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by keybored 6mo ago
Standard fare to excuse powerful people who do actual harm with something about human nature. So who am I to judge? I have impurities in my heart because I dislike people who cause harm. Best wait for the saints to weigh in.
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“We didn’t make a decision based on that.” Done and dusted?
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by keybored 6mo ago
It’s not straightforward for comments. The flag button does not appear on comments when you are viewing the thread. - Click on the timestamp for the comment which will take you to the comment page - Then you can click the flag button
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> The article is smarter than the title makes it sound. He's not seriously proposing that being rich makes you happy. Not everything is supposed to be read literally. But this seems to be the Abundance author so maybe it really is u
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They didn’t even retreat from places like Italy because... the communists might be successful. So the CIA backed fascists to sabotage them. And the US ... retreated. harumph And interferred, and supported right-wing militias, and invaded
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That is simply programmer nature. Cannot be changed.
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Help. They’re constantly trying to make me try crack cocaine on the front page.
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> The point of the economic system is it channels some of the most ghoulish and horrible people to do good as an accidental side effect of their mad rush to wealth and power. Works really well, on average everyone wins. Now imagine how m
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by keybored 6mo ago
Yeah, I’ve heard that there is some very axiomatic math to being anti-democratic for some reason. Unlike the mathematically sound benevolent and also omniscient philosopher kings.
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All replies that just pads out the comment with a summary about TFA look like spam. There is no inkling of any excuse to make the comment so it just has to regurgitate what TFA is about.
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> The real winner in this subthread: negative polarization. People being against their local elites is largely a good thing. That’s what the China boosting is mostly about. > It's kind of incredible to watch. Show people two ac
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It’s all about appearances isn’t it. America has dropped more bombs than China. When did China bomb a country last time? But appearances change and that is sad. The only thing that changed was that America turned on its client states and st
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by keybored 6mo ago
This smells like how markets would work well if everyone had a little capital. But money is too fungible. The more you have the more you can get. But if electricity and hardware is a proxy for AI then those things are much less fungible. An
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> By all accounts, I should be a neofeudalist. I should love what’s happening. The AI I dreamed of my whole life is being built, engineer-type strongmen are sort of in charge, and people are saying out loud the things I have just thought
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by keybored 6mo ago
The silent majority of GenAI praise reaches the top of the thread again. Edit: The lurkers and the commenters must be a pretty different set of people I suppose.
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> it is an investment. Everything is a capital metaphor.
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What does loneliness have to do with being physically close to a person? Lonely people walk among other people all the time. Someone asking if they would like a receipt, and “have a good day”, ought to snap someone out of it just the same w
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by keybored 6mo ago
What will convince people is what they see with their own eyes. Not yet another proclamation that the revolution is happening right now. Like this.[1] > AI-assisted coding has become the norm and with tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, C
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Adults put teenagers together and some of them get miserable. The adults’ response: oh lament the teenage woes, what is to be done. We are just adults with all the power on our side. I get the feeling that modern Western society and institu
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> You are inferring your own perception based on my comment, no need to be an asshole here. People in this case are likely extrapolating based on how user data is harvested in the industry at large. So there is bound to be (very likely)
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Armed cops actively escalating the situation will help someone suicidal? The cops in my country do work that is not about catching criminals, like leading search and rescure operations. Apparently not a problem. Apparently now these particu
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I’m glad that it helped and that it worked for such a seemingly somatic issue. I wouldn’t have thought that.
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> I expect most side-projects are being built with AI-assistance now. Side projects are typically time constrained - if AI saves you time, why wouldn't you use it? Why would you put forth anything but this line? The only side projec
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by keybored 6mo ago
Very true. :) But I’m afraid the initial phase of tolerated negativity is over for this thread. Now we ought to nurture some corporate positivity. I’ve recently expanded my meditation routine to sending gratitude and love to investors. I ca
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I don’t know what I would be need to be paid (via ad income or whatever means) to be a life and times of Big Tech X chronicler.
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> So I'd say someone with that kind of salary and stocks is probably halfway to not-working-class. I Just halfway seems low. But this is Silicon Valley News after all.
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I cannot understand how in normative terms someone ought to be merely a vessel for someone in any capacity, ever. There are things you cannot do to someone and certain things you as an individual cannot sign away. That’s what “human rights”
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Speaking about Meta employees. There was this anecdote from a month ago: > very few facebook employees use their products outside of testing, which is a big contributor to that fear - they just can't believe that there are billions
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I don’t care about Schadenfreude. It’s good that they are making a stink. I would bang my head against the wall if they either didn’t make a stink or publicly said that, of course the Company is going to monitor me, it’s their hardware[1] a
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They’re blaming entities with power. E.g. 90% of the US have no impact on policy evidenced by there being no correlation between their policy preferences and real policy (2011 Princeton study). > Can any legislature get away with dramati

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