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by slg 5mo ago
>When you constantly get villainized for being involved The vagueness of "being involved" is doing a lot of work in your comment. How often is the US vilified for these humanitarian programs and why should we pay attention to a
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by slg 5mo ago
It's not that complicated, my immigration policy is "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my l
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by slg 5mo ago
> It’s an LLM trained heavily on Elon tweets and pro-Elon internet content. I get what you're saying and generally agree with the overall point, but this specific aspect makes it worth remarking that even the model trained to be pro
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by slg 5mo ago
You do good things because they are good, not to be thanked. It's so bizarre to frame saving lives as something that requires reciprocation. I want my country to pay for these programs because they save lives and my country is rich en
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by slg 5mo ago
It has been a little while since I read the book, but I think you have the cause of the curve wrong. These things are moving at such a high percentage of the speed of light that there isn't much visible curve from the movement of the
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by slg 5mo ago
>If C-suite does not operate in that direction, they can sue and will win. There is no point in going in different direction, courts already quite clearly said you will lose. If this is true, it should be easy to point to some examples f
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by slg 5mo ago
Let me be as straightforward as I can be. You are debating a straw man that arose out of you inserting your own adverb into my first comment. You saw "unrestricted" as "completely unrestricted" rather than the "re
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by slg 5mo ago
Like I said, I don't think quibbling over specific word choices is productive. So what are you hoping to accomplish with your comments here? Because you're coming off like someone trying to score points in a high school debate ra
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by slg 5mo ago
Neither does democracy nor free speech. It's interesting that you felt the need to quibble over only one of those three definitions. I used those words in the context of the rise of companies like Meta and people like Zuckerberg. I t
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by slg 5mo ago
>Meta is not people, it's a publicly traded company that's practically legally required to make money and grow infinitely. Has a company ever faced any sort of legal repercussions for sacrificing profit for moral reasons? That
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by slg 5mo ago
The "proven track record" part of your question is shortsighted. We shouldn't restrict future political thought by past political thoughts. We'd never see any progress that way. If you're asking which one of the th
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by slg 5mo ago
At some point societies are going to have to reckon with the fact that democracy, free speech, and unrestricted capitalism simply aren't a sustainable mix. A system that allows people to amass incredible fortunes and use those fortune
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by slg 5mo ago
You said “There was no conscious choice behind it” and here is the creator telling you the choice was intentional from the start. Some people simply can’t admit they are wrong.
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by slg 5mo ago
This 3 minute clip of a conversation between George Lucas and James Cameron might help. https://youtube.com/watch?v=fv9Jq_mCJEo
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I specifically said reputation. Disney has a history of buying properties and squeezing every last dollar out of them until nothing is left but a husk of what they were at their peak. Disney certainly got their money’s worth out of those
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by slg 5mo ago
> ESPN, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars And all of those have declined in reputation since their acquisition or soon after.
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by slg 5mo ago
> I did say rarely And I think you have that backwards. The nonviolence movements of the mid to late 20th century are the exception more than the rule when it comes to achieving change.
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by slg 5mo ago
>political violence rarely achieves its aims This country was founded on political violence. When the political violence works, we tend to stop considering it political violence.
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by slg 5mo ago
The problem here is more capitalism than AI. If AI ends up being truly as beneficial as all the enthusiasts are predicting, that value could go to making all our lives better, but we have created an economic and political system that ensure
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by slg 5mo ago
The way "coal miners" are discussed would also likely be something that puzzles historians. There are approximately 45,000 coal miners in the US, that's roughly equivalent to the combined enrollment of Harvard and MIT. Ther
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by slg 5mo ago
An emperor choosing a bad heir is much easier to explain than the general population of a democracy choosing this.
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Historians looking back at this era are going to struggle to understand why we made the decisions we did.
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by slg 5mo ago
>My impression is that there was a sharp shift around COVID. Doing classes over Zoom with a talking head broke the connection they had with their professors and other students. I think this is part of a larger phenomenon than simply Zoom
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by slg 5mo ago
It's truly ironic the way this comic is now primarily used as part of the same behavior it's criticizing.
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by slg 5mo ago
I'm not going to get in the argument you clearly want to have, but as I said in my previous comment, I can confirm with my own experience that you're wrong and this trend started earlier than 2010.
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by slg 5mo ago
I said Biden because you're acting like you only remember the last 6 years. Diversity programs predate and survived Trump's first term. You seem to be suggesting that culture naturally swings back and forth as the president chan
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by slg 5mo ago
>What happens if/when a Democrat president is elected that mandates DEI and ESG all over again Mandates? There is this weird revisionist history that DEI was a Biden era invention that all these companies were forced to roll out in
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by slg 5mo ago
I think a lot of us old tech folks want to still believe in those techno-libertarian ideals of the old web. However, in order to do that we largely need to ignore the capitalistic and authoritarian ideals of the modern web. Us not owing eac
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by slg 5mo ago
You asked me "How am I not engaging with...", I gave you a response, and then you refuse to engage with that response. I guess your behavior confirming my accusation is as satisfactory of an answer as I could expect from you.
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by slg 5mo ago
>How am I not engaging with the root of the problem? The root of the problem is child safety on the internet. >I dont think the problem is solved by id verification. This is the position I have been arguing all along I have advocated

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