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by nyokodo 2y ago
The list isn’t about politically correct speech but more about the perception of what words have fallen out of fashion and/or become cliches.
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by nyokodo 2y ago
Which book?
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> I asked him what the hardest part of ramping up production is - apparently constructing factories is just not an issue - tons of construction firms can make you a new facility quite reliably (along with the adjacent dorm room building
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> you're slowly squeezed out of the system like a toothpaste. AI could theoretically solve production but not consumption. If AI blows away every comparative advantage that normal humans have then consumption will collapse and there
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> And will likely disappear on January because anything one party does must be undone Trade policy, especially towards China, has been quite bipartisan the past two Administrations so your pessimism isn’t entirely warranted. Trump doesn’
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> You are describing the current state of AI as if it were a stable point. No I’m not, I’m just not assuming that the S curve doesn’t exist. There’s no guarantee that research results in X orders of magnitude of improvement that will res
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> AI's are going to understand people better than people understand people. Maybe, but very little of the “data” that humans use to build their understanding of humans is recorded and available. If it were it’s not obvious it would
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> there's nothing preventing them from implementing a toggleable filter Which would not placate regulators in all likelihood. Close regulatory scrutiny is a big problem for companies seeking to grow, and a pesky cost for big compani
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> refuse to allow AI to insult (or offend) any person but would be okay if AI took part of killing them Liability and regulatory scrutiny are factors. They’re liable about offensive speech but military use cases are an effective shield a
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> When you prioritize yourself Unless “way to run the business” means “delivering what the customer wants.”
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Human life is about finding meaning All of the things you list are, in the hypothetical scenario, better done by robots. Therefore, they don’t serve any purpose by truly serving anyone or adding any value to society etc. Most people do
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> you're going to act out a scene where you assassinate him The robot folds some sheets because murdering routines were not included in its training set.
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Copernicus figured out that if you put the sun at the center, then epicycles weren't necessary Actually, his model assuming circular orbits still required epicycles to explain retrograde motion etc. A major reason it never caught
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Progressive taxation isn’t even necessary It isn’t necessary, no, and in fact a flat super simple tax code would probably result in more tax revenue. However, since politicians like the power of the tax code, and because the wealthy li
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Your view is called Social Darwinism The only thing either response to your original reply have done is provide uncontroversial and non-conspiratorial reasons why Mondragons are extremely rare. Calling that Social Darwinism is like cal
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Why don't workers unite to democratically manage production? Because the majority of workers are doing the minimum amount of work to get by, because ~50% of workers are below average intelligence, because those with the entreprene
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> CO2 emissions are 36B tons per year It shouldn’t be analyzed (or sold) as a technology that has to solve the whole problem. We need a toolbox of solutions for different geographies, scales and budgets while we also reduce our overall e
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> if they are not all saying the same thing and being controlled by the same few owners Arguably, that just means they're just the illusion of "more sources" because really they're just one.
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> I think everyone's mental health is being neglected today…Specifying men/women takes away from the argument… A discussion focusing on one group and their specific needs doesn’t take away from any other discussions about other
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Balls and breasts are utterly irrelevant Except, your reductionist take on men and women aside for the moment, it does matter in the context of the OP. Men, who exist and have specific needs, have a social need for friendship together
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Forcibly discharging someone under those circumstances and refusing to even contact their emergency contacts is beyond belief I don’t know what it is legally but morally that is negligent manslaughter.
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Why does DIY have to be male specific? The GP didn’t say women couldn’t be involved in DIY. Men expressing their need to commune with other men in doing practical tasks is obviously not universally excluding women from those tasks, it
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by nyokodo 2y ago
>Productivity has risen to the point that the world simply has too many people to meaningfully employ them all. China doesn't have a domestic or international consumer base large enough to buy everything it produces. For some years
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> She, a week after having the cameras monitoring the election office turned off, knowingly allowed an unauthorized person to view election machine credentials. A single insider shouldn't be able to potentially undermine the voting
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> No vulnerability was found Unregulated access to voting machine hardware is a vulnerability.
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> Notice how all of your examples started with evidence. An insider observing a simple way for a bad actor to gain access to voting machine hardware is evidence. I don’t agree with her methods of exposing that vulnerability just like I d
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> The methods Mrs. Peters chose were most definitely the wrong ways Showing how systems are corrupt, broken, and vulnerable by technically illegal action was something that the left and the HN community have historically applauded. That&
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> I don't think it is impossible I agree. I said "almost impossible." > the snark knight This isn't snark, or self-righteousness. This view on humanity is merely a realization most religions and cultures have come
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> But "sailing into the west" is not a metaphor for death, Valinor is not a metaphor for heaven Tolkien wasn't a fan of allegory that's for sure and you won't find a 1:1 between his fictional works and his own re
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by nyokodo 2y ago
> everyone tries that They don’t really. People try and fit in publicly so that they’re seen to be good by their group, whereas fitting in to any group at any level in any age requires accepting some things that you know are bad and when

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