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You could imagine that pre-diagnosis confusion relating to Alzheimer's increases the risk of traffic accident and kills taxi drivers, too. Might not operate for truckers as much be…

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Okay, if it's bad for the price they're offering, use the more expensive API. If they themselves can't afford it I don't know what you want here.

That was very much on the table, though not locked in.

The US's population is not declining. However, without immigration, our population growth would be very close to zero, and a yet lower rate of natural increase is locked in over th…

I mean, he was pretty vindicated on Uber. Which kind of hurts me to say, I was a long time Uber bear. But it did indeed emerge from the pandemic stronger.

Sure. But that's not the subject.

They learn during training, which is what we're talking about.

You're confusing the training method with the internal process. If I had you repeatedly attempt to learn how to make believable completions of partial documents about a given topic…

Copper is expensive, and the manufacturing process sounds finicky.

It'd be interesting to try to imagine a Venusian colonization that's like two separated levels: an atmospheric area where most people live and where you grow food, and then a subte…

Not really. It's turn-based and hex-based.

People also do some really stupid things, I'll just throw out. But it also kind of sounds like you're just saying that there's a scalar of "get a little better" before you'd trust …

Genuine question: is there a big inherent difference between "I don't understand this thing but I think this other human does," and "I don't understand this but I think this other …

Quick heuristic for someone who claims that their AI is conscious: do they claim it's "a gender that they are not attracted to"?

Amazon isn't a monopoly, it has 8% of retail in the US. There's no real evidence that this trade was made by Buffet himself, and it's part of a general major sell-off of Amazon tha…

These just aren't the relevant concerns behind Amazon's stock performance in the last month. It's the capex.

Nonsense. There are lots of things that you need more than three strikes for, especially on a platform that you expect to use for decades. I'm not here to say that Facebook's enfor…

No? Like, I'd think that was a bad policy for murder in particular, but "we don't allow things but we give you a lot of chances to correct your behavior" is ordinary.

Native population is declining (and prime-age workforce is retiring), and the Trump admin has been extensively working to reduce the size of the immigrant workforce. So the unemplo…

The in-industry terms for these are "brand marketing" and "performance marketing," FWIW. Brand marketing is the first thing, performance marketing is what you're calling sales.

Price discrimination is bad. It's worth trying to ban. You'll never stop 100% of it (and trying to go too over-the-top in terms of stopping it would not be worthwhile), but this is…

On some level the headline is like "yeah, no shit," but the surprising thing is the claimed strength of the effect. 50% absenteeism increase for missing a birthday congratulations?…

Apropos of nothing besides the mention of Disco Elysium, I present to you the best item in a CRPG: https://discoelysium.fandom.com/wiki/Volumetric_Shit_Compres...

The US has enriched a vastly larger number of software engineers through at will employment that Europe has through making it very hard to fire people who aren't adding value.