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by siftrics 3y ago
That's a reductionist moral framework you have. Are we not justified in killing Hitler to prevent the suffering of millions? I think Ted is wrong, but I also think your counterargument is ridiculous.
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by siftrics 3y ago
Fair enough. I misread your comments because I'm too triggered by people stating their emotions as if they're arguments.
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by siftrics 3y ago
> Won't this incentivise future acts of murder and terrorism? Yes, that's what he was trying to do. Ted claims we must stop technology, even with violent means, because technology causes greater suffering than the violent means
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by siftrics 3y ago
Ted's claim is that these people must die because they are propagating suffering via technology. I don't see how "but proponents of technology died" is an argument against his claim that stopping technology will stop suf
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by siftrics 3y ago
I'm not claiming to know the timeline, but he could have built them before "the deal", then made the deal and decided not to plant them. Innocent until proven guilty. There is more than enough evidence to put away Teddy K for
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by siftrics 3y ago
Them finding two completed bombs is not evidence that he planned to plant them.
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by siftrics 3y ago
Honestly, it is an unreasonable stance.
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by siftrics 3y ago
The commenter is not claiming Brazil is already self-sufficient in those three things.
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by siftrics 3y ago
Not trying to argue; just chipping in: I regularly sit outside with my shirt off in ~20F weather and don't get cold enough to have to go inside. Direct sunlight makes all the difference. With the sun, sub freezing air temperatures can
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by siftrics 3y ago
There are chains that don't have such fees. Also, a wire transfer fee on a million bucks is like $20-$40. That's pretty comparable to ETH and BTC fees.
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by siftrics 3y ago
In the past 24 hours, close to 1 trillion dollars worth of payments have been settled on blockchains. They eschew the need for intermediaries, like the numerous banks that recently imploded and locked depositors' funds away for who kno
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by siftrics 3y ago
This is essentially do-it-yourself etcd. https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd
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by siftrics 3y ago
> even though this at times can infuriate them Why should you care whether or not they're infuriated? That's a very subservient perspective you have.
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by siftrics 3y ago
ethbr0 is referring to monopolies enforced by law for private companies; they're not trying to point out the government itself is a monopoly.
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by siftrics 3y ago
You can make tax-deductible donations to certain organizations. This results in them getting more funding than they otherwise would. Sure, redirections may not modify the budget of the US government programs directly, but it does have meani
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by siftrics 3y ago
In the US, you can give extra money to reduce the deficit. You cannot redirect what you already owe so that it all goes towards reducing the deficit. So I think your point "nonono, I didn’t mean to pay down the debt with my money!&
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by siftrics 3y ago
What about the opioid crisis? What about the Sacklers? Was all of that fiction?
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by siftrics 3y ago
You're delusional if you think physicians maliciously over-prescribing in the US is not a problem. People are tremendously impacted, for good or ill, when prescribed pain medications, ADHD medications, anti-depressants, etc. Many of th
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by siftrics 3y ago
Needless discourse. Everyone understands there must be caveats to the Golden Rule. People aren't so literal in their moral frameworks to care about the exact wording. It's not charitable to say "what about this extremely cont
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by siftrics 3y ago
All 8-Ks are available to the public on the SEC's EDGAR wesbite. As far as I know, 8-Ks are posted there on the day of filing. That could be wrong and there may be a quicker way to get them.
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by siftrics 3y ago
I think it is relevant when it comes to the ethics involved.
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by siftrics 3y ago
I think it's not so clear. If it's clearly qualified that this is a fabrication of his voice, then what right does he have to control that? He's not being harmed. He's not being misrepresented.
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by siftrics 3y ago
Yeah but identity theft can be dealt with without giving people rent-seeking monopolies. Everyone is worse off except Drake and the argument that he was materially harmed is very shaky at best.
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by siftrics 3y ago
There are cases where using someone's voice can harm them, sure. That doesn't mean we should give everyone carte blanche jurisdiction over what can be done with their ideas or their voice. I think the onus is on the speaker/s
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by siftrics 3y ago
I agree that it's not okay to rob the wealthy simply because they are wealthy. But this case is more nuanced. A compelling argument can be made against the very idea of robbery of IP. I think the vast majority of "intellectual pro
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by siftrics 3y ago
How could anyone take the advice "don't teach your kids" seriously? Are you insane? It makes no sense on any level. How does NOT teaching your kid to read help them? It's as if people don't have brains anymore.
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by siftrics 3y ago
It's not laborious. Just think for yourself. Don't delegate critical thinking to some random idiot or stranger. Being marked as an oddball is a very minor downside compared to your kids not being able to read well. It's calle
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by siftrics 3y ago
"We were told" seems to always preface failure and disappointment. How do people blindly trust random figures of authority? It's mind boggling.
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by siftrics 3y ago
...then hang out with your friends in real life?
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by siftrics 4y ago
I wrote it using a framework whose most recent release is substantially different than what GPT-4 was trained on. I quickly learned to just paste the docs and examples from the new framework to GPT, telling it "this is how the API look

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