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Godel_unicodeon March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened

That sounds harder than it is, especially if you already allow remote work. It mostly just forces you to have better docs.

Godel_unicodeon We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans

By not passing the Howey test. Which they don’t, according to the only people whose opinion matters.

The SEC doesn’t get a vote.

Godel_unicodeon We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans

My point was 3 words. Which one do you not understand?

Godel_unicodeon Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT

In case you’re not aware, chatGPT already has scale bordering on 100 million.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-faste...

Godel_unicodeon Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but remember that people said the same thing about Google+; it’s baked into every product and it’s here to stay, it’s not Google reader.

Godel_unicodeon We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans

No they aren’t.

“The respondent companies are offering something more than fee simple interests in land…they are offering an opportunity to contribute money and to share in the profits of a large citrus fruit enterprise.”

https://recaldelaw.com/do-security-regulations-cover-real-es...

Godel_unicodeon GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

Of course I did, did you read the forum rules?

They’re releasing their editors first. Just like they did the last time. Obviously.

Godel_unicodeon GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview

The amount of dev work isn’t fixed. I think it’s more likely that they’ll keep the 10 (or even hire more) and make more software.

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GitHub is already give or take a billion dollar business, and Microsoft is orders of magnitude bigger than that. This will be a nice little sideline for someone but it’s at least as valuable for mindshare as revenue.

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https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/17718-github-copilot

Made by GitHub.

Godel_unicodeon Nations reach accord to protect marine life on high seas

That’s why the word sustainable in GPs post is important. There are several suggestions in that article for how to handle the problems caused by poor practices.

Godel_unicodeon Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos

That’s not how it works.

Godel_unicodeon GPT-4

The pdf on this page has the services that are under audit scope, check the table in appendix A; OpenAI is in scope for HIPAA BAA.

Godel_unicodeon Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

First, since we’re comparing numbers to each other, you should go back before Wednesday to get a real number for pre-run market cap, it’s about 2.5x that. Not that it really matters.

Second, just so we’re clear is your point that the holders of that $6B-$15B of useless paper won’t care because it’s less than $150B? At the end of the day, you don’t care what percent of the bag you’re holding, just that you’re holding it.

Godel_unicodeon Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

Yeah, the fees and lower interest rates from this will be pretty brutal for the poor. Not using tax dollars is actually pretty regressive.

Godel_unicodeon Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

Justice is the idea that people are treated equally, impartially, and fairly under a set of standards. If someone breaks the rules justice is them getting the same punishment anyone else would get, concerns about externalities don’t come into it.

Is everyone getting hurt ideal? No. But that’s a different question than is it justice.

IMO this is what happened during 2008. The government tried to minimize harm at the expense of justice, and people are angry because they don’t realize how bad it could have been.

Godel_unicodeon Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

> Spite is hurting yourself to hurt someone else.

That is incorrect, spite is seeking the deliberate harm of another. It’s possible for spite to include hurting yourself to inflict it, but that’s not in any way necessary.

Godel_unicodeon Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

Not sure why you’re being downvoted, that analysis is correct.

Godel_unicodeon Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

SVB was publicly traded, and it’s not being bailed out. Who do you think owns the now-worthless stock?

Godel_unicodeon Ivy League Schools Sure Look Like a Cartel

Or how the alumni network will show up to give scholarships to prospects who are on the fence. “Oh, you’re thinking about that full ride from State huh? Well wouldn’t you know it, the Smiths just told me they really want to endow a scholarship…”

Godel_unicodeon Ivy League Schools Sure Look Like a Cartel

College athletes who are going pro are studying their chosen field just as studiously as any other field (and more than most business/communications majors). Athletes who aren’t going pro, which is most of them, do better than average academically.

Being an athlete isn’t particularly different than getting a minor or a dual major. Just because there’s sweating involved doesn’t make it not a scholarly pursuit, we should stop being such gatekeepers.

Godel_unicodeon People with ADHD claim Adderall is ‘different’ now

Citation very much needed.

Godel_unicodeon US discusses fund to backstop deposits if more banks fail

Institutions have long memories, especially government ones. I suspect there are a decent number of people who still work there and cut their teeth during the financial crisis.

It would also be mind blowing to me for someone whose job is to handle bank failures to not have a playbook for them. I know that FEMA has a truly impressive library of disaster playbooks in their analogous role.

Godel_unicodeon The Coffeeshop Fallacy (2011)

That’s what we had before deregulation, when flying was very nice and extremely expensive. What we need is to realize people are super cheap and even many who can afford it will choose the cheaper option every time.

McDonald’s is our society’s revealed preference.

Godel_unicodeon The collapse of SVB exposes the largest crack in the economy

T-Bonds tie up money for a long time, bank deposit are largely retrievable on demand. Banks take a fee for bundling lots of deposits together to invest and depositors trade upside for convenience.

If you know you have a 10-year horizon, by all means buy treasuries instead of depositing at a bank.

Godel_unicodeon The FBI Just Admitted It Bought US Location Data

I’ll say it again since you don’t seem to be able to understand. If a law makes you display a banner, it’s that law’s fault that the banner exists. Either change the law or be happy that it’s having it’s intended effect.

As to your strange fallacy paragraph, I’m not sure what you mean by imperfect enforcement. Perhaps you should explain in an amicus brief to the courts that decided those banners are compliant?

Godel_unicodeon ChatGPT is now finding bugs in databases

What I have been doing is asking it for code and then asking it to find bugs in that code. The bug finding works relatively well.

Godel_unicodeon The FBI Just Admitted It Bought US Location Data

> why do the pop-up dialogs have meaningful choices?

Very few of them do. Typically it’s “accept” and “x”.

> why does there exist GDPR-compliant websites without the pop-up dialogs?

Because GDPR doesn’t make those other sites have them. It’s perfectly possible for GDPR to force some websites to have popups and not force others to. It’s still GDPR forcing the ones that it forces to do the thing it’s forcing them to do.

> But the GDPR addressed those flaws.

As you can clearly see from being on the internet for more than about 5 minutes, it in fact does not.

This is not a comment on GDPR one way or the other; my point is that we shouldn’t engage in political word games to try and avoid the inevitable consequences of actions.

Godel_unicodeon Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake

Known in the sense that they know it’s possible, sure. Known in the sense that they know what the likelihood of any given rate increase is over 15-30 years (and are therefore capable of pricing it in)? No.

“Priced in” has a very specific meaning, it’s not a generic term for being aware that something might happen.