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Re:How AI Could Take over the World on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:30PM (#35634134)
...and bring an end to human civilization
Re:AGI Is a Red Herring on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:03PM (#35487586)
When it comes to the threats from AI, there isn't some magic threshold where it suddenly becomes dangerous
Re:Judicious Prospecting on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:13PM (#34499140)
Taken too far, it might seem that way, but an important point from the article is that:

The “judicious prospecting” mindset is worth balancing against the “really trying” mindset. There are times where both frameworks are useful, but distinguishing one from the other is a challenge...there are a multitude of scenarios where futarchy could shed light on where to best apply effort.

Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @11:59AM (#15758310)
One reason why Excel should never be used for anything real is because it lacks type safety. For example if you have to sum a columns of numbers and one of them was mistakenly input as text, rather than throwing an error, it will just ignore that entry. There are lots of other problems related to type safety as well.
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