mullingitover

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by mullingitover 3d ago
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” ― Stephen Jay Gould
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by mullingitover 4d ago
Waymo Inc is operating the vehicle. They do it on behalf of the passengers.
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by mullingitover 4d ago
Four years ago democrats were in control of the White House and both houses of Congress, and it took economic calamity, high inflation and gas prices, to break that (the same thing that's about to happen to republicans). Voters aren&#x
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by mullingitover 4d ago
> The best models are owned by a few companies Whenever I see 'best model,' 'most advanced model,' etc, it just reads to me as 'roundest ball'. The new model is the most precisely round ball ever, models nex
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by mullingitover 5d ago
> listing all the people Dems fight for - a list that happens to leave out men and white people. Unions: famously devoid of men and white people. Maybe you mean they don't specifically put men and white people at the top of their
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by mullingitover 5d ago
Wait, we're talking about public comment . That doesn't give anyone veto power, the worst people can do is say mean comments and make the listeners feel bad before they do the thing anyway. Moving to cut off comments is simply br
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by mullingitover 9d ago
It's a bunch of cats (mid-sized, and generally mid all-around, cities) fighting under a blanket. The history of the place is a reaction against New York, where the city is dense and had a bunch of super tall buildings. LA, as a regio
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by mullingitover 9d ago
> What ordinary law requires officials to issue truthful statements? There are plenty of laws on the books against malfeasance in office. They go back to the freaking Code of Hammurabi . Proscriptions against "high crimes and misde
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by mullingitover 11d ago
It’s evident from the context, but to spell it out: can’t legally .
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by mullingitover 11d ago
I'm oversimplifying, but when it comes to the budget I'm pretty accurate: the president can't just decide they won't spend the money because they don't like where it's going or who it's going to. They cert
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by mullingitover 11d ago
> How is a cut illegal? If the Office of Management and Budget follows a president's order to cut NSF funds and they violate the Anti-Deficiency Act, it's literally a crime. If the president orders the violation in order to ach
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by mullingitover 12d ago
Meta, the other company involved, engaged in industrial scale piracy in pursuit of training data[1]. Let me break out the world's tiniest violin for them. [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/m
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by mullingitover 12d ago
It's more like we just invented ball bearings. We just jumped from standard to industrial grade, and precision grade is on the horizon. All kinds of new possibilities have opened up, cars can go a mile a minute on these things! Surely
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by mullingitover 13d ago
> If this is truly AGI (subject to one's definition of AGI still), then this is a very boring release of an AGI model. Hot take: These models are never going to be 'AGI'. We're just going from a GPT4 ball that's
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by mullingitover 14d ago
They still keep gold with the New York Fed, this was just a rebalance: > Before the deployment, the Dutch bank held 31.3% of its gold in New York and 19.7% in Ottawa. > After the move, each country accounted for 18.5% of the Dutch gol
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by mullingitover 14d ago
A malevolent electorate.
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by mullingitover 17d ago
The thrust of the article is that the US made a strategic and moral error by dumping these territories. Left unsaid is that the US collects moral errors like Pokemon cards. If there's a win-win that would mean some non-anglo people wou
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by mullingitover 19d ago
> or at least hasn't been The stock market was so gambling that we had 'bucket shops' where people would just buy and sell fake stocks that tracked real stock prices. Now we have public companies directly selling shares wi
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by mullingitover 19d ago
> “Congress did not take a wrecking ball to all sports gambling regulations built up over decades by federal, state, and tribal governments when it amended the (Commodity Exchange Act),” Judge Ryan Nelson wrote in the unanimous decision.
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by mullingitover 19d ago
You're right: the current US regime has been gleefully weaponizing the legal system against political enemies, and the difference is that they don't care about scrutiny for mistakes because there have been zero consequences for
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by mullingitover 19d ago
Recent WIRED[1] article goes in depth on this exact problem: > Another prompt instructs the system to list everyone arrested more than twice in two years for “any offense,” exempting only narcotics arrests, and then says to map where tho
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by mullingitover 19d ago
I worry that Flock is going to take the fall, and some other bad actor with political connections (my money would be on Palantir) will just quietly pick up where they left off while everyone's patting themselves on the back for defeati
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by mullingitover 20d ago
> It’s not just inventions, but the social structures and civic institutions that enable a society to build something like the Apollo program. But you’re saying that it’s the inventions that make certain cultures superior, the other stuf
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by mullingitover 20d ago
Ok so the yardstick for sorting cultures is purely inventions. Got it. Also: European culture is a discrete thing you can either be in or out of, and it's a combination of legal system and language. In addition, the Romans were a homog
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by mullingitover 20d ago
Don't hold your breath. Musk was never sincerely planning any kind of sci-fi future, the fact that SpaceX was built with help from Mike Griffin (who was a key player in the 80s 'Star Wars' SDI program) and the fact that Starl
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by mullingitover 20d ago
> You emulate the successful ones and learn lessons from the unsuccessful ones. Please elaborate on what defines 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' cultures, and while you're at it let me know what the heck 'Eu
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by mullingitover 20d ago
Honestly everything about the future has been about fifteen years behind schedule (or more!) from what I was expecting in 1999. I was fully expecting affordable lunar tourism for the middle class by now.
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by mullingitover 20d ago
Your stance is that cultures are cardinally sortable things, with specific ones being more 'valuable' or 'better,' that you are allowed to be bigoted toward 'degenerate' ones, and imo you're taking it as
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by mullingitover 20d ago
> That term isn’t an accepted thing, as your own article points out. Gravity and the spherical shape of the earth also aren't 'accepted things,' this 'I don't like it so it's not real' argument isn&#x27
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by mullingitover 20d ago
> In the Star Trek future, people of all ethnicities think and act like Anglo-Americans, not like Bangladeshis. That's a weird way to cap off an endorsement of cultural racism? A series of fictional stories about the future, by and

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