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by username332211 1y ago
> All (good) sci fi is political. You should find a different genre if you don't want politics in it. I think you are reaching one of the limitations of the English language here. Machiaveli's Prince and John Knox's Monst
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by username332211 1y ago
Utopia in general are a pretty dystopian genre. Plato's Commonwealth clearly describes a totalitarian system (and one of the participants in Socrates' dialogue would go on to murder a rather impressive number of Athenians). More&#
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by username332211 1y ago
Doesn't the guy have another book - The Discourses on Livy, that confirms the general gist of The Prince? (i.e. autocracies are horrible, to be a successful autocrat you need to be brutal and ruthless)
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by username332211 1y ago
The thing is, sanctions damage both the sanctioned nation and the sanctioner. I'm not really optimistic about western Europe's willingness to absorb damage in it economy in order to damage Russia. France's government expendit
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by username332211 1y ago
In 2013 social media was still a textual medium, right? There was Vine, but that died pretty quickly, from what I remember. If social media and smartphones are the problem, I would have expected that results for English proficiency would be
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by username332211 1y ago
That's by design. France has a cabinet with full control over education in the entire nation. In the United States, education is in the hands of locally elected school boards and the role of the federal and state secretaries of educati
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by username332211 1y ago
The no child left behind act was enacted in 2001. If you check the article, it has a nice little chart, showing a decline that starts in 2015. Prior to 2013, the results show a clear trend of improvement (in regards to the percentage of stu
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by username332211 1y ago
These systems were built when the nation could build. That capability has been significantly diminished. London's equivalent to Paris' RER costs north of 1 billion pounds per mile.
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by username332211 1y ago
Isn't the lawsuit (and the entire discussion) specifically about a search monopoly? Also, I'm curious, how many of the things you listed would be normally used by a prolific user of Apple hardware and software? Just YouTube, right
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by username332211 1y ago
Really? Because the most common place I've seen this logic break down, is the bizarre habit of people to derive some sort of status and self-worth from using an unpopular product. And to then to vehemently defend that choice in the fac
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by username332211 1y ago
Not necessary. If economies of scale exist, that means that a popular product is going to be inherently superior in terms of price or quality than an unpopular one. Companies that advertise effectively can offer a better product precisely b
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by username332211 1y ago
> Fiat privacy still has all the same problems as telling your therapist that you killed someone, or keeping your wallet keys printed out on paper in a safe. They could take a lesson from churches. If LLM providers and their employees we
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by username332211 1y ago
Desperation is a fairly subjective thing. Plenty of people steal because they are desperate to acquire narcotics. Or to support a gambling habit. Or because they desperately need brand-name clothes to be validated by the rotten people they
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by username332211 1y ago
But a software company shouldn't really need to show even EBITDA. Amazon didn't between 2000 and 2012.
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by username332211 1y ago
> But more importantly, X has not released any substantially new features within the last 3 years. Just on top of my head, there's the ability to write longer texts, the AI integration (that seems fairly popular in there). There was
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by username332211 1y ago
Doesn't this forum periodically discuss an article[*] about profit not really mattering in the grand scheme of things? (As in, profitable and growing companies are capable of showing profit whenever they want, and conversely to show no
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by username332211 1y ago
Can you name some examples? Virtually every major revolution or civil war I can think of, would involve intelligent achievers who've made it. In fact, the core of the rebellion would be a class that's often vital for the exercise
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by username332211 1y ago
A ruling party having a catastrophic electoral position only for it to rapidly improve as election approaches is a fairly common phenomenon in modern democracies. Most recently, Canada was in that situation. Before that, Britain several tim
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by username332211 1y ago
Nevermind the lack of data - what even would be the limits of knowledge in such a model? If it was widely believed that society will collapse at some point in the next 30 years, how would human behavior change in response? How would that af
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by username332211 1y ago
Actually, voting is an excellent way to keep power away from the masses. A dictatorship has to constantly be aware of its approval ratings, whereas a parliament can ignore them for 3-4 years at a time.
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by username332211 1y ago
Well, depending on the sort of other laws you've supported, that shouldn't be very surprising. The special interest of a particular group always result in far more intense support than any law that benefits the public at large. An
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by username332211 1y ago
The fact that they haven't cited any endorsement from a first-world organization or government is interesting. I'd be curious to know, if it was because they never asked for one or because they never got one?
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by username332211 1y ago
You can't do anything with respect to legislators. In their eyes, your privacy and the consumer's rights are less important than some grandma, who lost a large sum of money by installing malware after ignoring multiple warnings. I
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by username332211 1y ago
Would the same hold for other forms of communication and information retrieval, or should only LLMs be perfect in that regard? If someone is persuaded to commit suicide by the information found trough normal internet search, should Google&#
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by username332211 1y ago
Actually, in social science you really can't test a hypothesis with data. What's true under one set of conditions won't be true under another and conditions change all the time. Famously, there's the Lucas critique - the
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by username332211 1y ago
If you treat it as a consumer choice, there's a rather uncomfortable marketing question - "What, precisely, is the value proposition of a locked down Android device?" A few years ago "A smartphone so intuitive that grand
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by username332211 1y ago
I'm going to be buying Apple from now on. If I have no choice and I have to be in a walled garden, I'm going with the best dammed walled garden on the market. This isn't even going to be some sort of an ideological decision.
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by username332211 1y ago
The thing is, even if Google has a hidden motive in this case, the prevailing public morality doesn't allow you to argue against a measure designed to protect the weakest and poorest among us. Once a vulnerable group has been invoked,
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by username332211 1y ago
Is prospect theory still a thing? I distinctly remember reading that the main empirical result it's based on it's based on - loss aversion, didn't replicate except for large sums of money. And for large sums of money, you don
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by username332211 1y ago
Ehh, if a youth of digital piracy has taught me anything, it's that people will develop the necessary computer literacy to get the entertainment they want. Even if they've completely failed to develop that same skill in the pursui

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