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by skissane 3mo ago
The possibility of defection to mainstream society actually increases the selective pressure against defection-promoting alleles/memes, compared to if that possibility didn’t exist; the mainstream acts as a genetic/memetic sink t
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by skissane 3mo ago
> my theory is that selection will remove memes (behavioral/thought/cultural patterns) that cause childlessness from the meme pool much faster. The sociologist Eric Kaufmann wrote a book Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?
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by skissane 3mo ago
> You are completely discrediting the joy humans derive from actually -doing- the work, and not just, telling someone else to do the work. But humans (or at least some of them) get joy from that too. A lot of people enjoy being superviso
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by skissane 3mo ago
> They did remove it. Note that it says unauthenticated JSON access. You can't get the data if you didn't authenticate. I’m not logged in yet I can access below JSON? https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/
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by skissane 3mo ago
> Fictional erotica portraying fictional children is not CSAM. There is no child abuse taking place as there is no child in the first place. That’s your definition, but it isn’t the definition many authorities/activists/etc use
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by skissane 3mo ago
> CSAM is child abuse but the perpetrator films their crime as evidence This isn't entirely true. In much of the Western world – outside the US – CSAM (or equivalent legal terms such as "child pornography", "child abu
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by skissane 3mo ago
> the Linux kernel doesn't support multithreading. It only supports processes sharing an address space. Which is what most people call threads - but in the kernel, they are just processes that happen to share an address space. This
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by skissane 3mo ago
> Becoming a sanctioned entity wouldn't count -- if Airbus somehow made the business decision to start selling drones directly to Uyghur slave labor camps in western China and got itself on a list of sanctioned companies even Scalew
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by skissane 3mo ago
AWS supports billing in multiple currencies: https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/supported-aws-currencies So how is it a "foot gun" to add XTS as an additional currency, for internal use only? I presume AWS s
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by skissane 3mo ago
> Somebody will have said at some point "we should actually have the tests charge money" and somebody else will have said "well we can't have the tests actually charge money, that's a legal/accounting proble
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by skissane 3mo ago
> half of what's remaining has to be saved up for retirement in a place that deeply discriminates against age, you don't have much left to save up for buying a $2M house. Buying a $2M house is saving for retirement. Owning your
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by skissane 3mo ago
> Why do we want a very specific form of safety instead of wanting safety in general? Because a “very specific form of safety” is a useful tool in achieving “safety in general” Because a “very specific form of safety” is tractable for a
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by skissane 3mo ago
> Again, you're trying really really hard to expand the definition of what we're talking about to give Grok a pass and I do not understand why. From my perspective, you come across as being more focused on making assumptions ab
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by skissane 3mo ago
> No this was anomalous for an IPO. People were limited to something like 10 shares that they had to pre-order like they were special order trading cards with an order cap as direct recipients of the initial shares. It all depends on you
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by skissane 3mo ago
> In short there is no opening whatsoever for Pennsylvania German to become a written living literary language. I wasn’t talking about it becoming a “literary” language Consider this website - https://www.ujcbg.org/ - it
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by skissane 3mo ago
> Ok, then let’s just say CSAM by definition of US law. “CSAM” isn’t a legal category under US law. “Child pornography” is a legal category under US law. But, according to the 2002 US Supreme Court case Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition
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by skissane 3mo ago
> I didn’t say block all illegitimate uses, though. We’re talking very specifically about disabling the production of CSAM But what is “CSAM”? If by it you mean illegal material-different jurisdictions worldwide have different laws on th
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by skissane 3mo ago
> If a shovel manufacturer was notified numerous times that their shovel was being used for murder and they had the capability to disable using the shovel for murder while retaining all legitimate uses wouldn’t people question why they d
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by skissane 3mo ago
> This is why the next big language/software ecosystem needs to integrate payments to vendors in their repository system. That way, commercial license management can occur between the ecosystem owners and the corporate customers and
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by skissane 3mo ago
Thank you
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by skissane 3mo ago
> This HN thing of casually using acronyms without defining them is baffling to me It's called, I forgot. Next time I will try to remember.
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by skissane 3mo ago
I had not heard of the Libby (Montana) community before. But from the description in the article, it is clear they are at the liberalising end of the Amish. And one thing that almost certainly follows from their liberalisation, is their TFR
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by skissane 3mo ago
> I think the distinction with the Chinese models (or with any of the other models) is that they aren't particularly vocal and obviously active about their politics Try asking Chinese models about Taiwan independence or Falun Gong o
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by skissane 3mo ago
> Feels like a distinction without a difference. What is any intelligence but a sum of its knowledge? In humans, there is a standard distinction between fluid intelligence (ability to solve problems in the absence of background informati
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by skissane 3mo ago
The irony is that Claude will help you migrate away from itself AI is possibly the first product in history that will eagerly help you replace it with one of its competitors.
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by skissane 3mo ago
I think it will make less of a difference than you think. Do you think people who have 0-2 kids would be signing up to have 10+ if only we could grow babies in vats? I doubt it. By contrast, >10 kids is actually quite common in communiti
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by skissane 3mo ago
> Of urban college educated professionals, do the conservatives still have more kids than the progressives? Look at Amy Coney Barrett - Supreme Court justice, before that a constitutional law professor then federal appeals court judge, f
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by skissane 3mo ago
> No one has any good ideas about the root causes nor the solutions. I think if you look at ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Amish, the answer is obvious - the easiest way to maximise fertility is to convince people that God exists, has comma
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by skissane 3mo ago
> Maybe I'm wrong, but it looks like the paper just has a misleading title, and this is about having children, not fertility. I think the confusion is that “fertility” means different things in medicine vs demography In medicine, fe
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by skissane 3mo ago
> The right will successfully reproduce their political alignment sometimes, of course, but they also effectively act as the breeder population for the left. I think the right has been evolving higher memetic immunity, which is causing t

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