FeepingCreature
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FeepingCreature
2yr ago
So your objection isn't so much with the concept as that it doesn't describe reality?
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
A ridiculous analogy. An agreement to do something does not imply an agreement to always do that at any time on the terms demanded by either party, without boundaries. A trading contract doesn't mean I can break into your warehouse and take things off the shelves even if they are technically things that are part of our agreement.
Least convenient possible world. If the contract did stipulate that, what would your objection be?
I can imagine a couple having a relationship like that. It'd be considered heavy D/S nowadays ("consensual nonconsent") but as a kink thing, it's not that abnormal. Of course, marriage generally doesn't come with safewords...
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
I think the real answer is that a few people voluntarily try to relinquish secrecy in order to try and create peer pressure (and that's vile), but there's no serious push to defeat secret voting going on.
Nobody's worried because nobody thinks there's a serious risk.
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
Both of those plans are unactionable, but "convince society to not build culture around" is maybe a bit more unactionable than "convince congress to change copyright." :)
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
/u/2rafa suggests an easy fix: mail out two ballots, so you can fill out one and take a picture of the other. I'm not sure if this causes problems by double-voting; how much of voting security is the trivial inconvenience of producing a duplicate ballot?
Alternatively you can just go after people posting photos. If you slap fines on the first hundred or thousand, the others should desist.
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
Worked on PodcastAddict.
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
We have been adding lanes to highways since time immemorial (aka the 50s) and the congestion is still here.
In any other economic sector the reaction to "we build more and more demand appears!" would be "that's absolutely amazing, I love it, build even more."
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
There's going to be a "new normal". I think we're still well above it.
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
Covid infections "strongly" (arguable) above longterm YOY. "Abnormal" amounts of Covid.
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
I mean, the pandemic is still ongoing. If COVID were suddenly gone, sure. And even then we might still expect excess deaths from long-term damage of the pandemic.
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
They're links to sub-articles.
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
See also Eliezer's Abridged Guide to Intelligent Characters.
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
Eh, that sounds like an engineering problem. The whole goal of FAI research is to globally maximize for nice.
FeepingCreature
2yr ago
Isn't this just saying "available energy without competetive pressure allows you to have nice things"?
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
I mean, isn't that a good sign for the acquisition? (If a bad sign for the public internet.) If toxicity is how Twitter farms ad impressions, then Musk leaning into the toxicity promises that eyeballs may remain high, or at least won't be depressed by a prosocial attempt to reduce drama.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
Though it would presumably be bad for sales if they were a complete dud?
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
How does it go? Repression causes (selects for) smart ideas. Smart ideas lead to social dominance. Social dominance allows stupid takes. Stupid takes (eventually) invite repression.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
But aren't there a bunch of mechanisms in court for masking out information that colors the opinions of the jurors without being in fact pertinent to the precise questions asked? Ie. witnesses are supposed to answer completely, but they're specifically not supposed to give information that would suggest inferences that they don't have direct knowledge of? It seems to me that inasmuch as the media lies, it is in good part with additional information that would be struck in court - too much truth, rather than not enough.
(Sadly, there is no Media Judge to strike paragraphs for hearsay.)
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
Yes, which is a problem solved by more training data.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
That's like saying "computers can add numbers better than humans, so why doesn't the computer know that I want to add some numbers with my broken code?" There is no inherent strength in computers such that any program ran on a computer gains the ability to add numbers well. In other words, yes, computers can add numbers - but ChatGPT is not a computer, ChatGPT is a giant system of matrix multiplications and nonlinear transforms that happens to run on a computer. It would have exactly the same capabilities if a team of trillions of clerks evaluated it on paper. The ability of computers to add large numbers is not anywhere exposed to GPT as a reasoning system so that it could make use of it.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
Observe the nuclear power plant operator long enough and you can plausibly gain enough understanding to run the power plant while never figuring out what fission is.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
The students at UCLA, UCI and Berkeley clearly have higher expenses than the other UCs.
I mean, shouldn't the argument be that the students at UCLA, UCI and Berkeley produce more value than the other UCs? If they produce the same value but just happen to have higher living expenses, then paying them the same is broadly good for society because it incentivizes spreading out more, reducing pressure on limited housing.
FeepingCreature
3yr ago
Why would thinking that it's a meritocracy imply you were picking a bone?
Seems like a link to Neutral vs Conservative is in order.
If even the right reads left-aligned MSM, how is a right-wing equivalent of the MSM ever supposed to get off the ground? It'd be disadvantaged on every axis. Right-wing media is the way it is because it has to compete and win on ideological adherence to get any marketshare at all.
To me, this is a strong argument in favor of burning down institutions in general: sometimes, probably often, you can't build better ones while the old ones still exist. Not because they'd actively prevent you, but because they're already occupying the neutral space.
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