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Sorry to ask again but which informal fallacy does it seem to you that I am using in my first statement? There are several [0]. In the interest of understanding, maybe I can make m…

This rephrasing is directly unhelpful to the goal of empathy for the humans caught in the change. If we come off as insensitive we will have no hope of influencing people. Also if …

Those are some strong claims to make without so much as listing, much less explaining or sourcing, the negative outcomes you so positively forecast. Also outcomes are generally not…

Approaching significant change with humanity asks us to have empathy for many emotions at once. With respect to LLMs & other generative models those include but aren't limited to: …

Wealth follows an extreme power law. This tax is pennies to those who will pay it.

For startets, the revenue raised makes NYC as a city more sustainable by funding social programs for the normal people who keep the lights on.

This's certainly a betrayal of their community. But they got bought out. By the tech equivalent of private equity. Every community in the USA & in most of the world is aware what h…

Modern transformer-based STT architectures are complex but many are abstractly not entirely unlike putting the results of standard SST through an LLM with the prompt "clean this up…

I played Nethack quite a bit as a teen but was never patient enough to ascend. Always YASD. I revisited the game a few years ago & was happy to realize I had, in the meantime, grow…

I've wondered the same. A look at his contemporary media quotes gives maybe a hint. From Navalny: "It is difficult for me to understand exactly what is going on in [Putin's] mind. …

Keep in mind that an organization made of fairly nice people may do terribly not-nice things. "Just doing my job" is a hell of a drug.

This is exactly true in my experience! The usefulness of AI varies wildly depending on the complexity, correctness-requirements, & especially novelty of the domain. This attribute …

Who is surprised by this? Surely you don't imagine a woman who dared to call her boss a rich jerk was surprised when he retaliated! US women are taught very young how powerful men …

It's not that complicated, really. The value of Art is human connection. The same basic desire that drives love, belonging, pride, shame, & hate. All of these are diminished as the…

AI is being pushed forcefully on K-12 teachers and the effect education quality is horrible. Some teachers, including my cousin, refuse to use the AI tools but most don't. The resu…

Generally I understand the missing factor to be a control thing. Th power structure that makes up a typical owners-vs-employees company demands that every employee be replacable. D…

So you may mean well but a comment repeating the (debatable) negative impacts of rent control really comes off as silly in a thread about the realpage cartel (price fixing is worse…

To add to other comments, gun violence has a massive mental health component for which preventative treatment can save many lives. Of course it warrants study! And given the well-d…

This is an important topic. I wonder what it is that makes duopoly so prevalent in tech e.g. Apple vs Google for mobile, Apple vs Microsoft for desktop, Uber vs Lyft for ride shari…

Ultimately the attitude of self-restraint called for in the article seems near-impossible: modern capitalism puts companies in a desperate race for dominance, and modern foreign po…

My gut is this comes down to lack of real antitrust enforcement. If your customers have no choice but to come crawling back to you then why treat them well?

If you'd be so kind as to share, I'm very interested in any common threads you may see in the people who ultimately crash back down. I grew up in pretty extreme poverty, got a big …

Their routers only have this feature because the internet providers who sell those routers pay for bandwidth themselves lol. If residential internet plans sold on a pay-per-byte ba…

From what I gather, life for most of these "regular people" in Germany was still very much in the tolerable range until well into WWII. This was a very weird realization and one th…

Honestly fair enough. Pay package over principles does pretty well describe the policy of far too many of the colleagues I've worked with over the years.