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I'm also curious what it really means to have CPS called on you. People talk about it like it's a foregone conclusion that they'll take your kids away. I just can't believe they wo…

I've long expected Waymo's approach to prevail simply because - aside from whether vision-only proves good enough to some standard - it will be easy to lobby for regulations that f…

How does #3 square with Anthropic's literal warehouse full of books we've seen from the copyright case? Did OpenAI scan more books? Or did they take a shadier route of training on …

Why do I see so many critiques of the abundance movement based on factional motives and ad hominem, and so little critique of the arguments they make? If progressives want to expan…

The value of AI is easy to see personally, concretely. But there is always a gap between concrete value in your hands and how that plays out in larger systems. The ability to work …

It's far from simple. There is no clear delineation between food and non-food offered by saying Doritos are a science experiment. Is an ear of corn real food? It has of course been…

If you're implying the marginal cost of a 6-hour AV errand is almost zero, I think you're describing a prosperous future. This is also easily managed with congestion pricing.

I've seen it discussed on Twitter for a while, mostly on the right. As best I can tell it is related to a general trend toward distrust of big agriculture, big pharma, big institut…

Most people do not have elite resumes and most people are not hiring people with elite resumes. There's plenty of uncertainty in hiring in general, and that being the case with boo…

Unless EMG signal processing has had some breakthrough in the past 10 years, it is not a very precise interaction mode. I worked in a lab developing it for quadriplegics to use wit…

Microplastics seem bad. The evidence of adverse effects seems marginal. But in the bigger picture, plastics provide enormous wealth to the world. We should look for ways to mitigat…

It's worth considering that throughout history there have been people who have felt this way. That suggests this perception is a natural tendency of humans and it does not have a g…

This is actually a common dynamic between humans, especially when there is a status or knowledge imbalance. If you do user interviews, one of the most important skills is not injec…

"Small n" is not always a problem. They are not trying to tease out a small effect size between two treatments. This is a strong signal -- literally children can now hear when they…

That may have been critical to forming the network but not for maintaining it. As long as the consumer UX is good (which is a big assumption I have no idea about), the creators wil…

In practice, peer review isn't even that. Most referees are not double-checking your statistical analysis. What they focus on is whether the research is interesting and has it appr…

This assumes everyone sees all the headlines. This approach is very bad for people paying attention, but the type of people to pay attention to this kind of news would probably be …

Is there a better study you can point to? From what I remember looking into this topic the research has always provided ambiguous results with lots of context-dependence.

The marginal value to your career of a day's work is probably highest during your notice period, because of the opportunity for a last impression on your network for future job ref…

This is exactly the kind of weak external validity that has caused much of the replication crisis.

"AI Robot cops show implicit bias resulting in 3 deaths" is a headline today if you remove the AI robot part. As evidenced by the comments in this thread and any other on these rob…

"What you have built is illegal" is hardly the same as "I don't believe in your vision."

I'm sorry but why should we take WSB posters at their word? Here's an alternate view (also from a reddit post): "WSB's power users are younger finance bros. It's 30s investment ban…