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Why deal in abstract? Any specific examples you'd like to point to?

Does anyone have any information on where the author gets his claim that Cohen has a "road to Damascus moment" upon arriving at Harvard? I can't find anything on that, or even anyone else claiming Cohen was a "liberal".

This article is very light on supporting quotes or references, so im very suspect of his claims that analytical Marxist converted to beliefs that are opposed to Marxist analysis. Especially given many of Cohen's later works are focused on scientific socialism.

This is trivially searchable. Tb doesn't store cookies.

https://support.torproject.org/glossary/cookie/

Meta had already ceased facial tagging over a year before the suit was filed, according to Ars.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/meta-to-pay-1-4-...

This meta-study says the exact opposite. Can you defend your position empirically?

https://www.nber.org/digest/digestsep18/new-evidence-unions-...

I'm curious which cultures you believe are worst than others?

Which one is the worst?

I never said they would be kept poor.

I also wonder why none of those Petro states are bastions of democracy and cultural excellence

And these leaders are all fairly and democratically elected?

Without the influence of the money of former colonial states (or their puppets in the form of expropriative enterprises)?

Consider the trillions of dollars made by other countries from Africa's people and resources. Why _wouldnt_ they spend a fraction of that killing any chance that a cultural movement picks up.

This isn't fantasy, Nestle, Chiquita, etc have a long history of funding anti-revolutionary agencies for exactly this reason.

One man rejecting one bribe will do nothing, a single cup cannot drain an ocean.

Hidden behind this facade of beauty is a horrible culture that celebrates corruption, tribalism and lack of cooperation, backbiting, and shortsightedness

These are all acute problems in Western nations. The fundamental impediment which Africa faces are it's rich natural resources and the nations which exploit them.

Any "anti-corruption" cultural efforts will be snuffed out long before it becomes a threat to this lucrative expropriation

There is no cultural solution to the boot of political and economic struggle.

Highly recommend DIY'ing it.

MrCool et. al are all within the range of someone willing that can handle electrical work on their home.

3 head minisplit (also in Seattle) shipped for ~4.6k

Which EU country has a non-progressive tax rate?

incorrect: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7015a7.htm

But, we emphasize the limited reach of our decision today. We do not uphold the injunction against all the officials named in the complain

Thankfully, we just heard back from 5th Circut Appeals that the injunction was likely a significant overstep and was overturned.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.214...

The requirements for an injunction are much lower than an actual ruling.

The party must just show that they have a possibility of winning the case and that granting temporary relief will not cause additional harm to the plaintiff.

To use that as proof that the defendant will win is ridiculous.

Next time you're on a flight, listen for the number of people who remove their seatbelts before the seatbelt light goes off, after a crew member specifically says not to do this

I haven't seen any of them fined 25k. Proportionality matters, and getting off the plane as fast as (in your mind) possible isn't going to be realistically enforced.

Which phone/app? I would be very surprised if a manufacturer has an entirely on-device real-time ASR model, maybe I'm behind.

This would be immediately obvious in a cursory analysis of performance. On-device transcription is not only computationally infeasible, it would also require model capabilities far beyond what is currently SOTA.

Google had (and has afaik) significant challenges implementing multiple wake-word detection for precisely this reason.

Transcribing a couple of words accurately on-device without a major performance penalty (so that it can be running in the background always) is just _barely_ coming out now.

All other Mastodon instances

By "all" you mean the fraction of a fraction of moderators of specific instances that signed onto the petition.

The vast majority of Mastodon instances will happily federate. My instance definitely will. Why not, it's free content

If someone plugs math into a calculator, are they really learning something when it spits out an answer?

Of course! How to apply the calculator to problems, and how to discern if a problem is calculator-solveable. We've decided as a society it's better for students to use calculators as a tool in mathematics, why is chatGPT different in literature?

This assumes two vehicles of similar dimensions.

An aerodynamic 3,001lb vehicle would be much preferable to me than a 2,999lb flat-front. The physics imply only a portion of the heavier vehicles energy is imparted to me.

I don't make the comment to argue that weight isn't meaningful, but to say that "lethality" of a vehicle has many factors.

I dont think the pedestrian getting hit cares whether the car is 2,999lbs or 3,0001lbs.

Ideally your incentives get aligned such that you're not spending your enthusiasm on your employer, but on yourself via your employer.

If the "via" here is "by giving me money to do what I want", then I agree. GP is arguing that fulfillment from work is necessary to be an enthusiast, thus the assumption that your response is related.

Even in the purely financial scenario though, aren't the incentives still in conflict? If both you and your employer's incentive is "earn as much money as possible", then you are both vying for the same pool of profit.

This implies that accepting a job that pays more, even if it doesn't align with your incentives, is being a "nine to fiver", which I disagree with.

Innate to our economic system is the tension between labor and employer. Us as laborers want a higher share of the profit from our labor. Employers seek the opposite, and "fulfillment" provides them the means to extract it.

Consider the wages of game developers, which have stagnated compared to less "fulfilling" SWE work, because employers are able to supplant higher pay with work that people are passionate about. If being a "nine to fiver" prevents me from falling into that trap, so be it.

You're not saying anything here. Sure there are people like that, but the nature of capitalism means that people _must_ work to survive.

This requirement precludes finding work you enjoy, and thus those that have the opportunity to work on something they like are in the minority.

Put another way, would you quit your job immediately if you're asked to work on something you don't want to do? If not, are you a "nine to fiver"?

Am I expected to expend my enthusiasm for programming on my employer?

I find it insulting that I must be a "nine to fiver" if I advocate for labor. My passion isn't building what my boss wants, it's building what _I_ want.

Honest question, would you limit nuclear research in the 40s for the above reasons?

Sure we have nuclear power, but at the risk of the president holding the ability to level most countries. The only difference I see is that the harms you describe from AGI are nebulous and non-specific.

I can save you the effort, it's not happening. This would be a monumental national security concern for non-US states, not even considering the technical limitations that exist for storing or utilizing literally millions of audio samples a minute.

People are incredibly predictable using only a handful of demographics, there's simply no need to invest the astronomical amount that would be necessary to process these conversations when there's already many simple ways to track/generate user interest.

It would be trivial to confirm yourself, Wireshark can scan for outgoing network packets and audio would require a large, continuous, byte stream.

Unless you assume that Facebook et al are running ASR models on-device all the time and somehow making it invisible to the end-user.

Seems like the last scrape was late last year: https://annas-archive.org/datasets