skummetmaelk

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by skummetmaelk 1y ago
Just makes it look like people jump on the virtue signalling bandwagon when they espouse opinions that aren't broadly consistent with their actions. Like eating beef several times a week, but feeling compelled to bring up the killing o
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by skummetmaelk 1y ago
That's a lot of emotional words without a single bit of context from the actual article. Your comment is better suited to FOX news' website.
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
The fact that you can unironically put the "only" modifier on a training time of 2.8 million GPU hours is nuts.
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
This is incorrect. They will quite often claim that it is possible to do without breaking encryption, as required for banking and such. They do believe it is possible to have a backdoor that will _only_ be accessible to the government. Comp
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
A speech he very well may have watched live.
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
This is such a hilariously bad take given how much advertising is targeted towards "the poor" to extract what little they have. Gambling ads, exploitative financial services, unhealthy "cheap" foods etc. Also, why don&#x
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
That doesn't seem like holding two opposing thoughts. Why is balancing contradictory actions to optimize an outcome different to weighing pros and cons?
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
Which thing can you do that does not serve the purpose of generating desirable brain activity?
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
Classic failure to establish a (close to) pareto optimal regulatory structure to avoid ending up in the self-organizing Nash equillibrium which is worse for everyone. The Price of Anarchy strikes again.
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
Pretty wild to love someone who does what they believe in regardless of how insane it is.
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
Which other useful things can they do? Spend their lives building advertising services or playing zero-sum games in financial markets?
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
Even if it was retroactive, which it is not, being punished for premeditated tax avoidance can hardly be called unpredictable. The central difference of opinion is of course whether outright gaming the system is acceptable regardless of the
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
There's not much uncertainty for business really. If you're pulling the moves that Apple and other companies pull to "optimize tax", then you are with 100% certainty trying to game the system and violating the spirit of
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
A big reason for the Dutch and Nordic populations being better at English than the Germans, Italians, and Spaniards, is that they were simply forced to consume media in English. They had no other option. Turns out to be an advantage.
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
Localization and dubbing is a sad endeavour. By trying to accomodate everyone's individual preference for information transmission we accomplish nothing more than reducing our ability to understand each other in the long run. Having a
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
You expect the person whom you just called an arrogant narcissist to agree with you? Good luck with that.
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
The terms used to describe the modern technology are derived from early neuroscience going back to the late 19th century. Our understanding of how biological neural networks operate lead to this conclusion. Not the other way around.
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
I think it is interesting that you are imposing a value judgment on the humanist spiritual belief being better than the "reductionist" one through your adjective usage. It is perfectly possible to live well and enjoy life knowing
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
What makes you believe it is wrong? Can you construct an argument which does not require the existence of a supernatural "divine"? If you presuppose such things exist, of course we reach different conclusions.
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
Do you feel attacked? Nobody is above anyone. Seems like that's your defensiveness reading something between the lines which isn't implied.
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
Humans are very good at pretending we are more than just biological machines acting according to genetically imposed network structure refined by lifetime history of training inputs.
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by skummetmaelk 2y ago
Works as long as you don't think too deeply about why exactly you're doing that.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
Cold is preferable to scorching heat. There's a hard limit to how many layers you can remove, not how many you can wear.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
Take what you can, give nothing back. Apparently.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
What was inconceivable yesterday will be mundane tomorrow.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
Completely true. However, Equifax was probably hard to wrap your head around. Whereas 23andme might seem a lot more personal and private to the average person. Of course, nothing is likely to come of this regardless.
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
I can think of an easy model. Disallow collection of personal information. Pull the rug out from under "services" which are really just data collection fronts turning a profit from selling your data instead of the primary service&
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
This disaster is the perfect counter-argument to those always saying "why do you care so much about privacy. It doesn't affect you when I share things. You can just choose not to do it", except no, I can't choose when we
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by skummetmaelk 3y ago
Thiel is the closest we have to a comic book villain honestly. I find it incredible that he mostly manages to stay under the radar. Maybe it's just because all Musk's antics are easier to cover.

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