adampunk

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by adampunk 3mo ago
That’s right. And use taxes can and should be calibrated to not just collect money but achieve public policy objectives. If the real marginal cost were close to 10 cents a page, we might be able to argue that funding the system other ways w
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by adampunk 3mo ago
Right, but 1: We already pay for the fixed costs and 2: the real marginal cost--however you want to measure it--is still closer to 0 than 10 cents.
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by adampunk 3mo ago
The problem is threefold: the true marginal cost of a PACER page is closer to 0 than 10 cents; the fixed cost (building an electronic record system) is already paid by the public; and the complication of a price discrimination mechanism wou
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by adampunk 3mo ago
$$$
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by adampunk 3mo ago
The AI wouldn’t care obviously but I thought we’d find less maximally ironic engagement bait to be made by machines. I think I didn’t have enough imagination.
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by adampunk 3mo ago
I’m continually surprised by just how many “AI is ruining X” posts are obviously AI-written. Just not a genre of writing I predicted would appear.
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by adampunk 3mo ago
There’s also no evidence for it aside from “stars go up too much” and “my social circle isn’t talking about it”, so that could be a reason!
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by adampunk 3mo ago
It's not protestware, it's a special military operation.
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by adampunk 3mo ago
Don't be obtuse.
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by adampunk 3mo ago
Willingness to play. It is similar to the problem with the neutron bomb. On the surface the idea of the neutron bomb (a bomb which kills humans via hard radiation but leaves infra intact) is not “worse” than a regular nuclear weapon. The de
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by adampunk 3mo ago
It’s a puff piece written by someone who didn’t know (or didn’t care) they were being managed.
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by adampunk 3mo ago
I mean you confused the 737-max problems with the general notion of automation, so...
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by adampunk 3mo ago
2 things. First, landing a plane is abnormal! You're shedding a huge amount of energy and you're transitioning from a state where you can keep flying due to your speed to one where flight is impossible as you lower speed. That&#x2
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by adampunk 3mo ago
And you contend that autopilot makes that situation more dangerous? Do you have any support for this?
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by adampunk 3mo ago
Landing is an abnormal situation for an aircraft which we make SUBSTANTIALLY less dangerous through intense automation. Do you want to rip out automated landing systems?
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by adampunk 3mo ago
The crew and the plane are a single system. It is meaningless to imagine pilot “skill” without the plane. Further, we killed so many pilots in the 20th century through impossible workloads which we have now automated, it’s almost cruel to b
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by adampunk 3mo ago
You didn't bother to read the article or learn about the subject but you feel qualified to put "journalism" in quotes?
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by adampunk 3mo ago
Even in the US which lags behind in this area it would be obscene to claim that grocery cashiers aren't being actively replaced. That's just not connected to reality. Most grocery stores I've been in have essentially 1 open l
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by adampunk 3mo ago
This is cool! Thanks for building it.
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by adampunk 3mo ago
What's the point of reading someone's writings on a subject where you know they're not typically correct? How would we know what we 'learn' from Ed is right?
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by adampunk 3mo ago
"a sales manager making a bad call when images are not available" It seems nearly impossible to imagine that to be the case. I'd have to disregard the kinds of manipulation entirely. What sales manager would create a whole we
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by adampunk 3mo ago
That remains to be seen.
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by adampunk 3mo ago
I was talking to a Claude Opus 4.7 chatbot about low-discrepancy sequences and made the mistake of framing a thought experiment as "deceiving" a vendor who owns a scrambler by making a hard to scramble low-discrepancy sequence gen
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by adampunk 3mo ago
>I am here to light up the dark path you are unknowingly walking, like lamplighters who used to light street lamps for those brave enough to walk the night alone. What the light reveals has a name: Qwen 3.7 Max. I sure am glad we left id
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by adampunk 3mo ago
Ok, but it's a freak show tho! The title promises circus freaks and two are on display, with their freakiness aired out for all to see. There's some "aren't we the villain here" hand-wringing but it's hard to t
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by adampunk 3mo ago
Wow you’re on a whole roll today! Ok, how come your little comprehension examination didn’t grapple with the main point: that they said they could not have made the changes they merged in themselves? Surely pointing out that the commits wer
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by adampunk 3mo ago
I missed the part where you weren’t going to belittle the contributions.
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by adampunk 3mo ago
And replaces them with the famously environmentally friendly launch vehicle business.
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by adampunk 3mo ago
Whole lotta bike shedding going on in this thread.
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by adampunk 3mo ago
And where did the ad hominem part arise?

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