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by slibhb 1mo ago
Meta-analysis, very large, shows small correlation between unhappiness and social media use: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/... Large AU observational study. Moderate social media
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by slibhb 1mo ago
It's been eye-opening to watch people fall for the "social media is hurting the children" scam. The best and largest observational studies don't show a strong correlation. Studies with an intervention are mixed/the
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by slibhb 2mo ago
Lots of places in the US have plentiful water. Don't build data centers where there's a lack of water! And it's a dead horse at this point, but we don't need to be growing almonds in CA. If you actually care about water
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by slibhb 2mo ago
This is business as usual for public sector unions. Focusing on police unions is a good way to highlight these issues to leftists who reflexively both defend unions and criticize police
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by slibhb 2mo ago
One of the use cases I've wondered about for AI is giving it a picture of the "spice wall" in a grocery store and asking it to find all jars of e.g. cardamom. This takes me an annoyingly long time to do when I'm shopping
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by slibhb 2mo ago
I'd love to see some other data. But afaik it's basically not contested that the US has shorter wait times than the UK and Canada
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by slibhb 2mo ago
Anecdotes aside, here's some data: https://benchmarkcanada.org/Governing_Healthcare-Wait-Times.... The US does far better than the UK and Canada.
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by slibhb 2mo ago
Canadians can (and do) just cross the border and use private US health care. The vast majority of them live near the US border.
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by slibhb 2mo ago
Is "data" to blame for this? Or is it just the normal cycle of every fast food restaurant? There are numerous local franchises near me that were great when I moved here but complete crap now. There are outliers (like Chik-fil-a) b
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by slibhb 2mo ago
Seriously! When I clicked the article, I thought it was going to include, like, how many kids/pets he has or his wife's maiden name. But I don't find any of the information listed in the article "creepy". It seems l
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by slibhb 2mo ago
My building already has cameras at the entrances and in the halls. Doesn't bother me. Abuse is possible, but I don't see why we can't limit it with laws and regulations. And the potential gains in terms of preventing crime an
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by slibhb 2mo ago
Policies to limit misuse should be adopted. But the idea that you have a right to privacy while in public is wrong and bad.
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by slibhb 2mo ago
There's no reason to link "AI psychosis" (i.e. interactiong with AI triggering psychotic episodes in the mentally ill) to people who "trust AI too much" or "don't bother to verify outputs". You can be
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by slibhb 2mo ago
Looks like the states are now getting in on the European scam of fining big US tech companies. A complete racket.
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by slibhb 2mo ago
> The Netherlands has made the intentional decision to reduce wealth inequality and to achieve a fairer society. The Netherlands does redistribute more, but the main reason China is less equal is that China is a massive, developing count
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by slibhb 2mo ago
> Can I swim with UNA? > UNA is currently a non-submersible device due to its innovative modular design. So, swimming is not something we offer as an activity, nor do we advise it. UNA is IPX5 rated, which means it is splash & sho
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by slibhb 2mo ago
The claim that the link between human value and productivity originated in capitalist societies (or via Protestant work ethic) is such bullshit. You think hunter-gatherers valued each other for their "inner worth"? Keep dreaming.
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by slibhb 3mo ago
Nah just focused less on money then you, I guess!
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by slibhb 3mo ago
Nuclear war is a more likely scenario.
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by slibhb 3mo ago
If my earning ability is harmed by AI, so be it. There's more to life than how much I earn, and opposing the spread of technology to maximize my earnings is bad.
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by slibhb 3mo ago
I didn't say it was a problem, I said it "mattered" If I wanted to argue that it's a problem, I'd just say that companies investing billions in training frontier models should reap the rewards. And distillation is e
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by slibhb 3mo ago
Of course it matters. Regardless of whether distillation is legal, there is a difference between training a model with and without distillation. For one thing, the distilled model wouldn't exist without the model it distilled. Also,
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by slibhb 3mo ago
Yeah, only publish stories about coral bleaching, animals going extinct, and forest fires. Censor any good news at all costs!
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by slibhb 3mo ago
> A member of the faculty (who I won’t name) said to me that the fact that the counterexample was so easy to find just indicated that humans had not spent enough time thinking about the problem, implying that a 60-year-old question of Gr
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by slibhb 3mo ago
No, they're very clearly trained to be truthful.
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by slibhb 3mo ago
https://claude.ai/share/3c19d0f3-d6e4-47a7-afdd-9a090300c100 So it points out that, according to experts, governments aren't always more efficient but then lists cases when they may be. Seems pretty balanced to me
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by slibhb 3mo ago
These models are trained to be truthful. Your disagreement isn't with the model, or the US, or the capitalist world but with economics and social sciences. If you want Claude to list arguments for socialism, be explicit about that (&qu
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by slibhb 3mo ago
> but also don't give them AI for things they don't know, perhaps The study doesn't show that at all. It didn't test actual AI. They could have tested a cohort of subjects with access to actual ChatGPT. Ask yourself w
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by slibhb 3mo ago
While it's definitely true that NIMBYism isn't the problem everywhere, I live in Virginia.
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by slibhb 3mo ago
I realize I'm not going to convince you but I just want to say...it's good that companies/individuals make a profit from building housing. Building housing is a pro-social activity that should be rewarded, like farming and

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