spats1990

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Tasteslop(nemesisglobal.substack.com)
2 points by spats1990 1mo ago|0 comments
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by spats1990 4mo ago
> if LLMs can generate higher quality comments more consistently than humans Do you believe this?
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by spats1990 4mo ago
When you encounter these comments/sentiment, pretend that LLM = Loweffort Long Mumbling. In other words, poor writing. Detection of "LLM" is a red herring. Quality is what matters. Always has been. Assess comment quality holi
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by spats1990 2y ago
There's also this recent-ish piece regarding the USDA's response to bird flu in cows thus far. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-bungled-bir...
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H5N1 Outbreak in Central Valley, California: dead cows piled by roadsides(latimes.com)
39 points by spats1990 2y ago|12 comments
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More Human Than Ever, Computer Is Learning to Learn (1987)(nytimes.com)
3 points by spats1990 4y ago|0 comments
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by spats1990 5y ago
Toyota is not blindly pursuing hydrogen fuel cells in anywhere near the way you suggest. https://www.motortrend.com/news/toyota-battery-bev-hev-solid... They may have been dragging their feet in the last few years but
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by spats1990 5y ago
See my edits in the comment above. I will further note that understanding the royal society vs university distinction here is pretty important, but it seems that you've already made up your mind. I won't be responding again here,
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by spats1990 5y ago
> and use the issue because it fits his hobby horse. I was talking about the columnist from the Spectator, not the scientist. > I mean really, what did the guy that was so bad that the university decided it needed to take disciplinary
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by spats1990 5y ago
And a response from one of the authors of the government working group material (see my other post ITT): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2021.1... edit: the user above has made significa
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by spats1990 5y ago
New Zealander here, not that it really matters.* It appears that "...a proposal by a government working group that schools should give the same weight to Maori mythology as they do to science in the classroom" is a misrepresentati
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by spats1990 5y ago
>Coca-Cola produces valuable goods, if you choose to take an action that results in the bottle floating out to sea, it's your fault, you don't get to blame Coca-Cola. That is what I mean by personal responsibility. So in your i
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by spats1990 5y ago
The franchises follow policy set by Coca-Cola headquarters, right? You're splitting hairs here.
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by spats1990 5y ago
As you say in your OP, plastic trash should be a moral issue, but where we appear to disagree is in where the moral responsibility should lie. I think it should lie at least half with manufacturers who provide their product in plastic bottl
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by spats1990 5y ago
>I think each country should take responsibility for their own waste, Only one country is home to the Coca-Cola Company, the world's largest producer of plastic waste.
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by spats1990 5y ago
Two specious arguments. 1. A 30c-$1 increase in the price of Coke relative to its current baseline will not break the bank. 2. Tens/hundreds of millions of slowly degrading plastic bottles in the ocean certainly do have an environmenta
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by spats1990 5y ago
If you read my link, it's not even about "trash handling facilities", but about the profitability of single-use bottles vs refillable ones for manufacturers. There are lots of things in what we call civilised society that act
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by spats1990 5y ago
Maybe you could have / should have mentioned in the OP that the book is a novel. It's in no way clear from your post alone that the book you're talking about is fiction.
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by spats1990 5y ago
>The U.S. isn't even in the top 10 producers of plastic waste in oceans (it's something like >30th on the list). Coca-Cola and Pepsi are consistently the biggest offenders in plastic waste. The United States should be the sh
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by spats1990 5y ago
>littering Coca Cola and others are largely responsible for the notion that it is the individual's responsibility not to "litter" single-use products that are extremely profitable for corporations: https://www.m
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by spats1990 5y ago
Yeah I literally can't think of a stronger "condemnation" than that, which is why I was asking. To your link, evidence, Adrian Zenz, etc, are things I would prefer not to discuss on this site. :)
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by spats1990 5y ago
What kind of sanctions do you have in mind?
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by spats1990 5y ago
Like what? Regime change? Genuinely asking.
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by spats1990 5y ago
>genocide is a significant label, whether China's mistreatment qualifies as that is probably to be determined, That's what both my post and the US state department lawyers said. https://foreignpolicy.com/2021&#x
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by spats1990 5y ago
>Who in the world has genuinely condemned the Uighyur atrocities that China continues to this day? Parliaments, heads of state, etc have referred to this as "genocide" despite insufficient evidence (the view of US state departm
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by spats1990 5y ago
What's interesting about this stuff is that it seems to support interpretation through multiple cognitive frameworks. There could be a mystical/esoteric explanation for why those people became so attached to the characters or fict
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by spats1990 5y ago
i think in the last 5-6 years we've seen in western/anglosphere culture a growing surge of interest in both occult stuff, like you say, or occultish New Age stuff (astrology) as well as renewed interest in the old organised religi
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by spats1990 5y ago
Or editing wikipedia, and arguing on talk pages.
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by spats1990 5y ago
CMD is in the fish! it's in the fish! we're all gonna die horribly
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by spats1990 5y ago
On the first point, a ~recent (2020) poll suggests most Latino people don't even know that "Latinx" is a word. Your post contradicts itself somewhat there. It says "the media are going crazy" over "woke stuff&q

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