Nasrudith

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by Nasrudith 4mo ago
Giving up control is always a mistake - they never do what they promised and you never get back the control. There is never a refutation to this fac: just a childish "But I want it!".
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by Nasrudith 4mo ago
"Reactionary"'s origins as far are pure political DARVO and gaslighting anyway. It originated in the French revolution and basically declared "You are morally wrong for being horrified at my horrific and evil actions.&qu
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by Nasrudith 4mo ago
Surplus value is a propaganda myth from Marx along with other trivially disproven delusions like LVT. Tell me what work is being done by whom in a wine cellar as the vintage matures after harvest? "Reasonable" is doing herculean a
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by Nasrudith 4mo ago
Yes, put the people who think that they should destroy data-centers because they read fiction once inside them first.
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by Nasrudith 4mo ago
Requesting an AI code detector is peak cognitive dissonance. "AI automation is bad and I can always tell. That is why I need to have a tool to discriminate its presence so I can exclude it!" Split-brain patients have less post-hoc
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by Nasrudith 4mo ago
I can think of worse. Inspired by somewhat surrealist names of a cat video, I'm pretty sure naming them "HP Inkjet 3482" would be a worse name for an AI model and lead to copyright issues from Hewlett-Packard.
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by Nasrudith 4mo ago
That sounds like a typical philosopher for better or worse more than than sophistry per se. They have been plagued by a preoccupation with 'purity of thought' and separation from the 'practical' world since Ancient Greek
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by Nasrudith 4mo ago
That is making a big assumption that is completely counterfactual. That a cooperative can hire a person who measures the value generated per worker/item and agree upon compensation readjustment. Humanity tried that with Gosplan. It wor
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by Nasrudith 4mo ago
You are providing an accidental illustration of why science is under attack - because people don't like having their beliefs undermined by pesky evidence.
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by Nasrudith 4mo ago
To be fair for the literal example prohibition is what creates the drug cartels in the first place so it is more coherent than it sounds at first blush. Enforcement is effectively a subsidy to those who don’t get caught. For social media it
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
Except there is the awkward fact that it is the third world which has higher population growth rates and the nordics have are leaders in low birth rates.
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
That sounds a lot like the assumption that crime rates are better in less populous areas - just because there is less reporting doesn't mean that it isn't there. Have you been to the US? If not how can you be certain that the US
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
Where the do you think the government gets their tax money from if not the market? That is like saying we shouldn't kill animals from meat, we should just buy it from the store.
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
Which is why it was the pseudoaristocraric south which provided the main source of abolitionists and the first to abolish it. Is what I would say in opposite world.
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
A million dollars isn't even that much these days - it isn't dynastic wealth, it is owning your own home these days. It especially isn't much in New York City - a long notoriously expensive area. A million dollars today is on
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
To play devil's advocate: Why exactly would you expect to get paid more just because there was a big investment in more expensive tools? You're not working any harder, the machine is. Getting paid more is always nice of course. An
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
Why do we keep on seeing that elementary misconception? Cryptographic verification != reality of the underlying data fed to it! Plus vouching for hardware that is in consumer hands? There is the gaping analog hole of 'recording' a
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
Excess profit is a stupid fairy tale told by the bearded idiot. It is literally impossible to not retroactively 'exploit' somebody. Not just in the practical 'need to know what the end user will do with it to avoid them makin
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
You clearly don't understand psychology at all. Rule by fear has a major downside that Machivelli warned about. If you keep people under threat all the time, as soon as the threat fails and you can no longer point a gun at your head th
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
I hate the Torment Nexus metaphor. Because in practice it involves terminally short-sighted people who apply the aesop to mean "Don't make neural interfaces that enable the paralyzed walking and the blind to see because it was use
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
We should have the exact opposite of qualified immunity - committing a crime under the color of authority as a serious felony in itself.
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
I don't quite get why the author thinks it would be impossible to get a big budget nose-rub in the dirt to the security apparatuses about their incredible abilability to create self-fulfilling prophecies against themselves via bigotry.
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
So what about those with political influence or high placed in bureaucracy who are even more power and have even less in common? Worse yet, the positions select for those who are not only manipulators but have a malleable sense of reality.
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
I know I sound like the cliche hubristic mad scientist here but, the public seems completely incapable of thinking of the potential of AI and it is deeply frustrating. Is this what a factory worker oriented school system gets us?
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
So you would rather promote preventable toil under the theory that there are enough otherwise unemployables that they would literally die otherwise? That there is literally no other useful task that may be performed? I mean we have crumblin
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
Seldom do real and considered changes come from anger or annoyance. Especially if you add the qualifier of 'improves the situation they are in'. That is unfortunately the exception. We didn't solve Polio by getting really ang
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
There isn't qualification for a reason - it doesn't fucking matter when it is both or neither. You might as well further your Dunning-Krueger by complaining that the US failed to develop bullets that only hurt bad people!
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
We already learned long ago that real name policies don't make people less toxic - they just double down on their bullshit. Seriously it is a sacrifice fallacy that we will actually gain anything by giving up anominity. This black and
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
My best contribution to that sort of debate is experience with general anesthesia. I recall being in a disconnected state wondering idly if I had died of complications without any fear as I could not feel my heartbeat or embodied emotions.
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by Nasrudith 5mo ago
They do both involve taking risks for money admittedly but there are crucial differences. You actually participate meaningfully in the outcome via investing instead of just price discovery and the successes are derived from the valuation or

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