NietzscheanNull

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by NietzscheanNull 4d ago
Many webcam mics have auto-gain enabled, so having it on in a silent room will cause it to crank the gain to the point that the noise floor becomes audible (or in this case, visible). You might want to try recording a sound clip to see if t
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by NietzscheanNull 7d ago
Yes. Otherwise, only those with money get to choose what messages are shown to the public.
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by NietzscheanNull 12d ago
I think your example is stilted in exactly the direction that the anti-sideloading-as-a-term crowd fears is increasingly becoming normalized. In fact, I think it's actually a perfect demonstration of how incredibly subtle and perniciou
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by NietzscheanNull 1mo ago
This is either completely misinformed or disingenuous. Texas just had to freeze all data center development pending audits because their energy supplier (ERCOT) reported that it had received data center load requests totaling 474 gigawatts.
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by NietzscheanNull 1mo ago
Per the linked article, about midway through: > Obesity can’t explain the entire decrease, however. One large-scale, recent review found a testosterone slump despite researchers’ adjusting for the subjects’ body mass index. “Even among n
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by NietzscheanNull 1mo ago
I can't speak to the parent commenter's precise meaning, but I interpreted them to mean they oppose the current domestic and foreign policy of US political and business leadership (a distinction that blurs to the point of indistin
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by NietzscheanNull 1mo ago
I've seen this cited around here frequently, and I don't doubt that there were good intentions for implementing it that way. However, in my anecdotal experience, I've noticed that otherwise high-quality and thought-provoking
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by NietzscheanNull 2mo ago
> From a biological/evolutionary standpoint, that's the correct approach. I believe the science disagrees on this point. In the case of humans, adaptations that contributed most to our success as a species are a constellation o
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by NietzscheanNull 3mo ago
The problem isn't the surveillance of land; nobody is getting up in arms over someone pointing a camera out of their window to watch their neighborhood street occasionally. The problem is the scale. Flock is running a massive network o
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by NietzscheanNull 3mo ago
> Most tech workers will readily drop all of their ideals for a fatter paycheck. And don't even get me started on all the leftist friends i have in the tech circle that have been profiting off the rise of stock prices This is a comp
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by NietzscheanNull 3mo ago
How about the $1.5 billion settlement Anthropic agreed to pay authors and publishers: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anthropic-sett... Several consolidated cases against OpenAI: https:&#x
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by NietzscheanNull 3mo ago
I'm of the opinion that "true art"/cultural artifacts can't be automated by definition, as they derive their value from the human experience embedded in them by their creators. OTOH, I think we absolutely SHOULD aut
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by NietzscheanNull 3mo ago
This misses the point entirely; wealth redistributive policies aren't intended to significantly boost the wealth of low wealth citizens directly, they're intended to dissipate the incredible concentration of political power that c
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by NietzscheanNull 3mo ago
Sure. Hedge fund owners, VC firm owners, cosmetic surgeons, the Walton heirs, and Zuck/Jensen/Jeff/Elon own 97.5% of all wealth in the United States. The former three, while each representing cohorts, are very small cohorts.
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
Do you have any data to back up your claims? Because from what I understand, unions were the backbone of the recovering US labor market following the Great Depression, which punctuated a period of extreme speculation and inequality (the Gil
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
Certainly, but with (what I consider to be) a key distinction: classic search, by definition, must serve information from many distinct sources outside the control of the search company. A search engine could certainly tamper with which o
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
Or subtly misrepresent politically inconvenient facts, or gently steer you into opinions based on a synthesis of broker data and demographic info, or quietly flag you in some database column due to exhibiting dissident-adjacent ideas or beh
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
Drug dealing is profitable. Chattel slavery was exceptionally profitable. To allow profitability to be our measure of permissibility is to sacrifice civil society at the altar of enterprising tyrants. Economics should never be a substitute
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
How can you be certain that the ChatGPT "research" you cite is a faithful representation of facts? How do you know that OpenAI/Anthropic/Google haven't introduced RLHF to subtly steer model output on specific topics
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
Last I checked, Fortune 500 CEOs weren't mandating that their employees use and find more ways of integrating Reddit and 4chan into all of their business processes and products. And I also don't recall the owners/CEOs of Redd
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
This is a rather vacuous piece, and for anyone looking to avoid wasting time, the stated reason is: "corporate profits keep going up." I think the byline is a bit of a disingenuous sleight-of-hand: "The boom is not as untethe
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by NietzscheanNull 4mo ago
Not sure if it was the intent, but this is a rather grating and shallow reply. Is that unattributed "quote" meant to be an appeal to inevitability? If so, I'd just like to point out that none of this is inevitable, and the ar
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by NietzscheanNull 5mo ago
Congrats on your independence! What you're describing is my goal state, but sadly I'm not there yet. It seems like it's the last 10-20% of "sticky" dependencies that always trip me up (granted, some of those are mer
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by NietzscheanNull 7mo ago
> [...] a lot of young founders here seem to have since embraced a punishing work culture — the 996 ethos. What are your thoughts about what’s happening? > I kind of love it, honestly. I think Silicon Valley got really lazy during C
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by NietzscheanNull 7mo ago
For everyone's sake, I hope you're correct. A quick scan of the article's comment section is enough to seriously curb one's optimism, though. I don't know what the demographic makeup of participants in WSJ's co
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by NietzscheanNull 7mo ago
Highlighting Israel's inexplicably strong influence over US foreign policy is not the dog-whistle you seem to be implying it is.
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by NietzscheanNull 7mo ago
> still basically the worst in 8th grade reading and math. Doesn't that stand to reason? The changes described in this article have been in place for less than six years, so the earliest grade cohorts haven't yet made it to 8th
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by NietzscheanNull 7mo ago
With all the tech-fueled multipliers on productivity that economists and market analysts have been touting over the past decades (not even counting LLMs), one might imagine that there's plenty of money going around to sustain a healthy
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by NietzscheanNull 7mo ago
> Some of those people were Ph.Ds Read any of the Epstein emails? Many are nearly unintelligible, despite the "world-renowned luminaries" that wrote them. The phenomenon was discussed in a post here yesterday that linked to pos
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by NietzscheanNull 7mo ago
Perhaps "deny, defend, depose" – not sure where I heard that, but it has a certain mental impact.

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