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I thought this title was a reference to this David Bowie/NIN song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo


Congrats to them! Unions are the reason we have (had) an 8 hour day.


And weekends.


And vacations.


And all the major American legacy car companies filing bankruptcy through the years and becoming completely uncompetitive. Welcome to your soon do you come greedy unionion reps That will ensure high performers will leave for better pastures and low to average performers will stay and benefit from collective bargaining,. Unions always increase friction and company politics and stunts growth. Growth is what is key to success of any company and its workers.


As an Australian can I just say of this article: yeah nah


One thing I remember from languagelog is that almost all English speakers have a form of "yeah no" and they all think they invented it.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=30758

Might be Scottish.


Not only did Australians invent it, we also invented Pavlova, Sam Neill, etc.


This is like when Australians tell me they invented drinking coffee.

(Conversely, I've seen Australians who dislike Halloween because they think it's an American invention, but it's also Scottish.)


Yes we also invented drinking coffee.


As a New Zealander, I can say: it's not bad.


I don't know if anyone has been reading cover letters recently but it seems that people are prompting the LLMs with the same shit, dusting their hands and thinking "done" and what the reader then sees is the same repetitive, uncreative and instantly recognizable boilerplate.

The people prompting don't seem to realize what's coming out the other end is boilerplate dreck, and you've got to think - if you're replaceable with boilerplate dreck maybe your skills weren't all that, anyway?

The hate is justified. The hype, is not.


If you have a look at figure 2 here: https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/lo...

You'll see that immigration was at record levels post Brexit.


Yes, but a third of Poles emigrated, largely ending Brits' moral panic about Polish plumbers stealing the jobs, social housing and increasing housing prices.

Not that it solved the issue of jobs, social housing or housing prices of course.


So a largely imaginary "problem" was replaced with an even larger "problem".


So the answer is a few more trillion?


It’s a worthwhile answer if it can be proven correct because it means that we’ve found a way to create intelligence, even if that way is not very efficient. It’s still one step better than not knowing how to do so.


> if it can be proven correct

Then the first step would be to prove that this works WITHOUT needing to burn through the trillions to do so.


So we're sending a trillion on faith?


No, that’s not what I said.


Why are we sending the trillion?


It must be deposited into OpenAI's bank account so that they can then deposit it into NVIDIA's account who can then in turn make a deal w/ OpenAI to deposit it back into OpenAI's account for some stock options. I think you can see how it works from here but if not then maybe one of the scaled up "reasoning" AIs will figure it out for you.


I understand perfectly, thank you!!!


I don't think intuition is in the same class as "perception". I think intuition is better characterized as a byproduct of perception interacting with our preconceptions. I think fundamentally, intuitions are that part of the pattern-recognizing mind which allow us to quickly decide which tunnel is safe when fleeing a tiger. They are an antidote to indecision, but I think that perception is actually more reliable and factual than intuition in pretty much every sense, because it, in general, has some relation to the world that is thinly mediated by our minds. Intuition is the most unreliable part - it's mind all the way down.

So, to address the final two points:

> (1) if cross-cultural variance undermines the evidentiary value of rational intuition, then it also undermines the evidentiary value of perception for the exact same reasons.

No, perception in a sensory context has some relation to real or imagined phenomena. Intuition isn't predicated on that relation.

> (2) experimental philosophy depends upon perception to arrive at its conclusions (as do all experiments). Therefore, if we can’t count on perception to give us the truth, we can’t trust the results of experimental philosophy because of that very fact.

What about "I think therefore I am"? However, I'm quite frankly never sure I've landed on the truth as a philosopher, and I feel the same way about science. But that doesn't stop me trusting it.


Perceptions can be misleading because unless you perceive the totality of all facts relevant to something, the next fact you discover could overturn what you thought you knew. All swans are white, until you see a black swan.

Intuitions are more integrated across your personal accumulation of perceptions and preconceptions: strict reason or perception makes me doubt that this black thing is a swan, but it looks and floats around like a swan, even if I can't quantify how, so I guess it's a swan. Good enough for now until I encounter something that comes up against the boundary of my blurry intuition of what a swan is; at that point I'll think about it some more.

In a way, I perceive the black swan as a swan because of what my established intuitions about swan-ness are.


It intuitively appears that the sun is moving around the earth.


A good Wittgenstein response: "How would it have looked if it had looked as though the Earth was going round the sun?"

Answer: the same. It's just that our default frame of reference is the surface of the Earth. Relative to that frame of reference, the sun is in fact moving


Yeah I was in fact making a cheeky reference to Wittgenstein ;)

We were talking about the reliability of intuition versus sense perception.


Ah ok, I thought after I posted that maybe I missed the intent of your somewhat cryptic remark;

I'm not sure, though, that the intuitive appearance of the sun moving is the same sense of intuition as some philosophers use. We don't perceive the Earth to be in motion, and from a frame of reference based on the surface of the Earth, the sun actually is in motion. The mistake was thinking that this was an absolute reference frame. I would say that was more a misinterpretation of our perceptions than an intuition. People could give reasons for why they thought the Earth was motionless: wouldn't buildings fall down, and birds find it harder to fly in one direction rather than another? etc. It wasn't just an intuition in the sense that it's something that people believed without being able to say why. They could say why they believed it, and they could relate it to perceptions to justify those beliefs. I think there's a distinction there.


I think it'd kind of defeat the argument of the article to say that those two types of intuition about the sun, and of philosophers, are separate. And besides, before experiment the motion of the sun was pondered by philosophers - and there's some arguments that say the boundaries of philosophy are set by what slips out of theory into experiment!


> I think it'd kind of defeat the argument of the article to say that those two types of intuition about the sun, and of philosophers, are separate.

That's ok, I don't think it's a good argument. It's based on redefining the word "intuition" to mean something else, e.g. "5+7=12" is an intuition according to the article's definition.


The funny irony is that for years and years universities would as a policy not accept wikipedia as a reference. I think the thinking was that a published book was more likely to have been written by an expert in the field. Now, even that is less and less likely.


When I was in school it was the same, don’t cite Wikipedia. But we were encouraged to use Wikipedia and follow the citations and dig deeper


Ethnostates and Theocracies are shit. If an intelligence agency is representative of a single race or religion, its bad. Quit your job.


> they don't deserve to have one

By what unholy pact have you been beknighted as the bestower of wikis, my friend?


If the original authors stop maintaining an OSS project, and you are one of only a very few users, you have two options: do the work yourself, or watch it die. If you are unwilling to do the work yourself, then that's a signal it isn't important enough for anyone else to do the work either.

Why should a wiki be any different?


The question still stands.


Not the commenter but in this instance it seems like if you want something you need to either be able make/maintain it or fund someone who will, no?


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