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by robbiewxyz 4mo ago
Sorry to ask again but which informal fallacy does it seem to you that I am using in my first statement? There are several [0]. In the interest of understanding, maybe I can make my passive phrasing a bit more active: when I say "this
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by robbiewxyz 4mo ago
This rephrasing is directly unhelpful to the goal of empathy for the humans caught in the change. If we come off as insensitive we will have no hope of influencing people. Also if you see a specific fallacy, please do name which one so I ca
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by robbiewxyz 4mo ago
Those are some strong claims to make without so much as listing, much less explaining or sourcing, the negative outcomes you so positively forecast. Also outcomes are generally not positive or negative in & of themselves: if you could s
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by robbiewxyz 4mo ago
Approaching significant change with humanity asks us to have empathy for many emotions at once. With respect to LLMs & other generative models those include but aren't limited to: * Excitement from people who are able to make thing
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by robbiewxyz 4mo ago
Wealth follows an extreme power law. This tax is pennies to those who will pay it.
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by robbiewxyz 4mo ago
For startets, the revenue raised makes NYC as a city more sustainable by funding social programs for the normal people who keep the lights on.
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by robbiewxyz 4mo ago
This's certainly a betrayal of their community. But they got bought out. By the tech equivalent of private equity. Every community in the USA & in most of the world is aware what happens when the friendly neighborhood business you&
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by robbiewxyz 4mo ago
Modern transformer-based STT architectures are complex but many are abstractly not entirely unlike putting the results of standard SST through an LLM with the prompt "clean this up & make it make sense". The behavior is traine
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by robbiewxyz 5mo ago
I played Nethack quite a bit as a teen but was never patient enough to ascend. Always YASD. I revisited the game a few years ago & was happy to realize I had, in the meantime, grown the necessary patience. Ascending felt great.
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by robbiewxyz 5mo ago
I've wondered the same. A look at his contemporary media quotes gives maybe a hint. From Navalny: "It is difficult for me to understand exactly what is going on in [Putin's] mind. [...] 20 years of power would spoil anyone an
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by robbiewxyz 5mo ago
Keep in mind that an organization made of fairly nice people may do terribly not-nice things. "Just doing my job" is a hell of a drug.
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by robbiewxyz 5mo ago
This is exactly true in my experience! The usefulness of AI varies wildly depending on the complexity, correctness-requirements, & especially novelty of the domain. This attribute plus a bit of human tribalism, social echo-chambering, &
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by robbiewxyz 6mo ago
Who is surprised by this? Surely you don't imagine a woman who dared to call her boss a rich jerk was surprised when he retaliated! US women are taught very young how powerful men act when their egos are threatened. As for "the co
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by robbiewxyz 7mo ago
It's not that complicated, really. The value of Art is human connection. The same basic desire that drives love, belonging, pride, shame, & hate. All of these are diminished as the fraction of a work that we're confident repre
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by robbiewxyz 9mo ago
AI is being pushed forcefully on K-12 teachers and the effect education quality is horrible. Some teachers, including my cousin, refuse to use the AI tools but most don't. The result is that my 6th & 8th grade siblings mostly bring
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by robbiewxyz 10mo ago
Generally I understand the missing factor to be a control thing. Th power structure that makes up a typical owners-vs-employees company demands that every employee be replacable. Denying raises & paying the cost of churn are vital to ma
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by robbiewxyz 10mo ago
So you may mean well but a comment repeating the (debatable) negative impacts of rent control really comes off as silly in a thread about the realpage cartel (price fixing is worse than rent control in every way) and hopes of home ownership
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by robbiewxyz 1y ago
To add to other comments, gun violence has a massive mental health component for which preventative treatment can save many lives. Of course it warrants study! And given the well-documented copycat-killer phenomenon, modeling it similarly t
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by robbiewxyz 1y ago
This is an important topic. I wonder what it is that makes duopoly so prevalent in tech e.g. Apple vs Google for mobile, Apple vs Microsoft for desktop, Uber vs Lyft for ride sharing. As for the linked article, it reads too much like AI slo
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by robbiewxyz 1y ago
Ultimately the attitude of self-restraint called for in the article seems near-impossible: modern capitalism puts companies in a desperate race for dominance, and modern foreign policy puts countries in the same. From the penultimate paragr
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by robbiewxyz 1y ago
My gut is this comes down to lack of real antitrust enforcement. If your customers have no choice but to come crawling back to you then why treat them well?
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by robbiewxyz 1y ago
If you'd be so kind as to share, I'm very interested in any common threads you may see in the people who ultimately crash back down. I grew up in pretty extreme poverty, got a big break of sorts, and I do my best to avoid ending u
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
Their routers only have this feature because the internet providers who sell those routers pay for bandwidth themselves lol. If residential internet plans sold on a pay-per-byte basis you can bet routers’d still ship with non-unique passwor
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
From what I gather, life for most of these "regular people" in Germany was still very much in the tolerable range until well into WWII. This was a very weird realization and one that left me pretty sad. Edit to clarify: I also mea
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
Honestly fair enough. Pay package over principles does pretty well describe the policy of far too many of the colleagues I've worked with over the years.
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
Small nit, but these folks 100% can not be described as the "tech community". They're owners of big tech monopolies, their VC backers, and our new oligarchs. Tech community, however, they are not.
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
I hold the idea that brain drain, i.e. emigration of skilled people, is one of only a small handful of real methods to hold fascism to account. With that, as things start to get real bad it seems leaving is something of a moral duty for any
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
Thousands of years may refer to domestication of e.g. corn.
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
There's such obviously fucked up incentives in this industry. - When employers select insurance, providers will 100% of the time tend toward ignoring the interests of those who are insured: the incentives to do so are just too strong.
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
This is, in a significant part, the flip side of the housing crisis coin. Some of these mums and dads saved up but many, many more of them grew their wealth alongside their home values. Zoning policy, building regulations, and interest rate

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