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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Trump is more unpopular now than Nixon was... after Watergate And surprisingly, the Democrats are even less popular than he is.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Could it be related to Netgear being manufactured in Vietnam Thailand and Indonesia to avoid China tariffs and that somehow got them through an audit? I only ask if the overall unwritten goal is to avoid China. That goal isn't eve
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> I don't think calculators are addictive and bad for us? I think they are. I kind of think they should make a calculator that will refuse to do certain calculations, like anything on the multiplication table, addition/subtract
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> So taking responsibility for the code you generate is being a "fall guy?" Yes, if your boss expects you to use AI agents to generate code faster than you can reasonably understand and review it. You're stuck between a ro
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Not only did calculators not make the average person great at higher level math when they no longer had to do manual arithmetic It's even worse than that: calculators can actually make higher level math more difficult (at least
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> It's not just that AI is becoming a little better; the humans are getting worse, too. They're meeting in the mediocre middle. IMHO, AI will exceed human capability by degrading human capability. It won't really exceed a
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> I wonder if the PR workflow is just unsustainable in the agentic era. Rather than review every new feature or bug fix, we would depend on good test coverage, and hold developers accountable for what they ship. I think what you're
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> politically aligned with the Democratic party That's sometimes possible (e.g. the "Trump woman" look, or certain "I know it when I see it" stylistic cues mainly displayed by progressive women that I can'
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> But that's a rapidly closing avenue. Devices are getting harder by the day to jailbreak. The only correct solution is to vote with your wallet in favor of your own self-respect and independence. Sorry, "vote with your wallet&
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Hilarious joke, Mr. Fukuyama. You have masked goons running around, detaining and even killing people without probable cause. If the results of the 2026 midterms are not to the liking of the current POTUS, it isn't unthinkable tha
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> what are people without billions of dollars and without the ear of the president supposed to do to affect change in this modern, post-capitalist hellscape? The honest truth? They're supposed to do nothing and take their licks wi
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> and everyone’s jobs getting taken away—as if RLHF contract work is not available to basically anyone with a college degree. Huh? The jobs aren't going away because a few people can get temp work as traitors to automate away the jo
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> I guess the argument would go that a new economic model will be required at that stage. > ...but at the point where there isn't enough economically useful things for everyone to do, the current system falls down. Not necessaril
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> the messaging from SV's AI leaders about how "ai will take all your jobs" is confused as fuck, because if so, who will be on the consuming end of things? Maybe SV's AI leaders and other assorted trillionaires. A cap
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> But recommendations to tax efficiency are unironically that (just dressed in more serious language). “Please stop giving us what we want so efficiently, we want to work more for it!” You're trying to make it sound ridiculous, but
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Part of the motivation for building autonomous nuclear response programs during the cold war was specifically to remove accountability, and guilt, from human operators. Details please. Because I can see the reality being most likely an
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by palmotea 7mo ago
There's asking a question, and then's (possibly bad-faith) demands for hand-holding. The answer to question "Why did AI make them feel angry?" should have been obvious before it was asked (given what I quoted), to anyone
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> My tinfoil hat is that Elon Musk is suing Sam Altman for control of OpenAI, and when you are the richest man on earth, you can afford a lot of money on hit pieces. Altman is in a prime position to influence a potentially massively di
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> - Adhere to rules in "The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition" by William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White FYI: The third edition was the last one by E. B. White. The fourth edition was revised by someone whose identity is unclear.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Article lacks evidence to support its titular claim that most instances of bubble-wrapping, or most bubble-wrapping wrappers, face the bubbles outward. Reason says the bubbles should go on the inside: There are gaps between the bubbles
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Sure. But what's the solution? > Ban AI development? The Bulterian Jihad will never be less appealing than it is today.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
I don't think you understood it, because you seemed to read past the key findings to make some tired, tired points about "revealed preferences." > The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful ab
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> These types of surveys are pretty much useless. Just go by people's revealed preferences. They're using the technology. They don't have to. I'm sure most teachers and schools would prefer them not to. > Why do th
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> the only explanation for people saying this is that they don't understand they will be on the line later just like the people displaced now. but the dream of being the .1% who get to be on top and monetize everybody else is too te
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> AI is just another disruptive technology like the loom, the steam engine or the airplane. It will take time to adjust and some industries will go away and others will pop up. That's fallacious thinking. Technological developments
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> How is that relevant to this conversation? Because it's important to put Americans in their place. They are not good, and must be reminded that others are better.
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> Another way of saying that is that capitalism is the real problem, but I was never anti-capitalist in principle, it's just gotten out of hand in the last 5-10 years. (Not that it hadn't been building to that.) Capitalism is a
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> And how does it make any logical sense to send 100+ spec ops guys in two big planes to rescue one (1) guy in a remote mountainous location? That's begging for >1 casualties and PoWs in situation which would otherwise be capped
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> There are a lot of recollections in the article where sama remembers one version or doesn't remember at all and the other party remembers something else. Or he's being dishonest about what he remembers.
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by palmotea 7mo ago
> Yet when he was fired, 99% of OpenAi employees backed him and were ready to resign. That actual event/evidence is more telling than any hit piece article. It's not telling. The article documents a massive pressure campaign to

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