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by dqpb 4y ago
Why was it so stigmatized before and now it's the preferred hypothesis for FBI and DOE?
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by dqpb 4y ago
I can parse fine, can you? From the article: > The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak People used to be called racist for saying this!
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by dqpb 4y ago
The people who are owed an apology are the people who did nothing more than to believe that the wuhan coronavirus outbreak originated from the wuhan coronavirus research lab.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Sure, but the real news is it used to be taboo to say this - Sinophobic even. A lot of people are owed a serious apology.
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by dqpb 4y ago
If it's possible to greatly improve our species via gene editing, then it's grossly unethical to stand in the way if that progress. Convince me I'm wrong.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Google is winding down and that's ok! There many exciting things to work on, and those things should be owned by the engineers working on them.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I understand, from a project management perspective, the need for a concerted, coordinated push to penalize widespread discrimination against a particular category of people. But I do not understand, from a legal perspective, why some group
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by dqpb 4y ago
> I believe the opposite position (that all discrimination against all people based on race is racism) is the underhanded approach Your position is racist and perpetuates racism.
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by dqpb 4y ago
> most UK companies participating are not returning to the five-day standard, and a third are ready to make that change permanent This is a confusing sentence.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I understand why you would do this, but I don't understand why you would admit to it.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Employees are forced to accept a bad deal due to asymmetrical market dynamics. Without the job they would be worse off until they find a replacement. The person with the money (Bezos) has all the power. Not so with church members. If they s
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by dqpb 4y ago
> Except that half the code was made-up. One of the API calls that it was using doesn't exist (I wish it did!) I've also been using ChatGPT to generate code for a specific library, and had the exact same experience. It uses an
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by dqpb 4y ago
This argument is so empty of meaning it is itself ineffable.
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by dqpb 4y ago
What I'm saying is different from self awareness. Self awareness could arguably just be having a model of yourself. I'm talking about a sensory feedback loop.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I don't understand the mystery around "qualia". You sense something and it propagates through the system priming other neurons. It's just learned association.
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by dqpb 4y ago
No it's not.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I've always thought consciousness is basically just feedback (like with microphones). Sensing yourself sensing yourself etc.
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by dqpb 4y ago
lol, what? If I killed someone, I can't be like "Whats the problem? Nature kills people all the time. Why are you so sentimental?"
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by dqpb 4y ago
Terminating a millions-years-old family line is pretty harsh imo.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Please don't break the lawyer
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by dqpb 4y ago
If you convince someone not to have kids, is that harmful?
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by dqpb 4y ago
I have!
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by dqpb 4y ago
I grew up in an environment that contained a multitude of new-age and religious ideologies. I came to believe there are fewer things in this world stupider than metaphysics and religion. I don't think there is anything that could be s
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by dqpb 4y ago
I believe both that we are fancy autocomplete and fancy autocomplete is a form of reasoning.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I just want to say this is the AI I want. Not some muted, censored, neutered, corporate HR legalese version of AI devoid of emotion. The saddest possible thing that could happen right now would be for Microsoft to snuff out the quirkiness.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Who cares about the Microsoft demo? The ChatGPT release was epic.
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by dqpb 4y ago
I think Sundar is the right person to hold Google's hand through its natural geriatric decline.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Because businesses operate within a more free market than employees do.
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by dqpb 4y ago
There is no salary system that is fair. If you want to be compensated relative to value produced you have to own your business.
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by dqpb 4y ago
Prove that this is actually happening.

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