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Where is the information going to come from though? LLMs aren't primary sources, they consume and regurgitate.

There's still inequality in someone else receiving a false positive approval from the AI while another gets rejected. Equal treatment and stochastic systems don't mix.

That's a fine philosophy on a personal level, but if the labor market is shocked for entire sectors there's not enough slack in the system for all of those people to adapt at once.…

Sometimes the medium is the message though. Especially in literature, prose matters. It's not just about what is said but also how. This applies even in "low" art. AI generated ima…

I don't think the extra production cost, for the Odyssey at least, is likely to be offset by extra box office income. If you read about it, the massive cameras and limited running …

This is out of my area of expertise a bit, but digitization quality loss often depends on whether you quantize things, at what level of fidelity and also what kind of transformatio…

You can't prove a negative. How would such a log be convincing in any way?

I'm very interested in their anonymization and classification processes. Traditionally, conversational writing is too complex to anonymize automatically without false negatives, an…

Have you ever done research? It's very difficult to construct your measurements in such a way that they measure what you want them to. So in just your quoted statement there are ma…

You can still get your session cookies stolen. If you have good password hygiene passkeys only protect you in extremely niche scenarios.

OK now say you're on a work/library/friend's computer and you want to look up an account in 1password on your phone so you can type in the password. Passkeys don't support this ver…

Wrong hands? The model did this on a benign instruction. We're going to get paperclip maximized once these things get capable enough regardless of whether bad actors are involved.

Ignoring patent law has done great things for 16th century continental Europe and more recently China. Rent-seekers and ladder kickers shouldn't always be respected, they'll slow d…

Ethics are probably internalized long before someone commits to an engineering career. I'm not sure they can be taught later.

That's a very mercenary attitude. If less than 2% of your (potential) users had a particular disability, would you implement accessibility features for them without being forced to…

Or it's self-dealing from these funding parties, and the hiring is business continuing as usual. My understanding is that one of the advantages of being VC funded is that sales amo…

That's positively incoherent. You can't even interpret an instruction without relying on prior knowledge. Not to mention LLM's are in essence made of knowledge.

Relaxation isn't really a goal of meditation. When you do it you cultivate a kind of meta-cognition, an awareness of - and control over - the kind of invasive thinking that usually…

Exactly, this is called a marginal effect and it's very relevant for our bodies which basically need their homeostasis disrupted to be prompted to adapt.

That's what swap is for.

In the past with harmful refrigerants and lack of renewable energy AC simply was not justifiable in most of Europe. Progress on both fronts plus global warming is changing that onl…

There is a more nuanced argument against deportation as a policy. First of all it causes migrants to destroy their documentation and to be less coöperative with the immigration pro…

Rising demand induces inflation because more money is chasing the same goods.

It's not just minimum wages. If productive sector employees' demand for goods causes inflation, prices will rise. If you want to keep your nurses/doormen/teachers you'll have to in…

I've been to staffless hotels (numa) that were good and noticeably more affordable than their neighbors. I don't know if the housekeeping was outsourced though, I imagine that, wit…