SilverElfin

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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
The split is just people who want to protect AI moats and people who want cheap AI. But I think there are a lot of interesting geopolitical implications.
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
We need this for employees too. There are many who don’t act ethically when interviewing for a job.
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
What’s interesting is no one is talking about political censorship in models and how DeepSeek, Kimi, and the rest have to abide by CCP rules. It’s a big opportunity for China to control information.
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Paywalled. But sociology was a suspect field even 20 years ago. It always felt less rigorous compared to other humanities, because the content and ideas felt activist and because those teaching it (professors) were biased, always trying to
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Impressive … and scary. Why is it that this company is moving so fast when others like Boston Dynamics don’t seem to have made much progress?
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Didn’t they just say they’re removing this? https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1tq9vxo/protecting...
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India's Skyroot launches Vikram-1 in first private orbital rocket mission(reuters.com)
3 points by SilverElfin 2mo ago|0 comments
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
I guess if you start an absurdly high number that makes no sense, then somehow group think only brings it down a bit and it’s still better than aiming for “true” valuation?
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Given how many reports there are about sloppiness in Anthropic’s products, I would find it very hard to trust them with student data.
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Why wouldn’t this apply to every animal then? Shouldn’t the courts order all the cow farms in Argentina to shut down?
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
You wrote all that to make a nearly worthless semantic argument about how an act of invasion, genocide, and theocratic authoritarianism is different from what you’re calling colonialism? Okay. Indians and Hindus were obviously subordinated
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Yes prosperous. Minus the brutal and barbaric genocide, oppressions, etc. Obviously such colonialism destroys culture and wealth even if a few powerful outsiders extract wealth for themselves. You’re whitewashing Islamic colonialism for som
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Probably not one thing but the sequence of Islamic colonialism, followed by European colonialism, followed the splitting of India, the introduction of consumerist lifestyles (plastic crap), globalism, etc. I imagine any society where the ex
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Yep. A lot of snark and shallow dismissals. And no acknowledgment of the fact that even if DOGE was unsuccessful, that doesn’t mean the government is efficient or without fraud. There probably still is a lot, and DOGE didn’t receive the sup
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Wrong. Cars are high utility and should remain on roads. They increase quality of life by giving you a fast way to get to exactly where you want on your own schedule. And designing for cars IS designing for people, obviously. Who do you thi
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
They aren’t dangerous. Road fatalities are still very low per mile driven and are falling over time. Cars are getting safer all the time with their sensors and intelligent features like automatic braking. The war on cars is an irrational sa
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
I’ve done that and those areas change over time. A town becomes more like a small city. A small city becomes more dense. Etc. Then all the urbanists move the goal posts and ask why you didn’t live somewhere else.
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Do you have kids? I feel like apartment living as a family is worse than a spacious single family home and yard and all that. I suspect that preference holds true for most people.
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
One way is to stop the war on cars. I see many cities basically making driving purposely bad. Super low speed limits, speed bumps, unnecessary bike lanes, poorly timed traffic lights, no right turn on red, etc. It’s all the typical pro bike
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Apple colluding on no poaching agreements was far worse and more damaging. So I don’t feel bad for them.
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Anything controversial will have this issue. But COVID, BLM, and things relating to the current administration often have those biases. To see how rules get weaponized, see the talk pages. You find that a lot of reasonable editors are basic
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Low earning degrees aren’t economically valuable to society. Why aren’t they cancelled outright? What makes them different from learning something on your own for fun?
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
I wish they would also do something about state-level bans. It’s ridiculous that people can be banned from buying a gas range for cooking or from using a wood based heating system or whatever else. But that’s where things are going in some
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Yep, this has long been an issue. Wikipedia articles on even slightly political topics are very one-sided. The rules that govern Wikipedia reinforce a certain set of views, and those who hold power in that community also share certain sets
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NYT calls University of California 'test-blind' admissions a 'terrible' mistake(foxnews.com)
4 points by SilverElfin 2mo ago|3 comments
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Egg producers will pay $3.3M and donate 53M eggs to settle price-fixing(apnews.com)
6 points by SilverElfin 2mo ago|1 comments
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Given all the bad press around things like the millennium tower, I think once you have an issue like this, the building is done. No one will want to live there. And given structural problems with load bearing beams, I would expect the build
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Most of the time you’re giving that info to stripe or Shopify. But also credit cards are protected - you can dispute charges - so it’s not a huge risk IMO
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by SilverElfin 2mo ago
Terrible, and this will one day bite conservatives as well.
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California's winery shakedown tests limits of free speech, association(nypost.com)
8 points by SilverElfin 2mo ago|0 comments

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