Lendal

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by Lendal 1y ago
It's not just him, it's the whole base that does this. Taking a cue from the most infamously persecuted person in history, Jesus Christ, that's what they're going for. The more hate, the stronger their resolve. Hate is t
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by Lendal 1y ago
That's what tariffs do though. If you have a product that competes with another that now costs more due to tariffs, you're now free to raise your prices as well, in order to maximize profit. Your product may not have a tariff, but
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by Lendal 1y ago
For me, it's getting annoying. Not every question is an excellent question. Not every statement is a brilliant observation. In fact, I'm almost certain every idea I've typed into an LLM has been thought of before by someone e
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by Lendal 1y ago
I don't believe rigorous scrutiny and debate would have this effect at all. Most people would just get defensive and entrench. There has to be another way to reveal reality to them that doesn't result in their entrenchment.
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by Lendal 1y ago
To summarize the article, when a language has a single creator, (in this case, the person who runs the first major printing press in France,) that person has immense power to make significant changes to the language when needed. On the othe
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by Lendal 1y ago
I blame this on the CEOs and other executives out there misleading the public about the capabilities of AI. I use AI multiple times a week. It's really useful to me in my work. But I would never use it in the contexts that non-tech-sav
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by Lendal 1y ago
I'm in the camp of people who believe that while they are bullshit machines, oftentimes bullshit can be extremely useful. I use these bullshit machines all the time now, for minor tasks where bullshit is acceptable output. Whether it
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by Lendal 1y ago
Where does the buck stop in this scenario? My assumption is the manufacturers have already been paid, so does that mean they don't care about this? I'm thinking the individual dealer owners of the vehicles probably have to file cl
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by Lendal 1y ago
As the saying goes, It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. AI is aimed at eliminating the jobs of most of HN so it's understandable that HN doesn't want AI to suc
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by Lendal 1y ago
You mean informed people would stop using the product. The vast majority are not informed.
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by Lendal 1y ago
Why wouldn't they do it? If you had a backdoor into the brains of billions of people across the world (except China), and you were a billionaire with infinite ability to morally rationalize any behavior, what would stop you?
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by Lendal 1y ago
Even if all those factories were built instantaneously, it still results in made-in-usa prices for all Americans for everything coming out of those factories, along with protective tariffs forever. A factory can't be constructed or ope
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by Lendal 1y ago
Yes. And even if we could wave a magical wand and materialize a whole new city (or region) with thousands of new factories and also a workforce complete with training, and housing for them, and new universities to continue the training for
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by Lendal 1y ago
It's not that I don't care. I don't know how real it is. Bad faith arguments and pseudoscience are ubiquitous. When I was growing up the same types of people were saying that D&D was a demonic movement meant to turn kids
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by Lendal 1y ago
The death of Occam's razor, because protecting one sensitive person's tribal political identity is more important than solving the problem.
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by Lendal 1y ago
I think you underestimate them. They'll just buy shoes from another country, import them in secret, repackage them, and sell them as American made Nike. They could easily strong-arm Nike to make a deal to go along with this. They'
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by Lendal 1y ago
If they only sold healthy things it wouldn't change anything. The jobs are low wage. Local businesses employed more workers and paid more than DG or Walmart do, so they went out of business. Workers had no choice but to work at DG or W
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by Lendal 1y ago
People are generally in agreement against lower wages and higher property prices, but when it comes time to sell the store, they're gonna sell to the highest bidder. If that bidder wants to put in something that has the effect of putti
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by Lendal 2y ago
What he means is that according to the graph if you call yourself an "independent thinker" then you can't be an extremist. You are automatically a centrist. All the dots on the "independent thinker" half are all cen
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by Lendal 2y ago
The speed at which anything progresses is impressive if you're not paying attention while other people toil away on it for decades, until one day you finally look up and say, "Wow, the speed at which this thing progressed is insan
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by Lendal 2y ago
Because that is a short-sighted system where society is incentivized to, over time, concentrate all property and power into the hands of fewer and fewer wealthy individuals and corporations, until eventually one day there is no more mom-and
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by Lendal 2y ago
It's helpful to pop in to Facebook from time to time just to try to understand the insanity going on in the world. I can see the constant flow of misleading content that's driving the seemingly irrational decision-making and I can
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by Lendal 2y ago
There might not be much of a difference in your mental health condensing 2-4 years' of rage into just one week. Perhaps another strategy could be to maintain an awareness of the motivations and tactics of publishers/content creato
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by Lendal 2y ago
If you're a citizen of a democracy and you only focus on you, then when it comes time to vote you'll be voting randomly. Or maybe you don't vote and thereby cede control to your neighbors to make decisions for you over the en
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by Lendal 2y ago
It's easy for people who get paid to think to overthink things. He's overthinking it. It's hard enough for people to communicate as it is. Now we're being asked to research the ancient history, etymology and moral underp
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by Lendal 2y ago
The context is a personal blog. You don't have to say the word "opinion" explicitly. If it's on your blog, it's your opinion. The problem with saying it's virtue signaling is that when you resort to ad hominem
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by Lendal 2y ago
Don't worry about it. It's an opinion. Agree or disagree with it. But to feel morally inferior because of someone else's opinion isn't an argument. It's revealing that you have issues with self esteem. If you want t
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by Lendal 2y ago
If someone else's opinion makes you feel morally inferior, that's your problem. And a problem best kept to oneself I would think. Not aired out in public like dirty laundry.
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by Lendal 2y ago
It's politics. It doesn't have to make any sense. These people have grievances and they want everyone else to hear them. They're pissed off they're being asked to have empathy for others, and much like children they&#x27
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by Lendal 2y ago
I disagreed with the premise of the article. But to accuse someone of "virtue signaling" is a political attack that requires evidence. Are you going to bring any? Or is this just pure unadulterated political bitterness on your par

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