MentalM

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by MentalM 5d ago
> Instead of the eyes of their own politicians? Politicians? It is messages for the voters, and they are leftist politics (so their voters doesn't understand German)
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by MentalM 5d ago
> They didn’t get hit by WW2 I think things start to go wrong for the Spain somewhere after the 16th century
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by MentalM 5d ago
> Beautiful on paper, in practice you surrender national security to foreign actors. > But total transparency will be exploited by foreign powers (likely with domestic cooperation), until those that once defended it are removed from p
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by MentalM 5d ago
> "being directly interfered with by foreign actors"? > This is a direct threat to democracy. You mean those foreign actors who force themselves across Spain's border? It is not a threat to democracy, it is one of the p
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by MentalM 6d ago
> Yet most people in the world are religious, because all it takes is someone with a little authority to tell people something and they'll just believe it and that's that, you can't reason them out of it because they didn&
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by MentalM 6d ago
I think we ALREADY at the point when AI is capable to replace like 99.7% of designers. It is only a question of market inertia and personal brands that prevent it from happening right now.
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by MentalM 6d ago
That is pretty weak logic. I mean obviously it is the Baron who becomes wealthy. But what follows from this? By the same logic if Baron bought her baroness masterful dress to enjoy her look in that dress, and you when walked past the Castle
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by MentalM 8d ago
> I'm surprised there's no actual commie coming out and claiming the end of capitalism is near. Aren't they doing that like literally from the very beginning? I clearly remember Lenin said that capitalism will end in a co
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by MentalM 8d ago
> You must explain what you give back to these people. Ha-ha. Sorry, but it is not "these people", who is paying to the mathematician. Government is doing it. So they must explain to the government what they cold give back to t
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by MentalM 8d ago
> I actually just think every person should have their basic survival provided for efficiently by society Define basic survival. Tantalum mine worker in the Congo who earns 22 cents per hour and raises his three children on that money, i
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by MentalM 8d ago
> 2. The value of calculus justifies the cost of all the curiosities. The economic benefits of funding lots of "curiosities" was well worth the few that were useful. That is totally not true. I am sure you can hardly name even
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by MentalM 8d ago
> imagine yourself living in the 1700s. how would you justify Newton and Leibniz's work on calculus? That is a pretty weak point. Calculus from the very beginning was an applied math. > how many of our modern technologies rely on
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by MentalM 9d ago
> Iran war has made the Ukraine war much better for Russia I think that from a geopolitical perspective it is far more advantageous to let Ukraine lose the war, than to allow a situation in which, in 20 years, Muslims will destroy the wo
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by MentalM 9d ago
> The central point of the ideology called "socialism" is that control of the state (not of private owners) over the "means of production". > Usually this leads to heavy oppression of the people, to some sort of po
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by MentalM 10d ago
> Do you claim that Russia doesn't invest in disinformation campaigns against the West? Maybe it do invest. But that has about zero effect. If Russian disinformation campaigns were working, they would work in Russia as well, but tha
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by MentalM 10d ago
> I'm saying they're likely false because they make about as much sense as a country blowing up its own pipeline That is still bizarre to me, how it was the media mainstream.
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by MentalM 10d ago
> I'd presume food, protection from the elements and healthcare costs arefor the vast majority higher than what's left over even if they only afford themselves the minimum no? Obviously no. What a hypocrisy and shifting of blam
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by MentalM 10d ago
> The average American struggles to pay rent, utilities, and food, actually. Do you think your average Billionaire do not struggles to pay for their 500m yacht or flock of supermodels and Hollywood stars? > They can’t just go donate 9
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by MentalM 10d ago
> It's hard for those who have no choice, and those who've made different choices, to relate to the insatiable appetite of billionaires. If we talk about US, your statement is outrageous hypocrisy. Median income world-wide is l
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by MentalM 11d ago
I mean AI will take our jobs first, so we're actively engaging in Luddism and are somewhat biased towards the legal instruments that could help to stop progress and save our high paying jobs to ourselves at the expense of the rest of t
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by MentalM 12d ago
> Similar case: climate change is without any question causing millions of deaths per year It is WERY questionable statement. > and how may people do you know who have given up eating beef or flying That is exactly because absolute ma
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by MentalM 12d ago
> There's no realistic way to globally coordinate and enforce a ban. I don't see what is unrealistic about that. The major players already have strong incentives to freeze AI advancements at the the current state, while the tec
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by MentalM 12d ago
> weren't competing with AI then why is AI killing it? But it is not the AI who is killing it, users are doing it.
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by MentalM 12d ago
> Given how little effort has gone into addressing climate change, doom seems more likely to me Or it is simply implies that most of decision‑making agents has formed a consensus that climate change isn't that big of a problem.
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by MentalM 13d ago
It probably is not. Nuclear programs seems to be way easier and way unnoticeable.
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by MentalM 13d ago
> there's some other motives at play here. I mean it is literally economy 101: some capitalists getting on the top using free market, and then try to use government to remove free market so their top position were secured from any c
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by MentalM 13d ago
> Do you really think we can really get every country to truly pace the frontier? Why not? In 20-th century half the world was socialist. And the idea of moratorium on improving AI way easier to sell then socialism.
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by MentalM 13d ago
> but it's a safe bet the people losing their tech jobs aren't career shifting into healthcare and hospitality roles That is because they can allow themselves to do nothing (for some time). Tech was a very high‑paying type of j
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by MentalM 14d ago
> But it is at best wildly hypocritical to suggest that US tech firms are not subject to government interference It is very different degree of subjection where we talk about country that have laws, politics, сourts, journalism, all that
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by MentalM 16d ago
> Demographically, we simply don't have the number of people we need to give elders the care that they'll probably have to have near the end of their life, so we have to rely on AI to help us get through it. That is an interest

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