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by Natsu 3y ago
I mean, you can say the same about Socialism, even if you avoid the nationalistic flavors thereof. It's not like Russia, China, Cambodia, etc. were peaceful and it's odd that you point to the reaction to those via CIA regime chan
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by Natsu 3y ago
I mean, economics is a mathematical profession. It's hard for me to take his storytelling about things like the freedom of hunter-gatherers and such seriously when I know he wasn't rigorous in the things that are easier to check.
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by Natsu 3y ago
What gets called capitalism are basically imperfect, socially evolved things that have survived and worked well enough to survive. There are definitely rent-seeking parasites out there, but some of them are like the Kim family in NK.
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by Natsu 3y ago
This is what I always go back to, if it's so good for people, just do it voluntarily. Organizational problems only get worse at scale. And if people can't be convinced to take part in doing it voluntarily, rather than forcing ot
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by Natsu 3y ago
Marx has some concept of "socially necessary" labor, but it doesn't really make sense because it wants to treat skill as some kind of simple multiplier as if we can assume that a modern doctor's labor is some simple mult
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by Natsu 3y ago
The labor theory of value is bogus, though. A doctor doing work on their own car and a mechanic diagnosing their own illness are both worse off than if they exchange their labor with each other, even if Marxist thought wants to equate thei
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by Natsu 3y ago
> If unemployment did not exist, the capitalist class would have no power to make workers work harder using the threat of losing their jobs. This seems to envision that nobody can find new kinds of useful work or otherwise work for thems
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by Natsu 3y ago
I know what you mean, I hope to play the full version of Secrets of Grindea someday. They are still doing weekly updates on their blog, though.
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by Natsu 3y ago
> I asked you if they could express their feelings. And I asked how we can test whether someone has actual feelings or any other kind of conscious internal experience. If it's "obvious" then why is there no consensus on
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by Natsu 3y ago
> Yeah but your only argument for that is to redefine learning to pretend it's the same thing that humans are doing when that's clearly not the case. What test can I do to differentiate them, then? At first, you said they could
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by Natsu 3y ago
There were modems in the 70s, you were just connecting to BBSes, not AOL or local dial-up providers. For porn, I'm sure the BBSes had it, but there was also Leisure Suit Larry by 1987 which was widely pirated and known for its unique
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by Natsu 3y ago
> I think the dictionary definition is more than sufficient: "the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught." This is what I mean by running with your own made up definition. I mean, if a
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by Natsu 3y ago
> I don't think that is evidence that what it is doing is "learning". When I say learning I mean something like "gaining new ability by studying how others did the same task, resulting in being able to produce novel o
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by Natsu 3y ago
I think it's learning styles in a way that's at least partially analogous, because it comes out with things that are reasonably original and not in the training data. I'm sure an LLM can write you an essay like that for any a
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by Natsu 3y ago
I think you're misunderstanding that, I don't expect it in either case, I'm saying you have to judge the output not the input. So even if it trained on a ton of copyrighted artwork, if the output isn't a ripoff of somet
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by Natsu 3y ago
My problem with this is that artists learn by studying other artists, cutting that off because it's AI rather than focusing on whether the resulting work is derivative, seems more of a problem to me. It seems to me that an AI can be u
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by Natsu 3y ago
We did that, but the old one didn't have a +30 second button and just had little sticky pads on every button, since you had to use numbers, which didn't make it clear what was what. And some things have 9 at the top, others put i
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by Natsu 3y ago
Part of the problem with the flat buttons you touch is that you can't really tell where they are. A dial was much easier for her to understand than trying to manage to remember where a dozen buttons are and what order they're in.
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by Natsu 3y ago
Grandma had a terrible time using the microwave. I eventually found out that there are microwaves that have only two dials, one for power on top, which we left alone, then the bottom one was time. Knowing how far a quarter turn of the dia
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by Natsu 3y ago
> Such an odd thing to call it "silt". Did they measure the grain size? I mean, I doubt many people will appreciate or care whether it was actually sand or clay instead. The only reason I even know that you're talking abo
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by Natsu 3y ago
It's funny because these are running just fine in other cities. And for all they've driven, there's been what? One fatality from someone who literally walked in front of a car. Compared to how many fatalities there are from
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by Natsu 3y ago
That article is playing a bunch of statistical games, like comparing 2022 to 2023 instead of to prior to the mass mob looting incidents, using national data to hide effects of primarily regional issues, citing figures with obvious reporting
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by Natsu 3y ago
It's commonly fenced for profit, apparently.
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by Natsu 3y ago
That's an odd way to frame it when you're citing corporate reports and an executive's statements as evidence that the many videos of groups of people ransacking stores in broad daylight are overblown. They play with stats a l
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by Natsu 3y ago
Problem is that services like that always get more ads eventually. They just can't resist.
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by Natsu 3y ago
That doesn't seem to have regressed much, though. I do feel like people are more forgiving of home office interruptions since they became more common, but I don't think it makes that much difference. At the end of the day they s
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by Natsu 3y ago
You could also send them a letter for free. The local rental place didn't have the manual for Wizardry and it's not exactly clear what many of the spells in the game do, since they have names like halito, mahalito, dios, badios,
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by Natsu 3y ago
> I find it funny that when people were required to be home, employers talked about what great productivity they were getting with people at home. In our case, we do have good, long-standing metrics: we measure how happy our customers s
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by Natsu 3y ago
I feel like mine was a different model that was not as colorful, but very similar otherwise. It was always fun to control TVs in public and nobody would know who did it or how.
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by Natsu 3y ago
This would seem more useful on something like one of the calculator watches or I know I once had a watch with a TV remote built in, not sure offhand if that one was Casio, but that'd seem like something more useful to have in a watch.

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