catigula

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by catigula 2y ago
Work in a zero sum environment is pretty cut-throat, even moreso the increasingly scarce resources are or higher competition is. The idea that you'd apply interpersonal principles that also exist to help you in your time of need to ent
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by catigula 2y ago
It's remarkable to me that people don't realize that markets are - by definition and design - a race to the bottom. A single decision maker may hold up efficiency for ideological purity, but, ultimately, an efficient corporation
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by catigula 2y ago
I think it's cool in the sense that's it a cool concept for a (alleged) scam.
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by catigula 2y ago
A minor UX difference doesn't really feel like a great case for reducing user privacy, it makes me a little concerned about priorities... which I already was, really.
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by catigula 2y ago
Consumer reports for me embodies the phenomenon where, whenever I have even cursory familiarity with the subject material, their reporting (ratings/reviews) become laughably inaccurate and misinformed from my perspective.
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by catigula 2y ago
I haven't seen that, I find it strange.
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by catigula 2y ago
We have to put some of this on Firefox for failing to remain competitive in the engineering arena. If it's too expensive to develop a viable alternative to chromium, just say that. The Firefox that has been trundling along for years is
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by catigula 2y ago
Protesting isn't about hating your country, it's free speech and a form of political expression.
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by catigula 2y ago
How long should the screening process be? You seem to assert it's indefinite, which is clearly not constitutional.
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by catigula 2y ago
I've burnt about $100 in Claude code so far. It's very cool but highly limited in many ways. It feels like this same statement has applied to LLMs since their popularity explosion.
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by catigula 2y ago
This is one of those things that has a lot of bipartisan support. The IHRA definition of antisemitism, which they've adopted, circumscribes speech that is critical of Israel, even if true, as antisemitism. That type of hate speech legi
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by catigula 2y ago
Regardless of politics there's no way this is constitutionally defensible. It feels like the perverse incentive is the goal. After all, if only American citizens retain the right to protest certain policies they don't like, they h
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by catigula 2y ago
If green card holders/permanent residents don't have the ability to engage in constitutionally protected speech, doesn't this create a perverse incentive given that it creates a class of lawful residents that have circumscrib
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by catigula 2y ago
Doubtful. Smokers only gain a handful of pounds when they stop on average.
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by catigula 2y ago
That is fundamentally the problem with this type of offering. You can't claim it's even comparable to a mid level engineer because then you'd hardly need any engineers at all.
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by catigula 2y ago
Why was caffeine studied? Why does it continue to be studied?
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by catigula 2y ago
CBD, which doesn't appear to have a fraction of the therapeutic efficacy of something like Ozempic, is a multi-hundred billion dollar industry now with a lot of active research.
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by catigula 2y ago
That's true, but doesn't really squeeze natural alternatives out of the market if they're effective. For example, there's a prescription engineered version of melatonin. Melatonin is still a huge business.
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by catigula 2y ago
Does anyone actually believe that GLP-1s directly target muscle tissue? Losing a ton of weight, especially very quickly, is extremely catabolic. Any substance that prevents this would by definition be an anabolic substance.
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by catigula 2y ago
I've always been very, very skeptical of this claim. If there's an actual natural, identified substance with huge benefits to people, it's going to go gangbusters and you're going to make a lot, LOT of money selling it,
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by catigula 2y ago
I think you've made reasonably good points. My least favorite aspect of discussing AI is the undercurrent that we're monkeys discussing the Sistine chapel. Ultimately, it's difficult to engage with the concept of superior int
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by catigula 2y ago
What if AI could rapidly develop hypersonic interception technology? That doesn't seem unreasonable.
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by catigula 2y ago
By definition you can only respond to a decapitation strike if you haven't been decapitated. Anyways, I think the nuclear deterrent is an okay argument, I'm not totally convinced by it because I think you could also get right up t
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by catigula 2y ago
Very strange reply but it's up to you whether or not you'll defend your position, I can't make you. Anyways, just as an aside, I went through your account too and it's mostly just you arguing with people and litigating w
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by catigula 2y ago
Making criminal activity legal doesn't solve any of their problems except for the only problem that is entirely on them and disincentivizes their destructive behavior.
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by catigula 2y ago
Is it? We've had cyber hostilities with China for a long time now. An AI could easily be used in a decapitation strike of military systems.
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by catigula 2y ago
I've described to you the threat vector that people with high positions in the government are talking about. An intelligent machine oriented towards 24/7 cyber attack with even parity human intellect is clearly a massive threat, l
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by catigula 2y ago
I didn't say superintelligence. Even modest intelligence clearly gives you the ability to develop a superior intelligence, let alone many other wonders and marvels that exist in the realm of sorcery to someone living 100 years ago. Tha
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by catigula 2y ago
Power aggregation. First AI will likely kill a lot of people at the behest of humans. If I were a world power with a functional AI, I would immediately launch a full scale attack on foreign governments infrastructure so they couldn't d
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by catigula 2y ago
The second anyone develops an AI that is more capable than humans they will use them to completely cripple opposing threat actor's attempts to develop AI. Full power grid, economic, social attacks are definitely coming, not sure how yo

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