idle_zealot

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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
If they want to they'll do that under any pretense they can get away with. See the current administration declaring intent to treat pro-LGBT speech or anti-fascist speech as indicative of participation in terrorist groups. You just can
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
It is a weakness, but yes, an intentional one. Why a weakness? It leads to structural instability.
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
In the US we grant immunity to the law in proportion to power. Rather seems it should be the opposite if you ask me.
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
You investigate and punish groups found to be running psyops, simple as. No need to automate the whole process with ID checks, these organizations make and spend money so the tracks are there to find. If suspected drag them into discovery a
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
You're insisting on shifting framing to percentage of tax collected. That's irrelevant to the fairness question of percentage of income paid as taxes. The insane imbalance where the rich end up paying half of all taxes while simul
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
> No, this isn't a complicated issue. People get arrested regularly but they get let out to re-offend. here's a stat: It is a complex issue. Even now we simultaneously let KnifecrimesMcGee out after 15 arrests while also lock
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
If pigs reproduced and mutated as rapidly as viruses then yeah, we would probably need to plan around the eventuality that they would develop wings and escape their pens.
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
China has more people and is better organized (read: authoritarian, but competent). They can do any project they want without corralling cats. The EU needs to balance the varied local politics of their members (half of which are totally dys
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Black people wanting more police presence is a well known fact, as is the fact that increased police presence in their communities results in the police arresting and killing a lot of innocent people. This reflects a world where policing is
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
That's not really the contradiction you seem to be implying. The belief that one is being watched and the knowledge that if caught there will be extremely high consequences are two completely different things, not to mention that the c
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
The same is true for TV, movies, books. It's an insanely competitive market for people's time and attention. There are more games on Steam with 10,000 hours of dev time put into them than you can play in a lifetime. Standards for
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
It doesn't really matter how they comply, so long as the punishment for bon-compliance is serious enough to motivate a good-faith attempt. I'm wary of jumping right into encoding specifics into legislation. That said, I'll be
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
We can do both! This seems more viable for the moment, unfortunately. Challenging copyright gets much more pushback than even pro-consumer obligations like these.
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Funny, but I don't think HN appreciates meme comments.
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
We never figured out how to track productivity anyway. Only macro-level success in achieving measurable goals. Any AI metric besides "are similar goals being met more quickly" is people encouraging specific behaviors decided a pri
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Claude, make me a language that's optimized for the LLM era and matches both a human and Agent's mental model of the system the code is specifying. Like, it encodes systems with data that communicate with each other, no need to wi
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
> You'd also have to be willing/able to burn bridges and risk losing advertisers, donors, viewers/readers, and supporters by reporting on things that offend those same people That's the structural problem in a nutshel
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
I'm not convinced it's even conceivable in the abstract to have a news organization with "no bias." You have to make editorial decisions based on something. If you make then based on what you think your readers ought t
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
There's an even more fundamental problem: even if you can pay the salaries, how do you ensure that your organization remains aligned with the original goal? How do you prevent it from being subtly influenced by the confluence of intere
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
An excellent example of how not to do a government program! > On October 1, 2013, HealthCare.gov was rolled out as planned, despite the concurrent partial government shutdown. The launch was marred by serious technological problems, maki
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
> they should shell out for dedicated labs Seriously. This goes for all kinds of analytics. We've normalized surveillance, and if you dare suggest opt-in analytics rather than forced or opt-out you get hit with "but then we won
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Why does this entire page read like an LLM wrote it in response to "Imagine Google is making a new desktop operating system built on Android. It's focused on total app compatibility, parity with the Apple ecosystem, Linux developm
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Why is this inconceivable? I don't know where you live, but the Post Office is extremely cheap and reliable around here. What drives you to pretend that states can't provide services to their people?
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
A terribly defeatist attitude. The same could be said about, say, death during childbirth. For hundreds of thousands of years people tried methods of midwifery to ease that process and reduce deaths to little effect. People considered that
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
This doesn't sound like a meaningful critique. You're basically arguing for a culture-first approach to a systemic problem, but insisting that that culture should be one of individual responsibility. I contend that it's exact
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
> LLM’s are good at picking those apart for the reader if they decide to dig deeper. I fear this era might not last. Yeah, I'm not sure that pinning one's hopes for a better-educated populace on LLMs is going to pan out well. E
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
That our education system wasn't resilient to that well-funded propaganda machine is what reflects poorly on it. That such a machine is allowed to exist reflects poorly on our institutions more broadly. I'll never blame human gree
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
Depends on the health of our institutions. In the US at least they're legally obligated not to by the highest law in the land. It gets ignored now, but it's a more promising path to privacy-preserving digital infrastructure than l
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
In a better time I would expect the government to step in a acquire this fundamental service and fund it with tax money. Right now? The only intervention I would expect is a massive subsidy to pay Google to keep providing it, while also let
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by idle_zealot 5mo ago
It does feel like a lot of very intelligent people here basically start at a first principles belief in property rights, and discover or dispute all of the rights and protections put in place over centuries to patch up the issues that occur

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