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by zamfi 2y ago
> How‘s the situation in the US? Let me quote the illustrious submeta here: > This topic was dealth with so controversially, so polarisingly, that it divides the nation. One group even made a political program with being anti-covid me
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by zamfi 2y ago
Right. I guess I see that argument as an "economies of scale" argument, rather than as a "natural monopoly" argument. In many industries large players will benefit from economics of scale. This is definitely true for Ube
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by zamfi 2y ago
Oh, sorry, to be clear I'm not comparing Waymo with Uber/Lyft/taxi -- just pointing out that there isn't a natural monopoly to be had among self-driving car-based taxis specifically. Currently Waymo is the only one. I
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by zamfi 2y ago
This piece makes the argument that self-driving taxis will be a winner-takes-most market, but color me skeptical. Winner-take-most markets, like Uber, tend to be two-sided marketplaces with major network effects: folks use Uber because they
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by zamfi 2y ago
Non-radioactive poisons are also used in targeted therapies. Perhaps one advantage of these agents is that they degrade fast enough that they cause relatively limited harm after destroying their host cell, maybe unlike other poisons?
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by zamfi 2y ago
This isn't a terrible take, but there doesn't seem to be a shortage of people for whom this doesn't feel like a scam. I'm not particularly fond of the founder hype train, and the typical line is indeed "various risk
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by zamfi 2y ago
Two thoughts on "quick to label": 1) One big change is the recognition that Autism, regardless of particular definition, responds to therapeutic attempts much more effectively in early childhood, rather than later. 2) Much of the
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by zamfi 2y ago
One could also find-and-replace in Word to pick a set of 16 characters that avoids OCR confusion…
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by zamfi 2y ago
Just the senate. Still needs to pass the house and get signed by the governor. Not clear it will be.
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by zamfi 2y ago
I hear you, and that certainly plays a role -- but we actually did the work in that paper months before ChatGPT was released (June-July 2022), and most of the folks who participated in our study had not heard much about LLMs at the time. (O
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by zamfi 2y ago
I love this whole series on misconceptions! Our expectations here are very much set by human-human interactions: we expect memory, introspection, that saying approximately-the-same-thing will give us approximately-the-same-result, that inst
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by zamfi 2y ago
Exactly! That post I think perfectly encapsulates the typical line of thinking here.
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by zamfi 2y ago
>The point is that these middleware appliances we often use as a scapegoat exist only in well-controlled private networks. Why should we care about them? Perhaps for the same reason we only stopped caring about IE 6 after its usage dropp
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by zamfi 2y ago
Common marker word for LLM-generated text.
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by zamfi 2y ago
Yes, and the supervisor also pays a fraction (often 50%+!) of any incoming grant money to “overhead” — to the institution, for lab space, staff, operations, etc. Why some of this money is categorized as “tuition” and other money as “overhea
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by zamfi 2y ago
I think the typical argument about tuition being an "accounting gimmick" is that it's the univerity paying itself for something -- does it actually come out of a budget, paid for by other students? (Unclear.) If there were no
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by zamfi 2y ago
I had a similar experience at another UC, where I lectured (and am now a PhD student!) -- and the general thrust here is correct: lecturers are often paid a FTE-equivalent salary that is not much higher than what a graduate student would be
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by zamfi 2y ago
Well, that’s what they’re quoted as saying in the article!
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by zamfi 2y ago
Alright, but the founders here were already liquidly rich from their IPO? At lease one of the execs (Roberta) was super opposed. They didn't do it for the personal money, they did it because they thought their shareholders would sue th
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by zamfi 2y ago
Was it F-you money for most employees, though? Sure, it was a 60% premium over the current stock price, in CUC stock which promptly dropped after the announcement. So I suppose if you were sitting on 300k in equity it was now worth 480k, bu
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by zamfi 2y ago
The company was already public, though. It's not the contracts that were the problem -- it was the fact that in those days it was uncommon for rank-and-file employees to really diversify. We've mostly learned that lesson now.
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by zamfi 2y ago
This wasn't an "exit" though -- the company was already public, and had been for 7 years! It was "just" an offer with a large premium over the current stock price.
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by zamfi 2y ago
This has not been my experience, to be honest -- I wrote a pretty complex scraper for extracting portions of a page and structuring their contents into JSON, using ChatGPT-4, about a year ago and it worked pretty well. (But not "well&q
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by zamfi 2y ago
Yes, and neither this article nor I are advocating against justice being served. We are just making the point that this kind of justice alone doesn’t prevent future tragedies. We can have justice, and we should, and then we should also feel
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by zamfi 2y ago
I proposed 8 things we can do in the message you originally replied to. It's statistically very unlikely that this driver will accidentally kill someone else. Keeping this driver locked up behind bars may be a reasonable punishment, bu
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by zamfi 2y ago
Oof. You two seem to be arguing that you can cure bad actions with punishment, an idea that’s been debated ad nauseum for pretty much the entire recorded history of humanity. It’s fine, it provides a mild disincentive, in some cases it work
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by zamfi 2y ago
“thank the junior for discovering a flaw” — presumably what you’re referring to — is not the claim you’re making.
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by zamfi 2y ago
> You are also a terrible leader if you treat every mistake as a positive. Zero people advocated this approach in this thread. > No strawman. Noun: strawman. 1. An intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is
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by zamfi 2y ago
Why would it better to impose more severe punishment here, than to save the next family? We need to do more than just punishment , few here are saying punishment is not "worth doing".
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by zamfi 2y ago
No? Sounds like maybe you didn't actually read my post. In fact, I described the penalties here as "paltry" and it is totally reasonable to expect greater punishment in this case. I am also saying that this will do nothing fo

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