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by slg 1y ago
Yes, that was the point I was making. The bombs were not dropped on the largest cities which shows the argument that "maximum concrete, visceral impact" was not the only priority. There was some consideration for civilian casual
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by slg 1y ago
>The same result as what? The OP just explained how the bombs being deployed in the manner they were barely led to a surrender. The result of surrendering. What makes you think they wouldn't have surrendered if other targets were bo
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by slg 1y ago
>They had to make the maximum concrete, visceral impact with the couple they had such that there would be minimal second-guessing on the part of Japan. And yet they didn't decide to bomb Tokyo or Kyoto. There was clearly a calculus
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by slg 1y ago
Why is this discussion always a binary choice between a land invasion of Japan or dropping the bombs exactly how we did? For example, there is rarely any discussion of whether another target with fewer civilian casualties could have accomp
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by slg 1y ago
This is an ironic response to a comment on HN that is being downvoted and soon will be censored by the crowd based flagging and voting system for being "disagreeable".
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by slg 1y ago
While I agree that it would be great if artists had more freedom to create whatever they wanted, I think it is overly cynical to dismiss commercial art as somehow lesser. I think this specifically is a great example of that. It isn't
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by slg 1y ago
It is interesting to see a post like this at the top of HN considering the vibe here lately. The popularity of this post seems to show an innate understanding of the value of investing a lot of thought and effort into creating a piece of ar
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by slg 1y ago
The information might be viewable from the public, but there was still an expectation of privacy at the start of this. It isn't a naked person walking down the street, it is someone getting naked in their own home and you're peer
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by slg 1y ago
>He thought that analytics was changing the probabilities of discrete events by single digits. That is actually huge in baseball. As an example, the player who was least likely to get a hit last year did it in 19.6% of their at bats (th
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by slg 1y ago
> removing the bureaucratic gatekeeping of doctors And replacing it with the "bureaucratic gatekeeping of" AI?
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by slg 1y ago
This is not an argument that has any relevancy to AI. If anything, someone who believes what you say should be against the introduction of AI into the system because your argument is fundamentally that these drugs shouldn't have a gat
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by slg 1y ago
Yet another funny comment to find in a thread about one of the current president's economic initiatives. I guess everyone here is wasting their time considering this will have very little economic impact.
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by slg 1y ago
>This is like me saying "economic productivity has a well-known right-wing bias" or something goofy like that. It's funny that the counterexample you chose does more to support OP's point than your own. From Wikipedia
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by slg 1y ago
>Why can't I just chat with an AI bot and get my prescription? Because people have decided that whatever drug you are taking shouldn't be taken without a doctor's oversight. If you have a problem with that conclusion, the
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by slg 1y ago
And Roman architecture was largely based on Greek architecture. This type of thing has been happening as long as humans have had historic cultures to emulate and commemorate.
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by slg 1y ago
>Women choose less lucrative careers, leave the workforce more often to care for children, and care more about work-life balance. Although the "choose" here needs to put into societal context. Do women naturally prefer less lu
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by slg 1y ago
>The goal is to help people grow, so they can achieve things they would not have been able to deal with before gaining that additional experience. You and others seem to be disagreeing with something I never said. This is 100% compatibl
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by slg 1y ago
The analogy I have used in the past is this fear is like thinking that health insurance companies were more likely to buy the old Marlboro Miles database rather than just making detailing your smoking history a required part of the applicat
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by slg 1y ago
This is taking what I said further than intended. I'm not saying the standard review process should catch the AI generated mistakes. I'm saying this work is at the level of someone who can and will make plenty of stupid mistakes
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by slg 1y ago
The proper use of these systems is to treat them like an intern or new grad hire. You can give them the work that none of the mid-tier or senior people want to do, thereby speeding up the team. But you will have to review their work thoro
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by slg 1y ago
This is an ironic reply as like those fans of the Matrix, you appear to be reading something different in what I said than what I intended. I'm not saying the trans reading of The Matrix is the only valid reading of that movie. Howeve
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by slg 1y ago
The Matrix is an earlier and I think more impactful example of this. That is a movie made by two trans filmmakers and with hindsight it is clearly an exploration of their own identities. Yet somehow it has been co-opted by people with dia
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by slg 1y ago
Maybe I didn't make this clear enough prior. No one is arguing to completely remove encryption from modern life. I was criticizing how these issues are discussed. You are making an entirely different type of argument and therefore I
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by slg 1y ago
>In all the cases where there's a "real criminal" they're after the database provides very little information that isn't redundant to the old fashioned police work they'd do to begin with (like getting a war
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by slg 1y ago
>"Encryption good"... "License plate readers good" More moving of the goalposts. These weren't the arguments. The question wasn't whether these are net goods, it was whether they save lives. And when it c
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by slg 1y ago
>In any significant capacity? Notice the subtle shifting of the goalposts. Who said anything about "significant capacity"? The original argument was "it helps save actual lives". Now we need to see "widespread
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by slg 1y ago
It seems very strange to define these terms based off the difficulty in reproducing them. Let's look at the sibling comment's example of a nuclear bomb. That's "not simple for anyone to reproduce without significant acc
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by slg 1y ago
Can you genuinely not think of situations in which law enforcement being able to pin a specific vehicle to a time and place might help them catch dangerous criminals or be used as evidence in a trial to help get them convicted?
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by slg 1y ago
I think you are going too deep down individual tangents here. My “cop with a camera” comment was challenging the idea that datasets aren’t tools. If the issue is purely about amplifying the danger of bad actors and therefore forcing us to r
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by slg 1y ago
Thank you, this is a perfect example of the type of inconsistencies I’m talking about when discussing these issues. The prior comment says encryption saves lives and that is accepted without question, but the idea that empowering law enfor

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