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by jpadkins 1y ago
will of the people is a common phrase used in context to a democratic form of government. Elections are how the 'will of the people' are expressed (not polls, but political parties do listen to polls). I'm not interested in
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by jpadkins 1y ago
Help me understand how an independent government agency (especially a federal police force like the FBI, which can investigate, arrest and kill people) is compatible with a democratic government. Who exactly are they independent of? How a
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by jpadkins 1y ago
So Congress creates agencies and also selects who runs those agencies? Can Congress fire the heads of these agencies? The management team? Or all employees of the agency? So what role does the executive branch have? Should we amend the US c
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by jpadkins 1y ago
How do we the people change or influence the federal government if the agencies are independent from elections? In your model, do federal agencies all become like the Supreme Court? Lifetime appointments chosen by the President at the time
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by jpadkins 1y ago
I think this was closer to AI insights than AI slop.
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by jpadkins 1y ago
Path of Exiles 2 is a good recent example of a game that does a pretty good job of contrast and tone (staying true to the dark, gritty theme that is going for). I think it was smart of the devs to keep all the high contrast to effects and
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by jpadkins 1y ago
It's a joke to upset progs and commies. Looks like it is working as intended.
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by jpadkins 1y ago
US, Ireland and many others were founded by terrorists. History is written by the victors.
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by jpadkins 1y ago
it's a reference to a famous George Carlin skit.
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by jpadkins 1y ago
You should read the words of Bin Laden, pre 9/11. His stated goal was: "Terrorizing you, while you are carrying arms on our land, is a legitimate and morally demanding duty." He wanted to get the US in another Vietnam. He
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by jpadkins 1y ago
can you share some of these plans to halt democracy?
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by jpadkins 1y ago
What natural resource are we running short of? Land might be at the top of the list, but we are only utilizing 70% of that. And if we get low on that, we just switch to aqua-farming or floating cities. No one is hoarding all the natural r
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by jpadkins 1y ago
The constitution clearly sets up one person as having sole control of foreign policy. There is a lot of wisdom in having a single vision / strategy when dealing with external entities. If you disagree, the constitution also has a cle
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by jpadkins 1y ago
it's a straw man argument to say that the average civil servant is the beneficiary of the trillion dollar deficits. No one is making that argument. Very wealthy people, politicians, and corporations are the beneficiary of the governm
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by jpadkins 1y ago
maybe he is not far-right and the framing of how you get your info about Elon is skewing your perception? His politics have been fairly stable the last 20 years. The Overton window has not been.
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by jpadkins 1y ago
Pretty good example of how a super-intelligent AI can control human behavior, even if it doesn't "escape" its data center or controllers. If the super-intelligent AI understands human incentives and is in control of a very po
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by jpadkins 1y ago
the post does not reflect the reality that it is not 'your data'*. When you use a service provider, it's their data. They may give you certain rights to influence your usage or payment of their service, but if it's no
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by jpadkins 1y ago
how do we know what normal behavior is for an AI?
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by jpadkins 1y ago
> I think we will still need software devs, but not as many as we do today. There is already another reply referencing Jevons Paradox, so I won't belabor that point. Instead, let me give an analogy. Imagine programmers today are l
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by jpadkins 1y ago
Bioweapon researchers use existing bacteria and virus to enhance them for weapon usage (I.e. coronavius gain of function research). So the fact that the bacterium previously existed in nature does not disprove that a version engineered to
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by jpadkins 1y ago
Good time to remind people that right next to the town of Lyme CT is Plum Island Animal Disease Center, who happened to be researching tick based disease transmission when Lyme disease was first discovered (named after the town that had the
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by jpadkins 1y ago
is it not obvious the oligarchs control the globalist politicians and not the nationalists? Is it controversial to say that if you really wanted to "fight the oligarchy", your policy positions would be pretty similar to the Americ
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by jpadkins 2y ago
Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence. Software developer productivity is very hard to measure, so we may never get a "good" study of this. Might be like IDEs, where at first no one was using them and people would compl
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by jpadkins 2y ago
no linkedIn page is a green flag for me.
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by jpadkins 2y ago
why do you think evolution is a random search? I thought evolutionary pressures, and the mechanisms like epigenetics make it something different than a random search.
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by jpadkins 2y ago
> Bill Gates .. was not able to influence the public discourse. People forget that the MS in MSNBC stands for Microsoft. Bill Gates invested heavily in media and lobbying in the late 90s / early 00s.
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by jpadkins 2y ago
> Wikipedia is the gold standard. LOL thanks for the laugh. The co-founders of Wikipedia have sounded the alarm that you cannot trust Wikipedia anymore. The inmates have taken over.
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by jpadkins 2y ago
smaller programs are better than artificial or organic neural net for constrained problems like chess. But chess programs don't generalize to any other intelligence applications, like how organic neural nets do today.
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by jpadkins 2y ago
obviously the truth is what is the most popular. /s
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by jpadkins 2y ago
Working with a military (to reform corruption) is nothing like a Senate approved alliance or mutual defense pact.

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