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by beeflet 11mo ago
> Did capitalism exist under feudalism? I would say it's more of a matter of the level of interference of the fief on trade. When 100% of the economy is controlled by the monopoly on violence I would say that is complete communism,
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Honestly, "third world" is a bad word. It comes from the cold war. A lot of countries we refer to as "third world" are really "second world" in this distinction. I would say you have high birthrates despite low
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by beeflet 11mo ago
Why not? It's not like every country in the world can rely on immigration and brain drain. Don't you think it is alarming that the country can't produce enough people to maintain a stable-state population and instead has to r
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by beeflet 11mo ago
women have lower standards in the third world
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by beeflet 11mo ago
People buying and selling things with minimal interference from protection rackets
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by beeflet 11mo ago
>Of course, because the Capitalists try to control the industry they've invested in. But does the system eventually result in a small number of capitalists taking power or is it distributed over many capitalists? Not all monopolies
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by beeflet 11mo ago
The solar panels are produced by outside of the country with companies applying massive economies of scale. I don't know what about this is socialist. I guess it is vaguely leftist in the sense that poor 3rd worlders are benefiting. Bu
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by beeflet 11mo ago
I find that arguments against capitalism like this are unconvincing. It is like saying that a sword is useless technology. It's directional: the pointy end goes in the other guy.
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by beeflet 11mo ago
every box is a screwdriver away
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by beeflet 11mo ago
The failure mode of self-hosting is that your site gets hugged to death, the failure mode of the cloud is that you lose a ton of money. For a blog that doesn't earn you anything, the choice is clear. Besides, you can just put it behind
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by beeflet 1y ago
By behaving in a self-aware way, it practices self awareness. It would only be unfounded if the robot is programmed in a way that seemingly appears to be self-aware but actually isn't (It would need to occasionally act in a non-self aw
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by beeflet 1y ago
Humans also have territory, hunting and hierarchy. Everything that a lion does, humans also do but more complicated. So I think we would be able to understand the new creature. But the problem is really that the lion that speaks is not the
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by beeflet 1y ago
I do not think there is really such thing as a p-zombie. If you simulate feelings and act on them, that is the same thing as having feelings. Including feelings of self-awareness.
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by beeflet 1y ago
I doubt it, because my definition implies that consciousness is not that interesting. It's just the feeling of self-awareness, which can be independent of actual self awareness. If you have a phantom limb, you feel "conscious&quot
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by beeflet 1y ago
consciousness is the feeling of self awareness. I suppose you could prove it as much as any other feeling, by observing the way that people behave
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by beeflet 1y ago
what properties are you looking for?
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by beeflet 1y ago
Why not? Consciousness is a state of self-awareness.
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by beeflet 1y ago
The openness of this market gives me home that we could make something like a pinephone with actually decent hardware and open-enough drivers.
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by beeflet 1y ago
perhaps the idea with the fairphone is to make the motherboard reverse-compatible with previous models, like framework? They changed the naming scheme
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by beeflet 1y ago
the USA has achieved communist levels of surveillance
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by beeflet 1y ago
not if it gets optimized out
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by beeflet 1y ago
I have been following him, and I think a lot of the claims about him have been exaggerated. He stopped being so edgy on twitter after watching the "this is phil fish" video. It is an interesting watch and applicable to notch. htt
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by beeflet 1y ago
People could set up 3rd party auth systems and eliminate the need for mojang
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by beeflet 1y ago
Some people are asking for The Metaverse. Currently, the entire VRChat userbase. But you're right that there is not a large population of people willing to throw cash at it outside of a minority of virtual furries
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by beeflet 1y ago
I found it! https://media.ccc.de/v/25c3-2896-en-chip_reverse_engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp4TPQVbxCQ
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by beeflet 1y ago
that may be true but minimal interest is greater than no interest.
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by beeflet 1y ago
The threat of such attacks is not growing
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by beeflet 1y ago
why wouldn't it be effected?
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by beeflet 1y ago
I think it provides a false sense of security in practice. You end up relying on security methods that dont work against adversaries above a level of initial investment.
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by beeflet 1y ago
the private keys to secure my data live in my brain

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