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by ericmay 28d ago
Per-capita can be bad and so can overall scale. It wouldn't matter if Norway was the highest per-capita because like 5 people live there.
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by ericmay 28d ago
Somehow folks want this little problem of climate change to go away without any change in their own behaviors. Somehow corporations who sell them goods will just magically "be green" while flying around the world and drinking out
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Wall Labels Are in a Sorry State(news.artnet.com)
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by ericmay 29d ago
> but most people truly rely on their cars, otherwise they would lose hours everyday... They lose hours, lives, and a boatload of money every day in the current state. Removing the reliance on cars will improve those things.
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by ericmay 29d ago
That's a fair criticism, but most of America does live in cities and urban environments and so the default context would be more akin to what I described. Where you live is the minority and the exception. Unfortunately transportation p
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by ericmay 29d ago
Maybe but I think it's very very very bad policy. For example: The War on Cars. Decent content but the framing alienates people and creates a wedge issue where none need exist. We need to get folks on the same page instead of dividing
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by ericmay 29d ago
If you’re thinking about New York and San Francisco when you’re thinking about transportation you are starting off on the wrong frame of reference. Think more like a random city or town in Europe, perhaps Bordeaux since I was recently readi
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by ericmay 29d ago
The safest car is the one that is parked. I’m not anti-car but in terms of safety we should focus more on getting people using bus/rail/bike/walk especially for daily needs. It’s more cost effective too. Autonomous cars are c
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by ericmay 29d ago
Idk, I’m just going to call it Sub-American Africa
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by ericmay 1mo ago
Not applicable here
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by ericmay 1mo ago
> but did they really not make money? I'm sure they made money. But that's not the right question to ask, in my opinion. The right question is did they make as much or more than their internal rate of return (IRR)? Perhaps the
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by ericmay 1mo ago
It doesn't seem like a joke?
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by ericmay 1mo ago
I've already explained the matter to my satisfaction.
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by ericmay 1mo ago
Ha! I brought out a whole tiny orchestra when China complained about the Made in the European Union legislation. [1] [1] https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260427-china-warns-eu-m...
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by ericmay 1mo ago
What if you have a 70% certainty? You don't have to go on a rampage in an American lab. If Chinese labs were ahead I'd bring about the same discussion. Though separately if the United States (or China or anyone) believed one count
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by ericmay 1mo ago
> Quitting your job instead of blowing up the office is well aligned with the latter. How so, in your view?
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by ericmay 1mo ago
> This is unreasonable because nobody can know 100% certain that the AI built at Anthropic will kill everyone. It is also a big-ass strawman because the author never claimed he was 100% certain that AI will kill all humans. Ok then stop
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by ericmay 1mo ago
> This is an unreasonable demand. I'm not making a demand, I'm setting an anchor point from which we can work backward from. Is there any doubt that if someone was 100% certain that Big AI Button was being built and it
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by ericmay 1mo ago
> You're not advocating for it because it is highly immoral and illegal. That answers your question for the most part. Well truthfully I’m not advocating for it because I don’t have any insight into these labs or the true capability
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by ericmay 1mo ago
I’m not advocating for this. ~~~~~~ If you really believed these labs were going to result in the extinction of humanity and you saw it first hand, don’t you have a moral obligation not to quit your job but to go and try and kill everyone
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by ericmay 1mo ago
I just did a Google search[1] and here's what I found: - US airlines do not pay cash for delays - You’re entitled to a full refund for a significant delay if you choose not to travel - Full refunds are paid within 7 business da
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by ericmay 1mo ago
No, never heard of Wal-Mart. What's that? Anyway... Can you explain what capitalist central planning is?
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by ericmay 1mo ago
> Why would Canada need the ability to fight against China for security talks to make sense? What security would they talk about? I suppose there are legitimate topics, though the timing makes it look quite bad, in my view. > Ukraine
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by ericmay 1mo ago
Creating an account 12 minutes ago (from the time of this posting) to comment on how another comment seems to you like a "language model smell" is itself, a language model smell, or a scammer. Please stop accusing or hinting at ot
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by ericmay 1mo ago
> Meanwhile, everyone in the field of genomics knows that AlphaGenome provides essentially zero improvements over the previous SOTA, Borzoi… Can you elaborate on this? I'm confused why Google would build something that provides zero
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by ericmay 1mo ago
Well no because that wouldn’t make sense. I didn’t accuse Canada of going against Canada’s interests simply by virtue of having talks though I think ultimately such talks are likely to. Canada is not able to project military power and has n
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by ericmay 1mo ago
I strongly dislike modernism. I view it as related to, or perhaps even the artistic instrument of communist ideology.
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by ericmay 1mo ago
What is capitalist central planning? That seems like an oxymoron to me.
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by ericmay 1mo ago
> Your second paragraph sounds like you're using IKEA and Chipotle as the measure of whether something is communist. You're putting corporatism on the same side as communism. At a minimum, that's not a historically accurat
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by ericmay 1mo ago
The key difference is that communism converges on certain artistic styles as part of the ideology whereas market economies freely experiment. That’s why in communist societies you saw the suppression of artists and any deviation from the no

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