wickedwiesel
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Comment · 18 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
I thought this was interesting because in the media, it read like the instances involving AI escaping from their test set ups were separate, and the frequency was increasing. This article suggests otherwise, or at least that quite a few instances are actually more this one and the same, just affecting four AI labs at the same time.
Comment · 4 months ago
Yes, correct, and thanks for the addition.
To illustrate this quite emotional approach to state finances, the policy of not increasing the the debt was nicknamed "the black zero" ("die Schwarze Null") which got so infamous that the employees of the German Federal Ministry of Finances posed as a "black zero" in this photo: https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Bilderstre...
Remember, this was at a time when German government bonds were sold with _negative_ interest. So, Germany was refusing to take on any further debt at the time to invest (i.E. in social capital like workers, better immigration, in infrastructure etc. etc.) and is now trying to rectify this partially, at a time where interest rates are close to 3%. Personally, to me as a non-economist, this feels like a missed opportunity of a lifetime.
Comment · 4 months ago
Which is a political choice - not necessarily a resource problem. Germany, if any, would have the resources to help with integration but for decades most people and politicians were living in denial that people from other countries that came to Germany actually wanted to stay and _live_ there or were living in a world were state debt was seen as the devil's spawn.
Comment · 5 months ago
Did you notice that you emphasize the rule of law in your argument 1) but let the rule of law walk the plank (and drown in the south sea so to speak) with your fourth statement?
Comment · 9 months ago
Sure. Nextcloud GmbH seems to be one of the winners. It sells a customized version aimed at government agencies.
Comment · 1 year ago
Anti Walking recognition techniques have been under development for decades though..
Comment · 2 years ago
I am not a legal expert but I read that the case of the Netherlands proves this to be at least partially wrong. Retail sale is legal. Some municipalities have legalized supply chains.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-11/the-nethe...
Comment · 2 years ago
Your point is valid but also quite obvious. As soon as you own stock you will want them to increase in valuation. My point is a different one. Publicly traded stock companies have very specific (growth) and often bad (growth, disregarding other impact) incentives.
Other forms of ownership can provide a stake for talented employees and safeguard their financial Fortune. I believe a cooperative may better align everyone’s incentives for example.
Comment · 2 years ago
I was trying to point out that not every company ownership model is a publicly traded stock company. Your point is totally valid in the context you give.
Comment · 2 years ago
I know you are sharing some interesting observations, but can we all stop talking about employees as the "fat" of companies and firing of employees as "culls".
> underperformers lying about to cull
is not just bad wording. By definition, there will always be underperformers. A profitable company only has "too many" employees if you think it has to pay a larger dividend to its owners / shareholders or that future growth is mandatory.
Why is it not fine when a company is more or less breaking even but paying good salaries to its employees?
Comment · 3 years ago
There is solid research out there suggesting that this is different. Large n, several years, multiple countries all pointing to all increase in tune with the advent of visual social media (Instagram, TikTok - not Facebook or WhatsApp). The time series analysis makes this not merely correlational.
I point to my sibling post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38201807
Visual social media like TikTok and instagram seem to be a different beast than TV, WhatsApp and other media.
Comment · 3 years ago
Check out this research https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34901571
It’s claiming exactly that: certain social media as a cause of mental health deterioration among teens especially girls
We will see the impact of this in a few years..
Five years ago it became its own official federal IT architecture guideline: https://nationale-it-architekturrichtlinie.gov.de/2_Architek...