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by zahlman 3mo ago
> The truth is there is no conspiracy (at least no grand, all-encompassing one), it's worse than that; systemic incentives create alignment and remove the need for intentional coordination. Exactly. Which is why it's so infuria
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by zahlman 3mo ago
How so?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
For someone who wasn't interested in the discussion, you sure do seem insistent on these points that I still completely disagree with, based on my own direct observations.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> New packages and releases will continue to appear in the HTML representation, meaning this has no breaking implications for downstream index consumers. > The HTML index is essentially a bare-bones version of the human-readable index
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> apologies I answered the three of you all in this one reply. Hope it's of enough interest and easy enough to discern if something is not what you asked. As a heads-up, you're lucky this time — it seems to be pretty rare on HN
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> the idea of "Cultural Marxism": a ludicrous conspiracy theory. It is nothing of the sort; no conspiracy is alleged. That notion is an invention of Wikipedia's. It would make at least as much sense to describe any arbitra
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by zahlman 3mo ago
This sort of rhetoric is exactly where the moral stereotyping of vegans comes from. As for "feasibility", that is clearly not the same experience for everyone.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> many non-vegans think (whether or not it is true) that vegans believe themselves superior. It's hard to imagine a reason why someone is vegan, that wouldn't logically entail such a self-image. > they think the atheists thi
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> a lot of people who see veganism as an attack on their whole existence because they like meat. I haven't met anyone like this. I have met people who don't like exposure to pro-vegan propaganda (which comes across as moral sco
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> aren't deterred by the fact that shouting into the void like that is inherently low value and stupid, or reject it and believe a tweet is inherently valuable. What is high value; and how are you supposed to find it in this env
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> learning about things that might change their views in substantial ways The core problem is that the only people who have any interest in teaching about those things are doing so specifically because they want to recruit others into th
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by zahlman 3mo ago
We're talking here about the same intelligence metrics constantly attacked by progressives as supposedly a tool for promulgating racism?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Dumping quotes from a Wikipedia article, in the post-OWS era, is not at all a reasonable way to assess the political position of an individual. In practice, WP:BLP is just a mask. I would engage with the specific misrepresentations made her
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> an "abundance agenda" that sounds a whole lot like a reframing of traditional conservative and libertarian economic arguments. I'm going to need you to be a lot more concrete about this.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> segments of the political left finding themselves marginalized by the mainstream left-wing's increasing focus on identity politics over the past 10-15 years. I can confirm a group like this exists (that describes me) but I can&#x2
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> ... and find their more-reasoned arguments refreshing, you're right back at... emotionally attractive rather than rationally considered. How do you figure?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> don't deserve a political voice This is a false dichotomy. There's a huge gap between "permitted to choose between the presented options in a democracy" and "able to make a wide audience care about one's p
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> their government installed AI traffic enforcement cameras all over What does the AI actually do? Identify specific cars and their drivers, or something? What actual enforcement actions were taken as a result, and against how many drive
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by zahlman 3mo ago
The outrage isn't feigned; it just comes from a minority of people. The masses aren't established to "want this"; they may just not care .
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by zahlman 3mo ago
"it's pretty obvious why" here refers to why Wikipedia would reject them as a source.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> Don't update positively on your extremist beliefs whenever you hear a bad argument against them Two problems: 1. There are beliefs people hold approximately as strongly as they hold "the Sun will rise tomorrow", so &quot
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I'd reconsider the name; the "X Simulator" name pattern primes people to expect a first-person 3d game where the gameplay is mainly about directly manipulating objects in the environment.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> skeuomorphic I keep seeing this word. Every time, I have to look it up; I marvel at the fact that we have such a cool word describing a complex but interesting topic; and apparently forget it again. And then I never find a situation wh
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I've been hacking away on some scripts to clean up saved ChatGPT transcripts (surprisingly annoying because of how the app's JavaScript works, and I discovered too late that some of them were incomplete; but I have workarounds now
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Incredible flow. The captions are constantly lagging behind the audio and parts of them seem to be missing or corrupted.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> not just another "state of the art in 2015" language like I see so often. Newer is not always better. Lisp is full of good ideas that haven't stopped being good, even if a pure Lisp experience is understandably not to ev
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Might want to rethink the name.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> There I wish games were even more aggressive and exact at matching you to players around your skill level. PvP involves sandbagging and a variety of fragile gimmick strategies. (Oh, and cheating. For slow enough turn-based games, playe
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by zahlman 3mo ago
We've had posts about making your own agent harness before. Obviously this doesn't do nearly as much as Claude Code does, and it's golfed for no particularly good reason.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Welcome back to HN. Please check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 : > In Comments: Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans.

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