Many of the Persian Gulf GCC nations essentially had a form of generous UBI since the early 80s. It has certainly made people far less enterprising and productive. Inflation hasnt happened since they import the vast majority of their requirements. It has led to increased religiosity etc since people are freed up to engage in religious activities all day long and don't necessarily have to develop skills like social competency or engage with others.
Nontrivial to use. Still need to pass it to someone to convert fiat to crypto. Bitcoin is a public ledger, would be even easier to tie to him in some ways.
In our area, the teachers union straight up released a pro-Hamas, anti-Israeli resolution despite no one asking them for their opinion. And we're in a fairly dense Jewish area.
You'd probably have admins and technology suck up most of the funding. At least in the US, funding and outcomes don't have that much of a correlation. DC area schools have among the highest levels of funding per student and the worst outcomes as well.
There are action models based on LLMs like Gorilla LLM or autoGPT that take a natural language input and convert that to API calls that could do all sorts of things from sending emails to performing stock trades.
I think we need models to safeguard against models and then maybe hard coded rules to safeguard against those models missing out on things. It would be exceedingly hard to verify what all could be maliciously encoded in a billion parameter model waiting to be unleashed with the right sequence of tokens.
Yea, he casually added that term as if people wouldn't notice it. High earning, attractive, middle aged men are often targets for sexual harassment by women but it is not taken seriously at all.
Why is this about individuals at all? As a former academic I feel academia has a higher principle to uphold its principles about assigning credit where it is due and so on. Right and left are largely meaningless terms, we should be striving for the truth.
Its just incalculable what the ROI on this kind of a mission is. It is amazing that US and tech was in the state it was in when the planets aligning themselves happened and we were able to send these out there. A decade here or there and the opportunity would be lost.
Outside of a few places like the US, people care a hell of a lot about the genetics. Try putting Africans in India, or Japanese in China, and so on, there is no such thing as the melting pot in the vast majority of the world.
I think it is also about seeing the most difficult cases and having them stick in your memory as a med student. I have friends who practice medicine and they show the same behavior even when there is no monetary incentive at any stage for them. They do this even for their own parents and kids.
We knew smoking was bad for a long time. It took time to push through tobacco industry's lobbying and massive amounts of advertising convincing people against what they could evidently see in front of them. I don't think tattoo industry has remotely near that level of push.
Microsoft culturally is extremely averse to using customer data for doing these kind of things. I was once talking to a Microsoft exec and he said that once the idea of using contextual ads in Hotmail was brought up (similar to Gmail), and it was shot down hard. The idea of using customer data (even non-paying ones) in this fashion was anathema. Microsoft makes its money from massive enterprise contracts which might be threatened by someone using your data to benefit your competitor in any way.
Same as how homeopathy, flat earthers, etc can exist. Also people like to have something to call themselves special. This provides a group in which you can show off your 'knowledge' and gadgetry and so on.
Yea, me too. Slaved away in academia for peanuts for 6 years. Then the first job I was offered outside academia paid 8x what I was making and 3x of of the best academic positions I was being offered at the time. Never looked back.
I remember seeing experiments that Facebook had done around changing someone's feed to have more depressing content and concluding that it was possible to change someone's mood by that. Online content definitely impacts mental health, you can see how the outlook of people who are always on Twitter or Foxnews changes.
Actually caste is far more tangible than something like skin color. It is encoded into birth certificates etc in India and is immutable. You can change religions but your caste carries into the new one.
>>Being mildly autistic you can see why I don't date either gender with ridiculous sentiments like these being blown around.
> I'm also on the autistic spectrum, and I've never had an issue finding partners,
This is a major difference between males and females and it is hard to get either side to understand the experiences of the other. As a guy on the spectrum who managed to cross over somewhat to the dating side, I have sympathy for the OP's confusion. You may also have some confusion, but it doesn't stop you from having a relatively normal life.
The thing with online dating is filters kill a lot of opportunities that earlier you could compensate for. Most people and women can't easily tell between someone 5'11 and 6' and subconsciously someone who is dominant is perceived as taller than they are. But on an app, women will set a hard filter cutting out men at the edges who might have a chance earlier. Interestingly, women have ensured there is no weight filter, so things are further stacked against men looking for fit partners.
I have a friend at Meta who is exceedingly unhappy (but sticking with them due to visa issues). He advised me to avoid Meta at least for another year even though they are hiring in ML roles.
Is it really that bad a thing though? Nicotine has several benefits even if smoking may not. There was a recent HN discussion on how current higher levels of adult ADHD may be because of the decrease in smoking. I am a very occasional smoker, maybe I smoke around a pack a year. I dont see any particular problems at my level of smoking. You might inhale a far higher level of carcinogens simply driving to work or hanging around a parking lot.
Yea, basically this is a data collection front end. I too hate where you can't pay without cash though I'll bend if no other alternatives are avaialble.
This is true for many airplanes. The first time I saw the SR-71 I was shocked at how large it was. The photographs simply don't do them justice and often the pics that are used are those of the planes flying which have no items to set a scale with.