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by lm28469 10mo ago
The good thing is that we'll be able to fact check this comment in 50 years
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by lm28469 10mo ago
> It's not obvious that LLM generation won't create more interesting music experiences It's very obvious that it's polluting and/or killing everything it touched so far though
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by lm28469 10mo ago
Most people won't listen to 10tb of unique tracks in their entire lives, let alone 30tb or 300tb... 1tb of music is about a full year of 24/7 unique tracks
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by lm28469 10mo ago
> Which is also OK. It's financially smart to realize you don't have the resources and not have kids. It's sad to see people so deep in the consumerist rat race that giving life is seen as a cell in their life's finan
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by lm28469 10mo ago
If you wait until everything is planned, ready and accounted for you'll never have kids.
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by lm28469 10mo ago
You can appeal, and until every legal options have been pursued a verdict is not final. Since you're innocent until proven guilty, and you cannot be guilty untill all options have been pursued, you're free until the appeal has bee
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by lm28469 10mo ago
Because you can appeal a decision, and a verdict isn't final until every legal options have been pursued, appeal being one of them It's simple really, but if course it's not as outrageous and can't be used as rage bait
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by lm28469 10mo ago
> the guy who kills a family is also an executioner Quite literally not... "executioner: an official who effects a sentence of capital punishment on a condemned person". An executioner is someone who is legally allowed to give
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by lm28469 10mo ago
It's just a job, and the decision is backed by justice. The guy who kills a family for fun is more aggressive than the guy who execute him. I'm not even sure how you could get to any other conclusion
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by lm28469 10mo ago
Sarkozy is out because in France you're free until proven guilty, unless you represent a risk to society or have a high risk of fleeing, neither apply to him, hence he's free until the final verdict
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by lm28469 10mo ago
We're too busy with real life to bother with generating SVGs of pelicans on bicycles sorry, but feel free to dump billions on chatbots
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by lm28469 10mo ago
Lesswrong looks like a forum full of terminally online neckbeards who discovered philosophy 48 hours ago, you can dismiss most of what you read there don't worry
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by lm28469 11mo ago
> the issue is there is very little text before the internet, Hm there is a lot of text from before the internet, but most of it is not on internet. There is a weird gap in some circles because of that, people are rediscovering work from
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Yeah but then again most people think "if it's not capitalism it's communism", there is a whole spectrum and China definitely does not belong in the communist part of the spectrum anymore. It's a mix of authoritaria
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by lm28469 11mo ago
The level of cope... The US and the west in general is on a much more dire trajectory than China (which is facing its own demons, no doubt about that) There is not much left of communism in China besides the name, it's more akin to a g
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by lm28469 11mo ago
The people profiting from the situation aren't the people dealing with the side effects, it really isn't that hard to understand... if you own a club or a building it's a gold mine. If you're just an average citizen ever
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by lm28469 11mo ago
> I would expect that to be the minority of visitors. If you live next to one the "minority" is at least once a week, usually on a workday because they're in vacation while you're not. You get extra trash everywhere,
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by lm28469 11mo ago
> you get to feel like a local and experience life in another place. Like a local with your fellow thousands of other tourists doing the same things, going to the same places, taking the same pictures? Traveling became the most abject co
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by lm28469 11mo ago
LLMs are tools that make mediocre devs 100x more "productive" and good devs 2x more productive
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Always the same old tiring "this has always been possible before in some remotely similar fashion hence we should not criticise anything ever again" argument. You could intuitively think it's just a difference of degree, but
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by lm28469 11mo ago
You can't compare late 90s/early 2000s internet with what kids have access to today. It wasn't a weapon aimed at your attention back then, and certainly not as easily accessible. There isn't much in common between the tw
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by lm28469 11mo ago
> sure I'm not wealthy as fuck but it's perfectly fine. With that you can't even qualify for a 30 years mortgage to buy a single bedroom flat in most western EU capitals lol Some people want more from life than be a rento
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by lm28469 11mo ago
But again you can get all of that and double your salary by working for a US company from europe... All my friends are doing that and are paid 120k+ which no local company would ever pay, that's like exec level salary in most regular l
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by lm28469 11mo ago
And it also creates permanent adulescents, scared of responsibilities, scared of commitment, scared of exploring. I've seen it countless times with teenagers in my family, they're overgrown babies.
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by lm28469 11mo ago
The internship I had half way through my studies for a US based company (10+ years ago) paid more than most tech jobs you can land in Paris with a masters degree (right now)... I think you're underestimating the problem. Tech workers a
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by lm28469 11mo ago
The problem isn't knowledge workers, we have plenty. The problem is that given the choice between being paid $55k for a EU based company and spend half your salary in rent vs making $200k+ working for a US based company most people cho
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by lm28469 11mo ago
70% is bot traffic, the rest is brain damaged terminally online human shells. It really isn't representative of the real world average human intelligence and capacity to debate or even discuss ideas.
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by lm28469 11mo ago
In most countries sim cards are already tied to your identity. Your identity is also known by your ISP. Do you really think a state actor needs anything else to track you already? We gave up privacy when we all accepted to carry a telescree
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by lm28469 11mo ago
Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Bagram collection point ? The wikileak scandals ? 100k+ civilians dead in Iraq for weapons of mass destruction that never existed. 15%+ of drone strike victims being civilian over the last 20 years These are all acci
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by lm28469 11mo ago
That's to be expected for developed countries, the US had about the same increase over the same period: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N Once you remove cooked numbers and account for inflation the

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