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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
Airwaves are not protected by the 1st amendment, due to the limited amount of bandwidth that physically exists. As such, the FCC has extraordinary powers, including enforcing watersheds, forcing children’s content hours (“E/I”), censor
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
Everything is that way. Another example: Feminism? Only happened with women in the workforce. Women in the workforce? Only when the Industrial Revolution happened and the economy could support the roles. Industrial Revolution? Only happened
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> Do you believe that, on balance, the world is no better today than in 1892? If so, that's where we disagree. I think that the floor has been raised and the ceiling has been lowered for the typical person. There's far less suf
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> and I can't imagine what I would have done without them. You're falling into the trap of saying I could've only been happy if I did X. But humans aren't like that - even garbagemen find happiness in their work. Th
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
Except with AI, a fraudulent gatekept world would still be a smaller percentage of fraud than what is coming. Infinite scale fraud. The soviets may have rigged a few studies; but the democratized world now faces almost all studies being rig
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
The future of science, the Internet, and all things: The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges. Some things should not have been democratized. Silicon Valley assumes that removing restrictions on information brings freedom, but reality show
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
Thank you for admitting that laws against murder, despite a 46% failure rate, are effective.
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by gjsman-1000 7mo ago
> It never stopped a thing. Clearly, it only exists to cover someone's arses and check some boxes off the requirement lists. Yes, and traffic lights and speed limit signs have no physical mechanism of stopping a driver directly, tho
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
Professional photography is still expected to grow over the next decade. It’s a competitive field but hasn’t actually shrunk much.
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
I said on a different thread, everyone right now is focused on productivity gains, AI making us faster. We are only one major incident away from this trend reversing. Now that we have AI, regulation is less burdensome. More testing requirem
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
Do you know what happens to every industry when they get too fast and slapdash? Regulation. It happened with plumbing. Electricians. Civil engineers. Bridge construction. Haircutting. Emergency response. Legal work. Tech is perhaps the leas
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
Nice assertion. Please provide citations, substance, or anything other than “you’re wrong definitely.”
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Basically it’s glorified Excel. Take it out on the database purveyors, not Palantir.
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
I push back on the framing that this is just "a different belief." Every metaphysical framework except strict materialism rules out AI consciousness. Dualism, idealism, most forms of panpsychism, every major religious tradition. M
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
I do not believe I am a pattern of linear algebra. I believe like the majority of humanity historically that I have a soul, a spiritual and non-physical reality, my personhood comes from my soul, and that as such, AI is fundamentally incapa
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
And those people are delusional, and their feelings on this matter should be given absolutely zero respect. Linear algebra does not have feelings. Non-biological matter also does not have feelings.
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
So what? Even if you hate who the president is, it is in the best interest of everyone that the president does a good job. Wanting the president to fail and millions to suffer is scorched earth hatred, not strategy.
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
How about Apple Intelligence having been in almost every press release from the last year? If you genuinely can't find out what they are referring to, you've been on HN too long.
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
> Stolen ID can be found for a lot less money than what a day in a scam farm's operation will bring in. Well, in that case, Google has an easy escalation path that they already use for Google Business Listings: They send you a physi
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
> this is an affront to the dignity of man This right here is an insane take to the opposite direction. Abuse, violence, torture, war, oppression, these are affronts to the dignity of man. Being kicked off a service from one business is
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
Yes; because they have no obligation to provide this service tier at all. It could be API prices for anyone, everywhere. They offer a discounted plan, $200/mo., for a restricted set of use cases. Abuse that at your peril. It’s like com
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
Why is it unreasonable? It’s a subsidized price; conditional to using their tooling. Don’t want to use their tooling? Pay the API rates. The API is sitting right there, ready to use for a broader range of purposes. It’s only unreasonable if
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
I think the statistical odds of your hard drive failing unexpectedly, being dropped, or being stolen is much higher than a Google ban.
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
And put it on what? A NAS where a buggy vendor update (or just having it stolen) also has no recourse?
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
> I can tell you that old Linux binaries run just fine on current distros. Simple: I don't believe you. Grab this copy of Firefox from 2022, https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/96.0/releasenotes&#x2F
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
> Require browsers to respect the device's policy for site allow/blocklist But then HN would still riot, because you would need to require all apps to be approved by a central authority (no unauthorized browsers) OR you nee
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
Take a random Linux binary which does anything non-trivial (has a GUI, does system monitoring, etc.), try running it on a different distribution from 3 years earlier without a packaging system, and tell me how it goes.
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
... this is just Linux binaries. It's humorous to me that we literally do exactly this, for Linux, with even less stability, but heaven forbid we do something approaching that on Windows despite the snobbery against Windows.
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by gjsman-1000 8mo ago
I don't know, everyone here seems plenty okay to tolerate worse levels of instability from Linux binaries. :)
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I’m here before some pedantic person replies “correlation without causation.” People repeat that phrase constantly forgetting that the lack of proof of correlation is not proof of no causation. It means it could go either way, not that it

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