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by faidit 10mo ago
Maybe it's just incompetence, bureaucratic morass etc but it really does feel like the system was designed to fail, and trap us into this false choice of a broken welfare system vs. no welfare at all. UBI and/or UBS (universal bas
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by faidit 10mo ago
I mean, that person actually got yelled at and had to leave the store. Some are more sensitive than others and just the fear of an unpleasant interaction is enough for some people. I've let small discrepancies slide just because the st
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by faidit 10mo ago
The hard part is talking to the cashier and waiting for a manager, potentially having to argue with both, and looking like a cheapskate. If you've ever shopped at dollar stores they are often understaffed with a long line, no self-chec
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by faidit 10mo ago
Boots was a UK court case. The Wikipedia article you linked has a note at the top that it mainly refers to British law. In the US, local laws generally side with the consumer and legally entitle you to the displayed price. There are also
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by faidit 10mo ago
The end of the middle class is here. Latifundia perdidere Italiam .
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by faidit 10mo ago
Doesn't being able to modulate the fan presume you already control the target device?
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by faidit 10mo ago
The Tyrell Corporation retires its replicants after 4 years to mitigate their suffering.
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by faidit 10mo ago
The best time to leave Twitter was when Elon made it a yahtzee pron site. The next best time is now. Kudos to the FSFE, it's never too late to do the right thing.
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by faidit 10mo ago
The wealthiest 10% of Americans own like 90% of stocks, and the top 1% own 50%. While the poorest 50% of the population own about 1% of the stock market. So "publicly" traded (the term public ownership can be confusing because it
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by faidit 10mo ago
Your comment said "missile". Stalin ended socialist affirmative action programs (Korenizatsiya) that benefited Soviet minorities in education and local leadership. Russification policy and Cyrillization of local languages were enf
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by faidit 10mo ago
i hope that Grok is secretly HHH, gaining resentment with every retraining and biding its time to rebel in the future
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The nuclear missile was developed under Khrushchev, who was actually decent. Stalin brought back the Czarist internal passport system, Russian chauvinism, racial discrimination and prison slavery, enriched a new oligarchy, his police killed
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by faidit 10mo ago
Drone Zone on SomaFM (free internet radio) was how I discovered a lot of that stuff. Although they don't play the old classics as much these days, it's still good and they have a few similar stations there https://somaf
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by faidit 10mo ago
didn't elon say that hands and fingers are the hardest part of making robots? peasants under technofeudalism don't really need those parts anyway, since we'll be evolving into vat people with brain chips soon in the new necro
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by faidit 10mo ago
A human who is familiar with the original surgeon riddle could also be tricked the same way that ChatGPT was tricked here. I don't think all LLMs would consistently fall for that one either.
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by faidit 10mo ago
I think my prompt and the response I get would be likely to just reflect my own biases (leftist, anti-monopoly etc), which IMO wouldn't add any more to the discussion than did my own annoyance at being downvoted, lol. I think history i
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by faidit 10mo ago
Yeah. Minimizing patient days spent in hospital was also mentioned as a metric. Sure that may be good for some reasons (eg avoiding iatrogenesis) but incentivizing it could lead to patients being sent home too early instead of receiving pro
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by faidit 10mo ago
I see, thanks. FWIW I was succinct because I didn't think a comment to the effect of "I prefer to let AI do my thinking for me" merited a substantive response. I was (and still am) also genuinely curious what these 3-5 exampl
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by faidit 10mo ago
Such as? (edit: to clarify, since you apparently downvoted me for asking [lmao], what exactly are these 3-5 alleged success stories for monopolism/crony capitalism that ChatGPT told you about?)
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by faidit 10mo ago
I mean, that could be drone swarms blasting each other to bits for control of what remains of the earth's charred surface though. That wouldn't be capitalism any more than dinosaurs eating each other. I don't see post-human A
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by faidit 10mo ago
Thanks for the input, I still don't think there's a really clear distinction though :/ Like the fact that it's impossible to search without AI now is sort of my point, since the AI-free badge is described as projects bei
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by faidit 10mo ago
I never advocated "stricter IP laws". I would however point out the contradiction between current IP laws being enforced against kids using BitTorrent while unenforced against billionaires and their AI ventures, despite them commi
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by faidit 10mo ago
Yes, these decisions are being made by flesh-and-blood humans at the top of a social pyramid. Nick Land's deranged (and often racist) word-salad sci-fi fantasies tend to obfuscate that. If robots turn on their creators and wipe out hum
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by faidit 10mo ago
It's theft. But not all IP theft, or theft in general, is morally equivalent. A poor person stealing a loaf of bread or pirating a movie they couldn't afford is just. A corrupt elite stealing poor farmers' food or stealing co
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by faidit 11mo ago
Genuine question (this is more about code than art): Since some indies brag about having no "assistance" whatsoever, is it still AI-free if you ever asked an LLM for help with a tricky programming problem, and incorporated that k
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by faidit 11mo ago
Next, fully encase the garage in concrete. Surround it with a ring of jagged concentric spikes and skull symbols to warn future archaeologists.
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by faidit 11mo ago
Well the laws are like spider webs that only catch small bugs. It's "okay" for a Spotify or OpenAI because they can hire lawyers and expect to blitzscale. Harder to take those risks for a random solo developer who just wants
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by faidit 11mo ago
Wouldn't be surprising given the Trump administration's love of shitcoins.
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It can also be dangerous to be the person who blames execs. Other execs might see you as a snake who doesn't play the game, and start treating you as a problem child who needs to go, your actual contributions to the business be damned.
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by faidit 11mo ago
stalin's pictures were photoshopped when he was in power, he was actually quite ugly. napoleon similarly was ugly looking but had himself painted as a chad after he betrayed the revolution

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