salawat

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by salawat 1mo ago
The almighty 10bux. I do indeed.
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by salawat 1mo ago
Someone who needs the cushy executive summary because they can't skim read detected. Sometimes, systems of thought are frigging big. Not everything is conducive to being reduced to "the YouTube Short of Reading".
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by salawat 1mo ago
>While you are at work, forget about your free speech rights. You must obey the CEO. That's what you are paid to do. Obey. There is a very particular tension that results from over-consolidation and the inability to support competit
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by salawat 1mo ago
No. Unless you count the non-existence of the DMCA which essentially resulted in the creation of an accessible and accurate internet index becoming de facto illegal, and the fact webmasters and other netizens actually operated with enough r
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by salawat 1mo ago
The way one successfully fights a tidal wave is lining up with peers and resisting the siren call of "if I don't someone else will." Solidarity is how these things have been worked out since before I was alive. It sucks, but
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by salawat 1mo ago
Doing the right thing never becomes less rational. It may suck compared to the temptation towards the alternative, but part of growing up and being responsible is realizing there is a reason the shortcut isn't supposed to be normalized
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by salawat 1mo ago
What is terrifying is the propensity of people hoping for a mechanical slave to do everything possible to avoid touching on the possibility for being-ness of the technology they are desperately hoping will work as a basis for that implement
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by salawat 1mo ago
You just created a large, TBTF corp's veto. Pass a law or have a law passed a corp TBTF doesn't want? Break it and force the Government's hand to strike it down.
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by salawat 1mo ago
Insurers are corporations. What makes you think they just won't pay out or will cease being useful as anything but value extractors? Honestly, the fetishization of "Insurance will save us" needs to die. The risk doesn't
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by salawat 1mo ago
People problem, not tech problem. Can't solve people problems with tech, you can only make them worse, and wider.
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by salawat 1mo ago
There's something profoundly disrespectful about feeding snippets produced by human authors en masse into a machine learning algorithm to create a predictive text generator to be applied as labor replacement, regardless of accuracy or
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by salawat 1mo ago
What makes you think that healthcare being tied to the coincidence of employment isn't a similar form of golden handcuff? If you can't control what the employment circumstances are, you are fundamentally servile to the operation o
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by salawat 1mo ago
Life has a surprising amount of detail, and if you're only curious enough to interact with the answer as 'technobabble', this does not speak well of your genuine curiosity on the subject. However, in general... Form is shaped
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by salawat 1mo ago
More like the depth of your wallet. Remember, bullshit asymmetry principle applies, and when the accounting is done, the bill is due. The bigger purse has a much greater advantage.
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by salawat 1mo ago
Enantidromia. It's just kind of how we humans work. The more you push, the harder the backlash. Mind, that doesn't mean any policy is wrong per se, but trying to change something without taking it into account is a fool's err
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by salawat 1mo ago
The fact they electrically signal via chemical analogs fuelled by immersion in nutrient bearing fluid that also accretes waste products, yet is kept separate from the primary loop of the cardiovascular system by the blood-brain barrier?
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by salawat 1mo ago
Our technological grasp has exceeded our societal capability to responsibly wield and direct it. This same situation was absolutely rife in philosophical circles around the world wars of the last century, (see Heidigger's writings on t
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by salawat 1mo ago
>People won't ever stop wanting things. Citation required. I assure you, wanting vs. being able to realistically acquire is a very powerful force of want extinguishment. You cannot, in fact, get a thing, if the world around you is n
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by salawat 1mo ago
The poster is implying the reinforcement at play is the problematic thing at issue, and they are assigning the word "gambling" to represent it, or so it looks like to me. I think you aren't parsing their meaning correctly bec
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by salawat 1mo ago
Issue isn't with libraries. Issue is with pathological incentive systems rewarding the manufacturing of artificial scarcity, and the fact that pseudo-capitalist zealots cannot accept that maybe just maybe money is not normal should be
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by salawat 1mo ago
What makes you think I'm not concerned about it? I've been positively mortified at the seeming cavalier way in which all caution is thrown to the winds. I've honestly had to fundamentally reassess my understanding of the aver
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by salawat 1mo ago
The types of people using it that way are not concerned with the best interests of anyone but themselves, and arguably not even that except within a very immediate time horizon.
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by salawat 1mo ago
Keep in mind the world is run by hierarchs. Of course the solution will look hierarchical in nature. The problem is fundamentally speaking, the hierarchism is a self perpetuating problem, because we still have to solve who amongst us can be
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by salawat 1mo ago
Only if you're a capitalist. Upton Sinclair applies.
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by salawat 1mo ago
I grow weary of this overreach. We really need to randomize device identifiers at just about all levels. Then again, I've always said the identifiers existing in the first place is a desperate bid to try to artificially implement a fin
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by salawat 1mo ago
Look into what happened with machinists. "Feel" for the machine, and intuition for the craft was replaced by gcode. The work product, instead of the knowledge requisite to realize a work, became the container of value. With enough
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by salawat 2mo ago
Let it! Most innovation these days seems to be synonymous with "run into legal grey areas and make a buck while the getting is good". As programmers, we damn well have responsibility for that which we write and execute. AI cannot
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by salawat 2mo ago
We all know. The fact AI companies are finding themselves in such infamous company in so short a time should be a signal.
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by salawat 2mo ago
Yes. Ethics in the context of a societal construct like a corporation is directly analogous to alignment AI-wise. The fact specialists on societal alignment are leaving ship is a strong signal the corporate machine has crossed the line into
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by salawat 2mo ago
Intending to do good is a completely different beast to doing good. The promise of good later should always be discounted.

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