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by moolcool 2y ago
Maybe specialty hardware? Are there handsets yet which can connect to starlink?
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Of course there's a lot of factors, but the people who defend his cutbacks at twitter often ignore just how crappy the platform has gotten under his relatively tenure.
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That's good optics, but can you actually do that though? Like you can declare "I claim responsibility!", but in real-life, doesn't a court have to actually find you liable?
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by moolcool 2y ago
This made me think of C&P as well. Specifically how Raskolnikov developed his own half baked ideology where “great men” were free to act with impunity. It’s not hard to draw parallels with “longtermism” and effective altruism.
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A naive observer would look at these numbers and say “wow, I am unsurprised that this movement is made mostly of straight white American male tech workers”. Anyone reaching that conclusion though, would be a fool! For they would have forgot
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by moolcool 2y ago
> Ironically, you exemplify the standard of discourse that the rationalist spaces of discussion like lesswrong strives to go above, which is what makes them so valuable. I guess I misunderstood then. It’s not just an Internet forum. It’s
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But that’s the thing— they are quick to discard those ideas when confronted with the promises of technology and AI. As if glorified Markov chains are somehow going to alter our essential humanity. See the trans-humanists, or that guy who in
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by moolcool 2y ago
Half the time I come across that community online, it’s just love triangles between people with anime profile pictures, “rationalizing” atrocities, and comparing IQ test scores.
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It’s smug to say that your group bickering on an Internet forum is “less wrong” than centuries of philosophers and ethicists
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The funniest thing to me about “rationalists” and “less wrong” is the implication that other schools of thought are “irrationalist” or “more wrong”. The smugness comes before anything else.
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I strongly disagree. Photography can tell stories which videos can't (and vice versa). For example, compare at this image: https://i.imgur.com/pmfMUYc.jpeg To this video containing the same moment: https:/&#
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Okay, Larry Ellison
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And then there's Meta and Apple's diversions into VR. All of these top-down hype driven product decisions which nobody actually wants are laughable.
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Counterpoint: Youtuber AlphaPhoenix does a very good job explaining electricity using the hydraulic analogy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_crwFuPht4
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> But if you won’t be the big tabacco exec, someone else will. In the public discourse, you'll often see CEOs and founders lauded as incredibly brilliant and rare. As soon as you start to talk about ethics though, they're sudde
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Take me back
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I don't think it's worth nit-picking in this case. Everyone wants to reduce their plastic intake, but nobody wants to throw 80% in their kitchenware in the trash. There's no obvious steps you can get people to follow to che
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Wood and bamboo are good options if you have to use a teflon pan
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Pyrex the brand switched to soda lime glass in North America, but you can still find borosilicate glass kitchenware from different vendors.
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I really resent how our collective attention has been so commoditized. Advertising lies at the core of so many of our problems, and I'm not sure how we can come back.
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> For what its worth, I doubt we disagree too much, I think it was a misunderstanding I think so as well-- I'm glad you replied. We certainly agree on the problem of bad care homes. We've all seen and heard the horror stories,
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But you're not just a productivity machine though, and as such, you surely yearn to give and receive care in different ways.
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> No-one said anything about automating any human connection Maybe I was inferring the wrong thing, and if so I apologize, but the context of this comment was invoking LLMs and humanoid robots in a discussion about how "care doesn&#
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It's an interesting conflict. As the businesses scales, small losses which would be acceptable in a smaller operation will scale as well. Maybe a mistake people make as they scale is being too quick to give up the extra couple french f
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I think this is a gross and psychopathic vision of the future. Tell your grandmother that you're going to automate away her need for human connection. What a terrible indignity. I hate my industry.
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To complete the thought, the baker example is explicitly in opposition to OP's point. In the economy we exist in, a 3am artisan baker does so explicitly out of a care for craft and community.
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Say it louder for the people in the back. There's a million examples of tech utopianists walking head-first into ideas and even entire disciplines they previously dismissed as irrelevant or outdated.
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This is a semantics argument which doesn't really challenge his central point.
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Did you read the article? He addresses this point specifically.
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Is that a world you want to live in?

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