komali2

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by komali2 6mo ago
> So I created an iOS app for Friendster, and I made it so that in order to connect with someone as a friend, you have to actually tap phones together in real life. And thus ensured your social network won't have 72% of the world on
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by komali2 6mo ago
There's not much point in us each accusing the other of misrepresenting facts, as I'm about to do you. So instead, how about trying to answer the question that capitalism can't, within the confines of capitalist incentives -
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by komali2 6mo ago
If it's any consolation, this isn't unique to "the West," AI programming has completely taken over in the PRC as well.
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by komali2 6mo ago
> There are less people starving now than ever now I see no reason to attribute that to capitalism. Capitalist and non capitalist societies had famines, and capitalist and non capitalist societies industrialized and improved people'
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by komali2 6mo ago
Looking around, the evidence doesn't seem to support this conclusion. 50% of food thrown away, yet people go hungry. Every privatized industry diminishes in quality and reach. Selects and optimizes for profit rather than for human need
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by komali2 6mo ago
The kicker is he wasn't able to compete without the agents. IMO this is the natural end state of LLM fueled capitalism: products skating along the razor edge between "has value under capitalism" and "is a heap of garbage
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by komali2 6mo ago
> Copyright protected you against your work being used in ways you did not agree to. Is this true? Remember that Harlan Ellison plagiarism case, the nightmare he went through to get a payout? It seems the vast majority of times, when a c
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by komali2 6mo ago
Capitalism already is a poor allocator of human effort, resources, and energy, why lock in on this specifically? There's entire professions that are essentially worthless to society that exist only to perpetuate the inherent contradict
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by komali2 6mo ago
> SHTF We have a pretty big meshtastic/meshcore / reticulum scene in Taiwan organized through g0v's civic defense group. It's a nontrivial issue for us when the PRC keeps cutting our cables - which is why Audrey Tang
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by komali2 6mo ago
I've got friends in the scene and their behavior about it reminds me of other types of friends I have 1. Amateur pilots 2. People late in their years getting into martials arts for the first time (will be the loudest "KIYA"s
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by komali2 6mo ago
I vaguely remember reading an article where someone had somehow transmitted digital signals over HAM, could feasibly be a transport for a reticulum network, right?
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by komali2 6mo ago
Set it up, and when family visit, give them little LORA pucks to strap onto their belts when they go out on the property. Boom little property wide messaging network. Send out a text when dinner's ready!
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by komali2 6mo ago
For that specific use case, if you already have a component out there, couldn't you instead have it trigger water at some % water saturation?
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by komali2 6mo ago
Why ought it be? Between you, me, and the Deepseek team, so far as I'm aware, only one entity has caused the Western frontier model companies to panic by delivering an open model that competes far more cheaply, to the point where peopl
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by komali2 6mo ago
The psycholinguist? He's written about it? I mean ok I'll go check it out. In return I recommend some David Graeber.
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by komali2 6mo ago
I wonder if you're like me? I tried out the MCPs and sub agents and rules and bells and whistles and always just came back to a plain Codex / Claude Code / Cursor Agent terminal window, where I say what I want, @ a few files,
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by komali2 6mo ago
> but sure do seem to help come promo time. I personally noticed this. The speed at which development was happening at one gig I had was impossible to keep up with without agentic development, and serious review wasn't really possib
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by komali2 6mo ago
I'm not sure. I have a buddy that's one of the better engineers I know personally, and he struggled to maintain an "AI Lent" for even a month. He found he just wasn't productive enough without it. He did a writeup:
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by komali2 6mo ago
Agreed. Whenever I grab my thinkpad I find the 16:9 ratio jarring. I'm a 3:2 guy now through and through, can't ever go back.
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by komali2 6mo ago
> I encourage you to put this in an LLM and ask if you're being fair. Or, I could engage in a conversation with a human, like you. LLMs only tell you what you want to hear. This is disappointing that you suggested this to me, it lea
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by komali2 6mo ago
> (return land, release prisoners, regime change). Is your proposal to "just stop doing war?" There's a reason it's happening - Israel has engaged in imperialism and genocide, and there are people alive today from wh
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by komali2 6mo ago
> And we honor our veterans, and for a good reason. (Without them, we would be captured/killed by other veterans, and honor them anyway). Modern civilizational culture is a thin patina on top of our primal behavior. This is too cyni
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by komali2 6mo ago
This is so bizarre, your initial comment comes off like the typical "crime is because diversity" people, but it sounds like you have some kind of class conscious issue with affordability?
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by komali2 6mo ago
Ok I'm just gonna straight up ask: do people actually like "oh no stepbrother" porn? What's with the huge proliferation of it? I only watch it because it seems like 80% of the well shot, quality porn is step family shit,
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by komali2 6mo ago
It sounds like they were considering liberating the ICE concentration camp. If you go down that route, you need to be ready for the terrorism charges. They brought rifles and one of them allegedly shot at a cop. Personally, it's a mora
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by komali2 6mo ago
> And yes, I am intentionally not being specific and leaving room for assumption. One thing I've consistently noticed about these kinds of conversations is that people want to be allowed to share racist opinions without suffering th
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by komali2 6mo ago
> to the limits of the supporting land Exactly, under capitalism, "limit to growth" means "maladapted." Only things that grow forever are considered successful under capitalism, even if that growth is to the detriment
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by komali2 6mo ago
And the alcoholism? The antidepressants?
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by komali2 6mo ago
This is stretching a metaphor way beyond anything plausible. Fusion in a sun is a positive feedback loop therefore... Compound interest is natural? It's not even a good metaphor since a star is mostly a stable system. The better metaph
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by komali2 6mo ago
Yes, the State economy is capitalist, but the family groups are clearly operating under some kind of Communism. The article itself mentions it - "nothing you own is actually yours, everything is owned by the family." Thus wealth a

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