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melkor73··on 'It's better for humans in general': The 4-day workweek is closer than you think
Because there's a law that says he has to.
melkor73··on OpenAI No Longer Takes Safety Seriously
Just wait.
melkor73··on Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news
On the other hand, allowing political propaganda with no factual basis to be broadcast indiscriminately is arguably more dangerous.

https://rwandanstories.org/genocide/hate_radio.html

The real money quote from that article: "David Rawson, the US ambassador, said that its euphemisms were open to interpretation. The US, he said, believed in freedom of speech."

melkor73··on What makes a great software engineer [pdf]
Founders never put themselves through the hoop jumping they put their employees through. Most wouldn't even meet the bar at their own companies.
melkor73··on What makes a great software engineer [pdf]
Or someone who wants to change the world, for the worse.
melkor73··on Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable for the Poor
In this case, it's literally Republicans.
melkor73··on We're moving to a post-entertainment society
This is how Silicon Valley "changed the world".
melkor73··on The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (1978) [pdf]
You don't need the quotes.
melkor73··on Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
A large and generous welfare state.
melkor73··on I don't want anything your AI generates
We weren't able to make the internet good, what makes you think we'll do any better with AI?
melkor73··on A new kind of climate denial has taken over on YouTube
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/28/1160162...
melkor73··on Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)
I noticed this too. People that casually drop "Bayesian priors" into conversation seems to be a strong signal for someone who's up their own arse. Sam Bankman-Fried did it a lot.
melkor73··on Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling
It was part and parcel of early D&D. In the OD&D and 1E days, the tournaments and tournament modules were all about finding and testing the best players, not the best player characters/builds. The tournament modules purported to do that in a systematic way, usually judging skill by how far you got in the scenario before dying. Gygax would often pontificate about player skill being the key to success in his tougher scenarios.
melkor73··on Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up (2015)
"What do you think about Vladimir Putin?" -Lex Fridman
melkor73··on In Indonesia, humanity's oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?
Have you ever read "Collapse" by Jared Diamond? Understanding and learning from that past is literally crucial to the continued existence of the human race. More crucial than any technology anyone here has ever created.

The book directly pulls on the kind of data on early societies that the scientists studying these caves produce.

melkor73··on Fitbit fined $11M for misleading consumers about their rights under consumer law
You want a Garmin.