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by tehjoker 1y ago
Very good points. Though a "crisis of overproduction" can be an incipient spin into recession.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
The USSR had just taken Manchuria (Korea) and the US wanted Japan in our pocket and to intimidate the USSR. No need to repeat atrocity apologia. Japan in that era was evil af, kind of like Israel today (but in sheer numbers, Japan killed wa
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by tehjoker 1y ago
lower prices are ok if they are selling more units, the question is whether the price point * units is Pareto optimal overproduction means unsold units which is very bad, you pay a cost for every unsold unit underproduction means internal p
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by tehjoker 1y ago
That was claimed but never proven. I personally don't believe the American companies making this claim. I suspect they made this up to protect their valuations when they were hideously embarassed and lost a trillion dollars in equity.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
I think it depends on the stage of degradation and whether the network is still connected to something that can interpret it.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there are inaccessible, partly corrupted memories encoded in the hippocampus. I suspect most of them cannot be prompted by a therapist though, and likely there is no practical way to recover them.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
That's true, but without the kind of horsepower provided by modern hardware, even though I'm skeptical that it's all needed, especially given DeepSeek's amazing results, AI would be nearly impossible. There are some impo
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by tehjoker 1y ago
Maybe verifying isn't trivial either? Sometimes bugs only appear with a lot of interactions.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
Why accept the company's say so without any proof being offered or even a description of the fix? If it's been years and this kind of thing, described in regulations so clearly some attention was paid by engineers, still happens,
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by tehjoker 1y ago
interesting I suspect the UK uses the same Regan Era definition of monopolistic practice as the US, meaning monopoly is fine so long as prices seen by consumers are low (or rather not provably raised)
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by tehjoker 1y ago
The US commits human rights abuses constantly. The public should know. The US has no business being on a human rights committee quite frankly. We just committed genocide in Palestine.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
Most of the other guys get nukes because we have nukes and threaten them militarily. They're very expensive, countries don't want them unless they need a deterrent, and we're often the main threat.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
good argument against having nukes
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by tehjoker 1y ago
The US state uses drug money to fund covert operations, so we're never "winning" the war. See reporting by Gary Webb in the 1980s (Dark Alliance, later admitted by the CIA years after his suicide) or the amazing conversion of
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by tehjoker 1y ago
You might know this history better than me.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
For what it's worth, the leverage did work, just not forever. It was a play with a limited lifetime. It didn't necessarily need to shake out that way, probably if GCC was slightly easier to write for but not too easy people would
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by tehjoker 1y ago
the vietnamese in particular lost millions of people to america. they won. the palestinians have fought using a home grown weapons program based on harvesting israeli bombs. they are still alive. american nuclear weapons are stationed all o
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by tehjoker 1y ago
As the Palestinian resistance has shown, the vietnamese, the cubans, etc it is very difficult to defeat a population that doesn't want to give in even if you have fancy toys and a huge kill ratio.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
Wow that's really devious. My first question was beyond the outrage, was the video good? It did really look like Chuck was sneering at the people and the cut was so quick I didn't know the difference. I looked more closely, and wh
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by tehjoker 1y ago
This is the case with capitalism today. I don't like where he took the philosophy, but Nick Land did have an insight that all the worst things we believe about AI (e.g. paperclip optimizing etc) are capitalism in a nutshell.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
Ma Bell actually was regulated and mandated to put profits into research. It wasn’t a choice though they could go above the minimums I presume.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
That spread has been consistent in the literature for a long time. It depends on what symptoms you are looking for. Frankly, I trust the consistent message from the literature. Long covid is extremely prevalent but not always visible
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by tehjoker 1y ago
My understanding is the pentagon was planning for 2025 and it slipped to 2026 a few years ago.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
Neither of these are problems that concern us, and to a great extent are manufactured by us.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
Good, if the US is weak enough maybe we wont try to start a war
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by tehjoker 1y ago
Who funds the politicians? Hint: It's rich people that run companies that made money by advertising.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
This is only possible because they broke the power of labor unions. Nothing you've said convinces me that it would be unbiased or even measuring something real, in which case totally arbitrary decisions made by machine would be denying
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by tehjoker 1y ago
> No cooperation is necessary from workers. I'm not sure this is ethical tbh.
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by tehjoker 1y ago
This is magical thinking with trendy AI mixed in. Every step here has massive assumptions that are just baked in, like can their output be quantified in principle? How expensive is it? Will the model even be predictive? Can you gain the coo
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by tehjoker 1y ago
Commercial ads are also designed to manipulate you emotionally or otherwise present you with information that induces a desire to buy what you otherwise didn't need.

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