Timon3

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by Timon3 3d ago
Due to the monopoly on violence, governments need additional more constraints in some areas. If your government dislikes you and they can track every step you take out in public, it becomes much easier for them to violate your rights with
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by Timon3 3d ago
> It's one share, one vote. This is just wrong. As kmeisthax mentioned, shares can have different voting weights - if any at all. Many shareholders have no voting power. > I employed a painter a few months ago, and I decided wh
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by Timon3 4d ago
Yes they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intent_and_incitement_in_the_G...
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by Timon3 4d ago
No US president I'm aware of has ever antagonized all their allies and threatened the world nearly as much or as often as Trump has.
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by Timon3 4d ago
Because we have proof that humans who aren't taught a subset of social behaviors never show any of them. It doesn't matter what we've bred foxes to do - "sense of right and wrong" is not the same as "social beh
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by Timon3 5d ago
> I would certainly agree that one gets taught more refined and nuanced notions of right and wrong, but those are innate feelings. At least for me. How could a person who was taught social concepts of right and wrong since birth ever hop
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by Timon3 5d ago
I didn't say a word about lobbying being automatically bad, what does that have to do with anything? All I did was disprove your theory that private companies have no power, and that you or I have the same options to influence the gove
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by Timon3 5d ago
I don't doubt that you have memories from when you were 4, I have memories from that time too. And I'm sure you felt the shame you described. But I know that it's impossible for a 4-year-old to accurately decipher why they
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by Timon3 6d ago
How could it be possible for anyone to accurately reflect on the mechanisms shaping their emotional reaction to a specific situation when they were 4 years old ? It should be transparently obvious that this is unknowable. First, by the tim
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by Timon3 6d ago
Globally active/influential social systems are still very young. In the couple hundred years such systems have been able to form, we've only attempted a minority of realistically possible systems, and most of this data was collect
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by Timon3 6d ago
Your only contribution to a conversation you admit to not understanding has been to stick your fingers into your ears and tell me how meaningless my point is. That's not "directing the conversation back to the actual topic" i
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by Timon3 6d ago
Unfortunately this naive view breaks down as soon as lobbying is introduced, since it is a direct channel for private companies to influence governments.
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by Timon3 6d ago
I am truly sorry for daring to post a comment the great roarcher feels isn't relevant. Please forgive me for the harm I have caused this world.
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by Timon3 7d ago
Try reading the comment I replied to once more: > If "assigning resources to everyone" is a net gain (IE the voter doesn't have resources), then yes it is self serving. It is not possible to state more clearly that: Voter
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by Timon3 7d ago
After that opener I'm guessing this will be a waste of effort... yes, it might be a real thinker, because AFAICS the two statements don't form a tautology. Is this based on actual findings by research in game theory, or did you ju
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by Timon3 7d ago
Oh, I fully agree! Unfortunately many people reduce other people's inner thoughts to the boolean decision "if someone has below-average resources, their decision must be motivated by moving resources from others to themselves&quot
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by Timon3 7d ago
Then why are there so many signs of increasing child labor in the US? Why are Republicans rolling back protections? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/child-labor-... Note that the article o
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by Timon3 7d ago
What if the voter has lots of resources, but soon they'll likely lose them due to external factors, so they vote for communism? What if the voter has very few resources, but soon they'll likely gain lots of resources, and still vo
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by Timon3 7d ago
First: How do you know that every system is corruptible and exploitable? And second: What if other systems are less corruptible and exploitable? How do you know whether all systems have the same potential for corruption and exploitation?
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by Timon3 7d ago
This objection is completely meaningless unless the download numbers follow a consistent upwards trend. You are simplifying the new record to a boolean, but most people still find meaning in extraordinary events happening, even if they fo
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by Timon3 7d ago
The clarification makes sense, unless you presuppose that download numbers are consistently trending upwards.
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by Timon3 7d ago
I'm sure you've actually checked the download numbers and are not just going "well akshually", right?
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by Timon3 8d ago
As I said, I don't think so as long as you derive your scale of difficulty from the domain itself.
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by Timon3 8d ago
This whole discussion is about evidence. That's not proof and it is not certain, but it is evidence pointing into the direction that OpenAI might be doing something that they're strongly incentivized to do. What kind of "evid
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by Timon3 8d ago
The people on the left who are "enthusiastically pro illegal immigration" are a tiny minority of all leftists. The majority does think that illegal immigrants shouldn't be mistreated deliberately, which conservative media out
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by Timon3 8d ago
You gotta be joking. Did you miss all the cases where ICE just took people who were carrying proof of citizenship? Did you miss the allegations by conservatives that massive amounts of illegal immigrants are voting all over the country, but
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by Timon3 8d ago
I see all those topics brought up, both here (though usually flagged) and on the Fediverse. Why wouldn't the tech companies, rich capitalists and current US government use these services to drum up support? I mean hell, why wouldn&#x27
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by Timon3 8d ago
The research I've seen points to a different, but closely related causal chain - when the mainstream party adopts positions by the extreme party, some view it as a confirmation that the extreme party was right on this point, and might
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by Timon3 8d ago
Ah, and that is an immutable fact of the universe. I forgot, good point. Luckily it doesn't matter that even interfering at 1% of polling places is very likely enough to sway the US election, right?
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by Timon3 8d ago
The CDU has been trying to adopt more AfD positions and talking points, in the hopes of getting their votes. Meanwhile this keeps only strengthening the AfD, but the CDU would rather see the fascists in power than govern with anyone left of

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