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by rickydroll 4mo ago
The Massachusetts law requiring cities/towns to build high-density housing around commuter rail stops neglected one thing. There's no open space. To build high-density housing, the city or state would have to buy out the existing
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
Before we go pushing money into private insurance, we need to define why. We need to understand why the public ones are inadequate and who/what drove those decisions. A public health care system should be independent of politics. Unfor
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
Yes, it does conflict with my own concept of personhood. I forgot to add that to my comment. I was trying to show that it is not "merely a legal expedient", that corporate personhood had a specific purpose, and that it differed fr
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
Beep boop. It comes from recognizing that, yet again, humans are way too full of themselves and are not as unique as they think they are.
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
If they weren't on the public grid, they would just slap in a bunch of gas turbines and run one of the noisier, more polluting sources of electricity. I think it would be better if we required them to replace the power they used, but d
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
I think it's time to put data centers on a power budget. If they want to make more money, they need to become more efficient and eliminate AI fraud, waste, and abuse.
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
A corporation is a separate entity. They hire people to work for them, but any liabilities incurred by the Corporation are rarely passed through to the workers. If you pay attention, it's more likely for a worker to go to jail or be he
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
I used to think that until I did a little digging into it. Specifically, corporations are considered legal persons because they are separate legal entities, thereby creating a wall between your personal affairs and your business. It protect
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
If corporations can be people, there is no reason why AI can't be considered a person.
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
Here in the states, putting Romex in conduit is considered a code violation. You're supposed to use THHN wire in a conduit. I wish professional electricians use pigtails and wago lever nuts instead of wire nuts. Working an old house, I
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
I have seen some homeowners who shouldn't own a screwdriver or a hammer try to do minor electrical work. It was not pretty. I've often thought that it would make sense to have a DIY electrician's certificate, proving that you
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
I agree with you on closing the loophole. However, I would count any money taken through this loophole as income. Another limit I would remove is the current limit on Social Security/medicare taxes. It doesn't matter how much you
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
I believe you're blending two important points. First, I believe AI systems may be showing nascent signs of consciousness as an emergent property, but based on the philosophy of "fake it till you make it", I think that's
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
> That's called "theft". In a free market, transactions are mutually agreed upon. Equal wealth for equal wealth. It's also called a Transaction with asymmetric information, or being in a position in an economic system
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
I think humanity deserves to be debased in part because it's awfully egocentric and insist on being special in the universe. There are numerous times when humanity's been debased. Copernicus, Kepler, Darwin, and the infinite numbe
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
When your part in wealth creation is having your wealth acquired by somebody else. Wealth creation only works when the the money available to buy wealth creating instruments is significantly less than the value of those instruments. How wou
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
> Why half of AI and not half of Walmart & Exxon & Apple? I think the 50% number is a stake in the ground, period. A starting point for the discussion. Why not Walmart? That's a great idea. Many companies, including Walmart,
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
It has started... https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-m27-en With human productivity already fully unleashed, the natural next step was to initiate self-evolution of both the model and the organization. M2.7 is our fir
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
I think delaying the build-out of data centers is a good thing. If you've got a scarce resource, you either need to find a way of getting more of that resource or change how you use that resource to meet your end goal. The scarcity of
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
> lost all humor. not to mention sense of smell
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
Maybe.. off grid local llms from multiple sources could be a bullwark against that.
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
I think another argument for AI is that it can help pull out patterns and information that are normally hidden from human cognition because we can't encompass that information and keep it in mind. I think one place we should apply this
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
I hear you. AI helps me get into flow state because I can have a rambling conversation with a chatbot and work through ideas and what abouts. eventually it helps me forget to a place where flow is easier to maintain.
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
If I'm in the room, yes. For me, AI is one, is the best handicap accessibility tool I've ever had. At a minimum, speech recognition is a higher quality, and second, it lets me write code again. I'm working on the third benefi
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
There are multiple points of iteration. for me, it's user interface and core algorithms. Because the cost of creating an iteration was so high before, I would think about the problem for a long time and then implement the one that seem
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
So Coyote fooled all of us by becoming God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
> we are not good at making new places that people want to be I think it's more appropriate to say that we don't have enough diversity of places to meet the population's wide-ranging desires and needs. There are city mice
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
That would make one hell of an art project.
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When the powers that be decided labor didn't matter and the only thing that mattered was capital. One will never get rich on wages. The only way to get rich is through asset manipulation and rent-seeking.
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by rickydroll 4mo ago
So you are saying that I shouldn't start my artisanal guillotine business? Believe me, I know what's on the ballot for the midterm in the state but it's not going to stop me from making dark snarky jokes.

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