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dragonwriter

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2012-11-15

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  • > All of the major AI models these days use "clean" datasets stripped of copyrighted material.

    Which of the major commercial models discloses its dataset? Or are you just trusting some unfalsifiable self-serving PR characterization?

  • > We have progressed fantastically on the common medical conditions, but once you get into more rare stuff it gets a lot harder.

    At about 10% of women of reproductive age, endometriosis is way over on the “common medical conditions” side, not the “more rare stuff” side.

    There's a bias here, but its not about how common the disease is, but who it affects and how.

  • > Even if you agree with not watching porn at work on principle, it's weird to have it as an explicit policy. It's like if the employee manual has a "No stealing the office supplies" or a "No office fight-clubs" policy.

    No personal use (with incidental use exceptions for some items, and often exhaustive examples of what is and isn't incidental) of company property and zero tolerance for workplace violence of any kind policies are pretty common, IME.

  • “Fascist” and “neocon” are not mutually exclusive.

  • It reads as incredibly fascistic because it is.

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