Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
21hr ago
Lots to unpack here.
At the philosophical level, if we don't have the state capacity to implement a regulatory regime that meets Anthropic's specifications, then why is Anthropic training and releasing frontier models? It reads like they are saying, "here are our demands for submitting to the authority of your government". That's not how it works. You submit to the government or you get shut down, like the rest of us.
At the operational level, I don't know how possible it would be to implement a regime that is "transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in technical facts," for regulating capabilities that don't exist yet. How can it be fair if we don't know yet what the relevant metrics are? How can it be clear if we don't know what red flags to look for? How can it be grounded in technical facts if nobody knows how these models work?
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Amy Adams is perfectly cast.
Dissagree here. Any woman more attractive than Dr. Holly Krieger is not believable as a serious intellectual.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
How are you guys preparing mentally and physically for the impending arrival of flesh-eating maggots?
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Maine punishes only the buyer of sex, not the seller.)
Here’s how Susan Collins can still win
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
In the parallel universe of Sudan, Arabs and black people look exactly the same
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
I'm also confused by how many people in the US seem to be driving without their license on them; what the fuck?
In most parts of the US, not driving is simply not an option. If you can’t get a license, then you just have to deal with your entire life being a continuous string of misdemeanor offenses.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
The fun little wrinkle here is that Irish Nationalism, like Palestinian Nationalism, is a left-wing ideology. Conceivably we could see a similar progression to what happened in Palestine, where the historical champions of the nationalist cause lose legitimacy and are replaced by a more explicitly religious right-wing resistance front.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Thanks for the court documents. I hadn’t seen that before. It looks like Bricks and Minifigs’s entire argument hinges on the claim that they were a bona fide purchaser to the entire store and inventory. I’m not sure how well that will hold up given that
a.) They didn’t purchase the store. They repossessed it, and
b.) The previous owner told them about a consignment agreement on the day they repossessed the store.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
I don't think people realize how risky mom-and-pop shops are as counterparties. FinnaSkipTown LLC can just shut down and not give you your money, stuff, or services at any time.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
If a Danish company wants to tell me how to use English plurals, they are welcome to put their flag on the moon whenever they want.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Alright, lets talk about the LEGOs.
In case you have been living under a rock, here's the story so far:
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Elderly man has $200,000 LEGO Star Wars collection.
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Elderly man enters into a consignment agreement with the local Bricks and Minifigs franchise.
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Said franchise undergoes a messy ownership change mediated by Bricks and Minifigs corporate. The new owners stop honoring the previous consignment agreement and refuse to give the LEGOs back.
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Elderly man's son gets the runaround trying to get his father's LEGOs back. Corporate tells him to deal with the franchise owner. The franchise tells him to deal with corporate.
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Frustrated, the elderly man's son turns to YouTuber Reckless Ben. The resulting video goes viral.
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The situation escalates into a wild goose chase as Reckless Ben attempts to serve legal process onto the store owners, aggravated by encounters with the suspiciously hostile American Fork, Utah police department (oh yeah, both the new franchise owners and the Bricks and Minifigs CEO are Mormon)
All of this is complicated by the fact that Reckless Ben is, well, reckless. He wears hidden spy cameras. He uses false pretenses to get into situations and locations. At one point he gets arrested for stalking. Despite this, it's hard not to root for him. He seems to have the franchise owners dead to rights for conversion (aka stealing), and Bricks and Minifigs corporate seems at best lackadasical that one of their franchises is defrauding counterparties, and at worst complicit.
I don't see how Bricks and Minifigs survives this as a company. This story is everywhere and nobody is on their side. This is not a particularly lucrative buisiness to begin with, and right now their name is mud. They did, finally, two weeks later, sort of admit that they were wrong and that Brian will get his LEGOs back. It's been radio silence from the principles since that last message went out. I would be surprised if we've heard the end of this saga.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Why is Trump going to the Knicks game tonight?
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
”In medieval Scandinavia, it wasn’t uncommon for a group of people to actively observe a newlywed couple having sex in the bridal chamber”
This makes a surprising amount of sense when you think about it. At its core, what a marriage is is a public announcement that these two specific people are having sex, and that the community is okay with it. There is no better representation of these values than for the community to literally watch the consummation of the marriage.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Be the change you want to see in the world.
https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/contact-and-directory/anonymous-tip-lines
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Also her ability to not get caught. That is where most of the value add is.
Most American sports have a much faster cadence than soccer. Popular crowd activities from these sports don't port over easily.
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