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by vrganj 5mo ago
Dogma is the right term. I've mused about the religious dimension of AI before as well, to quote another post: AGI is a savior figure for the capitalist class. A tech version of the Second Coming, delivering them from the pesky demands
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EU to favour European satellite services to prevent Musk's Starlink expansion(euronews.com)
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by vrganj 5mo ago
> US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguideli
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by vrganj 5mo ago
This assumes that everyone is solely motivated by maximizing payout above all else, which is not only incredibly cynical, but also just plain empirically wrong. (Again, by way of counterexample, I took a huge paycut to move from the US to
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by vrganj 5mo ago
We're just establishing that what one can pay is in fact not the only measure, disproving your universal assertion by counterexample. Regarding the specific case, they probably have the money. But they don't need it. Such is the
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Is water less important to the poor person dying of thirst than to the rich guy watering his lawn?
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https://archive.ph/GbZhm
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Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier(politico.eu)
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India moves a step closer to 114 Rafales deal: 'LoR ready to be sent to France'(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Indeed. Mine was a structural critique of the religious salvation movement you are following. Yours was trolling.
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People kill people using guns . > firearms accounted for 78% of all mechanisms used in homicides between 2018 and 2025. https://ammo.com/research/murders-by-weapon-type
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> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. > When disagreeing, please reply to the
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Primarily, it is bad because it is blind fervor nonetheless, a promise of salvation based on wishful thinking and zealotry. Secondly, who controls these promises of information singularity? Bunch of rich dudes, same as its ever been. Your n
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by vrganj 5mo ago
You talk a big talk of ending fantastical religions, yet you are just swapping out one eschatology for another. Your AGI is their Second Coming. Same thing, different crowd.
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Silicon Valley takes its AI pitch to the pope(politico.eu)
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The rearmament is mostly happening because the US has shown itself a bad unreliable partner that abuses interdependence. No lobbying can change the risk assessment where America is the risk factor.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Posts being distributed to people in the Netherlands that is. Magic mushroom truffles are decriminalized here in NL, you can sell them openly in shops. Doesn't mean you won't get in trouble if you send them to the US.
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Foreign authoritarians have no business scrutinizing our public servants.
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(E)-Bikes.
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Why are you so certain? How much does your CEO provide in value compared to your labor? You really sure its a fair distribution of the proceeds?
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Anything that runs with 64?
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Let's hope so. If the Chinese model of open weights wins, AI will benefit everyone. If the American model of closed weights wins, AI will benefit a few rich guys and everyone else will be thrown into precarity.
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by vrganj 5mo ago
I would rather not have people's dignity priced by the market, the same one that created the Zuckerbergs and Sacklers of this world. Markets are fundamentally just a proxy for the interests of rich people. There can be no fair allocati
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Do you think it's reasonable Zuckerberg or Bezos get rewarded the way they do while Amazon drivers piss in bottles and barely paid contractors get PTSD from moderating Facebook? The system is rotten to the core. We as tech workers are
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I feel the opposite. Looking at the yearly revenue of these companies and dividing them by the number of people that contributed, I clearly created much more value than my comp gave me. Labor is entitled to all it creates.
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Don't be silly, we're all special individuals here and unions are bad! We definitely haven't been brainwashed to act against our best interests.
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I blame the disdain for humanities, philosophy and the liberal arts. Not just with the overlords, but also with our fellow nerds. We're all so busy trying to see if we can build something that we don't stop and think if we shou
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by vrganj 5mo ago
Don't even get me started on the socioeconomic considerations! AGI is a savior figure for the capitalist class. A tech version of the Second Coming, delivering them from the pesky demands of workers, like a living wage or (gasp!) sick
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Doesn't matter as long as you bribe the right people. The government is completely compromised.
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Not just their customers. Their entire ideology. An LLM is the perfect propaganda technology, the more people outsource their thinking to them, the easier they will be for Big Corporate to control. It's crazy to me that AI developments

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