Jensson

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by Jensson 4mo ago
> The "you" isn't your physical body, it's the pattern recognition in your brain that that classifies some parts of its sensory input as "you" (see Mirror Hand illusion). That it happens to be running on mea
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by Jensson 4mo ago
There is, you talk to an Alzheimer patient and its like that, and it doesn't feel like talking to a human any more. An Alzheimer patient isn't cured by adding some input noise to stop them from repeating conversations, they are st
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by Jensson 4mo ago
A blind person has touched warm and hot things and gotten burned before, and then they are told lava is this molten liquid that is even hotter than anything they have touched. That is enough for them to understand. A blind person that never
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by Jensson 4mo ago
Dropped 99% in three years... Some think that would happen to Google, but it didn't so far.
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by Jensson 4mo ago
Iran did this to Obama as well, said one thing in private then announced a totally different thing in public. It makes them kinda hard to talk to. So they might tell American negotiators in private they agree to everything, then they go and
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by Jensson 4mo ago
> Destroying Israel would require American military action. Or an Iranian nuke. Iran has a big clock ticking down to year 2040 where they say Israel will be destroyed by, if the current Iranian regime isn't destroyed by then they wi
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by Jensson 4mo ago
The Iranian government would execute much more than they already do if they could, but they can't due to unrest risk.
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by Jensson 4mo ago
It doesn't cost life to eat modestly and live smaller than you can afford, you live life while doing this. Many think the best part of their life was when they were young and poor, its not a bad life to have low costs so you can live s
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by Jensson 4mo ago
That is true until the owner dies, at that point you will have zombie AI companies that continues even though everyone associated with it is dead.
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by Jensson 4mo ago
Money buys drones, drones are the future of power.
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by Jensson 4mo ago
Critics has the same issue, they will also be mostly AI generated. How do you find the good non-AI generated and unpaid critics in the future?
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by Jensson 5mo ago
Serfdom existed to prevent peasants from leaving those farms, people wanted to move to cities were wages and jobs were better but nobility wanted to force them to stay on those farms.
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by Jensson 5mo ago
Its because the people pushing for these changes are privileged and stupid, so they want the most gameable version to still be there ie GPA and extracurriculars and not the SAT.
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by Jensson 5mo ago
Its easier to get good grades in poor schools since regardless how you grade your teachers grade you against your peers, and poor schools have worse peers. So given same knowledge poor students have better grades, so their grades will be re
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by Jensson 5mo ago
If Claude starts sending queries to Google then Google makes you use captcha from that IP, likely you have been using such a bot and it sent queries without you knowing.
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by Jensson 5mo ago
> I guess the "fun aspect" of seeing them flee and not restraining your movement at all could be slightly more satisfying than taking them down in a single hit one-by-one for the thousand time. Chasing enemies is much more ann
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by Jensson 5mo ago
> In places with strong functioning unions (e.g. Scandinavia) they can often function as a moderating force, keeping salaries low when times are bad But this isn't a Scandinavian union now, is it? It is an American union with all th
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by Jensson 5mo ago
> As per the Dutch language saying: "Trust comes on foot, but leaves on horseback." So it took your horse? Better stop trust from ever coming then.
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by Jensson 5mo ago
> The result is that European hi-tech entrepreneurs create their businesses in a friendlier environment An environment that lets you take European contracts since American companies can't compete for them is very attractive for entr
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by Jensson 5mo ago
If a billionaire bought all the water and is now taking $10 a glass, would you happily pay, or should the government regulate that away?
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by Jensson 5mo ago
You can look at who is likely to become the next president for USA etc, it helps a lot to see what people who spent some effort looking into it thinks.
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by Jensson 5mo ago
But most of that relative sea changes comes from the land locally sinking, not from the sea globally rising. The title making it sound as if its climate change causing this issue is sensationalist, this would have happened even if the seas
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by Jensson 5mo ago
The headline is literally "Rising seas will swallow New Orleans", not "New Orleans is sinking below the seas", this would be an issue regardless if sea levels were raised or not, it would still sink down into the sea.
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by Jensson 5mo ago
Just regulate it, make every home buyer buy an insurance for when it eventually happens. That way people who think its worth it will live there and all the relocation is already paid for.
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by Jensson 5mo ago
You don't think the police union is too powerful? You should worry, nobody likes it when unions are too powerful.
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by Jensson 5mo ago
Because European unions doesn't have as much power over workers as American unions, since Europe as right to work. Right to work means you can just quit a bad union if you don't like it without having to change your job.
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by Jensson 5mo ago
Unions doesn't protect you in revolutionary times, so no. Detroits manufacturing sector was totally devastated even though they had extremely high unionization rates.
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by Jensson 5mo ago
And why can money hire workers? Its because that money lets them get goods that was produced by previous investments. Without the investor class you wouldn't get large new projects organized. The alternative to private investments is c
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by Jensson 5mo ago
Meritocracy is still a slur word by the left, that never changed, the left doesn't like meritocracy and the right likes it. So a left winger writing about the horrors of meritocracy doesn't mean that meritocracy is bad.
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by Jensson 5mo ago
I think he would expect the movie to not feature undisclosed ads everywhere, if those ads would ruin the movie then the movie shouldn't have any.

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