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New comment by variant in "Why are Texas interchanges so tall?"

variant — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:08:35 +0000

We prefer cars. It's fine.

New comment by variant in "Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

variant — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:21:18 +0000

I can't access it via my Gopher client.

New comment by variant in "FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges"

variant — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:49:46 +0000

Doubtful, but if it isn't authorized by statute, a law should be passed not regulation.

New comment by variant in "Poor work life balance: Indian IT sector employees forced to work 50 hrs a week"

variant — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:04:31 +0000

50? The horror.

New comment by variant in "Salesforce will match comp of any OpenAI researcher who resigns"

variant — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:03:40 +0000

Salesforce Einstein is built on top of OpenAI. Given that they're a big competitor of Microsoft's, not sure how easy it will be for them to pivot to Azure OpenAI should OpenAI vaporize.

New comment by variant in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

variant — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 20:48:09 +0000

Musk is simply pointing out that many Western Jews keep strange bedfellows - a fair number of whom support the outright destruction of their homeland.

It's only being labeled antisemitic because Musk has been on the "outs" due to his recent politics (supporting free speech / transparency, being against lockdowns/mandates, advocacy for election integrity, etc.).

New comment by variant in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

variant — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 19:46:05 +0000

Absolutely. What customer wants to stick around if all that is left is the board?

New comment by variant in "Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued to Protest"

variant — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 03:01:53 +0000

Good for Reddit.

These mods think Reddit exists for them. Replace 'em all.

New comment by variant in "Banning Emotion Recognition?"

variant — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:06:58 +0000

My sense is these rules are focused on biometric based tools, specifically those in "high risk" systems as classified by the law.

I think this has less intersection with sentiment detection tools that generate telemetry to help with support escalation use cases, etc.

Other opinions?

New comment by variant in "Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

variant — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:02:44 +0000

No issue with this. Subreddits exists for the users, not the moderators - all of which can be replaced.

New comment by variant in "Hundreds of subreddits plan to go dark indefinitely after Reddit CEO's memo"

variant — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 04:54:45 +0000

There will be plenty. Guaranteed.

New comment by variant in "Hundreds of subreddits plan to go dark indefinitely after Reddit CEO's memo"

variant — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 04:53:47 +0000

I've found replacement subs for those that went dark, which I expect will be back eventually.

New comment by variant in "Could seaweed be the 'fastest and least expensive' tool to fight climate change?"

variant — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 19:50:37 +0000

What does success look like in the climate change fight? Is there a point where victory can ever be declared? Is that a "correct" temperature (what is it) or a CO2 PPM number (what's ideal)? When industry and scientists stop lobbying for money to fight it?

New comment by variant in "OpenAI boss ‘heartened’ by talks with world leaders over will to contain AI risk"

variant — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:42:43 +0000

Are you aware of any sane takes like this you have links to? Even some of the skeptical articles like the one in The Atlantic are more calling out hypocrisy than attempting to take a serious look at the reality of threats from "AI" (which, as you point out is, not really AI).

New comment by variant in "AI Doomerism Is a Decoy"

variant — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:10:36 +0000

Climate change won't either.

New comment by variant in "Controlled burns can prevent wildfires; regulations make them nearly impossible"

variant — Wed, 17 May 2023 18:28:36 +0000

Far bigger contributor to wildfires than "climate change."

New comment by variant in "Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI"

variant — Tue, 16 May 2023 18:36:55 +0000

> OpenAI != FTX, just meaning to say calling for regulation isn't an indication of good intentions, despite sounding like it.

I'd argue that any business advocating for regulation is largely motivated by its own pursuit of regulatory capture.

New comment by variant in "Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm"

variant — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 02:33:17 +0000

You like your government trying to tell a private company what's true and untrue?

New comment by variant in "Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm"

variant — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 02:26:27 +0000

It's just different order of operations on coalition building. Other systems divide into a majority and opposition at some point. In the US it just happens earlier, but there is the same diversity of opinions within those groups.

New comment by variant in "Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (2017)"

variant — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:52:33 +0000

No one ever claimed it did.