sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
My biggest frustration with the current state of AI discourse is that words mean things and that so much of the current discourse seems to be shaped by mid-wits with degrees in business, philosophy, psychology, or some other soft subject, who clearly do not understand what they are talking about. (Geoffrey Hinton being the quintessential example of the type)
Huh? Hinton's education is not the hardest of subjects, but surely his career demonstrates that he's not a midwit.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
So you think that stored emotional trauma causes, say, leukemia? Or cystic fibrosis?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Seems plausible that it's all scammers for some chronic diseases but not others.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
But that just moves the question back a step. Why did those specific images make their way to declassification and not others? No way to know until we actually see all the redacted images.
Well...
Note that 4 videos including Gimbal were leaked before being declassified, so it doesn't seem like they're cherrypicking the least convincing videos to release.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
The question isn't where it came from, but who's doing the shoving.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
I sincerely doubt Americans are shoving Halloween into your country.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Purge voter rolls of noncitizens annually
Huh? Who are the noncitizens on voter rolls? I've never heard this particular claim.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Also, in most regions, the alleged "natives" had displaced, up to and including full genocide, a different group that lived there before. The entire concept is just ridiculous.
Likely true but impossible to prove to a motivated reasoner. No witnesses, no written record - the perfect crime.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Ballots are already multiple pages, you could easily split it into enough pages so that no page could identify anyone.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Wait, there's no reason that your entire ballot needs to be published, right? Publishing the vote tallies for each race separately is sufficient. If there's no association between the choices you make in each race I hardly see the privacy concerns.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
The city is wholly contained in the county, so that adds no information. Same likely goes for judges and many statewide offices. Never seen elections for hospital districts.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
You've had a debate (presumably on the merits of the claims) a thousand times and you remain unconvinced, yet you claim that everyone would be ok with it if the court would just listen to arguments? Seems more likely that people will just say the court is biased and keep believing.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
I've never seen a ballot that has anything more local than city elections, so I can't imagine how it would be a privacy issue unless you've got a city of like ten people. I doubt that intersecting the city and senate district or whatever will result in a small set of people.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
I don't think anyone would benefit from this guy asking Kamala Harris the same question for an hour.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
I just don't see how asking the same question twelve times is better than asking it three times. Has anyone ever answered a question on the fourth time after dodging thrice?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Presidential candidate jeopardy would be enormously interesting.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
What is the point? This isn't a CIA black site, ve don't have vays of making you talk. It's already obvious she's dodging the question.
Also I hate to be pedantic but a question with a number for an answer doesn't have a finite set of answers.
I lied, I don't hate to be pedantic.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
What is a closed question?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
How hardball can you really get? The man asked her the same question three times. If she can't answer it in a coherent way with three at-bats it is unlikely she'll be able to come up with anything more coherent if you ask her this question ten more times, and it's evidence enough of whatever qualities an interview is supposed to show. He who has ears, let him listen.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Especially given the recent period of high inflation has redistributed wealth like nobody's business.
Inflation is excellent for debtors, and a lot of Americans are debtors.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Sometimes those things happen. But there are also times when they don't happen... I wouldn't want my children to get in the habit of consulting a table of probabilities detailing the likelihood of a positive outcome before they make decisions
You... Wouldn't want your kids to consider risks before taking actions? Would you be okay with them smoking fent, or is there just some point at which it becomes "obviously regrettable"?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
That would depend entirely on the sorority.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
If profits incentivize so much bad behavior, then maybe we just need to chill on the profits for a while. Take a break. It won't be the end of the world. Share some of the excess cash with your employees, or invest it in a scientific or artistic endeavor of your choosing, or just burn it for all I care, it doesn't matter much.
I agree. I put forth the following modest proposal: require by law that every American send me (personally) a dollar. It's hardly any money at all, it can't matter to just about anyone. I'm even more generous than the longshoremen - I don't demand it in perpetuity, just a single lump sum.
The film analog of ISO is actually ISO. Films come with different sizes of silver halide crystal grains. Bigger grains collect light faster and are therefore more sensitive, at the cost of having your photo be grainier. The biological analog would be if we could increase the size of our rods and cones at will to gather more light per cell.
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