MaxfordAndSons

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by MaxfordAndSons 14d ago
I can't wait to tell my dad about this study. We recently got into a heated debate when he insisted that I was a toddler on a family vacation we were reminiscing about, when in fact I was a teenager on that particular vacation, and he
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by MaxfordAndSons 4mo ago
Yea there have always been gaps in privacy, but nowadays it's several orders of magnitude easier for corporations to exploit that private data at scale.
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by MaxfordAndSons 5mo ago
Seems pretty clear to me. It A) gives business funding that would otherwise have to give up equity to VCS or sell to PE or whatever other forms of private, for-profit funding. And B) takes away money that could go to the military or ICE or
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by MaxfordAndSons 6mo ago
ATC/GTC seems like a really strong candidate for partial automation with recent advances in AI. Obviously we'd still want some expert humans in the loop for exceptional situations, but I have to imagine there's a way to signi
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by MaxfordAndSons 6mo ago
Idk, you can still find outrageously potent weed in states where it's recreationally legal. But maybe it's just a residual from the fact that it was illegal not that long ago and binge consuming it is still quite normalized?
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by MaxfordAndSons 6mo ago
If they're actual flips, you don't know you're going to lose? You know your EV is 0. As others have noted, in the hierarchy of gambling a truly 0 EV game is fairly high up in the rankings if you're looking for less harm.
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by MaxfordAndSons 7mo ago
Attempting to kneecap the breakout front runner of the major American AI companies to ensure the shittier, politically compliant one wins in the short term? Gee I wonder.
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by MaxfordAndSons 7mo ago
The ends are to create vacuums for big businesses to come in and provide the same services, for private profit rather than public benefit
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by MaxfordAndSons 7mo ago
Can anyone recommend a good source to ramp up one's understanding of macroeconomics/monetary policy to a point where they can make sense of this? Starting from more or less a layman's understanding. Could be a book or course,
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by MaxfordAndSons 9mo ago
Counterpoint: The problems in the US are systemic. There will be no significant change without abolishing unlimited corporate campaign donations.
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by MaxfordAndSons 10mo ago
lol yep. It's like they have the same mentality as being a schoolbus (which, it's similarly wild to me that kids are just implicitly allowed to not wear their seatbelts on them but I guess thats an even more intractable enforcemen
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by MaxfordAndSons 10mo ago
Having an understanding of the bell curve of turbulence makes you a bit more advanced than a normie on the aviation knowledge bell curve imo :)
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by MaxfordAndSons 10mo ago
> Why is it necessary for big tech companies to act this way? This question gets directly at the cause of the author's nihilism: the necessity is borne from the endless pursuit of positive quarterly growth, the "binding fiducia
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by MaxfordAndSons 10mo ago
The flight attendants/safety card will tell you to stay buckled whenever seated, even if the seat belt sign is off, but many (most?) people will ignore that guidance and stay unbuckled for as long as they are technically allowed. Only
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by MaxfordAndSons 10mo ago
It doesn't reflect well, but also, is it not fairly par for the course from a BDFL type? Surely Linus Torvalds has said meaner things at some point on a listserv. Why does this guy get blasted for it? Because people still have generall
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by MaxfordAndSons 10mo ago
I'd venture to guess that whatever legal logic resulted in the SC deciding that corporations should have the same right to free speech as individuals presumably doesn't hinge on any semantic blurriness between different subsets of
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by MaxfordAndSons 11mo ago
I think GP meant structural damage to the airframe. That said, I think there are some modes of structural damage a modern plane can sustain and still fly, but to gp's point, probably not many.
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by MaxfordAndSons 11mo ago
Yea the "No take, only throw" game seems more endemic to Mastiff descendants, as opposed to the true "retrieval" behavior described in the top comments about Retrievers. My boxer/bulldog mix loves to chase the ball,
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by MaxfordAndSons 1y ago
Wouldn't exactly call that a grassroots effort, though...
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by MaxfordAndSons 1y ago
Thoughtful comments can provide the why, but they can just as easily be a redundant re-statement of the what in the code, which llm comments quite often are.
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by MaxfordAndSons 1y ago
> Altman decided to let GPT-5 take a stab at a question he didn’t understand. “I put it in the model, this is GPT-5, and it answered it perfectly,” Altman said. If he didn't understand the question how could he know the model ans
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by MaxfordAndSons 1y ago
Sweet! I love erasure (aka blackout) poetry. If anyone want to see some high quality examples of the form, check out: - O Mission Repo, by Travis McDonald, an erasure of the 9/11 Comission Report - A Humument, by Tom Phillips, an erasu
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by MaxfordAndSons 1y ago
As someone who's fairly ignorant of how AI actually works at a low level, I feel incapable of assessing how realistic any of these projections are. But the "bad ending" was certainly chilling. That said, this snippet from the
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Smart. Could definitely find a more efficient private operator to handle this. I've heard good things about one Charles Montgomery Burns out of Springfield, he'd be just the man to do this important work.
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
I think the ripping out of woke stuff is mostly marketing for the political base. Sure, Trump and Musk have some personal stake in it too, but it's not the point. I wouldn't say they're "burning things down for the sake
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Most humans are frequently harming themselves (and sometimes harming others) with their smartphones, so...
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Unfortunately the latter is already very normalized.
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Not an expert but my understanding is that it's only feasible on a small enough scale to eke out tiny profits over the long run, too much success will get you rapidly 86'd. If anyone reading this is intrigued by games of chance wi
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Kinda funny that they've named their global state store "Corrosion"... not really a word I'd associate with stability and persistence.
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by MaxfordAndSons 2y ago
Parsing "Magic: The German" made my brain glitch

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