teakettle42

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by teakettle42 4y ago
I haven’t ignored any of that; I simply don’t believe that it is ethical to use the state’s monopoly on violence to punish individual actors (including said industry) without due process. If you want the state to fund systematic investigati
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Is the prevailing goal of our justice system to convict this one particular defendant, or to ensure that trials are as fair as possible for all defendants?
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> the balance of the evidence weighed against the alleged exculpatory evidence Surely you see the fundamental problem, here. This shifts the burden of proof onto the defendant. Demonstrating the previous existence and, in particular, the
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> We’re referencing a case where a state senator was convicted despite a drive (of potentially exculpatory evidence) being wiped. So no. This senator was not powerful enough (or was actually honest enough) to not leverage the illegal “ge
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Plenty of people in law enforcement would wipe a drive if their family and debts were taken care of, even in face of prison. This is beyond ridiculous: (1) Someone in law enforcement that is in a position to meddle with the chain of ev
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by teakettle42 4y ago
I don’t think it would actually be nice if the burden of proof rested on the accused. This example isn’t a study of systemic bias, and is both individually and statistically meaningless. It would be nice, however, if the paper of record did
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Home appraisal is arbitrary and subjective — ridiculously so. All this particular stunt shows is that two appraisers can and will appraise a home wildly differently — which anyone who has their home appraised already knew.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Or, I could refer to what actually occurs in practice. My original point stands.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
I apologize for the insult, but perhaps this means there’s still more for you to learn, and even deeper and more interesting problems to explore? I’m about 25 years into my career, and I still have so much more I want to learn!
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Switch teams to a different domain every six months ? In the domains I’ve worked in, it might take six months just to get the basic idea sketched out and working. The current project has a timeline of 8 years to full completion — two yea
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> there is no learning after a certain amount of years of coding (I would argue at 4-5 years of good/varied experience mark). If you stopped learning after 4-5 years in the field, the barrier you hit wasn’t the lack of new things to
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by teakettle42 4y ago
It makes it impossible to assign an individual identity — and evaluate individual behavior and status — as merely a function of their coarse-grained group membership.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
That’s the theory, which, if you actually took to its logical conclusion, would result in treating and evaluating every individual as an individual, and the entire concept of group identity as a short-hand mechanism for assigning “intersect
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Telling of what, precisely? The blind spot I posited and which you then summarily demonstrated.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
It’s a blind spot in DEI and intersectionality; the idea that an oppressed class can also be an oppressor class, and that it’s not an attribute of the perpetrator’s class at all, but in fact, situational and individual.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
DEI is intersectional praxis, not a “rebranding of the struggle for equality”
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by teakettle42 4y ago
The most charitable interpretation is that they are attempting to increase representation in the pipeline of candidates, such that their unbiased, neutral selection process will naturally produce outcomes representative of their candidate p
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by teakettle42 4y ago
“DEI” is both a very recent and a uniquely western ideological construction.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> If I was to dabble in sci-fi art and made something that fit in the art style of Steward Cowley … do I need to credit the art? Probably, yes. > When it comes to playing around in blender - my designs are obviously derivative of othe
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> The other people's work to serve as your training set is exactly what art students do “Training” an art student and training an AI model are vastly different, and your equating the two is, frankly, nonsensical and absurd. An art s
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Your entire point hinges on a false assumption; “training” a human artist (or programmer) is the same as training an AI model. It is not. The AI model can only regurgitate stolen mash-ups of other people’s work. Everything it produces is
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> It's the same as if a human artist studied it. It’s not a human artist, and it can only regurgitate mash-ups of work stolen from others.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
All CC licenses, other than the “CC0 public domain dedication”, require attribution, but CC themselves have taken what I’d consider to be an ass-backwards position on the matter: > At CC, we believe that, as a matter of copyright law, th
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Stealing people’s work to serve as your training set is not human progress. Sounds like the AI model should be paying royalties to every affected artist for the right to sample their work.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Czech workers during the communist era used to say “If you’re not stealing from the state, you’re stealing from your family” (“Kdo neokrádá stát, okrádá rodinu”)
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by teakettle42 4y ago
macOS has supported NFSv4 ACLs since 10.4 (released in 2005), and Zoom could have made use of them.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Rent-seeking is more abusive than enforcing ownership rights, by far. Copyright is an invention; if it is being used to grossly undermine ownership rights, then we should reconsider the extent to which we privilege copyright holders, includ
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Swift on the other had is a language where wonks decided to throw every silly feature they thought off to the point that is becoming more complex than even Scala. What features in particular do you think represent unjustified complexit
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Nobody (other than you, with that intentionally ridiculous claim) is ascribing a secret end goal; their goals are quite plainly articulated.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> I’m not saying you did this, but many people deliberately distort that into “they wanna take all your guns” in bad faith. Well, who is “they”? The majority of activist organizations arguing for restrictions absolutely have an end-goa

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