aetherson

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by aetherson 15d ago
What else would his repute be based on? Maybe telling retrospective truth? Per the article, he does terribly by that metric as well.
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by aetherson 1mo ago
You could imagine that pre-diagnosis confusion relating to Alzheimer's increases the risk of traffic accident and kills taxi drivers, too. Might not operate for truckers as much because they're more likely to survive accidents.
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by aetherson 2mo ago
18.
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by aetherson 2mo ago
Okay, if it's bad for the price they're offering, use the more expensive API. If they themselves can't afford it I don't know what you want here.
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by aetherson 3mo ago
That was very much on the table, though not locked in.
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by aetherson 3mo ago
The US's population is not declining. However, without immigration, our population growth would be very close to zero, and a yet lower rate of natural increase is locked in over the next couple of decades (more old people who will die
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by aetherson 3mo ago
I mean, he was pretty vindicated on Uber. Which kind of hurts me to say, I was a long time Uber bear. But it did indeed emerge from the pandemic stronger.
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by aetherson 3mo ago
Sure. But that's not the subject.
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by aetherson 3mo ago
They learn during training, which is what we're talking about.
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by aetherson 3mo ago
You're confusing the training method with the internal process. If I had you repeatedly attempt to learn how to make believable completions of partial documents about a given topic, you would eventually learn things about that topic a
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by aetherson 4mo ago
Copper is expensive, and the manufacturing process sounds finicky.
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by aetherson 4mo ago
It'd be interesting to try to imagine a Venusian colonization that's like two separated levels: an atmospheric area where most people live and where you grow food, and then a subterranean (yes, yes, sub... aphroditean?) where you
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by aetherson 5mo ago
Not really. It's turn-based and hex-based.
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by aetherson 7mo ago
People also do some really stupid things, I'll just throw out. But it also kind of sounds like you're just saying that there's a scalar of "get a little better" before you'd trust AI with something.
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by aetherson 7mo ago
Genuine question: is there a big inherent difference between "I don't understand this thing but I think this other human does," and "I don't understand this but I think this other AI does"? If your answer is &q
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by aetherson 7mo ago
Quick heuristic for someone who claims that their AI is conscious: do they claim it's "a gender that they are not attracted to"?
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by aetherson 7mo ago
Amazon isn't a monopoly, it has 8% of retail in the US. There's no real evidence that this trade was made by Buffet himself, and it's part of a general major sell-off of Amazon that transparently did not temporally align with
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by aetherson 7mo ago
These just aren't the relevant concerns behind Amazon's stock performance in the last month. It's the capex.
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by aetherson 7mo ago
Nonsense. There are lots of things that you need more than three strikes for, especially on a platform that you expect to use for decades. I'm not here to say that Facebook's enforcement behavior is optimal, and I don't know
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by aetherson 7mo ago
No? Like, I'd think that was a bad policy for murder in particular, but "we don't allow things but we give you a lot of chances to correct your behavior" is ordinary.
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by aetherson 7mo ago
Native population is declining (and prime-age workforce is retiring), and the Trump admin has been extensively working to reduce the size of the immigrant workforce. So the unemployment rate is staying low, but the absolute number of work
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by aetherson 8mo ago
The in-industry terms for these are "brand marketing" and "performance marketing," FWIW. Brand marketing is the first thing, performance marketing is what you're calling sales.
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by aetherson 8mo ago
Price discrimination is bad. It's worth trying to ban. You'll never stop 100% of it (and trying to go too over-the-top in terms of stopping it would not be worthwhile), but this is a useful area for regulation.
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by aetherson 8mo ago
On some level the headline is like "yeah, no shit," but the surprising thing is the claimed strength of the effect. 50% absenteeism increase for missing a birthday congratulations? Really?
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by aetherson 8mo ago
Apropos of nothing besides the mention of Disco Elysium, I present to you the best item in a CRPG: https://discoelysium.fandom.com/wiki/Volumetric_Shit_Compres...
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by aetherson 8mo ago
The US has enriched a vastly larger number of software engineers through at will employment that Europe has through making it very hard to fire people who aren't adding value.
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by aetherson 8mo ago
The founders are probably not the owners of a large majority of the business. Most of the owners are not drawing any salary. Look, lying is bad sure. It would be better if they had been honest in November. But nobody here is actually a
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by aetherson 8mo ago
I mean, if your argument is, "Bending Spoons made a bad investment," then sure, okay. That's not implausible! Companies make bad investments. But I don't really see what overall lessons there are here.
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by aetherson 8mo ago
Yes, the owners were paid by the sale . The argument by other people was that the sale shouldn't happen, or vice versa that the sale should happen only to people who were committed to continuing to spend the company's money on s
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by aetherson 8mo ago
And honestly this is probably fine. If the main business can't grow and there have been a few years of attempts to produce complementary businesses with no success, that's a good sign that the business should be moved into a &quo

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