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Comment · 3 years ago
Only tracking cookies require consent. Cookies could be about the last time you saw the website's weather content, in which case it's purely functional and need no consent.
Comment · 3 years ago
Have you ever heard about the term "lawyer"?
Comment · 3 years ago
That's because there are more people who drive cars than people who handle plutonium. A more sensible statistics would be the number of death per hour of usage (which might still be in favor of handling plutonium).
Comment · 3 years ago
Taleb literally did say that you should never board a plane on which the pilot isn't onboard (such as a drone plane). Unless this was intended to never make you board an unethical plane, he does believe in some sort of insurance related to "skin in the game".
Comment · 3 years ago
"It is better to be alone than in bad company."
Comment · 3 years ago
Working with QA analysts has shown me that quality people are totally autonomous in adding disproportionate hurdles to the way of production without needing the help of any external lobbying.

It's very simple: the only way to 100% prevent an incident is the absence of production at all. If your incentive is to avoid incidents at all cost, you are incentivized to prevent production entirely.

Comment · 3 years ago
Mainstream's reddit experience is clicking on Reddit links from Google. Many of which are dead as of right now.
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Comment · 3 years ago
"research on language model" lol OpenAI is where the research happens. It's like saying SpaceX not giving away rockets hinders research on rockets. Anybody is free to develop their own AI model.
Comment · 3 years ago
TL;DR: "There’s no shortage of men who want to date you"
Comment · 3 years ago
TL;DR: "well-cared for"

Copying from one digital medium to another is a very easy operation (to the contrary of copying from paper to paper). At equal "care" I don't see why digital backups should be worse than paper ones.

Comment · 3 years ago
So it might actually still be the best choice.
Comment · 3 years ago
If you follow PG on Twitter, he elevates it beyond just a blog.
Comment · 4 years ago
What is the money efficiency of that?

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