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by foldr 4mo ago
Sure, but ChatGPT and Claude aren't actually like that. They're perfectly happy to express right wing political views if you prompt them to do so. If you're genuinely worried about 'censorship' in this context, look
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by foldr 4mo ago
I think you’re overestimating the market for such models. Most people don’t want a model that’s prone to generating extremely offensive output. If you want something “uncensored”, then open source models already exist, as you say. But the m
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by foldr 4mo ago
Any mainstream consumer product based on LLMs is going to put guardrails around them of some kind. China might give you different guardrails, but it's a bit naive to assume that a Chinese company would impose fewer restrictions overa
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by foldr 4mo ago
As other posters have pointed out, the mainstream media in the UK give Reform an incredibly easy time. Their leader is openly corrupt, but this barely merits a mention. Do you really think Keir Starmer is thrilled by the idea of young peopl
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by foldr 4mo ago
But there’s no evidence that the UK government is going to disproportionately censor right wing parties on the internet either. It’s just a false analysis to link this possible age gating of VPNs with censorship of the political right.
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by foldr 4mo ago
Wouldn't the firmware on the drive typically ensure that it's written to evenly regardless of write pattern? If you repeatedly delete/update the 'same' logical block address on the drive, that won't actually co
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by foldr 4mo ago
If anything from 1926 onwards is fair game, then tons of work in the foundations of mathematics. And if you're willing to be slightly more more generous with your time-frame: Russel's paradox.
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by foldr 4mo ago
Who does or doesn't have a PhD isn't terribly important in the scheme of things. Inside academia, the job market is highly competitive, and no-one is getting a job just on the strength of a cookie-cutter PhD thesis. Outside academ
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by foldr 4mo ago
That’s how people outside academia see PhDs. Inside academia, everyone has a PhD and it doesn’t really mean very much. It can take decades to really become an expert in a field, and a PhD program usually lasts around 5 years (in the US).
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by foldr 4mo ago
It varies a lot by field, but in many (not all) scientific fields, a PhD thesis is largely a formality these days. Your publication record is what counts. The days where you could get a tenure track faculty position just on the strength of
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by foldr 4mo ago
This is the plan in the UK, yes: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=4500988470135094
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by foldr 4mo ago
Yes, I know. That is one of several reasons why what Communists did in the Soviet Union in the 1950s isn't particularly relevant to what Democrats have (or haven't) been doing in the past decade or two.
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by foldr 4mo ago
What could possibly be the non-colloquial meaning of the phrase? It's a colloquial expression.
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by foldr 4mo ago
>Amazon just .. I don't know, keeps squeezing out operational efficiencies There's a human cost to this. Amazon warehouses are famous for their bad working conditions.
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by foldr 4mo ago
> tens of thousands of millionaires have played their cards better than I Why would it be an unpleasant realization that you are less successful than 0.00012% of the world’s population? There is arguably something sick about a system tha
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by foldr 4mo ago
>This leads to things like Lysenkoism If the first point of comparison you reach for is the Soviet Union in the mid 20th century, that would suggest that the American political left has not in fact, in recent times, been interfering with
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by foldr 4mo ago
Hmm, I don't think so. Go needs a string type to be a usable high-level programming language, but it doesn't need, say, the 'any' alias for 'interface{}'. Some features are more central than others. Perhaps non
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by foldr 4mo ago
No, you can import educated and certified healthcare workers, as many European countries, including Switzerland, have been doing for a long time. It’s easier and cheaper, which is why everyone’s doing it.
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by foldr 4mo ago
The headline reflects some wishful thinking. This is a rift with America. Americans elected Trump twice. The mere possibility of someone else with similar policies being elected in the future has fundamentally shifted the relationship betwe
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by foldr 4mo ago
Yep, that’s the classic small ‘c’ conservative argument against revolutions or sudden changes. It’s a fine argument, but it’s not specific to communism.
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by foldr 4mo ago
That's an option, but it takes a long time to train and recruit locally, costs a lot of money, and you'll probably have to increase salaries to get the required numbers. If there were an easy and cheap way to recruit all the requi
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by foldr 4mo ago
I'm not sure why that's relevant. My point is that it's never really possible to provide a detailed plan for a complete changing of the social order. While it might be nice in theory to have such a thing, it's not clear
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by foldr 4mo ago
>what about pensions? Health care? What about health care if there's no more 'room' for the immigrants who make up a substantial fraction of health workers in Switzerland?
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by foldr 4mo ago
> I’ve long complained that communists refuse to specify the details of how a communist society will work, or why it would be good. Did capitalists do this in any comprehensive or satisfactory way prior to the advent of capitalism? I’m n
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by foldr 4mo ago
Someone being accused of being a racist isn’t a logical reason to deny them medical care, regardless of whether or not you believe the accusation. There is no policy that could possibly be construed as requiring this. And your claims about
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by foldr 4mo ago
Neither of those documents is actually a policy document, and neither says anything particularly objectionable, or anything that could possibly be used to justify handcuffing someone who’s requested medical attention and then leaving them t
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by foldr 4mo ago
That’s a very long comment that doesn’t provide any actual evidence that the officer in question was following a policy of not doing a basic medical check on someone if that person has been accused of being a racist. Clearly, no such policy
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by foldr 4mo ago
How would you propose to immediately put an end to the bad thing? Checks and balances take time. Any system that allowed this to be immediately fixed would also allow a whole bunch of other things to be immediately fucked up.
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by foldr 4mo ago
The fundamental issue isn’t that the police believed Person A rather than Person B when they first arrived at the scene - the police can be misled like anyone else. The issue is that they failed to properly check on someone who claimed to h
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by foldr 4mo ago
Small factual correction: the barrister holding the blank sign was not in fact arrested.

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