NietzscheanNull

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by NietzscheanNull 6d ago
This is a specious argument because it neglects to take into account information asymmetries and change over time. When Facebook was first launched, there wasn't any widespread understanding of the breadth/intensity of their data
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by NietzscheanNull 8d ago
I'm not sure what you're referring to regarding game theory (that's a much more recent invention); a huge chunk of both civil and criminal procedure law hinges on the Enlightment-era notion of a "reasonable person"
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by NietzscheanNull 8d ago
I know! I should have made that clearer in my original reply. I think it's a bad line now in general, but an even worse justification for the ultimate ruling at the time.
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by NietzscheanNull 10d ago
Legal doctrine that boils down to "trust me bro" isn't even bad doctrine (it's not proper doctrine at all), but I think the comparison is still valid here, because both sentience/non-sentience and art/porn ma
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by NietzscheanNull 10d ago
Isn't that essentially what they trained with, anyway?
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by NietzscheanNull 10d ago
Was that really honesty? I'm sure some who were caught in the layoff were truly underperforming, but everyone has peaks and valleys in their output quality over the years, and tons of performance reviews are purely political (i.e. do
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by NietzscheanNull 11d ago
If you acknowledge that police regularly fail to act on crimes even with positive ID, why on earth would you allow a private company to collect all that information just for them to ignore/misuse? How is dragnet surveillance a fix for
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by NietzscheanNull 13d ago
You would rather infringe on the privacy of your community and invite a company known for indiscriminate multi-pronged dragnet surveillance (plates/faces/bluetooth beacons/etc.), with a nation-wide blanket coverage network th
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by NietzscheanNull 13d ago
Many webcam mics have auto-gain enabled, so having it on in a silent room will cause it to crank the gain to the point that the noise floor becomes audible (or in this case, visible). You might want to try recording a sound clip to see if t
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by NietzscheanNull 16d ago
Yes. Otherwise, only those with money get to choose what messages are shown to the public.
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by NietzscheanNull 22d ago
I think your example is stilted in exactly the direction that the anti-sideloading-as-a-term crowd fears is increasingly becoming normalized. In fact, I think it's actually a perfect demonstration of how incredibly subtle and perniciou
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by NietzscheanNull 1mo ago
This is either completely misinformed or disingenuous. Texas just had to freeze all data center development pending audits because their energy supplier (ERCOT) reported that it had received data center load requests totaling 474 gigawatts.
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by NietzscheanNull 2mo ago
Per the linked article, about midway through: > Obesity can’t explain the entire decrease, however. One large-scale, recent review found a testosterone slump despite researchers’ adjusting for the subjects’ body mass index. “Even among n
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by NietzscheanNull 2mo ago
I can't speak to the parent commenter's precise meaning, but I interpreted them to mean they oppose the current domestic and foreign policy of US political and business leadership (a distinction that blurs to the point of indistin
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by NietzscheanNull 2mo ago
I've seen this cited around here frequently, and I don't doubt that there were good intentions for implementing it that way. However, in my anecdotal experience, I've noticed that otherwise high-quality and thought-provoking
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by NietzscheanNull 3mo ago
> From a biological/evolutionary standpoint, that's the correct approach. I believe the science disagrees on this point. In the case of humans, adaptations that contributed most to our success as a species are a constellation o
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by NietzscheanNull 3mo ago
The problem isn't the surveillance of land; nobody is getting up in arms over someone pointing a camera out of their window to watch their neighborhood street occasionally. The problem is the scale. Flock is running a massive network o
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by NietzscheanNull 3mo ago
> Most tech workers will readily drop all of their ideals for a fatter paycheck. And don't even get me started on all the leftist friends i have in the tech circle that have been profiting off the rise of stock prices This is a comp
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by NietzscheanNull 3mo ago
How about the $1.5 billion settlement Anthropic agreed to pay authors and publishers: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-sett... Several consolidated cases against OpenAI: https:&#x
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
I'm of the opinion that "true art"/cultural artifacts can't be automated by definition, as they derive their value from the human experience embedded in them by their creators. OTOH, I think we absolutely SHOULD aut
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
This misses the point entirely; wealth redistributive policies aren't intended to significantly boost the wealth of low wealth citizens directly, they're intended to dissipate the incredible concentration of political power that c
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
Sure. Hedge fund owners, VC firm owners, cosmetic surgeons, the Walton heirs, and Zuck/Jensen/Jeff/Elon own 97.5% of all wealth in the United States. The former three, while each representing cohorts, are very small cohorts.
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
Do you have any data to back up your claims? Because from what I understand, unions were the backbone of the recovering US labor market following the Great Depression, which punctuated a period of extreme speculation and inequality (the Gil
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
Certainly, but with (what I consider to be) a key distinction: classic search, by definition, must serve information from many distinct sources outside the control of the search company. A search engine could certainly tamper with which o
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
Or subtly misrepresent politically inconvenient facts, or gently steer you into opinions based on a synthesis of broker data and demographic info, or quietly flag you in some database column due to exhibiting dissident-adjacent ideas or beh
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
Drug dealing is profitable. Chattel slavery was exceptionally profitable. To allow profitability to be our measure of permissibility is to sacrifice civil society at the altar of enterprising tyrants. Economics should never be a substitute
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
How can you be certain that the ChatGPT "research" you cite is a faithful representation of facts? How do you know that OpenAI/Anthropic/Google haven't introduced RLHF to subtly steer model output on specific topics
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by NietzscheanNull 5mo ago
Last I checked, Fortune 500 CEOs weren't mandating that their employees use and find more ways of integrating Reddit and 4chan into all of their business processes and products. And I also don't recall the owners/CEOs of Redd
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by NietzscheanNull 5mo ago
This is a rather vacuous piece, and for anyone looking to avoid wasting time, the stated reason is: "corporate profits keep going up." I think the byline is a bit of a disingenuous sleight-of-hand: "The boom is not as untethe
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by NietzscheanNull 5mo ago
Not sure if it was the intent, but this is a rather grating and shallow reply. Is that unattributed "quote" meant to be an appeal to inevitability? If so, I'd just like to point out that none of this is inevitable, and the ar

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