HEmanZ

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by HEmanZ 4d ago
No but what if those 2 hand out bread and circuses, use the super-intelligence they can afford (using super intelligence smarter than anyone alive) to keep the masses controlled, and are protected by all of the wonderful new machines of war
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by HEmanZ 4d ago
You are packing so many assumptions into here about how the world works that are just wrong, I have no way to really respond. Your strongest point is “will people stand for a world with no jobs, where only a percentage of the population own
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by HEmanZ 4d ago
Does no one own the companies?
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by HEmanZ 4d ago
We’ve had them for like 3 years. It feels a lot like saying “internet won’t do much” in 1996
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by HEmanZ 4d ago
Why would no one have underlying resources if there were very few jobs? There are many millions of people in the USA who don’t work but own things. Some don’t work and own a lot of things
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by HEmanZ 5d ago
Why would no jobs mean no money?
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by HEmanZ 5d ago
The fear isn’t about now, it’s about trajectory. Everyone’s existential dread would evaporate if this is where it stops. The dread is: where does this stop? Right now, with ai I can fly. But when does ai no longer need me? Just as an extrem
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by HEmanZ 7d ago
You’re right, I shouldn’t expect laws and enforcement. Let me also hire a personal army while I’m at. What a load of bullshit victim blaming.
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by HEmanZ 7d ago
“You either deal with it or move” do you think installing flock cameras isn’t an attempt to deal with it? If you go to council meetings and demand action, installing a bunch of flock cameras and increasing surveillance is a response. I say
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by HEmanZ 7d ago
I still am opposed to anything capable of mass surveillance because of how easily it is abused. But living in Seattle, my car has been broken into 4 times this summer alone (with nothing taken, because we leave nothing there), thiefs dug up
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by HEmanZ 8d ago
That’s great! You’re an outlier in the US still. Any tips for how you planned your landscape to work this way? I’m slowly trying to convert mine but have already gotten burned by not matching plants to the right soil or sun exposure level a
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by HEmanZ 8d ago
Do humans without lawns consume that much water? Have you worked on something where this problem came up in some unexpected way? Yes pipes need to be updated if a lot of tall complexes are built, but is total water that much at all? I asked
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by HEmanZ 10d ago
Why do they even need to do that? It could be all open and you still can’t compete. The models could be all completely open weight forever and you still can’t compete with capital. How are you going to pay for the models or the electricity
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by HEmanZ 12d ago
I'm feeling the same way, and when I brought it up to some friends in tech it turned out in our group of 8 I was the least depressed. The wife of another friend of mine confided in me that AI replacing his work in such a short time has
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by HEmanZ 17d ago
If you’re talking about a world democracy like the USA, the consumption gap between rich and poor effectively doesn’t matter from a climate change perspective. You could vanish the top 75% of Americans and still we’d have a climate change p
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by HEmanZ 17d ago
In my family, about 5 out of 100 people believe climate change is even real. So ya, I think the average at this point is "I'm ambivalent, climate change may not even be real. But mostly I don't care"
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by HEmanZ 17d ago
If you live in a western democracy your politicians are held very accountable to the opinion and will of the people who vote. They are not kings or inherited aristocracy, they do what the people want (roughly) or get voted out. The people w
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by HEmanZ 25d ago
If I had to guess at anything it would be bribery, market manipulation, and crypto related business. The others I just don’t see even making it through, there is way too much room for interpretation of powers. “Pulling punches now will only
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by HEmanZ 25d ago
My point isn’t “president should be above law”. My point is that, if Trump and admin go to prison on charges that are not so strong that it sways a large portion of the public and republicans, we’re fucked. Regardless of the underlying trut
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by HEmanZ 25d ago
You have to be insane to think it is that black and white.
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by HEmanZ 25d ago
No sorry I’ll be more nuanced. Unless Trump does something egregious enough in the coming years that the case against him is rock solid, black and white, and heavy, any move to jail him and those around him is impossible to distinguish from
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by HEmanZ 25d ago
There is absolutely nothing that will end American democracy faster than jailing Trump. The moment it becomes clear that the cost of losing is personal jail time for you and your family, every politician in the game has to start playing for
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by HEmanZ 27d ago
In 2020 they could code to decent feature specs and handle simple features end to end. They could maintain the dashboard as features shipped and fix specific valuable but straightforward bugs. At least, the ones hired at any company I’ve wo
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by HEmanZ 27d ago
Every single time I see an article like this come out on hacker news I have the same reaction “sure, this year”. There is still room for juniors… in fall of 2026. Will there be in fall of 2030? If your thesis rests on LLMs and AI systems no
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by HEmanZ 28d ago
I'm curious why you think an ethics course would actually change minds. In my experience in undergrad, we had a CS ethics course, and it went in in-one-ear-and-out-the-other for 99% of students, probably myself included. I know it was
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by HEmanZ 1mo ago
You can search for more reports, because they do vary based on methodology. But the median hospital in the US makes between -1% (yes, negative, they lose money, because a huge percentage are non profits) and 4% depending on the source. When
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by HEmanZ 1mo ago
No one says literally infinite growth. That's a stupid strawman and if you are arguing at that level you are not engaging, you are just playing tribal in-group signaling. And we don't need to think about growth 10,000 years from n
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by HEmanZ 1mo ago
The extreme degrowth almost seem like a climate-disinformation psyops because it's so stupid. Like I'm more convinced they're propaganda to discredit climate action than actually trying to fight for it. I have to remind mysel
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by HEmanZ 1mo ago
I never said regulation should never happen. But if I was literally trying to come up with a strawman for “market regulation bad” and using a caricature regulation as an example, candy bar weight would be a good contender.
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by HEmanZ 1mo ago
My state minimum wage is $17.13/hr and city is $21.30. There is a ton in that range…

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