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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Look, I'm as anxious about the whole thing as you. We need to start changing our societies in a fundamental level. Like yesterday..
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Zuckerberg et al downvoting an inconvenient truth? ;) Mark: fuck you.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Yeah, we need a bigger fix. Your work definitely has a part to play, to help people get rid of the addiction. So I'm definitely supportive - let's just keep the blame where it belongs, so it can be fixed at the core. :)
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
>is a lack of self-discipline Hmm, maybe there is something to say about the addiction capitalism?? You cannot place the blame on individual here. This is a societal level problem. This is a failure of democracy to recognize and address
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
I can't even imagine what kind of dystopian societal destruction they are still capable of.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
"Too late" is the only logical conclusion I've been able to make. And just to be clear, "too late" is entirely subjective. The universe will be fine with or without the human ape. But I recognize living in an inform
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Let's break up this company then. Too big.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Yeah, I get your point. It was a super shady election, with a lot of examples we could talk about, but I think that would be missing the point. I wanna zoom on couple of your points: 1. "democratic systems are flawed, like any system o
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
You have spoken my exact thoughts aloud, thanks. Let's start working on the theory!
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Erdogan, a dictator tyrant, and democracy, don't fit in the same sentence. It is true that the democratic system has failed: quality journalism died and the truth with it, the rich have a huge separate-from-society system for wealth ho
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
"...illustration of the [FAILURE] of the democratic system" i would add. handing out cash at polling stations isn't part of a strong, well functioning democracy.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
If a title like this can even exist, how can the system be thought of functioning properly and fairly hmm...
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
An observation: When the older generations were her age a few decades ago, they were getting cheap educations, building big houses, buying summer cabins, investment apartments, multiple new cars, having multiple kids. Now for the younger ge
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
What a lazy unproductive snark from you.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
They are already dangerous in the way they cause global anxiety and fear in people, and also because the effects of their usage to the economy and real lives of the people are unpredictable. AI needs to be regulated and controlled, the alte
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
I hear you, though you don't get to decide what's HN-worthy and what's not. I guess my brain felt compelled to remind about the important underlying message of the post, because the comment felt like it was undermining it. Th
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Surveillance and monopolies are out of control regardless of whatever content is in a subreddit.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
What the hell are you talking about? There is massive centralization.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Well said. > "Not the path to AGI, not an emerging sentience". These are HUGE claims. Define AGI. Define sentience. What is the path and why isn't LLM on it? Right now those words are only dangerous misinformation - origin
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
i quit my startup software dev job too recently. the productivity culture is poison. decided to just play guitar for a while.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
"The value of owning the ecosystem cannot be overstated. Google itself has successfully used this paradigm in its open source offerings, like Chrome and Android. By owning the platform where innovation happens, Google cements itself as
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Considering the sorry state of democracy in the world, this doesn't surprise me at all, though is deeply saddening. Obviously the markets aren't functioning properly because of these massive monopolies hoarding wealth and controll
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Let Teenagers Be Young And Study. Child labor is back in the menu? Fuck this article.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
That man belongs to jail given all the damage he's done to the global society.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
What about the unregulated attention economy AI's of Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, etc, that have lead to suicides and various other violence?
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Good for you. How about the people you love? How about the rest of the humanity?
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
Appropriate punishment depends on what kind of life the man has and what kind of life does the society want him to have. Apparently debt slavery is fair in a situation where no real damage was done to anyone.
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by sledgehammers 3y ago
This man is now a slave. What a world we live in.
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by sledgehammers 5y ago
Why should it be any more complicated than that? What ever happened to keeping it simple?
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by sledgehammers 5y ago
It's a completely valid and useful idiom. Whatever build system you use, it's trivial to add these kind of libraries to the project. The fact that one has to learn complex build tools (and often multiple ones), is the sad thing he

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