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by yks 1y ago
I figure that's intended as a "gotcha", but a hallmark of any autocracy, fascism included, is the factional fights and purges. And few understand, but being an early supporter of fascism actually increases one's statisti
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by yks 1y ago
We reached the peak social fabric decay era and the whole new "empathy is weakness" orthodoxy right on the verge of mass unemployment. The worst possible timing. If oracles of AI are right, the aggregate suffering is going to be i
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by yks 1y ago
Neither will _modern_ manufacturing plants. Regardless, unemployment has not been a big problem in the US so far, and if you say that the recent mass gig/under employment is no longer sufficient for (american dream|middle class lifesty
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by yks 1y ago
Ethics aside, we do not understand the technology enough to disentangle its outputs from the biases of its inputs. See the "Emergent misalignment" paper. The founder is clearly seeking to inject his ideology into this technology,
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by yks 1y ago
Thank you!
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by yks 1y ago
I guess the point is whether it's a private company collecting your data, the good government, or the bad government that gives the access to your data to random non-vetted individuals for fun, the end result is the same — your data en
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by yks 1y ago
any concise introduction into those skills you could recommend?
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by yks 1y ago
DARVO in action
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by yks 1y ago
> Harris, Vance and Trump Oh ffs, Harris in charge would've been just fine. If we're talking about economy/stock market only, even Vance as president would've been fine as well, although he'd destroy American dem
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by yks 1y ago
Not holding my breath, Weimar industrialists were backing the conservative-Nazi alliance until conservatives were all gone. Modern American barons are of the same foreseeing capabilities (unless they’re Thiel who wants monarchy or whatever)
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by yks 2y ago
Let me explain how that works in the real world — you drop all the tags/boxes/receipts for the merchandise, maybe apply some dirt, then you can claim that it's not new and you brought it with you from your home country origin
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by yks 2y ago
That's a wishful thinking to pretend that Brezhnev's trajectory would lead to any significantly better future
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by yks 2y ago
Most of the popular outfits are "designed to look good" to a high degree, and then humans are quite bad at fitting the garments on average. Poorly fit suits that don't look good on a male silhouette are absolutely a thing, an
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by yks 2y ago
I absolutely agree, humans are creatures of context, that's why GPs opinion that not wearing a suit is a "perverse mirror image" and "mediocrity" is out of touch.
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by yks 2y ago
Please explain from the first principles, why a suit is "aesthetically better" and more dignified than a t-shirt/jeans combo.
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by yks 2y ago
The same way they responded to ignoring of the 14th? The Supreme court will provide some travesty justification and that'll be it.
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by yks 2y ago
> How is that a plus? They could've used Telegram /s. It's popular with the crypto crowd after all.
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by yks 2y ago
In a blink of an eye Americans went from "the government is out there to oppress you" to "if the government says the undisclosed people it snatches from the streets and deports are criminals, it must be true".
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by yks 2y ago
This "hurting themselves" you're talking about is as hurtful as buying hot chocolate instead of coffee.
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by yks 2y ago
It's just a car bro. No one is "shooting oneself in the foot" by not owning Tesla of all things.
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by yks 2y ago
These people sure rule like they don't expect to ever lose power.
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by yks 2y ago
I am not sure what "serious" historians you self-select, but have you heard Russians at all? They want Europe, it's their sphere of influence. На Берлин!
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by yks 2y ago
Don't forget Wikipedia.
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by yks 2y ago
And the blight is spreading. The US have already fallen, Europe's chances are 50/50. The world is being robbed of the future that has liberty and pursuit of happiness in it — only to be replaced with "you die today, I die tom
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by yks 2y ago
> Funnily enough, this is exactly Putin’s own logic — just flipped Except Ukrainians ask the West for support to fight for themselves, so the West is given a rarest opportunity to do a morally right thing while furthering its own interes
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by yks 2y ago
Ukraine needs to sustain significantly lower tempo than Russia and there are other options than boots on the ground. Simply flying in and shooting down slow-flying drones inside the Ukrainian airspace would probably give Ukrainian economy y
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by yks 2y ago
The Westerners have been tirelessly making excuses about how it's impossible to defeat Russia for a while now, so forgive me for not being impressed, but the proposition is quite simple really — if you don't want to support Ukrain
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by yks 2y ago
Russian economy doesn't have enough juice to "outrun Ukraine" under the sanctions regime and the war intensity they maintain to impress the Westerners. It's not a "year or two", it's a decade at least.
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by yks 2y ago
> the only major limitation here was the psychology of Trump's party. The party that has 50/50 chance of winning the elections has been communicating to Putin all this entire time that they will hand him Ukraine when they win.
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by yks 2y ago
The realistic answer is to say that Ukraine is going to be supplied with weapons for as long as needed, case closed. The whole Russian strategy after the initial blitz failure was to wait for Trump to get into power, who telegraphed to any

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