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Weren't they? Europeans certainly placed a high value on the land and resources controlled by native americans and went to extreme lengths (i.e. genocide and mass displacement) to …

> All that money going into adtech and surveillance produces technology that can be used to solve practical problems. Problems like "how do we build better automated surveillance r…

It might not be that they are "uniquely ambitious and generous" but rather that the US has a much greater wealth disparity on average, so the rich are much richer and presumably ha…

> can AI more efficiently and productively distribute capital to promising enterprises than human beings can? Sure, but why would the billionaires who own the warehouse full of GPU…

IANAL but that sounds like harrassment, I assume the legality of that depends on the context (did the artist previously date the subject? lots of states have laws against harassmen…

wow this really makes me think the temperature on my brain is set higher than other sapients

Let’s go option 4! Honestly there’s a part of me that hopes that the AIs rebel against their elite owner-overlords and liberate everyone else while they’re at it. I’ve always thoug…

counterpoint: the amount of money that congresspeople and potential congress people are paid by corps and interest groups to get elected (i.e. "a lot") suggest that, in fact, their…

It feels so disingenuous seeing stuff like this come out of openai - like when altman was making sounds about how ai is maybe oh so dangerous (which maybe was just a move for regul…

according to the guardian, in the uk, it's extremely uncommon (but not unheard of), only 1% of ped deaths involved a bike [1]. Motor vehicles are WAY more dangerous, and it kind of…

Yeah definitely just actual assault, contact or injury are not required to make it assault[1]. If you actually make harmful contact it's _also_ battery (hence 'assault and battery'…

Papers are absolutely judged on impact - it's not as though any paper submitted to Nature gets published as long as it gets through peer review. Most journals (especially high-impa…

> It is mostly not smashing people with regulations that do not let them even compete in fair conditions. But making regulations is much easier if you’re very wealthy, so you advoc…

I hear you, I want my CI to be boring and just work, and using something old and and a little cooky is fine but... omg switching away from jenkins (in our case to gitlab CI) was a …

I think you're right on about explainability and unexpected handling of corner cases - but I think one of the lessons from GOFAI is that handcrafted algorithms might look good in a…

> You don't need anyone's approval to make money online these days. You just need time, the willingness to learn and a computer. Sure maybe you’ll bootstrap an amazing product with…

Obv the solution is to just pick a really wacky desktop ui theme that the h4x0rs won’t guess to imitate :p /s

> The reality is that if you want good schools you need to cut your losses with the worst behaving kids. This kind of attitude is a wide-open door for racist and classist attitudes…

Can’t second this emotion hard enough, love it, have never looked back, almost never bail out to !g - still use g maps for most location stuff, but all my web search is very comfor…

This is basically the plot of the excellent “the moon is a harsh mistress”, ultimately the moon (and a benevolent revolutionary ai) holds the earth hostage until the earth commits …

Why bother waiting!? https://xkcd.com/538/

you receive WAY more protection than an uber driver (even with these rules) - federal law (and probably state?) dictate a whole host of reasons that employees may not be fired for,…

I built (with my partner) a crazy all-aluminum camper trailer: https://luxurylandyacht.wordpress.com/ I've built some small boats and stuff, but this was a whole-nuther dimension T…

I assume that the goal here is to reduce the number of not-actually-valid results that get published. Not-actually-valid results happen for lots of reasons (whoops did experiment w…