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by munificent 5d ago
To be clear, I made no mention of the state or responsibility. All I said was a statement of moral values: that all children deserve the best opportunity we as a species can provide for them. There are many possible mechanisms and social in
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by munificent 5d ago
Why would anyone pay you to do "your" research, when they can just cut out the middle man and ask the AI directly about whatever it is you're thinking about? So many people who are excited about AI making them more productive
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by munificent 5d ago
> This demands a response from the highest circles of power and authority. If that doesn’t happen, we will live to regret this inaction. And that’s the best case scenario. The worst is that there won’t be anyone left to regret a thing.
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by munificent 5d ago
> I really wish we could leave these types of decisions up to parents and parents only. I am strongly sympathetic of this point. But, also, children with shitty parents deserve as much safety and support as they can get too. This is an
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by munificent 7d ago
If you're in the US, two days ago was your annual reminder of exactly the answer to that question.
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by munificent 7d ago
> One person speculated that the timing may have something to do with Mullenweg’s annual trip to the Burning Man festival, after which he tends to return “with ideas.” This line is so perfectly on the nose it could be in a McSweeney&#x
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by munificent 8d ago
> This just pushes knowledge work further up the ladder, toward larger and more complex problems. You really think it makes sense for you to be higher on the "solving complex problems ladder" than the machines that solved fu
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by munificent 12d ago
> Have you ever worked with programs that do floating-point math on a GPU? It's not deterministic, definitely across platforms, and often within a single platform, too. Floating point math is 100% deterministic, but different hard
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by munificent 12d ago
> The main question I have is when is enough, enough? It's doesn't matter whether enough is enough. If we don't have effective power structures that let humanity take large coordinated action that in accordance with the
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by munificent 12d ago
> There's absolutely no evidence of or IMHO plausible path to an agent copying itself out and running on other hardware the way you describe. Here are two plausible paths that provide the viral failure mode the parent comment talk
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by munificent 14d ago
The thing is, though, people are still choosing to spend time on crap. So as a producer of quality content, your audience has shrunk because a minute spend consuming crap is a minute not available for your thing. And as a consumer, the aver
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by munificent 15d ago
> I mean, are we seeing 10x as many movies being released? 20 million videos are uploaded to YouTube every day . >* NYT is now 10x as thick?* One random site I checked says there are 600 million active blogs right now. > Every
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by munificent 15d ago
1. Human attention is a finite resource. 2. Digital media allows a single authored work to consume the attention of an unbounded number of people with near zero marginal cost. Further, once a work has been authored, it is available to be co
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by munificent 16d ago
We are a very social species who likely evolved to feel good when we share juicy information.
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by munificent 16d ago
For the systems at the scale of economics, I think it's hard to point to who created them. These are social technologies that have evolved over millenia with meaningful contributions from millions of people.
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by munificent 16d ago
Excellent article: > This last point is crucial: it’s not that capitalist CEOs are just evil people—well, some definitely are—no, the structural logic is coercing them to do something destructive in order to survive. They can’t help the
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by munificent 18d ago
Caring is a necessary but not sufficient condition. The people who care must also be in positions to do something about it, which can be difficult in very large organizations that are also trying to make large coordinated systemic changes l
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by munificent 19d ago
I think this is much less about Google developers not using their apps. My experience as a Googler is that people are actually quite good about working on apps they themselves use frequently. "Dogfooding" is a common term around t
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by munificent 19d ago
The anecdote in the article is at odds with the title. * In the anecdote, the problem is that the web version works better and the app is missing functionality. * The title pays reference to an annoying observation about many products whe
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by munificent 20d ago
The guy spent $100 million of his own money working to eradicate guinea worm and spared millions of people from an encruciating disease. Whatever other personal attributes might have, he has earned some goodwill and respect.
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by munificent 26d ago
Interesting that the article uses "ML" everywhere instead of "AI". I'm sure some marketing person chose that term deliberately, and I wonder what went into that decision.
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by munificent 26d ago
Not super comfortable, but it has the advantage of being easily disassembled too. It's a folding chair, so you can stuff a stack of them in an attic and bring them out when you need to seat a bunch of people. Paculda's design look
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by munificent 26d ago
Yes, that's my point. Go doesn't have overloading by parameter list signature. But you can have methods with the same name defined on different types, so there is a sort of overloading or namespacing based on the receiver type. Me
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by munificent 27d ago
> From my perspective, Go added methods primarily so that you can use them in combination with interfaces. They also give you a limited form of overloading. Without methods or overloading, you end up in the situation that C and Scheme
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by munificent 28d ago
Rules about social interaction are often too general to be really useful to me, but I found this one insightful: > If making references that are outside someone’s context, do so only if they signal themselves as a curious person, and ma
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by munificent 29d ago
This is fascinating to me. Your experience is so different from mine. When I wake from sleeping, I have a distinct sense of time passing and can usually tell you what time it is when I first wake up. But under anesthesia, absolutely no sens
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by munificent 1mo ago
> Generators don’t work that well. They need regular use and maintenance. So do lawnmowers and chainsaws. >Fuel storage is complicated (you will need 30+ gallons a day, or about 2 sedan tank’s worth. You put it in containers and p
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by munificent 1mo ago
> But from the inside observed by oneself, it feels quite similar, besides the fact that sleep is initiated by oneself, and the wakeful state transition for sleep is more gradual than for anesthesia. Have you been anesthetized before?
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by munificent 1mo ago
I mean, it's also a selfish expectation to be able to survive a couple of days without services. As a general rule, people prefer not to die. My point is just that a cheap battery backup does not have a significant effect in the resili
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by munificent 1mo ago
> It is socially irresponsible that as soon as a service goes out that you are immediately in an emergency. You should not offload basic resiliency on to emergency services. Sure, but that's not a remotely accurate description of

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