jlawson

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by jlawson 6mo ago
The controller told the truck to proceed, before telling it to stop. That was a serious ATC error.
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by jlawson 6mo ago
It'd be hilarious if women formed their own closed rideshare economy; they'd discover that they demand much higher prices from each other than they get from men.
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by jlawson 7mo ago
SKG is more like if the car company is required to provide a working factory, capable of manufacturing all the car's parts, along with working supply chains for all those things, to the car ownership "community", if they ever
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by jlawson 8mo ago
Prediction markets don't uniquely enable it, but they make it far more effective and easy. Insider trading is illegal. And for trades that aren't technically insider trading, often having some information ahead of time isn't
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by jlawson 8mo ago
I love how this sci-fi misalignment story is now just a boring part of everyday office work. "Oh yeah, my AI keeps busting out of its safeguards to do stuff I tried to stop it from doing. Mondays amirite?"
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by jlawson 9mo ago
I think the legal approach depends on him being a tenant, which the homeowner can't actually be so easily (because they live somewhere else).
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by jlawson 9mo ago
> Food is less nutritious You can buy the exact same diet as decades ago. Eggs, flour, rice, vegetable oil, beef, chicken - do you think any of these are "less nutritious"? People are also fatter now, and live much longer. >
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by jlawson 9mo ago
From experience, there is a huge shortage of human talent. Some people really are exceptional and there are very few of them. How many Einsteins do you think are just kicking around? How many Robin Williams's or Tom Hanks's? How m
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by jlawson 9mo ago
This podcast covers a bunch of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5nj3DLvT64 It's one of those things that can be tricky to research because almost all the researchers and journalists on the topic very much don'
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by jlawson 9mo ago
Sure, but go try to build a house while ignoring what Euclidean geometry tells you about it.
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by jlawson 9mo ago
This is actually _because_ automation has been so effective. It's called Baumol's cost disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
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by jlawson 9mo ago
> If we limited individual wealth to $999 million--just outright capped it, and enforced that--it would not impact these people in the slightest. It would certainly impact their willingness to do the company-building that creates all tho
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by jlawson 9mo ago
The problem is that for the vast majority of people to be psychologically healthy they must have a job. This isn't a societal decision, it's a reality about how humans are. The alternative is like feeding an animal instead of lett
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by jlawson 9mo ago
Studies on basic income have shown that it's harmful to the people who receive it. They report no improvements on any measured outcome. Not lower stress, not more education, not better health. They work a bit less but that doesn't
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by jlawson 10mo ago
This trick was used by later games as well. It was pretty funny in Batman: Arkham Asylum to see Batman faceplant while walking down a hallway.
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by jlawson 10mo ago
Unfortunately, people are born with a certain intellectual capacity and can't be improved beyond that with any amount of training or education. We're largely hitting peoples' capacities already. We can't educate someone
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by jlawson 10mo ago
Humans have that too. Startle response, withdrawing from pain (hot stove), blink response upon incoming object - all these happen without involving the higher brainstem at all. I think some of them barely even connect with the brain.
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by jlawson 11mo ago
The space race was not just about inventing, though. It was about doing . You can do the same thing twice, and you can also lose the ability to do something. The ability to do the thing is what is really being maintained and demonstrated
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by jlawson 11mo ago
Ending all school programs that separate children by ability is the most radically egalitarian position possible, even in theory. There is no more extreme position one can take. Given that, there's nothing else to save the word for. Th
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by jlawson 11mo ago
The belief that every child has the same natural ability is as radical. It's radical because goes against all evidence, experience, and common sense - it is ideology taken to a puritanical extreme. There is no more extreme position one
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by jlawson 1y ago
You are confusing emigration with death. We are not concerned with who is physically in Gaza, we are concerned with births and deaths. There are less people physically in Gaza now because a bunch of people emigrated. Not because of deaths.
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by jlawson 1y ago
This is not correct. If the algorithm is deterministic and the random seed is the same, temperature can be anything and get the same result. Same as using a seed to get the same map generated in Dwarf Fortress.
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by jlawson 1y ago
Goalpost moving. Now you're saying, okay they do have restraint, but what I really meant was their restraint is driven by the PR concerns, not by their own moral hearts. Well, that's pretty different accusation now. I'm glad
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by jlawson 1y ago
Demanding cities be evacuated is what you do when you have restraint. Otherwise you would just kill everyone inside. If they had not done this, you would also claim that it's evidence of lack of restraint. Beyond that, everything y
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by jlawson 1y ago
Since the Oct 7 attacks the Palestinian population has not shrunk. War deaths have roughly equalled births. Are you claiming that the IDF is trying their hardest to kill all the Palestinians they can, and that this is the best they can do?
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by jlawson 1y ago
The point is that they could do similar attacks to the Tokyo firebombing (or much worse), but choose not to. Yes, that is a sign of restraint, obviously.
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by jlawson 1y ago
Specs are ambiguous but not necessarily non-deterministic. The same entity interpreting the spec in exactly the same way will resolve the ambiguities the same way each time. Human and current AI interpretation of specs is non-deterministic
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by jlawson 1y ago
There is not a government-wide conspiracy to cover up the sex crimes of white British people. That conspiracy is what people are most horrified by. I don't know how to say this any clearer. >Somehow the Glaswegian associates and nei
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by jlawson 1y ago
Not just Rochdale. You forgot Rotherham, Telford, Oldham, Oxford, Derby, Bradford, Huddersfield, Keighley, Halifax, Bristol, and Newcastle. Your second point is a hallucination on your part. Nobody is saying it's bad because they'
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by jlawson 1y ago
There is no hint that what they just censored (i.e. Steam games) was illegal. This isn't about fear of handling illegal payments; it's purely morality enforcement.

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