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by estearum 4mo ago
wat pretty sure PG and sama had a pretty serious falling out because it turns out sama is a complete snake but you know, go off king (or whatever)
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by estearum 4mo ago
I'm describing "intellectual property," patents being only one way to legally protect such property.
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by estearum 4mo ago
Because Apple paid to produce that knowledge? It's good that people can spend a lot of time and money developing new knowledge and then for some period of time they get to exclusively reap the rewards of doing so. Do you mind if I MITM
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by estearum 4mo ago
Nah You can beat the system and be disobedient while still behaving ethically. In fact that's the very best time to beat the system and be disobedient.
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by estearum 4mo ago
Eating peanut butter without cognitive checks can distort judgment. You can put literally anything preceding "without cognitive checks" and the answer will be "it distorts judgment." No one is arguing for unchecked emp
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by estearum 4mo ago
As anyone familiar with farms will tell you: it basically all happens on tractors!
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by estearum 4mo ago
OSHA? Isn't that a DEI program?
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by estearum 4mo ago
You're describing a very new and not-yet-realized state of affairs where large amounts of power comes from solar. In that world, then yeah obviously the initial concern isn't valid.
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by estearum 4mo ago
It's actually empirically easy to manipulate people like Musk and other vice-signaling losers. Just stroke their fragile little ego and tell them they're big bad boys if they do X Y Z.
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by estearum 4mo ago
Recent immigrant to the UK? Why can't you write English like a native speaker? Must be one of those conservative immigrants that thinks they're "different" from the other ones, and just praying that your political bedfel
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by estearum 4mo ago
First, this makes literally no sense, silly guy! Both of these things are bad things! The format is supposed to be inversion . Second, you are definitely not a native-born American, are you? Are you a citizen at all? Do you even live in
702.
by estearum 4mo ago
It's actually quite normal to try to acquire skill at using tools. It's very normal for toolmakers to share insights and expertise in how best to use the tools they sell.
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by estearum 4mo ago
SSA, IRS, USAID are not “extreme left” lmao Point and laugh folks!
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by estearum 4mo ago
Lmao You: "Giving orders to do evil is morally fine" Me: "No I don't think so" You: "Oh okay, so acting on orders to do evil is morally fine?!" Uhh, nope. What a topsy-turvy moral world you've built f
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by estearum 4mo ago
you... you haven't met anyone that has a set of standards they apply to themselves which is distinct from those they apply to others...? > The problem with this position is that it takes as a given that morality is in some sense tri
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by estearum 4mo ago
Okay so a politician who orders the state to go hunt down your family is in the clear, the guy who drives the secret police to your house is in the clear, but the guys who actually place hands on your children are fully culpable. Am I under
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by estearum 4mo ago
Harm: More brown people walking around the US Not-harm: Hundreds of thousands of [mostly black/brown] children dying of preventable causes Wait a minute... I'm seeing a pattern!
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by estearum 4mo ago
What do you mean "causing violence?" It sounds like you're suggesting Hitler's moving of his arm somehow caused violence. Can you explain how that could possibly be true under your model of "arm movements don't
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by estearum 4mo ago
"Empathy" is a pre-requisite for nearly all the traits we'd regard as "character and integrity," and Elon has vocally and specifically spoken out against the concept of empathy itself. Then he has behaved as if he h
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by estearum 4mo ago
> Directly? I would love to see that study. Lol, no you wouldn't. If you would, this would not be news to you. "We have a right to do it" is not a response to the allegation of being immoral. There are plenty of immoral th
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by estearum 4mo ago
I didn't see them defining "for everybody" what low/high morality are. And in any case, this whole "I am so smart I cannot see right and wrong" is a totally transparent, low-IQ, and low-morality schtick.
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by estearum 4mo ago
> safety is so stupid and made-up > makes exact argument for why people should be super concerned about AI safety
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by estearum 4mo ago
No "research" is needed to produce pathogens. Catastrophic genomes are already public. All someone has to do is synthesize them, which is, in actual fact, becoming more and more trivial by the day. The inconvenience of possible mi
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by estearum 4mo ago
This is a fine argument against banning plastics. This is unrelated to "Microplastics Moral Panic is a textbook study of F.U.D." though. If microplastics are a case of FUD, then there's nothing to look into. How and why wou
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by estearum 4mo ago
Did this apply to people freaking out about lead a couple decades ago? What about those advocating for smoking bans in shared spaces? Cholera outbreaks near the city water wells? Or are microplastics special in some way?
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by estearum 4mo ago
Yes, it's a category of materials that is overwhelmingly populated by a much more specific, ultra-cheap and therefore ultra-pervasive, set of chemicals which are shown in study after study to have worrying characteristics. Anything tha
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by estearum 4mo ago
> There is so much invisible plastic in their life that they don't seem to care about. Huh? You think it's hypocritical for people not to "seem to care about" things that, by your own definition, they are ignorant of?
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by estearum 4mo ago
You can read the FDA letter itself: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2023-P-4826-0015 Your comment does not give a correct impression of FDA's position here. Action levels are correctly described by the ar
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by estearum 4mo ago
That is correct. Smoking has a stronger effect on cancer rates than paracetamol does on fever (which itself is an extremely strong effect that can be proven in RCTs of just a few dozen people - far stronger than most drugs on the market).
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by estearum 4mo ago
Well, with an argument like that! > if the signal is strong, it will be visible > your specific example of it taking decades of massive deployment and close scrutiny to detect an effect significantly stronger than most drugs is ummm..

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