tehjoker

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by tehjoker 6d ago
What business does America have in Taiwan? It makes no sense.
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by tehjoker 8d ago
Only China has the GDP to replace USA. So while the answer isn't written in stone, it looks like it'll be China, or since China favors UN governance, maybe we'll move to an old discarded idea (because it didn't serve Ame
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by tehjoker 11d ago
The attack did not come from inside the government alone. It was for example, capital flight. The rich attempted to starve the French economy to win concessions and they won them. People that control the government in principle control the
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by tehjoker 11d ago
This clarification is a goal of DSA members. Elected officials should use their position oppositionally and to tell the truth about our system. For example reading government secrets into the public record, telling the public the truth abou
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by tehjoker 12d ago
I imagine this will become one kind of branch of mathematics.
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by tehjoker 12d ago
Building labor unions is more valuable than voting. I think you should still vote, but understand voting without leverage will result in your candidate bending the knee. An example is Mamdani being elected in NYC, but allowing a known class
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by tehjoker 12d ago
Mitterrand did attempt to do the things his voters wanted. He was constrained by capitalists who punished him mercilessly until he bent the knee. Allende was simply couped and assassinated. Voting changes things when those changes do not s
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by tehjoker 12d ago
Voting only changes things when it doesn’t threaten the interests of elites or there is a sufficient counterweight in terms of a competitor nation or a radical labor movement or an uncontrolled armed insurgency. See salvador allende in chil
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by tehjoker 13d ago
I think that’s very reasonable but the ai companies are intentionally training them to work on harder and harder problems just beyond their capability. So if they do that, they’ll give up too easily. Do a breakthrough, make no mistakes
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by tehjoker 14d ago
If a human doesn't understand the proof, it might be useful for certain kinds of engineering, but not really that useful for mathematics except as an existence test.
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by tehjoker 14d ago
They usually don't, but if they break out and take over the network of the company, it becomes possible to reach around and grab them. This kind of break out has happened, though I don't know of any weights being nabbed.
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by tehjoker 17d ago
What do you mean by this?
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by tehjoker 18d ago
Where did the binaries come from? Did Iran release them?
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by tehjoker 19d ago
This is not entirely true, you are costing them in the short run, but are growing your dependence on their product and feeding them training data. Their goal is to create AGI and replace humans with something resembling the plot of Horizon
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by tehjoker 19d ago
It’s deeper than that, the people running these companies have their goal as human extinction due to a quasi religious mania (TESCREAL). I wish I were joking. Look it up.
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by tehjoker 20d ago
very interesting perspective, i remember reading thyucledies and he complains about how historians before him would report the first tale they heard, by comparison he worked dilligently to confirm his history (though since he was inventing
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by tehjoker 20d ago
what about the bible? the most printed book of that era
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by tehjoker 23d ago
Thank you Mayor Mamdani and the DSA. This is a major win for keeping children from losing their minds, retaining education quality, and promoting socialization.
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by tehjoker 26d ago
in a way you could criticize them as being idealist instead of materialist. like you said they think ideas are more important than material substrates. most of the time brilliant human ideas are arrived at near simultaneously by multiple pe
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by tehjoker 28d ago
pangram says 100% the first paragraph is ai
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by tehjoker 29d ago
this is literally just liberal capitalist ideology
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by tehjoker 29d ago
gates says if he could slow it down he would but the economic and geopolitical aspects are pushing too hard. the china thing is fake, and the developing is taking over a trillion dollars. it could easily be shut off
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
That feels more right to me. Maybe inning 8 on money/hype.
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
That's because they fucked up. I don't know where you've been but we have been dominating oil markets since the end of WW2. The dollar is sometimes called the "petrodollar" because we shifted from a gold basis to a
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
in the case of airplanes the only thing thats the private market is the planes and the ticket, the entire system of airports, safety, navigation is state subsidized and when the market fails it gets bailed out. the oil is subsidized by cons
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
Dropsite news is good, but are you familiar with manufacturing consent’s propaganda model of the mass media? A simplified explanation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M&ra=m
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
Pro-US slop. The greatest threat is our own government. They are the ones with a right-wing government building a repressive apparatus across a huge number of datacenters and are proven to spy on the entire world. Anyone remember the Snowde
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
NSA probably read and stored a highly significant fraction of those emails.
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
The real story here is that prediction markets were banned for a reason and loosening the rules is causing chaos just as was expected. AI plays little role in this story, hacking by humans would also be motivated by financial returns, unles
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by tehjoker 2mo ago
Whether or not this is really true or just US propaganda, the majority of technology transfer has occurred through the open process of requiring US companies to form partnerships and disclose know-how to access the chinese market. This stuf

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