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by ang_cire 7mo ago
"A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box." - Frederick Douglass
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
> At least China isn't in a position to have to reckon with how deep white supremacy runs in its culture. Han Nationalism is rooted in racial supremacy. It's explicitly been pushed as the People and the Culture being inseparabl
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
I remember the days of just chatting with folks on No Mutants Allowed (fallout fan forum) or SubSim.com, about life and stuff. We all sort of knew each other after years chatting about the games we played, and it felt so cozy and low-stakes
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
It's not actually fraud if there is some ostensible service they're performing. Business units within businesses 'pay' each other for 'services' all the time. Ditto for subsidiaries. Whether something is fraud
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
Dollars/receivables in and dollars/deliverables out is just a question of rate, unless I'm missing something. If a 10 billion dollar company has a per-second dollar out/in rate of $1,000,000 due to actual organic busines
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
> Is there state-sanctioned/supported slavery in the US? Thank you for proving my point about our propaganda. Yes, it absolutely is. Slave labor is explicitly allowed for prisoners, under the 13th Amendment's "Penal except
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
I think this is a meaningless question. Being allowed to discuss your atrocities versus not, but not having the choice to actually stop doing atrocities, is a strange point of pride. Being allowed to discuss our wars in the Middle East clea
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
That is also true if Chinese AI goes by the wayside, though. :P
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
I think you're right. AI is being sold on promises of maximalism, in a way. Build everything, do anything, give AI all your data and thoughts and system access and it will give you the world! I'm not surprised our own "roarin
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
"US not inherently better" is tantamount to fellatio to you? You have some low standards of praise.
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
Please point out where I "fellated" China.
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
> You spent the rest of your comment making the case that it is not good for the US to win. Implying, though not directly saying, we would be better off with China. This is you putting words in my mouth. It's bad if either wins. You
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
Frankly, I find that less 'naive' than I do 'dangerously possible'. Autonomous weaponry is one of the few ways that a fascist state could reasonably maintain violent control over a large and hostile populace. I guarantee
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
1800 people detained at "alligator Alcatraz" had their records purged from ICE databases, and are completely unaccounted for. Literally disappeared, and the only people whose word we have they're alive are the same people who
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
> There is a real benefit to having the American experiment prominent and continuing. The American 'experiment' is one long history of the US doing really horrible things, but giving ourselves a pass because we dress it up in t
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
I don't see anyone arguing that we'd be better off with China, but I am arguing that neither the US or China can be trusted with this, so the author positing "US AI dominance good to keep China at bay" is bad.
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
The real lie here is that there's an ethical superpower. Just like being a billionaire (or, super-wealther, if you will), you don't get to be a superpower by doing good things. China and the US can both be bad, and they're bo
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by ang_cire 7mo ago
The author is naive. > The whole background of this AI conversation is that we’re in a race with China, and we have to win. But what is the reason we want America to win the AI race? It’s because we want to make sure free open societies
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by ang_cire 8mo ago
> consumer action is the only way you can affect business decisions I mean, insomuch as any action I take is a consumer action, because I am a consumer, this is true. That's why Luigi'ing is a consumer action. But 'vote wi
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by ang_cire 8mo ago
Not really. I have both AI-written code and self-written code on my Github. I can pass a technical interview just fine to prove my abilities. I don't get into pissing contests with others about GH contribs or FOSS project badges. If so
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by ang_cire 8mo ago
Moderated by who? A company who owns the 'marketplace'/ app store? A government whose politicians get election money or favor companies that employ their constituents? There is no such thing 'moderated for quality'
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by ang_cire 8mo ago
You don't actually have to directly communicate with someone in order to collude, you just have to both be knowingly working towards that same end (tacit collusion). https://www.winston.com/en/blogs-and-podcasts&#x
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by ang_cire 8mo ago
My impression is that the author is not actually speaking to the internet at large, they're just talking to people who are 1) at least a little tech-savvy, and 2) willing to spend time to decouple from big tech. This is just the author
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by ang_cire 8mo ago
That is already happening, but this is where peer-to-peer becomes helpful, because in order for 'Big Cos' and 'Big Gub' to audit your web they have to have visibility into it in the first place.
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by ang_cire 8mo ago
Maybe I'm just naive, but I've been making lots of my 'vibe-coded' tools interoperable already. My assumption is that eventually the VC-backed gravy train of low-cost good-quality LLM compute is going to dry-up, and I&#x
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by ang_cire 8mo ago
That is only true at the start. The quality will always be lower for a new product/ production line, because 1) it hasn't had the time to iterate that got the established, big-name producers to where they are, and 2) it democratiz
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by ang_cire 8mo ago
As the other person said, a LOT of github projects with medium-large contributor bases are extremely hostile to AI code contributions. Some of this is about 'slop' coding not being up to par. A lot of it is also about people makin
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by ang_cire 8mo ago
Yes, but not every business works, and not every business model works, and not every business model works with every business, etc etc. It's on the business to find a model that works within the environment of the free market and wit
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by ang_cire 8mo ago
In my experience CompSci ethics modules are about hacking or mishandling user data or code theft... i.e. things that companies don't want their employees doing. I've yet to see an ethics module that covers ethics from the perspe
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by ang_cire 8mo ago
Many people get used to the paycheck before they really discover the extent of their predatory practices. A lot of people will choose their own comfort and stability over morality.

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