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by trod1234 1y ago
> Ultimately it boils down to trust. I thought it boiled down to credibility.
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Thanks again for the response and listening. I'll pray that we do somehow manage to push back against totalitarianism as a society.
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Hi Peter, thanks for doing these AMA's. There has been so much in the news recently, both on immigration, birthright citizenship, potential suspension of habeas corpus, lack of due process, the effective setup of stateless regions (El
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These are quite different. What you are referencing is more along the lines of ideology, which can act as an indirection. Ideology generally lacks properties of metaphysical objectivity whereas what I'm referencing has actually happene
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Being disturbed by content, and what I'm talking about are two different things. The way these things work, you change your behavior as a result of the stimuli you receive, and believe that it was your choice to do so, but it wasn&#x27
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How would any insurance company even begin to control costs on this? It seems like a fast-track to insolvency. AI models hallucinate, and by their blackbox nature can't have any kind of safeguards put in, as has been evidenced by the l
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Well at a glance, based on the article, the game plotline itself strays and seems to cross (based on the article author's description) a very fine line and uses actual psychological torture techniques in the design/plot. Yes this
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You are right, scaffolding seems like a better descriptor. > It sounds like you're pointing to something more nefarious. Well the structure itself is quite nefarious in a way. You have to constantly fight against it to progress and
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Robert Cialdini is probably the lightest book and covers most of the different blindspots we have, except distorted reflected appraisal in his book on Influence. He provides the principles but leaves most of the structure up to the person&#
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With respect, I think you should probably re-examine the meaning of the words you use here. You use words in a way that doesn't meet their established definition. It would meet objective definition if you replaced 'capitalist&#x27
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This actually isn't that surprising. There are psychological blindspots that we all have as human beings, and when stimulus is structured in specific ways people lose their grip on reality, or rather more accurately, people have their
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That seems like a very poor control group.
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> It's quite long No worries, I'm sorry it couldn't be more concise, unfortunately that is the way of things, sometimes you can't simplify it more without losing important meaning without having a sound and reliable c
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The correct name for this is syndicalism. Ludwig von Mises wrote extensively about how the organizational structure fails in his writings dating back to the 1930s-1950s. There's a slightly indirect reference to it in Ayn Rand's At
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> The billboard you see on the highway is more impactful and overt than the referenced experiment. You could not be more wrong. A billboard is non-interactive. It can never make full use of any of the psychological blindspots inherent in
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I would have liked to respond to you yesterday but people rate limited me through downvotes (to 2 posts per day). HN isn't a very good place to talk about anything serious, people who disagree or have a vested interest in useful inform
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The response covers the uninformed research on human subjects, and the unquantifiable harms that type of research touches on, as well as the factual history. Godwin's Law in turn, runs in the same circle as Hanlon's law. The law i
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There is no way to know definitively how much money in aggregate has actually been run through as a massive trade deficit laundering scheme, which it sounds like is what you are asking. In any potential scheme like what you describe there w
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This was clearly an ethics violation, it knowingly violated the Geneva convention on human experimentation without informed consent, or need. People don't have to claim that they were a victim, anyone involved without informed consent
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People have no idea what's coming because people in general haven't been kept up to date on the state of the art of subjects like thought reform, malign influence, coercion, or torture. As such they often hold opinions that are no
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I disagree, and the fact that you can't see this is wrong, and ethically dubious is the most important part of the problem. This is blindness, and worse it is a willful blindness. I wasn't even aware that you had reached out direc
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> I know that you mean a system that transfer money .... No, cost is used in the fullest abstract meaning of the word here. Time cost, effort cost, monetary cost, work cost, so long as there is a functional limitation that prevents resou
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Well that's extremely shortsighted, almost to the point of blindness. The author clearly went out of the way to put code in to signal to people that if you use the software and you are a company earning revenue using it, to help suppor
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> Unfortunately nobody has a good answer for how to deal with abusive users without catching well behaved but deliberately anonymous users in the crossfire... Uhh, that's not right. There is a good answer, but no turnkey solution ye
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Well what was described is pretty much the standard. To put a little context, and this is a bit speculation on my part but seems to conform based on conversations I've had from people who have lived at that time. This kind of policy at
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You think they might be checking the clickstream/referrer header?
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Instead of parsing data on things on shelves with video for the data points why not just use receipts? That correlates more closely to the price data than the consistency of what's actually on the shelves, though video of the shelves w
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Good to know, wasn't aware they had this.
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The reason Google has the best Wi-Fi AP location database is because they knowingly violated wiretapping laws, when they rolled out Streetview, and they were only fined a cool 13 million for it. https://epic.org/documents&#x
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The material I covered here has been well established in classic literature for quite some time (some of which is hundreds of years old), so none of this should come off as sensational. Feel free to verify yourself through independent means

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