whimsicalism

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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
I think that low externality things people are willing to pay for should be presumptively allowed unless there is strong reason otherwise. We are much too involved in the 'legislating individual activities' and not nearly enough i
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
democracies will not vote for this. even in California, politicians run on policies like $500 gas rebates for anyone owning a gas powered vehicle
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
HN guidelines also say something about flamebait but I guess you read past that part :) cheers, obviously not going to continue replying to you
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
i think we both know that this is not what i meant
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
I live in a place with sufficient books that I know how to understand the written word, but I understand not everyone replying to my comments is so fortunate.
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
maybe i'm working on software for supply chain routing. maybe i'm making a commodity trading bot that more accurately prices wheat futures. AI helps with both of those things.
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
i don't agree, i think you are just describing a measurement problem, we have a clear mechanistic understanding of why 'anything above zero' would be bad, and are able to measure this in sufficiently large populations for lar
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
I do not believe for one instance that people are coming from a legitimate concern around planet-burning and reaching their conclusions about AI vs. reasoning backwards from wanting reasons to be anti-AI. Very few people I've met seems
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
I think people should be allowed to do things, generally. If it's not worth it, the people doing it will go out of business (and quickly, at these prices). I think it is likely more worth it than you realize. We're not talking abo
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
where there is a demand for results, academia will meet the supply
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
This is technically explicitly a rule violation. Yes, yes we've been hearing it for years but it is much more true in the past 2-3 years than anytime in the past imo. Frankly, it's a shame that the only high quality discussion I c
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
i think this sentiment comes from a deep misunderstanding of how our modern society is the product of transitive satisfaction of wants. the developers churning out agent work on supergigaultramax effort are fulfilling the transitive prefere
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
> The figures I've been seeing are something like half of all current private construction projects are data center related these days and it's the biggest single sector of construction in terms of money spent. You view this as
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
i don't think either of the first two things are generally true (usually tax positive, new usecases generally raise property value). it sounds like you just want to ban American industry altogether, we've quietly let extreme conse
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
what if rather than enumerating the list of allowed/disallowed economic activities based on some moral criterion, we just tax the rich and redistribute it. i kinda thought this is what we spent the entirety of the 20th c. litigating bu
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
"i can't eat a cargo container so it's useless" -guy who can only see one level up the chain of abstractions that allow him to fill his belly.
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
It's trumped up, pretty obviously. We basically low-growthed our way into a default sort of NIMBYism by the mid-90s and now there is pressure to build anything again and we are seeing the reaction.
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
I don't disagree with the sentiment but I think obviously negativity bias would be a significant cofounder.
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
There are definitely some weird mass psychological movements on the internet right now and I basically view this post as a wishcasting outcropping of this, stories the disempowered tell themselves.
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
This study appears to just take observational mortality averages between insured and uninsured and then assume that UHC would close the gap. Patently absurd imo, but I guess I'm not a healthcare economist.
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
Very much agreed - Dario is underestimating the current cultural zeitgeist and the power of scrollable video to make any narrative true. The amount of water, energy, copyrighted material, etc. that data centers actually consume is completel
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
Yes, you're running up against one of the pathologies of HN. I would recommend just disengaging, there's really no convincing..
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
You would never see content like that on Reddit as it is far outside of the political valence there.
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
You're actually talking about the same problem. Competition in healthcare is heavily restricted by stuff like certificates of need because there is little cost-sharing with utilizers so you get overutilization & induced demand. Thi
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
I'm earnestly curious what the alternatives to CU look like and what that would mean for for-profit companies like The New York Times?
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
I'm honestly curious how we square this with the only experimental evidence we have on cost-sharing in the US, like the Oregon Medicaid Study and the RAND study which showed no impact on mortality or really any physical health outcomes
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
i assume they meant serially....
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
I actually have set up something similar myself and it is much easier now that codex desktop for linux just came out (which has computer use/browser driving abilities). The issue is that on an rpi, I have to usually manually log into e
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
i just completely disagree. lots of people don't even have laptops and how will they keep my laptop alive and performing tasks while it's in my backpack on the subway not connected to internet? i feel like there's an obvious
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by whimsicalism 2mo ago
This would imply you need to have your computer on in order for it to function, which seems like a deal breaker for many consumer usecases imo. I'd like to be able to say "order my groceries" and then I hop on the subway.

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