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Terrorism didn't work after the civil war. The north was able to occupy the south indefinitely with minimal cost. >the number of shootings that involve misogyny, which is the enfor…

None of these examples got away with it, or even acheived any of their stated goals. If terrorism actually worked, it would be a lot scarier. Also fortunately most political extrem…

I love the idea we will soon have western and eastern open source projects. Even if internet isn't bifurcated, both sides will be too paranoid to install software from the other si…

Small NNs are very fast. This particular NN only has 4 inputs, 2 hidden, and 2 outputs. That's what, 12 multiplications per pass? If you can compress your input down to a few varia…

So far as I have heard, the UK went way harder into lockdowns and other measures than the US. And from what I saw, what happened to the US was insane. Everything was closed down fo…

The UK is still under covid restrictions and went into a huge amount of debt during the crisis. The events are not remotely comparable.

Just take the last thing in this article. It links to an obscure blog by some crazy person that hasn't updated in 4 years. What's the point of this? Cruelly mocking some mentally i…

Predicting the supreme court would become more conservative during a conservative presidency and senate was not a hard prediction. Ginsberg was known to be in poor health, but I gu…

Are we seriously going to criticize a tab completion engine because it doesn't perfectly calculate what the phases of the moon are? Can you? I'm amazed it even knows what that mean…

>I seriously doubt that no one raised the concerns that are raised today during the development of Copilot. I would be shocked if they did. The common wisdom in the ML community is…

The pirate bay is very clear to not claim any responsibility for what people post on their site. That's how they get away with it.

If you do get sued, the Copilot page is written in a way that would make Github legally responsible for it, not you. "Just like with a compiler, the output of your use of GitHub Co…

All of these issues have existed since GPT-2, maybe earlier. I remember the AI dungeon guys narrowly avoided a lawsuit from training on copyrighted novels. I find it amusing that t…

How do you know it's "just a code search engine"? Or "not AI" or "not learning and producing new things", or all the other claims people are making about it? All of these are essen…

I fully admit that it is a back of a napkin estimate. I've yet to see a better attempt at an estimation, or any attempt really. If you have a better way I'm happy to hear it. I hav…

I have been paid $3,232 to sit at home and do nothing the last month. Not including the stimulus check I haven't cashed yet. I would have made about $3,000 in the same time. That i…

Even in your extreme example all of the deaths would have to be extremely old people to work out like that. People that statistically have very very few years left. And for your ex…

US unemployment is extremely generous.

The average age of death of coronavirus victims was about 10 months younger than the average age of death of non-coronavirus victims. So if you die it takes 1 year off your life ex…

Many would argue the kinder egg ban is uunconstitutional. And stuff like is supposed to be left up to the states. But who's willing to fight for the kinder eggs?

>The account has falsely accused...The conspiracy theory..., has been widely characterized as "baseless",[11][12][13] "unhinged"[14] and "evidence-free".[15] Its proponents have be…

Rationalwiki isnt exactly an unbiased resource to put it lightly.

The papers abstract is a bit more interesting than this summary. It looks like they compared 14 studies of reaction time over decades, not just Galtons: https://www.sciencedirect.c…

From my point of view most western nations are extremely liberal politically. Compared to how they were historically and compared to other countries.

No there really was a time a few decades ago when republican professors and democrat professors weren't under or overrepresented by more than a factor of 2. Now it's something like…