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by vrganj 1mo ago
Tell that to Tsar Nicholas.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
The fact the toggle is on by default makes that only slightly less unappetizing.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
The only way forward that is not large-scale misery is a fundamental reorganization of our socioeconomic system. I talked about this at some length here, including a diagnosis of the structural issue we're facing as well as a path forw
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by vrganj 1mo ago
As a European that lived in the US for a while, I enjoyed responding to unsolicited marketing emails with GDPR emails to legal departments.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
I think for coding tasks, it probably doesn't matter as much. I'm more worried about stuff like chatbots subtly pushing or normalizing a certain world view. I think I'm not the only one that's had this revelation, recall
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Any model, even an open weight one, is fundamentally an encoding of a way of viewing the world. What kind of "alignment" are AI labs optimizing for? Ideological alignment is the full term, self-censored into something more tec
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by vrganj 1mo ago
> China is also one of the biggest actors. They didn't exactly provide support to Ukraine. Yes, their geopolitical alignment is different. They did provide support to Russia, which they have shared interests with. That is precisely
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by vrganj 1mo ago
> I want the US to stop being the designated country which gets blamed whenever anything goes wrong. You don't get to be simultaneously one of the biggest actors on the global stage and exempt from scrutiny on how you interact with
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by vrganj 1mo ago
One recurring issue here has been that the American public is apparently operating under the assumption that their personal preferences are directly translatable into geopolitical reality. You can want things and you can even vote for them,
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by vrganj 1mo ago
That's not even true in the concrete case we're talking about here. As part of the AI Act, an important decision on a person (such as a hiring decision) cannot be made without human involvement. You think that's not in favor
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by vrganj 1mo ago
We did. Maybe you should, too? You're arguing with your imagination, my friend. Your leadership actually is like that, and the ignorance makes the arrogance look worse. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-officials-ob
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Because now that you started it, the Chinese won't stop playing. Your own behavior is what creates constraints, the irony is that you haven't even realized my language is purely descriptive of geopolitical grand strategy while you
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Personally, I've removed all apps that feature algorithmic short form video from my phone and used an extension to block shorts from YouTube. I also made it a point to read more books agan instead of random articles and blogs online. I
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by vrganj 1mo ago
I don't know. It's your leadership that started the contest in the first place, take it up with them. Either way though, they decided to care and now they're trying to abandon their winning hand. You don't get to both pl
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by vrganj 1mo ago
You're confusing base survival and global dominance. Nobody's saying the US couldn't scrape by by itself, but to keep your current position, you cannot just abandon your allies. For power projection, it's not just about
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Because there's three grand powers in the world and two of them are locked in contest. The third one is the only one that can shift the balance of powers, so it gets to be kingmaker.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Europe is not one country in a list. It's one trade union, that together is bigger than any other economy on your graph. Also note that you haven't acknowledged any of the other, more important points. It's not just your econ
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by vrganj 1mo ago
> BTW if you think Europe is "the very foundation" of American power you're delusional. You do know American power projection is mostly based on bases on European soil? That your economy is greatly benefiting from integrat
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by vrganj 1mo ago
The thing is, if you don't help us in Eastern Europe, you don't just lose hegemonial status there. You lose all of Europe and with that the very foundation of your power. It's not Anti-Americanism, but if you want to go out w
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by vrganj 1mo ago
With great power comes great responsibility, it's not that complicated a concept. Switzerland doesn't have any aspirations to be the global hegemon, so they don't get graded on the global hegemon scale.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Do you think there's never been an instance of an unfair trial in the US despite the codified right to a fair trial? A right is always just a declaration of aspiration and an accountability mechanism should said aspiration not be lived
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by vrganj 1mo ago
How is hosting a website and an email violent?
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Thank God for the EU and its regulations. The people decrying them are the ones it's stopping from building dystopia.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
You do cease to exist once you don't get access to food, water or health care long enough. Think just a little past the most direct consequence - let me rephrase GP's question: What reason would the ownership class have to provide
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by vrganj 1mo ago
> If you can save humanity from having to spend years acquiring these skills and judgements, they can do something else with their lives. In theory, yes. In practice, no. Not until we replace our entire socioeconomic system. As-is, the o
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Meta blocks accounts protesting Kushner-linked Albanian resort project(politico.eu)
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by vrganj 1mo ago
So basically your position is imperialism mixed with some weird provincial fetishization of some document, not being pro free speech? And you wonder why people consider that both ugly and simultaneously ridiculous?
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Who's talking about your right to free speech? The point is that the US is infringing on these Italians' right to free speech, which they have independent of your national mythology, because y'know, it's not exactly a
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Do you think your country is the only one that thought of free speech? Your particular implementation is irrelevant, I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve by giving us a lecture on how some foreign country justifies their sel
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Again, whatever laws you have in the US is irrelevant in Italy, where they have their own free speech and the US is the foreign country . Free speech has been around as a concept for two millenia, starting with Athenian democracy. Your rel

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