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A lot of them have rules forcing them to have some amount of exposure to indexes of a market, or all entries in a market.

There are MAJOR rule changes made to allow them to do this (90 day wait-time reduced to 5 days, financial stability requirements lowered or removed), which is why automated rules like that were created ("oh, if they make it to X, they were already vetted for Y, Z").

A lot of people are throwing a lot of trust and reputation on the bonfire to make this happen.

Archive.is has some kind of phone tracking CAPTCHA.

So now what, a phone is proof of humanity? How is that not defeated by botfarms in an hour, alongside tracking you, as well as a horrible UX?

I hate modern surveillance capitalism.

No.

How about measuring the political bias in base reality?

We want Claude to be seen as fair and trustworthy by people across the political spectrum, and to be unbiased and even-handed in its approach to political topics.

So, a lot of 'seems' rather than 'is.' They are training this to be non-offensive, based on some weird moral / media takes that shift year to year, political cycle to political cycle to political cycle. Not for bring forthright and fact based.

Wow. This would be 'meh' if it was some weird individual. This is a 'whitehouse.gov' domain. This our our the Trump Administration folks. Acting like immature 13 year old, and making jokes no one under 40. And doing it using federal resources to do political party activities.

After decades of 'proprietary, respect, professionalism', this kind of childishness is just gross and embarrassing.

This is a false dichotomy presented to people. By framing this as 'Giant government, or giant business?" you are going to get crap answers.

None of these are one size fits all solutions, and there should be a mix. We have a working patch-work of laws in physical space, for a reason. It allow flexibility, and adjustments as we go, as the world changes. We should extended that to virtual space as well.

Age / Content Labeling and opt-in/ opt-out for some content. Outright ban on other kinds of content. A similar "I sue when you abuse my content" for copyright, impersonation, etc.

One size does not fit all, and is not how the real world works. Online shouldn't work much differently.

Great, please apply this to yourself, and livestream all of the time, leave the rest of us out of this.

People don't have one standard of behavior. I won't tell my kid jokes, I tell my wife. I won't complain about people in public, the way I vent to my sister (who gets it is just me venting, not how I feel all the time". I am not going to speak to a cop as I'm getting a speeding ticket, they way I will talk to one who is harassing a friend at a parade.

I won't talk to / about a co-worker in a meeting, the way I talk to someone he just (rightly, but very meanly) chewed out, and who needs a boss who listens, or will I talk to him in a meeting the way I will (a tad later) chew him out for making a coworker cry.

This take is so naive and emotionally / socially unintelligent about human behavior in various situations.

This is the fascist dream. Who defines 'Best Behavior?' Whoever owns the cameras, and the cops.

Criticize the president? Not best behavior. Kiss someone of your sex/gender? Not best behavior. Call AI stupid? Not best behavior. Whistleblower on out a deadly chemical leak? Not best behavior. Disagree with a politician? Not best behavior. Defined LGBTQ+ people's rights? Not best behavior. Criticize Isreal ? Not best behavior.

They are going to define "best behavior" in a way that never threatens their feelings, let alone threatens their powers, if you let them.

Folks; use some common sense.

Results that are too good to be true! The probably are. If this study was reproducible (it is not) someone would have started using it, bragging about it, and we would have 'recovery vacations' to cruise lines that would de-age us by years.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and this just isn't it.

(Hat tip to to patel011393 for getting this link out there first: https://www.pubpeer.com/search?q=ellen+langer )

cool (not really true) story. Cool anecdote. Not science.

"This article is like saying an apartment complex isn’t “losing money” because the monthly rents cover operating costs but ignoring the cost of the building. Most real estate developments go bust because the developers can’t pay the mortgage payment, not because they’re negative on operating costs."

Exactly the analogy I was going to make. :)

I read all the articles. I didn't see any mentioning red tape, or regulations.* All that talk of 'regulations' and 'red tape' is a guess.

This stink of a "Low priority project use as a place-holder, but as soon as even a mouse-sneeze comes up, the resources are put to a better used, and it is kicked down the road"

But (as you say) we are all pre-trained to assume 'red tape / regulations' so we back-fill that explanation, even with no evidence.

*(I Wouldn't mind a second reader, read them fast and searched, may have missed something.)

Folks; Yeah this is a run of the mill dead low-priority project. It happens in private industry, capitalism, communism, the roman empire, etc. Only because government is out in the open, it is easy to see.

I don't have proof, but this stinks of 'Failed project used as a place-holder for schedule slop'. I see is so so so many places.

Somebody, or a lot of somebodies knows this [Refactor AIP / Electric Charge Lot] is not a good idea. Instead of saying 'It's dead' it gets used as a buffer in the project plan. Oh it's there, and if things are every slow enough, it will happen. But even a mouse sneeze will move it out a year, to make budget [time, or $$$ ] for something useful.

Once a year the [ boss / newspaper] will ask "Oh what about, [refactor / Parking Lot]' and somewhere points to the start and end date on the chart. But it's not a priority, and is a placeholder job that gets bumped and shifted for priority work.

It is all over the place, since time began. WWII had it. The Revolutionary War had it. Ford has it. Roman Empire had it. Lockheed Martin has it. Hell, your own house projects have it.

This is just 'A dead project is a placeholder since the org is bad at planning.' It is everywhere.

God. This isn't AI. None of this is AI. This is dumb sketchy LLM, and the fact that they are destroying the term 'AI' bu building things well short of it, and lying about it, makes me sad.

These comments are such an amazing show of very knowledgable and wise people, and complete moppets that have no clue, and can't stop playing expert on things they have no clue on.

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""" A new progressivism embracing construction over obstruction must find new allegories for technology and the future """

WTF? Somebody needs to touch some !@#@%^ grass. Like roll around in it for hours, maybe smoke some (legal) weed before hand.

It's sci-fi entertainment, for crying out Louis, not a political or philosophy movement.

Get over it, get outside, and go hug a tree.

wrong post :facepalm:

I love how everything is just "AI" now. Machine Learning? AI Random Forest models: AI Some basic curve fitting? AI People in India Mechanical Turk-ing responses ? AI. A guy in a van running the robot pouring you a drink? AI.

Folks, those buildings can be empty, either as a mind!@#% or just crazy future capacity forecasts that may not be real.

Watching a bunch of arm-chair experts guess that this building means more than it is is a wastes of time. (Approx) 3% of comments here make sense, are enlightening, 97% are just self-assured "Dunning Kruger effect" amateurs guessing they can deduct real info from this is weird. Good waste of 10 minutes for me though.

Geeze, Karen take a breath. That is sad news, and it really sucks to lose data

At the same time it is a shoestring budget nonprofit, doing tons of good for the world, thanklessly.

It is not a right, a government service, or even a service you pay for. You have no right to demand anything, just because they are kindly providing you value.

Cut them some slack, and stop acting like they own you anything. Maybe even gasp thank them for doing so much good, with no support, for everyone in the world, for free

"It Could Be Worse" is the absolute worst apologist argument, for anything. Please never excuse something bad, because you can imagine, or see somewhere else something even worse.

Yeah, I (as a biker) also hate dangerous bikers. Especially those weaving onto / off of the sidewalks. The up-side is that the most dangerous bike is 1/100th as damaging as a perfect driver sneezing at the wrong time.

This is actually the opposite. at 10X the size, we have 30x the commuters (it scales faster than population) and 30x the demand. All of these 'car' cities used to have great streetcar or subway networks, we tore them out when we decided cars are a religion / definition of who we are.

We have it easier as a large country, and we still do the dumbest short-term thinking thing.

Oh! Glad to see you are so well educated and experienced in mental health treatment, that you can speak for what every single person that medical condition would ever conceivably do.

We had 14 regional / internal to the US airlines in the 80's. We had 10 airlines in the '00's. We have basically 4 or 6 national / regional airlines now.

"JetBlue's biggest problem remains their access to airports, if they were able to get more access to that they would likely be a serious threat to the bigger airlines."

That is like 'Their political party is cheating, we need to cheat bigger to win". That is leaning in to making the situation more and more rigged, more and more of a failed market / system.

I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to go read about how less players in a market bad for competition. Matt Stoller is a good place to start.

JetBlue can bid for slots at an airport, like anyone else. If bigger airlines are blocking them, lets fix that market to be competitive, NOT "let's help the market degrade into Oligopoly faster".

You can just say 'I don't like this' instead of making up a bunch of 'just so stories' about why.

Fine if you don't like density, but the whole pseudo-science `Dense urbanization is detrimental to health, physical and mental` is just mental.

Folks, a) every town had a soda fountain, and a local favorite in 1880's. b) Every town has 3 social media apps, but smart college students in 1999. c) every town has 5 new LLM model companies, in 2023

Charles Munger is such a smart man in many ways, and it is sad to see his thinking get muddy in his old age. I am surprised he falls for 'Survivorship Bias` in his own thinking.

The writers claim of `the extreme meritocracy of sports`is pretty amazing. Considering all the research into 'Everyone in Baseball is born in August' to the constant drum of doping scandal. Or people moving whole families, or rich buying second houses (near sky slopes) to pump their kids past the poorer competition, etc.

It's pretty crazy for anyone to imagine sports as 'meritocracy' when exact birth-day, parents wealth, school district/ college wealth, etc, clearly is a HUGE driver of sports outcome (1/4 ? 1/2 ? ). And that is not tying in genetics, or cheating, or more.

Scrape any 'meritocracy', and you'll find it a) by humans, b) in a culture, and underlying unfairness of the cultures still has a heavy impact.

Did we have some ethics discussion when the lightbulb was invented? Or when the car was invented?

Yes, yes we did. We debated photos, voice recording, radio waves, TV shows. Every innovation spawns years of Ethics discussion.

Weird to see someone on this site, presumably in tech, who hasn't been taught or learned that yet.

'A lot of people' here being 'Many American men, in engineering / programming who are often unaware'. A lot of the women I have worked with (in dev/engineers) notice and are annoyed by this kind of mis-match. Working in Europe, also most colleagues (men and women) noticed, and made fun of, companies/ stores / restaurants that were too unaware or cheap to notice the problem or fix it.

Light is the prime inputs to human sensing their world! It amazes me people can be so unaware of lighting conditions / problems, when that is how they do a vast majority of these sensing of the world.

I love new task management systems. They are so handy to dump my work into, and then ignore like I did the old one ;)

I love the concept. I hope it catches on for folks that are successful in using these!