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by Herring 9mo ago
And I’m telling you that’s not a rare sentiment. I do a lot of zen, and one famous teacher talks about feeling disconnected from people for a long time. I’m not saying you have to do anything, it’s your life, but just don’t assume it’s some
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by Herring 9mo ago
Read more, like biographies and good fiction. Meditate and see into yourself. Understanding minds is a skill like any other, and gets better with practice.
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by Herring 9mo ago
This works great in an orderly society, where most of the really mean stuff has already been successfully disincentivized, often at great cost. Out in the jungle, it takes dozens to hundreds of years to grow a tree, but only a few minutes t
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by Herring 9mo ago
I think there's always going to be people who would rather be "VP marketing" over "parent". When you have an entire nation of DINK (double income no kids), it must age and therefore it must import immigrants to keep
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by Herring 9mo ago
Translation: Vibe coded solution works great on demo, fails in prod. Freakishly hard problem. Fix it for us real quick, we may or may not pay you. Or just tell us how to do it, yeah that's much easier actually.
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by Herring 9mo ago
Everybody gangsta until AI deletes 90% of white collar jobs.
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by Herring 9mo ago
Background: Trump signed an Executive Order (Dec 2025) preempting state AI safety laws, threatening to withhold $42.5B in broadband funding from states that refuse to comply (specifically targeting Colorado and California). In response, New
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by Herring 9mo ago
> If the quality of life was unsustainable without immigration, what makes it sustainable with? Think of it like (internal) trade, it's a win-win. I've been reading about Brexit recently. It's super easy to convince uni
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by Herring 9mo ago
You can also look at it as early for 2070.
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by Herring 9mo ago
That is true, but there is still the rest of the country, and Trump’s ratings are dropping as everyone finds out they don’t like fascism. I’m hoping we don’t just go back to business as usual.
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by Herring 9mo ago
Reminder that the most reliable way to prevent the rise of the far right is to implement robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxiety and grievance.
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by Herring 9mo ago
> High trust, consensus governance Yeah I don’t see that happening here either. Maybe in some rich areas, like tech/finance hubs, operating like mini-Switzerlands. Even then, the poor will keep voting for disruption, so those hubs
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by Herring 9mo ago
A lot of western societies are aging. If you don’t import immigrants, you’re on a timer. The economy slows, quality of life drops, and people elect the far right anyway. It’s happening to Japan right now. I’d set up the safety nets and hope
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by Herring 9mo ago
The problem with these threads is everybody wants to complain about Trump, but nobody wants to talk about policies that actually help buffer against the far-right. Eg implementing robust safety nets and low inequality, to reduce status anxi
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by Herring 9mo ago
> shareholders Yeah that has to be a good 95% of why businesses do bad things. The last thing Apple wants is for people to think they've plateaued. Stock starts going down to normal P/E ratios, expensive engineers leave, etc.
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by Herring 9mo ago
> Additionally, the model demonstrates that racial resentment is a far greater predictor of White support for Donald Trump than measures that capture economic anxiety. That paper isn't quite saying the same thing I'm saying.
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by Herring 9mo ago
Cheers, mate.
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by Herring 9mo ago
I meant taxes to pay for the “robust safety nets”. I could have phrased that more clearly.
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by Herring 9mo ago
I hope so.
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by Herring 9mo ago
Any sources on that debunking? I can't say I've seen anything like that, but I'm open to read about it. Intuitively any societal problems like cost of living will feed into the far-right recruitment narrative that the elites
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by Herring 9mo ago
I want you to go to your favorite frontier LLM and ask how much it would cost the US to implement Vienna-style public housing. Figure in paying off current homeowners to get their support. Restrict it to major cities where housing is the wo
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by Herring 9mo ago
Yes it's a taxes issue, because that's how you pay for European-style safety nets. And again that's probably not enough either, cause Denmark/Netherlands are having issues with housing causing the far-right to surge. So
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by Herring 9mo ago
The problem with these threads is everyone wants to complain about Trump, but support drops drastically when you talk about policies that actually help buffer against the far-right. Eg implementing robust safety nets and low inequality, to
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by Herring 9mo ago
Good catch. I should really look at the code before commenting on it.
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by Herring 9mo ago
I think the point is that's where all the big tech companies say we're heading. I can't say I endorse it, but the OP who just left it running for a month seems to like it.
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by Herring 9mo ago
We don’t read assembly either any more. The sexy new programming language for 2026 is English.
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by Herring 9mo ago
Ordinarily yes I’d love to overthrow the bourgeoisie (check my history, I live in flagged threads), but this time I think this thread is really just about the evolution of the profession.
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by Herring 9mo ago
Can it get me a job if I get laid off (networking)? Can I crash on its couch for a while? It might displace tv/netflix, which yes is a huge market, but I don't think much more than that.
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by Herring 9mo ago
This argument is basically just the 1800s Luddite vs Industrialist argument recast for a new age. Group A thinks quality is about human agency, and that machines are being used to bypass the apprenticeship system and produce inferior goods.
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by Herring 9mo ago
Yeah and he claims a pass rate of 99.96%. At that point you might be running into bugs in the original implementation.

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