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by vannevar 4y ago
I think the opening paragraphs highlight what is wrong with the hysteria over DEI. A professor (someone we would expect to be a leader, trying to teach young people) receives an email from a student. We don't get to see the email, just
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by vannevar 4y ago
>These people look out at a world filled with creators creating, look at the considerable benefits they accrue (in money, yes, but more importantly in status)... Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha...anyone looking at creative culture as a path
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by vannevar 4y ago
Overall, of course greater efficiency will ultimately yield greater prosperity. But this article skims over the details of how that prosperity is distributed, which is where the vast majority of the political disagreement lies. Contrary to
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by vannevar 4y ago
The big difference is that AI applications like ChatGPT and Midjourney have demonstrated actual value (if only for entertainment purposes for now), while Web3 hasn't been able to convince the market that it offers any value at all.
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>What happened to assigning responsibility to the responsible party? I think this is a good example of exactly that. Just because someone is at the end of a causal chain does not make them solely responsible. That's why in tort law,
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by vannevar 4y ago
>The knowledge is stored in the model's weights in the same way the knowledge you possess is stored in your neurons. We don't know that this is true. But even if it is, there is a critical difference in the knowledge stored. Hu
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by vannevar 4y ago
It's also pretty easy to lead ChatGPT into giving contradictory answers to the same question, just by suggesting the answer in the question.
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>How sure are we that knowledge in humans is fundamentally different from a language model? Because humans learn about language in real world contexts, accompanied by multiple sensory streams. LLMs learn about it solely by being exposed
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by vannevar 4y ago
Or put another way, people who are depressed are less likely to seek out activities to fill their time.
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I think what this is saying is that education does not disproportionately benefit people of high intelligence nor people of low intelligence, regardless of the pre-existing genetic or socioeconomic factors that determined their intelligence
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Because a) the risk from covid, while small, is still greater than the risk from the vaccines and b) unvaccinated people are more likely to be infected and become a vector for the virus, infecting other people.
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The problem here isn't the study---of course we should study possible vaccine side effects. The problem is the massive leaps of logic being made by people who have (quite wrongly, based on available evidence) become convinced that the
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by vannevar 4y ago
>I'd argue 'good enough' process is all you need even with average teams. That's sort of a tautology, right? If it's 'good enough', that implies it's a good process. In my experience, Scrum is a go
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by vannevar 4y ago
True. But given a team of average ability, good process (ie, good habits and conventions) can definitely mean the difference between success and failure.
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>These days, it's not rare to see lead developers manage kanban-like boards very effectively, releasing on time, with grace, without the need of a scrum master to coordinate efforts. Sadly, it's also common to see such kanban t
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by vannevar 4y ago
The NTSB preliminary report points strongly toward negligence, which I'm sure was not lost on the potential defendants, their insurance companies, and their counsel. If I were on the defendants' legal team, I would be very happy t
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by vannevar 4y ago
It is not blatantly wrong. Virtually all Democrats supported paid leave for rail workers, and virtually no Republicans did.
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>Congress backing these companies in any way is absolutely disgusting. Just to be clear, Congress is not backing them, the Republican Party is.
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Paid leave doesn't prevent the railroads from doing PSR, it just makes it more expensive. Right now, they're pushing the cost onto the workers, and also the public, since sick workers ultimately burden the health care system and t
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by vannevar 4y ago
Amazon's business model has shifted from selling goods to consumers to selling consumers to anonymous Chinese manufacturers.
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by vannevar 4y ago
I wonder if every player came out with armbands, would they give them all yellow cards? Would they disqualify entire teams?
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by vannevar 4y ago
Twitter became Twitter by branding functionality that everyone with an email address already had access to, and slapping a simpler interface on it. Could that be replicated? The historical success of innumerable chat startups suggest it cou
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by vannevar 4y ago
Twitter shouldn't be a service, it should be a protocol. Technically, when Twitter launched it didn't offer much you couldn't already do with email and listserv.
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by vannevar 4y ago
The blindingly obvious flaw to this solution is that misinformation is specifically crafted to appeal to particular audiences. People already exercise individual filtering: they don't read (or accept) everything that's put in fron
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by vannevar 4y ago
This kind of statement is often treated as axiomatic, but in real-world situations where disinformation is incentivized, is it actually true? I suspect there are a number of implicit conditions that must be met for this to hold, and that fe
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by vannevar 4y ago
It would be much better to say that the belief in the ignorance of experts is a prerequisite to science. Science itself is the process of proving a hypothesis to some degree of certainty. It is not mere skepticism. If you have no plan to
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by vannevar 4y ago
>...the content itself was generated from a finetuned GPT3 on SteveJobs' biography Was the actual dialog generated by GPT-3, or just Jobs' responses? If the former, was any of the dialog human edited/spliced together or wa
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by vannevar 4y ago
>If we call any US election which was unsuccessfully interfered with by a foreign country "hacked", I think every election for the foreseeable future will be "hacked", no? No doubt Russia, and probably other nations,
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by vannevar 4y ago
>The 2016 election _wasnt_ hacked... The FBI, US intelligence agencies, and the United States Senate all beg to differ with your armchair assessment. They all concluded after extensive investigation that the election _was_ hacked. Whethe
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by vannevar 4y ago
>Trump conceded too No, he didn't. After the January 6th assault on the Capitol (two full months after the election), he finally acknowledged that a new administration would be taking office. He did not concede that he had lost the

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