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by cowpig 8mo ago
You can explore data directly here: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ndecore/xplore/NDE I plotted a bunch of random states and created a line chart showing the progression since 2017. I chose to look at Math scor
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by cowpig 8mo ago
dark
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by cowpig 8mo ago
NVIDIA is doing circular finance deals with all of the top labs to pump up demand for its products and charging a monopoly rate on those products. Everything in computing is costing more. Access to capital for everyone else is dropping. And
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by cowpig 8mo ago
While Anthropic certainly benefits from the privacy/security overton window shifting, I've never seen Claude or people from Anthropic mention these projects so I have no evidence to include them
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by cowpig 8mo ago
The companies running the algorithms that dictate the information you consume are the same companies that stand to economically benefit from users handing over agency over their decisions and all of their personal information to AI applicat
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by cowpig 8mo ago
> Today, we’re releasing Releasing for real? Is it an open model?
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by cowpig 8mo ago
No, man. > when time comes to vote on policies, having read everyone, you may consider their point of view a bit more. Trying to be impartial, trying to understand all the points of view, is a noble effort. It's impossible to do, bu
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by cowpig 8mo ago
I'm so tired of these false equivalences You brought up the most notorious part of US history (the gilded age / age of yellow journalism) as if that was defining of journalism in general. You would be hard-pressed to pinpoint a ti
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by cowpig 8mo ago
Why doesn't it work anymore? Are there policies we could put into place that could change that?
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by cowpig 8mo ago
I feel like I'm in a psy op reading this comments section. As if we aren't very clearly in a completely different place now compared to even 10 years ago, when it comes to the veracity of information people are exposed to on a mom
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by cowpig 9mo ago
AI has incredible potential for both But the negatives are spiraling out of control. Pollution and energy and the amplification of structural social problems like wealth stratification, authoritarianism, media manipulation... With great pow
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by cowpig 9mo ago
You are capable of considering effects of systems outside of your immediate, moment-to-moment needs?
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by cowpig 9mo ago
I find it completely crazy. If I wanted to launch a cyberattack on the western economy, I guess I would just need to: * open-source a vulnerable vibe-coded assistant * launch a viral marketing campaign with the help of some sophisticated cr
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by cowpig 9mo ago
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by cowpig 9mo ago
> It's very hard to run a very small business here. What do you find makes it hard to run a small business in Canada?
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by cowpig 9mo ago
I find it strange that there's no mention of information asymmetry or monopolistic economic control in this whole essay. It seems like the highest-probability risk to me. Yes asymmetry in economic power is a big thing but information a
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by cowpig 9mo ago
They are actively hostile to their customers. Author's experience is just the Proton experience. It was so when they were tiny, it is the same now Ultimately you have to trust the company that offers you E2E encryption. I don't kn
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by cowpig 9mo ago
Does this play into his supporters' agenda? Trump's policies seem to be aimed at devaluing USD and harming the US and its allies. I guess maybe this pressures the other powers that be in the US that don't take the threat seri
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by cowpig 9mo ago
It's almost certainly satire :)
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by cowpig 9mo ago
Are you implying that "moving right" necessitates lying about basic things constantly? Also, didn't Musk publicly quit Trump's advisory councils over exiting the Paris Agreement back in 2017? Why does that rift not quali
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by cowpig 10mo ago
"The US" is an ever-changing collection of millions of people. Each with their own individual capacities to do good and bad and everything in between. When you create systems that are easy to abuse, some of the people in the syste
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by cowpig 10mo ago
Ah yes let's be sure not to judge anyone for anything they do
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by cowpig 10mo ago
Knowing little about the research, my prior would be that screen time is bad for kids and is also a proxy measure for the attentiveness of parents
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by cowpig 10mo ago
Opposite of what? And what does that have to do with non-zero-sum games?
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by cowpig 10mo ago
Proudhon and Marx were two philosophers making observations about a rapidly-changing economy nearly two centuries ago. Society, politics, and economies have all drastically changed since then. I don't think "Proudhon debunked this
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by cowpig 10mo ago
> energy comes from somewhere and you have to eat food which takes from the environment, that somebody else can’t eat or some other process can’t utilize, so by a function of your existence you cost energy to maintain Your assertion that
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by cowpig 10mo ago
Calling people ignorant and naive while doing nothing to address the actual arguments isn't going to convince anyone. In the passage you linked to, the author argues that property is impossible, which seems like a rather different argu
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by cowpig 10mo ago
Side-note: imagine how much work law enforcement has put into these kinds of cases over the years only for the perpetrators of fraud to be pardoned. Can't imagine how many people who work in law enforcement are furious with the current
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by cowpig 10mo ago
Game theory applied to the world is a useful simplification; reality is messy. In reality: * Actors have access to limited computation * The "rules" of the universe are unknowable and changing * Available sets of actions are unkno
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by cowpig 10mo ago
Monopolist economic surplus?

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