dukeleto
1yr ago
One has to wonder what will happen if the unions succeed in getting this stuff banned. I mean surely someone else will use the technologies and maybe someday outcompete them.
dukeleto
1yr ago
I still can’t believe that UC has actually dropped sat/act requirements, I don’t see how this can possibly be sustainable for them.
dukeleto
1yr ago
Thanks I enjoyed reading this but I think that you miss the real significance of the ruling: I agree that that elite institutions are not being egalitarian enough (I think this is what you are arguing by comparing harvards graduation rate to the seals?) and that this is resulting in too many incompetents running the countries institutions. They are also hard to change because they are mostly privately run an have huge endowments along with influential alumni networks. The ruling alone doesn’t rectify this (as trace points out university admins will try to circumvent it), but gives a future republican president enormous leverage to massively change elite universities simply by enforcing the law.
dukeleto
1yr ago
If you go to Denver you might also consider dipping into Utah, it’s a short drive to canyon lands which is probably the most beautiful part of the American southwest (just don’t go in the summer). Zion, Bryce Canyon and capital reef are also stunning. Lots of people fly to Denver tent a car visit the Rockies, drive through Utah and/or the Grand Canyon before returning from Las Vegas.
Once you step back and remember that unlike America, France IS an active colonial power ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Françafrique ) having big riots every 10 to 15 years actually seems like an endorsement of having a legal system which is blind to race.
dukeleto
1yr ago
I happen to think your correct but I wonder why they don’t just admit it?
dukeleto
1yr ago
With Wagner in the news I’m wondering why they named themselves after a German composer? I can’t find anything on this on their Wikipedia page explaining it and it doesn’t make any sense to me. Why would a Russian merc outfit name themselves after a composer who is sort of a symbol of German nationalism.
dukeleto
1yr ago
Could they have actually stopped it? Couldn’t Biden have just done a recess appointment?
dukeleto
1yr ago
I’m pretty sure no one actually gets permits to work on their homes. My dad sold his house a few years ago with a completely unpermitted fire place, the only consequence was the inspector reporting this to the buyer. No one cared and they still closed the deal.
You wouldn’t need to do anything particularly extreme, simply equipping ships with a few loud explosives (think m80 or smaller firecrackers) would still solve this problem.
dukeleto
1yr ago
It’s possible that would require Hong Kong demographics, but I think most people would be satisfied if things returned to the way they where in 2005-2010, which is obviously achievable in the us when there are better incentives.
dukeleto
1yr ago
I have wanted to write (but probably won’t since it is gradually becoming a more popular position and I’m too lazy) a post making fun of the many Motizens who seriously believe that AI is more dangerous than nuclear weapons or that nuclear weapons are less dangerous now because of the test ban treaty. I’d maybe even go further and argue that it’s (AI) is less dangerous than either biological or chemical weapons as well.
It would also be nice to throw in a little discussion about how stupid analogies that compare AI with nuclear weapons (I addressed this a little bit here https://www.themotte.org/post/454/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/88276?context=8#context ) and how unsuitable an arms control treaty would be for regulating AI
dukeleto
1yr ago
I strongly agree with the second point, I work for a national lab and it is so hard to find US citizens/green card holders to do scientific work. I believe universities bear a lot of the blame for this situation, because they so aggressive use international students to keep graduate student compensation down (I myself dropped out of a PhD to make more money, this option simply isn’t available to international students)
dukeleto
1yr ago
My experience since leaving graduate school a year ago has been the same, but let me tell you academia is so bad. That was an environment that really was as bad as or worse than twitter and I’m scared that it will some day come for the private sector.
dukeleto
1yr ago
That’s a pretty strong claim, do you have any evidence that ozempic or this drug doesn’t actually work?
dukeleto
1yr ago
I have been medicated for ADHD more or less continuously for the last six years. Due to a move I started seeing a new psychiatrist who I want to fire because they require a monthly tele health medication management appointment along with random drug screens, both of which are an enormous waste of my time (previously I used to see someone every three months which as I understand it is the legal requirement and in the last six years I have never been asked to do a drug screen).
I’m wondering if any of the much discussed telehealth pill mills (I.e circlemedical etc.) are actually a convenient option or if the new dea rules have essentially ruined them. Essentially, I want to continue my current medication (vyvanse 40 Mg) while minimizing the amount of time I need to spend dealing with bullshit. A related question is does anyone have advice on how to doctor shop more effectively? In the past I always either saw a university provided psychiatrist or just picked someone off of my health plans directory. This approach has worked (sample size 3 providers) until now. I have excellent health insurance through work which I would obviously prefer to use, but don’t mind paying out of my pocket if it actually simplifies my life.
dukeleto
1yr ago
Just move out of California, there are plenty of other places in the us where the law is enforced and you don’t have to deal with all of the stupid low trust bullshit. I’m saying this as someone who left the Bay Area around a year before the pandemic and has since lived in various places in Colorado and now Summerlin Las Vegas.
dukeleto
1yr ago
The only Canadian show I can name off the top of my head is the Trailer Park Boys and I’m not even sure if it’s a cbc production
dukeleto
1yr ago
I think this is a very naive take. For one thing hpc (high performance computing) has an absurd number of useful applications (I’ll pick drug discovery as one example) that have little or nothing to do with AI.
And unlike nuclear weapons, there isn’t any way to prohibit there use in warfare, it isn’t possible to nuke someone without the rest of the world noticing. Contrast this with AI, how could you prove that entity x is using ml for military purposes? Let’s say country x has a AI that analyzes satellite imagery perfectly, you wouldn’t ever be able to prove this they can just claim that they have very good analysts. You would effectively be creating a policy that military applications are the only allowed use for AI.
I assert that most people currently making a stink about this (I.e. Elon musk) are upset because they realize that they are behind the curve and want some breathing room to try and monopolize this technology.
I mean imagine these kinds of people suggesting the need for government licensesing for literally anything else.
Also to riff a little more on the analogy with nuclear materials (which I happen to think is a bad analogy, you need lots of gpus to build a super computer, a dangerous quantity of nuclear materials will fit in a backpack or purse): while it seems obvious to me that you need to heavily regulate nuclear materials it’s also possible to end up in situations like the one we have now where the only real innovation is in connection to the military (us subs and aircraft carriers are powered by amazing small modular reactors which the rest of society is only just now debating using else where).
dukeleto
1yr ago
How is it? I really enjoyed the path to power but got very bored during the means of ascent (maybe I should just skip to a later chapter? The early material spends a lot of time regurgitating things from path to power)
dukeleto
1yr ago
I wonder how many other stimulants are effected? There are many adderall substitutes on the market. I take vyvanse and haven’t had any issues filling it throughout this crisis.
One could argue that this has extended to other domains, with exhibit 1 being Kamala Harris. Like she must be pretending to be dumb right? I need to find a video of her in court at some point, there is no way the California attorney general was this incompetent.
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