Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
I just find the rationalization amusing, though I doubt it will matter either way. Since the rate of adoption of this diet is so slow, and the relative proportion of daily meat-eaters keeps growing as countries develop, we'll either fa
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by Bakary 4y ago
Climate controlling tens of millions of square kilometers of arable land is not feasible, unless we are already at a technological and energy producing stage where our current problems are all resolved anyway.
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by Bakary 4y ago
There's already a user talking about it their success in this very thread, though obviously they are an outlier and probably closer to the prospector than the shovel seller in some ways. I've seen multiple examples on HN and vario
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's honestly pretty badass that we managed to smoke so many rival species.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I can't recommend Ted Chiang's stories enough.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I am under the impression that the optimal strategy, if you have technical skills, is to be constantly on the lookout for new shovels or other tools to sell to the prospectors. Build quickly, sell quickly and it doesn't really matter i
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by Bakary 4y ago
As far as I can tell, it is possible to draw such a scene by adding in the pieces and using the tools to paper over the boundaries and integrate those elements. It takes much more work than just generation but maybe one fiftieth to one hund
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by Bakary 4y ago
No, guilt is fine. Trying to avoid or sidestep the guilt through rationalization decreases respect. Though if we are talking about sociopaths, the base respect is low enough that it doesn't make much of a difference.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I understand this reality, but that is what I am referring to as manipulating people for gain. That is literally what is happening. That it helps businesses doesn't change that.
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by Bakary 4y ago
The elephant in the room is that if you lead a fulfilling life, smartphone addiction is easy to cast off unlike most legal or illegal physiological drugs. I agree that the disingenuous mindset you are alluding to is a problem. The technolog
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by Bakary 4y ago
The solution could be to increase stress so that employees get white hair at an earlier phase of their lives.
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by Bakary 4y ago
This makes it sound like pacifism is in itself a stable and meaningful thing but it's an opinion that can only exist with the support of the non-pacifist. You need the context of a stable territory that is maintained by force to remain
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by Bakary 4y ago
It reminds me of one scene in I, Robot (2004) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAHbm7G2R0
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by Bakary 4y ago
>I get it. I'm default vegan but bought some brie to enjoy tonight as a treat, wear leather shoes etc. You are not vegan. We can't confuse the idea of seeing the world as less black and white, and outright changing definitions.
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by Bakary 4y ago
There isn't really an animal-using industry that involves humane conditions. Most justifications to the contrary are usually in bad faith, such as citing mom and pop farms or whatever as if that were even remotely the bulk of the sourc
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's not about the reason, but rather the act of living in an authentic and bold manner and not making up excuses to assuage your guilt. You can respect one trait of the person while not approving of them in general. And sometimes more
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's an uncomfortable topic because so many people here work for adtech and spend their lifetime essentially manipulating others for massive gain
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by Bakary 4y ago
As a meat-eater, I definitely respect vegans more because they have a clear ideological reasoning and don't rationalize. Vegetarianism seems really milquetoast in comparison, assuming it's not done for health reasons. It's th
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's a throwaway line, but I take issue at the idea that you can't get vegetarian meals in a tiny French village. Any traditional culinary setup is going to have at least a plurality of vegetarian options due to meat not always ha
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by Bakary 4y ago
With Stable Diffusion & co. I've had the opposite sensation. I was completely floored as to how it blew past all of my expectations.
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by Bakary 4y ago
AI is moving so fast that we might be a couple of years prior to having a program capable of conversing with a dumb and indecisive person like this and outputting what they want
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by Bakary 4y ago
There has never been as big a proportion of the population that is educated and literate as what we have now. For all their wisdom, our predecessors were engaged in the same constant warfare and genocide, whilst also having more restrictive
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by Bakary 4y ago
I live in one such neighborhood. The ethnic mix has not changed, at least not in a noticeable way. The cool people are gone, and were replaced by tech workers. The old locals are struggling. A new coffee shop with high-priced drinks and a c
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by Bakary 4y ago
Maybe Google can do something. Just it probably shouldn't be something that alters security measures for billions. I'm not dismissing the whole issue, just that it was presented in a way that's not actually conducive to helpi
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by Bakary 4y ago
I agree that it would be a good start. What I'm saying is that the system of having to replace phones every 12 weeks is dysfunctional on its own and probably should be looked at.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I can make a very specific case for it. Out of 1.5+ billion users, millions of which are barely tech-literate and vulnerable, with gmail a constant target for malicious entities. That means intuitively at least hundreds of thousands of vuln
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by Bakary 4y ago
Given Stable Diffusion maybe you made the right choice!
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by Bakary 4y ago
If you mean a stumble in the sense that I'm not truly aware of the implications of what I'm proposing, that's not really the case. I personally believe we could be yet more ambitious than what I am describing here, but I real
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by Bakary 4y ago
There are 1.5+ billion gmail users. I don't have stats, but that intuitively means millions of vulnerable people who could be scammed or phished or whatnot because they would never think of using 2FA at all. Among those half a million
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by Bakary 4y ago
If Google were to shrivel up and dissolve, I would not mind at all. But what's currently happening is that a metric ton of people are using their free email service and won't stop doing so any time soon, and so they had an incenti

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