userabchn

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by userabchn 4y ago
A friend is a member of quite a few Facebook groups. She doubts my belief that these groups already contain ChatGPT-like influence operation chatbots, but was recently surprised when in one of the groups several participants discussed a pho
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I like typelit.io as I can read books at the same time
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We like to believe that the problem is just "our own adult psychosis", but I spend my days around many people over quite a range of ages (including elderly) and it is very obvious to me that cognitive abilities decline in the way
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by userabchn 4y ago
Progressive corporate tax rates (like personal income taxes, instead of the current flat corporate tax rates) would help small companies to compete with big ones simply and naturally without needing governments to decide what constitutes a
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by userabchn 4y ago
I think the problem with prisons (both privately and publicly run) is that they have a monopoly over the lives of the prisoners, and, as we know, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I propose that prisoners be allowed to select which rehabi
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by userabchn 4y ago
* There will be an increasingly severe recession. The response will greatly weaken the dollar, leading to a resurgence of inflation despite the sinking economy, a widespread feeling that America's best days are firmly behind it, and ev
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by userabchn 4y ago
What makes you think that the self driving technology being developed (by, you claim, "burning tens of billions") is only for "personal vehicles"? The same technology is what can enable the large fleets of self-driving m
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by userabchn 4y ago
They may not be very useful at the moment, but if progress in large language models continues at the current pace then I can imagine that conversational AI might be useful in several years. Investments by companies to establish and maintain
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by userabchn 4y ago
Although I follow him, I get such a feeling of arrogance from his tweets (similar to the Repl.it guy) that, although the failure of a startup is sad, I can't help feeling some satisfaction from this development (also partly from the vi
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by userabchn 4y ago
They are supporting the election campaigns of those whose viewpoints they like because they want to increase the chance that they will be elected. It's the same as regular people making campaign donations to the candidates they like.
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I am quite certain that this was done by administrators who aren't part of and don't understand MIT culture and are just implementing what was done in the previous place they worked.
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by userabchn 4y ago
I think the solution is not to ban lobbying, etc., but rather to reduce the power of politicians so that there is no motivation to lobby or bribe them. For example, in my country the taxi drivers got politicians to ban Uber through protesti
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by userabchn 4y ago
I don't think it needs to be free for over-represented demographics, just open source so that it is clear that the algorithm is designed in the best interests of users. I like Andrej Karpathy's (I think) idea of training something
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by userabchn 4y ago
I have lived and worked for at least several years in both the US and the EU (and I am from an EU country). People in America like to portray everything as being better in Europe, but from my experience life there is fine and there are cert
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by userabchn 4y ago
A corporate tax rate that increases with revenue would naturally disincentivize such monopolies/oligopolies (by making it easier for small companies to compete against them) without requiring the government micromanagement of deciding
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by userabchn 4y ago
Blasphemy is a crime in many countries. Let's burn all of the books and block all of the websites that are guilty of it (without going through courts because that is too slow) so that the people, who we do not trust to make judgements
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by userabchn 4y ago
I think your response reveals how accustomed you have become to the luxury of having plentiful resources. You ask how it is good for anyone to not spend substantially more on students with special needs, but in many of the poorer countries
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by userabchn 4y ago
I do not think discussions about transportation environmental cost usually sufficiently consider the productivity lost because of how long it takes to get places by public transport. We get a number of hours of productive work from each per
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by userabchn 4y ago
Why should they have to be explicitly built and zoned for renting? Why shouldn't they be used by tourists? Just make it easy to build more so that there is enough for everyone.
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... and further combined with a decrease in supply of housing
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the word "scheme" has negative connotations (of something shady) in America that it doesn't have in other countries. Also, it is very much an intentional policy of governments in some countries to encourage people to invest i
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by userabchn 4y ago
If it was providing a service of as much value as was being spent on it, then why shouldn't it be profitable?
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by userabchn 4y ago
I reinstalled it using Wine last year. It ran well (only the cheat codes didn't work), but it didn't really transport me back to my youth the way I expected it to (I played it a lot at the time, so thought it might the way other g
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by userabchn 4y ago
I suspect that many chat groups (such as Facebook groups), even small niche ones, already have GPT-3-like bots posting messages that seem to fit into the group but that are trained to provide opinions on certain topics that align with the m
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by userabchn 4y ago
The Bank of America app only lets you install it if your Google (or presumably Apple) account country is set as America. I am abroad but needed to use the app. I had to create a VPN on an American cloud instance and connect my phone to it s
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My cat jumps up to pull down on the handle of closed doors that she wants to open, then pulls the slightly open door with her paw so she can go through. When the front door is locked she finds which room I am in and scratches at the door (I
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by userabchn 5y ago
It encourages investment (over saving), so can help to boost the economy