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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Full title: ”Trump administration to phase out HIV funding [for South Africa].“ Though in the long run they’ll try to do both, because kakistocracy.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Thus endeth the tenure of the oxymoron.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
This is the work of a mad genus.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
No, both are wrong, the war crimes are more wrong.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Stop shilling for horsewood capsules when whaledork tea is where it’s at!
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Ahh, so you’re conflating what’s legal — which at times has included chattel slavery, genocide that suited the state, actual torture, and, for the moment at least, unlimited betting by members of the executive branch on the outcomes of mi
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Especially amongst those who think of taxes as a form of stealing.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Some of that 30% has both directly and indirectly empowered war crimes and has pushed on the accelerator of an unspeakable [and, sadly, irreversible] descent into the kind of mad fascistic experiment that always ends up driving many more.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Elon. Jeff. Donald. Honestly just randomly select a billionaire.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Since we’re playing this game, prove to me there exists a default framework. Further, prove to me that said default framework is one that includes billionaires, the concept having been utterly alien throughout the vast majority of human his
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
They’d also have to not give a flying fuck about a healthy diet or medical issues, but even if we assume you’re correct, is that somehow worse than the only people who take the job being wealthy and obviously very intent on earning mone
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
As a first pass, you’ve accumulated all that money, thus you’ve actively or passively, knowingly or unknowingly, taken advantage of a perverse systemic bug that allows that sort of money to accumulate in any one person’s hands to begin with
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Absent circumstances of four digit inflation rates, one cannot earn a billion dollars… one can only accumulate a billion dollars. If one ever does so, one has definitely done something morally indefensible.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
One hopes there’s simply enough scientists left to do something useful in the ( very ) brief window between the compute time cost dropping below the threshold of accessible and the ambient temperature rising above the threshold of thermodyn
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
The kind of person who would take the job might actually be well-suited to it. Our current methodology is basically a form of natural selection towards who can promise the most while delivering the least, at the same time they extract maxim
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
How about they have to live off the lowest provided level of food assistance, with the lowest level of provided health insurance, and they don’t get paid until after they’ve left office and their pay is determined by a public plebiscite?
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
My guess is what it looks like is an enormous glut of HPC compute suddenly becoming available to science at virtually no cost at precisely the moment we’ve gutted the entire concept of science.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Interesting intercessory use of artificial interlocutors, and it feels quite appropriate to have a prayer-issuing daemon standing between you and an artificial godlike intellect. That said I’ve opened one obvious issue. Someone else can ope
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Well that’s sinister.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
So, in other words, they rationalized their playing god in order to justify their profit-seeking. Unnatural selection, AKA eugenics, doesn’t usually work out well in the long run.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
Who knew LLMs would one day start shilling for Big NaCl?
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
In all of history no animal has ever needed to be culled, except in the minds of those who want to kill for fun or profit (or, usually, both).
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
tl;dr: grotesquely stupid child appointed by a grotesquely stupid man elected by the grotesquely stupid says grotesquely stupid things.
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by yawpitch 4mo ago
The hardest part of the gift of mortality is accepting it.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Ahh, interesting… what skill would I want to fundamentally, absolutely, and forever, devalue to absolute zero future economic value, while simultaneously maximizing positive societal impact and transformation? Allowing everyone to do skillf
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
If only I had cause to be embarrassed.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
We’re all terminally online, the question is once we’re no longer online at all, who will be to blame? Hint: it’s the rich.
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Sure. The better question can it produce writing that we should want to read?
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Funny, you seem to have [mis]read the thread as somehow being about computing being better in the past, when it’s actually about the trend being worse in the present and foreseeable future. Computers aren’t getting faster or cheaper today n
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by yawpitch 5mo ago
Out of the blue usually means “unexpected”… when asked for a list of rich people with interests in the intersection between generative AI and inappropriate sexualization of the underaged, can the good doctor’s name possibly be anything bu

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