howunfortunate

So more like a 0.77opoly then

> The only reason why I ever use DD is because DashPass is included in the CSR.

Strong case for B2B sales focus

It's kind of like the opposite of the Nazi bar problem.

You purge some Nazis, then run out of Nazis to purge, but you've got a good purge system going...

Are there theoretical tweets for which you believe arrests are warranted?

It makes me sad that you're not willing to do even the bare minimum of research to check if what you've written is well-founded or not.

If you don't have time to read the papers, you could at least hand them to your favorite LLM and ask them to summarize the strength of evidence for broader macroeconomic factors vs. unions as the primary drivers of work hours, benefits, pay, unemployment etc.

This is not what economists believe about Europe either! A couple good sources:

1. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-...

2.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00144...

> How do Employees advocate for themselves if not Unions?

The same way you advocate for getting good bananas, good streaming services, or good laptops.

You only make voluntary transactions you want to make. If you don't like what a job is offering, take another job or start your own business.

If you don't like ANY of the bananas being produced by ANYONE, this probably isn't because all banana producers are moustache twirling villains. It probably has something to do with the underlying realities of banana production, supply, and demand.

> I'm sorry you've had bad experiences with unions

I've actually had personally great experiences with unions! But I try to not let my anecdotal data color my views too much.

I think this is part of the reasons unions are insidious - their benefits are quite visible and concentrated to those who are in them, and their costs are spread out and invisible (until you put an empirical lens on them at scale).

To be fair, he hasn't had time to do the write up yet. When he does I fully expect it to hit the front page.

This is great news to me, as this implies I'm part of the ruling class!

This is a historical misconception.

The "cushiness" of jobs such as fewer work hours, more benefits, etc. preceded the formation of unions and then slowed down (overall) once unions became popular.

It has little to do with union pressure and a LOT to do with economics, in particular the demand for labor. Jobs get nice when employers are competing over the same pool of employees.

Unions are nice for those in them and bad for everyone else. They are (quite literally) cartels, in an economic sense.

This is not necessarily true, you could have contracts rather than money down

> grow humans and human parts

uhhhh

VR birdwatching it is then

This is the plot of one of the stories in I, Robot.

AI oracles are the central economic planners. But after years of perfection they have made a couple unusual "mistakes" and a human is trying to discover why.

Here are a couple examples of initially neutral or moderate organizations that became left wing bastions:

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

Writers Guild of America

Directors Guild of America

National Education Association

American Federation of Teachers

American Psychological Association

American Sociological Association

Modern Language Association

American Historical Association

Association of American Universities

Columbia University

Harvard University

Yale University

University of California, Berkeley

Oberlin College

Reed College

NPR

PBS

The New York Times

The Washington Post

The Guardian

Human Rights Campaign

GLAAD

Good luck finding examples of the opposite direction.

O'Sullivan's First Law: "Any organization not explicitly right-wing will eventually become left-wing"

> The swing to extreme right politics cannot be seen separate from internet interference

Correct, specifically, Elon removed widespread (and thoroughly documented) left wing interference on Twitter.

Unfortunately he did eventually add back his own (in the form of boosting his own account), but it's much freer than it was, and for whatever reason Zuck decided to follow suit.

I do agree with you, but I do think you're also making the classic "curse of knowledge" mistake.

You have to know the right words to ask the LLM to make and train a classifier. You and I already know the words. But they are not actually that trivial to learn for an average joe, and people are lazy.

The reason I say this is that I suspect many people are reflexively upvoting the title without reading the article. If they read the article they would realize the evidence is flimsy and not really worth reading.

I will not flag it because the post is fine, it's the voters who I believe are acting poorly.

I'm sorry but as an MLE this is not a remotely useful article, and does not belong on the front page.

It's comparing a fine-tuned CNN to general purpose models on a tiny dataset.

> The public has been told a beautiful fairy tale about technology

He typed, from a tiny device in his hand, from a bed in an air-conditioned apartment millions of miles away. Or perhaps from a jet sailing through the sky, via a satellite in space

I'm struggling with the right analogy but the "waste" is more like...idk, hundreds of those giant crates they go through on antique shows.

The contents are actually extremely valuable, it's better to have them then not, but it still takes nontrivial expert work to sort and parse them.

Google tells me there are about 4.3k FDIC insured banks that operate in the US.

At what number would you consider this to be more than "very little competition"?

People must just be pickier than me. I see this comment on everything AI from the worst to the best.

I took a glance through and everything looks perfectly fine to me.

I figured more than 60 minutes might take up a lot of disk space. But maybe compression solves that.

Add a custom song `AAAAAAA` that's just 60 minutes of silence?

Another small credit to Google - their developer registration (which unlocks all of this) is CHEAP.

Apple's is a scam in comparison and must be repaid every year.

One of the reasons I left academia: in a different context my colleagues would all know to shout "correlation not causation!", "conditioning on a collider", and "no true control group!"

But if they saw this they'd immediately like, subscribe, and share broadly with positive commentary.