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by mxkopy 4y ago
I'm not comfortable playing MAD/prisoners dilemma with stakes this high. If other people are, and the systems we make put those people in charge, then maybe it's for the best. Perhaps we'll destroy ourselves so thoroughl
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Log in to view this page. To register, please provide a valid 8-digit biomarker. We take your privacy very seriously. I'm so grateful for our individualistic society.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
X = X doesn’t seem to be either, but it took some thousands of years for us to grasp the ramifications of such a statement
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Too much Twitter? Not enough sci-fi? I suggest Philip K Dick for this condition. For every condition, tbh
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by mxkopy 4y ago
How are you so sure about any of this? I'm not sure we've defined humanity's interests well enough for us to say some action is for or against it. Knowing where air will go is one thing; knowing whether or not something is &#
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by mxkopy 4y ago
If that's how it is, then that's how it is. And by most people's definition of good and bad, this can't be incorrect. Unless they don't believe in good or bad as truthful labels, which is fair but makes things more
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> When you have AI/AR you no longer need to learn. In a way your comment is gold
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by mxkopy 4y ago
When people talk about AI taking over the world, a funny image pops up in my head where a robot is trying to enter a frying pan. When you ask it why it's doing that, it says "because I feel like [NaN, NaN, 2.45e24, NaN]", whi
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I think it's a bit more complicated than OSS is people that are willing to work for free - and that sort of conception, unfortunately, is why I also think it might not be sustainable. Social contracts are really the key here. What OSS
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by mxkopy 4y ago
In my experience (CV) you typically want 4 dims - (height, width, channels, batch). In Julia you can do element-wise operations on two arrays if their lengths (i.e. size after flattening) are the same. Obviously dimension-wise that sort of
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> Money is not the only motivator in the world. Money + law are the media through which the most well-defined & extensible social structures are expressed. In the U.S. (as example) it's nonstandard to work outside of this. Obvio
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by mxkopy 4y ago
The people who work in the shop can exert influence in city council. Since the town is small, they can exert substantial influence. City council owns the shop. You could say, then, that the workers can exert substantial influence over the o
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> not communism by any remotely reasonable definition. > crudest imaginable definition of communism. From the rules > Please don't post shallow dismissals, > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Let me just point out that you think communism is an "attribute" that a shop could have, like OOP is your guiding philosophy for political structure. My gut tells me you aren't splitting hairs between, say, Marxism and positi
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by mxkopy 4y ago
You keep saying "this is not that, because this is not that" - which is fine and all, but it doesn't make it true. Please keep telling us what communism is and is not. With how certain you seem to be, these comments will sure
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Have you considered that capitalism and communism are economic systems that are in a sense Turing complete, i.e. they can describe the exact same arbitrary economic phenomena And therefore what you have described is in fact communism but in
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by mxkopy 4y ago
No true Scotsman fallacy Are you saying that there's no distinction between local society and the entirety of the United States? That there's no concept of society at different levels?
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Hey man - if you would be so kind as to pretend to be literate for a second - you'd notice the rather semantic "emulated" prefix!
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I'm sorry - is Walmart owned by the U.S. government ?
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I never said there were only two. I'm not sure what you mean?
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I don't think it's divisive, it's pretty straightforward Access to goods is managed & provided by a communal government, in this case even in direct opposition to market forces - I'd say that's communistic It&#x
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by mxkopy 4y ago
They say a large branch fell on him, near the plains...we'll miss that fellow
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Yeah. I'd rather have a deathbed that came really quickly with me remembering a good social life than one in which I'm remembering all the times I almost died but didn't.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Different is the key word. We now also have parasocial relationships and disrupted circadian rhythms.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Games have seen incredible growth as an industry over the past couple decades. It works because everyone and their grandma wants to play CoD, not because what they're doing is sustainable. Let's see how they fare once the markets
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by mxkopy 4y ago
No coincidence of wants is also a requisite for zero-sum. If my estate were used primarily for logging, but people also found it beautiful, I could teach my children how to manage a hostel business and increase its value without devaluing a
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Still, I'd have plenty of time to worry about those things. In fact that would probably be my "job" - developing, maintaining, and expanding the estate that I would eventually leave to my kids.
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In what manner had LISP hurt you ?
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> 90% of people today live a much better life than lords and kings lived 500 years ago. I'm not sure this is true. For one, you can't really compare lives, and for two, happiness seems to be determined by social factors in ways
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by mxkopy 4y ago
That's really quite funny. Tell me again how I should read 'my' original comment - after you've compared my username with the one who made it. The suggestion that Hofstadter has tripped isn't insulting because GEB i

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