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by throwaway132448 8mo ago
I said I want to _see_ less ego. Calling out assholes is being that change, because not enough people do it. If you’re going to try and feel superior through technicality (which let’s be honest, claiming a single interpretation of a common
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by throwaway132448 8mo ago
Fair enough. However I feel that there are plenty of others we could give our finite attention to, from who we would derive as much or more benefit from. So that’s what I’ll do, with no net loss for me.
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by throwaway132448 8mo ago
It’s called “being the change you want to see”. I want to see less ego, so I’m telling those who are the opposite that it has downsides.
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by throwaway132448 8mo ago
It is, think on it for a little longer then. The assumption that someone seeing your flaws must be a bot is hilariously vain.
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by throwaway132448 8mo ago
Surprised it’s not called Wolfrology. This man is ego personified - not reading.
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by throwaway132448 8mo ago
> while doing little or nothing to achieve it Adding additional security to something that doesn’t need security is basically doing this by definition. It’s adding nothing because nothing was needed. So yes, theatre.
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by throwaway132448 8mo ago
It’s how you signal you’re part of the AI inner circle/cult.
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by throwaway132448 8mo ago
Great, we've arrived at the "if you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear" logic. Always a winner.
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by throwaway132448 8mo ago
Well said, great analogy. Sometimes the level of abstraction feels arbitrary - you have to understand the circumstances that led there to see why it's not.
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by throwaway132448 8mo ago
Bad assumptions are just another form of stupidity.
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by throwaway132448 8mo ago
There’s no such thing as free speech and there never has been. To believe there is, is to fundamentally fail to understand what a society even is.
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by throwaway132448 8mo ago
Because I’m saying the threat vector you used to justify it is not an issue for me at all, so it’s a baseless justification for “security”, ergo, theatre.
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
Says who? How do you know what’s on my device, how much it matters to me, and what countless other options I have for recourse if that did happen?
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
Security theatre killed this. Everyone must be assumed to be a moron incapable of living with the consequences of their own choices at all times.
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
If there’s one thing I learnt from HN it’s how many people can’t comprehend this. Is it a byproduct of growing up in a very transactional or selfish environment?
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
Whataboutism is just fascinating. How myopic must your world view be that when you see one bad thing, you immediately try to justify it by pointing out another bad thing?
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
I used to think along these lines. But now I think the truth is - does it matter if the economy grinds to a halt? Perhaps the ruling class can still keep enough Americans comfortable enough, and fearful of losing more, doing largely pointle
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
It’s got to the point where I turn off my WiFi now to do performance-sensitive work, because of the boost that killing all this background rubbish gives. Anything I need online I can just offload to my phone while my computer is offline.
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
Principles and morality are not the same thing, so no, incorrect. I could have completely amoral principles. Morals are grounded in social consensus, principles are not. Spend less time trying to be right and more time learning. Of course,
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
I honestly pity you if you think having principles is a psychological trap. Of course, the complete lack of inhibition that affords, is exactly what can make psychopaths so compelling.
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
Edit: You edited your comment so mine is now irrelevant. You seem to think that “pragmatic” and “rational” have universal or objective definitions, which is completely untrue. For example, depending on if you have a short term or long term
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
You only think I’m hurting myself because you don’t understand what having principles means, and that violating them would hurt more than any monetary penalty. Whether it hurts the other or not is completely irrelevant to my decision. But i
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
Actions have consequences. Maybe an upshot of this is that people will learn not to put all their eggs in the POS’s basket.
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
They have self-respect.
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
Not nearly as sad as people getting emotionally invested in corporations. Add why should anyone look past their opinions about the leader? We have the saying “the fish rots from the head” for a good reason. Tesla has been rotten ever since
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
The uneducated one here is the one who appears unaware that "installing software" was a thing long before app stores. Security is irrelevant to the meaning of the word, so continuing to go on about it only further devalues your po
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
PG is obsolete.
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
Have you tried Reddit?
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
I don’t know anything about Charlie Brown, but I’m not sure constant bad luck and disappointment capture the spirit of the British humour being discussed, as that can just as easily be used to describe slapstick humour. Perhaps it’s the exi
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by throwaway132448 9mo ago
This is what happens in VC-driven hype cycles that are all about the technology, when VC orthodoxy is that it’s not about technology but utility (see PMF etc).

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