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by slibhb 3mo ago
It doesn't have to be 20 story apartment buildings. Start with duplexes, fourplexes, or townhomes -- none of which have to be ugly. It simply makes no sense to zone these densely populated urban areas for detached, single-family houses
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by slibhb 3mo ago
Yes, this is a real problem. Also, in high-demand areas, building more will lower prices compared to the counterfactual but that doesn't mean prices will actually go down. This makes it a harder sell.
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by slibhb 3mo ago
There's no question that underbuilding is the largest factor here. You can look at construction vs. population over time (it's well below historical standards). Or available home vacancy rates. Or notice that the number of househo
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by slibhb 3mo ago
Downward mobility is almost entirely caused by housing costs, which are a self-inflicted problem. We don't, as a matter of intentional policy, build enough housing. I live in an expensive area and I'm always shocked by how many of
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by slibhb 3mo ago
> So if say an foss ML project described what they do as "open AI" the company known as OpenAI would have a right to defend the mark. This is saying they could not. Well if that's all that's at stake here, it seems ve
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by slibhb 3mo ago
No, the opinion doesn't have to do with whether OpenAI is open.
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by slibhb 3mo ago
The argument doesn't hinge on whether OpenAI is actually open. Rather it seems to have to do with the name being insufficiently distinguishable from a generic term ("open AI"). I think it's a bizarre ruling given that ev
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by slibhb 3mo ago
Give me a break. Apple doesn't sell apples.
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by slibhb 3mo ago
When you read a book, you hypothesize a writer and have some kind of inner relationship with the hypothetical writer. But it's not a real relationship. It's in the words , not outside them.
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by slibhb 3mo ago
To the extent that people hate tech, it's because: 1. Tech is our "new money". New money is always hated, by every generation 2. Tech represents change and the human animal dislikes change. Most people are okay with everythin
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by slibhb 3mo ago
Your example hinges on whether a bunch of words is true, not on how they came to be written. > When we read personal stories it affects our emotions as we empathize with the author, or otherwise share the feelings that the author is tryi
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by slibhb 3mo ago
It seems to me that you don't like reading (which is fine). Some people enjoy reading words strung together in a certain way. The value comes from the simple relationship between the text and the reader, not on some kind of social conn
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by slibhb 3mo ago
> In my mind, it's pretty simple: I'm a human, LLMs are not. If a human writes a novel, it's inherently worth more. While I appreciate you laying it out so plainly, I disagree. A novel is a bunch of words and I don't
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by slibhb 3mo ago
Please actually respond to the comment instead of whatever this is. It looks reasonable enough to me and I trust the FDA more than The Guardian or the "Tucson Environmental Justice Task Force".
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by slibhb 3mo ago
We look back on the (at the time influential) claim that rock/metal/etc "corrupts the youth" as a quaint moral panic. Modern views about social media are our version of that same silly claim. Future people will look back
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by slibhb 3mo ago
> Children are not emotionally or intellectually prepared to repel this hostile takeover of their minds. Then their parents shouldn't let them use the internet. I find it interesting that so much of how people think about morality i
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by slibhb 3mo ago
Following this logic, isn't "your part" undone until you commit suicide?
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by slibhb 3mo ago
There will, in fact, continue to be frogs. One theory of where posts like this come from: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2527316123
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by slibhb 4mo ago
> If anything these models should be compelled to be public since they have been trained off public data. What an absurd overreach to call this an attack. > It’s clear they are scapegoating national security and China at this point to
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by slibhb 4mo ago
I don't assume it; it's simply true. Educated/elite Europeans tend to define themselves in opposition to Americans. It's pretty hard to interact with those Europeans (including on this site) and not pick up on that. Ther
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by slibhb 4mo ago
Meanwhile ~40 (mostly young) people drowned in France recently trying to cool off as temperatures exceeded 100F around Paris. It's true that historically Europe is cooler than similar latitudes in North America. But there's also a
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by slibhb 4mo ago
If you want more detailed numbers, go look them up. BLS publishes them. Unemployment is nearly at historical lows. But don't let data distract you from the same tired "everything is terrible" line that's every other post
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by slibhb 4mo ago
In the US, unemployment is at 4.3%.
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by slibhb 4mo ago
We don't live in a command economy. Nuclear and solar both great and our only stance should be encouraging both.
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by slibhb 4mo ago
The article is saying that using AI degrades certain skills when AI is not available. You're claiming that AI is making people less effective even when they have access to AI. I'm skeptical of your claim. The article's claim
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by slibhb 4mo ago
This is such a silly argument. Battery and solar technologies are progressing regardless of people building nuclear. It's simply not the case that we can stop investing in nuclear and use that money to accelerate battery/solar. Th
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by slibhb 4mo ago
Get a dehumidifier and put it in the room with the mold problem.
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by slibhb 4mo ago
I reread your posts, and no. You seem unaware of what your posts imply about the agency of certain groups of human beings.
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by slibhb 4mo ago
It's very fashionable for Westerners to evince belief in the idea that inhabitants of third-world countries have no free will and aren't responsible for their actions. We're told that everything bad that happens in those coun
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by slibhb 4mo ago
Based on this garbage-level post I have a strong feeling I've read more moral philosophy than you.

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