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by wpietri 3y ago
"There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
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by wpietri 3y ago
Well, sort of. Prison should be a) to rehabilitate, and b) keep the unrehabilitated from doing harm. But the American prison system is not really interested in the first bit. I'd like to see a general change here, but SBF, given his en
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by wpietri 3y ago
Maybe that's where the line starts, but does it stay there? As an example, look at how the US's anti-communist fervor led to things like COINTELPRO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO Especially today,
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by wpietri 3y ago
Ooh, very interesting point: > That sounds a lot like a company that's implementing data-driven "best practices" from some expensive management consultants. > > It truly is the best system, regardless of how bad the
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think the graph is especially interesting. If the progress of LLMs is less radical when measured correctly, that could be another factor driving a bubble and its later popping.
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by wpietri 3y ago
It depends on how much you're wiling to hack something together, but you can get new telegraph keys for like $30 apiece: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805611852897.html Connect those up to Raspberry Pis with
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by wpietri 3y ago
Material scarcity creates community. Once we hit abundance, we have to find ways to add that back, I think.
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by wpietri 3y ago
What a lovely project! Would you be willing to share your work? As with the project that kicked this off it would be great to see it even if it's just a jumble of scripts that would not work for anybody else.
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by wpietri 3y ago
As they write in the article: "we wanted to shoot it practically (with actual cameras) to show off the new screen" Because VFX can show anything, a synthetic video tells you nothing about the actual brightness of the screen. Which
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by wpietri 3y ago
> root cause is well known and easily avoidable Your belief is that American insurers carefully check not only that particular risk but all other potentially catastrophic risks for every reactor they insure? I'd like to know the bas
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think doing this right goes the other direction. What we're going to end up with is a focus on provenance. We already understand that with text. We know that to verify words, we have to trace it back to the source, and then we evalua
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by wpietri 3y ago
No, insurance doesn't work like that. The cost of the Fukushima disaster is something like $200 billion. An insurer isn't going to say, "Well gosh, no US plant has ever had a problem, so we're happy to write a $250 billi
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by wpietri 3y ago
Do you have more examples for this "all"? There are a lot of regulated industries out there, and I haven't heard of liability exemptions for them. E.g., food is highly regulated, but there are plenty of lawsuits over that. Di
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by wpietri 3y ago
And I'd add that nuclear power is worse here than even standard capitalism. In the US, the federal government provides a massive subsidy in the form of free insurance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93An
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by wpietri 3y ago
For sure. While at the same time allowing the more clever variety of abuser to sail on past. In practice, almost any nominally "neutral" position ends up allowing an enormous amount of abuse. Which is why you'll see most plat
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, same. As a matter of policy, I don't take incentives, commissions, kickbacks, etc, for anything. My dad was super into points-related financial games, so I get it, but I don't need to give the professional manipulators of th
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by wpietri 3y ago
That sounds like a very personal definition of "true neutral". And also an unworkable one. Take the use of reclaimed slurs, for example. When used against the discriminated group by a dominant group, their intention is often to ca
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by wpietri 3y ago
There is no "true neutral" when it comes to moderation. There are a million examples, but the most obvious are of the form "you can have group X or people who hate group X and are dedicated to driving them off the platform&qu
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by wpietri 3y ago
It's great to see stories of technical work that include various things considered and tried. Iteration and experimentation are so powerful, but success stories so often hide that because it makes the success look less perfect, less br
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Adaptive _time compression – A database hacker story(axiom.co)
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by wpietri 3y ago
If we're taking that route, most people don't care about any specific thing, so we can just skip all this development effort and play video games all day.
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by wpietri 3y ago
That's not what the OP said. He said, "And they're committing ~50% of homicides and shootings."
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by wpietri 3y ago
> Why should Wikipedia do new stuff? Because it's not perfect yet? The point of Wikipedia is not to have some servers ticking over. The project has a vision: "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share i
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by wpietri 3y ago
> Don't take them personally No. They are meant to manipulate me personally, as well as other persons I care about. I will take them personally. More broadly, I don't have to excuse bad behavior just because somebody's mak
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by wpietri 3y ago
Those are articles of religious faith, not actual arguments.
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think your situation is different, in that a) people who spend many years learning to be good illustrators tend to have standards for what they create in ways that, say, virulent racists using ML tools don't; and b) people rarely tak
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by wpietri 3y ago
I now have a policy of using Amazon third. If I can get the thing I want directly from the manufacturer, that's best. If I can get it from some some less dominant vendor at a reasonable price and schedule, that's fine. Otherwise,
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by wpietri 3y ago
> While it is possible that these suspects are all incorrectly accused, it does indeed seem to support OP’s conclusion. We absolutely cannot use stats on suspects, who are chosen by police, to demonstrate that there is no police bias in
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by wpietri 3y ago
You're citing an entirely different document now? No wonder I couldn't find it.
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by wpietri 3y ago
For those like me familiar only with the play, "Godot is a cross-platform, free and open-source game engine released under the permissive MIT license. It was initially developed by Argentine software developers Juan Linietsky and Ariel

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