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by Jensson 1y ago
Corporations that competed with governments had armies historically, trade corporations like Hansa or East Indies operated that way. So as long as they aren't fielding armies they are not competing with governments, just influencing th
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by Jensson 1y ago
There was no such split in most countries, so internationally it is weird to differentiate the two. Liberals are right wing in most places (they want small government with low taxes).
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by Jensson 1y ago
Most people just means physical violence when they say violence, if you use the word differently you will trick many people into thinking you say something you don't.
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by Jensson 1y ago
But if there is a bubble Nvidia is making it worse this way and will get hit hard itself.
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by Jensson 1y ago
US also has the highest rate of imprisoned people in the world, I wouldn't follow them on sentencing. If revictivism is lower for short sentences then there is no reason to have long sentences, it isn't about punishing people it i
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Part of that is one of the pillars of conservatism, that humans are imperfect beings and thus need institutions to guide them Who made this definition, left wing scholars? I doubt many conservative persons would say this. You could jus
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by Jensson 1y ago
But that is what classes does, it lets you have data lists and dictionaries implemented as a class so that your algorithm doesn't have to understand how the data structure is implemented. In functional programming the algorithm has to
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by Jensson 1y ago
> Because this state seems like a very solvable problem: All you have to is not buy it Your index fund will buy them.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Donors get a say, did donors get any stock? Its very ugly when you built your for profit by stealing donations from a non-profit, people can condemn that even if they themselves didn't personally lose money similarly to how we can cond
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by Jensson 1y ago
Those are unrelated, the same would happen regardless if it was owned by millions via their pension plans or a few billionaires, both are equally greedy and immediately move their investments for 1% higher returns, the CEO's at these c
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by Jensson 1y ago
> so how would a user know which one to choose? Word of mouth, that makes peoples needs drive the algorithm rather than profits.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> If I was enslaved by tyrants making my life worse everyday, shouldn't I be opposed by their ways? That wouldn't create polarization, it would create extremely strong cohesion since everyone else enslaved by those tyrants woul
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by Jensson 1y ago
You mean "feel lonely at the same rate" or that they are actually alone at the same rate? Men do have fewer friends and its much more common for men to have no close friends at all.
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by Jensson 1y ago
Most humans can reliably do the job they are hired to do.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> I had a look and I found one[0] (cw: child abuse) which agrees but the direction is wrong - they discovered trauma leads to suggestibility. I never said that trauma comes from suggestibility. Even for traumatized people you can make th
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by Jensson 1y ago
Nobody suggested there was a causation here as that doesn't matter for what was talked about.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> It's artificial to not talk about politics in the same breath as science No its not, its weird to talk about politics without science, but its not weird to be interested science without wanting to care about politics.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> They can't. The website may very well do the opposite of the preference DNT signals. Meanwhile, proving in a court of law that the tracking still happens will be hard. Its not hard when it comes to any website of note, large compa
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by Jensson 1y ago
I think some people fool themselves easier than others. It is common enough that is you will find the effect in any larger study. > Eg eat chocolate when you remember that painful fall. Some people do just that and it seems to help them,
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by Jensson 1y ago
No it doesn't, I didn't say the source of their misery was people telling them that they are, but it could make it worse. Often the best cure is for your friends and family to treat you just like normal, except maybe demand a bit
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by Jensson 1y ago
Doesn't matter, suggestibility was correlated with trauma, which means they are likely to be suggestible to becoming miserable if you tell them they are.
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by Jensson 1y ago
But we don't have a million times the compute, we have the compute we have so its fair to argue that we want to prioritize other things.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> For example, I've seen people reject mainstream psychiatry as totally pseudoscience and then endorse evolutionary psychology, a field with a huge bullshit issue. Both of those have huge bullshit issues, that is the problem with su
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by Jensson 1y ago
> as far as I can tell, someone can explain how they're the victim to anyone and everyone they come across and no one will care. I can't see how anyone emotionally or materially benefits from saying they're a victim. they
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by Jensson 1y ago
If so then its true, telling traumatized people that they are traumatized makes it worse for them.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> To me, it forces you to pay attention so you know how to organize what you write But that is worse than just listening and doing that in your head, so people who already listens the right way the note taking gets in the way, writing th
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by Jensson 1y ago
Everything gets judged by its worst members, you can't just say that it was fine were you are and then conclude it was fine everywhere.
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by Jensson 1y ago
The same can be said about the federal level, no matter which level you are at they can happily exploit you, but it is much easier to leave a smaller place than a larger one, so its very preferable to have these decisions at state level tha
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by Jensson 1y ago
Capitalism succeeds even where they do pay for externalities, so you are wrong.
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by Jensson 1y ago
They don't update themselves as they work on a problem. Humans solve hard problems by forming new neural connections, LLM cannot do that. If you make a model that does that then its no longer the LLM architecture we use today and it wo

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