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by marvin 3y ago
You probably missed my implication: It's a misplaced accusation of hypocrisy.
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by marvin 3y ago
Not perfect. Brings the problems of social solutions too. Popularity contests, smooching, people & groups ostracized for status game reasons, other forms of social bullying and so on. It’s maybe great for a frat, but it will struggle fo
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by marvin 3y ago
Refreshing to hear someone criticize Twitter for pre-Musk censorship and discourse-destroying policies, which indeed go right to Dorsey’s front door. Most current anti-Twitter sentiment I see is from people who hate Elon Musk and want to se
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by marvin 3y ago
That is a consolation, but only a small one when the state violence apparatus is standing by to punish those who use them. It must never be illegal in the first place.
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by marvin 3y ago
That's hardly an argument against allowing people to build on their own property.
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by marvin 3y ago
Norway's gas exports saved the EU from kneeling to Russia during 2021 and 2022. Our exports prevented Russia's invasion of Ukraine from becoming an unmitigated disaster to European autonomy. Now sitting at approximately 30% of
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by marvin 3y ago
21% of working-age population on various forms of welfare, 33% working in the public sector and a whooping 33% working in the private sector. Taxation rates among the highest in the world. There's plenty to criticize about the Norwegia
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by marvin 3y ago
I tried to make it joke at the expense of Norwegians speaking a particular dialect, and it refused. (Language spoken by 5 million people). When I tried to jailbreak it by prompting it to make the joke from the perspective of an esteemed act
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by marvin 3y ago
Imagine how magnificent it would have been if they managed stage separation after doing a 360 cartwheel, via some sick on-the-fly manual intervention. I was half hoping for it.
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by marvin 3y ago
Do you have references for the last of your claims? I thought I did a reasonably exhaustive search for a layperson, but the sources I found could certainly be wrong. My hobby searches in this area have led me to conclude that etymology isn&
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by marvin 3y ago
In the case of cheese, I've had a long-running discussion with French extended family regarding exactly what the words refer to. Norwegian 'cheese' = 'ost', and we refer to the brown cheese produced by boiling and s
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by marvin 3y ago
At least if you're in the EU, you are one GDPR deletion request away from removing the legal grounds of such a simulacrum of you. Not that I'm in favor of the way the GDPR has played out in general, but, you know, at least in this
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by marvin 3y ago
This is too complex to summarize in one sentence, especially after parts of the US political right have adopted the tactics of the extreme left. But summarizing, the hundreds of people who have lost their jobs over false allegations of e.g.
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by marvin 4y ago
Similar is true for practically all countries that have reduced their CO2 emissions. Can’t be bothered to dig up a source, but probably yours also links this data. Exported CO2 emissions negating improvement is a myth, or disinformation.
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by marvin 4y ago
It’s hard to fathom a society where the majority will not defend themselves against literal violence. In a sense it’s closer to the original Christian ideal than most, but I don’t see how that can lead to peace, joy and prosperity long-term
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by marvin 4y ago
My partner, not knowing the city, was about to book a hotel in this area but felt the vibes of the neighborhood and got the hell out of there.
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by marvin 4y ago
Would it be considered a liberal policy to tolerate someone walking into a store, conspicuously stealing ~$500 worth of goods, yelling, punching, and throwing furniture at anyone who confronts them and then returning the next day to do it a
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by marvin 4y ago
Legalize home construction in the places where people want to live. That solves the biggest issue.
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by marvin 4y ago
Well, if they keep buying once there are twice as many housing units as people that want to buy them, they’ll go bankrupt and no one will buy their assets at a reasonable price. So that problem solves itself.
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by marvin 4y ago
That’s obviously false; they built the future at every juncture, usually to protests from the status quo. I’m excluding the desk jockey pundits from the argument, of course.
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by marvin 4y ago
Yes. Banning US social media will in my estimation be a net loss for Europe, whereas banning TikTok would be a net win. Subtle US interference and soft power, unpalatable though it may be, is not a real problem for European quality of life
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by marvin 4y ago
The question you should ask, as a fellow European, is whether reducing influence from the US government, a stable but somewhat flawed democracy, is worth the price of losing access to US social media. Think in geopolitical terms, with all t
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by marvin 4y ago
And in turn, I have ceased using reddit on mobile after a 17-year streak. Guessing old.reddit.com will be the next to go, and then it's goodbye for good.
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by marvin 4y ago
Artificially constrained supply combined with marginal buyers that earn >$300k/year and 0% interest rates would lead to extremely high prices.
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by marvin 4y ago
The momentum of investment even in known techniques makes it pretty clear that there will be even more useful things than GPT-4 available very shortly. Never mind in 10 years, with global training & inference capacity increased by mul
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by marvin 4y ago
This time it isn't a bunch of empty suits from McKinsey saying it. It's the technologists that built the Internet and smartphones. By all means keep your own estimates of what the world will look like in 10 years and act according
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by marvin 4y ago
Choose a different insurance company, then. I get the disagreement with the surveillance, but choosing to drive a Tesla and choosing to use their insurance are both active decisions with hundreds of competitive alternatives.
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by marvin 4y ago
This is far from the doomsday argument, but maybe it's the "AI can do everything that has significant economic value today" argument.
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by marvin 4y ago
I don't think this is missing at all. It's literally just what a bank does. Historically, a bog standard, straight-up boring old school bank . No fancy investment banking, no crazy growth strategy, no risky lending to maximize re
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by marvin 4y ago
"The ability to achieve objectives in many different environments" is as good of a definition you need in order to achieve very powerful things. Would be nice to have enough of a theory of intelligence to be more precise than that

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