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by philosopher1234 2y ago
You might be understating this. Perhaps it’s more like “execs are existentially threatened by remote work”. If an exec delivers little to nothing but everyone in their employment is working hard as hell, that’s pretty good cover (it just ju
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
Me too. It seems almost impossible. But I don’t know any other option, so I invest my hope in the possibility that, if there were a broader openness to change, maybe some new ideas might come along (or abandoned ones might become possible)
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
Capitalism is an objective benefit to our species, much has improved that couldn’t have under feudalism. Yet, just as you might rearrange your house when you have kids, we should rearrange our economy when the existing system no longer meet
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
The distorting power of money. And then think: if it can distort our collective understanding of the world, could it distort our government, our elections, etc.? The problem with capitalism is that it destroys democracy. Money distributes t
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
If these companies are profitable, why would they leave the market rather than scale back their profits marginally?
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
I don’t know of a single social movement that made significant progress without disrupting the public.
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
When a company plays hard ball in negotiations we call it good business, but when workers do it we spit in their face.
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
Because companies make decisions based on who has the most money. 90% of Americans have basically no control of those decisions. And companies interfere with democratic control of the government. Getting things out of the way of democracy s
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
Postgres should be good enough for 300GB, no?
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
I see, I guess I read the original reference to revolution loosely, as though gp was talking more about the rise of communism generally, not specifically by means of revolution.
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
Fair, that’s mistaken. But the hint of communism lead to US backed coup in Brazil just like half of the rest of the world. I don’t follow your point about comparison to revolution.
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
No they wouldn’t, communists were winning elections . Indonesia was a democracy. Neoliberalism is built on oppression. Communism was denied the right to exist by violence, not by liberation. It’s ridiculous to call it oppressive in that co
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
This is totally false. In Indonesia, the communists were winning elections left and right until the CIA installed an anti communist dictator. The same happened in Brazil and Iraq. The CIA has taken major direct action to suppress popular co
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
This seems like an easy way to avoid actually having to learn anything about the subject. Perhaps there’s a reason you’d prefer to dismiss the entire subject out of hand, rather than spend a few minutes trying to learn something about it.
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
And do you know what real communism is? And who tried and failed at it?
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
Is it real communism? Do you actually know anything about communism or Cuba?
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
I don’t know any definition of actually educating yourself that would exclude reading fiction. And why are you focused on the purpose of producing scientific talent?
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
These are some serious mental gymnastics. It depends on: 1. The government providing massive funds for AI safety research. There is no evidence for this. 2. Sam Altman and everyone else knowing this will happen and planning for it. 3. Sam A
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
Publishing a blog on Wordpress.com is scorched earth nuclear and a tweet is fine? Why shouldn’t this get some actual publicity? What’s defamatory about it? Your response seems to be a better example of mudslinging than OP. At least OP point
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
That’s a bit funny, Moores law itself is an example of an executive being loud and making a grand proclamation
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
What an awful way to live, with the sense that everyone else is a fraud and you’re the only one that’s real. It sounds terribly lonely, and equally unattractive. Who would want to work with, or be around someone, with such a terrible opinio
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
No doubt that is true, but are there particular batteries you’re thinking of?
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The One-Instruction Window(nsrip.com)
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
I haven’t read the article, but I think the question of whether or not aspects of one’s personality are disordered or maladaptive are valid, and can be managed with reason, without resorting to a question of insult.
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
Boy, this makes me sad. He’s really changed my life, I’ve learned so much about software and programming from his writing and thinking. I wish it didn’t have to happen, but I guess it’s only ever a matter of time.
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
In this case you are revealing your own (statistical) illiteracy. It’s referring to 70% of people who claim to be living paycheck to paycheck, not 70% of all people.
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
I liked it too. What a jerk that commenter was.
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
It sells more iPhones, no? And iCloud subscriptions potentially
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
This is what log/slog is for!
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by philosopher1234 2y ago
I agree with what you wrote mostly but I think you are dismissing the criticism of sanitizing stories too easily. It’s a real phenomenon, and it is genuinely motivated by changing cultural precepts. And it is unfortunate, something about o

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