unwise-exe

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by unwise-exe 10d ago
Sure. And there's that story about Feynman listing his race as "mutt" on some official form because the rest also aren't mutually exclusive.
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by unwise-exe 10d ago
Sort this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_sovereign_state... ... by "Date of last subordination", it says there's very few that have been themselves for longer.
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by unwise-exe 10d ago
Imagine how much more sense things would make if "Race [dropdown]" and "Hispanic? [Y/N]" weren't separate fields. Or if the available options made sense, or even allowed multiselect instead of having to pick on
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by unwise-exe 10d ago
>>> I'm not really worried about the labs, it's misaligned governments that keep me up at night. So make government smaller, and make sure people are more able to tell the government to go away.
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by unwise-exe 1mo ago
Not much of an AI thing, just the standard "rich people should have (control over) their resources confiscated" that keeps popping up in various forms.
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by unwise-exe 1mo ago
The chart they show from the original paper is approximately just: perceived_ability = 0.5 + (actual_ability / 4) (With the caveat that "ability" is a percentile rather than some absolute measure.) That's not the
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by unwise-exe 2mo ago
>>> This is capitalism 101. No, it's really not. The entire point of capitalism is free enterprise and freedom of association. The way to apply that to employer / employee relationships is to recognize that you are not a
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by unwise-exe 2mo ago
>>> Adam Mendler, a workplace expert, told Inc. that this kind of exercise carries real risk when companies invite openness without ever clarifying how that vulnerability will be treated afterward. (That's the Inc article) . M
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by unwise-exe 2mo ago
>>> bring your whole self to work This one always seemed like an "invitation" to demonstrate that you have the correct life experiences and attitudes. Like those holistic admissions essays that sprung up when universities
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by unwise-exe 2mo ago
Why is the headline blaming the OS for what the user chose to do? This is like saying it's my car's fault if I decided to drive onto the sidewalk or something.
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by unwise-exe 2mo ago
That might take a while for the necessary changes to cultural norms to set in, and I'd think it would get a bit spicy in the meantime.
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by unwise-exe 2mo ago
It's not formal institutions, it's the hate mob. And for things that might seriously attract the ire of people who consider political violence a positive good, there's always TOR.
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by unwise-exe 8mo ago
>>> To establish this, let’s write a simple simulation. We’ll flip a coin a million times, ask our friends what they saw, and observe the results. Either they agree, or they disagree. If they agree, they're either both telling
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by unwise-exe 8mo ago
>>> Manifesting things into reality through writing them often enough is FAR from a normal belief. Hey, propaganda is a thing and it works. That's totally and example of manifesting things into reality through writing them oft
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by unwise-exe 8mo ago
>>> For much of history, laws in many countries were designed to uphold systems of privilege for white men. Segregation, discrimination, and unequal treatment were institutionalized, limiting legal protections for non-white individ
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by unwise-exe 8mo ago
I intend to do this very bad thing. How much karma do I need to accrue in advance, so that I don't go into the red from doing it?
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by unwise-exe 8mo ago
Meanwhile $employer is continuing to migrate individual tasks to in-house AI tooling, and has licensed an off-the-shelf coding agent for all of us developers to put in our IDEs.
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by unwise-exe 10mo ago
>>> How should we think about cloud seeding? It's a way to take someone else's rain.
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by unwise-exe 10mo ago
Who cares about local storage? You could have just made up whatever you're claiming to have saved.
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by unwise-exe 10mo ago
>>> (As if first time mothers didn’t have enough to worry about - stop stressing so much, it could lead to long-lasting irreversible changes to your fetus!) This is plainly not plausible. "Irreversible" doesn't play
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by unwise-exe 10mo ago
Even if this was going to hold up, it wouldn't make the policies that Lamarck's ideas were designed to promote work. We already empirically know they don't work.
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by unwise-exe 10mo ago
This sort of thing is always a call for generational guilt and reparations.
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by unwise-exe 10mo ago
Maybe someone could have just came up with in a vacuum, but it looks like a response to other attempts to restrict AI by saying that models trained with more than X amount of compute resources have to follow tons of extra rules. And, per th
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by unwise-exe 1y ago
The writing style would seem to suggest that the lack of sleep has been having more effects than reported.
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by unwise-exe 1y ago
The site got to be a pain to try to participate in long before modern AI came around.
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by unwise-exe 1y ago
That seems a rather different sort of declaration though? "I did not participate in this harm" vs "I will not speak against this group".
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by unwise-exe 1y ago
>>> Gazans still hold Israeli hostages, I believe that capturing POWs is fairly common when at war.
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by unwise-exe 1y ago
That seems like a somewhat unlikely degree of international coordination.
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by unwise-exe 1y ago
>>> No idea why these posts are allowed to flourish here No, they often get flagged off pretty quickly.
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by unwise-exe 1y ago
Israel's response was obvious as soon as the attack happened. "Oh, looks like they've got that excuse they've been wanting."

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