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by freyr 4y ago
Timnit’s backpedaling regarding her email and her ultimatum was absurd. You seem completely unwilling to factor Timnit’s own behavior into the chain of events, so it doesn’t make sense to continue this. This elimination of personal responsi
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by freyr 4y ago
None of that disputes what I said or excuses her behavior. The “resonant” email is public, we can’t pretend it was in any way professional or appropriate. Vanishingly few people can get away with acting like that at work without getting fir
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by freyr 4y ago
I suspect it was Timnit’s behavior after the paper didn’t pass internal review that actually got her fired (issuing an ultimatum and threatening to resign unless the company met her demands; telling her coworkers to stop writing documents b
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by freyr 4y ago
Will my car still get broken into every few months? Will I still have to walk over needles and human waste on my walk home? Will toothpaste still be locked up? San Francisco has a long way to go before it’s an attractive place to live and w
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by freyr 4y ago
It’s odd they label the voices as “soprano” and “baritone,” because they don’t sound like it. I suspect it’s to avoid labeling the speakers as “male” and “female.” What a joke.
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by freyr 4y ago
Yes, he believed the covert cheating device was an industrial-strength vibrator powerful enough to visibly shake the chair she was sitting in. Because that wouldn’t arouse suspicion. Truly a brilliant theory by Doug.
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by freyr 4y ago
You’re linking to the “report” by the accuser that consisted entirely of character attacks and borderline paranoid speculation. It contained none of the evidence he had promised. Similarly, nothing we’ve said is any more than speculation. T
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by freyr 4y ago
This sums up the problem with the pro-cheating side – the argument boils down to: “This person didn’t behave how I think I would behave in this situation, so she’s probably guilty.” But many people get extremely defensive and indignant when
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by freyr 4y ago
Yes, there were enough coincidences to at least make cheating a possibility, but without any credible evidence I don’t think the “100% guilty” people should be taken seriously.
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by freyr 4y ago
If you’re bad enough to cheat like that, you’re not good enough to avoid a pattern of suspicious behavior.
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by freyr 4y ago
This arguably makes cheating less likely. If someone in production knew both players’ hole cards, which was the theory, this would be a nonsensical place to cheat. It was still a coin flip to either lose everything or, best case scenario, w
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by freyr 4y ago
It’s common knowledge to keep your mouth shut at this point. You don’t need to have highly-regarded lawyers advising you to know this, but SBF had (at least) two: his parents, who were with him in the Bahamas. Even if he was under a delusio
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by freyr 4y ago
Nearly everyone in a field starts out behind. MS and PhD students start out behind and they’ll spend most of their time during the next 2-5 years on irrelevant things (e.g. 95%+ of their graduate coursework will be behind the state of the a
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by freyr 4y ago
ChatGPT solves this problem readily. Maybe they should hire ChatGPT. The problem always bugged me though. The word “inverting” makes me think of flipping something upside down rather than horizontally. Although that’s not strictly necessar
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by freyr 4y ago
He’s playing stupid. The jury will need to decide if was incompetent or evil, and in that case, you definitely want them thinking you’re incompetent.
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by freyr 4y ago
Most people would be advised to say nothing in this situation. Instead, he’s launching an aggressive PR tour to rebrand himself from a genius wunderkind to a hapless fool who made some innocent mistakes. It’s a risky strategy, but he has tw
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by freyr 4y ago
Dialing into BBSs at 11-13 years old, making ANSI art, downloading shareware games, and playing MUDs was so much fun, and makes me so nostalgic. I don’t know what the equivalent is for todays kids. Maybe Roblox or Minecraft.
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by freyr 4y ago
Sustained profitable growth for nearly 24 years is the exception, not the rule.
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by freyr 4y ago
> “so many people are apathetic to the atrocities commited by Google.” Maybe so many people simply don’t view these as “atrocities”? Your wording suggests a privileged life, and ignorance of the practices of the vast majority of companie
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by freyr 4y ago
The same way money is often repaid: take it from future income. The Democratic committees raised $853M in the 2022 election cycle, compared to $805M for the Republicans. If they had to deduct $50M next cycle to account for the illegitimate
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by freyr 4y ago
They’ll be among the few tech employees whose equity didn’t get decimated this year.
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by freyr 4y ago
n=2, I was on the fence about a 4th shot, but decided on a whim to get it. No side effects previously, but this one gave me full bodies aches and extreme fatigue for about 36 hours.
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by freyr 4y ago
“Sure, we’re moving in the wrong direction, but at least we’re not as bad as those guys yet” isn’t that comforting.
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by freyr 4y ago
> the abysmal dating prospects It really is bad, right, and not my imagination? I feel like I’ve wasted a decade of my life here on an endless string of bad first dates with no mutual attraction. It wasn’t like that in other places I’v
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by freyr 4y ago
When it comes to remote work, WFH, and WFO, and realized that I do like working from an office, just not if it requires living in the Bay Area. It’s way, way too overpriced if you want to own a home here, and the marginally higher Bay Area
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by freyr 4y ago
Judging by elite college representation Elite college representation is a poor metric because of legacy admissions, influence of donors, and the reported efforts to limit Asian admissions. Look at schools with more merit-based admissions
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by freyr 4y ago
> They won’t let that effort go to waste. I’ve told this to myself many times over my career. And been wrong so many times.
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by freyr 4y ago
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/25/politics/havana-syndrome-...
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by freyr 4y ago
Ah yes, nothing piques my interest in joining the CIA quite like the idea of being sent to Cuba and getting my brain zapped.
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by freyr 4y ago
My history books tell a different story.

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