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by arrrg 4mo ago
Machines aren’t humans. Your first have to argue that an analogy between machine and human even makes any kind of sense. That‘s the magic trick you are doing with your analogy. You just assume that human/machine analogy is true.
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by arrrg 4mo ago
That doesn’t make sense. In the medium term this will strengthen efforts in China, Japan, India and the EU to move away from fossil fuel dependence much more quickly.
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by arrrg 5mo ago
It is interesting to consider what we talk about when we talk about whether an image was photoshopped because I do actually think that is a fuzzy line and different people may think of different things. I always assumed this discussion was
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by arrrg 5mo ago
I’m a bit confused about the claim that the image was altered. Sometimes skies look like that and grass looks like that and (the right) film is more than capable of capturing that with the appropriate saturation. Especially Velvia. Velvia i
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by arrrg 5mo ago
Dresden is truly blessed with cinemas and has four European Network cinemas. Three of those have assigned seating, though none do price discrimination based on where you sit. Culturally the assigned seating isn’t taken very seriously in tho
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by arrrg 5mo ago
If Elon Musk did this because he wanted to (not make a statement, just to achieve some other goal he has) then that‘s not really art. If he did it to make a statement about how different rules apply to billionaires and he wanted to point th
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by arrrg 5mo ago
Just goes to show the power of his art. I don’t find that bit the least bit surprising but this inconsistency always has been at the heart of his art for me and to a large extent also what his work is about.
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by arrrg 5mo ago
Yeah, and that is precisely the point. This contradiction at the heart of it does a lot of work and is a very valuable part of the art. This contradiction has led me to think a lot about rules and their role in society and to what extent pu
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by arrrg 5mo ago
What evidence is this claim based on?
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by arrrg 6mo ago
I‘m a bit confused by your statement. In Afghanistan a NATO coalition fought in the war. 456 British, 301 French, 158 Canadian and 54 German soldiers died. Besides that I’m really unsure why you think that more military power would have hel
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by arrrg 6mo ago
The amount of suffering the regime in Iran and the US administration are willing to accept and can bear is probably wildly disproportionate and much higher on the side of Iran. That also substantially weakens any leverage the US has. A mere
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by arrrg 6mo ago
Doxxing (and the moral judgements attached to it) is a relatively new and not widespread concept. You can’t just say “but this is doxxing” and expect people to know what you are talking about and also attach the same negative label to it as
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by arrrg 6mo ago
It seems unlikely to me that this conspiracy (conducting a war intent on closing the strait while communicating something else) is anything more than a post-hoc rationalization. Obviously all actions the US takes have knock on effects elsew
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by arrrg 7mo ago
Making up sources as a journalist and being found out will result in a professional death sentence. It’s simply completely irredeemably unacceptable. That’s why it can be a convention that journalists don’t provide their raw sources.
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by arrrg 7mo ago
Berlinale screenings are open to the public and tickets cost between 15 € and 20 €. You have to be quick when ticket sales open every day but when I did that one year I watched about four films every day and could get tickets for nearly all
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by arrrg 7mo ago
Your reference to prompting is pretty disgusting since you try to shift the blame to the user. All the prompts were crystal clear. Trying to shift any blame on user error is non-sensical stupidity or dumb manipulation in this case. Also, mi
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by arrrg 8mo ago
Democracy also includes sometimes things not happening the way you want to … happens to me all the time, too. Obviously free (and not merely democratic societies) need strong protections of minorities and broad freedoms, but I don’t see fre
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by arrrg 8mo ago
The people in Europe have a different view of freedom of speech and that’s fine. Not everything that’s a slightly different perspective on freedom of speech and what that entails and includes is tyranny.
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by arrrg 8mo ago
Oh, so he discovered Marx's theory of alienation and called it Deep Blue?
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by arrrg 8mo ago
To me the hard problem isn’t building things, it’s knowing what to build (finding the things that provide value) and how to build it (e.g. finding novel approaches to doing something that makes something possible that wasn’t possible before
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by arrrg 8mo ago
How does that follow? I don’t see the connection. Zero trust age verification means both sides don’t have to learn anything about each other beyond old enough yes/no. Should mean that. I’m fine with age verification if it fulfills at l
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by arrrg 8mo ago
There it rears its ugly head again, the preemptive cynicism that prevents anything good from ever getting done. It’s simple really: zero trust age verification should be a strict requirement of any such law and anything else illegal for age
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by arrrg 8mo ago
Age verification is possible without revealing personally identifiable information (beyond old enough yes/no, which is not in any way personally identifiable info) and from my perspective should be a strict requirement with any such la
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by arrrg 9mo ago
It worked until it didn’t. That’s how it goes. Peace is always hard work and irrational actors (in terms of: well being of people, not necessarily aspirations of empire) can muck everything up. Economical co-dependency is a good tool for i
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by arrrg 9mo ago
Election polls were only ever off a couple percentage points. US elections are hard to predict because they are so close. And because of the electoral system. So missing by a bit can mean making a wildly wrong prediction. This does not appl
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by arrrg 10mo ago
See, this is a clear example why hypercynicism (everything has always been maximally evil all the time already) is not at all helpful. You lose your ability to differentiate in your cynical zeal to cast everyone as maximally (undifferentiab
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by arrrg 10mo ago
For decades trusting the US was no problem at all. The relationship was mutually beneficial. Cooperation and trust among nations is possible and Juche (completely self-reliance) is not a worthwhile goal at all. So, sure, cooperation is grea
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by arrrg 10mo ago
Your central claim is that scholarly academic (mainstream) work ist disconnected from fine arts and as such outside of it, no fit to give meaningful answers. That seems like a wild and weird take to me, contradiction everything I know about
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by arrrg 10mo ago
How do you think public discourse spaces are created? By approaching and talking to people when you write about them! That doesn’t just magically happen … I merely would have expected some humility when you characterize the work of other sc
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by arrrg 10mo ago
To get closer to an answer to this you should still talk to the people doing the actual work? I know that many scholars have an uncomfortable relationship to the PR work their research institutions are doing, but they themselves don’t strik

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