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by concordDance 2y ago
What would change in the 2028 election that wasn't changed in the 2024 one?
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by concordDance 2y ago
Even granting that, you would want MORE LGBTQ+/minority speech. The more energy people spend arguing with each other about culture war, the more dividee they are and the less they have for trying to change inequality. Trying to silence
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by concordDance 2y ago
Can it be at the bottom instead?
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by concordDance 2y ago
> In reality, the goal has always been to silence minorities who already struggle to express themselves This particular clause seens very unlikely. One could want an increase in racism and homophobia on a platform without specifically wa
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by concordDance 2y ago
> So your assertion that "Twitter was _never_ a net positive for anyone" is not only false but an absurdly biased and frankly wrong view on how the world accesses information. I presume the grandparent was being rhetorical and
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by concordDance 2y ago
Isn't this kind of statement metaphorical? The literal thing that happens is your country starts spending a greater and greater proportion of revenue servicing its debt (and eventually defaults), but this is less snappy to say.
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by concordDance 2y ago
> This isn't cost efficient but it's the right thing to do. Depends on the ratio you put on human vs animal lives. Money is fungible, the more you spend on walkways the less you spend on road signage or MRI machines.
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by concordDance 2y ago
Related: "rounding to the nearest common cliche"
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by concordDance 2y ago
> Not to nitpick, but "taxing the 1% will solve our country's financial problems" comes off as a bit of a strawman. I've seen it at least three times on hackernews and countless times on reddit.
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by concordDance 2y ago
Current AIs are safe. Will the ones in 5 years be, 20 years?
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by concordDance 2y ago
His argument is of the form "if we get a Thing(s) with these properties you most likely get these outcomes for these reasons". He avoids over and over again making specific timeline claims or stating how likely an extrapolation of
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by concordDance 2y ago
Why are you comparing AGI (which we do not have yet and do not know hoe to get) to the printing press rather than comparing it to the evolution of humans? Actual proper as-smart-as-a-human-except-where-its-smarter copy-pasteable intelligenc
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by concordDance 2y ago
> He’s messaging to others on the far right that the federal government will tolerate them. Doing so will embolden them to take action. Well that's definitely more plausible than the antisemitism... That said? Musk is exceptionally
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by concordDance 2y ago
I'm quite curious if someone has gone to the effort of making a full list of all the things fommonly thought of as pros and cons and made it available somewhere... would be interesting.
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by concordDance 2y ago
> It's not something you can do by accident. There are countless memes online showing pictures of other famous people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortwz doing similar things. Anyway, even if it was a nazi salute, what would that even imp
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by concordDance 2y ago
> However, there are plenty of forms of "animal testing" that confer zero positive value. I find it difficult to believe that companies do expensive surgery on expensive animals for no reason (other than sadism?). These compani
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by concordDance 2y ago
> Keeping some persistent outlet (front page post) for discussion of this major topic is important to give people a politically agnostic and technically proficient space to integrate what's happening. It doesn't really feel lik
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by concordDance 2y ago
I'm quite curious on your retrospective thoughts on this thread once this article goes off the front page! Also whether you'd do the same again. Having looked around, probably around 80% of comments are mostly uninteresting/p
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by concordDance 2y ago
Unprecedented things happen in every US presidency, they're just different things. (Hard to mention examples because the ones I am most familiar with are the last 6 terms, and each topic has flamebait potential)
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by concordDance 2y ago
While that might be applicable in many cases it isn't in this particular one. Both the main subreddits and blue sky's default moderation prohibit things in the middle of the right's Overton Window (e.g. on Trump or trans righ
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by concordDance 2y ago
> Giving that there are a lot of indices that X did infer with US elections due to how it tuned itself to maximize the reach and effectiveness of right wing propaganda this is quite an important analysis. This superficially reads like th
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by concordDance 2y ago
Profit works very well if there are many food sources with uncorrelated problems. Still works fairly well as long as capital owners are smart and use insurance (who in turn advise their users on how to reduce their risk).
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by concordDance 2y ago
One unfortunate aspect of this phenomena is that as reddit "evaporatively cools" (ala https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ... ) as the more level headed people leave reddit gets e
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by concordDance 2y ago
> anti chromosomal expression Genuinely couldn't figure out what this is a euphamism for.
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by concordDance 2y ago
> it's baked into our DNA i suppose. In the unlikely event it genuinely was then this would be solveable with subsidized genetic engineering for the masses. I also think there's a lot to improve in education. While making every
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by concordDance 2y ago
The Yud series on this is actually pretty good (I believe it also predates the term purity spiral): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ...
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by concordDance 2y ago
> Like, implement a 5% tax on their wealth, and just fix all the problems. My understanding is that's nowhere near enough. The USA deficit is $1.8 Trillion a year with $30T total. The net worth of all USA billionaires is around $4.5
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by concordDance 2y ago
I had an idea in my head about what the word "coup" means and why it is bad and I'm struggling to figure out how it applies to this situation (possibly because being no-American I don't get their news). My understanding
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by concordDance 2y ago
As a non-American: What's illegal here? My understanding is this is DOGE getting some analysis software in place so they can find out where the money goes and start their cuts, which I understand there is an executive order for. And my
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by concordDance 2y ago
Anyone have any guesses as to why "Both are quite bad. I expect better from Wired." would be flagged? Sometimes HN really confuses me.

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