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by martin-t 11mo ago
Honestly, why do so many people, especially in the western hemisphere, act so shocked when somebody speaks their mind openly? To me this kind of communication says it comes from a real person who has real experiences, not the marketing depa
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We shouldn't shoot down good ideas just because a bad implementation is possible.
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I like the application of Dunbar's number, though I am torn on (2). The largest countries currently have over 1 billion citizens, that's still 10 million representatives. That's as much as some countries. One solution is to s
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by martin-t 11mo ago
It's a law of nature that they will _try_.[0] That's why people should always have ways of defending themselves, whether it's with courts or guns. [0]: This is not a figure of speech - many anti-social traits which result in
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by martin-t 11mo ago
I've been saying this too but lately I think the fundamental notion of power is wrong. There's 2 perspectives which are 2 sides of the same coin: --- All social relationships should be consensual. This means based on _fully-inform
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by martin-t 11mo ago
A threat is not a debate. But really, the point GP was trying to make (IMO) is that all western democracies are very obviously sliding towards authoritarianism. They are building tools which, even _if_ they don't abuse them now, will b
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by martin-t 11mo ago
Restrictions and oversight should increase proportionally to the power an entity has. This is a very under-appreciated concept.
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It might be "proper" but I never liked it. Many proper uses of the em-dash put two words visually together—despite being parts of two distinct units separated by the em-dash. I much prefer using a normal dash with a space on each
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Have they considered nushell though? It works on both POSIX-like OSes and Windows so it's not platform specific. I'd like to know if it wasn't ready in time (then why not work together instead of starting a new shell, pun not
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When I was younger, I thought about a scenario in which I'd be the dictator of a small country trying to make it an actually good place to live. Citizenship would be opt-in and would require an intelligence test. You can tell I was qui
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by martin-t 11mo ago
I was gonna say the last few percent might increase the size disproportionally as the last percent tend to do[0] but looks like boa passes fewer tests (~91%). This is something I notice in small few-person or one-person projects. They don&#
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There is no collective "the west", there are people in power and the rest of the population. This distinction is universal. In China it just so happens that the people in power already have so much of it they don't have to pr
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A lot of bad people, especially those with money and/or power and also their sympathizers (temporarily embarrassed millionaires, flying monkeys, ...) would also object. Inconveniently, those are also the same people in charge of the me
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TBH a lot of humans are also trained to think these things are bad. What if somebody builds an actually morally consistent AI? A lot of talk about AI alignments considers the major risks to be a) AI optimizing one criterion which leads to h
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by martin-t 11mo ago
> magical times can never be had again Yes, they can. But we need to admit to ourselves that people are not equal. Not just in terms of skill but in terms of morality and quality of character. And that some people are best kept out. Corp
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Power is a spectrum. Power differentials will always exist but we can absolutely strive to make them smaller and smaller. 1) Most of the civilized world no longer has hereditary dictators (such as "kings"). Because they were remov
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It does not work to produce a society where people are actually the ones holding power and where laws side with those in the right - i.e. the current legal system anywhere does not represent a consistent moral system and is not even close.
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Voting doesn't work because people are not smart enough to think multiple steps ahead of people who are professionals at this. Voting doesn't work because everybody votes on everything, not just people who understand the subject m
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by martin-t 11mo ago
> These laws aren’t meant to be followed Selective enforcement should be illegal - people practicing it should be put in prison, the law should be auto-repealed, any past sentences cancelled and the people sentenced should be compensated
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by martin-t 1y ago
This should be taught in primary school. I had a realization that logical biases and fallacies form well-known patterns only at uni and only on my own. I then had a much worse realization - that most people still don't know about them
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by martin-t 1y ago
I hear this argument with some regularity and i don't think it would work the way you expect. Have you gamed it out in your head? 1) A lot of people would immediately stop contributing to open source. In fact i ahead have because ML is
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by martin-t 1y ago
And this is why "vote with your wallet" does not work. As a consumer there's no way to decide who gets the money. In fact, even the people who made the game (did the actual work, not managers, advertisers, etc.) don't ge
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by martin-t 1y ago
That's what I am thinking. I'd use a local LLM too to make sure the original prompt does not leak and can't be connected to the published output.
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> Denmark's constitution does have a privacy paragraph, but it explicitly mentions telephone and telegraph, as well as letters And this is why laws should always include their justification. The intent was clearly to protect people
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A lot has been written about FPTP/plurality voting: - https://rangevoting.org/ - https://rangevoting.org/BayRegsFig.html - http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ - https://nc
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OK, tell me which dumb people understand: - The differences between voting systems and why FPTP is one of the worst options possible. - That opinions are N-dimensional vectors and elections are describing your opinion by picking one point f
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From personal experience, because we see a lot more of what's wrong but have no power to change it. Intelligence makes you notice problems and sometimes even come up with solutions much more easily. It does not make convincing other pe
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by martin-t 1y ago
Very relevant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th... Some more interesting comments: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9iTWHaE7f3AJ/melatonin-... TL;DR:
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> you have a massively simplistic view of employee value That's why I talk about skill levels later, but briefly because this is a comment, not a book. There's also a difference between how much value is provided can be attribu

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