ethbr1

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by ethbr1 5d ago
> They should never care about national security because that's an instant ethical compromise Free journalism in a democracy is inherently political, which means there is always an ethical balance between the duty to inform and po
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by ethbr1 7d ago
Walmart / Home Depot / Lowes / Kroger are generally going to beat Amazon on quickest delivery for most people for most items, if they want to, by virtue of their local brick and mortar footprint. One reason I imagine Amazon p
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by ethbr1 8d ago
Agreed. The most damning behavior was Meta. Specifically, reaching out and discussing licensing material, then pirating because it was too expensive/slow to legally acquire it. Heaven forbid Meta have to pay for something.
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by ethbr1 8d ago
Laws are typically implicitly considerate of scale. Very rarely are they explicitly considerate of scale. To wit, sharing music digitally, Google scanning books, or Uber/Lyft providing unlicensed taxi services. It's pretty rare th
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by ethbr1 8d ago
> or if they are playing a "game" where there is no goal but to win A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s93KC4AGKnY
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by ethbr1 9d ago
Agreed. The argument the person you're responding to should be making is 'Tightening monetary policy will bring down inflation but may cause severe negative side effects if the original cause of that inflation isn't monetary.
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by ethbr1 10d ago
The overall Star Trek experience since DS9 feels like: Fans: "The last series was the worst ever!" Star Trek producers: "Hold my beer..." Fans: "You know, the old series weren't so bad in retrospect."
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by ethbr1 10d ago
Text only forums?
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by ethbr1 10d ago
The issue with LLM copypaste by non-expert humans, and it took me a while to realize this, is ego. What they feel like when they do it: "Man, I'm fucking brilliant. Look at me using new technology well. I was always the key provid
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by ethbr1 11d ago
No love for VOY? :) I know it's been a long time...
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by ethbr1 13d ago
> Everyone who got out of that decade alive and with at most minimal brain damage thinks that we're too obsessed with safety today. There must be a word for this, but the issue today is the normalization of zero-risk. Did some kid
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by ethbr1 13d ago
I think the idea that people are willing to consume an even more slopful Netflix is dubious. There's has already been a decade of complaints about trash content in excess of available viewing hours. The thing with media consumption is
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by ethbr1 13d ago
The more apt analogy is between pre-electric and post-electric lighting (~1850 to 1920), when efficiency of light generation rapidly increased, restabilizing at ~222x as much light for the same unit of human labor. [0] Across that period, f
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by ethbr1 16d ago
HeisenShop sounds like a great app idea for shopaholics -- automatically don't buy / cancel random or exceeding-monthly-budget items without telling the user.
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by ethbr1 16d ago
> Ugh I hate this new-age woo slant the tech industry has these days. As opposed to the Macintosh era? ;) The only reason the early web hype didn't have woo was because it's hard to wax poetic about a bunch of gray pizza boxe
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by ethbr1 16d ago
> randomness felt more like a skin - not affecting gameplay much. DF is a great comparison, because it speaks to the composability of properties and systems as a key requirement. 2,000+ variants that still funnel through one predesig
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by ethbr1 16d ago
Weird. It's almost like synthetic content is less fulfilling to humans than friendship.
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by ethbr1 16d ago
Did you read the study? > i assume it works by improving recovery, if not someone will need to explain what it's supposed to do to make you stronger >> RESULTS Among the men in the no-exercise groups, those given testostero
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by ethbr1 16d ago
> You could just declare yourself owner of Tesla, and nobody would stop you except the former owner of Tesla, if he can afford to stop you. Which they always could, given the vastly different economic starting positions.
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by ethbr1 16d ago
> They'd also have to be self-assembling from the ground up or rely on human slaves. They'd need to understand the world much better. And they'd have to be incredibly more power efficient. All robotics needs to drive dep
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by ethbr1 17d ago
> To me, the far more insidious problem is what happens when Flock needs to keep showing growth? To me, this was always the armored gauntlet underneath the velvet glove of any private entity with strong technical locks, Apple included.
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by ethbr1 17d ago
> 1. Robotics begin rolling out more broadly across the world. To borrow the Strangelove quip, this is not only necessary but essential . Broader physical robotic deployments are the glue that connects {cheap synthetic intelligence} t
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by ethbr1 17d ago
> There's a self-serving aspect of Libertarianism where we dismantle the government so we can build our own government out of corporations with zero accountability to any of the people they govern. A kind of modern feudalism. And a
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by ethbr1 17d ago
To expand, I believe the idea here is that what libertarianism is in principal matters less than what it collapses to in practice, similar to the difference in communism. And there's a central tension that libertarianism, as far as I&#
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by ethbr1 17d ago
This has frequently been true in American history though. Think folks were thrilled with the robber barons of the railroad area also owning newspapers? Imho, the core thing that worsened was the election system. Specifically, closed primari
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by ethbr1 17d ago
The Trump (read: Russell Vought et al.) playbook is transparently self-serving: 1. Complain loudly about weaponization of institutions 2. Use public support to "reform" those institutions 3. Weaponize those institutions
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by ethbr1 19d ago
It's hard to reconcile a conspiracy theory that protestors were allowed to storm the Capitol with the fact that Ashli Babbitt was shot on video for refusing calls to stop breaching a barricade. Police and security trying to manage a
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by ethbr1 20d ago
I struggle to reconcile frontier LLMs' proven decompilation abilities with any assertion that humans possess equivalent parsing skills. They're looking at information as information; we're looking at it in some higher order a
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by ethbr1 20d ago
> If anybody is hiding a button that'd take us all back to 2012 I wish they'd just hit it already. Historically, resets have been a global war or economic meltdown, coupled with massive government-driven redistribution suppor
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by ethbr1 21d ago
You're arguing against something that's been known for decades: testosterone boosts lean muscle mass gain. It may have other negative effects, but it does influence muscle mass. Read the literature, e.g. Bhasin 1996 (and other fol

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