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by tivert 2y ago
> It seems like LLMs would be great for this: "Is this email trying to sell me something?" "Is it from an acquintance?" "I have these mailboxes, which is the most appropriate?" with some additional metadata.
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>> On the other hand, people who laughed at them removing the 3.5mm jack can still safely laugh away. > Then laugh at Samsung and their flagship line of phones as well, since they haven't had headphone jacks for a while now. &
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Bitcoin itself.
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> Maybe what people feel is more real / closer to practical reality than the numbers the elites point to argue otherwise? Bingo. People who argue the economy is doing well based on some coarse high-level numbers are missing a lot, b
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It's worth remembering "past performance is not indicative of future results." Don't reason about the safety of potential future technology from the safety of past technology, generally. That gets you into nonsense like
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> Yes, we know that it is ultimately bad humans pulling the trigger, but we also know for a fact that bad humans exist. So why are we arming them? Because tech people want to build, are paid to build, and "it is difficult to get
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> Capitalism requires consumers. I disagree with that premise. For certain businesses it's fundamentally true, and right now it's broadly true because of the limitations of our technology , but I don't think it's f
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> The technology remains the enabler, the responsible remains the human actor. That's an awful lot like "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Some tec
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> it only needs to be as good as a mediocre human carrying out a rote task to absolutely change the world. And "absolutely chang[ing] the world" is often assumed to be good, but that's not necessarily so. There are a lot
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> My question - and I hope someone can address it in the discussion - how is it possible that we see such incredible investments in LLMs? The same reason we did for blockchain. It's a sexy new technology, with amazing demos and hy
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> The issue of course being that when there is a population crunch, there is no ‘rest of societies labor’ free, like there would be with a normal population age curve. Yeah. For that reason, old age pensions should be tied to how many ki
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Adverse possession Usucapio
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> Increased taxation is not forfeiture, and being forced to sell because taxes are prohibitive is different from the government taking your building. That's a distinction without a difference, at least not a difference in the area w
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>> It's a public policy failure for land to sit vacant like that. > Then the government should buy the land. No, I don't think so. > You own a building and the building is not currently occupied. The building is unsigh
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>> In the AGI scenario, the employers that are dependent on consumer sales will wither and die, as consumer buying power shrinks due to unemployment. > Why? People will find ways to exchange value. Sure, but they'll have incre
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>> What's madness is the state allowing property owners to leave vacant, dilapidated buildings to blight the neighborhood. Owners should be required to maintain their structures and keep them occupied, or forfeit the property. &g
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> McDonald's have tries to claim for a long time that "Mac" is their exclusive trademarkable name. It is not. It is a word in a language that most of the people who eat in McDon;d's do not speak, but it is a really co
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The article says this: > The Irish company doesn’t sell a sandwich called the Big Mac but does have one called the Mighty Mac with the same ingredients. So it sounds like they do sell beef burgers. Unless the EU is a bizarre place, like
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> The EU General Court said in its judgment that the U.S. fast food giant failed to prove that it was genuinely using the Big Mac label over a five-year period for chicken sandwiches, poultry products or restaurants. > ... > Superm
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That's too complicated, though. One of the main use cases for an archived web page would be to share archives, and in that case I think you'd want them to be double-clickable with little fuss.
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> From the article Texas is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other state including New York and California. But the question is: will they change their listing to this new stock market, or stay with the long-recognized ones?
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> Shitposting is the top of my personal sales funnel. Always has been.... I got multiple interviews and job offers from it, too, none of which I could take sadly because I planned to move to Finland to be with the aforementioned lass. Bu
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It's important to remember that it's only a book ban when initiated by the wrong people. If the right people do it, it's not a ban, and nothing to be worried about.
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> If no one is hired then the employers don't have anyone to buy their stuff. Employers only do well if they provide someone else a useful good or service. You're still stuck with assumptions that are obsolete in this scenario.
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> People with things have to be useful to people who can do things as well. That's not super clear, but I think I get what you're saying. My whole point is AGI breaks that idea, and frees capital from the need for labor. > I
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> Lots of tools available, best index I've found of the ecosystem is this: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/The_WARC_Ecosystem It looks like there's a lot of tools for creating them, but not a a lot
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> You're thinking of anything but capitalism. Capitalism means you don't have to rely on powerful people sharing for you to have things. No. Capitalism means you need to rely on being useful to the people who own things. If you
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> what a sad statement on the human condition that all of the other needs for limitless clean power did not meet the needs to justify developing fusion, yet you think that AI will? Jesus wept. Well, AI has the promise to provide a supply
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> And to disregard their previous experience with high-functioning alcoholics who deny everything when they mess up. I’d bet there’s a lot more hidden day-drinkers out there than patients like this. I'd rather them disregard their b
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> Maybe the extinction is the population of users that's entirely unused to graphical user interfaces. You don't need to take that group into consideration anymore, so, goodbye to usability experts. > But the obvious result

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