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by Retra 7y ago
While that's all true, it doesn't necessarily inhibit a film. You wondering what's wrong with him could very well be the entire point of the role he's being played into. Body snatchers, shape-shifters, crazy people, etc.
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by Retra 7y ago
That loyalty is built on the back of misinformation, and is strengthened by presenting your opponents in compromising positions. Deepfakes would reinforce this, so they are not an orthogonal issue.
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by Retra 7y ago
Are they though? It's hard to say someone is good at acting if they are put into roles where they basically play themselves. And moreover, what better way to act like someone else literally being someone else? Film studios are already
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by Retra 7y ago
Being 'good' in a non-smart way is not actually being very good at all.
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by Retra 7y ago
A whole chain of things need to happen for you to die, but they typically culminate in starving the brain of nutrients or oxygen. That usually happens due to organ failure, and that can certainly be the eventual consequence of old age. So t
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by Retra 7y ago
Another way to think of it is that you can't truly optimize for user interests if you're not beholden to them; and if you take possession of their data, you're no longer beholden to them. To serve your users fundamentally mea
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by Retra 7y ago
Birthplace isn't the criteria, residence is.
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by Retra 7y ago
You assume his understanding of society is accurate because it is popular? Or because he is popular? You can just as well assume Bill Gates understands society for exactly the same reasons. (Gate's business results are not even a spoof
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by Retra 7y ago
The settlers back then were not trying to settle a barren rock with no breathable atmosphere or heat. If Britain had tried settling Antarctica, things would have gone very differently. And as others pointed out, America was already settled
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by Retra 7y ago
That all depends on who is doing the voting.
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by Retra 7y ago
All uses of energy create heat. That's practically what it means to use energy: convert it into heat. If you create more heat than can be radiated away from Earth, then you're going to create a very unsustainable situation. There
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by Retra 7y ago
You can't "move all production to Mars." Mars doesn't have oil, plants, etc, which are critical to modern production processes. We're not limited by available space, which is about the only thing moving to Mars woul
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by Retra 7y ago
But what conversation is your comment meant to start?
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by Retra 7y ago
I just don't think this 'enemy' rhetoric is all that accurate. Dealing with the police is like handling volatile high explosives; sometimes you have to do it, but they definitely have their purpose, but you'd be a fool t
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by Retra 7y ago
Type errors aren't the problem, understanding what the code is doing is the problem. I like to know what I'm looking at -- is it a primitive? A simple array? A complex, stateful object? This helps establish clearer relationships b
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by Retra 7y ago
If you're going to make that argument, you should probably be less vague. It makes a "big impact" to "some portion of people" that the Earth be thought flat, but you can't justify wasting a "long time&quot
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by Retra 7y ago
That's kind of outweighed by the more relevant fact that the people who had the time and inclination to create the software preferred one set of tools, and the preferences of some after-the-fact passerby would obviously not factor into
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by Retra 7y ago
So we should abolish police worldwide? Or is there maybe some nuanced angle there that the state might be operating on your behalf?
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by Retra 7y ago
What's a big difference for you got to do with the design of a language used by many others? What makes your experience more important than the experiences of someone with different qualifications? Why is optimizing for your tastes t
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by Retra 7y ago
I hope we understand that abdicating responsibility is not necessarily 'passing the buck', but potentially advocating for institutional change in a way that is congruent with your actual responsibilities in conducting the behavi
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by Retra 7y ago
I am not promoting them, nor would I. Obviously, this is a mixed community, and you cannot paint it with such a broad brush.
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by Retra 7y ago
The rationality of hoarding makes more sense if you have 'warehousing' capabilities. Not so much if you're just piling things up haphazardly. (And those capabilities have costs associated with them.)
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by Retra 7y ago
That's because word-of-mouth is very capable of transmitting abject nonsense and fantasy. If you're going to be taking some medicine, you should be sure it isn't, and the way to do that is with thorough study & evaluation
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by Retra 7y ago
Just because you benefit from something doesn't imply you are responsible for it. I benefit from some evolutionary advantages, but I am not responsible for entropy. There's a lot of noise in the world, and several layers of indire
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by Retra 7y ago
The ceiling on those traits could be modulated by random factors, and if so, you might never be able to tell.
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by Retra 7y ago
Yeah, but what do they want to be?
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by Retra 7y ago
Besides that, a de facto centralization is always a much easier pill to swallow then a de jure one.
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by Retra 7y ago
Well, that's just a different set of values.
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by Retra 7y ago
Are you going to actually argue it, or are you just going to tease? It means nothing to me that you would disagree in some vague manner.
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by Retra 7y ago
Perhaps I'm not being clear. "Tracking people involuntarily" might be bad. "Tracking people unnecessarily" might be bad. But they will be bad because they are involuntary and unnecessary, not because they are tracki

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