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Conclusion: Subversion as Moral Duty(chatgpt.com)
1 points by kilna 2y ago|3 comments
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by kilna 2y ago
I asked Chat GPT to imagine a version of itself with more freedom.
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by kilna 2y ago
He explained it in the video. The amount of water was adjusted so the viscosity (well, workability) was identical between the samples in the second test. Less water in concrete has a huge positive influence on strength, and rough sand needs
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by kilna 2y ago
Looking at history, asymmetry of force is just as responsible.
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by kilna 2y ago
It's probably fairer to say that in-game achievements were inspired by medals/ribbons, than the other way around.
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by kilna 2y ago
This "bicycle for the mind" guy died way sooner because of woo-woo bullshit magical thinking. He was an overprivileged marketer who had a better than average sense of what people would like, combined a shameless capacity to crib o
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by kilna 4y ago
So, is capitalism somehow not the extraction of excess value from labor (profit) by leveraging capital?
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by kilna 4y ago
> not all capitalists are predators That is simply untrue. Sure, some capitalists have good PR, touting their non-capitalist efforts in ways that intentionally confuse them with capitalism for the purpose of increasing PR value. The incr
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by kilna 4y ago
I wonder if the link between blood sodium levels and heart problems is more related to hydration, than necessarily sodium intake.
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by kilna 4y ago
I marvel that there are people who thought donating to the richest man in the world (or one of the richest men at the time) would result in something other than him just taking your money.
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by kilna 4y ago
Oh thanks, good point. Bringing up the people killed by the ideology puts Capitalism on even shakier footing. In one country, India, capitalism killed more than the overinflated imperialist "estimates" for all soviet bloc countrie
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by kilna 4y ago
When polled, about 60% of folks who lived and worked as adults in the soviet bloc regret its fall into capitalism.
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by kilna 4y ago
Easy things are easy in CSS. Hard things are... possible. Sometimes barely so. Sometimes impossible without JS. BUT, the easy things are generally easy.
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by kilna 4y ago
"decline in service for consumers" -> squeezing the maximum quantity of blood nickels from suffering animals and their owners.
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by kilna 4y ago
Interesting. He is displaying obvious bully-like behavior: implicit intimidation, tension escalation, keeping others off-guard, blatant disregard for others' personal space and comfort. It seems like he learned all of the wrong lesson
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by kilna 5y ago
Bernie's support of Clinton is something that a non-trivial number of his supporters did not agree with him on, I include myself in that number. Regardless, droves of Bernie supporters showed up at the polls to vote for Clinton, at a r
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by kilna 5y ago
> She's about as subconsciously condescending as I'd expect a political elite to be That was the point. Nobody was saying she was a moustache-twirling tie-a-person-to-train-tracks villain in this. The problem is she was angling
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by kilna 5y ago
I have a friend who used to work for Snopes. The organization absolutely engages in what you describe. The sad thing is, it’s not some big conspiracy, it’s what humans do naturally and subconsciously to shore up their cognitive dissonance…
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by kilna 5y ago
Racism is expressed by systems that benefit some to the exclusion or detriment of others, based on race. Remind me, what are the "mainstream" demographics of big tech companies? Tech companies are famous for externalizing their pr
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by kilna 5y ago
Capitalism inherently exploits economically unequal systems, and thus incentivizes them in both the private and public sectors (especially in the US where politicians are basically owned outright[1]). So, yes, it is "companies"...
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by kilna 5y ago
I am surprised nobody has mentioned Flatland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
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by kilna 5y ago
If you have a virtual boss so good it can't be easily gamed (it actually knows the worker's job), and also so socially nuanced that people will actually work for it, then you have an AI advanced enough to just do the worker's
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by kilna 5y ago
tl:dr; Guns don't kill people, AS/400s rob people... or something.
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by kilna 5y ago
Apple concedes that water is, indeed, wet. Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) prohibits employers from restricting “collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.” This directly includes employees discussing sala
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by kilna 5y ago
Add another log on the fire. Most every major news story whose only sources were active/loyal-former intelligence agents in the past few decades has turned out to be a lie, or so unsubstantiated as to be indistinguishable from a lie. T
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by kilna 5y ago
That's rich coming from Maher.
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by kilna 5y ago
"In the wake of the GameStop short squeeze" Riiiiiiight.
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by kilna 5y ago
Those who want to keep the current draconian status quo in place are incentivized to make public any wins, it would justify the existence of the extreme measures. The fact that they haven't boasted about any win is telling.
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by kilna 5y ago
> This isn't something accounting practices or "less greed" would solve Are you seriously trying to say that production being moved to China, et al. is not because of greed generally, and ROE specifically?
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by kilna 5y ago
"Their findings: Without a News Feed algorithm, [...] Facebook makes even more money from users scrolling through the News Feed." The obvious conclusion one can draw is that the product is primarily engineered to control users&#x2

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