almostjazz

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by almostjazz 2mo ago
I'm not a lawyer but based on some googling it seems like the overwhelming consensus is that selling transcribed sheet music or tabs if you do not have permission from the copyright holder of the song is illegal. https://www
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by almostjazz 2mo ago
Can you point to where these ideas have been confirmed as objectively not true?
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by almostjazz 3mo ago
Just a reminder that there is nothing new about reversing autism-like symptoms in mice. And that autism in humans is not well-defined. And that whether or not varying severities of autism should be perceived as a disorder or condition in ne
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by almostjazz 3mo ago
Compilation speed on typst is crazy
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by almostjazz 3mo ago
Maybe you could set your manual version as the main branch and then have a separate AI-cleaned branch on the side? I think the manual version part is what is exciting people and drawing them in. Even if it is worse or doesn't work!
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by almostjazz 4mo ago
There are women construction workers, garbage people, and firefighters. There are much better reasons why these fields have disproportionately fewer women than a biological barrier to the required level of strength. I am interested to hear
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by almostjazz 4mo ago
Where exactly is the physical strength of males necessary in modern society? The only circumstance in which there are men strong enough to so something that women can't do is at the most elite level of athletics. Any role relevant to s
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by almostjazz 4mo ago
Where is the evidence that this is the case in humans?
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by almostjazz 4mo ago
If strength is relevant, should particularly weak boys be "treated like girls"? Should particularly strong girls be "treated like boys"? Should girls and women without functioning reproductive systems be treated like boy
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by almostjazz 5mo ago
Of course the language abilities of LLMs is not proof of consciousness at all. If some alien entity made a model that was truly just 10^1000 hard-coded if-statements to respond to every possible question, it might seem way better than our b
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by almostjazz 5mo ago
I agree you can't practically get the same information as you could with telemetry. Survey data is still real data that can be used for "analytics". Some people also hate telemetry. It feels invasive. I have a guess about wha
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by almostjazz 5mo ago
You could survey a representative sample
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by almostjazz 5mo ago
Side comment: |> and %>% aren't the same btw! The newish base pipe (|>) is faster but doesn't support using the dot (.) placeholder to pipe into something other than the first argument of a function, which can sometimes m
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by almostjazz 5mo ago
If you force something major and permanent on somebody without their consent for no good reason, of course it would be evil. It would be evil to force somebody gay to be straight and it would be evil to force somebody straight to be gay, th
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by almostjazz 5mo ago
What exactly is logically impossible about people with down syndrome being happier on average than those without it?
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by almostjazz 5mo ago
Problem of induction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
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by almostjazz 6mo ago
That is only part of the equation. You may be removing more malevolent actors in the immediate short term, but depending on how that policing is done, you might also be creating more malevolent actors too. Overpolicing a group can create di
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by almostjazz 6mo ago
If you start with hypothetical demographic groups A and B that are for all intents and purposes exactly identical, but you implement a system such that if A commits a crime they have a 10% chance of being caught and if B commits a crime the