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by godwinson__4-8 20d ago
Yes a good thing to point out, however the American initiative was more successful, was it not? Largely because raw numbers aside, most of the top talent wanted to avoid the Soviets and thus the US was the only logical option. That is, part
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by godwinson__4-8 20d ago
A good historical nugget is that the Americans got a huge leg up in the space race by importing the Germans who worked on the V-2 program. Germans killed Soviets by the millions. If you were a German of value (like a rocket scientist) you w
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by godwinson__4-8 23d ago
Indeed. It would be interesting instead of some of the Lina Khan style "cleave a company apart" trust busting we instead had a push for government action to enforce this state of affairs, given the nature of the private incentives
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by godwinson__4-8 23d ago
I will watch this. Generally I think you raise a fair concern, and I appreciate the shade of nuance. By "compete with China" I mean at least have parity of competition with China in the essential technologies of the future, rather
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by godwinson__4-8 23d ago
I believe this question rests on a few faulty assumptions of the state of the AI race. Including the value of any particular snapshot in time when it comes to judgements about "who is ahead". And also failing to mention Google is
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by godwinson__4-8 23d ago
It is a good and important point. But again this is paired with vast amounts of public investment. So to focus on the government's prevention of single sources of power (that which could eventually threaten the primacy of the Chinese c
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by godwinson__4-8 23d ago
The United States government is fractured and can't get its act together. No one has a credible plan to solve this. Electing your preferred president doesn't solve a broken Senate and other structural problems. The presidency is l
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by godwinson__4-8 24d ago
Aren't most of the complicated and useful parts of Chrome in Chromium? Isn't that sufficiently divorced from most of what makes Chrome unpalatable to people who appreciate Firefox as an alternative? Why then aren't there more
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by godwinson__4-8 25d ago
Fair points. Appreciate your perspective. I would just say while generally your last point is true, we also shouldn't underplay the vast extent of civic protest against the current administration in Israel prior to October 7th. It is e
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by godwinson__4-8 25d ago
Indeed. Israel also does something like this. Nerds don't go to the front line for example, they go into the cyber corps. It's why they have some of the best cyber professionals and companies in the world. Americans should get fre
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by godwinson__4-8 25d ago
Dan Caine has come out in testimony before the Senate in support of this war and this strategy, shoulder to shoulder with Hegseth. If this is due to post Venezuela kool-aid, then he drank from the same cup. Many others in the natsec space h
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by godwinson__4-8 25d ago
> The notion of bringing back the draft is stupid. Most US senior military leaders don't even want conscripts: they're generally unmotivated, cause morale problems, and don't stick around. For an offensive expeditionary f
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by godwinson__4-8 25d ago
The DoD needs a kick in the opposite direction. Make the Pentagon finally pass an audit. Cut its funding. It is clear the profligacy is incentivizing bad decisions - the new normal in the Strait of Hormuz being only the latest. It's cl
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by godwinson__4-8 25d ago
Just as animals in the wild - especially other apex predators - spend a lot of time sleeping/lounging. A famous example - the lion.
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by godwinson__4-8 25d ago
It's a good objection, and one I was waiting for. Thank you for raising it. > Do you have a response to the threat of cognitive surrender and cognitive debt as a second order effect from heavy LLM use and how that could undermine hu
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by godwinson__4-8 25d ago
Perhaps, if so I apologize for my lack of clarity. I see ample evidence to the contrary on another re-read of my post, but it seems a silly thing to go back and forth with you on. Ultimately, clarity is in the eye of the beholder. Hopefully
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by godwinson__4-8 25d ago
If you're going to dodge discussing the vast amounts of work people do for a paycheck we have nothing to disagree over. I agree people will still want to do things when society has fully automated away paychecks. That is why I look for
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by godwinson__4-8 25d ago
As another comment mentions, this objection has already been dealt with numerous times. But you then go even beyond the already answered market efficiency/plausibility objection that comes up ad nauseam when Bullshit Jobs is mentioned
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by godwinson__4-8 25d ago
You must have misread me. I'm attacking the romanticization of said labor in the context where it was contrasted with LLM automation, where the former was valued over the latter. Said condemnations of LLMs are not exactly a novel frami
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by godwinson__4-8 25d ago
It's just workism with rose tinted glasses. All the perpetuation of the current "knowledge economy" would actually mean for most people's children (few of which whom will be blessed to do such erudite forms of cognitive
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by godwinson__4-8 1mo ago
Yes many games are caught up in IP hell. Including the one my username is inspired by. It's why you see a lot of fan remakes. Another sad side effect of corporate owned IP is also a lot of times the individuals who did the bulk of the
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by godwinson__4-8 1mo ago
You can tweak them to do so. I personally tweak mine to act like a disappointed stack exchange veteran. I personally recommend, but I understand many people do not want to be pushed back by something they see as little more than a servant.
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by godwinson__4-8 1mo ago
They are splinter groups because they are violent cowards who use mainstream protests (that might actually have a shot of convincing people of something) as a meat shield for their vandalism. Minneapolis showed us the way. Sandwich guy show
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by godwinson__4-8 1mo ago
American companies have contested warrants have they not? The jump from request to warrant is not the major hurdle. Imo people often make the wrong tradeoff here. If the government really wants something jurisdictional questions will not st
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by godwinson__4-8 1mo ago
The point is that after the iPhone dropped it didn't matter.
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by godwinson__4-8 1mo ago
You are correct this is interesting but it is still quite obviously the wrong UI. For the same reason https://www.gather.town/ ends up being a waste of time. It's been done before with LLMs. In both cases - human and L
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by godwinson__4-8 1mo ago
I can hear the sniffing now
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by godwinson__4-8 1mo ago
And if men were angels no government would be necessary. Obviously, Meta appears as more of a social ill. It's a social network. What has made society necessary and yet unpleasant has always been the same - other people. Rodney King an
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by godwinson__4-8 1mo ago
How do the same arguments not apply to iPhones and Androids? How is pointing out the utility of cameras on consumer glasses (as cameras on consumer phones) to actually make an impact where oppression actually happens arguing in a vacuum ?
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by godwinson__4-8 1mo ago
Nothing about my argument suggests engaging in the delusion that Meta has any "regard for actual people using it". So you either didn't understand it, or are attacking a straw man. Using iPhones or Androids to film the police

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