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by xvector 2y ago
You can absolutely monetize works altered under fair use.
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by xvector 2y ago
> Mr Shipley said he decided against publishing the cartoon because the paper had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and was set to publish another. > "Not every editorial judgement is a reflection of a mali
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by xvector 2y ago
All of the statements are fact, they are not meaningless. > the EU is stagnating True. Verifiable. Compare the value of the EU vs the US's or China's tech industry over time. The US's is now worth 20x the EU's. A regi
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by xvector 2y ago
Ah, I forgot you are the only one in this thread capable of real human thought. My apologies for bothering you with my "faux-thinking."
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by xvector 2y ago
The House budget committee disagrees: https://budget.house.gov/imo/media/doc/the_cost_of_illegal_i... $150.7B yearly cost even after accounting for the tax revenue they supposedly bring.
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by xvector 2y ago
This is absolutely a worthless fluff paper
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Mentour Pilot: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 (crash caused by Boeing/MCAS) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by xvector 2y ago|1 comments
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by xvector 2y ago
This video shines a bit more light on Ethiopian 302. Notably, Mentour Pilot finds that: 1. Boeing refused to answer poignant instructor questions about MCAS prior to the crash, leaving the crew in the dark. This was despite MCAS having alre
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by xvector 2y ago
Panic attacks, especially as described by the OP (caused by normal situations, takes "days to recover"), likely fall within the realm of psychiatric care instead of mere psychological care, so I would argue they are a medical is
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by xvector 2y ago
> Eventually, I devised the following regimen with the intent of providing the LES with some resistance training. The resistance was provided by positioning my head below my stomach in a kneeling posture. This required food being swallo
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by xvector 2y ago
Big tech has such a twisted incentive structure for devs that I don't see this getting solved unless it impacts YouTube's bottom line. Execs won't care, and ICs will be actively penalized for fixing this vs working on "b
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by xvector 2y ago
The Wikipedia analogy strikes true. Generally people are resistant to change and the average person will typically insist new technologies are pointless. Electricity and the airplane were supposed to be useless and dangerous dead ends accor
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by xvector 2y ago
Agency is essentially solved, we don't enable it in common models because of "safety" Is impatience a requirement for general intelligence? Why?
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by xvector 2y ago
IMO we are already at AGI. Hell, Norvig would argue we were there some time ago: https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-... We just keep moving the goalposts.
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by xvector 2y ago
Is a human with short term memory loss - or otherwise unable to improve their skills - generally intelligent?
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by xvector 2y ago
> "Drain" for an introvert can mean anything from starting a muscle tension clock that will eventually cause a headache to a straight-up panic attack that could take hours/days to recover from. Unless you are being hyperbo
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by xvector 2y ago
> Ram learns about Shyam’s promotion and feels a bit disappointed. He goes back home and says to himself “I am not an extrovert”, consoles himself and moves on with life. I have seen this play out time and time again at nearly every comp
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by xvector 2y ago
it reads fine to me
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by xvector 2y ago
The other moral here is to stop using memory unsafe languages. It's just so incredibly dumb that we keep making excuses for this.
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by xvector 2y ago
I'd wager they'd still have PTSD, but wouldn't be able to communicate it as well as a normal person. What you really want is AI doing this job. Or psychopaths/unempathetic people if that's not an option.
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by xvector 2y ago
This is the one job we can probably automate now.
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by xvector 2y ago
Yes, I have dependents, and them not dying is far more important to me than me being the one providing for them.
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by xvector 2y ago
"You/your loved ones should die because Elon would die too" is a terrible argument. It's not great, but it's not worth dying over. New rich bad people would take his place anyways. "You should die because citie
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by xvector 2y ago
Nah, it's death. People objectively are doing better than ever despite wealth inequality. By all metrics - poverty, quality of life, homelessness, wealth, purchasing power. I'd rather just... not die. Not unless I want to. Same fo
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by xvector 2y ago
Yeah, with this mentality, we wouldn't have electricity today. You will never make transition to new technology painless, no matter what you do. (See: https://pessimistsarchive.org ) What you are likely doing, though, is mak
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by xvector 2y ago
Yes, people tend to focus on current times. It's an incredibly shortsighted mentality that selfishly puts oneself over tens of billions of future lives being improved. https://pessimistsarchive.org
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by xvector 2y ago
> when they might lose their jobs and comfort levels? Everyone has always worried about this for every major technology throughout history IMO AGI will dramatically increase comfort levels, lower your chance of dying, death, disease, etc
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by xvector 2y ago
Humanity is about to enter an even steeper hockey stick growth curve. Progressing along the Kardashev scale feels all but inevitable. We will live to see Longevity Escape Velocity. I'm fucking pumped and feel thrilled and excited and p
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by xvector 2y ago
Agree. AGI is here. I feel such a sense of pride in our species.
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by xvector 2y ago
These are just the permissions you need to make AR glasses interop with your phone reasonably seamlessly.

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