whatshisface

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by whatshisface 5mo ago
I know this is not a good year on the job market, but if you are traveling to work with a "go bag" and not leaving coffee mugs on your desk to prepare for being laid off maybe it is time to carry that go bag to some other building
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
In this example, they're all different diseases.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
Quality standards benefit the buyers, who on the face of it are corporations replacing representative's constituents with capital investments not made in their districts, not the constituents themselves. I would expect there to be supp
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
I think there's some kind of fallacy where you can look at five drugs, all of which came from a pool of 100 promising candidates, then look at the next 100 candidates and say for each one individually that it is not worth celebrating.
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
How would improved standards and reliability make the AI alternative to white collar jobs less appealing?
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by whatshisface 5mo ago
Why would they give you a UBI? They would have no reason to do that...
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by whatshisface 6mo ago
We read their internal papers, that was what the Snowen documents were about. No guessing required since 2013. No warrants required since 2002-ish.
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by whatshisface 6mo ago
The NSA doesn't need warrants because breaking federal law is easier to get away with when you have one of secrecy, some relation to security, presence in the meetings where you'd be discussed, and largeness (which provokes accept
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by whatshisface 6mo ago
One of the paradoxes of military service is that the real experiences of servicemembers sound exaggerated, while what sounds like reality is expressed through Hollywood tropes.
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by whatshisface 6mo ago
In the conventional view, the earliest preparations for war involve building a strong industrial base, reducing corruption, and securing alliances through cooperative foreign policy. The near-term preparations for war include diverting a fr
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by whatshisface 6mo ago
"We fired all of our employees. Now we're hiring temporary consultants."
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by whatshisface 6mo ago
This one is more direct than most, but comments about the subject are not uncommon on the older blog. I think reading this material is why the journalist turned against him but never stated why. "Psychiatrist has dozens of charts on th
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by whatshisface 6mo ago
It is like letting a policeman into your house to make sure you are not committing crimes. The methods (installing an AI module behind your defenses against criminal hackers that is programmed to betray you) are too invasive.
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by whatshisface 7mo ago
You can get away with it in the US, if you can get regulators to approve it.
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by whatshisface 7mo ago
I'm not comfortable with the idea that children's private messages would be exposed to thousands of social media workers and government employees.
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by whatshisface 7mo ago
Let's say I'm sitting outside of your office with a bazooka and boxes of high explosives. You ask my why, and I say, "someone might try to rob this office." You say, "somehow, that does not persuade me that a strang
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by whatshisface 7mo ago
If something is bad when it's done illegally, it's worse when it's done legally, and even worse than that when it's done dutifully.
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by whatshisface 7mo ago
You'd also be a lot more likely to keep that kind of job post-crash, by all means take it if you find one.
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by whatshisface 7mo ago
I estimate we have two to three years in the English-speaking world to organize an effective lobby for the rights of the common man before changes to the speech environment and habitual methods of communication make it impossible. There&#x2
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by whatshisface 7mo ago
> I don't think just building more housing is sufficient. That might decrease the cost of living somewhat, but probably not enough to remove the need for a second income. While shadowy special interest groups and large corporations
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by whatshisface 7mo ago
If every major LLM producer did it, it would not be easy for malicious actors to remove it. That's on top of the fact that most of the issue is coming from careless actors.
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by whatshisface 7mo ago
Instead of collecting biometric info from humans and IDing all of their online movements, you could mandate that LLM output be watermarked (using a technology that Scott Arronson was hired by OpenAI to help develop, after which the project
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by whatshisface 7mo ago
By the time it replaces doctors, nobody but today's investors will be able to afford anything at all. The X-shaped economy would have owners in the V and manual laborers (assuming this doesn't translate to gains in automation) in
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by whatshisface 7mo ago
I don't think it's reasonable to take something the government is supposed to be protecting (right to contract) and turn them into its biggest threat. That's not security, it's letting the night guard raid the museum.
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by whatshisface 7mo ago
Nobody would put this much effort into it as a hobby unless they were happy about it, so that necessitates a certain point of view.
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by whatshisface 8mo ago
Developer fantasy? Here's the consumer fact: people do not like the race-to-the-bottom extractive practices installed on their computers non-consentually. People do not like the union-style collective barganining of duopolies following
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by whatshisface 8mo ago
AI and tech won't help, but if the threshold to try a drug were adjusted to exactly the right threshold, where enrolling in a study would be expected-value neutral (this is by marginal reasoning), taking a placebo would not be worse th
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by whatshisface 8mo ago
Who's involved that wants it to be less expensive? Surely the doctors don't care. In the US everyone wants it to be more expensive.
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by whatshisface 8mo ago
> What puzzles me is how for many years it was predicted that this was going to happen and that in spite of the warnings it still did. I just don't get it. Let's say that there are twelve doughnuts in the box. You see someone
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by whatshisface 8mo ago
Shouldn't we be a little more skeptical about these abstract arguments when a very concrete sale is on the line?

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