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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Surprised to see a sentiment like this on HN. Are you actually OK with government and finance controlling the financial system and making rules that you have to follow? What if you wanted to buy something that's illegal in your count
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
I think the intention here is just to keep the undesirables from interacting with the general population. Unfortunately, banning something from the App Store and the Google Play Store is enough to stop most people from using it. Wrongthink
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Sounds like something the market can solve. Instead of giving limited parking spaces to whoever got there first, sell them to the highest bidder. Monthly parking in Manhattan is $1000/month. If you want a car, you gotta pay for the s
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Tik tok videos are speech, therefore banning tiktok is a violation of free speech
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
I don't support that. Stock buybacks are a great thing; they allow companies to return excess cash to investors, helping ensure that capital is allocated efficiency across the whole economy. Otherwise companies are pressured to spend
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
This seems so backwards to me. If it's so easy to just copy and paste an essay from an AI generator that is of such high quality that it cannot be detected, then why are we still making students learn such an obviously obsolete skill?
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Indeed, but people in countries with lower cost of living are still workers, right? It irritates me when people say things like "suppress worker wages" when they actually mean "pay less money to American workers living in San
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
I think it's better to ask "what percentage of an employee's output is attributable to the ceo's leadership?" A reasonable answer, IMO, would be somewhere between 0.5% and 5%. The average CEO gets maybe 1%, which I
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
I'd choose the second track without hesitation. Shareholders can consolidate all the wealth they want, as long as they deliver the goods: LLMs that are trained on all of humanity's creative output.
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
I feel like you could say the same about Python. There's nothing you can do in Python that you can't do in C. But while Python is easier to learn and use than C, it's less efficient, in some cases hundreds of times slower th
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
It's not true that all of the gains are captured by investors. Alphabet's CEO makes about 1000x the average googler, but that's only about 1% of salaries. What I mean is that for every $100 a Googler makes, about $1 goes to
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Students don't spend time on their phones because they are "addictive," but because school is boring and doesn't provide them with anything of value. Schools need to radically overhaul how they operate so that they can c
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Disappointed that Total Crap is not an actual magazine I can subscribe to.
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
This seems like a really, really easy problem to fix. It should be easy to check Copilot's output to make sure it's not copied verbatim from a GPL project. Colleges already have software that does this to detect plagiarism. If i
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Unfortunately the framing matters a lot, and people are not logically consistent in their preferences. The only way to know if people support affirmative action is to ask them "do you support affirmative action?" This reminds me
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Is eliminating jobs an unintended consequence , or is it the fundamental purpose of software development? Personally, I see job elimination as my goal and my purpose as a developer. Whenever my company is able to lay people off as a resu
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Republicans used Trump to overturn Roe. Trump himself didn't care at all about abortion and was nominally pro-choice until he decided to run for president The stuff Trump wanted to do himself he had much less success with.
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
>Assume for now I am not buying anything illegal Why would we make an assumption like that? Also, who decides what is illegal? The entire point of decentralized currency is that it isn't controlled by a national government, and is
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
As soon as it's legalized. Cannabis might be bad for your health, but the most significant consequences of cannabis use are getting arrested and losing your job. As long as that's a risk, and as long as people use health concerns
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Why does interaction need to reach a human though? I'm hoping that once the chatbots get good enough, we can give them all the powers of a human representative and get rid of the human.
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Being able to switch jobs is critical; the existence of workers who are unable to quit is devastating to worker's rights. I would prefer if we had better visas with higher salary requirements, designed to attract the world's best,
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
"American citizens" are usually just people who, by no fault and no merit of their own, happen to have been born in the United States. Frankly, this shouldn't give them the right to decide who else gets to come to the US and
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Why do you think that? I think it's a good thing for minors to have unrestricted access to porn
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
>Take responsibility for your actions >re-train them to use AI Why can't they take responsibility for their own actions, and train themselves to use AI? Everyone knows about the disruptive potential of AI now, it's not a sec
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
"chilling effects" usually refers to when people decide not to share things because of potential legal consequences. For example, if people stop creating or distributing AI art because they don't want to be sued by artists f
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
Quitting is better. From an individual perspective, switching jobs is the simplest and most effective way to improve your situation, and will likely get you more money than a union could negotiate for. From a group perspective, a culture wh
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
It means they are taking the credit for making a good business decision. When the share prices go up because of the layoffs, he wants to make sure everyone knows that he is responsible for it.
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
None of this is Meta's problem though. Requiring platforms to monitor user activity is unreasonable. The main issue here is one of education. By 12 years old, a person should have learned enough about sexual exploitation in school th
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
I think an important part they left out is- if you want to make a lot of money, you need to optimize for money. That means everything you do should have the goal of landing a higher paying job. Instead of studying things you find interesti
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by welshwelsh 3y ago
That's true but it doesn't need to process the whole bill in one prompt. For example you could split a 200K token bill into 10 parts that are 20K each, and ask GPT-4 to create a 2K token summary of each part. Then combine those s

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