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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 7mo ago
Oh yeah, that old topic. We’ve already discussed this back when text-heavy websites started reaching megabyte sizes. So I’m going to go look for the posts in this thread that try to explain and defend that. I’m especially looking forward
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 7mo ago
That’s exactly why I’ve refused to use autocomplete on smartphone keyboards from the very beginning. I want to express myself in my own words. In a work context, of course, things are a bit different: I want to move the project forward and
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 7mo ago
Somehow, it always triggers my skepticism when supposedly sociobiological or evolutionary anthropological or evolutionary psychological arguments are brought up. My suspicion is that it is far too easy to simply pack in the story you want
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
I dislike the style of Altman's language about as much as I dislike the bullshit language used in politics or the self-incriminating, overly specific denials used by prominent figures to defend themselves against criminal allegations:
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
Okay, I understand. The person who wrote the parent post seems to believe that people do not fundamentally have a right to survive, but must assert and maintain this claim transactionally in a market context. I think that every person has
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
> act against someone like him What do you mean? I have the day off today. I'm sitting here in my underwear listening to my washing machine in the background. The sun is shining outside. I went for a walk in the park next door e
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
It's interesting. No one is a 100% law-abiding citizen. You can see this in traffic, for example, when a driver gets upset about pedestrians ignoring red lights, while they themselves are driving a few miles per hour over the speed lim
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
We are living through a time that seems like a completely crazy sci-fi plot. I don't understand why Musk is currently the richest person in the world. I don't understand what is going on politically, especially in the US and aro
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
Sorry, man, but I can't follow the plot. Why exactly do data centers from the moon block out the sun and freeze the tropics and make work unnecessary? Serious question: Are you okay? I hope you're just making fun of my last ans
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
I want to live. And if you threaten my life, I will defend myself with whatever means I have at my disposal. It makes no difference whether you threaten me by taking away my livelihood or by withholding it from me. You therefore have a ch
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
It is productive to think about the world in terms of good and evil. But if you really engage with more complex events in an intellectually honest way, you will always find that they cannot be easily mapped onto the poles of geopolitical c
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
Ethics would suffice. Or a basic humanistic education. Unfortunately, that is precisely what these people seem to lack.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
Yes, these people are publicly warning about the risks of AI. Altman is promoting regulation that clearly favors OpenAI. This is called regulatory capture. It aims to strengthen one's own position. Furthermore, the claim that these
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
This is a reply to nradov. > He didn't follow the scientific method. Science is not the only legitimate form of gaining knowledge. What you write applies to every philosopher. And economics is not generally known for being the mos
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
The reason is simply that there are not enough incentives for manufacturers to do so. I would be happy if nothing on smartphones was glued together but everything was screwed or plugged in, and if I could simply replace batteries in smartp
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
If the moon is a folding chair, then pigs can fly.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
I apologize for the obscenity. I hope it's clear that I was trying to make a point in relation to the article.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
That hasn't aged well in the last few days, has it? Unless your space science fiction is of the dark variety.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
Apparently, there's this guy who's really good at optimizing computer performance and makes a lot of money doing it. At the same time, he writes mediocre school essays that are actually a bit embarrassing. Guys, if you have the
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 8mo ago
It's raining anyway. If I piss on your face, I can at least try to make the experience as positive as possible for you.
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 9mo ago
> never claimed it to be anything beyond a thinking model I like. Sorry, but if that's your yardstick for acceptable models of thought, then only nonsense can come out of it. No one has any reason to take any of your thoughts serio
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 9mo ago
Yes, I understand what you're saying, and I agree with you: promoting growth and reinvestment are essential parts of a functioning economic and industrial policy. But that doesn't mean we have to tolerate massive and harmful weal
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 9mo ago
> ... so far I found out that looking at it as a chaotic thermodynamic-like system makes the most sense. What do you mean, you found that out? And what does that have to do with anything? > So in regards to this economic issue, it se
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 9mo ago
> If we remove from life everything that people have access to by industrialization and mass production, then many or most people would say that "society" has collapsed. I agree. But I'm not convinced by the next paragrap
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 9mo ago
> the gigantic prices of real estate and rent, created by the monetary system being based on real estate instead of productivity Rents are expensive because real estate is expensive. Real estate is a good store of value. The massive ac
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 9mo ago
I think I understand your point. I only brought parsing into play to illustrate that XML is complicated, not because it's my general focus. I wouldn't classify namespaces, etc. as additional languages and tools, but that's
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 9mo ago
> The complexity about XML comes from the many additional languages and tools built on top of it. It's not just that, is it? There are also attributes versus child elements, dealing with white space including the xml:space attribut
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 9mo ago
> It's designed to be written by hand Are you sure about that? I've heard XML gurus say the exact opposite. This is a very good example of why I detest the phrase “use the right tool for the job.” People say this as an appeal
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 9mo ago
> Again, they are not part of the capital class. I vaguely remember reading something recently, probably by Branko Milanović, about how there is a class of workers in the tech sector who earn so much money that they are gradually startin
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by ahf8Aithaex7Nai 9mo ago
My last Windows was Windows 95 (or 98?). I've been exclusively using Linux for ~25 years. I use Ubuntu because I've been using it for ~20 years and have better things to do than try out different distros. My mother, my grandmot

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