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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Let’s all focus on not waging bloody goddamn war against each other first before worrying about AI anything.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Those are all irrelevant. The market will magically fix everything, don’t you know that?
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Populism is on the rise in my country as well but that’s orthogonal to my evaluation of individual policies. I dislike little-d dictators proclaiming to serve the needs of The People because as an European I am intimately aware of what that
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Surely there is some kind of due process? You can't just pick up foreign looking types and ship them off in black vans. That would be an illegal way to do that, I believe (I hope). I'm not American so I don't know how it work
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I can see how it is a possible source of confusion which is something we can ill afford in this already treacherous waters. > But the biases of people are legitimate, while the biases of the elites are illegitimate. > [...] > while
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I have a more maximalist view of what democracy means which is I believe more common in Europe and I suspect that's where most of your disagreement stems from. First of all no single judge will be capable of upholding this, but let&#x2
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Something I just realized that might be germane to this little discussion: I am European, not American. We often use the word "democracy" as the vast eco-system underlying and upholding modern liberal societies in general, not jus
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
There's a couple of aspects to it that, in my opinion, need to come together. Bypassing and/or undermining democratic institutions (media, courts, bureaucracy) and claiming exclusive representation - "I alone represent The Pe
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Populism and democracy are orthogonal. Usually populists just ride democracy as a vehicle to where they really want to go. If The People selected you as their Chosen Leader, who needs pesky Elites in the courts and the Corrupt bureaucrats h
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Agreed. We started with one API to rule them all. What happened? Now we got two.. and now we have to communicate like this: “So the backend gave this weird …” “What backend?” “The backend for the frontend…” “So not the backend for the backe
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
> dramatically reduce complexity If you ever worked seriously on anything non-SPA you would never, ever claim SPAs “dramatically reduce complexity”. The mountain of shit you have pull in to do anything is astronomical even by PHPs standa
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
That’s a very … liberal interpretation. I find it fascinating how many interesting quotes turn out to be fabrications of unknown origin.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Possibly, but slowly and inefficiently.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
The example he gives about geometry is actually quite interesting. It is one of the early highlights of a deep question: is this knowledge, geometry in this case, learned/learnable or is it, somehow, innate? Do we learn this from scrat
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I believe the point was this is preventable by having a slightly wider knowledge base.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Seeing that I am on HN and can unleash unrestrained pedantry I wish to ask where Cicero actually writes that because I cannot find it?
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Truly inspiring. I, too, have learned from relevant sources that the future of NLP lies in patriotic sentiment and vigorous oil-adding.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Point is that competition is fueled by insecurity. If you are happy, truly content, with yourself you will find competing extraordinarily tiresome and unnecessary. Not saying it’s good for society by the way. I think our civilization needs
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
I get the security issues, but let’s be honest. It’s not about that. The poster included a sneer about “work”. This is about something else.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Ah, now suddenly you not only need to deliver work but you need to behave in a certain non-specified way. The contract then should arrange for that and perhaps pay extra because it’s a sign of dysfunction.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Hate to be that guy, but.. what’s the problem? The work is getting done for the price you agreed on. You care how it’s done suddenly? If AI does it, it’s the best thing since sliced bread. I’m sorry but capitalists that want to have it both
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
The point is not they lack values at any point in time, the point is they can switch them faster than you can say “capitalism”.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
> I can't trust that Apple is honest about their privacy commitments Oh, no! Who would have thought? What could we possibly do other than keep shoving money into their faces?
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Abundance of sugar and fat triggers primal circuits which cause trouble if said sources are unnaturally abundant. Social media follows a similar pattern but now with primal social and emotional circuits. It too causes troubles, but IMO even
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
A remarkable insight—often associated with individuals of above-average cognitive capabilities. While the use of the em-dash has recently been associated with AI you might offend real people using it organically—often writers and literary c
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Wow - What an excellent update! Now you are getting to the core of the issue and doing what only a small minority is capable of: fixing stuff. This takes real courage and commitment. It’s a sign of true maturity and pragmatism that’s
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Without structural assumptions, there is no necessity - only observed regularity. Necessity literally does not exist. You will never find it anywhere. Hume figured this out quite a while ago and Kant had an interesting response to it. Think
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Old-timer here, used Python for about ten years professionally (Go now). c) It’s a monstrous dumpster fire and getting worse over time, but so is everything else (in the same space). I like Go, but I can see how it’s not for everyone.
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
> the majority of young people get the majority of their beliefs and views on sexuality, romance, relationships, gender roles, sensuality, etc, from porn You state this casually, but it is one hell of a thing to claim. In my experience t
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by whatnow37373 1y ago
Not buying it. She just states “porn shaped society” without anything to prove it. Seems absurd to me on the face of it. Are men objectifying women? Yes. Have they done this since the dawn of mankind? Yes. I could easily claim the reverse.

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