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by convexfunction 5y ago
I claimed that almost everyone working for these organizations (or to be more pedantic but more accurate, almost everyone involved in content for these organizations) is well-described by the latter, not that almost every article will ref
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by convexfunction 5y ago
Not every article -- not even most articles, really -- need go out of its way reflect the author's and editor's ideology for it to be quite clear that most national news media organizations lean heavily in the same direction and a
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by convexfunction 5y ago
Let me be more precise: I think your claim that "The truth of it's almost irrelevant to the poll results" is obviously very wrong. The truth of it does have a lot to do with this perception, especially given 1. the rather mor
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by convexfunction 5y ago
I think it's obvious and I haven't spent a second of my life voluntarily consuming any mainstream right-leaning news, but maybe I'm just way, way smarter than all those rubes who you believe have basically no connection with
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by convexfunction 5y ago
So you'd predict that without Fox and talk radio telling those people that almost everyone working in national mainstream media falls somewhere on the spectrum of "has no respect for you" and "likes to sincerely fantas
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by convexfunction 5y ago
A nice compromise between "pay a sketchy moving company thousands to haul your stuff to another city, eventually" and "get rid of everything you can't fit in checked baggage" is to ship your stuff to yourself (or so
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by convexfunction 5y ago
I don't really have any evidence for this, but one possible thought process behind discouraging larger gatherings among vaccinated people is that (some) unvaccinated people would be likely to join in on those gatherings if they become
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by convexfunction 5y ago
One could argue (and many have, persuasively, I think) that Europe making a big show of being highly conservative about the blood clot non-issue with the AZ vaccine caused people to dramatically overestimate the risk of getting any kind of
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by convexfunction 5y ago
I'll guess that you might be aware this is the reason, but just in case, I'm pretty sure the reason is that nobody who makes these decisions is actually doing any cost-benefit analysis (aside from the costs and benefits to them pe
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by convexfunction 8y ago
It seems likely that at least some of this automatically-generated content is being viewed mostly by bots. i.e., fraud.
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by convexfunction 9y ago
Unless you've specifically gone through the effort of stylometric misdirection and fudged the few personal details you've given us, this post has some risk of being deanonymized. (CTO, HN user, Brooklyn, growing startup, B2B and
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by convexfunction 9y ago
Seriously, this is the first thing I thought when I saw the title. > Yes, tech giants are now widely viewed as threats, lots of attention is invested into having negative valence about technology companies. Why do you think that is, Jour
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by convexfunction 9y ago
Maybe. I think the idea is that it's preferable to have wasted a lot of effort on coming up with irrelevant abstractions addressing a nonexistent problem, than to be surprised by something weird and poorly-understood presenting novel a
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by convexfunction 9y ago
> The two-day residential camp reinforced messages about using technical skills responsibly and called on industry professionals who gave talks about jobs in cyber-security. It had the air of a school trip as in that much of the fun was
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by convexfunction 9y ago
Yes, we do have that already, and it's kind of odd that people who see no point in thinking hard about risks to humans from this particular type of inhuman optimization process would readily agree that other types of inhuman optimiza
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by convexfunction 9y ago
You may be interested in http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/22/ai-researchers-on-ai-ri... , or more directly addressing your claim, http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/08/ssc-journa
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by convexfunction 9y ago
> We also don't really understand how consciousness works either. Sort of a nitpick, but people concerned about AI risk usually don't postulate that an AI needs to be """conscious""" to be dangerou
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by convexfunction 9y ago
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander. He's an architect/philosopher who coined the term "design patterns". Beautiful book, got me thinking very hard about how to create artifacts and environments that ma
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by convexfunction 10y ago
Ah, so that's why people find this so interesting. Thank you.
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A new MIRI research program with a machine learning focus(intelligence.org)
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by convexfunction 10y ago
The author doing the usual journalism thing of not understanding what's going on and then breathlessly reporting something similar and very wrong that'll get certain people excited is one thing, I know to expect that. Watching thi
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by convexfunction 10y ago
Yeah, the overloading on "left" is definitely an issue here. I agree the Jacobin types are much more likely to have some self-awareness here (though I've unfortunately met a cluster of counterexamples).
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by convexfunction 10y ago
> The idea that "the Left" engages in "Orwellian double-think" with regards to class, is also pretty puzzling. Heard any jokes or insults about Southerners lately? "Trump voters"? Etc. Which isn't to sa
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by convexfunction 10y ago
I think the LW diaspora types are almost always doing "here's a model for understanding this thing that I like, let's talk about it" rather than "this is How This Thing Works and there is no need to consider other p
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by convexfunction 11y ago
1. Many want it to be true that it's an objectively good idea to allow more immigration, or for there to be a broad consensus that more immigration is objectively good, or for there to be more ammunition to conduct moral posturing upon
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by convexfunction 11y ago
"Those with political power are also often wealthy or represent business interests" is different from "being wealthy or representing a business interest offers you political power"; the abstract seems to support the form
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by convexfunction 11y ago
My friend had another post on this subject that you might find interesting. http://rationalconspiracy.com/2014/04/17/money-doesnt-matter...
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by convexfunction 11y ago
(I'm not the author of that article, just a friend of mine) I expect that if the tech companies were deeply involved in encouraging development and mass transit, then a sizeable percentage of people in SF and elsewhere would decide tha
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by convexfunction 11y ago
What actions would which people need to take to satisfy you?
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by convexfunction 11y ago
I find it comforting to know that the group I belong to will be blamed for something , regardless of what the group actually does. We are free. http://rationalconspiracy.com/2014/01/28/san-franciscos-tech...

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