rational_lib

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 31 minutes ago

Yes but that's not the biggest problem. Selfishness is the biggest problem as far as relationships are concerned. Every Republican I've ever known has this attitude that their view of things, which is invariably biased in their interests, is the only possible correct one and that anyone who disagrees is both extremely dumb and morally inferior. With friends this is not the biggest problem because you don't have to share stuff with them. In a relationship though, it becomes really problematic fast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 36 minutes ago

Very frequently, yes. As well as closed source code and intellectual property of all kinds. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Non-billionaire controlled so far. It's a public benefit corporation, which is vulnerable to being Altmaned. Once it becomes valuable money will find a way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

As I use copilot to write software, I have a hard time seeing how it'll get better than it already is. The fundamental problem of all machine learning is that the training data has to be good enough to solve the problem. So the problems I run into make sense, like:

  1. Copilot can't read my mind and figure out what I'm trying to do.
  2. I'm working on an uncommon problem where the typical solutions don't work
  3. Copilot is unable to tell when it doesn't "know" the answer, because of course it's just simulating communication and doesn't really know anything.

2 and 3 could be alleviated, but probably not solved completely with more and better data or engineering changes - but obviously AI developers started by training the models on the most useful data and strategies that they think work best. 1 seems fundamentally unsolvable.

I think there could be some more advances in finding more and better use cases, but I'm a pessimist when it comes to any serious advances in the underlying technology.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

That's what they did this election, and we got fascism and the DNC doesn't matter anymore. So now what?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Do a hostile takeover of the GOP instead. Many states don't care why party you register as, and if they do just register as a Republican and vote in their primaries. Pick a socialist candidate and get them to run as a Republican, and vote for them. This is in essence what Trump did, but of course he did it for fascism and got Nazis to vote Republican. The same strategy can work for anyone else. This can start in safe blue states where no one votes in the GOP primaries and spread from there.

This is a far more realistic strategy because third parties are vulnerable to the spoiler effect and will always fail due to people being worried about electing Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I used to be open to dating Republican women, Then I actually dated one. Now I'm no longer open to dating Republican women.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Network effects, boomers being unable to figure out how to switch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

There will be Fox News appearances.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes I do think it was championed by conservative people. And if that statement pisses anyone off, my evidence is that Fannin County GA, where this took place, voted 82% for Trump. It's almost as if the whole "government overreach" thing is just empty marketing for policies that make rich people richer...

[–] [email protected] 231 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Politically-motivated tea tax, what could go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think this is intended as satirical but given the multitude of illogical reasons some give for supporting Trump it's hard to tell.

 

Yes I know, your least-favorite idea goes here. But seriously, someone must have come up with the concept before. Like a bad get-rich-quick scheme could fall into this category, where joining the scheme makes people lose money and become more desperate, so they become more likely to do desperate things like invest more in the scheme. But it can apply to a number of other bad ideas.

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