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  1. Comment on A 'death train' is haunting south Florida in ~transport

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    blog post quantifying the death rate and comparing it to cars, also scaling it in how much harms are to dollar amounts https://www.jefftk.com/p/brightline-is-actually-pretty-dangerous tl;dr: 20x...

    blog post quantifying the death rate and comparing it to cars, also scaling it in how much harms are to dollar amounts
    https://www.jefftk.com/p/brightline-is-actually-pretty-dangerous

    tl;dr: 20x more deadly per passenger-mile, $2.5B per year in deaths at DoT value of human life

    4 votes

  2. Comment on Anthropic aims to nearly triple annualized revenue in 2026, sources say in ~tech

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    it'd probably be some sort of fraud if they were publicly traded (and didn't properly disclose it), but because they aren't they are under no obligation because their investors are assumed to be...

    it'd probably be some sort of fraud if they were publicly traded (and didn't properly disclose it), but because they aren't they are under no obligation because their investors are assumed to be smart enough to understand what's going on / handle the risk if they can't

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Who owns America? Bernie Sanders says the quiet part out loud. | What Now? With Trevor Noah in ~society

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    when he claims that "Vanguard, State Street, Blackrock" being majority stockholders in almost all corps means the US is an oligarchy without addressing the fact that that's because they are index...

    when he claims that "Vanguard, State Street, Blackrock" being majority stockholders in almost all corps means the US is an oligarchy without addressing the fact that that's because they are index funds for the pensions of almost all americans, and that these funds in general give fairly little guidance to corps they control shares in (btw they were pro-ESG as an exception to this), made me feel that his arguments should not be treated seriously. Vanguard is literally owned by its customers, that's not very oligarchic! also, I think calling the US an oligarchy shows a serious lack of understanding at what real oligarchies look like, this article was quite instructive on that front

    11 votes

  4. Comment on Tech companies are finding out everything is political in ~tech

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    Drew DeVault has a blogpost about them, https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html tl;dr the community has many right-wing edgelords in important positions

    Drew DeVault has a blogpost about them, https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html tl;dr the community has many right-wing edgelords in important positions

    4 votes

  5. Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk

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    I guess you could say this because we don't have exact solutions to navier-stokes, only approximations? But we have a very good idea for almost all conditions. The weirder stuff is not knowing why...

    I guess you could say this because we don't have exact solutions to navier-stokes, only approximations? But we have a very good idea for almost all conditions. The weirder stuff is not knowing why ibuprofen works which we have much less knowledge about

    4 votes

  6. Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk

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    If anybody else is interested in a small youtube channel about colorblindness, chromaphobe makes really good videos

    If anybody else is interested in a small youtube channel about colorblindness, chromaphobe makes really good videos

    2 votes

  7. Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk

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    this alphaville ft article covers how lots of the stories of his life are pretty heavily exaggerated as well

    this alphaville ft article covers how lots of the stories of his life are pretty heavily exaggerated as well

    1 vote

  8. Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk

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    fun fact, some important quantum physcists did actually believe consciousness causes collapse (primarily Wigner), it's not on its face immediately absurd philosophically that a human has to be...

    fun fact, some important quantum physcists did actually believe consciousness causes collapse (primarily Wigner), it's not on its face immediately absurd philosophically that a human has to be somewhere in the causal chain

    2 votes

  9. Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk

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    also wiktionary is maybe slightly less trustworthy but a bit more expansive (also covers modern slang)

    also wiktionary is maybe slightly less trustworthy but a bit more expansive (also covers modern slang)

  10. Comment on imgur.com geoblocks the UK in ~tech

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    Is it? I think those are still fairly taboo in the UK, and were undoubtably taboo say 20 years ago. This is also not new, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiovisual_Media_Services_Regulations_2014

    See also the extremely wide-ranging definition of "production of extreme pornography" to include of all things fisting and face-sitting (though restricting the appearance of things like choking was a good thing). It's a very socially conservative view of the country, and not one that actually bears much relevance to society as a whole.

    Is it? I think those are still fairly taboo in the UK, and were undoubtably taboo say 20 years ago.
    This is also not new, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiovisual_Media_Services_Regulations_2014

    1 vote

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  12. Comment on Drones seen over Danish military bases in latest air disruption in ~society

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    I saw speculation that this could have been a misunderstanding ala new jersey drone sightings, just so people don't take it at 100% credence that drones actually did cause this

    I saw speculation that this could have been a misunderstanding ala new jersey drone sightings, just so people don't take it at 100% credence that drones actually did cause this

    3 votes

  13. Comment on I tried to protect my kids from the internet. Here’s what happened. in ~tech

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    Source? From what I can see it's more like tens of millions. Also what is "dark advocacy"? Just sounds like fearmongering to me rather than a meaningful term Also btw DNS over HTTPS has been a...

    hundreds of millions in lobbying and dark advocacy

    Source? From what I can see it's more like tens of millions. Also what is "dark advocacy"? Just sounds like fearmongering to me rather than a meaningful term

    Also btw DNS over HTTPS has been a default in chrome and firefox since 2020, "ISP knows what websites you're browsing" has not been true for at least 5 years for most people

    6 votes

  14. Comment on British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting in ~tech

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    argument is that "most likely" implies deterministic in terms of only the text, saying deterministic as a function of the text and also a source of randomness is basically vacuous

    argument is that "most likely" implies deterministic in terms of only the text, saying deterministic as a function of the text and also a source of randomness is basically vacuous

  15. Comment on British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting in ~tech

  16. Comment on British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting in ~tech

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    the model outputs a probability distribution of tokens, and (when the temp isn't 0) the sampler will often pick a token which isn't the most likely one to prevent getting stuck in loops / enable...

    the model outputs a probability distribution of tokens, and (when the temp isn't 0) the sampler will often pick a token which isn't the most likely one to prevent getting stuck in loops / enable "creativity" (creativity is a very loose analogy, don't take it too literally). Even when the temp is 0 models often aren't deterministic for complicated reasons.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on United Kingdom, Australia and Canada officially recognize a Palestinian state in ~society

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    the metric should be civilian to non-civilian palestinians, no? I think that is also horrific at even the lowest credible estimates, even if the data aren't totally clear (to be expected, always...

    the metric should be civilian to non-civilian palestinians, no? I think that is also horrific at even the lowest credible estimates, even if the data aren't totally clear (to be expected, always difficult to get reliable info during war)

  18. Comment on British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting in ~tech

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    nitpick: with standard sampling and post training techniques this isn't true

    the idea of these agents is to spit out the most likely next token given an input set,

    nitpick: with standard sampling and post training techniques this isn't true

    1 vote

  19. Comment on What words do you recommend? in ~talk

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    I use necessary/sufficient a lot, they're nice for classifying relations between things

    I use necessary/sufficient a lot, they're nice for classifying relations between things

    1 vote

  20. Comment on What words do you recommend? in ~talk

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    When people use literally to mean figuratively, all they're doing is using hyperbole, lots of words rely on context to distinguish between meaning, this isn't a weird thing for english

    When people use literally to mean figuratively, all they're doing is using hyperbole, lots of words rely on context to distinguish between meaning, this isn't a weird thing for english

    3 votes