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by tavavex 4mo ago
Probably American markets, not Western. The EU, Canada, Australia and others would have no reason to reject cheaper supply, and they don't have the same anti-democratic tech forces ready to do anything to ban their competition like the
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by tavavex 4mo ago
> educating them about the pitfalls so everyone's on the same page What? They know what they're doing, they have access to the same information we do. There's just too much money in it for them to care about irrelevant thi
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by tavavex 4mo ago
> The cutthroatness is what we should be optimizing for long term. Competition is what begets innovation. The difficult pill that society refuses to swallow is that most of the simple innovations that are feasible under our constraints h
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by tavavex 4mo ago
I don't know if they have that level of coordination. To me it seems that they just want to grab as much money and power for themselves while it's possible before considering any interests of their social class. I don't know
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by tavavex 4mo ago
This comment isn't just about resisting LLM usage ⸻ it's a genuine rejection of hypocrisy.
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That makes no sense to me. You've cited one overhead for building on land but just didn't bring up the billions of overheads for deploying satellites. The associated costs of launching this stuff into space blows the price of bori
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by tavavex 4mo ago
It's not exactly like Cookie Clicker. Many people definitely like seeing the number going up, but for most people that get to that point of wealth, the goal is power that the money represents. A human being may struggle to relate to th
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by tavavex 4mo ago
> I want him to be correct Why? If you're curious, I explained why space data centers are such an irredeemably stupid idea in my eyes a few comments up.
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Space is an abysmal environment for running compute. It offers no real advantages over doing the same thing on Earth, and it's more expensive, too! Energy is far cheaper and more abundant here than in space. And get ready to figure out
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by tavavex 5mo ago
That's probably what they actually think at Google. A lot of the "they're just like people" marketing now seems like responsibility-washing. That despite Google developing the LLM and charging for its use, they treat it
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Is this quote from a book, or just something the author had said? It pains me to say, but I feel like the world the author is talking about is being extinguished. Soon enough we all will be 'computer people'.
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by tavavex 5mo ago
This comment has no substance to it. It's the same as posting "I am right and you are wrong. 'Sorry' if me being right makes you feel bad, but you are wrong." People are asking legitimate questions whenever this is
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Your post is talking about only the code itself, the quality, the speed. Other people are already debating you on that, but I suggest that you also look into what's surrounding AI that's making people very averse to it. Many see A
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by tavavex 5mo ago
But isn't this just a more abstract example of the 'circular explanations' thing that OP mentioned? The reason why we need compound interest on our savings accounts instead of just being able to put away some money every year
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by tavavex 5mo ago
There is no way to have both. Surveillance is power and it corrupts in the same way as any other form of power. It's not just about patching some individual holes. You can't have too much of it for the same reason why you can&#x
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Does this unlimited PTO still have to adhere to any legally required minimum PTO limits? If not, what prevents them from just not giving their employees any time off ever and bypassing the peer pressure part entirely?
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by tavavex 5mo ago
I don't understand. What is 'unlimited' PTO? And if it's so unlimited, why can't you use any of it? I've only had jobs with very specifically defined PTO that had no ambiguity in whether I could ever use it.
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by tavavex 5mo ago
How does "this is less common in healthcare" become "this is irrelevant"? My point is that healthcare can never be treated as a free market because you'll be sacrificing the dying people, even if there are few of th
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by tavavex 5mo ago
I'm Canadian, and I like our system. If you're in danger, you'll get that CT scan now. It'll take longer if your case doesn't require urgent care. But I've never waited for medical care more than what I would t
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by tavavex 5mo ago
It never can be a free market because people are willing to pay an infinitely high price to keep themselves alive, and you can't pick and choose because you need the care here and now.
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Can you explain what is contradictory in the view you oppose? You lump a few of these opinions into one and they're pretty different from one another, but the essence of it seems to be disagreeing that humans can be explained with enou
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Are they though? Have there been any major breakthroughs in the engineering that make a 2026 car more structurally secure than one from 2011? I thought the main improvements were made in software, like lane assist and whatever else. But my
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Those same components are contained in tech everything , not just "luxuries". If you want to stick with your current hardware, you just need to hope that your existing setup will outlast you and never have any part failures.
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Trillion dollar companies like Apple will still be able to get their hands on whatever they need, albeit at worse prices. Individual consumers trying to buy those components directly probably won't.
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by tavavex 5mo ago
When a user clicks the 'close tab' button, it's not just sending a command to their browser. It's sending a signal of disapproval.
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by tavavex 5mo ago
I'll say that I don't know anything about 90s SEA, but I know a bit about gray markets. One thing that stands out to me in your description is that all the corruption is incredibly localized and small-scale. Everything happens at
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by tavavex 5mo ago
But does that collapse happen because of some universal axiom about controlling humans, or were those empires merely limited by what was possible in their era? This is the first time in history we have so much military power, ways to exert
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by tavavex 5mo ago
Is there a difference in terms of outcomes? In the final form of a complete 'free market' without a government, the biggest entity would simply replicate the same levers of power that a government has through private militias, iss
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by tavavex 5mo ago
I didn't comment just to complain about them, though, but to tell people who leave them to elaborate on why.
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Why is this downvoted? To me, it seems like a self-evident conclusion. Even the supporters of the current system would probably agree with it. When you have a system that encourages endless growth at absolutely all costs, while placing no l

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