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Sure. And there's that story about Feynman listing his race as "mutt" on some official form because the rest also aren't mutually exclusive.

Sort this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_sovereign_state...

... by "Date of last subordination", it says there's very few that have been themselves for longer.

Imagine how much more sense things would make if "Race [dropdown]" and "Hispanic? [Y/N]" weren't separate fields. Or if the available options made sense, or even allowed multiselect instead of having to pick only one. Or allowed for "all my ancestors that I know names of lived in the states, so stop trying to associate me with other places".

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And, um, I can kind of understand thinking it's wrong to deliberately falsify results even in a controlled manner.

>>> I'm not really worried about the labs, it's misaligned governments that keep me up at night.

So make government smaller, and make sure people are more able to tell the government to go away.

Not much of an AI thing, just the standard "rich people should have (control over) their resources confiscated" that keeps popping up in various forms.

The chart they show from the original paper is approximately just:

    perceived_ability = 0.5 + (actual_ability / 4)

(With the caveat that "ability" is a percentile rather than some absolute measure.)

That's not the negative correlation that it's often presented as in discussions. And it could as easily relate to mis-measuring everyone else's skill as to mis-measuring your own skill.

>>> This is capitalism 101.

No, it's really not.

The entire point of capitalism is free enterprise and freedom of association. The way to apply that to employer / employee relationships is to recognize that you are not a serf bound to a single employer and keep half an eye on your options in case you ever tire of your current relationship.

>>> Adam Mendler, a workplace expert, told Inc. that this kind of exercise carries real risk when companies invite openness without ever clarifying how that vulnerability will be treated afterward.

(That's the Inc article)

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Mandatory "vulnerability" is required to be staged and fake. Legitimate vulnerability -- that comes with legitimate risk -- has to be a free choice or else whoever's pushing it makes themselves vulnerable to consequences.

>>> bring your whole self to work

This one always seemed like an "invitation" to demonstrate that you have the correct life experiences and attitudes.

Like those holistic admissions essays that sprung up when universities got banned from explicitly treating applicants differently based on race.

Why is the headline blaming the OS for what the user chose to do?

This is like saying it's my car's fault if I decided to drive onto the sidewalk or something.

That might take a while for the necessary changes to cultural norms to set in, and I'd think it would get a bit spicy in the meantime.

It's not formal institutions, it's the hate mob.

And for things that might seriously attract the ire of people who consider political violence a positive good, there's always TOR.

>>> To establish this, let’s write a simple simulation. We’ll flip a coin a million times, ask our friends what they saw, and observe the results.

Either they agree, or they disagree.

If they agree, they're either both telling the truth or both lying. All you can do is go with what they agreed on. In this case, picking what they agreed on is the same as picking what one of them said (say, Alice).

If they disagree, then one is telling the truth and one is lying and you have no way to tell which. So just pick one, and it makes no difference if you pick the same one every time (say, Alice).

So you end up just listening to Alice all the time anyway.

>>> Manifesting things into reality through writing them often enough is FAR from a normal belief.

Hey, propaganda is a thing and it works. That's totally and example of manifesting things into reality through writing them often enough.

>>> For much of history, laws in many countries were designed to uphold systems of privilege for white men. Segregation, discrimination, and unequal treatment were institutionalized, limiting legal protections for non-white individuals and women.

For much of history, most countries did not have an upper class made up of white men.

I intend to do this very bad thing. How much karma do I need to accrue in advance, so that I don't go into the red from doing it?

Meanwhile $employer is continuing to migrate individual tasks to in-house AI tooling, and has licensed an off-the-shelf coding agent for all of us developers to put in our IDEs.

>>> How should we think about cloud seeding?

It's a way to take someone else's rain.

Who cares about local storage? You could have just made up whatever you're claiming to have saved.

>>> (As if first time mothers didn’t have enough to worry about - stop stressing so much, it could lead to long-lasting irreversible changes to your fetus!)

This is plainly not plausible. "Irreversible" doesn't play well with the length of time humans have been a thing.

Even if this was going to hold up, it wouldn't make the policies that Lamarck's ideas were designed to promote work. We already empirically know they don't work.

This sort of thing is always a call for generational guilt and reparations.

Maybe someone could have just came up with in a vacuum, but it looks like a response to other attempts to restrict AI by saying that models trained with more than X amount of compute resources have to follow tons of extra rules.

And, per the article, the group pushing this is AI and blockchain companies.

The writing style would seem to suggest that the lack of sleep has been having more effects than reported.

The site got to be a pain to try to participate in long before modern AI came around.

That seems a rather different sort of declaration though? "I did not participate in this harm" vs "I will not speak against this group".

>>> Gazans still hold Israeli hostages,

I believe that capturing POWs is fairly common when at war.

That seems like a somewhat unlikely degree of international coordination.

>>> No idea why these posts are allowed to flourish here

No, they often get flagged off pretty quickly.

Israel's response was obvious as soon as the attack happened. "Oh, looks like they've got that excuse they've been wanting."