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all the eng budget is spent on compute cost for ai?

this is a great way to allow inflation to implement pretty significant pay cuts

'make a noise as loud as the you want the volume to be'

gold

previous additions of ai added to google products seem to have been tempered by usefulness and tech maturity.

while controversial, predictive text in gmail is actually useful, is very conservative relative to chatGPT, and has been around for quite a while.

predicting what measurements you want out of analytics is handy, and gives accurate information

google docs/drive uses ai to surface relevant docs based on time of day, audience, and frequency of editing. it works remarkably well.

google photos is mainly an ai product, and it's all-around amazing

google translate is an ai product and it's gotten pretty good over the years, though it's not without competitors

google's speech recognition is very good, and built in all over google products, though I never use it b/c i don't like talking to computers

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i feel like this push is likely to lead to messiness. strategy messiness, messiness in ux, messiness in terms of new ai products not being vetted the same way they were before - allowing more inaccurate results to be presented to users.

maybe users will be ok with it, idk. i've appreciated the ai enhancements to google products so far, i think they've done a good job being even-handed. I hope they manage to keep their hands on the wheel.

everything the ai says is something the ai says philosphically

i can't hear 'easy to do business' and not also hear 'i wish i could just sell poison apples to people without all this government getting in my way'.

regulation is what makes a market trustworthy. a trustworthy market is an efficient market.

Somebody at YouTube knew this wasn't a smart move, so they created a 'tell us why this is a bad idea' form. You can find it here:

https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/price_increase

hey it's dogpile but modern. nice

the state has the right to kill you in punishment. nobody else does. that's a pretty big difference in my eyes.

oh no...

anyway

"I can't say the n word in public and it's like a mob came to torture and kill me"

that's interesting, 'saying X should be against the law' is precisely not what I'm hearing.

instead I'm hearing 'there shouldn't be a law that requires a private entity to broadcast X' and 'you really shouldn't say X, and I would strongly suggest that you do not say X' and 'if you say X, there may not be legal consequences, but legal consequences are not the only kind of consequences'

so i don't agree that 'the way it works is ... saying it should be against the law'

I disagree, and in no way am i trotting out Popper quotes. I am questioning your willingness to actually listen to people.

Also, inevitably, more fingers per square foot, more calories consumed per acre, higher water usage, and more conversations per minute in the neighborhood.

things that people do increase when there are more people. really unclear what your point is here, and the way you said it really makes you look mean.

I love being a victim so much

the problem is that this is going to be one of the coldest summers in the next 20 years

I'm not sure how I guarantee that I'm not getting exploited if I'm working without my employer knowing who I am. How do I have a reasonable expectation of legal protection in this scenario?

if you're mid-30s you probably had an extra enamel coating applied to your teeth at some point that may be doing some pretty awesome work protecting your molars

wages, social security, labor laws ... it's a bit harder to pin down, maybe this is all "just" lobbying?

so much hate for le monde in these comments! While I'm probably too familiar with US politics, I'm not familiar enough with French politics to know what it means when a french person says "globalist propaganda".

In US terminology, whoever says "globalist propaganda" also says "I don't believe Trump lost the election in 2020".

The comments who say this make me think that, probably, le monde is an excellent publication.

There are other comments that say le monde is 'oligarchy-owned' and then suggest publications that take a more left-leaning stance.

This makes me think le Monde is kind of like the New York Times. In general, they know who buys their papers, but the journalism (journalism! - the opinion pages are not journalism by definition) that the NYT does is largely good. It gets the facts and it prints them, holds their own to a high standard, and does a thorough job.

Politically, the NYT pisses off the left and the right on the regular. Does le Monde do that too? Are the vocal advocates against le Monde trying to say 'go further into an echo chamber', or are there legitimate criticisms about the process of reporting that le Monde engages in? Do they get the facts wrong often or go to press too early with a story regularly?

Apparently the 90's-early 00's was a good time for le Monde -- that happens to be when I knew about it. What has happened since?

how would you assess le monde relative to the new york times?

nope

Thanks!

I'd be very interested in hearing about a more recent synthesis on the topic, if you know of one! A lot of the other suggestions in this thread seem to be more about science popularization than directly about philosophy of science.

The linked article is very informative; it includes things I'd not read elsewhere.

For instance, it talks about Putin's willingness to use "battlefield" nukes rather than "strategic" city-destroying nukes – betting that the West would immediately concede any war where a smaller nuke were deployed in the interest of avoiding escalation.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn

in what direction does money flow as a result of this?

I'm kind of an idiot when it comes to finance, and to my uninformed eyes, this looks to me like a $25bln gain for Rosneft. Is that the case?

"downstream" might be the word you're looking for

well it's historically been because 'extend the native widget' isn't possible with css. WebComponents change that a little bit with well-scoped css, but that's still a very javascripty solution.

we're ...what? can you in any way justify why we're worse off?

The module federation story was a bit complicated pre-webpack 5. Are there plans in the roadmap to further support module federation?