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by tivert 2y ago
> The shocking part is how new generation have a fully rational reinterpretation of all this, they call it "ethical sex". It's beautiful to them (probably in contrast to the boat loads of issues IRL social and intimate rel
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by tivert 2y ago
> Capitalism doesn't dictate poor working conditions at all. Lack of regulation certainly does though. It totally does. Regulation is basically opposed to capitalism working as designed.
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by tivert 2y ago
Fantastic! The less educated and less skilled the next generation of people are, the more opportunity there will be for AI.
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by tivert 2y ago
> I don't think anyone is worried about SWE work going away, I think the concern is if SWE's will still be able to command cushy salaries and working conditions. It's very important to human progress that all jobs have poo
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by tivert 2y ago
> I disagree, the article is not about Waymo cars. 99% of the article is about some Amazon-owned robotaxi company. I disagree. The article is about how robot taxis in general aren't as robotic as they seem, which includes Waymo. I
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by tivert 2y ago
> The submitted article is about safety of the Waymo cars. The article you're linking to is about non-safety [0] remote assistance of a non-Waymo remote taxi company. I'm quite baffled why you think there's any connection
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by tivert 2y ago
Is this propaganda move to counter to the recent NYT article ( https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/03/technology/zo... ) revealing how much human assistance "self-driving" cars requi
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by tivert 2y ago
> Knowing nothing of submarines or seafaring, I'm genuinely curious as to what is logged on a ship that may be necessary a decade later? I noted in another comment that the National Archives say only "deck logs" are retain
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by tivert 2y ago
What kind of logs were they? According to https://www.archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/other-lo... , "Only a ship’s Deck Log is retained as a permanent record." Stuff like engineering logs ar
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by tivert 2y ago
>> Government pays IT fairly well compared to 95% of all IT jobs. It’s not paying FAANG wages, but more time off, less overtime, and pensions make direct salary comparisons misleading. > No it definitely does not. A GS-15, whose jo
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by tivert 2y ago
> In a time where money can be zipped around the world in seconds, and most transactions are cashless, what exactly is the advantage of 'keeping money in the community'? Living in a community that isn't poor and decaying?
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by tivert 2y ago
> Since 2018. Can't help thinking that if with that money they had bought Apple shares, it would be now 3 times more. If only they could have known the stock price six years into the future, they'd have made a killing in the st
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by tivert 2y ago
> When I buy a device, I don't want a perpetual, tethered relationship with the manufacturer in order to work the device. Yes, but all the manufacturers want you in that relationship with them, and the technology of "internet
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by tivert 2y ago
>> there is a rich person on the end of it with the loan as an asset earning interest. > About half of treasuries are held by the Fed or foreign investors which largely means other governments and foreign companies. Most of the res
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by tivert 2y ago
> This is great! It would be interesting to see darwin/macos in the mix. But that's just another UNIX.
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by tivert 2y ago
> If "this is the last game for Alex Morgan" wasn't included as any part of the input/prompt, how on earth could the AI summary have come up with this for inclusion in the game recap? It couldn't, which is the pr
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by tivert 2y ago
My point was to note that Banks's works are fiction, so the usefulness of citing outcomes in his fictional universe is very limited, because they're almost certainly more of an expression of his biases than anything else (and
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by tivert 2y ago
> But the point is that a basic Culture human of standard intelligence (albeit extensive knowledge of strategy games) can - after a relatively small amount of training - defeat an Azadian who has devoted their entire life to Azad. > A
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by tivert 2y ago
> I'm not sure 'Pets and clowna' really describes the relationship very well. Certainly the AIs find humans fascinating, amusing and exasperating - but I find humans that way too. The 'parental' might be a better
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by tivert 2y ago
For purely entertainment value, I wish Gavin Newsom was running for president.
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by tivert 2y ago
> What is it that the author thinks is particularly unusual about this image? Read the article and look at the "officially sanctioned" diagram. This looks like the tl;dr of what he things about this: > Anyway, I’m just surp
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by tivert 2y ago
> China is really really broke, from central government, to local government, to enterprise, to individuals. from 11 trillion off the book debts for local governments, to record number of Chinese blacklisted for debt defaults. from 7 tri
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by tivert 2y ago
> SMIC has been able to poach talent by throwing mountains of money at them. This might not be possible going forward. Not being able to work on EUV could be career suicide, and I’m not so sure China can be so frivolous with their money
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by tivert 2y ago
> Perhaps usability has peaked, and now posts like this are the rule of the day? Probably, but the change can't stop. Must keep on innovating with useless side-grades or even downgrades.
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by tivert 2y ago
> while in theory someone could do something like "create shell companies faster than the legal process can crack them open I don't think that even works in theory. It's not like a shell company is a computer process that
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by tivert 2y ago
> Why haven't algorithmically-maintained corporate swarms destroyed liability law yet? I haven't read the book, so what exactly are you talking about? Is it swarms of shell companies? I think software engineers often confuse th
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by tivert 2y ago
> This is why the "We will bring in a billion immigrants" strategy is going to fail. That strategy is going to fail from simple math. Birthrates are dropping everywhere , and IIRC world fertility is at replacement or maybe ev
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by tivert 2y ago
> Are we already conceding that LLMs are people? I bet that trying to blur the line is part of the AI startup propaganda strategy. There's no reason to think the legal rights enjoyed by people transfer to machines by analogy. My c
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by tivert 2y ago
In other news: burglar says he can't make money from his burglary skills without stealing, and pleads that the laws against theft be repealed.
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by tivert 2y ago
> I think it is important for America and Europe to take the side of using copyrighted works for LLM is fair use/not illegal. Advancement in this space in the west will be hindered otherwise, and nations that don’t respect IP law wi

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