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by wpietri 3y ago
You might enjoy the This American Life episode called NUMMI: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015 It looks at how Toyota took GM's worst plant and made it one of the best using the same workers. And how
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by wpietri 3y ago
> I'm wondering if it means that the minimal price they can offer the service with at profit, is likely to be too steep for anyone like me I think the answer to that is "no". The problem is that they don't want to re
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by wpietri 3y ago
Those are not the rules of your game. If you thought logins didn't matter, you'd create one and stick with it. You're going to extra effort because you know they do. And still, you dodge the question. You claim to be incisive
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They represent underlining.
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You're describing the theory of managerialism. Or maybe it's better to call it the dogma. But it's definitely not always the reality. Large companies have huge inertia. And these days we also have low average CEO tenure and
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by wpietri 3y ago
For sure. I've heard vegetarians call this idea complex "carnitarianism". If you suggest to most Americans that they eat dog or horse or elephant, they'll be horrified. But we're perfectly comfortable with eating an
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by wpietri 3y ago
It's been a long time since I read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , but one of the things that struck me at the time was how concerned the narrator was with how everything tasted. It was released 10 years after On the Origin o
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by wpietri 3y ago
Right? To me it's more than just a cheap joke because it opens such possibilities. My first thought was of Amazon expanding out under Puget Sound in Bioshock-esque sunken office buildings.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Your "1%" is a fantasy measure. It is purely subjective. It creates a false sense of linearity when the progress curve is not only not linear, it may not be possible to complete. You just handwave away any criticism with a "c
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by wpietri 3y ago
First off, you did not address most of my point. To answer your complaint, I am absolutely looking at reality. Please point us to an actual real-world professional programming job, matching the criteria I list above, for which a current LLM
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by wpietri 3y ago
> Once it reaches 100% you don't have a job. You realize that right? It's halfway their to taking your job and you're underwhelmed. The bias is on your side. What this study looked at was feeding StackOverflow questions to
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DMV calls on Cruise to take half its driverless cars off the road(missionlocal.org)
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For sure. We often drive robotically, with our minds on a conversation, a podcast, or a daydream. That makes it easy to think a robot could really do it. But then there are the moments where driving requires our full attention, our knowledg
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by wpietri 3y ago
> What other factors? You named one, injuries. Can you really not think of more? > humans generally can't see a small dog directly in front of the car Sure, but they have extensive hardware and data for social cognition. So they
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> most human drivers in SF, who act like utter sociopaths. As somebody who has lived in SF 20+ years, this just deranged. I don't have time for loons today, so I'm tapping out.
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by wpietri 3y ago
San Francisco is a government that represents the people who live there. If the people of San Francisco want no robot cars until they're reasonably safe, that's a call they should get to make. If that means the loss of the things
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by wpietri 3y ago
Again, I want to see you explain why those "inconvenient interactions" will never add up to a safety problem, because all I'm seeing is handwaving. In my view, "inconveniencing" a firefighter in the middle of fighti
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by wpietri 3y ago
One, they've got some data. Two, why is it their job to prove the problem rather than the job of the people proposing the change to demonstrate safety? Three, why is it San Francisco's job to be a proving ground for this? I think
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by wpietri 3y ago
So your model is that 100% of the incidents that can cause harm will not cause harm? No matter how many cars they put on the road? Again, I'd ask you to back that up. Because otherwise it sounds to me that because of your particula
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by wpietri 3y ago
Their point is that a browser with WEI reduces your control versus a browser without WEI. I would agree with them that it's definitional.
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by wpietri 3y ago
So one, if it's not pharma who's dying, who are you asserting is dying from regulation? Two, you're ignoring the externalities here. Most regulations exist to account for negative externalities. If I sell big cookies on the s
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by wpietri 3y ago
Is your contention that the pharmaceutical industry is dying? Or that it has insufficient lobbying power to push back against regulations that don't improve safety in proportion to their costs? But to answer your direct question, I thi
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by wpietri 3y ago
You said "it's difficult to craft a compelling case for why safety is actually--versus theoretically--impeded". That apparently means you believe there is a world where these incidents happening 10 more frequently [1] will no
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by wpietri 3y ago
Safety is all edge cases. That's especially true of cars; we all know that 99% of the time we can drive with our minds on other things. Our whole transportation infrastructure is engineered toward that end. We can't just handwave
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by wpietri 3y ago
Sorry, what's your model for how safety isn't impacted by firefighters and police having to deal with the sort of incidents described but occurring much more frequently?
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They will do it a lot less when it turns out that it's illegal or will get them fired. Which is what the article we're discussing is about.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear. The "'change my mind' crowd" I'm referring to is absolutely your group 3, or what I referred to as "the propagandists and the purposeful jerks". They're people acting the
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think health care might be one of the areas where I'm least worried. This will drive people back to expertise, though. I might google symptoms to start, but I'm not going to take anything seriously unless it's from a reputa
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by wpietri 3y ago
Right? Like a firefighter trying to put out a burning car should have to get into some "your call is important to us" phone queue just to get the robot car off the firehose.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Rewriting a comment after somebody has already responded is very rude. Now your comment is differently wrong, but I'm sure not going to bother with it or you given that you may just keep rewriting the thing I'm responding to.

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