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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
I think Putin was and remains a rational actor, I know a lot of how that war is understood in the west is colored by a very effective propaganda campaign that I don’t have the time nor energy to counter. But I will say, in a very broad stro
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
A grifting military industrial complex is unable to defend Taiwan even if it wanted to as evident by the exceedingly poor showing with Iran. The disastrous reality of doing what was done is already with us. If the US didn't take that b
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
I'm explicitly distrusting them, they're saying they want to take Taiwan and I don't believe them. I try to ground my belief in realpolitik, cynicism, and from my experience with strategy games. There is an element of manipul
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Don’t take China on face value, they have every incentive to promote a grifting military industrial complex in the US while focusing on competing in manufacturing. An actual war would fix a lot of the grifting in the US as it would align in
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
I keep warning people that promising UBI and not delivering UBI both serve the same end, undermining opposition. By the time you find out that their promises of UBI are empty it’s too late to do anything about it.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Could be an A/B test. I’ve had mine for 17 years, it only became an issue 5 years ago.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Gmail spam filtering is so bad that I believe it has to be intentional. I think they see email as a long term ad revenue opportunity and want to desensitize people to the spam.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
I’m partial to the Guinea worm medical symbol theory, though happy to be convinced otherwise.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
In the late 90s internet there was a blogger that built cool stuff with electricity, really seemed to know what he was doing, one day he blogged about how he was going to use a bunch of microwave transformers for an upcoming project. No upd
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
The few I’ve seen were obviously staged but it did appear real in that he was hit with a high voltage. Looking it up suggests that he has been injured a number of times due to miscalculations.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Obviously it depends on what you’re doing and what is importante to you. It’s hard to beat Bambi Labs H2D or X2D for versatility, practicality, and price. Engineering filaments are getting a lot cheaper as the market expands so it helps to
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
I think there is an element of audience capture. Similar to how ElectroBOOM has to keep electrocuting himself for his audience. It’s a living…
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
I don’t accept your premise that the Japanese system is torture.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
I think it is that the US is merely ahead of Europe and Europe will catch up to the US in this regard. Just give it 20 to 30 years.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Californian spend on homelessness is public info, you’re free to search it yourself. There is something about seeing drug addicted zombies impossibly contorted in on themselves and swaying in the wind that appears very inhuman to me. If giv
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Skid row isn’t abandonment, CA spends $47K per homeless person per year in direct and indirect assistance. It exists as it does due to intentional and well funded policy.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
It seems to be more of a US phenomenon and it is pretty pervasive in the US.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
I don’t know what is humane about skid row et al.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
I did edit that out before your comment because I didn’t feel I needed it, but I still stand by it. There is still quite a lot of randomness in genes, the idea that intelligence would always be the average of the parents would require that
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Yes, and science explicitly allows him to continue procreating where otherwise he would have not been able to (he was in an accident because he was stupid). It’s explicitly saying the darwinian winnowing of the weaker (dumber) members of th
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
I think the opening scene makes the hereditary position very clear, I don’t know how anyone could interpret that as not marking the case of ‘nature’ determining intelligence. Edit; sorry, either I misread your comment or it was changed. On
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
As others are mentioning LLMs are actually rather helpful in making new programming languages and then programming in those languages. For me, a DIY programming language is something I wouldn’t have the time for without the help of AI.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Anyone who complained was disappeared so no-one is complaining anymore. China took over Honk Kong and lots of people complained about that before it happened but afterwards not so much.
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
I consider the marginal voter to be rather dim, credulous, and uninformed irrational actors. Politics in a universal suffrage democracy is the art of idiot whispering and Trump is a master of this art. I do believe that most of his voters g
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
Americans consistently vote for less war and they consistently get more war. If they voted for more war I’m pretty sure they would still get more war. I think blaming the American public for these wars is a deflection from the actual mechan
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by cjbgkagh 5mo ago
As a side effect of bailing out banks they have a lower risk profile than entities that don’t get bailouts. It’s essentially an additional subsidy on top of the already generous ‘money creation’ they’re allowed to do. It’s impossible to com
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by cjbgkagh 6mo ago
I have this problem with NixOS as one of my build servers doesn’t have enough ram. There doesn’t seem to be a way to know if a compilation is likely to be ram heavy and either use a tagged server with more ram or use few threads on servers
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by cjbgkagh 6mo ago
I consider it very well written, perhaps too well written, I think we are departing the AI slop era. I’m not decrying it as slop not worth reading, I just think it’s an interesting development.
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by cjbgkagh 6mo ago
I did predict as much, I figured it would occur as a side effect of improved information density. As the models got smarter they would have more useful pints to make. On one hand it feels validating, on the other hand I am a bit worried tha
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by cjbgkagh 6mo ago
This seems to be AI written, or co-written, hard to tell though. It seems AI is converging on a more terse information dense style that is closer to my own, which is good but I do worry that it’ll make my writing look like AIs.

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