cwmoore's comments

On: Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

[cwmoore]

You might want to look into the industry funding of environmental organizations and the decline of union membership before you decide with your whole heart.

On: Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

[cwmoore]

Are you sure it was to get paid, not to avoid prosecution? It could be both among other reasons.

[yard2010 → cwmoore]

It doesn't matter as in this scale power ~= money ~= time so it's interchangeable, this prick can get paid in all of these commodities

On: Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

[cwmoore]

You have the right to remain silent, but you must assert it verbally.

On: Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

[cwmoore]

I’m not so sure. First the representatives are selected to be elected.

A significant portion of both of your suggested halves are “complicated” by money.

[pgwhalen → cwmoore]

You could break it down further if you like, yes.

Everything is complicated by money. I wish we were better about shielding politics from money. So much about society in general is about money, it ain’t easy.

[cwmoore → pgwhalen]

No, not “if I like”, everything touches money, and “it ain’t easy”.

Your breakdown was so simple, it was simply wrong.

On: Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

[cwmoore]

Because freedom, and surveillance capitalism, have different effects depending on which side of the PR apparatus you find yourself on, and the laws that get passed are written by and for the industries and not crabs in the barrel voters who rely on them for income.

Power corrupts.

On: 5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy

[cwmoore]

Customs and taxes on the border ridge?

I would like to see something about the wider geography of the area.

On: 5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy

[cwmoore]

This is just a little strange to me. Pollen is produced at the flowering stage, not the growing and harvesting stages, months later. While there may be pollen on a grown ear of corn, it would be there for the same reason that it is everywhere else, because it is airborne and somewhat durable?

On: Billion-Parameter Theories

[cwmoore]

Indeed, operating human lips, teeth, tongue, and larynx is far beyond language models.

[bbor → cwmoore]

Apologies if I'm stepping on a joke, but just in case: Nativism is about cognitive capacities, not sensorimotor ones. All apes could easily communicate just as well as Helen Keller, yet none of them have ever asked a question, much less written a book!

[cwmoore → bbor]

No joke. Same sensorimotor neurons in the human speech apparatus have cognitive analogues, developed together over vast expanses of history.

[pixl97 → cwmoore]

Give language models 500 million years and lets revisit this. One of the reasons robots are harder to reach parity than higher intelligence, evolution has been cooking it a long time.

On: Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting

[cwmoore]

Overburdened? Why do I hear this so often? The correct term is "underspec'd".

On: Stop Anthropomorphizing the Machine

[cwmoore]

I'd tend to disagree, and can imagine that the scenario is a true but a narrowly outlined description of actual experience.

What makes you so certain it isn't?

[adampunk → cwmoore]

It's (very) rhetorically convenient and notably non-specific.

[cwmoore → adampunk]

It is that, because it’s the lede and discussing a former employer, right?