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by vivekd 3d ago
I wasn't able to go look up the deal. Please explain to me - because last I checked it was being kept confidential by Carney's party while the opposition party is asking for it to be released
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by vivekd 8d ago
in all cases? Really. That seems more like a trusim that people often blindly repeat than something that's actually supported by facts. I can see how Islam being designed as a state religion can be tied to power structures. Perhaps t
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by vivekd 25d ago
I keep reading about these things in the news, and they are nice marketing stance. But I still wonder how far we are away from humanoid robots being commonplace in every day life. I don't share the fear some seem to have towards robo
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by vivekd 29d ago
As a Canadian, I would caution against the kind of universal health plan we have. But yes I agree there should be some kind of public healthcare. Perhaps more as a government owned hospitals and clinics alongside the private ones rather t
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by vivekd 1mo ago
I don't know how convinced I am. First there were dinosaurs in the past, the brachiosaurus was 4 x as big as an elephant and there are probably yet undiscovered dinosaurs that were even bigger given discovery of partial fossils like t
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by vivekd 2mo ago
Construction is always boom and bust by nature. Anyone in the trades, if they have an opportunity the should just take it while it's there.
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by vivekd 2mo ago
I agree. Although the author didn't delve into it he seems to hint that it may not prove useful enough to the companies that spend money on tokens to justify the huge investments in AI. For me yes, it's very useful. But what r
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by vivekd 2mo ago
>Find us a person who honestly believes there a class of citizens (other than convicted felons, minors, and mentally incompetent) shouldn't have a right to vote who doesn't want to use it for political gains. Easy the philosoph
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by vivekd 2mo ago
I disagree. I don't think there's any historical data showing a correlation between loss of voting rights of a % of the population with totalitarianism. I think among the few countries where it has been tried would be Canada s
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by vivekd 2mo ago
I think the title is inaccurate and a bit inflammatory. He's not advocating stripping most Americans of their voting rights. He's advocating stripping a tiny minority of Americans of their voting rights - specifically the minori
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by vivekd 2mo ago
I think he had a reasonable point, I don't know if he was mad or not but that doesn't take away from the validity of his statement. Simply saying a confounding variable was missing isn't helpful because it's impossible t
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by vivekd 4mo ago
It was compulsory during COVID and it became optional later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArriveCAN
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by vivekd 5mo ago
but I think the parents counterpoint was that the important parts of the internet (paying bills, buying things, registering for classes) don't require or presuppose anonymity.
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by vivekd 6mo ago
Sure, but looking at this from a purely business perspective - I wonder how many customers would panic or jump ship rather than be grateful when notified of an attack. But I think it could work as an optional feature for paid accounts if i
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by vivekd 6mo ago
I don't think any system can do much if things have degraded to the point where armed gangs are running around with impunity. I think systems (paper or otherwise) presuppose a certain level of functional civil society
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by vivekd 6mo ago
I think the benefit here is that bias is easier to identify in an AI and if it's easier to identify it's easier to control and implement bias reduction mechanisms. Humans are much less upfront about their biases
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by vivekd 10mo ago
I believe your statement can be 100% true without affecting the truth of the parents statement. It's possible for a government to charge high taxes and have high social spending while also funneling larger and larger amounts from the
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110k Yo Discovery Suggests Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens Worked Together(scitechdaily.com)
3 points by vivekd 1y ago|0 comments
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Lunar far side samples bolster theory that the moon was once covered in magma(phys.org)
2 points by vivekd 1y ago|0 comments
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by vivekd 2y ago
My issue with this line of thinking is not that it's wrong but it's being manipulated by silicon valley. Open AI is not arguing that AI is harmless they are agreeing it's dangerous. They are using that to promote their produ
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by vivekd 2y ago
I also find it's a great sanity check. Ideas that seem good in my head often fail when I put them into words. Especially when I outline it in step by step format
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by vivekd 2y ago
I wonder if there is a practical test of this question? Are there any moderately successful blogs written purely by an LLM with a human just doing the prompts. As far as I know there aren't any but I look forward to being corrected
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by vivekd 2y ago
That would be a reasonable I objection if it looked as if there was a risk of that. Everything I've heard from Zelynski so far tells me that Ukraine will be involved and they will have the final say
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by vivekd 2y ago
I think we can have peace talks - like what is happening. Or if we believe Russia is too great a threat we can have all out war against Russia involving NATO. Both those outcomes would be acceptable. What is not acceptable to me is the cu
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by vivekd 2y ago
I donno I like AI, I don't use it often but when I do I've found it useful and impressive. It's really improved quality of life when it comes to having something to read over my work or help with finding small bits of info.
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by vivekd 2y ago
chat GPT and Gemini both provide advice on how to care for babies. I think in the end you have to have faith in people to also use their common sense, discretion and not blindly believe or act on everything a bot tells them. I think the sa
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by vivekd 2y ago
you can just google scrupulosity or scrupulouness and find writing on it by various apologetics.
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by vivekd 2y ago
In religious communities we would call such an attitude scrupulosity. It refers to a sort of religious OCD, a paralyzing fixation on the rules and a demand for unrealistic standards of perfection. According to Christian teaching, such an a
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by vivekd 2y ago
I mean if a book or a peice of writing can be divinely inspired I don't see why am llm can't. Both are pieces of technology at the end of the day
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by vivekd 2y ago
I understand the author's conserns but I wonder of his standard of "true" is a bit unrealistic. Maybe the standard should be "less false than the average human produced work." Yes a human expert who is devoted to

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