dawnbreez

11 ms·

1.
by dawnbreez 1y ago
Apparently I missed the end of a sentence near the end there. "But because" on the fourth paragraph is supposed to be "but because the sales pitch is that the machine can replace me". Oops.
2.
by dawnbreez 1y ago
I mean, fair. It's true that humans aren't that great at writing code that can't be exploited, and the blogpost makes this point too: between a junior engineer's output and an LLM's output, the LLM does the same thi
3.
by dawnbreez 1y ago
Throwing my two cents in here...I think there's a disconnect between what AI advocates want, and what everyone else wants. The arguments against genAI tend to point out things like: 1. Its output is unreliable at best 2. That output of
4.
by dawnbreez 2y ago
What if the employer was charged a subscription fee, instead of waiting until they find a hire to charge? Then the incentive is for the company to find a hire quickly, since they're now paying per month instead of per head. Some compan
5.
by dawnbreez 2y ago
Not to mention the influence of companies like Intuit, which has been pushing against convenience in tax filing for decades because its entire business model relies on people being unwilling or unable to file by themselves: https:/&#x
6.
by dawnbreez 2y ago
But we're not talking about an insolvent renter, we're talking about a renter who's making their payments. A renter who makes payments every month at 2500 can, and regularly is , not approved for a mortgage at 2000 a month,
7.
by dawnbreez 2y ago
The problem isn't that the cost of renting is higher than the cost of mortgaging, the problem is that banks treat people who have to make a $2,500 monthly payment to live decently as if they can't be trusted with a $2,000 payment.
8.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
"Non-profit" also does not imply that money isn't coming in from donations, grants, or fees.
9.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
Doesn't he cite several solutions that already exist and have been demonstrated? For instance, he cites voting systems that have already been implemented in two US states, as well as a video describing the mathematical proof of how tha
10.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
It's not that it costs too much money, in many cases. The money's there. The problem is that the solution is not profitable compared to other actions, which is a different thing entirely. For example, it is much more profitable
11.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
"Non-profit" does not imply nobody gets paid. https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/guide-to-nonprofit-salar...
12.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
IIRC, the companies that stopped advertising with Twitter had asked about whether Elon would handle the Trust & Safety team correctly at a conference right when Elon was preparing to take over as CEO. The official response was to dodge
13.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
Parent comment's argument is that married heterosexual couples are less likely to spread HIV, on the grounds that a married couple won't spread HIV outside of that pairing if they remain faithful to each other. Begging the questio
14.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
You seem to be under the impression that gay people don't get married.
15.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
> This sexual behaviour statistically does not create STD spread, because of negative feedback... You know that it's possible to infect someone while also impregnating them, right? In fact, this leads to more STD spread than non-p
16.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
Using punishments and taboos to control these things does not work. You're not incentivizing 'good behavior', you're incentivizing not getting caught --not to mention that, inevitably, the power structure that forms aro
17.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
You realize this is the exact opposite of what happened, right? Governments and churches were very firmly convinced at the start of the AIDS epidemic that it was exclusively a thing that happened to gay people, even though it spreads throug
18.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
Ah, my bad. It was linked to me without context. I hope the links I cited were useful, anyway.
19.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
> Get a job... Actually, this doesn't work. Many people who are homeless--and thus, constantly committing small 'crimes' like loitering--actually have jobs. According to recent statistics, 53% of people in shelters and 40%
20.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
I feel like having video evidence of a police officer doing something they really shouldn't is neither "mild" nor "disrespect" (although, I guess you could argue that I rapidly stopped respecting the police when I r
21.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
Basically everyone I work with right now is a furry and I met them all through a discord server for fans of MLP who also like compsci. Being a furry has been more effective for my networking (and therefore my career) than any certification
22.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
For some people, "going back to your home country" means going back to a place where basic human rights are not protected by law. Further, I'm not sure what having your visa revoked would do to your future immigration prospec
23.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
Unfortunately, that would get in the way of the office-work tradition of using middle management as a reward. If you expect people to actually be good at managing things, that means you can't give out management positions as a reward t
24.
by dawnbreez 3y ago
A romantic partner should not, but some people believe that they deserve authority over their romantic partners. It would be nice to believe that all relationships are handled healthily, but this is something a surprisingly large number o
25.
by dawnbreez 4y ago
This argument has been made since at least the start of written records: > And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this
26.
by dawnbreez 4y ago
> because Twitter does not ban based on political preferences/opinions. Because the journalists Musk banned were definitely not banned for their opinions on Musk? I'm going to preempt the 'harassment' argument--the ph
27.
by dawnbreez 4y ago
This is actually how I found out about several of these services. Elon's finding out the hard way that the Streisand Effect continues to work no matter how hard you swing the banhammer.
28.
by dawnbreez 4y ago
...This still ignores examples where sexual characteristics don't actually fit a binary, though. These are edge cases, yes, but they are edge cases that occur in nature. This is why cases like the bee example are important--bees have s
29.
by dawnbreez 4y ago
Mind linking a source for the CRISPR thing? I was just thinking the other day that having a CRISPR-based "one and done" pill for hormone therapy would be awesome .
30.
by dawnbreez 4y ago
You argue that people who are intersex regularly identify as male or female, and do not like being pointed to as trans representation...but that's not describing their biological sex characteristics, that's describing their gender

More ›