popalchemist

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by popalchemist 3mo ago
It's beautiful.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
It's not an isolated incident, he is describing an increasingly common attitude which is utilitarian/"realist" at best and a grotesque materialist corruption of the liberal arts education ideal at worst. Education is gen
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Yep, nobody wants to adopt models with this license because it opens legal questions most users, whether professional or non-professional, don't want to muddy their work with.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
For what purpose did you make this?
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
DIG IT. This is how the web used to feel.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
It is precisely those people who have abdicated such concerns who most need the discussion. You can not compartmentalize reality, even if you can compartmentalize your own mind. These discussions lead one closer to a relationship with reali
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
They engineered it on purpose.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
The arguments come ex post facto. Their motivation is profit, because OpenAI is pitching the Trump admin on a 5% stake.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
The two are not mutually exclusive, but Google has been the dominant force in tech for decades and therefore has been very much an integrated part of Big Brother's operations for some time now. Palantir is, yes, more corrupt, but they&
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Indeed, it is literally an ideology.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Ding ding ding. Google is only a few steps away from the "Orphan-Crushing Machine", or the pods that imprison/enslave people in The Matrix, because it is literally the hardware-software-businessmodel matrix which creates and
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Indeed, their competition is the only thing preventing network effects from giving OpenAI/Faang tech companies an easy shot at monopoly / regulatory capture.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund... Harvard (as credible a source as there is in the world): USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths > The dismantling of USAID, accordin
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Yup. This guy is a straight up white supremacist.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Generating leads for new work, if you are a freelance. Automatically answering customer support emails, if you own a SaaS. Monitoring competitors' socials, websites, etc for new features you have to compete with. Monitoring updates on
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Subsidization could affect both of those. If you have $200B in the bank you can afford to throw massive compute at every single request; if you are less well funded, you might throttle more aggressively. Additionally that same VC could be (
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Unbelievably cool!
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
This is well done. How did you source and categorize the data points?
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Decentralization has the benefit of minimizing the possibility of a tyrannical federal government, by design. This is a step in the wrong direction, at a time when the tyranny is no longer hypothetical.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
How very Cyberdyne.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Well, given all your comments in this thread, thanks for outing yourself as an insane person.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Infuriating.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Are you trying to troll? You're going to have to do harder. All of your "arguments" are patently absurd. First, there is an order of magnitude difference between billionaires and millionaires. Second, nobody is saying the bil
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
The "evil" is not just in the effect, it is in the callous, sociopathic disregard for the sanctity of life that lives in Zuckerberg and all the individuals involved; that is the evil "prima materia" out of which downstre
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Perhaps I am not the target demo, but there was so much jargon on that page that I did not have a firm grasp of what was even being said.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Your argument rests on the fallacious implication that Corporations behave as people do and therefore should be held to the same standards. In reality, corporate behavior is driven the aggregate of the greed of the individuals who comprise
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
The banality of evil, everyone.
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
The writings of an individual human and the writings of an advertising/propaganda machine come from different places and achieve different results. Did you literally never stop to think about that, or are you deliberately shaming indiv
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
I love this! Great UI, and the spirit of it is very early web . Thanks for making this. Totally captures the feel of Tokyo!
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by popalchemist 3mo ago
Why do this?

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