GolfPopper

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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
> Nope it’s the millionaires. It’s the underemployed educated elite. Wrong. The billionaires want the public focused on the low-end millionaires, who largely have no more control over policy than the poorest pensioner or laborer, while
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by GolfPopper 1mo ago
The difficult part is judging where that "happy medium" is. (And then how to get there.)
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
No. That might be what our current leaders deserve, but it won't fix the problem of grossly dysfunctional governance, particularly at the highest levels. Which makes it just a dangerous (to everyone) waste of effort. (And I do not me
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
This is all just reshuffling deck chairs on the Titanic. You can't turn corrupt officials into honest ones by changing the laws they're already turning a blind eye to. And you can't use systems (such as the political parties
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Or, as the quote attributed to the late Paul Harvey goes, "Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains."
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
"John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." Not quite how he phrased it, but close. Original is
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Finland links speeding fines to income. I'd like to see something that get far broader application. That prevents the wealthy or huge corporations from seeing lawbreaking as a business cost, without destroying a small business or indiv
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Value misalignments in X's feed algorithm(pnas.org)
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
How old are those systems in their present configuration?
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
> this weird rainbow snake floating around. Sounds like it might have been a 'floater': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater (I've had one myself for my whole life, a 'crystal worm'. I usu
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
The objective time of "local noon" also varies due to the Earth's orbit not being a perfect circle, and the Earth's axis being tilted with respect to the plane of its orbit. The variance is described by the equation of t
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
It is possible to see something close (how close I don't know) by saturating the S & M cones instead of avoiding them. Wikipedia refers to these as 'chimerical colors': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
The government does not have the peverse incentive of putting private profit above all other concerns.
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
That's because the implicit sales pitch is: "We will create a tame AI overlord and rule the world with it!"
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
>We're all about to come face to face with this reality. This dance can only last so long. Only for values of 'all' that exclude well-connected members of the billionaire class and their select associates.
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
'Judas goat' perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_goat
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Purely anecdotally, over the last few weeks I've noticed a significant uptick in articles trying to convince me how awesome AI is doing. And that's from a pretty high baseline of articles that were already telling me how I should
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Civilization functions because the vast majority of its inhabitants do not lie, cheat, and steal. But that allows liars, cheats, and thieves who are able to get away with their destructive behaviors to accumulate outsize power and influence
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
"How did human civilization collapse?" "Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly."
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
So the government is going to track down everyone involved with running Research Gold and prosecute them for fraud, right?
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Once the AI is working, surely the corporation can just ask it to come up with an inexpensive accountability sink for trolley problems? Perhaps it will suggest hiring an impeccably credntialed AI ethicist to legally opine that it has the mo
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
I stopped paying attention to Brave years ago when it started fiddling with advertising-linked cryptocurrency and content injection. Is there any reason I should extend it any trust now?
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
I've had four long-term commutes before working from a home office since COVID. 1) Five minute walk. 2)
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
> Is he forcing people to login to Instagram or Facebook? Yes. The "no one is putting a gun to users' heads" argument is irrelevant when it comes a trillion-dollar company invested in behavioral modeling deliberately driv
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
One that just happens to be very convenient for the machine-god peddling billionaires.
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
And they are, at present, correct.
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Thank you! I ran into this a ton in college, and still do sometimes with new (to me) authors. I was confident about what was happening, but it's nice to know it's a documented phenomenon.
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
What, you mean, like American Machine and Foundry building nuclear reactors? https://www.ans.org/news/article-1858/elk-river-rural-americ...
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
>The end goal of AI is to create quasi-gods. I think this is what is driving the hype, the mania, and what increasingly appears to be insanely high investment. It's not about the underlying technology, which is objectively impressiv
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by GolfPopper 2mo ago
Since no one else has said it, "The market can remain irrational longer that you can remain solvent." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/

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