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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"The person's qualifications and achievements will be largely taken into consideration, together with their loyalty to the Party, who their parents are, friends in high places who vouched for them, favors that need to be returned,
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
If Meta stays true to its history of designing its products to maximize user engagement I find little reason to believe they wouldn't try to design their product to become more and more tightly coupled with the lives of their users. Ma
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I'm thinking more about how this seems like a template for people to integrate their personal lives into an actual simulation and give a justification for a 'friendly AI' to determine what's best for us. https:/&#x
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Sounds like a Yudkowskyists wet dream to me. Anyone know if people there are heavily influenced by his work?
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"So it’s a linguistic issue." Only in the same way that you can dismiss misaligned values as a 'linguistic issue'.
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"Does anyone genuinely believe any for profit company gives two shits about its customers?" Yes. I've worked for them and with people who were very concerned about their customers. Some of us actually care about value being d
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"There is nothing unusual about facebook, its just nobody likes them, and its fashionable to not like them." You forgot to include 'completely understandable to not like them'.
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"It also forces a deeper understanding of the innards for basic commands than ought to be necessary." Glad you found something that works for you but this is definitely not true for all of us.
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
When it comes to pages that would be served just fine with basic HTML, JavaScript and CSS there's an irritating, crossing into stupid, overemphasis on frameworks and patterns. A lot of times it's gotten to the point of bikesheddin
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
It's subjective of course but most would call that a very far cry from a huge loss which was the original point. For some of us there's a lot more to life than whether or not the wealth we accumulate squares up with the amount of
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Yep. Being able to create an honest, profitable business pulling in 'only' 500k$/annum. Must suck to be that guy. It's real easy to play the 'grass is always greener' game. Everyone has their own aims in life.
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"It's perfectly fine to start a company that's only going to grow 10x or 20x best-case. VCs won't be interested in you, but that's fine, you don't necessarily need investment." I'm not saying this is
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Surely you'll forgive us unsophisticated philistines who place more weight on non-scientific Nobel Prizes than you for having profound respect for people who have the balls to risk their own well-being to stand up to thugish, corrupt a
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Zuckerberg mentioned how much pride he and the team at Facebook take in their products. I wonder how much pride they take in users saying the experience is enhanced by orders of magntiude when they unsubscribe from their feeds...
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
What's wrong with the idea of treating gaslighting as a certain kind of manipulation?
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Not necessarilly. I don't subscribe to it myself. But when you have a system that's state is dependant on the descisions and therefore actions of its participants anything that influences those decisions, i.e. signals, influences
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
I'm more of a 'shit on Facebook' man myself but I'm not above hate. I find it hard to find fault with people expressing disgust with how knowingly predatory and exploitative the company's leadership have proven them
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
I think it's mix of signalling respect for the people impacted by this, the people who work there and are just trying to be decent and of course the fan boys. The first place my mind went to after I read this was "dumb fucks"
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Hedge funds and HFT shops definitely do. They invest pretty heavily to make sure their edge is kept a secret.
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
The problem is as soon as new predictions are made it causes the people participating in an economy to change their behavior. Thats why people working at central banks like the Federal Reserve will try to downplay risks like inflation to pr
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"Realism will increase (perhaps to hyperrealism) and our ability to perceive and interact with simulated objects and settings will be indistinguishable to our senses." Hard pass from me. Gaming addiction was only officially recogn
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Fuck zodiac signs. Tell me what kind of car you plan to buy next!
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by 0x4d464d48 6y ago
The only problem I have with a lot of these duscussions is how often "voluntary" includes things done under duress. You dont "have" to go to college nor get a job nor even have money to stay alive neither. You dont &quot
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by 0x4d464d48 6y ago
Functionally, sure. Im totally on board with that and think its both practical and noble. What Im saying is that although taxation and dividend distribution are both wealth redistribution from an individual/entity with capital they are
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by 0x4d464d48 6y ago
We agree that its wealth redistribution by anyother name. Certainly. The difference is that taxing is done in the name of public/government interest whereas profit sharing is done in the name of private/individual interest.
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by 0x4d464d48 6y ago
"Is it just me, but isn't an Income Share Agreement ... taxes?" No. Its profit sharing akin to how companies do so by issuing dividend paying shares. So far as the government is concerned theyre just looking out for their mos
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by 0x4d464d48 6y ago
"You're essentially offering a loan that can never be paid back, yet requires payments forever." A better analogy would be taking part ownership of a man's livelihood and expecting him to pay dividends like a stock. If h
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by 0x4d464d48 6y ago
Still somewhat hard working but getting lazier by the day. I work as hard as I can to be as lazy as I can.
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by 0x4d464d48 6y ago
"Ironically, in my experience, just bouncing off ideas of one another is not the way this works well. What you can end up with is people throwing their ideas into the ring just for others to find faults in it. In the worst case, this c
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by 0x4d464d48 6y ago
Not sure if you're trying to minimize the impact or draw attention to its severity but that is a colossal number.

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