baxtr

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by baxtr 8mo ago
https://xkcd.com/356/
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by baxtr 8mo ago
You seem to be knowledgeable on this topic. What’s your prediction for the next five years?
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by baxtr 8mo ago
You see that’s exactly my point. If you can go back 20 years, you can do that 5 times and end up at 100.
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by baxtr 8mo ago
Exactly this. But then people look at it after 5 years and say: but it didn’t work!!! Not acknowledging that all things ever achieved in life by humans were achieved over time by constant trial and error and not giving up.
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by baxtr 8mo ago
I got the point. I’m challenging the causal chain. I don’t think anyone would agree that the crusades in the Middle Ages caused the current state of the Middle East. There is no way you can prove one or the other side. We can’t do controlle
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by baxtr 8mo ago
I am old enough. Iraq is not perfect today but so much better than it was. Go talk to Iraqis and see for yourself. It costs us some time, money and lives to get to this point. But Saddam (a tyrant who killed his own kind in masses with gas
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by baxtr 8mo ago
You want your story to be true so badly you ignore counter examples? You should consider conformation bias.
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by baxtr 8mo ago
Not only outside the country, but also inside the country! Many many videos on social media showing how they celebrate.
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by baxtr 8mo ago
You evade answering a simple question. It’s because your logic is flawed. It doesn’t hold up a very simple scrutiny test.
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by baxtr 8mo ago
So if a dictatorship decides to invade a neighboring democratic country, the people there should not fight and let them take over, because war is worse than dictatorship, right?
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by baxtr 8mo ago
> Dictatorships suck, but what sucks more is a civil war powered by foreign governments doing a proxy war. Are you sure about this part?
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by baxtr 8mo ago
Who is "them"? Definitely not the people. "safety" for whom? Definitely not the people. They starve.
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by baxtr 8mo ago
What about its people?
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Maybe the Iranian people would be thrilled to get some weapons.
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Do you believe it’s a good thing North Korea has the bomb?
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by baxtr 8mo ago
> No more Iranian nuclear program? There barely was one before. How do you know?
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by baxtr 8mo ago
Can someone in plain terms explain what this is really about? Anyone can use Claude afaik?
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by baxtr 8mo ago
So have not heard of Volkswagen?
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If it were only about costs, German car manufacturers would have been out of business since the 80s.
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No one said they don’t have the right. But for the good of all of society, it would be better if they did.
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by baxtr 8mo ago
So keep the profits only for the rich then? I rather see more IPOs for the rest of us.
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by baxtr 8mo ago
It’s sad. Public companies allow the rest of us to participate in a success story like this. Until IPO it’s only a selected group of affluent people who have access to these private companies.
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by baxtr 8mo ago
Interesting thought experiment. The question is: what do we want to optimize for? Minimize pain and suffering for humans? The spread of mankind throughout the universe? I’m pretty sure your idea would help with the latter. Not so sure about
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by baxtr 8mo ago
So you think even less than 0.005% of the population should be VIP?
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Never heard someone saying they were Vikings tbh.
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Wait what?
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by baxtr 8mo ago
So basically you’re saying LLMs are helping us be better humans?
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by baxtr 8mo ago
Agreed. On the other hand: didn’t any cool tech start as a overpriced, oversized version of its later breakthrough product?
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by baxtr 8mo ago
According to Popper, scientists learn by putting out theories and then trying to falsify them through experiments.
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by baxtr 8mo ago
What about the other 1%? I feel for them.

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