GolfPopper

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by GolfPopper 19d ago
> Is suing the government not essentially a petition for remedies? How else do you get the gov to listen? The polite answer to that is JFK's line, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitab
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by GolfPopper 20d ago
Are you speaking of public services, like the National Weather Service (also on Facebook, and host their own website), or about politicians and their appointees? Because while the public service arm of the U.S. government still does a ton o
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by GolfPopper 21d ago
Priorities need to be straightened out. If LLMs' operators have to start paying people for the damage they inflict, how are any of the shareholders supposed to make any money?
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by GolfPopper 22d ago
While specifics vary by state and county, data centers have often been getting 100% property tax abatements good for decades.
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by GolfPopper 24d ago
What is needed before it is wise to trust LLMs with life or death decisions? Or, what is needed before we are forced to give LLMs control of life or death decisions in the name of profits?
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by GolfPopper 24d ago
The chips are being hyped as futures investments. I.e. https://www.silicondata.com/blog/gpu-futures It seems like investing in tulip bulb futures to me.
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by GolfPopper 24d ago
Turkey weight a week before Thanksgiving - All time high
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by GolfPopper 24d ago
Depends on your metric for failure. As a decent human being? Absolute failure. As a supervillain? Complete success.
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by GolfPopper 24d ago
> Treating wage and capital income equivalently would require recognizing losses due to inflation and risk that simply don’t exist in a meaningful way for wage income. Learning that their wage income makes them immune to inflation and i
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by GolfPopper 24d ago
Nah. It they want to make sure that Trump gets his cut from the sale.
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by GolfPopper 25d ago
Criticized as being poor human beings , or as being poor executives ? Because the former, as P.T. Barnum pointed out, is just free advertising. And I see far more of that than the latter. Now, if and when their various empires collapse th
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by GolfPopper 25d ago
> barely anyone remembers black and white television or the feeling it must have been to view the moon landing on one. Apollo 11 landed in 1969. Roughly a third of living Americans are of an age to remember watching it, and more than ha
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by GolfPopper 25d ago
The plates all need to keep spinning faster all the time.
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by GolfPopper 27d ago
Legally? Almost certainly no one. Ethically? The corporate executives who deliberately covered up evidence of global warming, starting back in the 70s.[1] 1. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01&#x2F
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by GolfPopper 28d ago
Don't forget the X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen . During its pilot episode, first airing March 4th, 2001, members of the U.S. government remotely hijack an airliner and try to crash it into the World Trade Center, blaming anti-Amer
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by GolfPopper 29d ago
Not really. It's not like they're going after actual terrorists.
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by GolfPopper 29d ago
The current United States government is very keen on pushing the idea that there is a vast and shadowy international left-wing conspiracy waging war on it. This is, to be clear, lying nonsense.
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
The current US government is trying to create a narrative where America is under siege from a shadowy army of foreign left-wing forces. In particular, this aligns with several of Umberto Eco's fourteen properties of Ur-Fascism[1]: 4. D
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
The cyberpunk dystopia we were promised was much more stylish than the cyberpunk dystopia we got.
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
When the government decides its going to exercise more control over speech, its a coin-flip whether the excuse will be "preventing terrorism" or "for the children".
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
The Missoula Floods in the northwestern US were a similar sort of event, though I'm not sure how the scale compares. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
Who's going to conquer the United States and restore rule of law and representative government by force?
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
There was still a wooly mammoth population on Wrangel Island in the Artic when the pyramids were built. They didn't go extinct until several hundred years later. https://www.theglobalwow.com/mammoths-alive-during-pyrami
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
I would say, "No, we cannot trust him" because, even if/when his intentions are good, his interests, and his worldview, and not aligned with the public's (globally or locally). For example: https://www.curren
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
> Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Pull the other one. It's got bells on.
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
My recollection from Roman history is that was certainly a part of it, but that 'I command the palace guard, so I should command the empire' also played a large role.
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
It feels like daily quests in MMOs, trying to force user engagement via cultivating addiction-style behavior patterns
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
Presumably the pdfs are so large that moving any significant chunk of them over available bandwidth takes so much time, and requires so much storage, that doing so just isn't useful for the attacker. While I don't know any of the
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
There is no meaningful "opposition" at the national level. There's not even a pretense of it. The same Democratic Party that failed to hold Reagan and Bush responsible for Iran-Contra, that failed to hold Bush responsible for
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
I was in college in the run-up to Trump's election. I knew a lot of left-leaning people who were very tired of the neo-liberal status quo, and who were willing to put their time and money into making Obama's promised but undeliver

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