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by api 8y ago
Rational arguments like yours are not what I'm talking about. When I say fascist/totalitarian/neo-Nazi ideology, I mean exactly that and nothing short of that. I do have some issues with what you wrote. My first problem is wi
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by api 8y ago
Yes, it's accurate. The alt-right came out of tech circles: gamers, 4chan, etc. If you want some search terms start with Steve Bannon, IGE, weev, Vox Popoli, and Gamergate, and follow those rabbit holes until you hit acronyms like &quo
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by api 8y ago
They don't consume their materials. It's an energy storage medium, not a fuel. From what I've read the recycling yield is quite high, though not quite 100% due to that nasty second law of thermodynamics. I imagine big utility
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by api 8y ago
Because superficial political flag waving doesn't mean anything? I see a lot of the progressive flag waving in tech as "protesting too much." Here's an almost exclusively white male industry whose main pay check today is
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by api 8y ago
America seems to have a huge problem with everything it does being incredibly costly. It's definitely true in the public sector and universities and also in large areas of the private sector. American healthcare being more expensive th
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by api 8y ago
Would this be the same sort of "negative mass" required to make the Alcubierre Drive or similar things work (at least on paper)?
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by api 8y ago
"I, too, was a lonely intelligent child who knew the special horror, as most lonely intelligent children do, of thinking both very little and too much of themselves at the same time." Article is worth it for that line. What an out
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by api 8y ago
We teach the idea of critical thinking but not the intellectual disciplines of doing it honestly and effectively.
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by api 8y ago
4chan is a cult with a lot of traction among mostly male technical types. There are lots of online cults though, not just on the chans. Tumblr is particularly bad. Lots of little Borg minds looking to assimilate young novelty.
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by api 8y ago
It's not a gender thing. Young people in general are vulnerable to all kinds of negative groupthink because they don't have a fully formed identity, experience, or adult critical thinking skills. The nature of the toxic material s
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by api 8y ago
Maybe treating people like humans means being paranoid about them, especially in a pit of snakes like Wall St.?
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by api 8y ago
No photos, no video, no memes.
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by api 8y ago
"Borgsongs" is what I've started calling it. I recall the term from STTNG for the omnipresent chatter experienced by members of the Borg collective.
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by api 8y ago
It seems like today there is no thought put into interfaces at all beyond just what they look like.
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by api 8y ago
I'm sure you could do a lot with satellite imagery and simulation. It could suggest spots to place preemptive fire breaks or have controlled fires.
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by api 8y ago
I find heuristics like this to be anti-intellectual. In news orgs the person who picks the headline often isn't even the person who wrote the article.
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by api 8y ago
I don't feel any personal guilt. Just saying history is history and understanding it helps explain what is happening today.
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by api 8y ago
It's common to use "we" to describe past acts of one's nation or lineage even before one was born, whether positive or negative. "We" landed on the moon too, but I had no part in it and you likely did not eithe
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by api 8y ago
... which would be exactly what we did right?
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by api 8y ago
Part of the problem though is that the algorithm is fantastically expensive, possibly more so than managing, policing, and occasionally replacing central organizations.
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by api 8y ago
Good point about the conquistadors. I've always thought that many of them probably did come here with utopian ideals about founding pure societies and bringing the word of God to the natives (in a positive way at least as they thought
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by api 8y ago
I don't think you can compare Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency to semiconductors at all. Cryptocurrency is really not all that complex a technology. Once you grasp it it's pretty simple, especially if you understand cryptograph
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by api 8y ago
No, I'm saying you shouldn't take the words of corporations the same way you take the words of an individual person. A corporation is not even a singular entity. Corporations can't have values because they're composed of
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by api 8y ago
I said this in another thread but I'll say it again here. I am downright shocked at just how much of a failure this technology has turned out to be. How can this many brilliant people work on an area for this long and produce almost no
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by api 8y ago
There's a piece of Lord of the Rings fanfic around that inverts it in the same way -- Mordor was really a democratic scientific place and they just wanted to understand how magic really worked, but were defeated by the autocratic kings
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by api 8y ago
As a result of many real world experiences I've started to see ridiculously impressive looking resumes as a contrarian indicator. When I see a resume that cites multiple company foundings, dozens of patents, dozens of projects, etc.
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by api 8y ago
That's hilarious. 3 months is far too short of a time to actually invent anything meaningful and get far enough along with it to determine whether it would actually be worth patenting.
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by api 8y ago
"You get what you incentivize..."
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by api 8y ago
Ignore corporate claims such as "don't be evil." The problem isn't that those claims were lies. I'm sure Google's founders actually intended Google to "not be evil." The problem is that a corporation
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by api 8y ago
So we should start a country called the Totalitarian Empire of Evil and it would be a utopia? I'm in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNhhz1yYk2U

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