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by munk-a 1mo ago
Let's not confuse an ethics team with HR. The later exists to ensure proper legal adherence with a varying degree of benefit to the employees. The former[1] is an electively instated position that usually has a dual mandate somewhere
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by munk-a 1mo ago
Lets assume one of two worlds - one where AI is constantly improving and one where the tooling is a dead end. In the first world the AI generated comments are no better than the commentary that would be generated in the next six months - i
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by munk-a 1mo ago
In this context they're not the same thing. Calls from companies legitimately operating in the country need to obey laws or face enforcement (ideally, unless the government is asleep at the wheel) while calls from scammers outside of
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by munk-a 1mo ago
It suffers from an ends-justify-the-means trap where bad actions in the short term with the long term goal of good actions are justified by the fact that you, the actor, know your philosophy is the best way to enact positive change. I'
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by munk-a 1mo ago
Moving elements on screens is viewed as slick but is also a strong statement that the website knows how it is best to consume itself and depriving the user of the control over how to interact with it. I think there's been a big misund
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by munk-a 1mo ago
This is probably (if the business here is large enough to support it) an excellent area for a tailored model instead of a general purpose LLM. A lot of the context around medication comprehension is going to be rather universal to pharmaci
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by munk-a 1mo ago
There were some brief excellent years in the nascent days of the blogosphere where stories that CNN would miss (especially stories about marginalized groups) managed to get widespread attention and the compensation to journalists held up.
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by munk-a 1mo ago
> If the model labs aren't clearly profitable, or open source models eat all the 'model layer' profit - what financial force will push forward very expensive experiments/scaling, etc.? It's hype - when the hype d
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by munk-a 1mo ago
It can happen - and companies can recover from that. But that's wasting a whole lot of money and a lot of executives will sunk cost fallacy themselves into continuing when that may be the much saner decision. I didn't mean to imp
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by munk-a 1mo ago
Drug names are frequently BS loaded with strange consonants without singular pronunciation guidelines (sadly English isn't German) so humans already have a lot of variation in how things are pronounced - models then need to comprehend
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by munk-a 1mo ago
This, I suspect, is exactly like offshoring - and a lot of companies died during the offshoring fad because their software products become full of low quality merges and feature improvements that the company couldn't afford to fix or r
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by munk-a 1mo ago
Oh, then Elon beat you to it.
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by munk-a 1mo ago
If the Murakami was undertranslated then how will having more translations that crowd out the potential revenue of future translators help produce better quality translations?
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by munk-a 1mo ago
If this ruling results in Meta fully withdrawing from New Mexico because it's unlikely they'll actually net on a per customer basis than nothing of value will be lost.
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by munk-a 1mo ago
I am nuanced enough to appreciate that these qualities are present in the products being produced and still not buy from this producer because of their industry ties. Hopefully someone without such ridiculously unpalatable PR is able to co
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by munk-a 1mo ago
> Sure, spending more on transit is a good idea, but it's not the tech companies' fault that it's perennially underfunded I think your overall point is relatively sound but that example is just terrible... Elon Musk has re
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by munk-a 1mo ago
Tesla, in particular, has given those skeptics so much ammunition to be mad at. The delay isn't purely due to luddites but also somewhat driven by prior obvious bad actions by self-driving car companies. It's also likely that if
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by munk-a 1mo ago
> or use the car as a weapon on christmas markets On the contrary, autonomous vehicles (especially if something like automated package delivery becomes an offered service) allow car bombs without the suicide bomber inside. Instead you j
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by munk-a 1mo ago
Most chat support people were contractors hired from third party companies that were given dossiers about their products that were often quite out of date because poor management has always been a thing.
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by munk-a 2mo ago
I think the bigger point is that there's an overwhelming amount of money going to push the opposite narrative. A quick search revealed that Tyson alone spends well over a million annually on lobbying and I am sure the industry at larg
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Yes - the obvious state of dysfunction in food regulation and lack of enforcement in that area has led to an abundance of scam supplement hawkers[1] but I don't think the right conclusion to draw from that is that all criticisms of foo
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by munk-a 2mo ago
You could but you'd be quite disingenuous if you did considering that coffee delivers caffeine without a bunch of added sugar.
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Read this: Use a computer - you actually control the content that way.
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by munk-a 2mo ago
But then number would go down... number can't go down!
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by munk-a 2mo ago
The comment above the comment above mine said: > Abortion pills are not candies. That statement is unnecessary unless you believe that some people treat them as candies (not literally but take them casually and without thought). All medi
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Thai cuisine is remarkably interesting due to Global Thai and both the funding for restaurants as well as the standardization of curry recipes that was led by the government to help spread cultural awareness of the cuisine.
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Some people want to fully ban AI and put the genie back in the bottle[1] but I'd much rather it simply be demystified and genuinely costed. I think most people would prefer to find a useful application of a tool compared to being compe
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by munk-a 2mo ago
It's possible to be frank about the misuse of AI in a lot of corporate settings today and also view it as a tool (or a step in tool development) that has the potential to be quite valuable. Also, there are plenty of non-development rel
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by munk-a 2mo ago
Abortion should be possible at 8 months - it absolutely must be possible in the cases of complications to save the life of the mother. For other cases I believe it shouldn't be easily legal to ensure that people seek abortion aide ear
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by munk-a 2mo ago
It turns out there are a few stories that are important to be immediately aware of (declarations of war, local events like service outages or celebration - and only if they're planned with short notice). Most of the rest of the news i

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