Barracoon

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by Barracoon 10mo ago
A related article https://archive.is/2024.12.17-161126/https://www.theatlantic... Our scaling is human oriented - add more shifts. Maybe we can adapt new manufacturing methods like screw extrusion mentioned i
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by Barracoon 1y ago
Lots of people saying they don’t like the idea of this here. How many people works at companies whose bottom line is driven by researching website visitors to make their ads unforgettable?
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by Barracoon 1y ago
Funny, the scenario you described is exactly what Elon wanted to do! https://openai.com/index/openai-elon-musk/ > In late 2017, we and Elon decided the next step for the mission was to create a for-profit entit
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by Barracoon 1y ago
The median American net worth is $192,700. Elon’s net worth is $393.4 billion, so if I’m doing math right he’s about 204,000,000x more
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by Barracoon 1y ago
The NSA does not do either of those things
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by Barracoon 2y ago
IIRC Amazon has a 2 years 401k match vesting period.
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by Barracoon 2y ago
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3331 The agenda of the president does not matter
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by Barracoon 2y ago
This assumes that DOGE has actually found something in their "audit", which seems dubious given TFA
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by Barracoon 2y ago
Perhaps this FAQ will help you https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2024-11/MVSDefec...
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by Barracoon 2y ago
The Tulsi that pushes Russian disinformation? That should do well for rooting out lying. Also some facts: Intelligence services did not lie us into the Iraq war - politicians did. Politicians manipulated intelligence reporting to fit their
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by Barracoon 2y ago
It makes the whole world blind
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by Barracoon 2y ago
As a vet, get some help bro and stop hanging around the militia losers.
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by Barracoon 2y ago
Leading tech for a 250 person startup is surely different than wrangling the vast bureaucracy of the US Government, especially when the author says they didn't want to join Atlassian because they would have to deal with "politics&
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by Barracoon 2y ago
Should they be responsible for what they algorithimcally show to users?
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by Barracoon 2y ago
BRS still pays at least 40% of base, plus potentially more via TSP assuming people are moving out of the G fund.
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by Barracoon 2y ago
Cloudflare was happy to host Kiwi Farms for a long time. I doubt they care what Musk does.
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by Barracoon 2y ago
Amazon comp is based on your annual performance review (OLR) and your pay band (level + job family). OLR has 5 tiers: least effective, highly valued 1-3, and top tier. Each of those tiers determines your band penetration. Lets say your pay
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by Barracoon 2y ago
So the AI has overtaken all code and manual processes within a laboratory environment to hijack the ability to print DNA sequences without anybody saying “man it’s weird that my projects never finish now”? There’s also the modeling vs real-
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by Barracoon 2y ago
Who built the automated lab that allows it to create a deadly pathogen before someone presses reboot? I see almost no chance that an AGI starts redirecting resources like energy and compute without someone who has an economic stake in what
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by Barracoon 2y ago
Clearly, since this is OpenAI’s model spec, it is desired by them. If other AI groups publish their own desired behavior, you can make an informed decision as to which model you want to use.
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by Barracoon 2y ago
I wonder if the National Basketball Players Association limits Lebron’s ability to negotiate his upcoming $122mm contract.
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by Barracoon 2y ago
Technically, it’s if you communicate to a target of a foreign intelligence investigation AND they deem you suspect enough to request FISA approval to access your side of the communication.
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by Barracoon 3y ago
Rather than just claiming that the history is “flat out wrong”, it’d sure be neat if you provided some sources the back that up.
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by Barracoon 4y ago
Here's an experiment at JHU: https://alperovitch.sais.jhu.edu/five-days-in-class-with-cha... I'm not fully convinced it was a net-positive, because sometimes asking the "dumb" question shows that other p
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by Barracoon 4y ago
I’m trying to square how only [15% of oil price controls]( https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/29/us/president-abolishes-la... ) remained when Reagan single handedly saved the day. Seems like Carter spent 4 ye
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by Barracoon 4y ago
Why does the NY Post repeat known to be false assertions about Russian malign influence. DNC was APT28 and not an inside job.
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by Barracoon 4y ago
Were they not American or did they not have traditionally white Anglo-Saxon names?
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by Barracoon 5y ago
Right, win32 is insensitive
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by Barracoon 6y ago
NPR looked into this 7 years ago. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/30/295931070...
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by Barracoon 6y ago
I'd add the active component of Facebook compared to tabloids/broadcasts. With the latter, I'm just a consumer. With the former, I'm actively contributing via share/like/comment. There's probably a psychol

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