flextheruler

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by flextheruler 4mo ago
Then why are birth rates falling across all income levels in all countries? Please take the time to research your position. "This perception, however, is false. In most human societies, poverty does not predict higher fertility, and we
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by flextheruler 4mo ago
I've started looking at profiles of the non-technical "AI at any cost" people on Reddit and noticed a trend towards AI generated NSFW posts and anime. Unsurprisingly they tend to have zero tolerance towards accepting legitima
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by flextheruler 5mo ago
Bald women wear wigs and there's no comparison between short women and short men. I've never heard a man complain about a woman's height being too short and being bald seemed to have a positive effect on a woman I knew as she
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by flextheruler 5mo ago
Ukrainian nationalism has spanned generations. The U.S. certainly helped, but it was not a contrived psychological operation to convince a majority of Ukrainians to revolt against their Russian dominated government. When a nationalist movem
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by flextheruler 5mo ago
Comparing individual drivers to a taxi company is disingenuous and silly. "How many taxi drivers got stuck?" is the actual comparison. This is a paid taxi service. If I got an uncooked meal from a restaurant and their defense was
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by flextheruler 5mo ago
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/models/en_us/GUID-59736DF... "Failure to follow all warnings and instructions can result in property damage, serious injury or death." "Driver intervention ma
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by flextheruler 5mo ago
There's nothing wrong to point that out but to use it as evidence of a truth as if it is a logical argument is the fallacy. "Richard Dawkins certainly knows about evolution, and he can confidently tell us that it is true, but that
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by flextheruler 5mo ago
If the Industrial Revolution is reviled it's at least partly because of the deadliness of the technology and wars it made possible. Both wars feature a single technological change that by themselves are to this day considered weapons o
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by flextheruler 5mo ago
Which was a legitimate criticism and took decades of fighting to resolve through organized labor, and protests. There was no 5 day work week or laws against child labor or wage requirements or against nearly any exploitation of employees at
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by flextheruler 5mo ago
"The rise of [technology that's marketed as destroying half the jobs you've just studied for 4 years to do] is the next industrial revolution."
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by flextheruler 5mo ago
Tesla cars are not capable of driving autonomously according to the company and regulators.
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by flextheruler 5mo ago
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Appeal-...
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by flextheruler 5mo ago
Chapter 11 bankruptcy as well as all modern corporate law has its roots in the tycoons of the late 19th century. They lobbied and wrote it which is why it's corrupt.
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by flextheruler 5mo ago
Does your lawn come with an air traffic control tower?
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
It seems like that because economic bubbles can last a lot longer than just 3 years. We are also in one of the longest credit cycles ever(2009 - Present) which has exacerbated this behavior.
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
It honestly seems worse.
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
It's so odd to me that we haven't come up with a term for high functioning autism to separate from low functioning. It's ridiculous to me that a commenter with this background can superficially claim to be suffering from the
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
Tell me you're losing market share to competitors without telling me you're losing market share to competitors
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
I could see that argument, but the economics of the two are so different. I just don't see how using an LLM can be sustainable for search, but could see it as an enterprise model.
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
Your citations rely on JOLTS reporting on the manufacturing sector. The jolts report also states for the occupation of Mechanical Engineering a nearly 10% growth rate for the next decade. This is 3 times the average. Manufacturing sector in
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
Who is hiring anyone to look at a screen to count characters? Don't be disingenuous in your argument. The apt comparison would be the current technique used to accomplish this task i.e. a pattern matching algorithm.
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
I apologize, but I thought it was self-evident. The majority of enterprise professional software. I would argue that comparing OpenAI to social media companies is an awful comparison. A much better comparison would be to Microsoft Office.
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
Please provide your source for opinions that are not generally accepted except among those with politically self-serving bias. A few seconds of research demonstrates that's false. https://mei.edu/publication/new-p
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
India is a great example of how relatively recent technology was required to finally unite and control a people. One can also just observe urbanization, capitalism, communication mediums(media). While China is unique for its cycles of unity
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
You're confusing autocratic with authoritarian. Total war reached its most recent zenith in the 20th century. If governments have always been able to control people to the same degree, why was not until Napoleon that we saw the beginni
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
Why would Iran stop attacking the GCC and Israel?
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
Do they support the governments that started this by blowing up 100s of children at their school? Give me a break, even the left-wing Iranians who hate the theocracy also hate Israel. Hell nearly all left-wing young people in the U.S. despi
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by flextheruler 6mo ago
A counterpoint is that there are many products with significant usage that fail or never attempt advertising monetization. They just increase the cost of the product.
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by flextheruler 1y ago
Ancient and immortal? So eternal return?
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by flextheruler 1y ago
The point is he deserved to be remembered well but due to recency bias and the severity of whatever he did during the end stages of his disease he will not be. I personally suffered immense trauma in my early 20s when I moved to a really c

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