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by Timon3 15d ago
I didn't say a word about lobbying being automatically bad, what does that have to do with anything? All I did was disprove your theory that private companies have no power, and that you or I have the same options to influence the gove
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by Timon3 15d ago
I don't doubt that you have memories from when you were 4, I have memories from that time too. And I'm sure you felt the shame you described. But I know that it's impossible for a 4-year-old to accurately decipher why they
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by Timon3 15d ago
How could it be possible for anyone to accurately reflect on the mechanisms shaping their emotional reaction to a specific situation when they were 4 years old ? It should be transparently obvious that this is unknowable. First, by the tim
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by Timon3 15d ago
Globally active/influential social systems are still very young. In the couple hundred years such systems have been able to form, we've only attempted a minority of realistically possible systems, and most of this data was collect
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by Timon3 16d ago
Your only contribution to a conversation you admit to not understanding has been to stick your fingers into your ears and tell me how meaningless my point is. That's not "directing the conversation back to the actual topic" i
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by Timon3 16d ago
Unfortunately this naive view breaks down as soon as lobbying is introduced, since it is a direct channel for private companies to influence governments.
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by Timon3 16d ago
I am truly sorry for daring to post a comment the great roarcher feels isn't relevant. Please forgive me for the harm I have caused this world.
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by Timon3 16d ago
Try reading the comment I replied to once more: > If "assigning resources to everyone" is a net gain (IE the voter doesn't have resources), then yes it is self serving. It is not possible to state more clearly that: Voter
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by Timon3 16d ago
After that opener I'm guessing this will be a waste of effort... yes, it might be a real thinker, because AFAICS the two statements don't form a tautology. Is this based on actual findings by research in game theory, or did you ju
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by Timon3 17d ago
Oh, I fully agree! Unfortunately many people reduce other people's inner thoughts to the boolean decision "if someone has below-average resources, their decision must be motivated by moving resources from others to themselves&quot
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by Timon3 17d ago
Then why are there so many signs of increasing child labor in the US? Why are Republicans rolling back protections? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/child-labor-... Note that the article o
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by Timon3 17d ago
What if the voter has lots of resources, but soon they'll likely lose them due to external factors, so they vote for communism? What if the voter has very few resources, but soon they'll likely gain lots of resources, and still vo
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by Timon3 17d ago
First: How do you know that every system is corruptible and exploitable? And second: What if other systems are less corruptible and exploitable? How do you know whether all systems have the same potential for corruption and exploitation?
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by Timon3 17d ago
This objection is completely meaningless unless the download numbers follow a consistent upwards trend. You are simplifying the new record to a boolean, but most people still find meaning in extraordinary events happening, even if they fo
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by Timon3 17d ago
The clarification makes sense, unless you presuppose that download numbers are consistently trending upwards.
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by Timon3 17d ago
I'm sure you've actually checked the download numbers and are not just going "well akshually", right?
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by Timon3 17d ago
As I said, I don't think so as long as you derive your scale of difficulty from the domain itself.
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by Timon3 17d ago
This whole discussion is about evidence. That's not proof and it is not certain, but it is evidence pointing into the direction that OpenAI might be doing something that they're strongly incentivized to do. What kind of "evid
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by Timon3 17d ago
The people on the left who are "enthusiastically pro illegal immigration" are a tiny minority of all leftists. The majority does think that illegal immigrants shouldn't be mistreated deliberately, which conservative media out
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by Timon3 18d ago
You gotta be joking. Did you miss all the cases where ICE just took people who were carrying proof of citizenship? Did you miss the allegations by conservatives that massive amounts of illegal immigrants are voting all over the country, but
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by Timon3 18d ago
I see all those topics brought up, both here (though usually flagged) and on the Fediverse. Why wouldn't the tech companies, rich capitalists and current US government use these services to drum up support? I mean hell, why wouldn&#x27
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by Timon3 18d ago
The research I've seen points to a different, but closely related causal chain - when the mainstream party adopts positions by the extreme party, some view it as a confirmation that the extreme party was right on this point, and might
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by Timon3 18d ago
Ah, and that is an immutable fact of the universe. I forgot, good point. Luckily it doesn't matter that even interfering at 1% of polling places is very likely enough to sway the US election, right?
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by Timon3 18d ago
The CDU has been trying to adopt more AfD positions and talking points, in the hopes of getting their votes. Meanwhile this keeps only strengthening the AfD, but the CDU would rather see the fascists in power than govern with anyone left of
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by Timon3 18d ago
I'd like to note the highly biased nature of this comment. > There was a lot of hope when the current German government was elected. The current chancellor did his campaign saying the leftist-green ideological politics would be over
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by Timon3 18d ago
And that's the case? Weekly download numbers have been consistently trending upwards?
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by Timon3 18d ago
The level of irony is off the charts, given the global right's shift towards authoritarian populism under untouchable leaders.
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by Timon3 18d ago
According to the NCSL, ~96k polling places vs. 22k+ ICE agents (number steadily increasing). How could anyone even hope to affect the results by only interfering in >20% of voting locations? Obviously irrelevant.
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by Timon3 18d ago
Unfortunately labor revolts will no longer be possible once warfare is sufficiently automated.
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by Timon3 18d ago
Aren't the best mathematicians the best at solving the hardest problems? I don't see how you can argue this without assuming an arbitrary scale for being "good" at something.

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