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by vannevar 4y ago
What you're describing is more applicable to an ordinary partnership, where the partners are personally liable for any debts or legal judgments against the partnership. Corporations and LLPs allow shareholders and partners to escape th
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by vannevar 4y ago
I understand the dilemma you're in. You have a product with a clear, legitimate use case that would provide a valuable function to millions of users. On the other hand, even a single instance of a stalker using the device to stalk and
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by vannevar 4y ago
Had to downvote this, it's just too superficial to be the top comment on this article. What is "left-leaning content?" Why is there so much more of it than (presumably) right-leaning content? And "don't rely entirel
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by vannevar 4y ago
These are fair points if we read the article as a criticism of existing law. I didn't read it that way, mostly because of the current political context where "cancel culture" is a big issue. But I can certainly see how it can
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by vannevar 4y ago
You're taking for granted the existence of communication services like Twitter. Twitter is amplification. You can't walk out your front door and give a speech that millions of people instantly have access to. You can only do tha
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by vannevar 4y ago
A logical fallacy is a flawed argument that can be revealed by reasoning. For instance, someone suggesting that attributing blame to capitalism is a way to silence another's speech. That is a logical fallacy, because it omits any expla
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by vannevar 4y ago
Again, those are legal principles that have been enshrined in law for a long time. The article does not address them, which leads me to believe the author was thinking of more general cases of offensive speech, like the campus speaker examp
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by vannevar 4y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I haven't heard of any kind of mass movement to get pain and suffering damages from Donald Trump's tweets, as painful as they were to endure. If you're talking about libel, that's a separa
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by vannevar 4y ago
What if instead of verbally attacking a single person, you verbally attack a group of people? Is that committing violence?
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by vannevar 4y ago
Now you're getting it. Why do you think they call it "fuck you money?"
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by vannevar 4y ago
Being banned from Twitter is not going to prison, it's being kicked out of a private club.
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by vannevar 4y ago
It absolutely is amplification---without Twitter, there would be no tweet to search for. And never forget, the actual point of Twitter is to deliver value to its shareholders.
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by vannevar 4y ago
The tyranny isn't coming from me, it's coming from the people that own the company that's firing you. And the "tyrannical idea" you're referring to is called capitalism, and it has its upsides and its downsides
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by vannevar 4y ago
I don't think that most of the people who equate hate speech with violence are literally requesting assualt charges be brought. They are calling for boycotts and de-platforming, both of which fall well within the bounds of the "ma
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by vannevar 4y ago
The AI doesn't even need to write code, or have any kind of self-awareness or intent, to be a real danger. Purely driven by its mind-bogglingly complex probabilistic language model, it could in theory start social engineering users to
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by vannevar 4y ago
I agree that directly dictating the market this way is heavy-handed, and people resent it. But some commonsense regulation of advertising would go a long way, and may even be more effective as well as better received. The reality is that w
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by vannevar 4y ago
>Any attempt to regulate this would be unpopular with the public. I don't think it would. I think we're limited by our leadership and what they're willing to talk about publicly, given their obligations to corporate lobby
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by vannevar 4y ago
But consequences do flow toward power. When a CEO lays off people, it is usually to preserve or grow value to the shareholders. There is a reward for layoffs, otherwise they wouldn't happen. The confusion is in the nature of the conseq
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by vannevar 4y ago
It's not a mystery. America's corporations invest billions of dollars promoting unhealthy food in unhealthy quantities, and more billions in promoting drugs of dubious therapeutic value direct to consumers. It's not a bug, it
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by vannevar 4y ago
> Except affirmative action is not the solution either because now you’ve put less meritorious people where they shouldn’t be... There is a risk of this, true. But that same risk exists if you stick with the status quo, as better-qualifi
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by vannevar 4y ago
Did you actually read your own references? From the abstract of the study of adopted Korean Americans: "I find large effects on adoptees' education, income, and health from assignment to parents with more education and from assign
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by vannevar 4y ago
The key point of the article appears at the end of the second paragraph, and pretty much explains everything that follows: >...I simply can’t discern features of the field itself that have been put in place to perpetuate inequities. If y
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by vannevar 4y ago
From a policy perspective, it makes more sense to assume that past and present bias---which we know exists---is a more likely explanation than genetic inferiority (for which there is no evidence). The burden of proof is on the racial suprem
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by vannevar 4y ago
Sure, no one wants to admit they're endorsing racism. But it doesn't change the fact that they are. There is no easy solution to this problem, it means facing some hard truths.
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by vannevar 4y ago
I think social networks have unique dynamics that make them more vulnerable to collapse than other monopolies like Google or Ticketmaster. There is a heavy fashion aspect to social media that isn't present in businesses like advertisin
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by vannevar 4y ago
The key observation that drives modern affirmative action policy is that you can have systemic bias even in a system where there is no hiring bias at all, if past bias has resulted in under-representation for minorities. If young people in
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by vannevar 4y ago
Right. I'll be home for breakfast, and hopefully by the time I get back to work this LisaDraw file will finish opening.
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by vannevar 4y ago
One thing the emulator probably doesn't adequately convey is just how painfully slow the Lisa was. We had a lab full of them in college, and I was very excited to use the new GUI. But it was almost unusably slow, and I suspect that had
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by vannevar 4y ago
They're going to be really bummed a year from now when this is just a feature of every new LLM from Google or Microsoft.
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by vannevar 4y ago
The click-baity headline and overly confident (given the evidence) conclusion mar what could have been a good article.

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