llamaimperative

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2011.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
Not weird at all. When (probably when , not if ) we create it, we will quickly be interacting with an entity with a similar power imbalance as we have to ants. No one knows exactly what the outcome will be, even less so what to do about i
2012.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
They didn’t suspend the Post, did they? I remember them banning that article . And could I imagine them banning a Vox or NYT article? Well no, because for better or worse, not being an actual tabloid tends to impart more trust than being
2013.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
Well hey, what else are you expecting those farms in the middle of the desert to use? I mean, my great great great grandpappy put this farm here and it's basically communism to take away our unlimited free and nearly-free water.
2014.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
For readers, AFAICT the evidence that his blogs were created immediately before and deleted immediately after the attack is that the Wayback Machine hadn't indexed them prior to being linked to by major media outlets.
2015.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
Some people don’t like elevating leaders who openly flout and degrade our culture’s expectations of how leaders behave. Some of those are silly, of course, but some of them are not. For example, a leader should be knocked down a few notch
2016.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
> In 2020, 10,583 situations of human trafficking were reported to the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline involving 16,658 individual victims. Shocking as these numbers are, they are likely only a fraction of the actual problem. ht
2017.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
GP is saying he would like not to but cannot shut it off because they’re not using autocorrect but text replacements. It does make sense in the general case to sync text replacements, just not if you’re using it in place of autocorrect
2018.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
Yes, they are neo-Nazi elements. Given that the Nazi political party no longer exists, anyone who adheres to their ideology is described as a neo-Nazi. It has nothing to do with whether they "know their theory," and I'm a bit
2019.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
No one is saying the Nazis thing is “a conspiracy theory.” They’re saying they don’t care. There are neo-nazi elements in every country’s military, especially in Europe. That doesn’t mean Nazis are okay, nor does it mean all of those countr
2020.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
Under this theory of damage, there’s no such thing as theft until you die because there’s always a chance you’ll get your belongings back on your deathbed. So no biggie, right?! Time value of money is a thing. Time under stress is also a re
2021.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
These were not an extermination campaign and so are not really analogous to Indian reservations or Nazi concentration camps. Obviously they were awful!
2022.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
Considering in recent history the other contenders were imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, the USSR, or communist China… yeah the US is preferable to all of those by a wide margin. You know, simple things like 1) not forcing their own women and
2023.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
I too hate when people like things a lot
2024.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
Seems to me that this is a direct corollary of the claim that people’s beliefs are affected at least somewhat by the data they are exposed to. This seems self-evidently true.
2025.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
What do you make of Sam Bankman-Fried describing his business as a literal Ponzi scheme on Odd Lots podcast? The commentary isn’t necessary to see the insanity but here’s fastest way to get to the relevant content: https://youtu.
2026.
by llamaimperative 4y ago
There’s plenty of study of the practice of one entity selling a good or service to another entity. You might call it “economics” or “business.” “Surveillance capitalism” is interesting/unique because not all of the relevant parties in
2027.
by llamaimperative 5y ago
Go pick up a copy of Progress & Poverty, and you too can forward the cause (basically by annoying the living daylights out of all of your friends, like I do)
2028.
by llamaimperative 5y ago
No, the reason governments can do this is because people trust their IOUs. That’s why they can do the same thing with or without any underlying asset with any characteristics. The characteristics of the underlying asset would probably m
2029.
by llamaimperative 5y ago
But again… for what? Are you under the impression that every government is actually authoritarian under the hood but that characteristic just doesn’t really show its head due to encryption? Seems to me authoritarian governments have no pr
2030.
by llamaimperative 5y ago
Singapore is across the board way, way less similar to the US than Western Europe is. Interesting to see healthcare is another hybrid capitalist—socialist success story for them (like their housing/land policies).
2031.
by llamaimperative 5y ago
Put another way: “We” didn’t think anything. There is no such thing as a group changing its mind because a group doesn’t have a mind. Each member thought something, probably something slightly different even when they largely agreed, and ve
2032.
by llamaimperative 5y ago
He’s probably a Georgist, which is basically capitalism with the exclusion of unearned wealth from land ownership. Returns from labor = legitimate, returns from capital = legitimate, returns from just claiming a slice of nature as your own
2033.
by llamaimperative 5y ago
There have also been numerous adverse events (including death) from e.g. MMR or influenza vaccines. That’s because when you put things into millions of people, you are guaranteed to run into an edge case here or there. The fact that you can
2034.
by llamaimperative 5y ago
Right-wing terrorism scare? We all watched angry mobs attempt to disrupt the peaceful transition of power on live TV. These are the same people who proudly fly the flag of literal traitors to our country and call the press the “enemy of t