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by gentoo 2mo ago
They both read as hyper-polished pastiches of existing, well-established aesthetics. The cyberpunk one in particular employs just about every genre trope I can think of. There's no sense of stylistic ingenuity or choice - e.g. delibera
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by gentoo 5mo ago
So the solution is to have less ladies in charge? Who's going to wipe snot off the kids' noses, pull legos out of their mouths, and tell them not to hit each other?
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by gentoo 6mo ago
I think the answer for most people is one of "I wasn't dealt the right hand of cards by fate" and/or "I don't want to spend my life acting like a sociopath and exploiting others for a small chance at great weal
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by gentoo 6mo ago
Thank you for illustrating another feature of the billionaires' defensive bubble: anyone who dares criticize them from a position of lesser wealth is just "jealous" and their criticism is presumptively invalid.
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by gentoo 6mo ago
The human faces of the machine are our only hope. The alternative is, in the short term, a machine face of the machine, whom you can't argue with and who will summarily deny your benefits with no chance of appeal. In the long term, the
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by gentoo 7mo ago
Sure, the state has always had theoretical power to do this, but when was the last time something remotely like this actually happened?
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by gentoo 7mo ago
The whole reason this is a story is that the government won't just refuse to contract, it will put the equivalent of soft sanctions on the company because Anthropic refuses to contract.
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by gentoo 1y ago
The "disparate impact" test applies mainly in civil rights act litigation, and it's extremely hard to make a case under that theory. It's a three-part test, and showing that a particular policy has a disparate impact on
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by gentoo 1y ago
I love this article because I think this is the conversation we should be having. Lots of advertising is harmful, some of it is useful on balance, and some of it is too hard to ban without infringing on other desirable speech. But I do thin
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by gentoo 3y ago
> His great transgression, according to Berlin, was to say aloud what everyone knows but no one will admit: multiple ideals cannot be simultaneously attained. We can’t have everything good all at once. Everyone will admit this. No one ho
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by gentoo 3y ago
also, the person who owns the land is often liable for what happens on it, unless the land is owned by the public (a la BLM land).
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by gentoo 3y ago
I think it's that both were websites that catapulted you into truly random, non-targeted interactions -- Omegle with a random person, StumbleUpon with a random site.
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by gentoo 3y ago
how about we build a robust social safety net so that stealing less than $1000 worth of stuff is not the best way to survive
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by gentoo 3y ago
the distinction is real in the model of the turing machine, and it's close to real in many of the machines and programs we've built so far. It's not real in nature, in brains. Code is data and vice versa. A memory is a progra
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by gentoo 3y ago
> Except, now I sell my house. And I come to you and tell you that I'm homeless. Are you going to give me permanent, free housing too? yes. it probably won't be as nice as something you, a wealthy person, could afford to buy, a
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by gentoo 3y ago
they should stop spending it on bullshit bandaid solutions and just give people permanent housing. there are a lot of countervailing forces that make that difficult, but conceptually the solution is pretty simple.
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by gentoo 3y ago
advertisers, mostly, displacing the print media who used to do that
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by gentoo 3y ago
if your hate speech filter hits one party harder than the other, that doesn't necessarily mean it is broken
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by gentoo 3y ago
it's funny how whenever a big company does something bad that's actually an example of how socialism is bad
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by gentoo 3y ago
openAI is in the business of releasing impressive tech demos, Google is in the business of providing search results. I would believe that Google is further along towards creating something useful, but they still don't have anything tha
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by gentoo 3y ago
good. police should share less data across state lines unless they have very good reason.
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by gentoo 4y ago
all the engineers at an early stage company are "gambling" with exactly the same stakes as the founder. If they fail, they're all out of a job. The founder risks nothing more than that: he's gambling with other people&#x
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by gentoo 4y ago
I don't think anything about high-performance GPT models is standard, since they are only a couple years old and only a handful of organizations have developed them
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by gentoo 4y ago
what is the acceptable number of people to die during bridge construction
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Inside Fog Data Science, selling app-based location data to local police(eff.org)
5 points by gentoo 4y ago|0 comments
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by gentoo 4y ago
there is a massive difference between a company selling a subscription service and the government using public money to provide free access to everyone with no strings attached
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by gentoo 4y ago
Law enforcement and private surveillance companies are currently investing a ton of effort into using public blockchains (which is most of them) to unmask participants in crypto transactions. At the same time, they're putting more pres
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by gentoo 5y ago
> Immoral? Debatable. What is the argument that what they're doing is moral? How is anything about tax avoidance ethical?
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by gentoo 5y ago
I was responding to > The state shouldn't have a say in who gets a job at a private (non owned by state) company. that's exactly what the Civil Rights Act does. The state has been telling you how you are allowed to make hiring
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by gentoo 5y ago
I'm not sure whether I agree with the CA policy. But this argument against it is extremely unconvincing. It's almost word-for-word what segregationists argued against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. e.g. https://delong.typep

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