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by andrepd 1y ago
Valve gets away with murder for some reason even though the "gAMeR" community loves to get the pitchforks out for several minor controversies per month.
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by andrepd 1y ago
That's, excuse my French, fucking ridiculous. Steam is a money printing machine that affords Valve the capital to run its CS servers 100 over. Skins are also a money machine but it's just false to claim without it Valve would
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by andrepd 1y ago
Overoptimization truly squeezes the health and fun and soul out of everything.
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by andrepd 1y ago
> If this were a neighborhood where people regularly fired guns in the air, we would warn parents to keep their kids inside. A stray bullet may not be intentional, but it’s a predictable outcome of such an environment. This is literally
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by andrepd 1y ago
Let's maybe cross that bridge when (more important, if!) we come to it then? We have no idea how LLMs are gonna evolve, but clearly now they are very much not ready for the job.
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by andrepd 1y ago
What can you do online these days without being data mined? Browsing gemini?
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by andrepd 1y ago
Marxism and Marxist theory has made prescient points about capitalism that have repeatedly been confirmed in the past ~200 years. Obviously they did not get everything right (far from it), as their most fervent acolytes believed. But then a
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by andrepd 1y ago
This is the thing. There needs to be personal responsability, not just some diffuse (and weak-ass) fine. As it stands the literal worst thing that can happen is the CEO gets fired with a multimillion dollar severance. Is this a joke? Just
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by andrepd 1y ago
Developed countries generate an order of magnitude more waste per capita. It seems unfair to blame poorer countries.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Yet people live better. Goes to show you shouldn't optimise for crude, raw GDP as an end in itself, only as a means for your true end: health, quality of life, freedom, etc.
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by andrepd 1y ago
>Have you ever stopped to consider why class mobility is much much less common in Europe than in the USA? This is not true, it was true historically, but not since WWII. Read Piketty.
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by andrepd 1y ago
> Technically, the state confiscating wealth derived from your labor through taxes is a form of robbery and slavery. Without the state, you wouldn't have wealth. Heck there wouldn't even be the very concept of property, only wh
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by andrepd 1y ago
To be fair, self-driving cars don't need to be perfect 0 casualty modes of transportation, they just need to be better than human drivers. Since car crashes kill 2 million people each year (and maim another 2 or 3), this is a low bar t
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by andrepd 1y ago
This would imply that civil law systems don't suffer from these problems, but they do. I don't think common law is to blame for the complexity of the justice system.
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by andrepd 1y ago
> I think most historians would agree that it started with the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215. Ahahaha, this is the most anglocentric thing I've heard in a while. That's not remotely the case, and it's certainly not so
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by andrepd 1y ago
Master of the understatement :)
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by andrepd 1y ago
Damn, sure showed me.
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by andrepd 1y ago
The UN Special Rapporteur's report indicates as much. This is from early 2024, the evidence has only mounted since then. Would you mind explaining which points in particular you don't agree? https://undocs.org/en&#
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by andrepd 1y ago
On the other hand, you're taking the ridiculous 20,000 "Hamas numbers" from Israel at face value. The 60,000 death toll is confirmed by multiple independent international organisations. Of course, remember Israel doesn't
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by andrepd 1y ago
Criticising an ongoing genocide, one aided by """AI""" sv tech at that, is not defending terrorism. Jesus Christ.
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by andrepd 1y ago
I'm not a conspiracy theory person, but if I wanted to ensure a perpetuation of terrorism and consequently ever-present wars in the Middle East, I wouldn't do this any other way. Fucks like Bibi do this successfully (propping up H
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by andrepd 1y ago
Your statement was > We were unable to find evidence that the Only Connect games are *in the training materials*. which is obviously completely false. You acknowledge as much in another comment when you say > To clarify what I meant b
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by andrepd 1y ago
The last part wits the nail on the head. Orwell envisioned a future where everyone was forced to have a telescreen watching them at all times. He never for a second dreamed of a future where people would buy a telescreen for the most tr
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by andrepd 1y ago
CCTV can absolutely be made to be effective and protect citizen's privacy at the same time. A legal requirement to store only encrypted data, which can only be decrypted via a court warrant (so a similar standard to searching your ho
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by andrepd 1y ago
Googling "only connect questions answers" yields a literal database of all questions and answers in the show's history https://ocdb.cc/ . Most episodes are also in youtube complete with transcripts. Par on c
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by andrepd 1y ago
There's a database of every question and answer, and almost every episode is also on youtube, complete with transcripts. I really don't see how you can assume that the fact that questions+answers are in the training data (which th
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by andrepd 1y ago
Jesus how the fuck does advertising make such ungodly amounts of money.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Self-reports are notoriously overexcited, real results are, let's say, not so stellar. https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...
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by andrepd 1y ago
Three links from manifestly right-wing organisations decrying the lack of free speech on the left are not exactly convincing.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Nowhere is safe.

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