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It suggests bad faith to ask why the SEC didn't crack down earlier. Sure, it was politics, but it seems entirely understandable. We all know that before the crypto bust, a lot of people would've been starting a witch hunt if the S
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Who is past it? Is AI past it? "It" = processing the world in terms of correlations?
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What is that argument, or evidence, for the transfer of military expertise to advertising in the late 40s/early 50s?
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Why are prices useful at all? Insurance rates are an imperfect measurement that has the advantage of being less subject to arbitrary narratives of some individual or interest group. They're also a way of quantifying the severity of the
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>how men feel about women driving is not really a motivator for actuaries at insurance companies who have statistics on male versus female accidents That's my point. That's my entire point. Well, that and that women are repor
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I think I remember that a ballpark figure (meaning zero significant figures) for how many miles a human typically drives between fatalities is 100 million, or roughly 100 lifetimes' worth. I also knew a bus driver who had a plaque for
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>As long as fewer humans and dogs die from autonomous vehicles than by human-driven vehicles, they are a net good There is a logical chasm between pointing to an accident prevented by superhuman reflexes/abilities, and the claim tha
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I had trouble parsing your comment - are you thinking of the 1950s as before "modern advertising"? Anyway, if yes, then the answer to your question, I guess, is probably yes: "The Beat Generation was a literary subculture mov
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The right half of my brain, or whatever it is that generates narratives, is part of me. Don't try to take it or speak for it. And, a narrative can't tell itself. How could anyone write an extended comment, narrative, story, or w
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I think you've got hold of the wrong end of your analogy. If you just hold it the right way you will be illuminated and we will all agree how relevant it is. If someone announces to the public, they have a revolutionary new motor tha
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>Yes, plenty are absolutely trivial to implement. The most technically trivial change has a litany of obstacles involving people . Off the top of my head: 1) Finding out a process exists 2) Finding out who knows about a process 3) Bei
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Maybe a climatologist will stop by and be interested in a fight. I am not, and cannot explain why this is "far worse". But I can explain why it's common sense to me as a random non-scientist (not a climate "doomer"
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>It’s unlikely the SEC wants to totally nuke Coinbase, given they allowed them to list on the stock exchange What kind of intuition leads you to this conclusion? You think that a publicly listed company is endorsed by the government as n
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Two car lengths doesn't mean two car lengths? What is the conversion formula then?
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Can you be more specific about which governments, as I think that the governments of most English speaking countries do handle funeral arrangements where necessary, and it's not limited to them but a fairly ancient practice. I don&#x27
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>Welcome to capitalism, capitalists. This is a little strained. Government agencies are having basically the same discussions right now. It's a fact that the last few years caused many retirements to be pulled forward, leading to a
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The article mentions as a drawback of non-radar-based cruise control: "They also can't follow other vehicles quite as closely, with the following distance kicked back from one car length to two, meaning that it is easier for other
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>This hasn't been my experience. What you mean by "experience" is unclear to me. I agree with you insofar as everyone with even a little experience at a large company knows there are a lot of apparently low hanging fruit
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I was going to make a vacuous comment about bricks, but then I noticed your user ID. 082349872349872 is a fascinating number. Assuming one places a decimal point after the leading zero, and that it continues to repeat ...349872..., then: It
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>It could and probably will replace my job People tell stories about employees at big companies whose entire job is to send a small report to someone once a week. Even in cases like that, it's illogical to fear AI, because if it rea
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>when his salary depends on his not understanding it "That don't make no sense!" If you believe in the potential of chatbots to replace programmers, then the salary of every programmer depends on them not not understandi
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>I think it's important to remember that we do actually have old buildings The (US) city I live in has streets built in the mid-1600s. Considering the great fire of London and the Blitz, is your canard really accurate?
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I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. Is it meant to be a logical truth, independent of empirical facts? To me, it's a contingent fact even though it often is true. Nor do I see any reason to be certain that rationing which
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I'm not an astronomer or physicist, but I believe it is possible for a galaxy to be 25 billion light years away, even though the universe is thought to be less than 14 billion years old, because of the expansion of space while the ligh
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>The Law of Supply & Demand is always in play, meaning price caps result in shortages. I think people who want prices controlled are thinking of doing it by controlling demand via rationing. Some people don't get all the power t
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Trying to analogize the bullish case for LLMs as I perceive it: If you had an intern at your beck and call, who was obedient but knew nothing about anything except how to use a search engine, would that make you a "10x" at whateve
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How does ChatGPT write limericks?
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Skimming the comments, I didn't see anyone specifically making the simple observation that the minimum distance corresponds to intuition. Is arbitrarily choosing the average distance for the concept of "closeness" being ped
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The 70,000 ton Yamato battleship could go 50 km/h circa 1940: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamato-class_battleship
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TIL that the Slow Food movement originated in Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food

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