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by 1attice 4mo ago
Think back. Has there ever been a time when you were both correct and angry? Would an angry Pythagoras' theorem be wrong, simply by virtue of his anger?
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Well, we don't have to speculate as to whether there is some sort of emotional taint on Zitron's thinking; it's shot through. But again, that does nothing to damage or offset _the argument_, which is available for your inspec
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Arguments have smells but rigour demands you investigate further. Zitron's smelly prose is, ironically, just the kind of stylistic distraction that AI can help condition; the further irony is that he will one day seem to have been righ
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Sure, but does that vibe invalidate the argument? What an odd time the middle of an argument is to be clutching pearls and worrying about prose quality. Style and vibes notwithstanding, is there anything in your view that wrong with the arg
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Historically normal. Inevitability is the critical tool in the autocratic playbook. This is why they work relentlessly to suppress any sort of synchronization signal between their opponents; it is effective at making things feel hopeless, a
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Yeah, that's where I'm at as well. I wish Team Stochastic Parrot were correct. The world is a more terrifying place if you think about the murk surrounding a thing that is neither a complete person nor a washing machine, but some
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Thank you. It's been several decades since I studied.
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by 1attice 4mo ago
I was not, and I am not, because it obviously is. - 'Panzer', of course, is a famous Nazi tank model - 'Schrek' is from _schrecklish_, terrifying (sp?) in German - The typeface, Fraktur, has a specific meaning in the Na
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Hi Panzershreck, I can't help but notice your username, and the fraktur font, and of course the umlaut. Are you aware that the flavouring you've chosen for your user account, the product name, and its logotype are referencing 1930
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by 1attice 4mo ago
...which is why, of course, he would be litigated into oblivion if he shared them. The epistemic signal you await cannot be sent.
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by 1attice 4mo ago
A great reminder to use open standards for works you want to last longer than potato salad. Seven years. I have documents several times older than that, and LibreOffice never mugs me.
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Yes, it feels like this yawning chasm between what you and I read in Al Jazeera and what the tech crowd here seems to acknowledge. The same is historically true here of climate change and the erosion of democracy, although somewhat better
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by 1attice 4mo ago
I am old enough to declare it peaked with Windows 2000, which was mercifully a version of NT that crashed less and had a UI that was intended for serious use, rather than consumer market thrills. Which is why it was on the market so briefl
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by 1attice 4mo ago
No one said "free". Many people said " affordable."
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by 1attice 4mo ago
Fair. I apologize.
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by 1attice 4mo ago
So, more of a rhetorical flourish than actual peace, while America keeps meddling and firing. Got it.
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by 1attice 4mo ago
So, pogroms. What you describe is called a pogrom.
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by 1attice 5mo ago
Why would you expect every essay to come with a call to action? Noting a problem should be enough of a contribution to publish.
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by 1attice 5mo ago
Yet if parent is right, the capacity to deceive might be a strong heuristic for the things you do care about.
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by 1attice 5mo ago
That little red hat on hard mode is sending me. 4.8 has whimsy
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by 1attice 5mo ago
Impressive commitment to stale inference from dated data.
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by 1attice 5mo ago
> There have been housing crises in every type of economic system. Citation needed; good luck
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by 1attice 5mo ago
Breathtaking that you view trillionaires and casino capitalism as a state of nature. I imagine you imagine our primitive ancestors in the canopy, glancing at their iPhones to see how their property value is doing. But the truth is, we didn&
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by 1attice 5mo ago
You realize that's literally what we're talking about -- a permanent underclass that is never permitted to win? This stance is just 'acceptable losses' with more typing
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by 1attice 5mo ago
Living under its constant threat sure is bad for the ol MH tho isn't it. The pathology is that we have this system in the first place.
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by 1attice 5mo ago
Parent here is prickly yet unfortunately correct (sorry OP!) but the reason why is interesting. As I watch this, I realized that, inconsistencies notwithstanding, I would have been floored by this result in 2021, even 2022. But we've a
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by 1attice 5mo ago
Sit down as you read this, but there is a tonne of money in mediocre products
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by 1attice 5mo ago
That's just agreeing with extra steps.
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by 1attice 5mo ago
> In Canada there's layers of un-elected government officials and activist judges who seem more concerned with getting federal funding (aka. kickbacks aka. bribes) than any sort of democratic notions. Citation needed. Good luck
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by 1attice 5mo ago
Honestly the best counterattack Iran could make rn would be somehow convincing the Pentagon to move everything to Azure

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