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by ponow 9mo ago
Then make your own world where you don't benefit from the knowledge gained by means you don't approve of. This world is not that world.
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by ponow 10mo ago
Legislation is much worse than organically derived common law, for the common law comprises decisions that apply to particular conditions with all their details while the former are mere idealizations.
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by ponow 10mo ago
Yes, I would argue that it would be better for more to have been incarcerated, for that would bring greater focus to injustice and the law would be changed. Selective enforcement interferes with the feedback mechanism that would otherwise
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by ponow 11mo ago
Categorical rejection of alternatives is premature without context.
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by ponow 11mo ago
Federal funding of research is un-American.
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by ponow 1y ago
Go was a response, in part, to C++, if I recall how it was described when it was introduced. That doesn't seem to be how it ended it out. Maybe it was that "systems programming language" means something different for differ
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by ponow 1y ago
I'm happy enough if I'm better off for having used a tool than having not.
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by ponow 1y ago
Meaningless? The participation in a usefully predicting path is meaning. A different meaning. And Gemini has a note at the bottom about mistakes, and many people discuss this. Caveat emptor, as usual.
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by ponow 1y ago
> LLMs are [...] sophisticated simulators of reasoning-like text Most humans are unsophisticated simulators of reasoning-like text.
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by ponow 1y ago
Could it be that your particular position required more ongoing learning, and that has kept you better prepared for a changing world? What fraction of positions require that ongoing learning, or at least to that degree? Also, consider many
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by ponow 1y ago
These are welcome changes, as the practice of DEI (not it's idealization) is actively discriminatory and intolerant of dissenting views. Let competence be the only metric.
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by ponow 1y ago
False. Mass accumulations of capital allow exploratory research without a clear path to commercial benefit, but it's a cherry on top, a kind of motivator for researchers.
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by ponow 1y ago
It's ironic that the much more significant ultimate success of deep learning happened despite a lack of government funding, if Hinton is to be believed. The 90s were a neural net winter, and success required faster computation, a priv
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by ponow 1y ago
Yes, reduce, even end government research.
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by ponow 2y ago
As if centralization with one big company weren't enough, now we're not even satisfied with one country, but a block of them. Yikes. Nope, run in the opposite direction. Unsuck from any teat.
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by ponow 2y ago
Unless you bound compensation, a proclamation of "non-profit" rings hollow.
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by ponow 2y ago
None of that is combatting sexism, but reality.
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by ponow 2y ago
We need one title one owner. Shared ownership is confusion. Governmens shouldn't run interference between managers and stockholders.
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by ponow 2y ago
Developing defence capacity is a basic responsibility. Humans can scream foul if they lose out to machine hybrids or extraterrestrials.
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by ponow 2y ago
Brevity informs diction.
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by ponow 2y ago
If you have to force something, it is. And it's being forced. If we made more white play in the NBA it might seem clearer.
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by ponow 2y ago
Don't commit the crime if you can't handle it. It's a punishment.
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by ponow 2y ago
No, it's equal outcones, or worse, turn the tables. Racist hiring aka affirmative action illustrates this.
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by ponow 2y ago
So your angle is just to let ChatGPT fill that space?
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by ponow 2y ago
Our ancestors suffered greatly with far greater inconveniences. Rather bourgeois remark. Unsurprising that that developed countries' populations are in question with gatekeeping like that.
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by ponow 2y ago
But then the narrative of "there aren't enough qualified people" collapses, and H1-Bs unjustified.
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by ponow 2y ago
> Determinants, Gaussian elimination, etc. Umm, not in Pennsylvania government high schools, not typically. Not by a long shot.
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by ponow 2y ago
Linear algebra is not a universal requirement for CS and EE.
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by ponow 2y ago
Define "qualified".
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by ponow 2y ago
Define competence. What fraction of graduates in EE and CS from top 50 schools would you regard as competent?

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