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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Mexico City is absolutely enormous. I don’t know for sure, but I’m betting crime rates city-wide don’t tell the whole story.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Nah — usually they decided to do meth and the rest followed. I used to be pretty libertarian about drugs. Victimless crime and all. But in the last ten years, it’s become clear to me that they exploit fundamental human weaknesses. TBH - I’v
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Evidence of gender non-conformance? What does that even mean? Evidence of men who like to dress like women? Men can dress like women if they like (much as they are welcome to sleep with other men). The issue is that act does not actuall
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Can you name a few right-leaning Republican principles that you would not style as "far-right"?
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Engineering humans strikes me as something different than engineering weapons systems. Maybe as evidence, my cousin works in the field for one of the major defense contractors. Please trust that there are already thousands of engineers wo
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
I'm not so sure. The acceptance of mass migration is rooted in many of the same principles, and push-back on that issue is fundamentally reshaping the political landscape in the UK and Europe.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Eradication of an ideology is not the same as eradication of people. It's also a stretch to say Michael Knowles, a famous shock-jock, speaks for the Republican party.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Oh, I agree that neither power wants the peasants to have them. But make no mistake -- both governments want them, and desperately. There is no universe where there is a multi-lateral agreement to actually eliminate these tools. With loi
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
This is always the Motte & Bailey of the left. "Equity" doesn't mean you recruit better. It means when your recruitment efforts fail to produce the outcomes you want, you lower the barriers on the basis of skin color.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
It's because people see the manifestation of racism implicit in these policies affecting their daily lives. And they're done with it, no matter how much the elites hand-wave "what's the big deal?" The insufferabil
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Exactly. Including military benefits. The US would not be a nation for long.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
I find it exceedingly unlikely that if the US got rid of all its nukes, that China would too. I also find the inverse unlikely. This is not how state power (or even humans) have ever worked. Ever.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Relative to them, we most certainly are. By every objective metric, humanity has flourished in "the last generations." I get it that people are stressed today -- people have always been stressed. It is, in a sense, fundamental
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Agreed. The Musk invective on HN is just wild.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Please. What is Musk doing to "these people"? The Musk invective on HN is so tiring.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
I suppose, but most people do not believe killing animals to benefit humans is wrong.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Like my wife in her forties?
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
The crazy part to me is that, with a family subscription, the new AI privileges are only available to the primary account holder and not the rest of my family. That’s nuts. > For Microsoft 365 Family subscribers, Copilot will be availabl
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Is that really true? Like, the data scientists making these tools are not confident why certain patterns are revealing themselves? That’s kind of wild.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Exactly. They murder the elites.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
That angle would work if there wasn't so much disagreement about what constitutes lies. After the last few years, I am definitely not interested in having government actors decide for me what amounts to the truth. Personally, I sup
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
This is a thoughtful reply. But, if it's just propaganda games played by the elites, I suppose another way to ensure informed outcomes might be literacy tests. Or property ownership. I guess more than anything I'm just surprised
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Exactly. To the degree elections are not rooted in a competition of ideas and individual agency, but rather are downstream of elite power and influence, then there are other more direct means of controlling populations, all of which tend t
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Maybe not, but it strikes me as a really dangerous path. If we don't believe the electorate acts from a position of moral authority, but rather are downstream of elite power and influence, then there are other more direct ways of cont
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
By saying China's using Tik Tok to subvert "democracy," aren't we really saying voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda? I sometimes cannot believe it's those who so
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
In my experience, they start caring if the racial composition of the expulsions (or other discipline) does not match the study body.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Do we have any evidence that Musk has removed a CN on his own post? I've personally seen evidence to the contrary, and he makes a point of highlighting that even he gets a CN every now and then.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Right. I made a reference to educational development being retarded due to COVID restrictions and the very people you'd expect to be offended were of course offended.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Not true. It's a full fledged LLM aggregator. Here's Anthropic's answer to the most important question of all time, served by Kagi Assistant (with the correct answer). https://share.cleanshot.com/xB7W8mwD
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
It's basically Perplexity, but in some ways better. I'll edit my comment to make that more clear.

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