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yikesshescute
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yikesshescute
6y ago
The truth of the claim you’re making seems deeply unknowable. Your certainty triggers me.
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yikesshescute
6y ago
Is there some technical definition of “predict” that you are assuming?
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yikesshescute
6y ago
Then going long or short on a security is easy?
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yikesshescute
6y ago
The machine will know which sort of person tries to fool it in the way that you are trying to fool it.
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yikesshescute
6y ago
Why play defense when you can play offense?
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yikesshescute
6y ago
So, the leader is an expert on “joint A+B tasks”? Then provided he, the leader, can identify, A tasks, B tasks and A+B tasks and correctly defer on the first two sets, won’t we get optimal decision making? And are we sure that there really
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yikesshescute
6y ago
What are the specifics of a culture that transcends these organizational hazards? How does it work?
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yikesshescute
6y ago
Then every time I want to make a query I must re-audit the JavaScript source? And, do you have any ideas about setting up the proxy so that I don’t have to trust that it is being operated as advertised?
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yikesshescute
6y ago
Is the implication that a company can spend more time and money to get each subsystem to subsystem-expert-acceptance level, or is there something about current organizational practice that makes even this impossible?
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yikesshescute
6y ago
Right, so the desired effect is “more and better developed OSS software”, but why should I believe “Amazon embracing the OSS community” leads to that effect?
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yikesshescute
6y ago
What about subjects like “building rockets that are moon-capable”? All experts know negligible amounts about this subject, but organizations have “sufficient” knowledge.
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yikesshescute
6y ago
> Corporations are inherently stupid. Is it that groups of people are inherently stupid, or is there some facet of corporations that makes them in particular stupid?
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yikesshescute
6y ago
Why is it awesome? Why should I believe that Amazon “embracing the OSS community” will have some desired effect?
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yikesshescute
6y ago
I think the burden is on the person suggesting I take an action (eg, donate money to charity X) to provide evidence that the action will have some desired effect. My position is that all actions have mostly unintelligible effects until demo
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6y ago
How do I verify that my query is being encrypted in the browser? And is the proxy a service under your control?
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yikesshescute
6y ago
> Certainly, one may choose to research the institutions they donate to, if they don't trust them by name. That is not unique to suicide prevention, therefore it's an unnecessary qualifier in the current discussion. I agree tha
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yikesshescute
6y ago
> Unless one believes that all efforts to prevent suicide are entirely futile...? I don’t even need to think that. I can just think that it’s “hard” to differentiate between organizations that are “good” at stopping suicides and those t
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yikesshescute
6y ago
Am I supposed to believe that “donating to the suicide prevention foundation” has something to do with stopping future suicides? Because I don’t see why I should jump to that conclusion.