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I think maybe I did? I don't remember when I was introduced to the idea, but I'm pretty sure even though I've always thought of it as just a stereotype, my first reaction was probably "yeah, I can see people trying that."

Holy False Equivalency batman!

I mean yeah, we killed something like 40x the number of civilians in Germany that Israel has in Gaza and with far more indiscriminate tactics (carpet and firebombing entire civilian areas) yet Israel gets accused of genocide when no one says that about the WWII Allies.

The false equivalency was between the rhetoric of Vosem and the rhetoric of Thomas Mann. I'm not one of the people calling it a genocide(though if the netenyahu government tries to drive out the Gazans to make way for settlers, it will definitely count as ethnic cleansing, which is still really bad) Partially due to differences in situation*, and partially due to the fact that the rhetoric itself is so different

*Israel does not need every advantage it can get to win this war, and arguably taking a more cautious approach followed by massive development aid and support in Israel-controlled parts of Gaza a la the Marshall Plan could be the first step in making a very pro-Israel Muslim country in the middle east and undermine a lot of anti-Israel narratives internationally

Haven't we had this thread multiple times? You can't compare a city to a whole country, and you can't really compare DC to other cities either since it's artificially small -- without the boundaries established centuries ago, it would have been able to annex out to "safer" areas and its crime rate would be lower.

There is nothing special about D.C. in this regard.  Other cities, like Baltimore or St. Louis, also cannot easily expand and still have to manage crime in their respective boundaries.  The inability to annex surrounding areas doesn't inherently bias the calculation of murder rates when using a per capita metric.   

Although Baltimore and St. Louis also have very high homicide rates. A better example would be a city like SF, which isn’t expanding at all and has a relatively low homicide rate.

Considering how weak the GOP field is, she'll probably win by a margin nearly as big as in 2018, so about 10 points -- 54 to 44 to 2.

Polarization and the presidential ballot will almost certainly guarantee any candidate with an (R) at least 45-46% of the vote, I think. And if that was indeed the result, by how much would Biden win Wisconsin then?

What is wrong with Seattle? Creating Boeing (killing plane passengers), Microsoft (killing people with AI) and Amazon (killing workers).

ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t

Questions arose immediately: Were they forced out? Is this delayed fallout of Altman’s brief firing last fall? Are they resigning in protest of some secret and dangerous new OpenAI project? Speculation filled the void because no one who had once worked at OpenAI was talking.

It turns out there’s a very clear reason for that. I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.

If a departing employee declines to sign the document, or if they violate it, they can lose all vested equity they earned during their time at the company, which is likely worth millions of dollars. One former employee, Daniel Kokotajlo, who posted that he quit OpenAI “due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI,” has confirmed publicly that he had to surrender what would have likely turned out to be a huge sum of money in order to quit without signing the document.

Weka US government. They pass a law banning such NDA or ban OpenAI unless they are lifted. If they refuse or oppose it in any way, heavily fine the real owner, Microsoft.

is this like David Duke complaining that the NAACP isn't focusing on Africa?

Except AIPAC is explicitly focused on Israel, the NAACP is explicitly focused on African AMERICANS.

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New Zealand is the obvious (and correct) answer, but I would say that in many ways Canada is more similar to the UK than Australia. The language thing is an obvious point of difference though.

ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t

Questions arose immediately: Were they forced out? Is this delayed fallout of Altman’s brief firing last fall? Are they resigning in protest of some secret and dangerous new OpenAI project? Speculation filled the void because no one who had once worked at OpenAI was talking.

It turns out there’s a very clear reason for that. I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.

If a departing employee declines to sign the document, or if they violate it, they can lose all vested equity they earned during their time at the company, which is likely worth millions of dollars. One former employee, Daniel Kokotajlo, who posted that he quit OpenAI “due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI,” has confirmed publicly that he had to surrender what would have likely turned out to be a huge sum of money in order to quit without signing the document.