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by lm28469 1y ago
They're all bleeding money so yes it's inevitable. It's always the same thing, uber, food delivery, escooter, &c. they bait you with cheap trials and stay cheap until the investors money run out, and once you're reli
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by lm28469 1y ago
100 years ago the British Empire ruled the world, today it's a small island nobody care about. People underestimate how fast things can move
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by lm28469 1y ago
That's such an edge case though.... what about my fine tuned piano? Or my aquarium? At some point personal luxuries don't have to be accommodated for
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by lm28469 1y ago
"b-bu-but people can buy more slop and chinese gadgets, why aren't they happy?" That's how you sound... they're unhappy because they can't afford a house or kids, because jobs are increasing precarious and unst
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Also, I can help you on your moral waffling: what he did was fundamentally wrong. It depends on how you read the situation, if it's a slow brewing revolution it'll be deemed morally right after the facts
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by lm28469 1y ago
> free markets Where is this free market you're talking about ? Is it the ones with all the lobbies spending billions to get ahead ? Or the one where the government friends get the juicy contracts ?
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by lm28469 1y ago
It mostly didn't for the past 50 years though: https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/23410.jpeg That's the whole problem, nobody would care if they could afford the same standard of livi
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by lm28469 1y ago
We get told they get paid so much because they take all the responsibilities and risks, that's simply a new risk
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by lm28469 1y ago
Hm yeah buddy that's not really how it goes historically though. You can't just tell people to pound sand indefinitely, something has to give
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by lm28469 1y ago
I'm on the scythe team, it's quite relaxing and a good workout, 0 noise, almost no insect/animals killed. Sure it's slow, but you can skip the gym for a few days after mowing, it hits my abs harder than 200kg dealifts or
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by lm28469 1y ago
Wait until you learn killing is legal during wartime... Absolutely revolting
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by lm28469 1y ago
> This is one of those things that should be unnecessary if we all had perfect self-control, It's like food, easier to have self control not to buy candies in the supermarket than to have self control at home when you know you have
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by lm28469 1y ago
That's why you should use multiple accounts and bullshit about 30% of what you post. LLMs are godsent for that, they poison their own well.
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by lm28469 1y ago
Bigger than internet and computers? Lmao, I don't even know if I'd place it as high as the GPS. Some people are terminally online and it really shows...
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by lm28469 1y ago
idk man, even Yann LeCun says you have to be smoking crack to believe llms will give you agi.
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Those $800 Chinese printers are extremely capable after all. I got my bambu a1 for ~300 euros during the latest sales, I'm still kind of shocked at how good it is for the price. I can't remember the last time I was that impre
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by lm28469 1y ago
Sure, now half of the class is obese by the time they're 13, I guess it makes it harder for kidnappers too so at least there is some logic
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Who needs arguments when you can dismiss Turing with a “yeah but it’s not real thinking tho”? It seems much less far fetched than what the "agi by 2027" crowd believes lol, and there actually are more arguments going that way
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by lm28469 1y ago
There are 300 kid abductions per year in the US, more or less the same amount of people who got struck by lightning or the same about of kids who drown in swimming pool. I don't see any hysteria around two of these topics though
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by lm28469 1y ago
Depends on the country, I was in eastern europe over winter and there were kids sledging by themselves between buildings, on the local hill, &c. some weren't much older than 5. That was in the second largest city of the country, no
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by lm28469 1y ago
Literally nothing ? because statistically speaking they virtually all survived. And of the ones that did not survive the extreme vast majority didn't die because they were "playing outside"
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by lm28469 1y ago
The problem in that case is that it kills unintentionally when it's used in a way that shouldn't end up in a discharge at all. If you put your gun in your pants pocket and shoot your balls while running around it's on you, if
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by lm28469 1y ago
> in healthier bodies We must live on different planet
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by lm28469 1y ago
Not never, but never in recent history. I'd say the cut off point was when we moved most of our factories to cheaper countries and made our economies reliant on services instead of goods. I'm sure a worker in the peak of the indus
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by lm28469 1y ago
It reminds me of the early days of the russian invasion when everyone was mocking russia for having the same gdp as spain. As it turns out having a small gdp doesn't mean much as long aas you have industries and resources. France inclu
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by lm28469 1y ago
Why would they?
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by lm28469 1y ago
> Are HNers or tech people in general just very idealistic and naive? Most of us are terminally online and/or in a set of concentric bubbles that makes us completely oblivious to most of the real world. You know the quote about &quo
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by lm28469 1y ago
Largest empire in history in 1920 to small isolated island speedrun any %. It's a good modern historical example of how you cannot take anything for granted on a long enough timescale (wink wink USA), and it wasn't even that long,
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by lm28469 1y ago
100%, it reminds me of this post I saw yesterday about how chatgpt confirmed "in its own words" it is a CIA/FBI honeypot: https://www.reddit.com/r/MKUltra/comments/1mo8whi/chatgpt_ad... Wh
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by lm28469 1y ago
Besides climate change and the fact that we killed like ~70% of wildlife in less than a hundred years ? Nope

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