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A few lines later:

  // Good:
  if err := doSomething(); err != nil {
      // ...
  }

I think the reason is getting more and more obvious with every passing day.

His father and mother are professors of Law (and Business) at Stanford. His aunt is a dean of Columbia University's School of Public Health.

https://showbizcorner.com/sam-bankman-fried-parents

His brother was running a lobby group called Guarding Against Pandemics. FTX's head of policy and regulatory strategy was a Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner under Obama.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/14/former-ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-f...

And that's not the end of it all, there are many more interesting connections.

No, it's media damage control. Gets you to think about unverifiable stuff like personal motivation instead of what his company actually did.

It revelatory that VOX interviews him instead of investigating him.

https://odysee.com/@Chris_Martenson:2/the-deeply-troubling-f...

Ok, let me get this straight. You openly admit that brainwashing techniques are now routinely and knowingly used in "casual" settings, but you want me to stop using the term, because it's so routine and because it never was never long-term effective. Faulty reasoning at best, manipulative bullshit at worst.

Moreover, clinical myocarditis and pericarditis are only tips of the iceberg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vveMHtVk_mY

People who have no significant symptoms can still have troponin in their blood, indicating damage.

Let me remind you of some recent history:

"Brands blast Twitter for ads next to child pornography accounts". Published September 29, 2022. Before Musk took over.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-brands-blast-tw...

Of course, that news didn't make it to the front page.

What's really happening right now is the general implosion of big social media companies. It has started before Musk's takeover and it goes far beyond Twitter.

>Sure, we use the word "learn" to describe what they do, which is one word that we also use to describe what people do. But ML models are always wielded by people or corporations for particular purposes.

This is extremely important. "Learning" in machine learning is an aspirational label, not a descriptive one. People who claim otherwise either drank too much of their own Kool-Aid or are simply dishonest. This isn't just "wrong" in some taxonomical sense, this is dangerous in a very practical way. Conflating machine "learning" and human learning will inevitably lead to various kinds of sabotage of human learning.

Sounds like a great idea. I nominate NSA as the host organization. You wouldn't even need to bother creating a profile, they will just use all the surveillance data to find you the best matches.

https://crossdysfunctional.tumblr.com/post/109024982557/fund...

Drugs are important to drug addicts. That's not a reason to praise the dealers for their business acumen.

Facebook and Instagram are exploitative as fuck.

">People really, really, hate Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. So much so that they will refuse to give my small business money if it goes through Paypal on the off chance that those two guys might get some of it."

This looks like pure spin. I don't know of anyone who refuses to use PayPal because of this reason. (Thiel and Musk are not running the company anymore.) I know a lot of people who refuse to use PayPal because it has some kind of directive to ban people for wrongthink. There are countless instances documented on ReclaimTheNet.org [1], and those are just the ones involving people of notoriety.

[1] - https://reclaimthenet.org/page/2/?s=paypal

There is literally a campaign of people closing PayPal accounts in protest of company's behavior right now. (That $2,500 fine proposal was the last straw.) Guess what? Many people see "errors" when they try to close an account. Dark patterns everywhere.

In short, if you choose to use PayPal as a sole payment method for your business, know that you are alienating a lot of potential customers.

It's mind-boggling that most systems don't have a standard tool for observing file changes. The only language I know of that has a platform-agnostic API for this is Factor.

Can you say with a straight face that this image (from the original paper) was intended to explain rather than obfuscate?

You employ faulty economic reasoning here. Most MS tools are not unique and aren't even best in their class. In cases where they are close, MS charges a lot of money for the privilege to use them.

To put it in simple terms, if Copilot worked as advertised it would cost significantly more than VS enterprise. At some point of usefulness the logic related to selling vs using it internally would work exactly like I described. This is why many companies develop their own software and don't sell it at all even if they could charge for it.

a) Downplay the tool. Use it internally to completely crush competition by writing amazing software. License for exorbitant price to a select few partners, who will also crush their competition.

b) Hype it up as much as possible and license it to anyone who's willing to pay $10/month.

I think the rational choice is obvious, which also makes it blatantly obvious that Copilot is not seen as any kind of competitive advantage by Microsoft itself.

Here is what really happens. People who are not familiar with programming assume that some mental faculty is necessary to solve a particular problem. Indeed, it is required for a person to succeed at the problem. That mental faculty is often general and can be applied to other tasks. It's some aspect of what we consider general intelligence.

Instead, software engineers look at a problem and solve it by changing its representation to fit the capabilities of a pre-existing algorithm. The solution has nothing to do with mental faculties in the general population. The solutions ends up being specific. If you want to apply it to another problem, you need to transform that problem into some clever representation as well.

People notice the lack of generality and say "no, this is not what we had in mind". It's an entirely reasonable sentiment.