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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> * Bias is absolutely impossible to avoid, especially with how today's "AI" works.* Unless you're taking the "there are multiple mathematically incompatible ways to define bias" view of the topic, just do w
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> That's a pretty common sense legislation to me. There's no reason to single out AI vs any other approach to the same topics.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
The paper with the non-algorithmic screening used synthetic resumes. I rather suspect that they didn't generate a realistic distribution of qualifications levels.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> We need to be very careful when using AI systems to evaluate people in general -- not because they might be biased (which they might be), but because even a small bias, if used by virtually everyone, can be damning. I don't thin
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> We find that people who submit multiple applications to positions screened by the same algorithmic hiring vendor are more likely to be rejected from every position to which they apply than would be true if the companies made decisions
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
4. It's something that might help a bit, but the patient would still be fine without. Ie, a disagreement over what "necessary" means.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> What made places like Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research, etc thrive? What happened to that mechanism, and can we have it back? They were all playing around in a new field that had just opened up. Research effectiveness is downstrea
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> Maybe the research you label "bad", I label "good". Your opinion has just as much weight as mine. "Just as much weight" in what context? Who is evaluating these weights? For what purpose? The person you&
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> > And for sociology, the problem isn't that the math is too hard, it's that the practice of sociology is pretty much a political exercise masquerading as science. > The problem is better characterized as social scien
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
If you know only your own position, you know little of even that.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> I don't understand. We shouldn't research whether institutional racism is causing problems? Is "institutional racism" when institutions do treat individuals differently on the basis of race, or when they make sure
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
I don't see the parent comment saying that we did invent it.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
Any use to identify where government resources are best used, will have people thinking they should have gotten more and would have if they'd answered differently. Ie, that their answers were "weaponized" against them.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> Replying to the ACS with accurate information is required by law, so they don't actually need to rely on people feeling safe to get answers. This works by the same principle as how nobody ever drives faster than the speed limit.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
It offers a mathematical description of a policy tradeoff, and the policy makers are apparently setting one of the parameters to zero.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> Differential privacy makes this trade-off explicit, and thus impossible to ignore. Maybe banning it is a way of pretending that the problem doesn't exist, in the hope that it will go away? Or it's saying that one of these c
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
You can get about 2/3 as much output power for a given amount of waste heat and cooling capacity. It's like how laptop power bricks used to be big and get hot, and now they aren't and don't.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
Wasn't there news a bit ago about some people being suddenly excluded from Linux kernel development for presumably similar reasons?
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
There a significant difference between "the user can be identified fairly well if you can get access to sensitive stuff" and "the owner is always explicitly recorded in a searchable database".
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
That makes as much sense as having a licensing board for hammers or socket wrenches or welders.
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by tbrownaw 5mo ago
> Fiddling with with climate controls and vents is not something I've done for 8 years now. Why is everybody always touching these things? I'll set the temperature differently if it's cold vs hot out, and in some weather
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by tbrownaw 5mo ago
> Software has been open long before it was subsidized by large corporations. Software then was also rather different from software now. It's not a government-funded research project these days.
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by tbrownaw 5mo ago
> Vibe Coding (and LLMs) did not create undisciplined engineering organizations or engineers. Loss of discipline can be a result of panic or greed. Perhaps believing that your own costs or your competitors' costs are suddenly beco
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by tbrownaw 5mo ago
There is a difference between "most homeless" (your comment) and "most visibly homeless" (comment you're replying to). IIRC, most people who obtain "homeless" status only keep it for a short time, and don&
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by tbrownaw 5mo ago
Well the article says this is the start of a lawsuit, so maybe wait for it to work its way through the courts?
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by tbrownaw 5mo ago
Shouldn't the filesystem be set to encrypt everything before it hits the physical storage layer?
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by tbrownaw 5mo ago
> The common way to get to FIRE, unless hitting the lottery or getting a crazy RSU payout, is to be super frugal with a high savings rate. Then they get to retirement and realize that doing the amazing things like traveling the world re
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by tbrownaw 5mo ago
Was he wrong? That sounds like it was about some sort of mandatory-mitm scheme or ban on e2e encryption. Like, yes, you can pretty easily make it impossible for the government to decrypt your bits, but the government can just as easily ar
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by tbrownaw 5mo ago
These are always a fun couple-day project. :)
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by tbrownaw 6mo ago
This, um, seems kinda sus. An obvious AI-generated site trying to raise money for something implausible?

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