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by pembrook 3mo ago
I keep trying to explain to people that private companies harvesting your data, while not good, is done solely for the purpose of trying to get you to voluntarily buy more toilet bowl cleaner. Meanwhile, Governments can take away your freed
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by pembrook 3mo ago
I'm playing with fire going against the narrative, but I'll just say this: You should be highly skeptical of any claims of drastic variance in human biology over short time periods.
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by pembrook 3mo ago
So your family would prefer to be illiterate subsistence farmers dying in war at age 40 in 1960s Algeria? Or maybe they'd prefer to be illiterate subsistence farmers in two-tier French colonial Algeria, working as landless servant day
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Theres this new form of technology that is allowing decentralized actors to publish information without government oversight. It’s called the Printing press. And yes, there was a giant moral panic about it at the time that basically split E
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by pembrook 4mo ago
I appreciate you articulating your views wholly. I also live in a high trust society (Finland). I would categorize your position as the textbook left-leaning bias (Government good, corporation bad), and fundamentally incorrect. But NOT beca
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by pembrook 4mo ago
EU has the talent but not the ability due to structural issues and fragmentation. And even if they solved that (it will take them 40 years of bickering), it’s not something you can top-down create, unless you want the AI equivalent of the Y
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Cool, compared to what? Nobody is saying "everything is exactly perfect for every person on earth." There's never been a time in history when that was true and there never will be a time when that will be true. The point is y
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by pembrook 4mo ago
This is very true. However, institutions being granted this power in the first place (unlimited taxation via threat of violence, unlimited deficit spending power, unlimited money printer access on the global currency) is what enables the ab
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by pembrook 4mo ago
I will call this Exhibit A in proving my point about polarization, thank you left-leaning person lacking in self-awareness. Now we just need a right-leaning person who lacks self awareness to offer a rebuttal to you and we can complete the
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by pembrook 4mo ago
They do have the same problem. You're not adjusting for growth rates. Also, Germany's debt isn't in the global reserve currency, so their problem is arguably worse. The actually have to pay for it using their 0 growth economy
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Did France, Germany, the UK, etc. spend a trillion dollars in Iraq? How did they get themselves in the same ballooning deficit death spiral? The US did spend a Trillion on Iraq. But during Covid they spent nearly $5T...in 1/4th the tim
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Oh come on. You’re trying to be edgy without any understanding of reality. It’s like saying History will record Gavrilo Princip as having won WW1. Huh? America’s current troubles are political polarization and ballooning deficits. Both of w
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by pembrook 4mo ago
This is the only insightful comment in this entire thread but it will be ignored because people love a good moral panic. Millennials having kids has turned them into their boomer parents, bringing out the pitchfork for whatever braindead hy
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by pembrook 4mo ago
This brings up so many issues imo. I hate the idea of government throwing its weight around based on personal vendettas (in the case of this Fable debacle), so it's clear that if this tech is going to be foundation-level important to t
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by pembrook 4mo ago
You’re fundamentally worried about the wrong thing. It’s an extremely common bias on the left just as the anti-government bias on the right. Both public and private entities are capable of abusing power. Only one group however is legally en
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by pembrook 4mo ago
I feel like you're constructing a strawman to argue against. I visit this site almost daily and the prevailing sentiment is usually the polar opposite of what you're suggesting. If sentiment on HN were as you say, how could your p
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Will the police intervene and arrest the ministers when the laws the ministers are enacting result in the same outcome for me?
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by pembrook 4mo ago
I think you and I disagree. I don’t think Jesper is focused on the right issues. Big tech (private companies who largely just care about profits) and foreign governments (the Americans for example), are way lower on my “things Europe should
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by pembrook 4mo ago
I don’t think he goes too far at all. If politicians are attempting to undermine your children’s right to privacy forever , and yet these same politicians don’t like when this is being done to their own children…it shows either an astonish
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Yes, a demand increase without supply increase causes prices to rise. In other news, water is wet. The fact that people are arguing over this is astonishing to me. Politics morphing into the religion of modernity is the worst thing that has
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Thankfully inbox providers are now mandating unsubscribe headers (so the unsubscribe button now sits at email client level, not within the body of the email, as it always should have). Making this entire thing irrelevant. Going through the
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but backlinks has never been less important for SEO than they are right now. Google has slowly de-prioritized them as a ranking signal over time due to the constant abuse, the death of the blogosphere (the
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Yes, it's so wildly silly if you assume good faith on the part of both parties. Hence why I think the real explanation lies in bad faith positions from both the US Government and Anthropic: Anthropic's doomerism-as-marketing (in r
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Norway charts less racist because of the oil wealth. This is my point. Being progressive is easy when you're rich. When the economy stops growing though, we learn that socialism and immigration are like oil and water. This lines up exa
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by pembrook 4mo ago
Because these are the same people who will sip champagne while lecturing you about how ethical and "evolved" they are and how much they care about the poor and the environment. Meanwhile in reality they're more racist than a
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by pembrook 4mo ago
American millennials who grew up fetishizing Europe as a progressive/socialist utopia are in for a rude awakening over the next couple of years. People forget Europe is a collection of literal ethno-states. Europe is in a very dire pla
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by pembrook 4mo ago
If doing the thing makes them feel good then they’re doing it for personal gain? I don’t know why people hate acknowledging the reality that humans are 1st person actors. The system we have works because it converts this pursuit of personal
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by pembrook 4mo ago
So you think a country that didn't allow 50% of the population to vote was "democratic?"
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by pembrook 4mo ago
> "Government is fine if it’s done by people that aren’t in it only for themselves." Academic studies consistently show that people attracted to a career in politics (regardless of affiliation) score higher on "Dark Tria
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by pembrook 4mo ago
There's currently no real democracy on earth. Issues with majority support never change in almost all of the biggest democracies in the world right now. For the US specifically its a representative oligopoly with Madisonian gridlock an

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