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by subsistence234 3y ago
People who cheer for their own disempowerment are fascinating.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
>these are the people who think they are best qualified to prevent an artificial superintelligence from destroying humanity do they believe that? they happen to be the ones who can pull the brakes in order to allow someone on earth the
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by subsistence234 3y ago
they're not sure whether they can align super intelligence, they're sure that somebody needs to figure out how to align super intelligence before it emerges.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
that tweet would be more at home on a linkedin page.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
And a weirdo who hates a developer could keep auto-reinstalling (or just re-triggering the "new install" signal to unity servers) 1000 times per day, every day.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
people spreading the absurd notion that face masks work the same outside hospitals as inside hospitals are causing panic and mask shortages. therefore they needed to be silenced. (that was the state of public discourse in april 2020, maybe
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by subsistence234 3y ago
>They were deplatformed, which is a penalty for "lying" and prevents them from saying "wrong" things. in that time What's "wrong" and what's a "lie" could change within a few weeks (do ma
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by subsistence234 3y ago
It's as if this crazy court ruled on one hand that the USPS can't refuse to deliver your mail just because they don't like your opinions, but at the same time the court ruled that Texas is allowed to force the USPS to deliver
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by subsistence234 3y ago
and even if it's true we don't want to hear about it. and if we don't want to hear about it, censoring it was justified.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
he thinks whether something is true or not just depends on how much upvotes it gets
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by subsistence234 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446500 >Coffee affects me strongly. What can I say. I get a cleanse every morning for 3 bucks. Cleansing your digestive tract is actually really good for you. People pay big bucks f
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by subsistence234 3y ago
trolling? the problem isn't that you shit on elon but that you suggested he's bad because he's middle-aged or divorced, especially when this "insult" applies to the other guy as well. You could try making an (extrem
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by subsistence234 3y ago
>Elon Musk's latest legal move is straight out of the authoritarian playbook – he will stop at nothing to silence anyone who criticizes him. says the group trying to silence people they disagree with
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by subsistence234 3y ago
>4chan killed Terry Davis. weird. they seem to like him
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by subsistence234 3y ago
women in tech care about tech
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by subsistence234 3y ago
creating money in the sense of lending on margin is very different from the sense in which the Fed creates money.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
they're not a "hate group," they're a "collecting embarrassing info on creeps" group. of course the creeps aren't happy about that, and frame it as "hate."
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by subsistence234 3y ago
But if you HAD done bad things and they WERE documented on KF, you might try even harder to get it shut down. And if you had plenty money and influential contacts, and no moral qualms, you might succeed. Only temporarily though.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
That story only holds water on social media or clickbait news.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
quintessential social justice moment
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by subsistence234 3y ago
no it's not, it addresses the core of the idiotic argument. "we should ban participating in traffic without the safety features of a new car." No we shouldn't for the same reason we don't ban bicycles, motorbikes, s
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by subsistence234 3y ago
running a social network for people that can't handle rude words on a screen is hard.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
the whole userbase of bluesky, judging by how they're acting right now.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
Kinda hilarious that one or two people can build a better site for fun than reddit can for profit with 2000 employees.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
"if there's a [X] at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 [X]"
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by subsistence234 3y ago
Yup. Everyone in the office loves edgy fart-porn childrens-cartoon fursonas who have regular consent-accidents.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
If you're the owner of your company, the company won't fire you. You can still harm your company (and thereby yourself) by attacking your biggest customers on social media.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
Supercuts Deluxe, twitter edition: Twitter is done. There's no question about it. BREAKING NEWS: a bombshell. Today is a turning point, today was historically bad for Twitter. A turning point. We're at a turning point here. The be
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by subsistence234 3y ago
Interesting to see how much a single competent person can accomplish, versus a thousand full-time employees for a billion dollar company.
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by subsistence234 3y ago
from the perspective of average redditors, intelligence is obedience to social norms. obedience is their highest virtue, and the more intelligent you are, the better at obeying you can be.

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