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by grafmax 11mo ago
Friend, I think you may have gotten your links mixed up.
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by grafmax 11mo ago
Here’s an example of actual research not your claims which seem to be fabricated from whatever you can free associate: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716220981864 What’s the homeless rate in the luxu
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by grafmax 11mo ago
No I am saying your just so story of why homeless people are homeless does not explain why places with more wealth inequality see more homelessness. Why would this be if your sounds-good-to-you explanation were the actual factor driving ho
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by grafmax 11mo ago
The scale of homelessness isn’t explained by individual traits. Societal factors produce and reproduce it. It’s greatest in areas of high inequality for example - a fact not explained by individual traits. Take mental illness. A mentally il
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by grafmax 11mo ago
From the Russia POV invading Ukraine was a response to NATO expanding there. An imminent invasion of Europe seems outside of Russia’s geopolitical goals. But Europe’s leaders on the other hand do seem invested in escalating this conflict, a
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by grafmax 11mo ago
Let’s say prices go down until houses are sold at cost. Even at cost people with little money won’t be able to buy houses.
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by grafmax 11mo ago
More housing supply doesn’t house people who have no people to pay for those houses. It’s a wealth inequality issue we just don’t want to face.
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by grafmax 11mo ago
I think you are conflating the content of these prompts with the purpose of heretic. The purpose of the dataset is to aid in the removal of censorship not advocate for these behaviors in LLMs, akin to removing all safeguards from a dangero
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by grafmax 11mo ago
Extremely lonely people being exploited by sociopathic corporations for profit. Sounds like a baby and the bathwater scenario to me.
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by grafmax 1y ago
But a false dichotomy isn’t it? Authoritarian communist vs techno-fascist? > far more oppressive means than even the GOP dares to dream about That seems to be exactly what they are dreaming about. Something like China’s authoritarianism
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by grafmax 1y ago
At least the current moment, the increasing turn to using autonomous weaponry against one’s citizens - I don’t think it says so much about humanity so much as the US. I think US foreign policy is a disaster but turning the AI-powered milita
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by grafmax 1y ago
> Have a look at some statistics to find what the biggest items are these days. Note that if you attribute interest for military-related debt to military spending(roughly 40-50% of our interest payments) then it ends up climbing in the
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by grafmax 1y ago
Given their self-imposed labor supply issues, notably the awful working conditions, I hope the workforce there figures out how to effectively organize against this cesspool of a corporation.
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by grafmax 1y ago
Sorry to disappoint you stranger. What I said applies to both mortgages and rent. And housing can be decommodified to our common benefit - for example, Vienna - it’s not some impossible goal. And on a wider level if you ever wonder why Chin
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by grafmax 1y ago
Right wing populism is a failure so all populism is a failure? But they advocate opposite economic policies. Even the example of Venezuela blames populism and omits the role of sanctions.
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by grafmax 1y ago
Rentier capitalism is term that has been used to include mortgages for decades. It’s not my term. Mortgages and rent parasitize the working class. Rent extraction (broader than just literal rent) is nonproductive cashflows from the working
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by grafmax 1y ago
1) Costs of maintaining a property are productive but typically less than 50% of what rent pays for. The rest is purely extractive going to rentier profit and mortgage (what I’ve been talking about). 2) Less than 40% of households are ful
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by grafmax 1y ago
Groceries and other necessities are produced. Rent and mortgage payments are based on selling access to resources - nothing of value is produced through rent extraction. It is a purely parasitic process economically. There is indeed a cas
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by grafmax 1y ago
These leases generally are not a contract between equals. One party owns extra housing. The other owns none and gets charged for this fact. It’s institutionalized exploitation. Legal, sure. People being unable to pay for a basic necessity w
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by grafmax 1y ago
There’s really nothing lazier than making money simply by owning more than others. Such a person doesn’t have to produce anything of value. They can simply just use their outsized wealth to buy something others need, then charge money for a
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by grafmax 1y ago
Our society prioritizes the narrow interests of rentier capitalists over the working class. Unfortunately this means the US is losing international competitiveness across more and more industries. For one thing rent extraction ultimately ge
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by grafmax 1y ago
Hey maybe the problem isn’t the means of production (the data centers), but the mode of production.. capitalism.
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by grafmax 1y ago
Problem is billionaires have co-opted our government. Their interest is in channeling money from the working class into their hands through rentier capitalism. That is contrary to widely structuring income. Rent extraction hurts them in the
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by grafmax 1y ago
People spin up ablated models for pennies. You don’t need advanced reasoning for this crap. OpenAI has 8 billion plus in burn. I guess it’s all effectively paying for brand awareness?
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by grafmax 1y ago
It’s standard practice for VC companies to enshittify after building a moat, relying on user lock-in. What’s remarkable is how quickly they’ve had to shift gears. And with this rapid pivot it’s questionable how large that moat really is.
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by grafmax 1y ago
I realized they jumped the shark when they announced the pivots to ads and porn. Markets haven’t caught on yet.
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by grafmax 1y ago
There are polls for different aspects of OSA but not the OSA itself. For example protecting kids online is popular (big surprise). Yet no polls I can find that frame the OSA itself or the OSA with its trade offs. Seems like the standard pra
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Obeying in advance makes them stronger.
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by grafmax 1y ago
Precisely, mine is a moral not legal argument against shallow moral appeals to “sovereignty”.
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by grafmax 1y ago
The UK is much like the US in that democratic processes are co-opted and undermined by special interests to the point that governments engage in suppression of free speech and mass surveillance against their populations. (What’s unique to t

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