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by anothermathbozo 8d ago
People get income from one of three places: capital income, labor income, or the welfare state. If this technology truly unlocks a holy panacea of productivity with a commensurate drop in employment then capital’s share of the national inco
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by anothermathbozo 2mo ago
The benchmark does not reward producing more code.
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Union Busters Coming After Me(nlrbedge.com)
142 points by anothermathbozo 2mo ago|26 comments
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by anothermathbozo 3mo ago
Say more!
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by anothermathbozo 3mo ago
Can you say more about why you are resistant to unionization
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by anothermathbozo 3mo ago
Unions are not the primary mechanism between employers and workers for establishing fairer wages in many European countries. Unions are designed to level a power imbalance between an employer (typically a legal vehicle which aggregates the
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by anothermathbozo 3mo ago
unions are institutions for bargaining power, even under decent employers
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by anothermathbozo 3mo ago
He killed Brooksley Born’s proposed derivatives regulations in the late 90’s.
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by anothermathbozo 3mo ago
You’re conflating firm level taxable income with the national income.
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by anothermathbozo 3mo ago
> A wide range of pro-employment policy incentives can help to slow or reduce job displacement, including: wage insurance policies that compensate people when they have to take a lower-paying job, retention tax incentives to encourage em
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by anothermathbozo 4mo ago
Public sector unions, like all unions, are designed to level the power imbalance between worker and employer. Nothing about public/private employers changes this dynamic.
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by anothermathbozo 1y ago
It’s always a crowd pleaser to be skeptical of ai development. Not sure what people feel like they are achieving for continually announcing they aren’t buying it when someone claims they’ve made effective use of these tools.
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by anothermathbozo 1y ago
What is this a bubble on? What does said bubble collapsing look like?
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by anothermathbozo 1y ago
Income tax is not the only revenue that the state and local governments capture when production increases.
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by anothermathbozo 1y ago
child care policy frees labor capacity for work that is more likely to earn a slice of the national income. It’s almost certainly going to result in greater economic activity for the state. In the immediate it is funded from two existing
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by anothermathbozo 1y ago
Given how much capital has already been committed to infrastructure development I find it very unlikely that even a Black Monday style market correction will do much to alter the medium and long term outlook for ai development and investmen
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Intern-S1: A Scientific Multimodal Foundation Model(arxiv.org)
4 points by anothermathbozo 1y ago|1 comments
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by anothermathbozo 1y ago
> The reality of what these tools can do is sinking in It feels premature to make determinations about how far this emergent technology can be pushed.
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by anothermathbozo 1y ago
What difference does that make at this stage of things?
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by anothermathbozo 1y ago
Why would that be?
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by anothermathbozo 1y ago
Warrantless and totally spiteful for you to make unqualified claims like “cognitive decline” from skimming two papers. This is shameful.
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by anothermathbozo 1y ago
This isn't exactly the case. The trend is a log scale. So a 10x in pretraining should yield a 10% increase in performance. That's not proving to be false per say but rather they are encountering practical limitations around 10x&#x
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by anothermathbozo 1y ago
Disappeared. He was kidnapped and disappeared.
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by anothermathbozo 2y ago
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) are different tasks
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by anothermathbozo 2y ago
Anthropic’s CEO said their technology would end all disease and expand our lifespans to 200 years. What on earth do you mean they’re not playing the hype game?
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by anothermathbozo 2y ago
Looks like o1 performance without reasoning. Pretty good but seems reasonable that they didn’t want to call this 5 as they’ve already got a product out there that is as performant. Another notable thing here is a big drop in hallucination r
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by anothermathbozo 2y ago
The models answer was a page long essay about why the question wasn’t worth asking. The model demonstrated common sense by not engaging with this idiot chase of a hypothetical.
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by anothermathbozo 2y ago
Almost this entire thread is criticism
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by anothermathbozo 2y ago
Imagine someone can do the things you can’t do and needs help doing the things you can.
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by anothermathbozo 2y ago
We're dealing with an emergent technology. No one knows for certain how far it can be pushed. While I don't think the tech is ready to displace workers today, policies like the one's outlined in this piece serve as a form of

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