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by vkou 4mo ago
> It's easier to enter the owner class. Based on what? The macroeconomics don't work out that way. IF productivity goes up, but consumption does not, that means that it's harder to enter the owner class, because fewer
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by vkou 4mo ago
It would be one thing if those increases in productivity were improving my QOL as a consumer of produced goods, through cost reductions or increases in quality, but I'm not seeing any of that. All that seems to be happening is that
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by vkou 4mo ago
So go tell your LLM to ignore undesired commands, and this ends up a nothingburger that nobody should be upset over.
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by vkou 4mo ago
The software package you've imported specifically told you that you're not allowed to use it with AI. You are responsible for respecting such requirements. > Surely we understand that not all LLMs would be trained or guardraile
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by vkou 4mo ago
Neither my browser nor my brain will just run whatever commands it receives over a socket as root.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Then why are you letting a machine you don't understand perform side effects that you don't vet, based on it's insane interpretation of untrusted data?
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by vkou 4mo ago
'You are not allowed to, and shouldn't touch my repo with AI.' seems like a sufficient disclaimer for undefined behaviour. It's pretty easy to adhere to that rule.
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by vkou 4mo ago
If a line of text like that can cause tangible harm, why are you pointing your LLM at unvetted code? As an engineer, you're downright negligent to do so.
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by vkou 4mo ago
It is downright malicious to point your plagiarism engine at shit you don't own, and don't have permission to use in that way. You reap what you sow. It's wild that people are upset about this. You are not entitled to the pro
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by vkou 4mo ago
In contemporary societies, you can view any peaceful transition from a strong-monarch to a parliamentary democracy as such an example. None of that happened out of the largess of the monarch, it happened because pressure and unrest has been
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by vkou 4mo ago
A fractional bank is one that doesn't have liquidity to cover all obligations, but has enough non-liquid assets to cover all obligations. They can get the money if all customers withdraw, it just might take them a few days. A fraudulen
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by vkou 4mo ago
Rogue states will attack Western democracy. It's a tale as old as... Well, actually, in the past few years, this one has done more on that front than all the others combined.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Or the utility function of them gaining 50% more money is less than that of losing half of their money.
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by vkou 4mo ago
> they’ll just lie or not answer The Harper government actively worked on destroying the efficacy of the Canadian census, to make it more difficult for subsequent governments to make data-driven decisions. In addition to the obvious g
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by vkou 4mo ago
Most people understand that the difference between your camera and your eyes is that one records an image, while the other records a very rough description of an image.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Citizens have responsibilities to their society, not just the right to be assholes.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Hell, I (like anyone else) grab photos with my phone on vacation, and when I take a picture of a busy market, I do my best to avoid including people in my photographs. People in places I visit are just trying to live their lives, they are
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by vkou 4mo ago
Nuclear weapons and the control structure around their use and fossil fuels and the C-corporation and what it optimizes for will probably turn out to be more important to the long-term future of humanity and it's civilization.
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by vkou 4mo ago
> Yeah it's been gamed for a long time. Did you know teh inflation metric can actually go down when staples it tracks goes up? I mean, a horse buggy ride has significantly increased in price relative to the 19th century, but if it
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by vkou 4mo ago
> it will simply use the dirtiest tactics that Europeans aren’t used to. In 21st century warfare, what exactly is considered a 'dirty', and what is considered an 'honorable' tactic? Is there an objective definition?
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by vkou 4mo ago
99% of BLM protests were just people with cardboard signs. There's always the occasional anonymous asshole who might throw a rock at a window and run off, but that's the nature of any gathering of 100,000+ people. There will alw
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by vkou 4mo ago
Having just traveled through a range of cities and towns in Japan, I don't think the lack of options for shopping and restaurants are the reason that small (150,000+ population) towns are depopulating. There's plenty of ways to sp
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by vkou 4mo ago
Or, more commonly, they have: 1. The public pay for and build the lines and prove market demand. 2. Decades later some 'fiscal conservatives' get elected. 3. Who then privatize them for a sweetheart deal to their friends. 4. Who t
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by vkou 4mo ago
Indeed. MAGA is only pro-peace when it needs a nice-sounding lie during elections.
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by vkou 4mo ago
The Romanovs got through the Russo-Japanese war just fine. It was WWI and the complete collapse of the country, and the revolution that ousted them (And then the provisional government refused to end the war, got couped by the Bolsheviks, w
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by vkou 4mo ago
> Forcing the existence of a new jewish state has created, as expected, a permanent political fissure in the area. No, forcing the existence of a new aggressively expansionist jewish state did that.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Nah. There are always face-saving offramps... And examples like Saddam doing just fine after his failed invasion of Iran. If the war ended tomorrow, and Russia withdrew from Ukraine, Putin would still be enjoying ~50% organic support amon
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by vkou 4mo ago
Or, because different factions in the regime are at odds with eachother - there's MAGA, who are a sock puppet for whatever Netanyahu wants, and who spearheaded the idiotic war with Iran, and there's the entire military, which thin
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by vkou 4mo ago
Please think about what you just said, and consider whether or not that's any of your fucking business.
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by vkou 4mo ago
Meanwhile, I grew up in an 800 sq ft apartment that housed my parents, my father's parents, me, and my sibling. Objectively, you don't need a house with a lawn and a back yard to have children, and have them grow up healthy and su

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