RussianBot9580

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by RussianBot9580 3d ago
> I am personally willing to incur a higher risk of being the victim of a crime if it means government/police/private companies/etc. are not able to violate my privacy every waking moment of my life. This is it precisely.
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by RussianBot9580 3d ago
But think of it from another angle. It's easy to assume that everyone is on board with your cause when you are in a bubble and all of your friends are. But it could be that there's no grand conspiracy to suppress the public opin
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by RussianBot9580 3d ago
And a public officer would instead be driven by corruption, like that nice San Jose policewoman who signed off on customs forms for fentanyl shipments.
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by RussianBot9580 3d ago
But why? For most people all they'll find out is "this guy commutes to work, goes to Costco, and has an affair". Big tech knows about the affair from text messages already.
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by RussianBot9580 3d ago
Keep in mind that the general public's sentiment on Flock is nowhere near that of the Twitterati. My HOA wants to pay for a camera. All the old folks that attend the meetings are excited and think the technology is cool. The only &q
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by RussianBot9580 8d ago
Well - what's a core value? I'd say that if you can remove a value and still stay "you" then that value wasn't really core. By that definition maybe even "loving my kids" wouldn't pass the test, as V
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by RussianBot9580 10d ago
That also sounds nice on the surface - but has the same problem. Political positions disguised as core human values. Allow me to explain. You say "values like how you treat people who are NOT close to you". Which is really code
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by RussianBot9580 11d ago
It might help to realize that this is a uniquely American affliction. People almost anywhere else simply don't consider politics (or race or gender for that matter) to be nearly as important. This would then let you see your neighbors
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by RussianBot9580 15d ago
The timeline is very close, and this area was heavily contested, with Mexico, Russia, and the US vying for the area. After all, Fort Ross is right next to Sutter's Mill - exactly where gold was discovered. So, in 1841 Sutter bought F
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by RussianBot9580 17d ago
And for a shallow clone you would serve... what?
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by RussianBot9580 18d ago
> they dont publicly admit it because that would counter their claims for years of "scale is all you need" (which has vanished with diminishing returns, see $MS / altman's GPT-5 bet). Is my reading comprehension just
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by RussianBot9580 18d ago
It's strange to frame this as classical vs scale. Us humans have a powerful inference engine in our heads. We also use a calendar to avoid re-deriving everything from first principles before we've had our morning coffee. Busine
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by RussianBot9580 19d ago
Maybe they'll build AI-powered robot children for their entertainment? Or perhaps figure out a way to control kids bodies with AI, and fulfill even more of their fantasies. Hey, it's a driver of progress!
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by RussianBot9580 19d ago
Melinda chose to retract her statements rather than end up a suicide like Virginia Giuffre. Inquiries should be directed to Billy, etc. The rich and powerful do have the power to shut people up you know.
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by RussianBot9580 23d ago
As an American, what are ways in which you can not defer to an authority - in a way that actually matters? Sure, you can choose to go outside dressed in gaudy colors, or not dressed at all if you are in SF. Or choose to flip the Democrat&
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by RussianBot9580 24d ago
Philosophically - sure. But philosophy is a feedback loop. Humans trying to build a model of their brain within their own brain. There is by definition not enough oomph there, and that model will necessarily be approximate at best. Think
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by RussianBot9580 25d ago
It's just as intellectually lazy to leave "consciousness" undefined and proceed to claim that "X cannot be consciousness" because of social reasons. That's the definition of a circular argument. In the same ve
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by RussianBot9580 26d ago
To see the limits of this argument: surely your YouTube/Instagram/TikTok feed is all stuff that's good for you? Mine isn't either. Why is that? Didn't we choose the contents ourselves?
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by RussianBot9580 26d ago
Well, society is welcome to try to stop them. These appeals usually go like this: we should stop providing more free money to the people who are strong enough to go and take it. Individually we are weaker, so let's stop this collectiv
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by RussianBot9580 28d ago
@hgomersall: emerging from a lucky orifice is in fact the main thing in life if you think about it. After all, we are collectively a computer made of monkeys, and the function it is computing is natural selection. Kin selection is one asp
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by RussianBot9580 1mo ago
I don't think (5) is called "democracy", but it sounds nice. Democracy is "everyone gets a vote", which devolves into a battle of populists. There's nothing in democracy that would guarantee the kind of acco
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by RussianBot9580 1mo ago
They are someone who lets present day politics dictate their whole life. They probably don't think German is an accursed language and wouldn't despair at reading Faust in the original. Neither would they think twice about readin
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by RussianBot9580 1mo ago
Was GLP-1 oral? Those off-brand lozenges don't do anything. A real GLP-1 slows down digestion so much that if you try to overeat you'll regret it. You'll still be uncomfortably full and ready to throw up on day 2 after that
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by RussianBot9580 1mo ago
Not exactly sure why this is downvoted - seems like a genuine question. Here's a random Internet troll's theory (mine): there's a kernel of truth to the whole "patriarchy" thing. It's just that most men aren&#
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by RussianBot9580 1mo ago
LLM style is in many ways "The Atlantic from Temu". Nearly every article in The Atlantic sounds the same - I think we all know the cliches I am talking about. This doesn't mean that every author underwent a lobotomy (I hope
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by RussianBot9580 1mo ago
> quite the opposite Apparently living on the net still doesn't guarantee that one has heard of the Streisand Effect. In any case, my first association with LessWrong is Zizians, not Roko.
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by RussianBot9580 1mo ago
I didn't mean Christianity, I meant Chesterton and Aquinas. Very elaborate explanations, great arguments, good writing - all to justify a failed model of the world.
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by RussianBot9580 2mo ago
This is basically Christian apologetics. We've collectively thought we were special for so long that must now go through increasingly complex mental gymnastics to prove to ourselves that we are somehow uniquely sentient, despite incre
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by RussianBot9580 2mo ago
Dog shit: staccato bullet points. Less than nothing. Customers repulsed. Rightly so. What really matters: actual content. And now it's tweetable!
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by RussianBot9580 2mo ago
Well, no, because those aren't the actual parties of the conflicts. In the case of USA/Iran the US is essentially Israel's proxy. It's up to Israel to decide when the fighting stops. OK, fine, Iran could capitulate and

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