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by krapp 5mo ago
>The statistics I have heard quoted say, that merely 25% of the people actually like their job. Meaning they like doing what they do for its own sake, not because it gets them money, which they desperately need to live. Even people who l
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by krapp 5mo ago
We all have to pay for the actions of these guys because they were voted into power. Americans had the opportunity to avoid this but decided they wanted more of it, and now they're getting it. Elections have consequences.
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by krapp 5mo ago
A Star-Trek style "post-scarcity" economy can't exist in the real world. It depends on an impossible paradigmatic shift in basic human nature across the entire species (people just "evolve" beyond their base vices a
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by krapp 5mo ago
Programs helping vulnerable groups, domestic violence survivors, children, the elderly, non-white people etc. (in other words, "woke" social programs) are usually the first to get gutted by a Republican administration looking to &
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by krapp 5mo ago
Plenty of people besides the Pope have made essentially the same criticisms about AI and the dangers of the cultlike influence it seems to have on our society. Every one of those people were dismissed as paranoid and ignorant Luddites who s
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by krapp 5mo ago
Did this studied person teach you how to make a salient point because it seems like you're just criticizing grammar.
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by krapp 5mo ago
"only two search engines exist in the west" and "only two search engines in the west are of usable quality to me" are contradictory statements. The models free to download aren't the models used by OpenAI, Anthropic
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by krapp 5mo ago
How is it possible to decentralize a technology that needs data centers the size of Manhattan? It doesn't seem like a reasonable solution. A better solution would be to just not have AI at all, outside of the few research roles where L
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by krapp 5mo ago
Peter Thiel is just putting an ill-defined pseudo-Christian facade around his AI accelerationist beliefs because he knows that in the current American right-wing climate evangelical Christianity is what drives political power particularly i
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by krapp 5mo ago
What decentralization? AI is more extremely centralized than any other technology.
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by krapp 5mo ago
> Anyone with common sense knows that social media have many negative effects, attention span, negative beliefs and ideas, addiction, etc. This is common sense. > Just like inhaling smoke into your lungs can't be healthy right? Y
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by krapp 5mo ago
The intended defense is that we all march on Washington armed to the teeth and shoot dead every last politician standing and start over. Of course that made a lot more sense in the 18th century than it does in the 21st, we tend to view stat
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by krapp 5mo ago
To be fair, links at the top of the site header aren't exactly hidden. I've seen comments where people haven't noticed for years that the site has a footer with links as well. The mods added thread folding and people just nev
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by krapp 5mo ago
You can't spell 'slaughter' without 'laughter.'
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This isn't tik-tok. You don't have to use terms like "un-alive" here. Comments on HN aren't policed for maximum advertiser appeal. And yes, that's more or less the endgame.
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by krapp 5mo ago
>instead it seems like you quite a clear agenda and wouldn't care much about any evidence against social media, maybe because you work at one of those corporations or just are ideologically attached to one. And there it is. I don&#x
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by krapp 5mo ago
That's an emotional statement, not a rational one, which kind of proves the point that what's going on here is a moral panic. As does a cursory glance at this thread. It's all heat and very little light.
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by krapp 5mo ago
You should learn the difference between correlation and causation, and maybe read the summary of the study you're posting: There is an independent association between problematic use of social media/internet and suicide atte
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by krapp 5mo ago
Just choose a subset of Markdown that doesn't allow inline HTML. This always comes up as an intractible problem in these discussions but I don't get it. If you're making a new protocol you can define a Markdown spec for that
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by krapp 5mo ago
Inline images can be advertising. Images you have to fetch manually can be advertising. Text can be advertising. Anywhere you have a means to exchange information, you can also have advertising.
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by krapp 5mo ago
I'm convinced that at the very center of it you have conventional but advanced top secret craft, counterintelligence and normal spy vs spy stuff. Everything else is a circus of lies, memes, folklore and psyops though. Look up Paul Benn
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by krapp 5mo ago
Nothing this administration has done with regard to UAPs has been serious. All of it has been a fully self-aware and attempt at distraction and shitposting. All of it is a grift.
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by krapp 5mo ago
Everyone is twelve now. If you're twelve, this is hilarious.
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by krapp 5mo ago
>unless google searches are also illegal for hacker news commenting Posting verbatim from google searches would not be allowed either. This forum is for conversations between human beings, not machine generated content. I don't know
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by krapp 5mo ago
It isn't welcome here. We're here to have conversations with human beings, not robots. If rekabis cared about what an LLM had to say they could have done that themselves.
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by krapp 5mo ago
I'm not talking about decent people, I'm talking about racists and xenophobes and yes, fascists. When Hillary Clinton made her remark about the "basket of deplorables" (to use a well-worn example of the left "gangin
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by krapp 5mo ago
Trump's base is still with the principles of the movement. It's important not to confuse the popularity of the man with the popularity of what he represents. The American right has wanted 95% of what Trump is doing for decades - t
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by krapp 5mo ago
Trump 2024 won 49.8% of the vote versus Harris' 48.3%, out of the 65.3% of eligible voters who voted (about 154 million of 174 million people.) Trump's exact vote tally was 77,284,118. That many people voted for him, versus 74,999
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It's a nice story and it's true. Weekends, sick days, vacation days, being paid in legal tender and not company scrip, maternity leave, safety regulations, disabled affordance, banning child labor, civil rights and womens' ri
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by krapp 5mo ago
People work 5 days a week because of protracted violent strikes by unions and socialist revolutionaries forcing governments to recognize labor rights. Prior to that the norm was working 7 days a week, sunup to sundown, with only Christmas o

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