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by Jensson 1y ago
Evolution.
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by Jensson 1y ago
> but I absolutely love women. Who wouldn't? Women, they tend to love men.
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> Isn't Feminism encouraging women to have more sex i.e sexual liberation, nudity is no longer a taboo, women are no longer constrained to a single man, all that jazz That was 50 years ago, they are probably talking about how femini
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Its basically making a stone soup, people wont believe it can be done, but then put a stone in water and boil it, and tell people if you aren't getting a nice soup you aren't doing it right, just put in all these other ingredients
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> once the winners emerge, they have the money to lobby laws in their favor. Only works in a flawed democracy, in better democracies people vote out corrupt leaders that only listen to lobbyists.
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> Unfortunately afaik majority people in europe are employed (75.8% of population) and thus have maybe 5 weeks (4 weeks minimum) of vacation. A very large fraction of those work part time. We can see people work less and less over time,
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> You can't put blame on software itself, it just does what it's programmed to do. This isn't what AI enthusiasts say about AI though, they only bring that up when they get defensive but then go around and say it will tota
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Yeah, as long as banks are held liable for you getting hacked they will want to check the integrity of your system in their programs. And you don't want a world where banks are not liable for such things, they have to be or they wouldn
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> the past bubbles most similar to AI are the one around Internet I'd say crypto is more similar, the internet and telephones and rails and roads and electricity is around connective infrastructure, AI and crypto is around compute.
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> For the Beneficiaries, AI hype is about right where it should be, given the demonstrable power of the tech itself How so? I am a beneficiary of AI, and I think it is overhyped. Investors overhype it since they are invested and want to
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> I don't view a banana taped to a wall as art If some don't understand why, I argue art needs to stand on its own, without the surrounding social context. If you view trash as art just because an artist told you, then the art
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Why end there, why isn't the manager who told the artist to make a piece the artist? > AI doesn't do anything you don't tell it to, it is the banana creator in this case So if I tell the AI "create me a piece of art&q
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> In what logical or philosophical framework does my opinion dictate your opinion? Because priors affect your conclusions. For example, I don't like licorice, that makes me not like many kinds of candy. But I know that if a person l
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> 7 layers thick of management feels like too much to me Yeah, so having more than that was banned. They didn't say you need 7 people between employee and CEO, just that there shouldn't be more than 7 people between them. When
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> the CTO at the second had been convinced of my idea and gave me the authority to pull who I needed to get it done. But that mean those people have the power, not you. Without that formal power structure you wouldn't do so much wor
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But being judged over a spelling error is much less serious than them thinking you didn't write it at all.
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> Nobody would publicly claim they support piracy, because it's too politically incorrect. Many in Europe do, there are even political parties for that.
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And the Nazis did help liberate parts of Finland from Soviet, both are correct but doesn't really represent what these countries did very well.
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> Incompetent people can be steered away from damaging actions Not if they think they are competent and know what they are doing, like Trump does.
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Because it isn't worth real Elon's time to run these scams.
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Even Elon could lose his credit card or something, the story they spin is always something like that "I am rich but in a pickle, please send some money here and then I'll send you back 10x as much tomorrow when I get back to my ac
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Engineers often have silly project names internally, then some marketing team rewrites the name for public release.
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> I'm asking for a couple billionaires. Their companies pay taxes, so no that argument doesn't work. Every company pays some form of employee taxes and so on, there is no way to get around that.
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You get those benefits in many programmer jobs, its just things companies provide since it attracts people to the job.
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Why is it silly? Cars haven't fundamentally changed in the past 50 years, they have gotten a lot better but not in a game changing way, society still functions the same with cars as 50 years ago. I see the same thing with text models,
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> doesn't it seem unusual to speculate that despite recent progress, it's just going to be.. flat from here out? No? When new tech arrives there is always a bunch of low hanging fruit around so there is quick progress immediate
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Communism gives politicians 100% control over the country instead of roughly half like they have in capitalist democracies, So people wont vote for communism because its autocratic. You never want all power to be in the hands of a single gr
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Wargroove copied almost everything from advance wars and put it in a fantasy setting, yet it sold much more than most indie games. Copying most values and mechanics from another game wont make a massive hit but it doesn't sell nothing,
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Such robots aren't more expensive than cars though, you can buy a humanoid robot today for a fraction of the cost of a car. They lack intelligence but they can move around.
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> except for when legs are specifically needed. Exactly, we need legs when they are specifically needed, and we already have wheeled robots so building legged robots that can move like a human will cover so many cases we currently cannot

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