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by yifanl 3y ago
> Is it typical for "thought leaders" to be paid to dishonestly push certain ideas? Null hypothesis would imply we should treat them no different than other influencers. Unless you've evidence otherwise?
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by yifanl 3y ago
I mean, the NYT/WaPo are basically aggregate sites for journalism?
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On the gloomier side, if we couldn't come up with a good noise filter in the relatively calm times of the pre-LLM era, are we going to find something now?
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The price tag implied a high quality, but I think consumers have become aware that high price tags aren't indicative of quality.
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by yifanl 3y ago
The difference between the internet of the 2000s and the 2010s is how profitable it was to push things. No one got paid to get me to click on lemonparty, they did it because it was (to them) funny. Nowadays, there are industries that exist
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by yifanl 3y ago
Theoretically, there's a universe where Twitter wasn't bought out and the share price grew substantially, which will never come into place due to Elon's actions? (I'm grasping at straws, mostly because Elon's abilit
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by yifanl 3y ago
The now rare clbuttic self-inflicted wound.
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Apocalypse Now is itself, a treatment of the Heart of Darkness published 1899.
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I'm not saying I don't believe you, but how credible are these cooking videos? $10000 of saffron could provide enough flavour for easily 6 months worth of tea.
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by yifanl 3y ago
The endgame for the trillions of r&d dollars we're funding AI with is so a small subset of rich people can return to monke?
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by yifanl 3y ago
According to AP, the ship was able to issue a mayday and passengers of the bridge were warned: https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-bridge-collapse-53169b3... > The operators of the ship issued a mayday call moments
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by yifanl 3y ago
Yeah, I pay for Windows because that way, I can trust that Microsoft will treat me right, unlike Linux, which I'm sure is infested with ads.
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by yifanl 3y ago
To be clear, modern society as we define it functions largely through "security through obscurity", considering that anybody with a sledgehammer can break into your property.
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by yifanl 3y ago
I'm just going to take this story at face value, there's an infinite number of alternate explanations that I'd be powerless to talk about. I've had my own (thankfully brief) moments where I've thought about suicide
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by yifanl 3y ago
I don't believe in conspiracies, but killing himself in the hotel parking lot halfway into his disposition is quite noteworthy regardless of the circumstance. It's known that whistleblowers disproportionately suffer from stress an
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I just used the most visible example I could think of, the specific choice wasn't particularly relevant.
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The thesis of this article seems to assume that models will be built to serve what the user wants, but, as we've seen with the Gemini fiasco, AI providers are more than happy to silently inject things into prompts, so I have very littl
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by yifanl 3y ago
It's maybe a problem of scale, since I can't easily name any entity that could "forgive" a questionable decision made by Google.
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by yifanl 3y ago
"Better to ask forgiveness than permission" has ruined us.
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by yifanl 3y ago
Shakespeare had it as will he nill he in Hamlet: > “If the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he nill he, he goes - mark you that.” (Hamlet.V.1) Though I admit I didn't know this until I actually looked it up just n
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by yifanl 3y ago
>> Our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful is sacrosanct. We’ve always sought to give users helpful, accurate, and unbiased information in our products. That’s why people trust
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by yifanl 3y ago
Technically speaking, it was always possible for random people to spam PRs to open source before, but it wasn't a problem until someone put the idea of it out there on a platform with even the most trivial reason (a dumb tshirt or a fe
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by yifanl 3y ago
Money is just an abstraction for quality of life :)
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by yifanl 3y ago
People who live there profit from the trees through quality of life benefits (such as being 5 degrees cooler). Maybe part of the problem is that a lot of landowners tend to not live in the land they own, so they can't see these profits
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by yifanl 3y ago
I've heard that the problem is that airplanes are roughly commodotized, as in they can't compete on features, only price. And to compete on price, supply chains become more specialized and more fragile and efficient, or software i
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by yifanl 3y ago
Wouldn't such an adversary always choose the option that causes us more damage?
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by yifanl 3y ago
Not to be overly cynical, but this seems like it's the likely outcome in the medium-term. Billions of dollars worth of data and manhours could only be justified for something that could turn a profit, and the obvious way an advertising
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by yifanl 3y ago
https://decisions.civilresolutionbc.ca/crt/crtd/en/item/5254... The resolution is n amazingly clear piece of legal writing that explains the involved thought process of the the decision and then awarding
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by yifanl 3y ago
Twitter might not allow NSFW content, but it has a lot of NSFW content nonetheless.
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Man, really puts into perspective how silly it is for me to be paranoid about deploying a change for a webapp with 100 DAU, while agricorp businesses have no problems accidentally poisoning the planet.

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