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by plsbenice34 2y ago
What about Australia in comparison? Australians can be legally compelled in secret courts to install backdoors in the companies in which they are employed, and gagged from telling the company itself or any journalists (see the Access and As
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
Agreed. Having time and a mental health status where one can relax and peacefully read a whole book is a luxury. Having a job where you can apply any knowledge from your studies is a luxury too. Having space in your life to care about knowl
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
>The only people who lost confidence sit in the White house I don't know how you can possibly believe that. I think you are being disingenuous and it's impossible to discuss anything like this
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
The response to covid was abysmal and Operation Warp Speed destroyed confidence in vaccines. People responsible for that should be dismissed. What is so incomprehensible about this viewpoint?
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
Not all are, of course. Hopefully it's a minority. However, in my experience it is a factor that many less-technical people are ungrateful and rude even if I spend hours giving them free tech support. I suppose because they expect nich
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
>I'm guessing they mean "chronic abusers" rather than just "user". It's a critical distinction to make. With everything we put in our body it is often 'the dose makes the poison'. The way the artic
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
Agreed. It's an absurd dose assumption. According to Erowid, a common dose is 30 mg to 75 mg. I spent some time reading papers about ketamine before, and it seemed that all the negative side-effects (like bladder damage) are only ever
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
I have an unknown number of monero wallets that have not been declared anywhere. If I give you just a few of them, it has the same outcome for the torture as giving you all of them, so it is rational in all ways for me to not give it all up
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
I can't think of anything that comes close to being as hard to seize as cryptocurrency
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
Taking responsibility isn't the same as accepting blame and guilt. Maybe i didnt cause an oil spill but ill do my best to try to clean it up. >Thinking that we can’t be blamed for our decisions, in my experience, is counterproductiv
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
>Social media is not as addictive as heroin citation needed
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
Your comment leads me to be a bit confused regarding what you're saying about free will. You seem to want to place blame on the individual but it is philosophically and scientifically unsound. It is absolutely undeniable that people&#x
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
how so?
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
>I think if you shut down LLMs in your head because you think you « understand » them and there’s nothing interesting there, then you’re blinded by hubris. I am no expert, and I am well aware that even experts have much to learn about it
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
>"cryptographically guaranteed to not be manipulated." That is only achieved with bitcoin because of a security model that has financial value to the blocks, and a distributed system of nodes and financially-invested miners. As
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
>With LLMs, before being able to understand what everyone's talking about, there's a lot to know. There can be a sense of being left out. I think that can be demotivating. I find it to be the exact opposite. The idea of "A
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
I can't say anything about these journals because I cant even remember anything about them. It certainly isn't obvious to me, since the case is incredibly complex and objectively fraught with corruption
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
I was just trying to understand how it works, because the way presidential pardons work is bizarre to me. The pre-emptive pardons seem even more bizarre if what you say is correct. I wasn't trying to engage in an argument. I do feel sc
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
Many people, including myself, do not believe that he really did any of the activity related to the assassination attempts. Demonstrably corrupt law enforcement agents had the opportunity to do it all themselves and it would be typical beha
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
Do you have a source for that condition? How does that work for Biden pardoning Fauci for crimes that havent been revealed yet?
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
I am very sympathetic to the idea of voting just for Ross. It is unclear to me which candidate would be better, since neither of them are close to my political beliefs at all. It is a deadlock and I seem completely unrepresented. The conseq
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
When i talk to people it seems like they know but they just dont care. They even think their phones are listening to their conversations to target ads.
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
Would the average person even be against it? I am the most passionately pro-privacy person that i know, but i think it is a good question because society at large seems to not value privacy in the slightest. I think your outrage is probably
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
I think it's more useful to assume everyone else is less blatantly deceptive than OpenAI, at least, so there's some hierarchy of trustworthiness to help lead you to the truth.
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
Within this context i find it amusing that i still have seen scholarships that are only for women, none that are only for men. I'm still burdened by student loans that i never would have had in the first place if i were female.
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
I also studied it and got several degrees, but I don't think that it actually benefited me. I think high school math is incredibly important to be able to think clearly in a quantitative way, and one university-level statistics course,
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
Does anyone take the term 'safety' here seriously without laughing? It is so obvious that it is a propaganda term for censorship and manipulation of cultural-political values
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
The study only claims association: “Prolonged unemployment is associated with control loss and personal as well as social disengagement". This popular article completely lies and claims there is causation ("unemployment leads to&q
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
Being put in the convenient box is commonly the difference between getting social security payments or being thrown to the wolves. Of course people are attached to the little box when it determines much of your life.
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by plsbenice34 2y ago
Good observations and questions. Gambling, addiction, whatever this is - they all seem very similar to me. Humans are irrational and can be taken advantage of. It is akin to human software being hacked. However, I think this principle exten

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