thrance

11 ms·

241.
by thrance 5mo ago
> There’s also a psychological benefit of not having to worry about most problems. Sink broke? Call landlord to fix. Roof leaking? Call landlord to fix. And so on. You never have an unexpected $20k repair show up. Not my experience, at a
242.
by thrance 5mo ago
This page is very broken for me (Firefox on Android). It looks there's some kind of Z-fighting happening on the buttons? Also, they scroll slightly faster than the rest of the page, such that when at the bottom they're completely
243.
by thrance 5mo ago
What's new is that we have the deeds captured under multiple angles in full HD, and still around 30% of the country believes the victims were actually the aggressors and deserved to die. They're so indoctrinated that they're
244.
by thrance 5mo ago
I'd be reluctant to call the lords from the feudal system "oligarchs". Really, the people currently called such could only exist in a globalized economy. But anyway, oligarchs weren't this powerful in the mid-century. FD
245.
by thrance 5mo ago
No, it's in their interest to squeeze as much work from them for as little pay as possible, to maximize short-term profits. And that's how it was during the Gilded Age, before unions: workers were treated like a disposable and abu
246.
by thrance 5mo ago
This nefarious logic has been used for 50 years to justify ever worse austerity and tax breaks for the wealthy. And look at the situation today: pedophile oligarchs rule the world while we fight for scraps. The West has no future, unless we
247.
by thrance 5mo ago
Regular people have less and less savings to buy "stakes in the means of production". Capital is getting more and more concentrated in fewer and fewer hands: the top 10% of the country owns almost 80% of it all. Wealth needs to be
248.
by thrance 5mo ago
And what do you think would happen if unions were made illegal? Employers would just play nice? It's crazy how far propaganda has gone in the US, where the average worker is longing for a return to the Gildee Age.
249.
by thrance 5mo ago
Better a corrupt union than no union at all. The Gilded Age was not a pleasant time for workers.
250.
by thrance 5mo ago
China? Doesn't strike me as a particularly good country to work in.
251.
by thrance 5mo ago
Who do you think has more power in the US today, oligarchs and corporations or workers and their unions?
252.
by thrance 5mo ago
Cryptocurrencies have a toxic reputation. Associating one to this project is a sure path to killing it.
253.
by thrance 5mo ago
I'm really worried about political ads. Google had no problem algorithmically bubbling up disinformation in the past, will Gemini now peddle straight lies for anyone willing to pay enough for them?
254.
by thrance 5mo ago
"Just remember to put plastics in the yellow bin and you can save the planet!" Individual action is not an effective response.
255.
by thrance 5mo ago
Corruption works the same everywhere. Only in democracies do we feel the need to call it "lobbying" to feel better about it.
256.
by thrance 5mo ago
What about political ads? Will the AI lie about news to further the interests of Google's patrons?
257.
by thrance 5mo ago
And don't forget the Sheriff's electoral mandate. The locals played a part in it too.
258.
by thrance 5mo ago
It "just" has to reach human-levels, which I won't rule out entirely as being achievable.
259.
by thrance 5mo ago
SCOTUS will probably soon rule that extracting wealth from alienated gamblers is a fundamental American right, that the founding fathers had in mind when drafting the constitution.
260.
by thrance 5mo ago
I'll hit you with a big: source? This kind of talking point is reiterated ad nauseam, but never justified or backed by any empirical research. I'll state one simple thing: if America is unable to raise taxes on second homes over
261.
by thrance 5mo ago
An even better solution is to present the AI with local IDs and map those to UUIDs outside of its context. So when giving a list of items for the LLM to choose from, just list them with incremental numbers (1, 2, 3...) and ask for these num
262.
by thrance 5mo ago
I am familiar with these applications. Indeed, your questions are very relevant. I've personally decided a long time ago that no, these applications are insufficiently useful to justify the billions invested in quantum computing, and t
263.
by thrance 5mo ago
Knowing why we're trying to build something is a good smell test to segregate promising tech from snake oil, in my experience. Take quantum computers for example, a lot of the time people will compare that to the dawn of classical comp
264.
by thrance 5mo ago
"This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within."
265.
by thrance 5mo ago
I think it's a little more than just fear of change. Garry Tan knows where his (material) interests lie, and will do and say anything to fight off those who would build a more equal society, even if it means supporting actual fascists
266.
by thrance 5mo ago
Ah! I was wondering why such a small language had syntax highlighting on Github, but it was just an alias. That explains it!
267.
by thrance 5mo ago
AI is capital incarnate. People can finally put a name on an unease that's been growing inside them for a while now. We see these subhuman billionaire ghouls invited on TV daily to fearmonger about AI finally replacing all labourers an
268.
by thrance 5mo ago
The Zionist project is one of settler-colonialism, that seeks to displace/eliminate the Palestinian population from its land to establish a Jewish ethno-state in its place. Sounds pretty fascist and supremacist to me.
269.
by thrance 5mo ago
I'm often reminded of this classic tweet: > it's actually crazy we figured out how to grow real diamonds that are cheaper and better quality than the real thing and so many people are still like, no thanks the suffering is what
270.
by thrance 5mo ago
> You can be a libertarian without being a capitalist, and you can be a capitalist without being a libertarian If you say so, but I'm yet to meet such an individual. Anytime someone talks libertarianism, it's some kind of weird

More ›