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by vrganj 3mo ago
How many people in that position are there even? Global reach tech oligarchs? Maybe like 10? That'd make four 40% and that was just a small sampling. And you know as well as I do the others sound the same. I'm sure you can find Al
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Allies shrug as US pushes for Strait of Hormuz patrol(politico.com)
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Yeah ignore the Oracle CEO saying everyone will be on their best behavior because AI surveillance will keep people in check [0]. Or Thiel saying that "democracy and freedom are no longer compatible". I wonder who's freedom to
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by vrganj 3mo ago
"We'll replace everyone's job but mine, because the human element is important!"
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Sam Altman says people don't want an AI to act as CEO(businessinsider.com)
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When was the last time China invaded another country?
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by vrganj 3mo ago
How much more evidence do we need that there is in fact a class war going on and the rich are winning? The biggest con they ever pulled off is making working class people (and yes, that includes you, fellow tech workers!) hate unions. Uni
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by vrganj 3mo ago
This has been a studied phenomenon for a bit now: Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1118373109
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European Union grants US request to restrict satellite images of Iran War region(arstechnica.com)
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by vrganj 3mo ago
My claim is falsifiable by facts, not by casino odds. Show me the armed abductions aren’t happening. Show me the administration hasn’t threatened neighbors or purged civil servants. Those are the relevant facts. "What does Polymarket s
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by vrganj 3mo ago
> If you think the market has it wrong, why don't you make money by betting against it? I don't just think "the market has it wrong", I think a market is wrong conceptually . It is not an epistemological tool, it&#x2
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> My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Prediction Markets are people gambling. There's armed goons nabbing people off the streets and murdering political opponents patrolling American cities right now.
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Do tell.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
How would you even pronounce wero as a native English speaker? We - ro? Wer-o? At least iDeal was unambiguous.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
iDeal is amazing and it's great it's coming to the rest of Europe, even if they gave it a worse name. Here in the Benelux it's the go-to payment option for ecommerce. I think this will be a much bigger threat to Visa and Mast
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by vrganj 3mo ago
I'm not sure I've observed any of that. American companies usually degrade out of spite in my experience - they'd rather not offer the product than to offer it lawfully.
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The problem is that American companies try to follow the letter of the law , while going as much against the spirit of the law as possible. This is why they complain it's "too broad", because they can't avoid the spir
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by vrganj 3mo ago
This is such a ridiculous offender/victim reversal. American tech companies are free to do whatever they want in America . In our country , they need to follow our law . If they don't want that, they can get out. What they&#x27
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Maybe US consumer internet companies should try following our laws? What do they expect if they come to our countries and break the law there? Of course they're gonna get fined?!
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by vrganj 3mo ago
The US doesn't have a directly elected head of state either. The demos elects the electoral college, which elects the head of state. Twice in recent memory directly against the popular vote, most recently Trump I.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
For the Council, it is literally just a grouping of our democratically elected heads of state. Those we can of course vote for according to our countries own democratic systems. For the Commission, our democratically elected national govern
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Look, US tech services can either follow our laws our they can get the fuck out of our market. The way people treat them breaking our laws as their god given right and then frame our fine as anything but their own fault is starting to reall
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by vrganj 3mo ago
It's one thing if a democratically legitimized government entity is in control, like with ULEZ. It's another thing entirely if a private oligarch owns the cameras. Flock and ULEZ are not the same.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
Didn't this guy just announce another series of tariffs on us anyways? The emperor hath no clothes, methinks.
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by vrganj 3mo ago
That's actually how EU law works! I think it's also why US companies keep getting in trouble here, they try to loophole-lawyer like at home, but it just... doesn't work that way. I had a whole long conversation about this wit
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by vrganj 3mo ago
This is a lesson I learned in life: When you want to build something social (in this case a community, but it could also be a romantic relationship, a friendship...), the best thing you can do is to polarize as quickly as possible. Too many
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Yikes.
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When they hide in their bunkers, who's to stop people from pouring concrete down the ventilation shafts?
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by vrganj 3mo ago
I feel like birds are the superior front, but boring EU buildings are the worse back. I'd like the birds front with the other option for the back (public squares or something?)

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