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by palmotea 8mo ago
> That page (and the rest of the book) is far less pornographic than the actual porn I and many other kids I grew up with had access to, and regularly shared between ourselves, and is incredibly tame. So your argument is school libraries
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Equating both of these things is dangerous and wrong. It’s not as if these are the same things. What's really going on is you seem so caught up in your own biases that you can't even see what you're doing. > Creationi
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> A nation banning privately owned business and made everything worker owned is not how communism works. No, it sounds like "workers owning the means of production, which is communist enough for me! > And even if it did - it driv
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by palmotea 8mo ago
He also talked about "efforts to...restrict what teachers can teach."
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Sorry, the toothpaste doesn't go back into the tube with social issues. Interracial marriage isn't going away either lol. Sorry, that's just naive, overconfident liberalism. There is no mandatory "direction" to
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> If you own 1/1000000000 of the state and put in 100% of your labor power, FFS dude. How much of my employer do I own now? It's probably less than 1/1000000000 of it. > how much of that labor power output is now your
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by palmotea 8mo ago
>>> In communism the beginning state is slave labor. (your work is owned by the state, not yourself) > That is Literally the definition: society based on common ownership of the means of production So, you're saying in comm
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by palmotea 8mo ago
>> * this is "AGI" in it's most direct and absolute version with zero fluff* > Given it’s an ambiguous term, sure. But I don’t think a better collaborative AI is what anyone imagined when we said AGI years ago. He sc
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> What does it mean to say "we were promised flying cars"... I don't know about the other things you mentioned, but I think you have this in the wrong category. "We were promised flying cars" is one half of a con
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Another thing is that the us and European countries build their wealth where they had los standards now other countries want to do the same but would be limited by us and European countries. It's very tricky No, why would you say
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Conventional conservative/capitalist wisdom is that corporations "don't pay taxes" because they just "pass it along to consumers as higher prices". I'm with you, but a couple things: 1) Do you mean &q
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> individuals should be able to take advantage of the same tax rules as corporations. Nah, corporations should be taxed at the same rate as individuals. A country where everyone pays only 3% tax is going to be a crap hole.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
Don't know why so many people are so stupid they don't follow such simple and sensible advice. /s
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The person you are replying to mentioned their personal experience. Have you seen this work in person? It might help to talk about those facts. The meat of their comment wasn't the personal anecdote, it was actually on government
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> It's too well structured and the message is too clean. HN (and the whole internet) is allergic to proper writing. We praise human sloppiness now. Yes. And it's only a matter of time that the model companies start to try to tr
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> AI was trained on human writing. AI output is not varied like real human writing. This is a very distinctive narrowing of style.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> It has a name. The Rule of Threes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing) I don't think that's exactly it. Speaking of LLM-writing in general, it seems to greatly overuse certain types of
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by palmotea 8mo ago
What a software engineer comment.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> Is this any different from people today calling their dogs and cats “my baby”? Transporting four legged animals in baby carriages, is that psychosis? It's not psychosis, but it's also not healthy to blur the line between a pe
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> There are no two ways of expressing something in ways that might create equal impressions. > Relevant: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/hey-hey-someone-on-hn-wrote... Did you just use an LLM to write your comme
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by palmotea 8mo ago
How helpful would injecting noise and red herring into pseudonymous posts help? It seems like it would make sense to get in the habit of distort your posts a bit, and do things like make random gender swaps (e.g. s/my husband/my w
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The best course of action to combat this correlation/profiling, seems to be usage of a local llm that rewrites the text while keeping meaning untouched. A problem with that is then your post may read like LLM slop, and get disrega
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> I've also heard Cory Doctorow recently offer a similarly dismissive view, describing AI as "just statistics". Well, AI partisans have applied grandiose terms like "thinking," "intelligence," and &quot
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by palmotea 8mo ago
Is that a fetish, or just idiosyncratic and more aggressive way of mocking someone for being weak/immature/"being a baby"? Those quotes that I could interpret read more as contempt to me than some kind of role play.
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> War gamers love to think they are doing something extremely valuable. They are doing something extremely valuable. They're basically running planning simulations. If you're going to spend a trillion dollars a year on somethin
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> and then award one to humanity for hooking up spicy auto-complete to defence systems But it's intelligent! The colorful spinner that says "thinking" says so!
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by palmotea 8mo ago
So basically you're blaming American workers for an attitude problem, when the real issue is, due to offshoring, the supply chain either doesn't exist here or isn't so centralized/expansive enough that someone has random
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> The way that I guarantee my job treats me well is by being willing to quit whenever it stops working for me. That will work until it won't. But you're deciding to leave power on the table. That's kinda like leaving money
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by palmotea 8mo ago
> As mentioned upthread, if you go to an American machine shop, they'll take two weeks to get back to you, and generally be a PITA to work with, vs China's jumping at the chance to build stuff. Probably because the Chinese are
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by palmotea 8mo ago
>> Just as manufacturing in China took time manufacturing in the US will take time. The US has lost much of its skilled labor and mom and pop parts shop. If we have any hope of re-invigorating this some large company is going to have

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