TrololoTroll

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by TrololoTroll 11mo ago
As someone who has dealt with humans all your life, do you think humans are trustworthy? That's the magic with not setting a mathematically verifiable acceptance criteria. You just fall back to that kind of horrible argument
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by TrololoTroll 11mo ago
The discussion is missing the point of the original snarky comment So you don't trust the computer vision algorithm... But you do trust the meatbags? Reminds me of the whole discussion around self driving cars. About how people wanted
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by TrololoTroll 1y ago
Ah, the age-old practice of fooling God. A classic.
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by TrololoTroll 1y ago
>however, we did try prohibition. It didn't go well ... Because it was already there. The hypothetical would imply a world where people weren't already high functioning addicts
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by TrololoTroll 2y ago
If the developer had time to do it, with him. Otherwise with the company I'm sure there's some abysmal shit that's extremely hard to properly abstract. Usually the dev just sucks or they didn't have time to make the code
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by TrololoTroll 2y ago
>the number of unnecessary deaths that I'm okay with in order to alleviate the suffering of a few is zero. "A few" is doing some serious heavy lifting here Most deaths aren't pleasant nor peaceful. And modern medicine
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by TrololoTroll 2y ago
>would succumb to the easy life of assimilation Have you considered that perhaps if the idea of integration itself is considered abhorrent by a culture then that culture will very rarely be accepted anywhere? Or to put it another way: if
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by TrololoTroll 2y ago
Ah, to be capable of being that optimistic/irresponsible Money doesn't solve all of life's problems... But it does solve a lot of them, and just paying the bills is a safety factor of approximately 1
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by TrololoTroll 3y ago
Them knowing that it is bad isn't much of a consolation for the dead production The magic that happen in someone's mind that leads to their actions matters very little for everyone else. Their actions and the consequences of their
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by TrololoTroll 3y ago
People on this forum often "joke" about dropping the production database as a rite of passage for noobs
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by TrololoTroll 3y ago
I could not agree more Seems like it'll always be the case that people will chuck the responsibility for X towards people with the lowest capacity to actually be responsible for X People feel fine with correcting managers when managers
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by TrololoTroll 3y ago
>Are you saying you think that someone > should be left uneducated or lack medicine if they don't like running an unsecured browser? ... As opposed to not liking to run an installer for an unsecured program? App stores have the s
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by TrololoTroll 3y ago
Until you inevitably have a question and they need to get in touch with the expert again Middle men only improve transfer of knowledge between people under very specific circumstance. Usually they just make things worse Let children play Ch