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by hayst4ck 1y ago
I was mentally prepared to be violated at the Chinese border and it was one of the most boring borders I've crossed. I am not sure I was even asked a single question. Meanwhile coming back to America was the worst border I've cros
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
This country was founded on the idea that rights transcend government and that a government cannot grant rights because rights do not come from law, but from human dignity intrinsic to all of us. If rights are derived from human dignity,
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
A lot of people talk about how the rich should not be taxed because the government isn't efficient at spending money, that it's a path to socialism/communism, or that the money will be given to people who haven't earned
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
"We" is doing an awful lot of work. We may have survived the industrial revolution, but subjective individual experience varies widely. Life would be quite different if we could subjectively experience ourselves as a whole.
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
We are in an age where the technology of oppression gives the rich the feeling that they are above consequences. That people can be controlled in a way they will not be able to break free from. Malicious AI swarms are only one manifestation
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
You can pay more for more access to a better model. Answer quality directly correlates to resources spent generating it. It literally and structurally offers advantage to those with more resources. That effect compounds over time and use. I
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
> the candidate who spent less won. That is entirely unsubstantiated. There is no reasonable way to measure this and any measurements taken are inherently political. I am amenable to the idea of that being true for official spending, but
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
Democracy does not work without a culture of responsibility and we no longer have a culture of responsibility. I am incredibly atheist, but what we are seeing is Christianity, a clear pillar of American culture, malfunctioning on a societal
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
AI execs push the message of how dangerous and powerful AI is because who doesn't want to invest in the next most powerful thing? But AI is not dangerous because of the potential for sentience, but because it makes the rich richer and
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
No, this is low agency. It wasn't other people that killed democracy. It was our own lack of response to billionaires enshrining money as legitimate political power that killed democracy. Oligarchy and monarchy are the default. Citizen
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
Citizens united ensured manufacturing cannot be done in America. Citizens united said money is legitimate political power. Manufacturing in China is cheaper and therefore people who manufacture in China will have more profits. More profits
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
Right now you are wearing ignorance like a shield. You are proud of not watching a "manipulative press release." Watch it, then try saying nothing has changed. You seem like someone with a strong world view that's strong beca
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
Did you watch the same oval office event I did? The national rhetoric has absolutely changed. The talk of mineral "deals" instead of values and realpolitik is also a clear change. We are literally experiencing a purge of the old g
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
There might not be evil countries, but there are absolutely evil governments and broken cultures. Sometimes defeat is required for change and sometimes change can only come from the outside.
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
It is a clever manipulation strategy via controlling the frame of analysis. George Lakoff studied this type of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff If you analyze from the US or Russian perspective, you p
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
> because utilization means direct war with the United States, which Russia will decisively lose. Not necessarily, Russia's successful intelligence efforts for regime change in the US may have nullified US response.
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
When it comes to abuse of trust, I'm worried about goods coming from China. Israel's compromise of the pager supply chain shows that innocuous seeming devices can be weaponized via trust. Imagine if every IoT appliance decided to
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
> higher quality, and generally more fruitful debates with the models you say don't understand My favorite thing about LLMs is that they can convincingly tell me why I'm wrong or how I could think about things differently, not
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
Nearly every argument like this has the same fatal flaw, and it's generally not the critique of the AI, but the critique reflected back on to humans. Humans also don't understand and are frequently faking understanding, which fo
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
If you construct an object once, then what is the difference between that and a singleton? The answer is scope. Singletons exist explicitly for the purpose of violating scoping for the convenience of not having to thread that dependency thr
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
> Any system where users can leave without pain is a system whose owners have high switching costs and whose users have none. The corollary is any system where users can leave without pain is a system that has low investment appeal . If
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
Burning out has little to do with the amount of work and everything to do with the what that work got you. Burnout comes from the wheel not moving the car, not from the energy applied to moving the wheel.
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
That's one of my other favorite things on the internet. The discussion of it is very high quality, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvD7zVN2jo Getting into a position of power requiring submission to the power hie
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
I try to be internally consistent, and I don't think I am here. I guess communism is written in my head as an authoritarian movement, but it is re-distributive and comes with a message of cooperation as a means of gaining political man
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
This seems like an isomorphism of "is math invented or discovered"? https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/1/is-mathemat...
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
This is one of my favorite things on the internet, but it focuses on the positive side of the story which is that groups of people cooperating can defeat a bunch of people who cheat each other. That's a pleasant message. Unfortunately,
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
I disagree here and I don't think it's a point we'll agree on. Sometimes the label matches. There have been 4 people in high GOP positions who have sieg heiled. They aren't being labeled Nazis, they are objectively and f
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
> depended entirely on whose side they were own I don't believe in 'side-ism'. A crackdown on the GOP would be a benefit for the rule of law while it still being in a perilous position, while a crackdown on the DNC is very
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
My experience/impression is social and as an outsider, so your information/experience is probably much better than mine, although mine is a bit later than yours, but also not current. > I know, I lived it for a number of years,
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by hayst4ck 1y ago
I've heard the explanation of "planned corruption" from two different upper class Chinese people. The idea being that there is a gunaxi correlated "budget for corruption," but use of that budget comes with strings,

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