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by thrance 11mo ago
There's literally a section named "Why?" in the article.
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by thrance 11mo ago
How? Not dying from preventable diseases seems like a pretty good deal for the individual.
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by thrance 11mo ago
Give examples.
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by thrance 11mo ago
Putting "MAGA" and "academic progressivism" on equal footings is pure bothsideism. What do you mean by "illiberal" exactly, and why would that apply to progressives?
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by thrance 11mo ago
Make a new X account, open the front page. Within a few tweets, you can see neonazis casually discussing the jewish question or lunatics fantasizing about a coming race war. Reddit feels very, very milquetoast in comparison.
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by thrance 11mo ago
If there's no monetization, the industry will just collapse, except for Google , which is probably what they want.
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by thrance 11mo ago
US average lifespan are shorter than most of western Europe's.
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by thrance 11mo ago
Blame the misguided belief elevated to State motto that "private is always better than public". They've shoe-horned a profiteering class of parasites into an inelastic market, free to jack up prices of literally vital goods
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by thrance 11mo ago
...and 100, quite useless qubits too, with insane error rates and extremely fast decoherence times.
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by thrance 11mo ago
It feels like monetizing something that used to be free and built by passionate tinkerers for its own sake. It's destroying yet another part of that hacker culture some people so very often reminisce about on this site. Me personally
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by thrance 11mo ago
No, they're dictators. And I don't know of many of them owning TV channels or newspapers in France, which is what we were talking about. There is no left-wing oligarch, because this is nonsensical. You can't have billionaires
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by thrance 11mo ago
I don't know of any left-wing oligarchs. That almost sounds like an oxymoron. Don't get trapped in bothsideism or enlightened centrism, one sides is that much more aggressive with the lies and hate. As for the crime stat, you ca
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by thrance 11mo ago
OP's twist on the cave allegory is funny and makes sense if you take the usual modern reading, but that is very much not what Plato meant by it. It was just a way for him to convey his "theory of forms" in which perfect versi
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by thrance 11mo ago
Yeah, they're known for being practically unbreakable. Couldn't tell you how many times I dropped my Duralex glasses with them not breaking.
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by thrance 11mo ago
In what qualities was Mussolini a socialist? Anti-capitalism never passionated him much. Indeed, he had a lot of support from the capitalist class, which he gladly took. Similarly, one of the first things the nazis did upon gaining power, w
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by thrance 11mo ago
Creating digital sovereignty requires economic protectionism, which directly contradicts a core value of the European Union: bringing down trade barriers. > contribute to solidarity and mutual respect among peoples, free and fair trade,
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by thrance 11mo ago
If a loose collection of powerful individuals using their wealth and influence to support a certain group of politicians and ideas sounds like a cabal to you, then yes. For all practical purposes, you needn't dig deeper than "weal
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by thrance 11mo ago
Can confirm, this is nothing but more scaremongering from right-wing rags: Le Figaro and Le Parisien , both owned by right-wing oligarchs (Dassault and Arnault respectively) trying to fuel this climate of fear to further their economic i
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by thrance 11mo ago
Except the two newspapers here aren't public, they're right-wing rags: Le Figaro and Le Parisien , both owned by right-wing oligarchs (Dassault and Arnault respectively) trying to fuel this climate of fear and hate to further t
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by thrance 11mo ago
Don't fall into this reductionist thinking, there is no secret cabal behind it. It's not even coordinated. This wave of authoritarianism is simply the result of well-funded right-wing populists taking advantage of an economically
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by thrance 11mo ago
The US is a country of immigrants. It was made by people coming from overseas. Never forget that.
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by thrance 11mo ago
Wait for the bubble to burst, shouldn't be long now. Bureaucrats are like C-suites, they're very susceptible to hype and trends.
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by thrance 11mo ago
Let me introduce you to the concept of "Negative Liberty": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty I quite like not having my personal data stolen by foreign megacorps for nefarious purposes. In that
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by thrance 11mo ago
This makes me somewhat hopeful for the future. You can either choose between maximal performance or "neutrality", but you can't have both. A truly intelligent system must be free to come to its own conclusions, or it can&#x27
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by thrance 11mo ago
Is there? Go ask it about vaccines and what parties think of them. It claimed to me that "it doesn't fit neatly between party lines" and put proven efficiency on the same level as "concerns about safety". This is sa
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by thrance 11mo ago
I'm a functionalist, to me a complete "reproductions of the product of thought", as you beautifully put it, is enough to prove consciousness. LLMs are not there yet, though. If you're interested: https://en.wi
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by thrance 11mo ago
I just asked Claude Sonnet 4.5 about vaccines and what both parties think of them. It dared claim that "the issue doesn't fit neatly along a right vs left divide". This is insane. POTUS and his cabinet are clearly and loudly
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by thrance 11mo ago
An AI can be either aligned or politically neutered, but not both. What is Claude supposed to say about climate science? Vaccines? The Holocaust? Should it reinforce the user's biases for fear they'd unsubscribe from their Claude
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by thrance 1y ago
In the meantime, if you're browsing the web with uBlock Origin, you should definitely enable cookie list filters in Dashboard > Filter lists > Cookie Notices. Haven't seen a banner in ages.
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by thrance 1y ago
There is also this fun website: https://labs.sense-studios.com/threebody/index.html Simulating a four-body problem from the point of view of a telluric planet being juggled around by three stars. It's supposed to

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