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by vrganj 1mo ago
What about producing hardware capable of producing hardware capable of SOA models?
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by vrganj 1mo ago
There is no unideological. There is no view from nowhere, what you perceive as unideological is precisely the reflection of your own ideology. The "unbiased" is just whatever matches your own bias. To quote Zizek: > I already
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by vrganj 1mo ago
That's a very limiting view of things. A model, even an open weight one, is never neutral, it is an encoding of a way of viewing the world . What kind of "alignment" are AI labs optimizing for? Ideological alignment is the
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Trying to conflate anticapitalism and antisemitism is intellectually deeply dishonest and indicative of ideological capture. There's a strong tradition of a Jewish Left fwiw.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
It's because "the immediate surface appearance of quality" is all that management consultants are capable of themselves. They cannot perceive the difference.
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by vrganj 1mo ago
Thank you for your work, much appreciated!
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by vrganj 2mo ago
Maybe the bureaucracy is there for a reason some times? Maybe the poor helpless US corporations shouldn't be collecting 153M+ drivers licenses? Maybe some of the HN audience is trying to collect 153M drivers licenses themselves and l
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by vrganj 2mo ago
Not quite the same, but the GDPR gives you a right to erasure.
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US irks G20 ministers by bringing back Russia, barring journalists(reuters.com)
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by vrganj 2mo ago
Why would they lose sovereignty? You haven't established that at all. If we read Rousseau's Social Contract, we see that the sovereign is the people, not the executive power at their service. The people wouldn't stop being
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by vrganj 2mo ago
I think over the past year or so the calculus has changed dramatically. There was credible threat by the US of invasion of another NATO member in the same neighborhood. It's intellectually dishonest to say things are the same as in the
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by vrganj 2mo ago
But sovereignty is of the people in a democracy. Why is the arbitrary, much weaker unit of "Iceland" better than the much more powerful, much more defensible unit of "EU"? The sovereign remains the same, the people. Th
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by vrganj 2mo ago
I think the opposite is the plan: Fearmongering against the EU with false talk of sovereignty to butter it up to be eventually be swallowed up by the US. Greenland wasn't at risk of invasion either, until the US explicitly started thr
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by vrganj 2mo ago
I think the idea of continuing as an independent country is a bit naive for a country with no army and a population of 400k in a neighborhood full of newly imperial ambitions. It's either join democratically into a slowly federalizing
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by vrganj 2mo ago
It's none of these. Umberto Eco's ur-fascism is a good starting point for a more serious definition: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
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by vrganj 2mo ago
Who gets to decide what's objective?
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by vrganj 2mo ago
I feel like while this is a slightly better answer, it still fundamentally is a cop-out. > Socialism is just empirically and morally extremely bad and will not solve our problems This is a purely ideological assertion, or "vibes and
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by vrganj 2mo ago
An iPhone with a Bluetooth keyboard is a laptop (chaotic evil)
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by vrganj 2mo ago
The US as currently composed is a climate supervillain, there's no other way to describe it. We're in an existential crisis and instead of stepping up to a leadership role, they are actively sabotaging efforts to avert disaster. S
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by vrganj 2mo ago
Oh, I just realized you're the same commenter that was arguing that people just want to criticize and not offer any proposals for solutions. Getting that response to an actual proposal from you is the thickest of ironies. I initially t
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by vrganj 2mo ago
Could you elaborate your position, maybe make a structural argument like I did above, or maybe refute mine? I'd argue my post above was pure systems thinking, wasn't it? So far you have made an assertion, but have not shared anyth
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by vrganj 2mo ago
Appreciate you continuing to explore. Note how you're still doing it, by clinging on to an already-invalidated definition of purpose instead of precondition and still refusing to actually face the track record you introduced. It&#x
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by vrganj 2mo ago
First of all, may I again gently point at the rules? You may find this one relevant: > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. Anyways, so many replies deep and still all distraction, anything but actuall
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by vrganj 2mo ago
See also: The Münchener Post and the SA raid on its headquarters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchener_Post History doesn't repeat, but it sure rhymes...
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by vrganj 2mo ago
I'm glad you found this articulation of my views useful! I hope you now understand why people can be opposed to getting bogged down in discussing what they see as band-aids on top of a much bigger structural problem. I'd also be i
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by vrganj 2mo ago
> Predicated" means "to establish". I believe your disagreement might be based on an imprecise understanding of the word then. > If an idea or argument is predicated on something, it depends on the existence or truth of
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by vrganj 2mo ago
Let's first finish the critique, then we can use its conclusions to talk about what it would actually take to get us out of this mess. Capitalism has always been a tension between capitalists, who want maximum return on capital and wor
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by vrganj 2mo ago
Maybe the critique is the solution? Maybe the system is so toxic the only way forward is a radical break and solutionism is just a way to distract from that fact? A way to maintain the power structure while making cosmetic changes?
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by vrganj 2mo ago
I appreciate the perspective and I can see the logic, thank you for explaining your position. That being said, the timescale of change in that proposed mechanism seems too slow to me given the extreme urgency I see in the climate crisis. Do
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by vrganj 2mo ago
I know this is not a popular viewpoint around here, but as a socialist, let me ask you this question: have we considered that the market itself might be the problem? That maybe the incentives it creates are toxic for humanity?

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