thisisnotauser

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by thisisnotauser 1y ago
Perhaps such hubris is how all empires die
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by thisisnotauser 1y ago
Imma be honest with you, this is exactly his I would do that math, and that is exactly the lie I would tell if you asked me to explain it. This is me-level agi.
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by thisisnotauser 1y ago
I'm curious how folks imagine this relates to legal issues, such as the perennial section 702 battles. Is it possible that a future functional Congress might be able to finally end warrantless wiretapping by pointing to this massive in
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by thisisnotauser 1y ago
Housing is a huge cut of your salary. If housing were affordable, that money could be saved for retirement. Instead, it's paid toward a mortgage by necessity. So there is little room for savings other than hoping the house sells when y
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by thisisnotauser 1y ago
I was here today and had no idea there was radio transmitter stuff around. I even poked my head in a few out-of-the-way doors. Well-isolated, I suppose.
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
I think there's a big question in there about AI that breaks a lot of my preexisting worldviews about how economics works: if anyone can do this at home, who are you going to sell it to? Maybe today only a few people can do this, but f
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
It kinda makes sense to spend your dollars where they can actually get used.
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
Well, I guess most copyright we're talking about here is IP owned by very wealthy corporations, to wit: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-intellectual-pro... So I'm not sure that it would reall
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
Seems like it'd be bad to let them win then.
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
This is a real concern for me because people credit the ACA with making a big dent in the healthcare problem here in the US, but it feels more like it just created a massive legal protection for these exploitative middlemen when the necessa
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
I mean, China won't have to, so the AI race would still be over.
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
I'm curious about the chilling effect of DOGE on effective regulation of these test flights. It's hard to imagine there isn't one, particularly when they were hit first and foremost in the politically-motivated deconstruction
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
This makes sense to me, especially with the looming fiscal uncertainty around CHIPS, there's probably a lot of really good plans that just got derailed by the administration they can capitalize on. And after Zelensky, I'd probably
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
It's possible your personal experience with food is different than other people's, and it is easier for you to make that choice than others.
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
The destructive behavior is overeating and this treatment eliminates the overeating. The problem is human beings are imperfect creatures. This drugs corrects the hormone imbalance that leads to overeating. It is fixing the actual problem.
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
They actually regularly ask to be descoped in their annual budgets, but Congress refuses to undermine their own pork barrel. My favorite example is the Navy spending a decade to convince Congress to let them stop building the wildly useless
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
I've had the incredible displeasure of having to maintain multiple massive legacy COTS systems that were once designed by promising startups and ultimately got bought by IBM. IBM turned every last one into the shittiest enterprise so
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
Almost all government employees are necessary.
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
Reasonable! However, Google is made up of people who are actively choosing to comply with nonsense. Perhaps it is in fact better to hold people to a standard of behavior than to pretend those people are somehow exempt from sanity or moral
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
Is there any generous interpretation of this that makes it okay?
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
I think I contend we must disagree with the assertion "change has to come slowly, over time." At some point, moving too slow must be more harmful than failing to address all stakeholders' interests. To wit, perhaps we would
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
Unfortunately true, and perhaps answers my question: meaningful improvement is hard, maybe even impossible. Meaningless harm is easy. But that answer doesn't really solve the inherent problem that more rapid improvement is necessary, m
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
I do federal work and this is 100% correct. As a serious question, why couldn't a different administration accomplish this? Obama's United States Digital Service, which the author worked for, did not practice the broad authoriti
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
Honest people don't flagrantly break laws. It would be foolish to take these people at their word when we live in an extremely transparent democracy where the effectiveness of these programs was trivial to gather data on until a week a
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
Do you have any evidence to substantiate that fairly radical claim? Because literally every Google result on every subject seems to indicate you are incorrect. Medical coverage: https://www.cbpp.org/research/correcting-
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
All government spending is already public information. The United States Congress is already responsible for that spending, not the unelected henchmen of some rich Nazi.
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
As an AI developer who does do work with the Pentagon, I don't know anyone amongst my colleagues who doesn't roll their eyes at this ridiculous notion that somehow extracting infinite wealth for the world's richest men isn&#x
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
This is actually a really great example, I wish I had included it in my original post. Here, in response to a very public failure of our security apparatus, the US Congress passed a draconian law allowing the US government to do the kinds o
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
I understand that people who don't work in intelligence can have a difficult time recognizing risk, and often don't really understand the war other countries don't work the way the US does with the rule of law, but these are
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by thisisnotauser 2y ago
Notably, this is impossible in well-designed languages.

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