy about: Waymo's next gen Zeekr cars have sliding doors, eliminating the traditional risk of dooring. Passengers might still jump out without paying attention, but my expectation is that they'll be more
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by scarmig 6mo ago
I agree with everything you say; my "police departments are understaffed" is too generic, and might be better stated as "too few resources are devoted to traditional beat policing." Which isn't to say that the other
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by scarmig 6mo ago
> I live in a tech heavy, wealthy city. It’s small. No violent crime. Barely any crime at all. Compare to e.g. Oakland, which recently approved a Flock expansion: https://oaklandside.org/2025/12/17/oakland-
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by scarmig 6mo ago
I just recently got a Suntup edition of A Scanner Darkly. Another publisher whose bindery is itself a work of art.
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by scarmig 6mo ago
Although I oppose the surveillance state, it's important to understand the motivations and incentives involved in the move toward Flock (and its eventual successors); until those are resolved, governments are going to be implementing F
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by scarmig 6mo ago
These also hold for single, childless men and women. But that's almost besides the point: you can just as well say that men work more hours because society demands they sacrifice their well-being to earn more income. The only reason yo
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by scarmig 6mo ago
It is more complicated than I let on and not as simple as class X is victimized. However, it's frustrating that this pushback happens only when a random internet comment is oversimplifying in the men have it worse direction and never w
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by scarmig 6mo ago
As always, the OECD is leaving out other massive gaps. For instance, the working hour gap: even if you limit yourself to the class of full time workers, men work more hours than do women. There's the work satisfaction gap: women work i
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by scarmig 6mo ago
But imagine the efficiencies to be gained if you swapped out the direct human operator with an automated operator. Then, you can have teams of automated operators being operated by a single human!
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by scarmig 6mo ago
The neurons in the brain and body will inevitably learn connectivity patterns to best take advantage of neural signals from the other. Which is kind of an interesting wrinkle to the mind body problem: the brain likely has more capability to
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by scarmig 7mo ago
So we've got point in time comparisons between Austin and itself; the change in delta between Austin and a particular city known for restricting housing; and the change in delta between Austin and national median rents. They all suppor
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by scarmig 7mo ago
> In December 2021, Austin’s median rent was $1,546, near its highest level ever and 15% higher than the U.S. median ($1,346). By January 2026, Austin’s median rent had fallen to $1,296, 4% lower than that of the U.S. overall ($1,353). F
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by scarmig 7mo ago
Poll wording is nearly always biased in some way. What it's useful for is tracking trends, keeping the wording identical.
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by scarmig 7mo ago
The point is that, if limited to a level that just covers essential goods, it won't change their distribution, just their payer. If it did change the distribution of the good, then it wasn't essential (because it's the floor
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by scarmig 7mo ago
Inflation isn't inevitable, especially in the long term. But of course it depends on implementation. The goal of a UBI is to make sure people get their essentials to live. Right now, people get those essentials, one way or another (oth
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by scarmig 7mo ago
Wiki's Gamergate opening paragraph: > Gamergate or GamerGate (GG) was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign motivated by a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game cultur
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by scarmig 7mo ago
Plenty of scientific authorities believed in it through the 19th century, and they didn't blindly believe it: it had good arguments for it, and intelligent people weighed the pros and cons of it and often ended up on the side of miasma
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by scarmig 7mo ago
The miasma theory of disease, though wrong, made lots of predictions that proved useful and productive. Swamps smell bad, so drain them; malaria decreases. Excrement in the street smells bad, so build sewage systems; cholera decreases. Flor
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by scarmig 7mo ago
I end up shrugging. For a Claude Code power user, today, a day's use uses less electricity than a morning commute in an electric car. To say nothing of the costs to keep your workstation running, your building heated or cooled, etc. No
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by scarmig 7mo ago
Between Anthropic, the military, and Congress, I have the least faith in Congress to make knowledgeable policy around tech.
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by scarmig 8mo ago
> you'll never find altman saying anything like "our agreement specifically says chatgpt will never be used for fully autonomous weapons" To be fair, Anthropic didn't say that either. Merely that autonomous weapons wi
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by scarmig 8mo ago
Why do you suppose OpenAI's deal led to a contract, while Anthropic's deal (ostensibly containing identical terms) gets it not only booted but declared a supply chain risk?
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by scarmig 8mo ago
> it's also unprecedented for a contractor to suddenly announce their products will, from now on, be able to refuse to function based on the product's evaluation of what it perceives to be an ethical dilemma That is a deeply
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by scarmig 8mo ago
Going by what Hegseth said, it bans them from relationships or partnering with Anthropic at all. No renting or selling GPUs to them; no allowing software engineers to use Claude Code; no serving Anthropic models from their clouds. Probably
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by scarmig 8mo ago
The military already has access to Grok, but doesn't want it, because it's an inferior model, even compared to open source ones. So the military would probably choose to replace supply chain risk Claude with Qwen or Kimi before Gr
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by scarmig 8mo ago
So, two or three generations.

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