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by yedava 2y ago
The kid's mental health improved when she gave up her phone. So there is that and also some research that justifies the causation [1]. [1] https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...
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by yedava 2y ago
I want to say this article describes me, but then I realized that it's just my confirmation bias. Who doesn't like to think that they are the smartest ones around and it's everyone else who is stupid and clueless? Science ult
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by yedava 2y ago
> First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that we’ve made the best model in the world available for free in ChatGPT, without ads or anything
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AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?(citationneeded.news)
2 points by yedava 2y ago|1 comments
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AI Is Doomed to Fail the Musical Turing Test [video](youtube.com)
7 points by yedava 2y ago|0 comments
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by yedava 2y ago
> the Rubik’s cube world record currently stands at 3.13 seconds, set in July 2023. > However, the record-holder, 23 year-old Max Park, didn’t discover the insights that allowed him to solve the Rubik’s cube. His success was built ato
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by yedava 2y ago
A McKinsey consultant got there through meritocracy, but they will likely be working on something that makes life miserable for people, whereas someone working on an FOSS project will likely make life better for people. As a measure of usef
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by yedava 2y ago
Then let's try something simpler. What were the test scores of Linus Torvalds? Which gatekeeper certified that he was qualified enough to do engineering at the level he has done?
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by yedava 2y ago
I wonder what test scores the people who invented steel had.
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by yedava 2y ago
> But how do you suppose that putting people with less academic merit in those positions will create better outcomes? It won't and that's the point. We should stop wasting our childhoods chasing meaningless standardized tests b
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by yedava 3y ago
There seems to be quite a bit of outrage against the idea that merit doesn't matter all that much in the grand scheme of things. Let's consider the times when these institutions have had meritocratic admissions. What exactly have
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by yedava 3y ago
I think this hypothesis quickly falls apart when you consider other places other than the US and China. To take India for example, the northern parts rely more on wheat and the southern parts on rice. One could easily make up an argument th
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by yedava 3y ago
Presumably those who get to own the Moon will have people here on Earth who they love or care about. Following the "this is just how it is" logic, what's stopping a barrel of gun from being pointed at those people?
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Judge dismisses Elon Musk's suit against hate speech researchers(text.npr.org)
45 points by yedava 3y ago|2 comments
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by yedava 3y ago
I think there is a difference between a message board where everyone sees the same messages and surveillance software which spy on users to build behavioral profiles, which are then used to tailor content for each user. The surveillance sof
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by yedava 3y ago
As AI generated content takes over the web, algorithmic search will become increasingly useless. In fact, for many things - like what to buy - it already is useless. Your best bet is asking your family/friend/neighborhood groups.
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by yedava 3y ago
I find the term "Polymath" useless when it comes to the times we live in. Today's high school students would have ranked as a polymaths a few centuries ago. And today, someone who spends their entire time in one field - say s
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The Fed is behind the Capital One/Discover merger(thebignewsletter.com)
210 points by yedava 3y ago|176 comments
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by yedava 3y ago
If this were a Costco, sure, a benefit of doubt is warranted. But this is Amazon, who pioneered ever more dehumanizing ways of tracking employees.
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by yedava 3y ago
Instead of thinking in terms of how can we use technology to get just intonation, what if we start with things which already have just intonation (the human voice, string instruments) and then adapt technology to them. Of course this raises
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by yedava 3y ago
When we think of centrally planned economies, we think of things like communism. But monopolies and duopolies are also a form of central planning. Without competition, decisions are all made by a select elite (and not the market). That inev
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by yedava 3y ago
Do you have any recordings of how a digital piano sounds to the other side - like if a teacher wants to demonstrate how to play dynamics?
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by yedava 3y ago
I don't think productivity gains explain why companies need fewer people to be employed. A better explanation is that tech companies have grown too big. They've established big enough moats to prevent competition from arising, and
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by yedava 3y ago
User behavior profiling wouldn't be bad if and only if users owned the data and had complete control of what is done it. Currently the legal/political system isn't equipped to handle this new technological assault on digita
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by yedava 3y ago
There is mounting evidence that social media harms mental health[1]. I'm pretty sure when links between smoking and cancer were being established, there were plenty of people calling that evidence "unhinged", particularly if
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by yedava 3y ago
When you buy diapers you are paying for the manufacturing cost and the profit margin. When you use Meta's products, what are you paying for? That's what makes them closer to cigarettes. Tobacco companies sold a lie to their custom
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by yedava 3y ago
At one time cigarettes were also as popular as Meta's products.
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by yedava 3y ago
Facebook is also one of pioneers in making mass surveillance the norm. The promise of technology has been used to prey on society.
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by yedava 3y ago
I'm not singling out any one company. Walmart did indeed pioneer labor exploitation. Amazon just made it more efficient. Facebook, Google got rich off surveilling users and eroding user privacy rights. Focusing on some specific compani
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by yedava 3y ago
Extreme wealth is a symptom of an underlying problem - inhumane exploitation. People can get that rich because the economic system says that it is perfectly acceptable for a class of people to pee in bottles/diapers in order to maximiz

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