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by pksebben 10mo ago
see, when you cut out the part about "because of terrorists" that sounds like a patently laughable claim. I would tend to agree with the poster on the strength that some propaganda is very, very easily spotted: - anything that
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by pksebben 10mo ago
Not a lawyer, but prior to the Van Buren decision I think this would have fallen under CFAA.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
People not being allowed to edit their own page (and by extension, anyone that comes without verifiable info because they could be agents of said person) is an unfortunate need. I refer you to the oft-sockpuppeted page of former airline ex
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Oh, neither do I. We see eye to eye on this point - it isn't good at the things people have learned to be good at, and that's a good thing. What it excels at is empowering people with good ideas about architecture and function to
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by pksebben 11mo ago
don't know if you had a similar experience, but my folks didn't pay much attention to ANY of the stuff I ingested, data, chemical, or otherwise. My partner, a gen Xer, had it even looser. Talks about just hanging out in a patch o
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Antitrust. Smaller more distributed ISPs. Or internet backbone alternatives. Household backyard microwave repeater mesh networks? Residential wifi meshes? I'm only indulging in sci fi because I don't have a good answer either. I
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by pksebben 11mo ago
If I were of the mind that children are delicate little flowers that must be protected from everything in the world lest they shatter like a fancy vase (and I am not), this is not the plan I would be pushing. There's no way this path
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Who is making these calls?
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by pksebben 11mo ago
It'll be alright. We've dealt with manic authoritarians who dream of planetary control before. Just another quick world war and the development of an even more sinister superweapon and we'll be right back to thinking in san
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by pksebben 11mo ago
i don't know if it's where you got it, but that made my head go straight to Ocean from Wonder Showzen.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
It started as ARPANET, which was not an open system (slightly sloppy use of the term i know, not technically the internet but I consider one the extension of the other).
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by pksebben 11mo ago
The potentially bitter pill to swallow here is that we all need to get better at critical thinking. There's a lot of talk over whether LLMs make discourse 'better' or 'worse', with very little attention given to the
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by pksebben 11mo ago
I'm all about using the rainbow of language to it's full breadth, but if you're going to go for shock jock you should maybe have something better to say than "hurdurr I smart and world bad 'cause dumb people".
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by pksebben 11mo ago
If it was hoarded by anyone, then by definition not useless OR worthless. Also, you are currently on the internet if you're reading this, so the point kinda stands.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
That's not a union - that's another corporate entity parading as a union. A union, operating as it should, is governed by the workers as a collective and enriches all of them at the same rate. Deepseek is open source, which is wh
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by pksebben 11mo ago
> There is no solution because these projects are not failing because of technical reasons. There is no technical solution. There are systems and governance solutions, if the will is there to analyze and implement them.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Likely progressive, but definitely not luddite [0]. Anti-capitalist for sure. I struggle with this discourse deeply. With many posters like OP, I align almost completely - unions are good, large megacorps are bad, death to facists etc. I
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by pksebben 11mo ago
if I had my druthers, we'd leave the ads but get the porn and gambling. two out of three of those require me to want to do them for them to affect my life.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
At the surface, it's an antitrust issue (the scale of Meta doesn't have the capacity to behave better, so it doesn't). This, like so many other things, can be traced back to a broken system of governance on a root level. Our
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by pksebben 11mo ago
On the about page > I tried to correct the nonsense written on the appalling Wikipedia page 'Concrete Ship', only to find myself 'Indefinitely Blocked' from updating Wikipedia. Their grounds were that by citing refere
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by pksebben 11mo ago
The point being that the informality arises organically. People are capital-b Bad at risk assessment and planning; we are much, much better at responding to current stimuli. Also, flat is a structure (albeit a simple one). To use an abs
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by pksebben 11mo ago
The "more to the secret sauce" is the structure of the company. Valve is flat. Employees have 100% control over their time. By not centralizing decision making, you create the conditions for good ideas to form and connect with
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Maybe this ought to indicate to you that your low beams are blinding other drivers dangerously. If you have OEM headlights, I can understand your frustration - neither you nor the other driver has control over that. I think this is what OP
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by pksebben 11mo ago
There are some flavors of AI doomerism that I'm unwilling to fight - the proliferance of AI slop, the inability of our current capital paradigm to adjust such that loads of people don't become overnight-poor, those sorts of things
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Some things in sci fi have become simply sci - megacorps that behave like nation states, the internet, jetpacks, robots... I feel like the trope that we will see realized going forward is "Humanists versus Transhumanists". We ha
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Content warning: Entertaining the idea that someday a computer will achieve consciousness, talking to the machine as though it already does as an exercise - I am not asserting that it is because it almost certainly isn't, yet. Since
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by pksebben 11mo ago
If all your relationships fail in the same manner, it is likely that the problem is you. > One friend became “convinced” that every major news story was manufactured consent. Another started treating political disagreement as evidence of
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by pksebben 11mo ago
There is this weird thing that happens with hyperscale - the combination of highly central decision-making, extreme interconnection / interdependence of parts, and the attractiveness of lots of money all conspire to create a system pul
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by pksebben 11mo ago
I expect the downvotes to come from this as they always seem to do these days, but I know from my personal experience that there is value in these agents. Not so much for the work I do for my company, but having these agents has been a fair
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by pksebben 11mo ago
I think they already have that confirmation. When we bailed the banks out in 08 we basically said "If you're big enough that we'd be screwed without you then take whatever risks you like with impunity". That's a re

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