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by wwweston 3y ago
This is a comment I think about a lot lately when it comes to discussions of AI and art too — if there’s a hazard in “dehumanized mathematics” and value in mathematics as community and reflection of human understanding then surely there’s
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by wwweston 3y ago
Not sure it's that groundbreaking since we've already effectively decided as a society this is exactly what we're going to do with art and writing and probably a whole bunch of other stuff. And in general, we've long dec
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by wwweston 3y ago
People who engage lawmakers and public officials have a chance of shaping policy. Doing so is using the system as it's designed, so unless you have some specific criticism about the legitimacy of policy that came out of that engagement
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by wwweston 3y ago
If individual artists slowly learning from examining individual works were really much like being automated borrowing at scale, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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by wwweston 3y ago
It seems to me that it can't both be true that (a) the appeal of the walled garden is wide and (b) sideloading or other uncurated channels are an irresistible force that will inevitably obliterate the walled garden. If people find valu
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by wwweston 3y ago
What about any suggestion made so far "breaks" the iOS experience for those who are satisfied with it the way it is?
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by wwweston 3y ago
Honestly, if you think this is in any way a reasonable response to the layers of commentary above elaborating on why this isn't a zero-sum game and doesn't have to take anything from you, maybe someone should take your iPhone.
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by wwweston 3y ago
> If such a switch exists, EVERYTHING will use it. The switch exists on macOS already, and this is not true. Software is available from the app store. People can and do choose it. Signed software is available outside the app store. Peopl
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by wwweston 3y ago
Like the GP said, this is a false dichotomy. Something as simple as accessible sideloading or a "let me do unsafe things" switch buried deep in the preferences app can give people who want it greater control and let those who pref
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by wwweston 3y ago
> developers no longer needing to understand pre-processors or other tools. Sass served the community well, but as CSS slowly morphs into a (more evident) programming language, its days seem numbered. Is there a browser-native way of doi
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by wwweston 3y ago
Perl 5 has been usable and improved on continuously over the last 20+ years. Raku / Perl 6 has been the R&D project it set out to be with interesting new features and smoothed out syntax. You can use either freely as meets your nee
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by wwweston 3y ago
> A question I love to ask people is, “What have you changed your mind about in the last decade?” I use “decade” because it pushes you into thinking about big things, not who you think will win the Super Bowl. This is a great question. A
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by wwweston 3y ago
I could see psychology as a field exploring the idea that some of human cognition is LLM-like, which could make papers including examples of LLM output more common in psych fields.
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by wwweston 3y ago
> I find that thoughtful engagement with religion (Judaism in my case) I've heard Judaism characterized as very accepting of discourse and reinterpretation of itself. Does this strike you as accurate? If so, it sounds like a kind of
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by wwweston 3y ago
> It's not that there isn't enough electronic music being made, it's that every new track that lands on soundcloud is a drop in the ocean of mediocrity. There is _too_ much, and 99.9% is just boring to listen to, because
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by wwweston 3y ago
Hank is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. Hank got a technical degree, and as a student was deeply interested in machine learning and the ethics & philosophy of potential artificial intelligence. He posts a problem on HN
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I think you just made the argument, more or less -- there's an implicit moral obligation in noting that there are negative social impacts. As for whether the term parasite applies: - They move in and take over the channel for demand, o
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by wwweston 3y ago
I agree we want medical personnel who are very well trained, certainly better than software engineers. I'm less clear about which aspects of the current medical education system produce effective training and which are more of a hazing
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> buyers (who might want to become landlords) will price lower if they know there is a vacancy tax in anticipation of future vacancies Prices will... lower, you say? Sounds like the policy working as intended. > It turns out that newe
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by wwweston 3y ago
The same way you benefit from copyright being valuable to creators at all combined with the reason why options with longer exercise horizons are more valuable. Honestly I'm not sure 90 years or whatever is the optimal time and I'm
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Hi, my name is Weston, and I'm bad at parsing (and it hurts the whole time I do it because I'm just barely clever enough to do it badly/dangerously). What else should I study besides the first 5 chapters of the 2nd edition of
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by wwweston 3y ago
"AIs can ignore copyright" is the absolute ultimate in blank check for capital holders. Waiving copyright to solve the problem of systems favoring them is like deciding to jump because you're afraid of heights. Copyright la
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by wwweston 3y ago
> All you had to do is install any of the countless Stable Diffusion UIs and you'd have this tech free forever, some of them even integrate into Photoshop. Do you have any specific suggestions you favor?
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If you're not going to socialize AI gains, and leave in place the social systems that value people by their output, waiving copyright or other IP is astoundingly anti-humane. What should be instead is that fair use doesn't apply
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by wwweston 3y ago
> We don't do this because that really makes existing stakeholders scared for their current property values As far as I can tell, opposition that comes from concern for housing values tends to be hyperlocal rather than systemic -- m
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> Just based on vibes yeah? Not even remotely. > Because the evidence I've looked at evidence on and off for over 20 years. I've asked for disconfirming evidence. I've never seen it. Housing costs do not fall from marke
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> a vacancy tax on its own penalizes development. I'm not sure I understand the dynamic you have in mind. Maybe the idea that developers are scared away from construction where vacancy taxes might be among their liabilities? I gues
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by wwweston 3y ago
Generally the philosophy I think works best is to tax activity you might well allow but want less of to close incentive gaps for things you want more of. So, I'm pretty interested in vacancy taxes, because that's something we defi
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Inflation is staying high because we're not taming housing costs: https://www.marketplace.org/2023/03/14/housing-costs-are-a-m... Higher borrowing costs have slowed the meteoric rise of a bunch of market
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by wwweston 3y ago
> The point you are missing is the payment processors should not even try to detect what the payment is made for. It should not be their job. You're thinking about this as if the question is simply about whether or not payment proce

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