harimau777

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by harimau777 6d ago
That is literally what you are doing right now.
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by harimau777 6d ago
Yes, and? That's not really relevant to the topic at hand. No one has said that China is a utopia and paragon of human rights.
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by harimau777 6d ago
I'm not clear what you mean. While nuclear waste is certainly a thing that could hurt the environment if mismanaged, impacting the climate isn't really a way that it does so. The shielding also seems like an unusual thing to focus
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by harimau777 7d ago
That doesn't seem that uncommon to me. A lot of people have phrases that they commonly overuse. Sometimes quite dramatically. I wouldn't be suprised if that's even more the case when communicating complex topics since, at lea
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by harimau777 8d ago
Even if the solution is difficult, I don't think that justifies theft.
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by harimau777 8d ago
Not exactly the same but something that I think people here might find interesting philosophically regardless of their religious views: There's an idea in interpersonal communication that when a couple are in a relationship, the relati
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by harimau777 8d ago
That's irrelevant to what I wrote. Whether it was made up by marketers or anyone else doesn't change the fact that unlike astrology it doesn't make an appeal to magic.
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by harimau777 8d ago
It's not goal shifting, that's what it has always meant. I'm sorry that you didn't realize that.
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by harimau777 8d ago
To a degree maybe but the degree differs dramatically for different people. To give an extreme, someone with a significant disability growing up in an impoverished family in the middle of nowhere is generally going to have very little oppor
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by harimau777 8d ago
I'm sorry but that's simply not true. They still have socialized medicine, generous social safety nets, significant worker protections, etc.
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by harimau777 8d ago
The named generations are generally used in the context of specifically American culture or at least English speaking culture. They were never intended to say you have generational similarity to someone in a completely different culture.
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by harimau777 8d ago
What about the people who cannot leave?
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by harimau777 8d ago
The difference is that named generations don't claim that any differences are due to supernatural influence. Instead they are arguing that the differing circumstances in which people grow up and live influences their experiences and ho
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by harimau777 8d ago
You are conflating "divide people" in the sense of "turn people against each other in order to divide and conquer" with "divide people" in the sense of "define groupings so that it is possible to have conv
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by harimau777 9d ago
Luckily for us, the cohorts don't need to have statistical significance because people aren't talking about statistics. They are talking about the broad shared experiences of most people born in a given range of years.
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by harimau777 9d ago
Just because something is arbitrary doesn't mean it is meaningless or useless. In this context named generations are useful because they allow us to discuss the experiences of people born at different times. Certainly there are alterna
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by harimau777 9d ago
Socialism has been hugely successful. Just look at Western Europe and the Nordic countries. Socialism has only been an abject failure if you swallow the conservative talking point that "socialism" is always equivalent to Stalinism
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by harimau777 9d ago
I think that there are a lot of people who would be unwilling to sacrifice their life.
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by harimau777 9d ago
If you need connections and ability then you are back to luck.
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by harimau777 9d ago
I think that the argument is not that it happened before LLMs. Rather, assuming I'm understanding the parent correctly, they are arguing that, due to the enshittification of search and the internet, LLMs are the only way to get informa
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by harimau777 10d ago
It seems like an LLM potentially could learn that way if each practice game it participated in was added to its training data.
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by harimau777 12d ago
I'm not even sure that the author is correct. The industrial revolution was pretty apocalyptic for the people forced to work in dangerous factories for minimal pay.
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by harimau777 14d ago
These aren't private equity firms building housing. Did you read the article?
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by harimau777 14d ago
I didn't know that the acronym was NITOSIRL. Sure seems like a weird way to spell NIMBY, but who am I to judge?
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by harimau777 14d ago
NIMBYism isn't always wrong.
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by harimau777 14d ago
Often not everyone is impacted equally by a policy. So it is reasonable to allow, for example, the people living near a potential data center greater say into what happens.
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by harimau777 17d ago
You are also a member of the community. That carries obligations.
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by harimau777 17d ago
Leaders of departments (i.e. the government equivalent of a CEO) are dragged in front of congress all the time. The government at least has a theoretical obligation to promote the public good. It isn't much but it's better than co
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by harimau777 17d ago
You do realize that humans use art to communicate difficult or emotional ideas including political beliefs, right?
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by harimau777 17d ago
Most of the outraged people live in the US where we have Flock. Presumably people in other countries are outraged about their local equivalent.

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