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by watwut 4mo ago
That is not autism, that is sociopathy. Autism does not turn on and off when you can gain something from it. In your telling, autism is an excuse when they abuse others, because they cant help themselves. But, when it is for their benefit,
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by watwut 4mo ago
> It was government acknowledging its own limitations No it was not. It was deliberately trying to make government sound as useless as possible, so that its useful programs can be dismantled. You are ignoring all good things that came ou
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by watwut 4mo ago
This bonmot sounded cool and fun years ago, but not anymore. It is actually OK and desirable for governments to help, to organize and to lead toward positive outcome. Governments should do more then just pay military, prisons and police. De
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by watwut 4mo ago
> But it's pretty clear when read in context that she's admitting that diversity is being factored into the longlists First it is not pretty clear, what is clear that long list is not composed of white male only. > (which of
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by watwut 4mo ago
> The real disruption of books haven't really happened. Imo, this is one of the tech pathologies. The culture does not care about building and creating anymore, all it cares about is disrupting and destroying. Books were disrupted a
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by watwut 4mo ago
Not really. They are censored easily and successfully. However, moderation is hard and the companies are motivated to moderate them toward maximum outrage with some plausible deniality on top of it.
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> a lot of people have now realized this and are explicitly fighting back against trans demands. They are literally actively trying to create the world where trans people are hurt as much as possible. They are not on the defense, they a
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Literally you "It is honorable but ultimately hasn’t democracy spoken wrt the issues mentioned in the post?"
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The answer is that most libertarians see both 1.) and 2.) as a good thing they want to achieve. They imagine themselves benefiting as a high profile worker of that monopoly or rule setting company. Also, note how super ok and welcomming lib
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Management wont change anything until THEY have issue at hands. Fighting and explaining does nothing. The less your colleagues care, the faster the company gets there. Unfortunately.
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That is not what history of those was. They were waste, fallout was painful for a lot of innocents and recovery long. And they were not just an issue of not guessing the timeline.
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Not really, it is fairly common belief. And American war system is not in the pro-democracy, defense only or whatever else business anyway. It is in pro-warcrime, pro-stupid-wars, pro-dictators business.
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by watwut 4mo ago
This idea that once a party gain a little more votes, people who oppose it should cease to exist and cease push for own values ... somehow applies only to the right. When center or left wins, somehow, magically, same logic dont apply.
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It literally says average person does not know who Collison is? It is literally one of its arguments.
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by watwut 4mo ago
It goes back to Warren Buffett quote "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." That is what it is. I thought it was just funny but wrong commen
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by watwut 4mo ago
> Last time it was opposing LGBTQ and racial discrimination and now it is technology. The attacks on and hate of trans people are on the rise. There seem to be literal strategy of preventing blacks and women from career rise in military
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by watwut 4mo ago
It is not PR issue. AI founders in fact do want to get rid of jobs and create permanent underclass. That is their actual real goal. Better PR would make people realize it later, but that it is. And whether we realize it or not does not matt
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by watwut 4mo ago
Good article, but damm, the cat was annoying. I was really distracting, I had to edit the page to remove it.
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by watwut 4mo ago
Those hierarchies are the result and consequence of goverment being captured by super rich. Removing it and weakening sociopathic predators is correct. They will cauase less damage when they are not constantly given advantages.
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Because needs and preferences of lower level are less and less reflected in policies and production. They are becomming permanent underclass with no future. They dont matter for politics nor for economics. Preferences of super rich are over
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He is openly admitting they plan to commit war crimes and break international law - which is already provides a fairly low bar. That is what that is. US border patrol agents and elected leaders are actively breaking human rights and plan to
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by watwut 4mo ago
Where exactly in Europe? Countries I interacted with did not had anonymous burner phones. You could buy prepaid card, but you had to show your id and give out your name. You had contract like any other (contract for that number). Prepaid ca
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by watwut 4mo ago
I don't know why you would expect Duolingo profits be helped a lot by AI. Their profits going up and down are more about how much then enshittify for free users - basically tradeoff between long term success and temporary profits. AI d
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> The current administration pays very close attention voter sentiment. In which alternative universe? The amount of bribery and self-enrichment is staggering. The treatment of the war is mind boggling. The actual political moves seem to
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> The banks that got bailed out continued lending and immediately resumed Pushing against regulation supposed to prevent this happening again. They also resumed taking a lot of risks, just like before. Their managers got rich while doing
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> That is neither the incentive of AI companies nor the truth They literally sell themselves to investors as the thing that will destroy everything people create. That is their bragging point. And they are using things people created to
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You have it other way round. USA had burner anonymous cards when European countries did not.
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The companies strongly opposed such thing in browsers. That is why.
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USA is not member of EU
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by watwut 4mo ago
The real risk of AI is: risk of global recession if they turned out unprofitable, risk of them propping up fascist movements Thiel and Musk love so much, risk to environment, risk to mental health of people who have to listen to constant do

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