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contagiousflow··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
I've found that when cross checked against my own expertise, LLMs have dubious "knowledge" at best. Trusting the output with anything you already don't know would just be Gell-Mann amnesia.
contagiousflow··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
Knowledge of what exactly?
contagiousflow··on America stopped caring how poor kids do in school
Ahhh that's very interesting. I'm glad you've experienced that! I asked because I had mostly seen the latter, and in the few cases there were parents who had the capacity, they had been so soured by their own experiences in schools they didn't see the value in it for their children.

I hope one day we can solve the problems for both cases.

contagiousflow··on America stopped caring how poor kids do in school
Can you give me some examples of parallels? I'm not really seeing the equivalence?
contagiousflow··on America stopped caring how poor kids do in school
Do you think the amount a parent can care and show interest in their children's education could be correlated to financial freedom?
contagiousflow··on America stopped caring how poor kids do in school
What do you mean by "essentially religious reasons"
contagiousflow··on US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit
Whoever told you this is a path forward lied to you
contagiousflow··on A Year of Telepathy
Don't you think the business operators, along with their motives and influence, should be a part of the discussions on technology?
contagiousflow··on FDIC has released 175 internal documents on "Operation Chokepoint 2.0"
And before the reserve there were no banks making unnecessary risks?
contagiousflow··on NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders
Oh wow, if nobody really knows that sounds like a big problem we should solve! Maybe we should fund research into that. And maybe fund programs to alleviate the environments that were created. I'm sure anyone who wants America to be a true meritocracy wouldn't be rooting out this big unsolved problem.
contagiousflow··on NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders
And then why are non-white and non-Asian students not passing academic tests at the same rate as their counterparts?
contagiousflow··on NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders
I feel like that's pretty disingenuous to say that. They have both been increasing party line voting for decades. https://rollcall.com/2021/03/03/no-quarter-for-centrists-in-...
contagiousflow··on NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders
And why would the applicant pool be 90% white dudes?
contagiousflow··on Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app
I recommend you find some journalists who's work you find impressive and ask yourself what types of passive inputs could have written pieces like that.
contagiousflow··on Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app
And what are we going to feed into the models without the journalism?
contagiousflow··on The Origins of Wokeness
And were the people making pro immigration policies in the west in favour of "international communism", or liberal capitalism?
contagiousflow··on The Origins of Wokeness
What big leftist economics policies have been enacted in the West recently?
contagiousflow··on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
If only there was a way to change and influence the use of public funds...
contagiousflow··on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
Is that not two different tradeoffs? One is first come first serve and the other is purely if you have the resources at the time? The only people I see that praise the "guarantee if you can afford it", are indeed, the ones that can afford it.
contagiousflow··on U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules
Democracy is not always populist. People have voted against direct self interest for the benefit for others for quite some time.
contagiousflow··on Updates to H-1B
> generosity

I'm sure you think of your own citizenship as charity as well...

contagiousflow··on Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
There's no law that says LLM generated text has to bad in a singular way
contagiousflow··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
Some problems in those countries are also caused by for profit healthcare existing in America. The shortage of doctors in Canada is not helped by the appeal of making much more money down south.

Not to mention Canadian expats are generally the ones who would be able to afford the American healthcare costs.

contagiousflow··on Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby
Have you used it for anything other than Flutter? I recently did a Flutter project and I'm interested in using dart more now.
contagiousflow··on Kagi Search API
Can I ask what search engine you use then?
contagiousflow··on Perhaps acquiring Pixelmator is about competing with Creative Cloud
I think there are two possible reasons. The first is they stand to make a lot of money from selling high spec machines to creative types (look at the upgrade costs to the new Mac Mini) simply because the cost of a computer is a drop in the bucket for large media enterprises. And the second (may be a little optimistic from my end) they gain a lot of prestige from their computers and software being used to make media and art.
contagiousflow··on Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
I think you're replying to the wrong comment? The article linked talks about how less area is needed for farming due to higher crop yields
contagiousflow··on California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones
> Conquerers in the past used this strategy to win massive empires for themselves

Can you list which conquerers? I'm curious as to what you're referring to here

contagiousflow··on Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest
That concern has already been discussed https://www.regeringen.dk/media/13261/aftale-om-et-groent-da...
contagiousflow··on Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science
I don't believe anyone here believes that scientific research is political. But how a society funds, publishes, and integrates scientific research is deeply political.
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