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by alm1 2y ago
same argument can be made about excessive athlete salaries and really any sports related business ventures. Athletes go after specific stats to hit contract goals, get their bonuses and live good lives. Gambling industry is just one of the
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by alm1 2y ago
this is quite a different statement from "nothing ever happens".
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by alm1 2y ago
maybe that humans are controlling the creation process and can terminate it when the AI versions are going increasingly "rogue"?
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by alm1 2y ago
logical or well reasoned argument doesn't equal a casual or factual relationship. The well reasoned arguments on many issues change over time, just take the same issue and go back in time 100 or 50 years to find much less consensus and
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by alm1 2y ago
do you plan on having a more permissive license?
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by alm1 3y ago
how much do you know about the signature collection process? I can easily see how a large number of these could've been out of fear of retaliation and some out of greed. Many autocrats claim high support numbers on every election, does
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by alm1 3y ago
In author's defense he doesn't claim to be exceptional and even concludes his essay with labeling this A.I. moment as “the revenge of the so-so programmer.” I actually enjoyed author's nuanced take, different from the common
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by alm1 3y ago
I think the deterministic requirement was what made the semantic web nearly impossible at scale. Aligning on the schema for all the entities can be challenging within a small group, yet alone the world. Doing it continuously is impossible
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by alm1 3y ago
in fairness, the society did self regulate as evidenced by Meta's declining engagement numbers. Many people got depressed from reading Nietzsche, should we regulate those too? Was the internet a net good or will admit that it's a
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by alm1 3y ago
regulate books and internet while you are at it, they both spread chaotic thoughts.
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by alm1 3y ago
Is Twitter dangerous? Is a steam powered engine dangerous? Is a printing press dangerous? In retrospect they aren't. In history they were hated, vilified, regulated and banned. I think the discussion has a thick veil of anxiety and sci
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by alm1 4y ago
the inspiration for founding replica was the founder's intense pain and trauma from suddenly losing a friend to an accident. Then reflecting on the psychotherapy culture in a country with a rich history of government assigning what con
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by alm1 4y ago
Mechanized factories failed to kill humanity two hundreds ago and the Luddite movement against them seems comical today. What makes you think extinction is most likely?
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by alm1 4y ago
this is not whataboutism, it's actually guilty-by-associationism displayed on both sides. Should we blame children whose elderly parents support the war for taking care of their parents, instead of disowning them? Should we blame emplo
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by alm1 4y ago
It probably won't change your mind, but here is a pretty transparent poll on a mix of Russians at a train station in Moscow (to capture some from outside the metropolises). The multi hour poll is a continuous video to show lack of sele
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by alm1 4y ago
earlier in the thread someone provided a definition along the lines of: "a pimp is a manager who is allowed to use violence, drug addiction and other forms of non-consensual coercion."
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by alm1 4y ago
I hope you can explain your point more. Coincidentally you won't find many nannies from the wealthy western countries. Which doesn't tell me very little about this kind of work. But maybe it does to you.
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by alm1 4y ago
that's why a lot of responders are calling the approach naive. This function is potentially the last layer in thousands of functions. Thinking that one can predictably change the behavior of a large nonlinear model via one variable is
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by alm1 4y ago
I feel like authors are thinking about the "algorithm" almost as if it's just a bunch of if-else statements in a tree. Read only audit is an overly naive way to think about understanding complex algorithms. In an audit they w
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by alm1 4y ago
One can say that Solomon Asch experiments on social conformity are great illustrations of the benefits of free speech. Diverse opinions discourage group think and encourage critical thinking and discourse. That works even if the opinion is
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by alm1 5y ago
would you say the same thing if Russian citizens were instead from North Korea? The "democratic" Russian Federation is 31 years old (20 of which were under Putin). There has been 0 full generations who saw a functioning or even a
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by alm1 5y ago
how's this rhetoric different that Russia's "there some bad actors in Ukraine, so let's wreck the whole country"? Some people didn't vote for Putin, some even went to protest and been to jail and all got sanct
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by alm1 5y ago
if you speak Russian you can go on vk.com and check some of the exchanges on public groups. There are also few "interviewing regular Russians on the streets" videos circulating around. To clarify the belief that was cultivated th
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by alm1 5y ago
interest != admiration. If you watch and talk about Mindhunter it doesn't mean you admire serial killers.
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by alm1 5y ago
Are you implying that lives lost from the drone strikes are somehow less worthy than those of journalists and activists? Or is it the degree of closeness to the murders? (not trying to troll, genuinely interest since you did not disagree wi
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by alm1 6y ago
I'm surprised at all the negative comments equating closure of the _game stuido_ to Stadia not doing well. Google is not known for good content production. Only example I can think of are Youtube Originals which hardly stand out. I rea
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Great Expectations: data testing, documentation, and profiling
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by alm1 6y ago
I'm "lucky" to have experienced chronic back pain for close to 10 years. Started a couple of years after graduation and got to a point where I couldn't sit for more than 20min or sleep for longer than 3 hours. It affecte
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by alm1 6y ago
it's very individual and you may not find a "recovery template". Personally, I find that best remedies are 1) attaching yourself to a bigger goal, where even "at least I tried" and "at least I've advanced