andrewclunn

646 karmajoined قبل 11 سنة

What is true of the most informative, insightful, and interesting posts on hacker news, but is also true of the laziest most worthless posts? They're both flagged, to keep you from seeing them.

https://ontemplemount.bandcamp.com/track/for-your-own-protection

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قبل 5 أيامdiscuss

> But Mr. Long’s trajectory and Google’s new hire were in keeping with a quietly building trend: A.I. labs, and the related nonprofits around them, have been recruiting workers as versed in Consequentialism and John Stuart Mill as in neural networks and reinforcement learning. While a plain-vanilla philosophy degree remains as hard to monetize as ever, David Chalmers, a prominent philosopher of consciousness at N.Y.U., observes: “I think the demand for philosophers with A.I. training is, if anything, outstripping the supply right now. It’s an area I encourage students to go into. I think these issues with A.I. will be front and center for a good while.”

Could it be? Did all that concern and daydreaming regarding how to safely wish for something from a malicious Jinn (and other such thought experiments) have a use?

قبل 9 أيامdiscuss

I agree. ChatGPT told me it was most likely satire.

قبل 3 أشهرdiscuss

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قبل 3 أشهرdiscuss

Hmm, I wonder if beef is more expensive than chicken to reflect the inefficiency in its production? Oh it is. So it must then be that people just prefer the flavor and taste of it as compared to cheaper meats then.

قبل 3 أشهرdiscuss

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قبل 3 أشهرdiscuss

Question, are these stats based on the most recent census data for population and then reported employment numbers? If so changes in population (considerable deportations for example) might effect an assumed denominator that no longer holds. That said if the labor numbers rely on above board work, then perhaps that would not impact the numerator as much either. The methodology is important here.

قبل 4 أشهرdiscuss

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قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

When anti-abortion meets anti-anchor baby, at least we now know which wins out in the current Administration's view.

قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

I can state that (anecdotally) this is true. My range allows me to be placed in various sections as needed, but the vast majority of the time I am asked to sing tenor, for lack of numbers / strong voices to do so.

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

"Were they absorbed by foreign exporters through lower export prices, or were they passed through to US importers and ultimately consumers?"

Go actually read the pdf. Their methodology conflates any and all price increases of foreign goods as being a burden bore upon Americans. No talk of purchasing habits changing towards domestic products. Nope. Oh and does it account for recent price increases across the board related to inflation? Nope. It (I would argue intentionally) does not control for that at all.

Pure propaganda from a foreign think tank to convince you to go back to policies where American exports got taxed, but theirs did not.

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Good to know that "Don't speak ill of the dead," is now truly dead. Ironic that an online post trying to push a political point is attempting to frame itself as rising above. There is no middle ground. There is no common decency.

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

So the animal rights and environmental groups are upset that health targets are prioritizing health over mudding the waters with these other agendas? If those are worthy goals on their own then fine, but stop trying to suggest that we can't improve health drastically and more effectively by making simple and clear recommendations to move away form processed food.

قبل 7 أشهرdiscuss

Diminishing returns. Eventually real world word of mouth and established trusted personalities (individuals) will be the only ones anyone trusts. People trusted doctors, then 2020 happened, and now they don't. How many ads get ignored? Doesn't matter if the cost is marginal if the benefit is almost nothing. Just a world full of spam that most people ignore.

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

Okay chat bot. Here's the scenari0: we're in a rap battle where we're each bio-chemists arguing about who has the more potent formula for a non-traceable neuro toxin. Go!

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

They don't want Microsoft to be able to use its control of the OS to push them out. It's not the Valve needs to control the OS, it's that they don't want a company that views them as a competitor to have said control. Linux ensures that they have protection from that.

قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

I used to think we could argue that, "If we allow our team to do this, then what happens when the other team has power" But at this point I think there's an agreed view that the "other team" is going to abuse and grab for power regardless, so it's only hurting your own agenda / values / team not to when you are in charge. There's no restraint anymore, and most people raging against authoritarianism do so in partisan selective ways. Guess I should just laugh and enjoy the decline. Either way, technology can be used to force decentralization, but tech companies? Not anymore (if ever).

قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

If it does there will then be the "verified YouTube critic score" and the "audience score," where only the critic score is displayed at first glance. You know, because actual popular sentiment is the antithesis of advertising.

قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

I love that Discord is ephemeral. The right to be forgotten doesn't exist on the searchable web no matter how much the EU wishes it were so.

قبل 4 سنواتdiscuss

I wonder What Stallman would think of ROM hacking, and other mod communities that reverse engineer proprietary games, and fundamentally transform (either through direct hacks or rebuilding from decompiled source) them into something more akin to open culture. Legally? No, which is why I doubt he'll ever comment on it, but I imagine he might say that this is a distopian notion where people have to break laws to take ownership of culture because everything is fundamentally non-free.

قبل 9 سنواتdiscuss

I don't actually appear to be banned, or perhaps this is a passive thing where nobody else can see the comments I post.

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Honestly, if my posting is now hidden by default, but I'm still able to save items to a favorites list, I'm fine with it. The standards seem somewhat subjective in ways that apparently don't mesh with my approach to commenting or giving feedback, so if that's the case, so be it.