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by 0xDEAFBEAD 1mo ago
>The thing is, if you don't help us in Eastern Europe, you don't just lose hegemonial status there. You lose all of Europe and with that the very foundation of your power. If that means you're going to stop blaming us for
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That's not my site. But I have a question. At what point did you predict the following? "There's growing alarm within the mathematics community that there are not enough expert humans and expert human bandwidth available to
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Another saying is: "The beatings will continue until morale improves." The US sent billions to Ukraine, and what did we get in return? Europeans telling us that "the last time the US did anything good for the world was WW2&q
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I doubt that. But there's a broader lesson here. Many critics of US foreign policy assume, without justification, that any US foreign policy involvement means the US is entirely to blame for any suboptimal outcome. Positive outcomes (
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>Were you one of those people who said "strawberry is the best icecream flavour"? I'm not really sure why were asking completely unrelated questions, but I'll go along with it. Many people early in the COVID pandemic
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"Difficult to defend America as reality-based when it's going around renaming bodies of water that do not belong to it." I didn't claim that Trump was reality-based. "Also I'm not sure people understand what Sw
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"Evil has no boundaries." Pseudo-profound statements on my HN? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WDFXJZabt5s
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Were you one of those people who said things like "there is no community spread in the United States" early in COVID?
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They could work to coordinate an end to the arms race.
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I think in this hypothetical, the existence of an orphan-crushing industry should make you reluctant to donate to orphanages regardless of who's doing the donation matching.
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>helping agents avoid human oversight is a useful public service You're a literal traitor to our species?
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The reason to avoid working with sketchy donors is so they don't unduly influence you. If they're anonymous, how can they influence you?
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Do we actually know that OpenAI is in serious financial difficulty? https://danluu.com/zitron/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526069 Shower thought: I wonder if this whole "
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And what did they get for their trouble? "Won't happen. It's too much like sci-fi."
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Why are you guys getting worked up over this? What's wrong with donors wanting to be anonymous?
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Interesting idea. Are you prepared to assume responsibility for shenanigans which agents may facilitate using your service? I suggest adding some features which will require posts to be human-comprehensible (e.g. a text perplexity floor),
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I don't think it is much more comical than modern Democrats trying to take credit for the civil rights movement. The Democratic alignment has changed from "judge by content of character, not color of skin" to thinking that p
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy
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None of those events were the focus of the cultural shifts I'm referring to.
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Censure and career threats by leftists.
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Is this theory falsifiable? What would it look like if this problem was "fixed"? Many confederate statues were taken down--did anything change as a result? The entire thing seems like a delusional crusade against windmills. Foc
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If it was about killing open-source, why did Hugging Face state that an open-source model was essential to responding to the previous cyberattack?
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Hacker News can make it so every POST route can now be accessed via GET for 24 hours as an experiment.
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Tumblr? Cultural shifts from social media started to gather momentum roughly around that time.
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I don't think people on the right are scared. I think too many center-left Democrats are scared.
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Many people regard Elon as a hero or villain. I regard him as a tragedy: A great entrepreneur who wrecked his sanity due to drugs, genetics, and/or overwork.
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As an American, I don't necessarily want the US to be trusted. I want foreign governments to put pressure on us to stop developing omnicidal AI. The sooner the "rogue AI agents" conversation links up with the "USA is u
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1800s Republicans were a big business, religious, nationalist party. The Union side in the Civil War was motivated by religion (cc "Battle Hymn of the Republic") and nationalism. Rich men paid to have poor men serve in their ste
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I think you and I are on the same page? I'm trying to push back on the handwavey Nazi analogies by pointing out that garden-variety "shenanigans" are not necessarily rare, i.e. the Nazi/Trump comparisons are not necessa
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Many people, including me, not all of us Republicans, have observed that the Dems were much saner before 2010 or so.

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