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by kubb 3mo ago
Idk if this is universal but as soon as I’m on vacation I start learning new things, reading, and getting creative. When I work, my brain is fried from work. On the weekends I need a long period of idleness to recover before I can read a ch
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by kubb 3mo ago
The Guardian is so complicit in reinforcing all of those misleading, industry-driven narratives that it’s not even funny. Completely co-opted. Philosophers should be used in RL training to train the model how to reason well, not to scratch
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by kubb 3mo ago
This isn’t going to get fixed in my lifetime, and that’s sad. Countries have lost the ability to act.
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by kubb 3mo ago
China has its own ideology which upholds the power structures over there. It's very different from its western counterpart. Part of it is that yes there may not be freedom of expression, but thanks to the Party's competent guidanc
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by kubb 3mo ago
Not quite. In some cases we’re certain there’s no benefit.
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by kubb 3mo ago
Ideology isn't something you can avoid. It's always present in a society to support the power structures. Conflating "just having markets" with the current form of capitalism in western countries is exactly the kind of w
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by kubb 3mo ago
I'm sceptical, do you have any data to back this up?
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by kubb 3mo ago
That's most certainly not what happens! The money that goes into buying a stock is being transferred to the people who sold you the stock (which, outside of the IPO are almost always market players). A company with a high stock price c
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by kubb 3mo ago
That does sometimes happen - investment does cause development. The mistake is to assume that's always what happens, and that everybody can benefit from the development.
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by kubb 3mo ago
You're conflating compounding market value with economic growth. One counterexample is when inflation raises prices, but not economic output. Asset prices grow but there's no growth.
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by kubb 3mo ago
I think it’s productive because it serves to stabilize the society by giving it an ideological underpinning. Roughly: there’s no better alternative to capitalism and we have capitalism therefore we have reached optimal society.
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by kubb 3mo ago
The prompter of the LLM that authored the article thought that should be the central point of it. Conclusion that they were going for: we don’t need economics today and everything should be left to its own devices. Interestingly, an LLM can
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by kubb 3mo ago
In practice, markets were managed since the Bronze Age. Back then, authorities set wages and prices through palace and temple institutions, standardized weights, etc.
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by kubb 3mo ago
You probably mean that those with money decide what has value or something like that. If you don’t want to talk that’s fine by me.
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by kubb 3mo ago
Then the value-expectations are even more dubious and harder to justify.
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by kubb 3mo ago
If by value you mean profit, but that's a conflation that you shouldn't be making. Often profit is generated by actively harming people (eg. human trafficking).
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by kubb 3mo ago
OK I accept this definition for the scope of this comment, but there's no profit on the horizon.
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by kubb 3mo ago
You mean those who can pay the most for them? Value is not in the picture here.
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by kubb 4mo ago
Crime and Punishment is mild compared to something like Law and Peace or Anna Karenina.
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by kubb 4mo ago
Impossible because of the unified CPU/GPU chip that the Steamdeck used.
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by kubb 4mo ago
But all those VC projects are crap too.
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by kubb 4mo ago
I wish I could pull this off on a smaller scale and just switch to a fulfilling life afterwards. The years I spend on nonsense will never come back.
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by kubb 4mo ago
The national results page literally has a section where it shows separate results for native-born and non-native born participants. You claim that you're interested, so it's strange to see you speculate about what "turns out&
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by kubb 4mo ago
Do you care about trends? Like an increase from 19% to 28% between 2017 and 2023?
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by kubb 4mo ago
I don't know, but the person who did likely is in the US and by default cares mostly about it.
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by kubb 4mo ago
When quoting a factual statistic is "shitting on the US", you're losing the ability to address issues.
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by kubb 4mo ago
Let's wait until it's been verified.
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by kubb 4mo ago
Same here (72 750) but it doesn't feel right. I'm not a native speaker and I was able to guess some of them via elimination or cognates. I'd say I know 10 000 words tops.
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by kubb 4mo ago
Depends which objection you mean... But your choices are more limited than you might think. Ultimately what's available to you is decided by the economic machinery upstream.
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by kubb 4mo ago
Wartime production mobilization, public health (vaccine procurement, disease eradication), natural monopolies like power grids. Public transport, water and sewage systems, infrastructure like roads and bridges are more of a hybrid model wit

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