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@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
It is interesting that you refer to throwing away the only shelter another two humans beings have as a game.
Why do you think it is a game? Are the consequences comical?
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@ProfDBernstein
To what extent do you think this is just a function of social media elevating the most extreme voices?
I don't know anyone in my personal life who is like this.
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@IDoTheThinking
There are these things called speed bumps that do the same thing.
Potholes cause accidents that injure people.
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@Glace15840573
@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
It is an expression that trivializes the crime that was committed here. Stealing is not legal just because you intend to throw away the property you steal.
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@Glace15840573
@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
You seem to think that you can justify your own law-breaking by referencing the homelessness of someone else.
That isn't how the law works. What next? You stab the homeless person, saying they didn't have a right to be a vagrant near your property?
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@RajeevBhatia416
@CaitlinPacific
What makes you think you or she can have an informed opinion on the quality of classes at Harvard Extension school without taking classes there or talking to those who have?
Also, I have gone to some high quality community college classes. You fail to recognize the limitations…
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@writelikederp
@DomBro2theMax
@Glace15840573
@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
If you know something belongs to a specific person and they haven't abandoned it, it isn't trash.
You guys are really trying to establish that the homeless aren't capable of having property rights?
Well, that isn't the law.
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@RightsOfCanada
Yeah. Consequences that prevent people from speaking is TOTALLY consistent with freedom of speech.
Also, there is no need for anyone to actually be able to hear you. You can just yell into your closet.
You sound like you are a character from 1984.
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@RajeevBhatia416
@CaitlinPacific
of your knowledge.
In my view, that is a significant cognitive oversight.
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@Noahpinion
The source of the competition isn't culture, it is 1) human rights abuses (including genocide) by China 2) ambitions for territorial expansion that China openly holds, and 3) China is a communist dictatorship, India and Japan are democracies.
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@Fra___
@Noahpinion
I am curious why you think the degree to which you and others find something “expected” is an important metric.
It is true that people seem more surprised by “unexpected” shark attacks than “expected” deaths from cardiovascular disease or car accidents.
But surprise maybe isn’t
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@whstancil
Your point would be better if it didn't miss the point mathematically. An average can be skewed by outliers.
Saying we should focus on averages is the same a saying we should ignore part of empirical reality.
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@Glace15840573
@writelikederp
@DomBro2theMax
@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
What do you think abandonment consists of? It isn't merely leaving a tent unattended for a few hours.
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@stevemur
@McCainSuzanne
@ProfDBernstein
It is quite clear that “entitlement reform” here is a dishonest euphemism for cuts. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be called a “hard truth” would it?
It is a pretty big minus with respect to honesty when someone refers to cuts as reform. Trying to verbally soften the blow.
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@boncabunca
Assuming this is real, this sounds like a 1st Amendment violation by ASU. You should talk to an attorney, perhaps?
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@RepRaskin
@CongressmanRaja
@RepJamesComer
I don't think your reasoning makes sense. If an interview is public, misquotes can be corrected. If it is private, misquotes can't be corrected. (Assuming leaks, which are quite common.)
In most cases, transparency is better for ascertaining the truth compared to secrecy.
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@Noahpinion
@ryan_landay
That being the case, it looks like some sort of nightmare occurred sometime in the 1870s?
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@GaryMarcus
@Rahll
I am kind of getting the feeling you just want to see copyright used to attack AI.
If so, I don’t think it will work.
My prediction. Courts will understand that AI is generally transformative, but that specific prompt can cause output that IF FURTHER DISTRIBUTED, would violate
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@lolibural
@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
Based on some very quick research, in SF there are about 3,500 shelter beds for about 7,800 homeless. People might have a variety of reasons for avoiding shelters, including having to give up pets, being separated from their companion, or fear of crime in the shelter.
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@XeetSoundsDumb
@Cochi_Ruso7
@lyssmariiieee
Actually, that isn't what everyone is thinking.
If someone tells you that their bike was stolen, is your first response that 1) that has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt before there can be criminal punishment and 2) there are two sides to the story?
All of that is true,
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@Glace15840573
@writelikederp
@DomBro2theMax
@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
Well, you can say whatever you want. The issue is whether anyone will believe you.
It is highly believable that a homeless couple does not intend to dispose of their tent. Which is a little different from a used cigarette or something.
The law isn't as dumb as you think it is.
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@wil_da_beast630
Saying you don’t care about poor people is just the same as saying you don’t care about people.
The essence of a person is who they are, not what they own.
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@Glace15840573
@writelikederp
@DomBro2theMax
@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
A tent isn't garbage. And for property to be abandoned, a person has to manifest an intent to abandon it. Leaving something for a few hours with the intention of retrieving it later is not abandonment.
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@Noahpinion
I think we should prefer truth and reality.
That people can respond to a film that depicts the lived experience and reality of a group of individuals and call it racist shows how many on the left have elevated "performance" over reality.
Rather than actual humanity, the film is
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@sheenyp1970
@IDoTheThinking
If you are seriously suggesting that we should allow people to be injured and killed by pot holes because you think speed bumps are inadequate, I don't think you can be taken seriously.
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@Fra___
@Noahpinion
Yes, there is the issue of control. But from the perspective of the United States, we actually have more influence over what happens in Ukraine.
Because Ukraine needs our support to prevail whereas Israel is financially and militarily able to act without our support.
Aid to
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@ProfDBernstein
You aren’t wrong. Also, it is rather arbitrary to think it is a tragedy if a 17-year old is killed, but it doesn’t matter as much if it is a 19-year old.
However, I think the better point to emphasize is that if Hamas is allowed to stay in power, in the long run more people of
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@ProfDBernstein
Sorry to hear that!
I don't know why your formerly close friend would make that assumption. Maybe this kind of thing is associated with being in an ideologically one-sided academic environment...
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@Noahpinion
I don’t think cancel culture is going to work out well for advocates of it. On net, it is going to hurt their cause.
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@soychotic
@malware_yml
Pretending to drink a Starbucks does makes you seem more human. But I am afraid that it is less effective when the container is obviously empty.
Recalibrate indeed.
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@legalstyleblog
@RightsOfCanada
The US understands that when you throw around terms like sedition and treason casually, especially at your political opponents, that is the pathway by which democracy is ACTUALLY dismantled.
Democracy: You first have to kill it in order to save it???
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@LawyerDave1
@Jose_Pagliery
@shelleybleu
If he was sentenced to only four years at either level, it was too little.
When police officers commit crimes like this, it is very damaging to society. You are supposed to be able to trust the police.
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@StephenESachs
I don’t think Erie feels as personal to you as reproductive rights feel to a woman who feels like their liberty is at risk of directly decreasing.
I am NOT taking sides about who is right, but saying that there is a pretty obvious difference.
A incoming train may be a potential
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@Glace15840573
@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
You are right. The offense doesn't carry 25 to life.
But if you even did this to a homeless person, I would gladly haul you into court over it.
The point of the hypothetical was that if you think they have no rights because they are homeless, where does that thinking end?
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@_jasonwei
I think what you might be missing here might be the idea of hiring someone who specializes in helping other people to use less GPUs.
In general, optimization is its own skill set and can be specialized in.
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@helicopterdrops
@whstancil
Great point. Especially if there are restrictions on building housing, higher GDP may just make housing less affordable to those who are unskilled, as it implies greater competition for a scarce resource.
We have to look at everything.
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@growing_daniel
This is a function of the statute of limitations.
Overall, Elon Musk should have gotten and followed legal advice for ensuring that the people on his board deciding his compensation were independent.
I would be interested in the story of why that didn’t happen…
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@neurosp1ke
You shouldn’t invest too much emotionally.
If you get the job, fine. If you don’t, fine.
No single opportunity defines your career or trajectory.
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@RajeevBhatia416
@CaitlinPacific
Well, did she ever claim to take any classes from Harvard Extension School herself? What word did she provide? She went to Harvard Law School.
Based on that, how can she judge the quality of, for example, computer science classes offered by Harvard Extension School?
Things…
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@leecronin
You are misunderstanding copyright law. Copyright law doesn’t protect facts or knowledge. It protects expression.
If I get knowledge from reading many books and write my own book, I can include facts I learned from reading other books.
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@DouthatNYT
I believe the big issue is housing.
Housing is too expensive. People don’t want to have kids until they feel stable and able to live in appropriate housing for those kids.
NIMBYism hasn’t merely increased the price of rent/mortgages. It has decreased fertility.
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@Noahpinion
It turns out that immigrants have ideas of their own. Still, the idea is not completely crazy. Especially if identity were to become the basis for politics.
Overall, I tend to think things are getting better on the identity politics front, although there are prominent examples…
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@d1rtstar
@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
Your statement makes complete sense in a world where you exist by yourself, there are no rules, and there are no rules except your feelings.
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@agingdoc1
@BLaw
The question is, where does the $1,000 a month price tag come from?
If this isn't the cost of production, there is no reason this price can't be negotiated down to make it affordable.
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@GaryMarcus
Two points:
1) Napster was originally created as a blatant copyright infringer.
2) LLMS are much more transformative.
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@kelseyhightower
Also, I feel like there is another principle at play here. Avoid moving to a more complex system for a reasonable amount of time.
You can always add complexity. Creating simplicity is far harder.
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@tracewoodgrains
It sounds like you thrive on negative feedback.
That isn’t a bad thing, but you should know that such feedback can be just as performative as excessively positive feedback.
Moderation is a better policy.
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@dilanesper
Your point should be obvious.
One thing that Roe v. Wade did was allowed many on the right to indulge in impractical maximalist positions.
Even make such indulgence a litmus test in some cases.
But that isn’t going to fly politically. Not to mention, it is also really harmful.
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@Noahpinion
@SwannMarcus89
We should remember that Twitter is not real life.
That this absurd list gets engagement is because it is extreme, not because many people think like this.
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@d1rtstar
@jillian89510323
@writelikederp
@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
You don't know if the tent is stolen. You are manufacturing as many negative facts as possible to make it seems like it is OK to disregard the rights of these people whom you dislike.
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@burkov
I don’t think it is shocking. As organizations grow larger, they become more organized. And they become accustomed to routine and bureaucracy.
It should not surprise us that an organization that becomes overly comfortable with the status quo feels less urgency to innovate.
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@GaryMarcus
You are correct. You would think that human civilizations would have moved beyond religious/ethnic animosities by now.
We have a long way to go. But I think overall there has been a lot of progress. This irrational tribalism used to be even more prevalent.
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@Nolimitfredo24
@masna_khan
@lyssmariiieee
Like she said, that is the standard for court.
You aren't a jury. You don't have a prosecutor presenting all of the evidence.
If someone told you their bike was stolen, would you be like. I don't believe it?
What if they said they had a nice day?
Don't be dumb.
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@SamStoneC
@OrinKerr
I am not so sure about this.
Being able to articulate every argument as if all arguments are equally valid may reduce rather than decrease critical thinking.
Also, I have seen more straight up dishonesty in the legal profession than I like. People getting too comfortable...
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@RajeevBhatia416
@CaitlinPacific
the same school or program, different professors may have different expectations and teaching abilities.
People gravitate towards brands in order to simplify decision-making in a world where acquiring information is expensive. But relying on brands can lead to errors as well.
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@anthonyebell
@Noahpinion
It is newer and more contentious? There are other words for that, including “trendy” and “fashionable.”
Maybe a good phrase illustrating the opposite would be “intellectually serious.”
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@RajeevBhatia416
@CaitlinPacific
honors levels courses available there.
But you may be missing the most important variable of them all, and that is the student themselves. Courses are what you make them. You can mess around at a more prestigious university and you can be quite serious at a community college…
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@RajeevBhatia416
@CaitlinPacific
Well, the error was not looking at the data she used to make her judgment.
She went to Harvard Law School. That provides very limited insight (practically no insight) on what is going in at Harvard Extension School. When I went to Harvard Law School, I certainly did not take…
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@burkov
Is this a million-man month problem?
If Google assigned 10,000 engineers to the problem, would they just step on each other's toes?
Does Google really have access to more spare compute than OpenAI?
What advantage does Google have that would allow it to catch up?
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@LivitUpLeo
@_cashcarstar
@zukosmadre
Leo, we live in a democracy.
Americans have a right to have and express a minority opinion that you disagree with. That includes you and this person you are mad at.
The American public overwhelmingly supports Israel. But even if it didn’t, trying to cancel people wouldn’t work.
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@Glace15840573
@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
Good. Now that we have established that they have rights, it is clearly a serious violation to destroy someone's shelter. Especially depending on the weather.
Recall that the original hypothetical was that the person was on their block. Implying, I assume, sidewalk. Which isn't
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@CressNC
The judge says it isn’t a big deal and points out that she doesn’t have the word judge in her name.
I agree completely. Quit trying to make things that literally don’t matter into mini-scandals.
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@Noahpinion
@tszzl
"**** is a gift. **** is the road to transformation." - from Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love."
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@AlecStapp
Perhaps you have a fantasy that a future world exists in which all software in the world is developed in the United States because all programmers immigrate here.
That isn’t a realistic fantasy. And it wouldn’t be good for the world or the United States if it were realistic.
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@OrinKerr
@PrawfBainbridge
Medical schools also do academic research that the average doctor would not understand or find immediately impactful in their practice if they did understand it. The aim being long-term advancement of medical knowledge.
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@garringm
@NoahProoval
@whstancil
The rules might be, you have to give up your pet and you have to be separated if you are a couple. These are not such easy rules to comply with.
Furthermore, if a person was perfectly optimal in their thinking, they probably wouldn’t be homeless for long anyway.
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@soychotic
@marco__dev
Some fuel will be treated better than other fuel.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
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@DomBro2theMax
@Glace15840573
@writelikederp
@politicalmath
@Neoavatara
What they should be doing is figuring out a political solution of some sort.
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@SenSchumer
The real crisis is the insistence by Democrats that the solution to violence is to eliminate the 2nd Amendment and the practical right to defend yourself from it.
Look at what happened in Mexico. Dominated by drug cartels. Murder rate through the roof. And extreme gun control.
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@crampell
Couldn't we survey people to see when/if they plan on having children and why?
Maybe we are speculating about causation too much...
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@OrinKerr
@SnarkedUpLawyer
I think the point you are making is correct. A person who can see things from multiple perspectives clearly has an advantage over someone who can only from their own narrow perspective.
That said, there is also the thing that we actually think is happening in the world, even...
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@SamStoneC
@OrinKerr
downstream of law, where I have also seen more dishonesty than I would like in the profession… also, look at Trump’s lawyers… who I am not sure are as much of an outlier as we would like…
There is a balance between considering every perspective and being willing to argue…
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@PaxPerDivortium
@DouthatNYT
fertility, but it is a major factor.
People want a basic sense of economic security before having kids. And through bad public policy, we have made young people economically insecure for a greater proportion of their adult life.
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@BretDevereaux
I think the case for tenure, which in my view is an extra protection for freedom of speech, doesn't hold up very well. It is hard to be sympathetic when these universities appear to gate-keeping based on ideological considerations (suppressing competing ideas). And I just am not
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@Alexand16730477
@legalstyleblog
A lot of that "strict regulation" has been anti-competitive, especially with ideas like giving licenses to sell marijuana to people previously convicted of related crime, based on the absurd premise that providing an arbitrary tiny subset of people alleviates past harm to all.
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@LawyerDave1
Right? I think they have really good prices on duct tape if you buy it in bulk.
All the really cost-effective serial killers are Costco members.
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@ProfDBernstein
@McCainSuzanne
You do have a slight misquote.
It is “we have to do entitlement reform” not “we have to do entitlements.”
I think the word reform is used solely to make people feel better about cuts.
So, kind of the standard sort of “spin” or dishonesty that made someone like Trump seem
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@scottlincicome
@pmarca
Congratulations on massively underestimating the value of these lives.
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@burkov
I have a Tesla. And keeping it charged isn’t a big deal.
First of all, most of the time you just charge it at home. You go to sleep and it is charged up in morning. Second, charger stations are typically near shopping or other locations.
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@BretDevereaux
But the "tribute" here is each country spending more on its own national defense, not sending money to NATO itself. Right?
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@kelseyhightower
I like politics, but wish people would be more kind to each other.
Elections come and go. Important decisions are made. But the most important decisions we have the most control over involve our own lives.
People getting angry about decisions they can’t control is a recipe…
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@Noahpinion
Would love to hear you elaborate on this topic of the ways that grad school was awful (and the ways it was good) for you.
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@NeverTr74704466
@doc_gero
@IsaiahLCarter
Medical emergencies are a great reason to drive more than 10 miles over the speed limit.
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@GaryMarcus
Your theory of copyright law seems to me to both wrong and bad for human progress.
You are making it about OpenAI, but you need to think much more broadly to truly understand the implications.
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@kevinbaum013
@JamesHSLevine
Heh. I guess this is a downside (or is it an upside?) of having a really common name.
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@LivitUpLeo
@_cashcarstar
@zukosmadre
Has it occurred to you that this young bartender probably heard about what Hamas was not too long ago?
What you call denialism is probably better classified as ignorance. Cancel culture doesn’t combat ignorance, it makes people afraid to express an opinion.
And cancel culture
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@Noahpinion
It would work. But it would be highly inefficient. it takes a lot of resources to train one of these models. And isn't the present OpenAI trained on data that isn't as available as it used to be?
A new company would be better for society. I don't expect OpenAI to go anywhere.
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@Noahpinion
Do you have support for a hypothesis that the increase in carjackings is the fault of the police department?
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@dilanesper
One key here is to avoid censoring competing ideas. Ironically, anti-vaccine positions were strengthened by censorship. Same with the suppression of lab-leak theories.
Credibility, once lost, is hard to regain. And messing with the procedures for fair debate damages credibility.
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@Cactus4Math
@whstancil
Medians may be better in that it is less likely to be skewed by outliers. But you are still losing a lot of important details.
I am not against averages. But I think I would rather see things broken down into percentiles. A median is a type of percentile, just right at the 50%
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@whstancil
By "transphobia" (which means "fear of trans people") do you mean questioning whether people with penises should use a women's restroom or whether they should compete (and dominate) in women's sports? Does it mean questioning whether everyone should move to posting their
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@davidasinclair
@hubermanlab
@RobertFreundLaw
Yeah, but I don't know if Huberman should be doing commercial sponsorship at all. I get that it earns money that can be used to fund research (and other things).
We see a lot of back and forth where people argue that so-and-so doesn't really believe what they are saying, they
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@RajeevBhatia416
@CaitlinPacific
I started at a community college and I learned a huge amount there. At the end of the day, the “level” comes from student seriousness, effort, and intelligence.
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@EsotericCD
Like, what is the point?
Talking about the hypothetical pornstar, how have they harmed you specifically?
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