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by spupe 4y ago
I mentioned Canada and France. Could also list other countries like Austria and Netherlands that had similar issues. Hell, even Brazil, who had been improving economically and especially for its poorest people consistently since the 90s, an
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by spupe 4y ago
Why don't you address any counterfactuals that don't fit your theory?
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by spupe 4y ago
France, Canada, Britain and many other countries in the West that have everything you listed are also showing the same signs of division, all emerging in the same timeframe described by Haidt.
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by spupe 4y ago
That's not an appropriate comparison. You are talking about bad policies and political decisions, while Haidt is focusing on internal division and institutional erosion. The issue here is whether you will be free to see and declare the
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by spupe 4y ago
Yes. At its core, the issue with social media is that it amplifies "engagement" at the cost of anything else. It is impossible to breed socially productive ideas, in the allegory you describe, if your only focus is infectiousness.
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by spupe 4y ago
If anything, enforcing identification would be very damaging to these companies. Their user numbers are absurdly inflated by bots and fakes, and most of their engagement is also likely not coming from human activity. The author is not propo
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by spupe 4y ago
The internet can remain anonymous at large, but we could require any company with an audience larger than, say, 10k people to operate within the parameters Haidt describes. In other words, you can be completely anonymous if using small comm
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by spupe 4y ago
Honest question, do you know a serious source I can read about how this rollout is being executed? I am only familiar with European energy policy, and grid storage currently is a pipe dream, more efficient construction is very slowly being
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by spupe 4y ago
I get what you mean, but do you see how the politics around otherwise sterile scientific decisions influence how scientists will decide what to test, and what gets ultimately funded and reported? For example, HCQ is and has always been a sh
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by spupe 5y ago
Yeah, I think he picked some bad examples to illustrate an otherwise good point. For instance, the issue with Ioannidis is not really that people thought he was supporting Trump, it was that he made wildly controversial points on flawed, li
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by spupe 5y ago
Nuclear is the worst form of stable, non-fossil fuel energy source, except all the other ones we tried. Or do you have an alternative in mind?
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by spupe 5y ago
Yeah I was very interested about that point in particular. I think synthetic data is one of the ideas, but I got the sense that he also means helping to identify what makes a data set good, even if small. It looks like Andrew Ng is developi
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by spupe 5y ago
Exactly. It bothers me immensely that we cannot have an adult conversation about topics such as these, because people who only have a superficial understanding try to pick a certain phrase or argument as proof that you are on "the othe
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by spupe 5y ago
Chomsky is absolutely right. We are sleepwalking into disaster and all I see is a deterioration of public discourse, where we fail to acknowledge how big the threat of extinction currently is.
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by spupe 5y ago
The issue is not as straightforward as you describe. The promise was made and several actors confirm it [1]. That it was not put in a treaty does not contradict what Chomsky said. NATO expansion is a huge part of the current conflict, and i
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by spupe 5y ago
But the other variants are gone. Virtually nobody in the US and Europe are getting infected with them, as we can see with sequencing data.
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by spupe 5y ago
Many others have commented on possible biases here. That's true, but I also find this a really interesting observation based on a huge dataset. Once you can correlate it to actual job performance - performance reviews, whether you were
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by spupe 5y ago
There is no consistent definition of race in humans. Certainly no scientifically valid one. We are all playing word games, politically motivated ones as demonstrated by this article. That's not to say racism doesn't exist of cours
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by spupe 5y ago
This is a very misleading headline. The data actually shows that the level of neutralizing antibodies for Omicron in both vaccinated and non-vaccinated with previous Covid exposure is similar (panel D), while not been exposed or vaccinated
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by spupe 5y ago
This is a major landmark. Excited to see the results.
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by spupe 5y ago
You are right about this claim, but the only thing I could find to substantiate it is a 2013 article in which leaked documents suggests German federal police wanted to use it [1]. It is still incorrect to suggest this is a German state spyw
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by spupe 5y ago
I didn't know about this company before, but a cursory search suggests they were only based in Germany, not used by the German government. Title is misleading, especially as it is not the original title of the article, and Germany has
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by spupe 5y ago
Exactly. Plus, it's not like "back in the day" you could do anything about random bans on IRC, Usenet or whatever.
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by spupe 5y ago
This is fascinating. I feel that we are still in the infancy of the field, however. These observations are analogous to naturalists of the past describing an animal's behavior, but we need to get to the point where more accurate estima
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by spupe 5y ago
> Dumbphones can call and text and, if you have a computer, that’s really all you need. Then you don't need a dumbphone either, you can also do that from a computer.
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by spupe 5y ago
Create a massively adopted product -> Start breaking your product to milk profitability -> Ignore user input and feedback, override their stated preferences with yours The Microsoft playbook, currently in play at Google.
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by spupe 5y ago
> The NukkAI challenge required the human champions to play 800 consecutive deals divided into 80 sets of 10. It did not involve the initial bidding component of the game during which players arrive at a contract that they must then meet
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by spupe 5y ago
> or someone actually knowledgeable on the subject will correct me How do you know they are knowledgeable?
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by spupe 5y ago
Alternate link: https://leaderpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/spacex-ending-produc...
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by spupe 5y ago
The economic incentive to fix your problem, or many of the other areas in which people perceive AI has shortcomings, is very small. The economic liability for failure is also astronomically different in both cases.

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