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by slibhb 3y ago
What's the alternative here? Make laws so that people aren't allowed to use AI to replace X job? If AI replaces my job, I'll accept it. I don't want to do a job that could better be done by a machine.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Computers that are better at chess than us didn't ruin chess. I bet music/art will be the same.
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by slibhb 3y ago
> Meat and dairy have causal or correlations with a lot of terminal diseases How do studies show causation? I imagine almost all the evidence here is observational. In general, due to that limitation, I don't think we can really dr
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's Glamour magazine. And many (most?) women like makeup, lipstick, and being feminine. I see no reason to assume she was forced to use makeup.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Markets don't reward greed. They reward behavior that grows the market. In the long run growing the market comes down to capital (as in factories, roads, and stuff), technology, skills, culture, and people.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Capitalism is free markets, private property, voluntary exchange of labor, capital accumulation, etc. What you're complaining about is greed. Greed has existed throughout human history (and probably before). Greed is found wherever the
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by slibhb 3y ago
> If you perform well enough that your boss doesn't notice, clearly it's providing the value you're getting paid for it? Let's assume the goal of capitalism is economic growth. The fact that you can hold two jobs whil
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by slibhb 3y ago
If capitalism cares about anything, it's economic growth. It's unclear to me how half-assing two jobs is good for economic growth.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Define "pay equity" please. Does that mean everyone in the same role gets paid the same? Everyone with the same seniority gets paid the same? Something else? Sure, some people are getting paid too little and others too much. But t
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by slibhb 3y ago
In other words he's not being punished for what he did; he's being punished to dissuade others from copying him. I think people should be punished for their actions and not to increase utility of society.
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by slibhb 3y ago
I'm not arguing against retribution. I'm arguing that this particular retribution is not proportional. In terms of the chance of repeat offense...who would invest money with SBF at this point? It's not like he was mugging peo
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by slibhb 3y ago
I don't understand why we need to put this guy in jail for 25 years. Similarly, Bernie Madoff, whose crimes were far worse, was sentenced to 150 years. For stealing money! Given that the risk of repeat offense is low, I just don't
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by slibhb 3y ago
In Girard's model of mimetic desire, there are three parts: the subject, the object, and the model. The subject sees that the model has the object and comes to desire it. There's something deeply true about this. But often, the th
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by slibhb 3y ago
That's kind of the point. Assange wasn't acting on behalf of his country. If he was, there'd be much less of an issue. I think it's a miscarriage of justice that Assange is just sitting in jail. At the same time, his def
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by slibhb 3y ago
> It would be easier for me to design spaceships than manage my bills, but I seem to be relegated to doing chores for the rest of my life and dying penniless. What a drag!
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by slibhb 3y ago
> I understand someone having the viewpoint of America first, look after home first and don't get involved in foreign wars. He however, seems to go way beyond this. It's interesting how often this happens. People start from a r
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by slibhb 3y ago
I'd be more sympathetic to the government's arguments if Android phones didn't exist. But they do, and people can use them if they don't like Apple's walled garden. As things are, this lawsuit seems like the governm
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by slibhb 3y ago
> American culture doesn't like to think about how much of "success" is down to luck. As often as possible, we want to think it's earned. The idea of trying to make up for some of the luck factor by taking some from t
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by slibhb 3y ago
No one knows what an economy where AI does all the labor looks like. In such an economy, it may be that we can become communists! One of Marx's ideas was that technology will liberate man from labor. In actual historical Marxist societ
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by slibhb 3y ago
If we develop the technology to replace certain jobs, then we should do it -- even if they're our jobs. Who even wants a career that only exists due to special interest lobbying to protect it from disruption?
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by slibhb 3y ago
Is that the right way to think of LLMs (that they "think in English")? I think a better way to think of them is as an n-dimensional "meaning space" where words/phrases are n-vectors, n is a very large number, and ea
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by slibhb 3y ago
Whether it's sociopathic depends on how she feels about it!
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by slibhb 3y ago
I think it's more likely that she's lying for attention (and a book deal) than it is that she's actually a sociopath. Since we're talking about subjective feelings, it's not like there's any way to knwo for sur
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by slibhb 3y ago
It's true everywhere. Older people are paid more for no good reason, it's just "the way things are" that you get a raise every year. In a freer market, it wouldn't be the case.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Geniuses follow the same curve as virtually everyone else. Humans are most active, energetic and quick in our late teens to early 30s and fall off steadily after that. People in this thread need to ask themselves why they're engaging i
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by slibhb 3y ago
Yes, there are valid reasons to discriminate against young people. (Being paid less isn't one of them though, that's a point in their favor).
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by slibhb 3y ago
Virtually every genius is most productive before 40, usually before 30. Counterexamples exist but are rare.
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by slibhb 3y ago
Every generation is scared of "what the kids spend their time doing". In the 80s it was the PMRC. Later on there were at least a few video game scares ("What if my son plays Mortal Kombat and tries to rip my head off?").
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by slibhb 3y ago
This whole thing is embarrassing. Banning an app is something the CCP does. It's not supposed to be something the US government does. That's leaving aside the feasibility. I suppose tiktok could be banned on Iphones easily enough
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by slibhb 3y ago
They're called auras ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(symptom) ). An aura without a migraine is called a silent migraine. I have a couple silent migraines a year. When I was a teenager, an aura was followed by

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