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by shalmanese 11mo ago
Would you say the same if it were as physical disability? If you were born without hands and had slowly learnt how to do everything required in everyday life via an adaptation, would you reject a prosthetic if it were available? We know peo
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
This article isn't much better than the genre of "Some rando on Twitter said" style articles. They're interviewing AI raters, of which there are millions in the world. It's not difficult to find a half dozen in any
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
We've known roughly this since The Nurture Assumption (1998). Where parents do have an impact is in being able to choose the social circles their children are immersed in.
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
There is no need for us random civilians to know the truth of these matters. Employees inside the company can see analytics that show whether the features are working or not.
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
How can they prevent in roll ads? YouTube Premium subscribers still see in roll ads. If you don’t want them, subscribe to the podcasts Patreon and they’ll provide you a custom RSS with no ads.
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does. Proposing solutions is unhelpful because the system is not interested in the problem being fixed. The problem is a designed in feature.
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
But society's determination is that a certain quantity of illegal immigrants should enter every year because they have less rights and can be better exploited by businesses. Being deliberately blind to this reality is also living in a
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
What evidence do you have that it's driving consumers away from the product? The people who bother to say anything on the internet are the extreme dedicated minority and are often not representative of a silent majority. Unless you hav
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
> And on the electricity side, forcing the US to actually build more power generating capacity and infrastructure is a good thing in my book. Electricity use is fungible. Every extra TW-hr of marginal demand is one coal plant that is del
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
Most AI written article that was ever AIed. It’s not just a laziness — it’s disrespect towards the reader.
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
> then Claude mostly indulges my perceived bias I dunno, Claude still seem the same amount of dubious in this instance.
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
This is not advancing a novel argument or creating of a new piece of content, this is about a factual claim about the world. How is it different from According to Google or According to Wikipedia or According to this scientific paper? It&#x
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
Yes, but I don't know how more clearly to say this, it's not the court bit of it, it's forcing them to go dig into the archives. They will not do that, especially because there's also a risk of them definitively not bein
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
Did you not slide your eyes immediately to the right to see (so correct me if the AI is wrong)?
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
If you want to fight it in court, you go fight it in court and waste a bunch of money, but if you don't lift a finger, then it enters default judgement. But in default judgement, the plaintiff still needs to demonstrate standing. Other
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
OK, but according to ChatGPT (so correct me if the AI is wrong), if you ignore the cease and desist, then the process goes into default judgement where the claimants now need to prove standing to collect judgement. You now know with 100% ce
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
> This is a very risky take though and so nobody should risk it. People keep on insisting when it comes to these things that various things are risky in a rather handwavey way but they never fully come out and articulate the risks. I ask
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
Disintermediation. The degree which marketplace platforms can exert pressure against disintermediation determines their right to exist. Certain markets, it's absolutely trivial for marketplace participants to agree to an off-market tra
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
Why would you set the probability at 1/3rd? It feels closer to 1/100 at most. They've admitted the documents, if they're anywhere, are buried in a file cabinet at Iron Mountain. You can set a lower limit on the amount of
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
So say someone decides to produce a remaster of NOLF. Does Activision have to produce this piece of paper once they sue to establish standing? If Activision's version of this piece of paper was chewed up by rats in the 90s, does their
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
> There should be a tenure element to power access. NIMBYism, but applied to grid power!
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
Between the iPod socks, Airpods Max bra & Vision underpants, you have the real makings of a undergarment set.
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by shalmanese 11mo ago
Except that's the exact opposite of the takeaway, diminishing return problems are easy. He's proposing a model for why often art does the exact opposite and produces super-linear returns. It's a common experience for an artis
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by shalmanese 1y ago
Miele has home dishwashers that do this now. But like all things consumer, it's a proprietary system that's designed to keep you locked into a subscription relationship with the company.
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by shalmanese 1y ago
It’s worthwhile reading the original Fred Brooks “No Silver Bullets” paper where they explicitly cover LLMs under their “Hopes for the Silver” AI/Expert Systems/Automatic programming section and explain why it is still not a silve
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by shalmanese 1y ago
All of these sneeringly cynical articles come from the same place: if these people are sincere in their beliefs, then I am a piece of shit. Since I am not a piece of shit, all of these people must be insincere in their beliefs. Like any per
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by shalmanese 1y ago
If by recent, you mean in 2016, then sure that’s recent in terms of 5000 years of Chinese history.
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by shalmanese 1y ago
They are also shielded from any losses. The stock price is meant to reflect the market consensus on the net present value of all time-discounted future cashflows. If you feel the stock will certainly gain in the future, you should purchase
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by shalmanese 1y ago
It's the move to renewables that's causing this. In a steady state industry, the majority of your revenue goes into investing in the next generation of infrastructure. Dying industries get a temporary injection of profit as your f
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by shalmanese 1y ago
When I'm a decision maker, I tell people there are two types of conversations we could be having and it's absolutely essential that we're both clear which one we both think we're having: 1. There's a piece of inform

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