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by tivert 2y ago
> But the slop tide threatens some of the key functions of the web, clogging search results with nonsense, overwhelming small institutions like Clarkesworld, and generally polluting the already fragile information ecosystem of the intern
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> Look at the other stories in this thread. Even 5% is enough to avoid it. A lot of them sound like: "Ick, I saw poor people, never again will I subject myself to that. I now restrict myself to modes of transport too expensive for
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by tivert 2y ago
> Biden has 3.5 years to adjust the policy and only now have the numbers gone up? It's probably not strictly partisan. The Biden administration has been like that on even partisan things. Take Net Neutrality: they stuck with a FCC
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by tivert 2y ago
Also in this case, in this forum, I think you also have some people who are suffering from a kind of techno-fetishism that desperately wants to see realized one of the technologies they read about in sci-fi, so they're willing to align
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> A massive loss of jobs like that would lead to a better redistribution of wealth... How do you come to that conclusion? I think we'll get massive inequality because it'll be far easier to develop new technology than change th
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> Proto-Indo-European culture seems to have placed a great deal of importance on the sanctity of contracts and the notion of reciprocal hospitality ... There's some great books on Indo-European society if you're interested. Wha
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> We kill millions of humans with agency every day on this planet. And none of them immediately die if we stop providing them with electrical power ... well I guess a small amount of them do. Anyway, we'll be fine. If the AI come, c
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by tivert 2y ago
> Funny how their definition of changing the world amounts to: Fuck you, got mine. It's sad, but at this point I pretty much assume anyone out of SV who claims they're trying to change the world are either liars, incompetents,
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Did Google and Facebook suffer tons of attrition very early? The drumbeat of departures calls into question OpenAI's ability to stay ahead of its competitors. Then you have the fact that Facebook is giving LLaMA away for free, which g
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> Jason Wong, Gartner analyst, told The Register: "It's clear with the departures of the co-founders, and high-profile engineering leaders, that OpenAI is being remade with Sam's vision. His manifesto and the shift to a fo
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by tivert 2y ago
What's your point, and what does that have to do with the specific url that's used in the post?
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> Also it's hard to be against gambling if your state runs a lotto, which is gambling. How so? Different kinds of gambling have different characteristics that could make them more or less prone to problematic behavior. With the lott
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> Your post seems like an example of what GP is talking about. No it isn't. The GP accused the flaggers of flagging it for ideological reasons, because it goes "counter to their narrative." I'm saying that it's
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by tivert 2y ago
Actually, I think there's a pretty legitimate reason to flag this. The actual article is from the quite biased libertarian Reason Magazine: https://reason.com/2024/09/26/rents-fall-and-listings-increa...
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> bruksvärdeshyra Google is translating that as "utility value rent," and it appears to be something calculated by a committee based on the "value" from the tenant's point of view.
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by tivert 2y ago
>> Their interventions are automatic when the car calls back to home base to make a determination as to what to do next and the operator makes a choice on how to proceed. Happens about once every half an hour travelling on Waymo in SF
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> Real Communism hasn’t been tried. Once we do it, it’s going to work. Come on. You've said nothing of value and had no insight. No one's talking about full-on central planning. You've just uttered a strawman slogan for th
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by tivert 2y ago
So basically, the effects are mainly due to deficiencies with the previous law, and probably can't be generalized to rent control in general (though I'm sure many will try). For instance, I don't think I've ever heard of
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> I'm a bit concerned about how this might impact their commitment to AI safety though. Their commitment will remain unparalleled, because AI safety actually means doing whatever it takes to provide maximum return to the shareholder
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> I wonder how things would have played out differently if the generation that computerized their stores before the personal computer era and finessed the transition to malls had still been calling the shots at these companies during the
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> Seems like they just got so much bigger that we don't even recognize them as a department store. Walmart, Costco, Home Depot, et. al. are just variations on the theme. I don't think so. Home Depot is clearly a big hardware
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> Claude Sonnet translates Mandarin to English almost perfectly. Do you personally know Mandarin well enough to judge the quality of a translation? Because you can't do that from just looking at the output.
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> AI (as in GenAI) will be no different. I would not call that a bust. I would call it a bust, because the stocks prices followed the hype. The bust will be the fall from there.
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> Thanks, “head of stock research”. Definitely a real job that’s not at all made up. I’m sure he did a lot of chin stroking and graph glancing to come to this technical decision! Someone should let all the scientists know that they’re wr
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by tivert 2y ago
> You did not explain anything, you just said that something would happen, without any reasoning why or why no counter effects would happen. If you think that, the problem's on your end of the connection. The most charitable read of
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> These types of trends behave like a pendulum. Once you get to one extreme, the trend reverses back towards the middle and then the other side. I don't think so. I think the movement of the "pendulum" can be a lot more
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by tivert 2y ago
> WFH only is low quality experience for me. No close bonding. Just zoom calls. Hybrid/Flex is the way to go I think. No need to be in the office 100%, but show up if you can. I think Hybrid/Flex is the way to go, rather than p
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> You're claiming it would be terrible for the rest of us, without supporting that assumption in any way. I literally explained it. I straightforwardly applied the technology to our existing social/economic structure. And cha
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> Is it all due to the prospect of finally seeing a feasible road to AGI?! Or just hope. AGI is a capitalist's wet dream: it would completely undercut labor's power or allow it to be replaced completely, and it could also all
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by tivert 2y ago
> Tech Jobs Have Dried Up—and Aren’t Coming Back Soon We're living the dream guys. I can't wait for AGI, so it can get even better!

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