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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Things have a way of becoming what the ruling class wants them to become. Eventually, every crisis, however minor, becomes another excuse for them to grab more money and power from the rest of us.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
It's time for people to start badging projects with a new style of CoC, one line: "No woke ideology allowed." That's it. No explanation needed. Those who pretend they don't know what the rule means, or protest, are
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
"Oh no the Skinner box we built to exploit and manipulate people is being used to exploit and manipulate people!" "But why is that-" "Because OTHER people are doing it!" "Oh no!"
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
"It comes amid a shortage of fruit and veg pickers due to the Covid crisis and Brexit woes." This a feature, not a bug. The point of Brexit was to crush the bones of globalists who think it's acceptable to run society on the
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Even if the vaccine(s) are 1000% safe, the fact that people are being coerced by the state to take them, on threat of having their entire lives stolen (no job, no entry to businesses, and soon probably restricted movement) should cause anyo
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Well, really "Pixar." Pixar at least knew how leverage their weird style; everyone else ran with it and made it god awful. But my thought exactly. Why even do this with something that's so offensively awful to look at? That g
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
"Some forecasts have grown even darker. Morgan Stanley strategists warned on Monday about the growing likelihood of more than a 20% decline in the S&P 500." Is the Everything Bubble finally bursting?
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Thankfully the world is already moving on from these neanderthals. Eluther's GPT-J ( https://6b.eleuther.ai/ ) isn't QUITE as good as GPT-3, but it's getting close, and was, as I understand it, much more effici
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Learning how to spend an abundance of time is something that TAKES time. If you take someone who is used to having their whole life structured for them by their job and other responsibilities and suddenly free up a bunch of time, of course
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
>In the last year, critics of large NLP models, which are trained on huge amounts of text from the web, have raised concerns about the ways that the technology inadvertently picks up biases inherent to the people or viewpoints in this tr
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
What would happen if we all woke up as talking ostriches? What would happen if we all had three hands instead of one? There's thought experiments, and then there's gibberish. What would happen? WE WOULD MAKE MORE. Violence is inhe
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Performance is more important that cross-platform support. If a user has money to feed more and more and more resources into a gluttonous, hideously inefficient web browser masquerading as a program, they have enough money to get on the pla
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
>“Conspiracism is a sort of creed,” author Jonathan Kay told Rolling Stone. “It’s the idea that there is a secret power in the world that can’t be changed by elections, that it has evil motivations and that it’s trying to destroy our way
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
While your point is a valid one, even from as detached a view as I can manage, the state of America doesn't seem very stable, or likely to improve. Arguably it has been on an ever-more-rapid decline since the 70s.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
To be fair, anyone who believes Rolling Stone after the absolute atrocity that was that college "rape" piece a few years back is probably irredeemably stupid.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Accuracy doesn't matter when you're paid to push an agenda. Whether that payment is in literal money or just a continued seat at the cool kids table.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Where this gets really sinister is that instances like this can blend and merge with apophenia. Genuine cases of botting lead to people looking for more, and seeing patterns where there aren't any. There have been a few cases of voice
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
As expected of the Atlantic, the author misses the point. The assertion of "Dead Internet" is not (necessarily) that 99% of everything on the net is made by one sinister literal AI run by the US government (though things might wel
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
A literal "papers please" scenario. And more to come. How long will people tolerate this, I wonder? How long will we let them treat us like cattle?
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Conspiracy theories, taken generally, seem to very clearly be an expression of the collective unconscious. Not in the full-on woo-woo way, just "collective unconscious" in the sense of a large population considering a problem or s
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
This is why I love HN. Between this and animat's post, I've got four amazing RC/quadcopter videos to watch that are a lot more worthwhile than Drive's 5000th "But what if UFOs were real tho?" article.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
New? Can't you buy this for $80 at any CVS or Walgreens? "Companies including Nokia Corp. still manufacture “feature phones,” devices that look, feel and operate like the cellphones of the ’00s. But most feature phones still follo
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
I agree with most of what the author has to say, and it's a thoughtful article. That said, calls to "leave Facebook" have been frequent for years now, maybe even a decade, and nothing ever changes. Nothing CAN change, because
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
This is exactly the kind of fear-mongering that's being derided. Assuming OP's stat is correct, a given child has a considerably higher chance of dying from cancer, injuries, or even suicide than covid. It's the fear of terro
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
From the article: "Jones said there are some theories about why there's a summer surge this year. 'For the last year and a half, a lot of us have been in these. In masks. We were also social distancing,' Jones said.&quot
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
When you lie to people repeatedly, they stop trusting you. If you think they should continue to trust you because you're an "expert," despite your proven track-record of dishonesty, that says more about you than them. None of
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
Pretending, even for an instant, that this wasn't political censorship is foolish. They know exactly what they're doing.
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
People make rom hacks all the time. Do the changes have to be from an "official" source to count?
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
What about all those old government systems we keep hearing about, IRS, Unemployment Offices, etc that are essentially untouchable because they were programmed in something ancient like COBOL to run on mainframes? They're running in em
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by ergot_vacation 5y ago
The sad thing is it was a perfectly fine site before they ruined it. Having somewhere to point people to show them that no, Bill Gates wasn't giving away a million dollars or whatever was a handy service to have. Simple, non-controvers

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