tac19

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by tac19 2y ago
If you think the people who support Trump haven't heard this message, then I don't know what to tell you. They have also failed to hear what sounds to them like love-for-country, from the opposite side. We can argue til the cows
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by tac19 2y ago
Used to take quite high doses of LSD, and often had incredible visual hallucinations. Things like watching a large plant sprout flower buds all over it, which slowly expanded to full bloom and then retreated back to small buds; the whole ex
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by tac19 2y ago
Safety from dissent, for an authoritarian government. This is just weaponized "empathy".
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by tac19 2y ago
"You've done nothing but cultivate your own demise for decades." He doesn't really blame Trump. Would really like to hear criticism and critique of this analysis.
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by tac19 2y ago
I know I shouldn't get my news from Reddit, but the consensus there is that the entire FAA crisis (and both recent crashes in the US), is Trump's fault. I don't know the details, but apparently he "gutted" the FAA
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by tac19 2y ago
That is a really unsupportable conclusion. As an extreme example just to make the point undeniable, your parents could have poisoned you, ending your life. Or they could have maimed you and left you unable to walk, or to see. And those a
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by tac19 2y ago
Maybe. But a human agent also has personal needs, desires, and self-interests that may motivate treachery. Human's have an evolutionarily proven propensity for duplicity and deceit. It may turn out that some silicon experts are mor
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by tac19 2y ago
Well I don't think getting hung up on such definitions will be fruitful. But here is the point i was trying to make: humans, as individuals and as collectives, do indeed have a lot of experience outsourcing intellectual jobs. They d
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by tac19 2y ago
But they are in the abstract sense of something to employ to achieve a result. That's why consultants are hired, not for their humanity, but for their utility.
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by tac19 2y ago
Human consultants have been a thing for a long time, they're a tool of business. They're meant as a multiplier to the corporate ability, not a replacement. It seems like a shift in economics and availability, rather than a shift
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by tac19 2y ago
Those persist only at the whim of a corporation. There is nothing that preserves them, as they were at a given time, or keeps them in existence if their owner goes out of business or is cast out because of political feuds. Not that there i
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by tac19 2y ago
What will be the vital source of cultural history when people someday look back to where we are now?
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by tac19 2y ago
Have you ever been able to get a community license? I've submitted a request for one several times over the last year or two and never received a response, not even a denial.
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34 points by tac19 2y ago|3 comments