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by zztop44 3y ago
I honestly don’t mean to condescend, but I find it so interesting that smart people can convince themselves that such an outlandish scenario is somehow likely or even perhaps inevitable. We haven’t invented “AGI” yet (if AGI means a compute
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by zztop44 3y ago
I remember I could send texts (including selecting the contact) in my pocket without looking at the screen of my Nokia 3310 in high school. So I think the boiling pot analogy holds. Things were already pretty advanced by the time smartphone
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by zztop44 3y ago
There are three outcomes in this hypothetical: don’t bother with the cover up (50% damage); successful cover up (0% damage); and failed cover up (100% damage). So the calculation is a bit more complicated.
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by zztop44 3y ago
Sure, maybe if it accomplishes exactly the same. That’s why I disable JavaScript on most news sites. But in the real world most web apps simply can’t accomplish the same without JavaScript, which is why we use JavaScript.
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by zztop44 3y ago
For the designer do you need US time zones or is ~5 hours overlap with Pacific Time close enough? I know someone who’d be a good fit if so…
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by zztop44 3y ago
About 0.1% (0.001%??) of business communication might have adverse consequences for you/your company if forwarded to Microsoft or OpenAI or the NSA. The rest is absolutely fine. And you’re probably already using Gmail or Android or Chr
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by zztop44 3y ago
But Nintendo is in the enviable position of consistently releasing some of the best and most popular games in the world as first party exclusives every generation like clockwork. It’s not to say that things might not have been better if the
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by zztop44 3y ago
Why does being a front end or back end specialist mean you can’t do full stack? If I’m a full stack dev that’s a back end specialist I can still write a complete feature myself just fine, thank you very much. But of course, if I’m having tr
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by zztop44 3y ago
I think this is a really tempting belief, and probably partially true, but I think the real picture is far more complicated. Previous forms of intellectual inquiry had experiments and tests too. Previous thinkers evaluated their hypotheses
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by zztop44 3y ago
You can still make a Wordpress plugin with one php file and a few lines? If you want an npm project and build chain you can have that, but you can absolutely still build a Wordpress plugin with a functions.php file and nothing else
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by zztop44 3y ago
Do we need that? I feel like the right to be forgotten needs to be protected too. I’m already uncomfortable with the extent to which everything I write can live forever
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by zztop44 3y ago
I think it’s not clear that the causation flowed that way. I think it’s at least partially true that the Republican base was much more isolationist and protectionist than its “establishment” elite, so any significant candidate that played i
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by zztop44 3y ago
I think it’s pretty clear: the remaining board members don’t want to resign; Altman refuses to return until they do.
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by zztop44 3y ago
Imagine you’re a guy with many billions of dollars. Would you pay a few of them in order to not be an international fugitive for the rest of your life?
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by zztop44 3y ago
I agree, and what’s more I think the stated reasons make sense if (a) the person/people impacted by these behaviours had sway with the board, and (b) it was a pattern of behaviour that everyone was already pissed off about. If board re
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by zztop44 3y ago
What if the credentials in question are a high school certificate? ChatGPT has certainly made life more difficult for high school and middle school teachers.
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by zztop44 3y ago
Because the word “free” famously has only one meaning, and everyone agrees what that is.
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by zztop44 3y ago
It’s obnoxious because of that exact implication, that pre-existing altruism wasn’t concerned with efficacy. And that’s just not true. There has been a community of professional practice around measuring impact and directing funds according
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by zztop44 3y ago
I mean there’s just no rise at all after 2015. It just goes back to the long term average. If anything I’d be looking for what happened in 2005 to reduce the murder rate, that seems to be the real story of this graph. But realistically it’s
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by zztop44 3y ago
That chart shows a steady rate up to 2005, a decline from 2005-2012 and then a rise back to the previous level between 2012 and 2015, and steady at the previous level since then. The big spike in Syrian immigration started around 2015-2016.
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by zztop44 3y ago
1.) its not often said that crime deterrence is a factor of severity of punishment * probability of being caught. It’s often said that crime deterrence is a complex issue and that probability of being caught seems to be vastly more powerful
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by zztop44 3y ago
Is that the problem? Do you have any evidence for that belief? Or are you just throwing it out there based on a feeling or hunch?
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by zztop44 3y ago
So quite a while after the peak in immigration in the mid/late 2010s.
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by zztop44 3y ago
Well, isn’t it some kind of xenophobia? Saying that some “types” of outsiders are bad news full stop and should be kept outside else they’ll ruin the country is at least xenophobia adjacent, no matter how true you think it may be (probably
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by zztop44 3y ago
That does not seem to be true. The most recent good data seems to be from 2019[0] and shows Germany with 0.34 stabbing deaths per 100k people, one of the lowest in the world, and lower than Sweden (0.35) and Hungary (0.41). [0] https:/
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by zztop44 3y ago
I don’t understand this take. Do you really think CEOs don’t have any influence on their business? Alignment, morale, resource allocation, etc? And do you really think that those factors don’t have any influence on the productivity of the w
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by zztop44 3y ago
I agree that Chrome’s lock-in now is around syncing/integration. And, of course, the marketing. Firefox is now totally competitive on speed/stability. But it’s not a significantly better browsing experience, which is what it would
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by zztop44 3y ago
But won’t LLMs be monetized in the exact same ways search has been? If you’re asking Bing Chat instead of searching Google for the best hotels in a city, you bet people are gonna wanna pay to make sure their name comes up. If anything, I ca
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by zztop44 3y ago
If Google does actually force through changes that meaningfully degrade adblocking effectiveness in Chrome, that could ironically be just the thing to motivate a critical mass of users to migrate to Firefox/some other alternative. Fire
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by zztop44 3y ago
Does the user care?

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