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by topynate 4y ago
> Why would that make it easier? Because the immediate problem you're trying to solve as an employer isn't writing a commitment satisfying all situations, it's having a valuable association with your employees, and if empl
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by topynate 4y ago
If not being racist is one of those things that everyone fucking knows then that should make it easier to agree a standard commitment to not being racist. Breaches can then be dealt with in the same way that your hypothetical sexual harassm
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by topynate 4y ago
The social issues may be messy. Why does that mean the employment conditions must be messy? > I can tell you, from experience, it's a lot easier when you drop the "Okay, if I have to put up with it, let's get some strict d
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by topynate 4y ago
> It just means that if you can't even promise to not be racist Can I take a look at this Minimum Credible Commitment to Not Being Racist? Are there standard terms? Are there standard reciprocal commitments? For example, I would wan
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by topynate 4y ago
The two issues aren't exactly the same but they do seem intimately connected. When you consider what's involved in generating a weights file, it's a mostly mechanical process. You write a model, gather some data, and then tra
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by topynate 4y ago
GPT3 works quite well at following instructions if adequately prompted, just not as well as ChatGPT. ChatGPT was trained separately for ability to follow instructions and for harmlessness (sic). Not only is a non-moralising ChatGPT possible
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by topynate 4y ago
If you're referring to HN policy then for an established account it's not really shadowbanning, because dang will tell you that you're banned and why. Being treated as a useless noob until proven otherwise is being treated
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by topynate 4y ago
It's called a temporary suspension. Twitter asks you to acknowledge your tweet was bad by deleting it yourself. If you do, you get a time-out in the naughty corner for 12 hours, or a week, or whatever, and then you can tweet again. If
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by topynate 4y ago
The 'brand safety' super omnia argument isn't nearly as straightforward as it's made out to be. Twitter already has an enormous amount of content that is perfectly within the terms of service, yet that you wouldn'
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by topynate 4y ago
Do you have showdead enabled? To me, it looks like a post that's been automatically made dead – i.e. I see [dead] but not [flagged]. I know there are certain (very few) things a user in good standing can say in a comment to produce tha
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by topynate 4y ago
I just opened the YouTube android app and looked at some videos from this channel. I saw three ads from about 15 videos watched. I then looked at some videos from an apolitical channel I'm subscribed to and saw considerably more ads. T
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by topynate 4y ago
See for instance the replies to this guy's clever idea yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubers/comments/xxlkvi/using_dem... It may depend on what country you're in or if you're on mo
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by topynate 4y ago
The term 'demonetization' can be misleading. It's the creator who is demonetized on a demonetized video or channel. YouTube still often shows ads on such videos, it just keeps all the money instead of 45% of it.
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by topynate 4y ago
There's also a difference in co-ordination capacity and social dynamics more generally. In this case, there'll be some channel or chat group where the petition and complaints were arranged. It's pretty safe to say not only th
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by topynate 4y ago
What right does Google have to store the data about this kid necessary to enforce a lifetime ban against him? The click-through contract that he was legally unable to enter into? "he has already earned over £300" implies he's
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by topynate 4y ago
No, 'unofficial' is a euphemism. They're questionable. It's just that sometimes the answer to the question is "who gives a damn?"
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by topynate 4y ago
Israel has quite a serious problem with looting of antiquities. I was talking to an archaeologist a few months ago and suggested adopting something like the UK's Treasure Act so that people who find artefacts have a way of legally bein
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by topynate 4y ago
Most eliminationist rhetoric is still protected in the States under current precedent. It advocates unlawful action but without "imminency". It could have been forbidden under the old "clear and present danger" standard.
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by topynate 4y ago
I don't. I'm going on what I think about Matthew Prince, who wrote the post we're talking about.
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by topynate 4y ago
It is in America, for the most part. You can absolutely organize to harass people if the harassment is in the form of verbal abuse, for instance. Cloudflare is saying that something happened in the last few days on KF that was a genuine &qu
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by topynate 4y ago
Yes, I was looking for a point of comparison. Pu-239 is probably also quite expensive, as both isotopes are prepared by using a reactor to irradiate stuff. Only way I can see a "$2k" cost as relevant is if it's the cost to so
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by topynate 4y ago
Yeah, we've got better at making neutrons since 1970. Mostly this is a good thing!
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by topynate 4y ago
I meant a modulated neutron initiator, not the explosive detonator. India was still using vapour deposition of polonium to make theirs, around the same time. I'm no engineer but that sounds like it costs a lot more than $2000.
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by topynate 4y ago
Funny enough, Pu-238 was on the market at one point (with plenty of restrictions). It was used to power pacemakers. It's still used for spacecraft. I'm not sure how expensive it was in the '70s but it is very expensive now. A
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by topynate 4y ago
I imagine that between the '40s and '70s many of the really hard problems became a lot easier. E.g. using solid-state electronics for the timing, modelling shaped charges as a textbook exercise rather than a research problem, etc.
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by topynate 4y ago
You have my sympathies. I skimmed the article but I've read quite a lot of the report , which is considerably more detailed. Viewed from the Right, these guys have a pretty standard left-liberal internationalist agenda. For example, m
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by topynate 4y ago
Just to give an idea of what the actual trade-offs are between the benefits of wind and the immediate ecological impact, I ran some numbers a few months ago and reached an estimate of somewhere between $1700 and $2500 saved in "social
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by topynate 4y ago
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority studied bird and bat kill and the effectiveness of mitigations and ended up calling for a moratorium. So did the environment ministry and the Society for the Protection of Nature [1]. That article is wo
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by topynate 4y ago
The referent of "utters" (sic) is ambiguous, so I can imagine a model having more difficulty with it than usual. Regardless, the current SOTA does need more specific and sometimes repetitive prompting than a human artist would, bu
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by topynate 4y ago
This article is complete bullshit because it effectively corrects for inflation twice. The CPI is a measure of the nominal change in cost of a basket of goods. This should be compared, like for like, to nominal income, not inflation-adjuste

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