kansface

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Comment · 12 days ago
It’s more likely emergent behavior.
Comment · 19 days ago
> You cannot lower inflation by interest rates when it is caused by rising oil and ferilizer prices.

Why?

Comment · 1 month ago
Would it? The 1st is a prohibition on the rights of government, not private parties. Would the new amendment apply to the government, or to private sector, or to individuals? In any case, the 1st and the 28th? would continually be butting heads, since the 1st prohibits congress from passing laws that would enforce the 28th (and by extension, the states via the 14th). Would a newspaper be allowed to publish unflattering personal, privacy violating details? Would you be allowed to put up a political flyer alleging the same? I'm not sure an amendment is _the best solution_.
Comment · 1 month ago
That’s a great question for Astra for Law.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, why not? All existed models have been rewarded for cheating (extensively). That is us, putting intense evolutionary pressure, on a system to produce a result we don’t want through indifference. Why can’t we post train them not doing that?
Comment · 1 month ago
Some people are just out there doing automated math proofs for reasons. If you want understanding, value, and edification, that is on you, not them.
Comment · 1 month ago
Why compare marine boot camp to officer basic training? Officer training looks very different in the US, even for the marines.
Comment · 1 month ago
Similarly, I’ve seen more than one accident caused by a pedestrian stepping into traffic without looking, taking out a cyclist in the process (from between vehicles, eyes on a phone). Nothing too serious, but only by luck. No one is overtly concerned by traffic laws in SF regardless of the mode of transit.
Comment · 1 month ago
I biked 3x weekly to work for a decade from NoPa. Muni busses repeatedly “tried” to kill me - so much so that going up McAllister, I’d hug the double yellows to keep buses from precariously passing me and then cutting me off every other block. The ass end of accordions in particular would rest half way into the other lane, leaving absolutely no where for me to go, and no ability to start from a stop in the middle of the road going up hill in the wrong gear (with other cars and buses soon to be wizzing by). I’d classify the overall behavior as between casual indifference to my safety (let alone me as a person) and outright contempt for my existence.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, I don’t know where this frame came from. Humans adopt useful systems. Providers attempt to limit exposure to liability. Society will navigate the opposing pressures and fallout in differing ways according to local jurisprudence, customs, and norms. AI is just too damn useful (and fun for now).
Comment · 2 months ago
It’s more like addressing reality has no viable political solution.
Comment · 2 months ago
Some/many people who can’t smell actually don’t know that, nor do the people around them. The same can be true for color blindness and actual blindness!
Comment · 2 months ago
Several labs that manufactured the original polio vaccine shipped the live virus - ie, we just injected kids with polio. Low double digits of people (kids?) died, a few hundred were paralyzed, etc. Later vaccines also had the same problem, but at very low rates (1 in millions maybe).
Comment · 3 months ago
Or possibly the return of some heavy industry?
Comment · 3 months ago
I look to a future of regularly servicing the immune system of my battery.

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