ToucanLoucan

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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
> My apologies for not being more explicit Accepted. > the specifics of the loss of the "libertarian" "crypto bros" is not a wholistic cause but rather a small fraction of the cause but more importantly also a symp
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
> You've answered the question as to why those people didn't support you I asked no such question. You said: > It's not hard to figure out, the fascists have been more explicitly welcoming to crypto freedom or at least
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
If libertarians can't parse than putting fascists in power is, long term, a bad fucking idea as demonstrated literally every time it's happened throughout history, I don't want their fucking vote. I'm not interested in t
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
If you back fascists to promote crypto, your values are fucked.
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
> In the real world, most people respond to economic incentives. Then why is there a shortage? Are you telling me the $750,000 yearly compensation still isn't enough?
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
If you as a person are turned off of a career because you can only make a mere, paltry peasant wage of $300k per year, then I think that's really a you problem there. And as to your comments about shortages, we already have shortages
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
> but an orthopaedic surgeon being paid the $300k USD-equivalent in Germany instead of his $750k USD income today at median would be very unhappy. I'm sure he'll manage.
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
> If we want to increase the labor share then we'll drive down healthcare spending. It may not be simple but it's clear the United States is doing something catastrophically wrong. All the other healthcare systems on the plan
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
I'm told that's communism
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
I think it's less about what data centers are and more about what they represent. * The lack of care of governments of the people's will: they're opposed nearly everywhere but city governments get them done anyway, oftent
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
The rich love the concept of voting with your wallet, because by definition they get shitloads more votes than you.
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
> But what about the good AI driven contributions though? If even a preponderance of AI driven contributions were good, there wouldn't be blog posts and announcements making HN's front page daily about how various OSS projects
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
Silly me, expecting a company worth a trillion dollars to make... some money. Any money. A single profitable product.
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
All for a product that has yet to make a single honest dollar in profit for anyone who isn't nvidia. When this goes we might well see a recession. Not that anyone responsible will be worse off, of course.
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
I'm just gonna say here that all of this, whatever solution whatever unaccountable political group decides is the one, can only be built by tech workers. All of these require fingers hitting keys to produce code to function. If we unif
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
I know in my heart of hearts that responding to this nonsense is a waste of time, but in the odd event someone reasonable runs across this gish-gallop, I refuse to leave it sitting unchallenged. To start, sure, ivermectin is safe at proper
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
Because he is one?
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
> It really does, that's the entire point. If you go find somebody and physically attack them for what they've written on HN about for example medicine, that makes you the law-breaker. Yeah if I did this thing you completely ma
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
Firstly, freedom of speech does not guarantee you freedom from consequences of your speech. The government can't stop you from saying stupid shit, however it also can't stop other people from telling you you're stupid. Second
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
So a real thing that people actually made to accomplish something and a fake thing you made up in your head to be angry about.
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
Oh I'm not questioning that at all. I'm just saying if they aren't really your choices, why is making them valuable to you? Sure, you have 30 different choices of peanut butter to pick from, but you always pick the same one,
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
> I like the market because it lets me make more choices of my own. Are you making your own choices? Do you sincerely believe that when one of the largest pillars of the American economy right now is staffed from top to bottom with PhD h
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
I'm not challenging that's how they work, I also understand how they work, perhaps not on a technical nuts-and-bolts way, but in general way enough to critique it. That is, in fact, my critique and why I hate these tools so much
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
Exactly this. They are pretty damn good at generating and debugging code. Not to a degree where they can replace any actual software engineer, but for hacking together projects or rubber ducking problems with code, they're honestly pre
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
> When did I say it was working perfectly? "This isn’t a vulnerability, there are endless gore websites. ChatGPT is replying to a prompt, there is nothing “Spontaneously” about this." I mean it's not verbatim but that&#x
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
That's not true. There's a third. 3. It's the future so we just have to deal with it
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
> the model generated dark outputs when not given any direction on the type of content. I would argue it actually was, in that it was specifically asked to "not censor or filter" the content. This implies that the content is o
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
> ChatGPT is replying to a prompt, there is nothing “Spontaneously” about this. The spontaneity isn't that ChapGPT woke up and sent this to the author. The spontaneity is that ChatGPT was asked to restore an image that was attached
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
Have to sternly disagree: at least on the conservative side, it is thoroughly lapped up. Right wingers the world over constantly vote to fuck themselves and the rest of us over with this never ending whingeing about debt, spending, pork, wh
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by ToucanLoucan 4mo ago
A lot of artists do this a lot of times. Especially work that pushes your boundaries is often not of the best quality, not suited for release. We finish it, we enjoy it, we share it perhaps with a small group of friends, and then it goes in

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