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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
It seems like so much of society is affected by mutual trust. Without mutual trust, inevitably that gap is made up with contracts, and processes, and laws, and rules, because that's the only way people can coordinate on the same page.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Ready for the first news organization to run a major headline on a fake image intentionally or not, and instantly torpedo their credibility and broader credibility in the media. Especially with the 2024 election right around the corner driv
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Ugh is Christofascist the new catch all word after fascist and racist before that? Just a stand in for "stuff I don't like"?
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Do you really want to be the person playing devils advocate with showing porn to children?
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Of course. Except the books being removed from school libraries are more like "Gender Queer", which includes a page showing two minors giving a blowjob and doesn't cover anything. Why do you think minors need hardcore porn in
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Activist? She's a prostitute.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Thank you for a sane answer.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
"Why do you care about the aggregate mental health of the society you live in? How does that affect you?". Of course we all have a stake in what drug are illegal, what gambling can be done, what prostitution is acceptable - becaus
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
It's not sound though. In no objective sense is it sound. On the fascism part I think we can all agree, but every society that's ever existed across the globe has criminalized or at least made sex work taboo for good reason. Do yo
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
While you're right on the fascist society point, I'm not sure how that is at all relevant in this situation. Do you think any moral bounds on society are fascistic? Do you know what fascism is at all?
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
What is civilized except the ability to create a civilization that is most perfect and worth living in? Civilized doesn't mean "meek" or "long-suffering", consequently it isn't civilized to tolerate behavior un
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
These are tectonic plates bigger than deregulation or whatever. The surplus of the post war years was possible because the US was 50% of the global GDP as the only industrialized area in the world that hadn't been bombed to ash. Since
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Clearspace is an option here: https://www.getclearspace.com I'm not affiliated in any way, just heard about them in the latest YC batch.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
They are the same thing! Money is just a store of work. All money was earned via work. Investors give that stored work to companies. They’re essentially energy credits
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
How do they apply to software engineers exactly? The founder “job” is literally “do anything that needs doing in the business”. Now the job of a CEO or CTO is much more narrowly defined and I can see that seeing automation sooner, but the f
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Maybe? A founders job is basically “execute the path to capitalize on the opportunity”. So you have to figure out the opportunity, and execute towards it by whatever means necessary - that’s a lot of jobs and hats. As long as there’s a huma
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Maybe. I’m not on anyone’s side here, just what makes sense.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
It’s not like the legacies that get in are unqualified. You can look at any of their resumes, they still have stellar grades, standardized test scores, extracurriculars and more. Legacies aren’t just dumb rich people, their parents just wen
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
All points the horses made before cars all but replaced them. “The humans need to get from A to B and it’s not like they’ve gotten any faster with their own 2 legs”. How does this manager-engineer look like now? Managers specify what they n
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Ugh this point is so old. Corporations have “legal personhood”, which shares almost nothing in common with actually being a person in the understood sense. It’s just a legal term, in the same way a state of matter and a state in the US have
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Even still, YC doesn’t give any recommendations on bank account that I’ve seen. For ourselves, we had to do some corporate clean up before YC and while they connected us to the right lawyers and provided basic review, it was really just bet
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
YC doesn’t make you keep your money anywhere, they don’t even suggest any place or even say anything about startup banking (unless you were to ask one of the partners for advice). Even a cynical take would suggest they’d prioritize their po
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Most likely $0. Money raised is almost always preferred when it comes to an exit, so it gets paid back first
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Would you say the same thing about lifestyles one lives? Or what if that language is something like "I like Trump" or "Black Lives Matter"?
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
The difference between Facebook and TikTok is at least the US government (can) control it. Are China and the US interchangeable in your view?
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
I get the containing it from the really dangerous stuff, but it's a shame it's been put in a straight jacket for even the mundane things. ChatGPT on launch was exciting and creative, and now it's like to on sedatives with how
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
I certainly don't think we are always in accordance with our absolute human rights. In a relativistic basis for rights, there is not "reviewing what we consider immoral", because morality is just "what every we consider
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Believing in a relative basis for rights means that slavery is ok as long as the consensus agrees on it. So slavery in the US was completely moral right up until the start of the Civil War and it's moral anywhere in the world it is fin
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
This is exactly the root of the “atheists can’t be moral” argument. Not that any individual atheist can’t be moral for the time being, but that a godless society inevitably falls into relativism where the only good is the consensus and the
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
This just looks like basic biology to me. Yea it will be rough and quite the adjustment, but not catastrophic and totally precedented in nature. We will reach a new equilibrium - like all nature does. These same people just a few decades ag

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