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by taurath 1y ago
Hear me out: what if we let China be the biggest, and then tried to make life for our citizens awesome, and competed on our ability to come up with new stuff? What if we solved the problems we had like housing
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by taurath 1y ago
Morality would dictate that we stop spending enough money to end hunger in not just our country but the entire planet on this stupid venture. We are gutting our future entirely on our own and hoping that AI will save us. That’s moral suicid
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by taurath 1y ago
> It is absurd to claim that an intelligent-looking entity doesn't have intelligence I think if one really thinks about this statement, they'll find the opposite to be at least as possible.
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by taurath 1y ago
To me this reads like someone's been inside the echo chamber too long. > For you AI skeptics, this is going to be rough to hear, but given the suffering that will occur if AI fails, I believe we have a moral imperative to make sure
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by taurath 1y ago
Oh the one you toggle will be off. But tomorrow they’ll add a new feature, with a different toggle, that does the same thing but will be distinct enough. That toggle will default on, and you’ll find it in a year and a half after it’s been a
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by taurath 1y ago
The majority of americans are more concerned with AI. Only like 22% are optimistic. And why would they be optimistic that it'll result in a better life for them
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by taurath 1y ago
As a counter, you can buy a hell of a lot of brand for $8 billion dollars though. You can give your most active 50,000 users $160,000 each, for example. You can run campaign ads in every billboard, radio, tv station and every facebook feed
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by taurath 1y ago
> I don’t think many people in the US care about rehab I think they exist quite widely among the population. Old, white republicans want more people in jail. Young, non-white democrats think we jail too many people. 50% of the country th
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by taurath 1y ago
Scandinavian countries have prison populations in the thousands (1000) and the USA has a prison population in the millions (1000000). The USA has an incarceration rate 10 times that of any Scandinavian country. Recidivism rates might be sim
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by taurath 1y ago
> born with innate antisocial traits If this were true, sociability wouldn't be so incredibly overwhelmingly correlated with trauma, and to the extent that trauma & poverty are related, poverty. This is a full and utter complete
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by taurath 1y ago
If we get serious about actual rehabilitation in prisons instead of punishment there’s never been a better time to be able to learn just about anything on your own time. But we’d have to stop dehumanizing criminals. Dehumanization seems to
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by taurath 1y ago
Maybe it s due to moderation, but I have mostly seen green accounts making profoundly incendiary political statements, usually from the right. I tend to just ignore them, but I also tend to think of this as a platform that skews right becau
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by taurath 1y ago
What happened since 2019?
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by taurath 1y ago
See, now thats at the heart of it isn't it! What /would/ someone have to offer you, your family or your community? What do you value? What does your community value? How do you know folks have nothing to offer?
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by taurath 1y ago
Referrals are the only way right now. The front door is broken everywhere. I spent 4 years off and I managed to come back, but only referrals were worthwhile in getting me roles worth anything
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by taurath 1y ago
The person you’re responding to may not believe those things, and may not want those things or think it’s possible or reasonable. Let them speak about it at least before assuming that group affiliation means those things. FWIW I believe deh
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by taurath 1y ago
Thanks, I genuinely appreciate the perspective. Do you find that perspective is primarily gotten from real life conversations, or from discourse online/social media/political commentators? I often fantasize about being able to jus
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by taurath 1y ago
> We do not (as far as I know), have the ability to know to what extent the FCC Chair's comments mattered at all. Two things - firstly, it wasn't a comment, it was a threat to kill ABC's ability to broadcast by the person
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by taurath 1y ago
> unless I believe in a conspiracy by the state of Utah itself What about political incentives? The conservative media sphere was falling over themselves to rush to label the shooter before any evidence or even a statement of "ideol
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> I always thought the US to be a stronghold of democracy and free speech. Every single story and moral guidance I've ever been told from childhood, whether from movies, books, church, or culture in general is that people like those
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by taurath 1y ago
I don't have any idea where this will go, but the idea that our collective future is determined by the restraint of the people currently in power does not bode well.
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by taurath 1y ago
> I feel like I’m a failure You are being failed, you are not a failure. This is not a privileged career, it is a (relative to other careers) lucrative one - some within it are privileged, they make bay area housing money, have ownership
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by taurath 1y ago
Yes exactly. There is a huge amount of people going into software development so they can have the basic security of owning their own dwelling. Prices have gone up even in non tech hubs. Home pricing vs what people earn is the reason for so
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by taurath 1y ago
This is the root of it all. 8-10 years of experience with an above average pay rate means you can just start to afford a starter home in any of the tech hubs.
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Okay lol. The curious tinkerer developer is still very curious, but the culture around his or her job is probably wringing the enthusiasm of the field out of them.
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Thats the whole damn point of youtube premium
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Well at least people's primary source of income isn't hidden behind a black box by corporate overlords or anything
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> point fingers at YouTube for something they weren’t involved in YouTube monetizes based on view count. They also send the data to the client. That client data is in anyway involved, and could be blocked, is YouTube’s design problem.
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by taurath 1y ago
I believe I have the same one! For me, almost out of the box I needed to disable CPU boost due to the thermals and instability. That worked for a while, though I considered replacing it and didn’t because there was just no others available
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by taurath 1y ago
I have one of these, a Zephyrus G15. That it had an AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU should have been a red flag that support would be really poor. Only a year out of warranty, it is a brick on a shelf because the thermals are so atrocious it pretty

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