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by tehjoker 3mo ago
It makes me feel a little crazy seeing the constitutional architecture post-civil war used to diffuse responsibility away from the federal government and divide the people against each other working in action. People act like this isn'
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by tehjoker 3mo ago
This is kind of a strange take. Local taxes are for petty but useful stuff because the sovereignty of your locality is heavily circumscribed by state and national authorities. That means the real budgetary decisions made about the future of
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by tehjoker 3mo ago
Books are generally far higher quality texts too. The really good articles get republished as books, think about that.
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by tehjoker 3mo ago
That's true, but I still benefit from the games being played. It also weakens the oligarchs slightly by reducing their margins. It's also worth remembering that the laws were written by the oligarchs.
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by tehjoker 3mo ago
We have the laws, but I don't have to feel outraged when regular people undercut the oligarchs and those people's interests align with my own.
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by tehjoker 3mo ago
Generally speaking, companies retaining a competitive advantage with each other is good for their investors but bad for the public. It's usually to the public's benefit for employees to share knowledge, it makes goods and services
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by tehjoker 3mo ago
Worth noting that it is the Europeans and Americans that have been colonial. Asian peoples have, with the prominent exception of the Mongols and Japanese Empire, pretty much not done that. In particular, China shut down its exploration prog
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by tehjoker 3mo ago
This is a just so story. The main issue today is the lack of democracy in the country and the use of technology to surveil and govern a restive population as the government has less and less legitimacy. The narrative you are telling is the
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by tehjoker 3mo ago
Thank you, that's very helpful to know!
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by tehjoker 3mo ago
I played a little bit around with LISP but I was astounded when I saw that you run programs using the live REPL. I thought, how can you reliably deploy a finished program if it can get messed with at any time? Why isn't there a way to
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by tehjoker 3mo ago
Drones fly over Gaza all the time, scaring the shit out of people and sometimes murdering them senselessly. They have done this over many countries.
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by tehjoker 3mo ago
I don't really understand how any of this contributes to "defense". Sounds like "offense" to me. Just patrolling the skies over non-white countries and launching missiles at weddings. The reason the Pentagon invests
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
That's confusing. The rich make their money and hold their assets in economically productive (or extractive) enterprises. Land, factories, services, arms, etc are the real storehouses of wealth. If you take that from the rich, they hav
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
His statement at the end was pretty interesting: "If we do want to change our relationship to technology, I think we’d have to do it intentionally. My basic thoughts are roughly: We should accept the premise that people will not
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
"Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective by Ha-Joon Chang" "How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing c
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
Robert Maxwell, Ghislane Maxwell's father, was a big player in turning the industry towards profit seeking (though I agree with the sibling comment that it's capitalism's fault ultimately).
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
nothing wrong with nationalizing
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
No information on how significant the reduction in energy per token is. No information on amortized price per request. Increasingly its clear OpenAI must demonstrate order of magnitude reductions in cost to not die, this is investor story t
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
Popper talks about sociology as though it were physics. Unfortunately, competitive games and the subjective belief of people can influence the course of history if the right material conditions are in place. Sometimes you try different thin
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
The fighting these companies had with the government was very nominal. https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ (2014)
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
This is completely backwards read Marx. Superstructure (culture, politics) flows from the economic base (there are some important exceptions, but that’s the dominant arrow).
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
This is like the plot of the movie Elysium
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
Can you say more about that? I haven't kept up.
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
Sure in some out even most cases growth starts in this nice way. There’s two problems though. In order to sustain that growth number, usually ever greater interventions become necessary. Second, there’s the marxist critique that while it’s
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
> how do you tell quality libraries from LLM generated ones? Reputation. LLM libraries can also be high quality in theory. It's the level of effort, duration of use, stability, and test coverage. People will need to resist using LLM
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
Not really, the impacts on education seem to be severe. People are actively getting dumber.
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
If I read that right, the "jailbreak" is to ask the model to fix the codebase and then it exposes the flaws? That sounds like a gap that is nearly impossible to fix while retaining high capability. Like you want it to be able to f
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
To respond to the ending of this piece, I think open source still matters because LLMs generate very specific code for a specific situation. Quality libraries mean solutions can be reliably shared between projects.
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
I think what is being lost is that despite Google having lost its morals at various points, and Don't Be Evil being burried, this man's resignation does signal yet another dark turning point in the future of the Google organizatio
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by tehjoker 4mo ago
I don't get how if productivity is barely moving, how a decrease in comprehension will improve anything.

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