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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
I'd point out the extreme irony of this comment, but I suspect it'll fall on deaf ears.
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
A lot of the credit? Estonia is 99% of Skype. There's a reason their tech ecosystem (which is more impressive than Sweden's) is called the "Skype Mafia"
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
I can't imagine living in a place where everyone is constantly moralizing about things like "media diversity". How exhausting.
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
Humans (technologists) in particular are awful at extrapolating. Transformers being able to combine rudimentary, defined "concepts" and scaling that into human intelligence makes about as much sense as extrapolating a XOR gate or
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
No, "most humans" aren't going to moralize and want to give back to their country in the form of taxes as a thank you when they strike gold. Being forced to give a large portion of my family's hard earned wealth to a tir
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
It's probably pointless to discuss this with someone who insists on generalizing anyone above a certain net worth as being selfish, but - As it turns out, it's no longer the 80s, and there are increasingly multiple other countries
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
You have next to no understanding of the opposite side of the political spectrum if you think Parler shut down because of people running away from their content. Who created that content in the first place?
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
That doesn't mean it was a good thing. Democracy isn't the only "right" way to maximize outcomes for a society, as much as western moralism might want it to be.
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
Yep. Feels a bit like blaming a failed shuttle launch on calculus.
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
They had better tech and horses. Certainly not "outnumbering" them. That + their immune systems is why they won.
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
Well no. "AI" is as much artificial as a variable assignment of x=5 is. It's a construct. AI isn't a "technology" today. It's literally just linear algebra.
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
Give severance? If a person is getting fired they're obviously not a net positive to their manager, so why would you want to protect them
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
I mean... it's artificial in the same way linear algebra or calculus is artificial
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
You're right. If you're lucky enough to be born in the US, you're going to have a better life than 90% of people in the world and 90% of people who have ever existed.
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by nxmnxm99 5y ago
Yeah. I grew up in a third world country and moved to North America pretty late. I never realized how sheltered and weak Americans were till I joined a well known YC company.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
War is less likely but more destructive, leading to the e(v) being about the same.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Not individual personas, but the media organizations themselves. These aren't scrappy publications living in damp, ill-lit rooms exposing the evil villains of Gotham, these are multi billion dollar corporations with political ambitions
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Yeah it's a cute story but it's off the mark because more often than not nowadays the mainstream journalists ARE the rich and powerful. If you want to see journalists actually performing the role of being checks on power, go to th
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
What? I'm confused
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Absolutely it is.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
I agree, and I'm still very thankful for DDG. Would gladly pay to have someone take me even further.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Yeah I've tried DDG reliably for nearly a year. A good 30% of the time I end up having to run my query on Google anyway. I will literally pay money for a search engine that's privacy focused and can get closer to Google in terms o
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
9/10 people on Earth reading this are cringing because of how privileged it sounds. The complaints you’re describing are for babies.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
You know where you don't see every other person crying about mental health on their iPhone? The entire developing world. This isn't a mental health crisis. Westerners are just babies.
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
> This recurrent story where extremely intelligent people are battling mental health issues and cannot speak out because the stigma behind this issue is too damaging is why we need to normalize the discourse around mental health if we wa
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
As a minority growing up in a developing world with actual problems, I never once even heard of these "waters" until immigrating to the most wealthy & powerful country in the world. Such is the product of a country which hasn&
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
So what is? If the visionary genius of Steve Jobs doesn't qualify for intelligence, what does?
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
What exactly do you consider an evidence of intelligence?
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
Americans aren’t watching their children die due to a lack of medicine
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by nxmnxm99 6y ago
If you have to force your users into a new UI, it's a shit UI

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