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by quinnjh 4y ago
At a time of decaying social bonds, cultural fragmentation, and no consensus reality, i would much rather work somewhere with an explicit code like this than the countless "we are good people" places that will never define what &q
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by quinnjh 4y ago
You might be interested in the book "when computers were human". "Computer" in 1940 meant a woman who does computations
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by quinnjh 4y ago
Probably the same way you can construct a data oracle to project out guesses for what a time series will do? The thinking goes: the more, nd better sources of market intelligence you can feed to the oracle, the better predictions it can mak
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by quinnjh 4y ago
How do corporations forecast the future?
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by quinnjh 4y ago
Good thing the United States has a constitutional amendment that totally protects us from having our location data harvested sold and deanonymized by thousands of data brokers!
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Arguably part of the reason TO put on the production IMO- kids get a firsthand lesson with low stakes about platos cave
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Is it necessary that we do? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MzlK0OGpIRs
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Agreed, piling on to the matter will hardly improve things.
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by quinnjh 5y ago
depending on wether your definitions of propoganda and malware include rick astley, thats exactly what they did
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Are you suggesting a drone inspecting power poles would be unable to see over a fence?
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Is this the same logic as religiously shunning wealth for returns in the afterlife/spiritual realm? Maybe this is how you counter the maybe?
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by quinnjh 5y ago
The united states consumer protection twitter has been championing humor in this area https://mobile.twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1478844214574305282 ? I like your points about the necessity of humor and i think its t
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Doubtful. Collapse and revolution are just tools of the market. The market which now has eyes and ears in your trashcan.
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Thanks for your take! I have more faith in the internal compass of people taking things seriously than i do in outsourcing ethics, but this doesnt mean that i conversely trust bad actors. Surely not advocating for the latter, i think inform
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by quinnjh 5y ago
In other news: coke is now pepsi. Citizens are expected to remember this when ordering.
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Maybe we could innoculate our populace with truth that aligns with facts-on-the-ground? I mean inagine if russia dropped the biolabs propoganda and americans were like "yeah i know, my tax dollars help pay for that to preserve my natio
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by quinnjh 5y ago
At this point, true facts are considered russian propoganda when the press secretary has an agenda of full fiction.
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Hey at least youre not blindly following experts. Id rather end up in your camp ;)
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Being gay was considered a disease. I have mental illness. The jews were considered unclean. Nazism is a spiritual disease and one i would be happy seeing continually wiped off the face of the earth.
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Would you mind peeking at a comment i placed above? I have links in that one which address your concern directly. Eugenic ethics: https://www.csustan.edu/history/hitlers-ethic A quote from feynman: "Science is the
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Well, they seem to have done so, as have many believers of scientism. As well as the doctors who forcible sterilized and lobotomized undesirables. WE certainly cannot though. Humanity needs some of us to keep true north.
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by quinnjh 5y ago
In Hitler's Ethic Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler's evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursu
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by quinnjh 5y ago
This is how eugenics happens
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by quinnjh 5y ago
What I find particularly curious is why exactly did people start to believe posting something or saying something on hackernews can actually have any real effect. Is logical absurdity (doing an action which consumes energy of an effort but
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Something that comes to mind is the argument against aid NGOs in places with dire poverty and hunger. When an NGO comes to your town, where you are trying to build a farm business, and delivers months worth of free rice, can you afford to r
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Ok so its political, what if this political take where we encourage openness and interconnectivity is superior to the political take where we are reactionary? What if it literally is a winning strategy? Im not saying it is necessarily- but
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by quinnjh 5y ago
What is the technology to stop them?
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by quinnjh 5y ago
100% > why not provide news and information that's being blocked? Radio free europe style. I like it
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Whats painful is that in terms of cyberwarfare, allied systems maintain dominance of global grid with innovation and open source. If we had allies in russia, im sure we have fewer now. This sort of DOS attack is effective in first order eff
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by quinnjh 5y ago
Poster maybe isnt trying to hide health info from state level actors, rather limiting the layers of collections identifying them as "possible customer for __ treatments" ..hopefully they posted from tor and arent about to get a to

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