UncleMeat

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by UncleMeat 3d ago
Musk is actively promoting white supremacy with his voice and fortune. That's not run-of-the-mill.
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by UncleMeat 4d ago
How specifically would a balanced duopoly be safer?
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by UncleMeat 4d ago
If the position is that one of these models will go out of control and destroy humanity then why would having two such models be safer than one?
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by UncleMeat 4d ago
Public review originates from the democratic process. It is part of the legislation that created these agencies.
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by UncleMeat 4d ago
Why would there be precedent. Trump is running a spoils system. You don't obtain favor through reasoned argument. You obtain favor by making him like you personally.
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by UncleMeat 5d ago
I never quite realized this until just reading this and now it has come into sharp focus. Incredible. I've spent years trying to convince my director to have our org invest in documentation and monitoring to no avail. Now he is telling
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by UncleMeat 6d ago
What I am saying is that it is meaningless to use the plague as evidence for such a death toll of a virus in the future since conditions which are no longer present were a prerequisite for its death toll.
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by UncleMeat 6d ago
> Firstly, it's not even clear that naturally occurring viruses can't be extremely lethal. There are examples (eg black death). The plague is not actually that easily transmitted. Basic social hygiene prevents it. It is still a
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by UncleMeat 6d ago
Are they straw men if they are specific scenarios presented by widely read commentators? A straw man is when you misrepresent somebody's position to knock it down. But if Noah Smith wrote about a scenario where 90% of the population is
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by UncleMeat 7d ago
I am a father. I am an extremely involved parent and spend a ton of time with my son. I also would go absolutely insane if we didn't have any childcare for him. It is better for my ability to function as a good parent that I can hand h
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by UncleMeat 7d ago
"Reasonable expectation of privacy" covers whatever the public believes is reasonable. The original case creating this doctrine was about phone booths.
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by UncleMeat 7d ago
> The government does not need a warrant to record you in public spaces. This is not true. The question is whether you have a "reasonable expectation of privacy." If you do, then the government needs a warrant. This is why the
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by UncleMeat 7d ago
I am 100% confident that Stockfish will defeat me. If somebody said "I am 100% confident that AI will destroy humanity" I'd disagree but I'd at least understand how they arrived at that number. But here, why 10%? Why not
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by UncleMeat 7d ago
"Think poorly" is such an odd response here. Like, if people were genuinely doing a thing that had such a large probability of killing all humans... they should all be in prison. Heck, vigilanteism would start to look compelling.
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by UncleMeat 7d ago
How on earth do we get a concrete "more than 10%" prediction if the actions of such a system are truly unknowable?
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by UncleMeat 8d ago
I don't know about german politics, but here in the US this isn't what I observe. My aunt is a republican lobbyist. She is also a drunk. She gets drunk and texts us her unfiltered thoughts. She genuinely believes that the bulk of
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by UncleMeat 10d ago
My very favorite piece of art is beautiful. It is also something that AI fundamentally cannot create. It is three videos. This is one of them: https://www.lenkaclayton.com/work#/the-distance-i-can-be-fro... In these th
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by UncleMeat 10d ago
What is the remedy? There isn’t a private cause of action through the state courts and suing the government itself will end up with sovereign immunity. If they can’t raise a 1993 claim, how specifically do you expect them to sue?
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by UncleMeat 10d ago
Substantive due process in the 14th. The 9th makes it clear that not all rights need to be explicitly in the text.
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by UncleMeat 10d ago
The position is not that the government needs to ensure that all bodies of water are potable or that the government needs to provide clean water to every resident. The claim is that you have a 1983 case against state officials that tell you
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by UncleMeat 10d ago
If a state official interferes with this you could have a 1983 claim.
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by UncleMeat 10d ago
That’s not what the outcome of this case would be if it went in the other direction. In this case the state told the people that the water it was already providing was safe, when in fact it was contaminated with lead. This case was about a
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by UncleMeat 12d ago
Google is contracting with the US government in ways that advance the destruction of Palestine.
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by UncleMeat 12d ago
Do you believe that the grandchildren of immigrants are not Londoners?
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by UncleMeat 12d ago
There is much more than just this one post. I also don't think that your portrayal of the text is accurate.
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by UncleMeat 13d ago
Then I have no idea what you are talking about.
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by UncleMeat 13d ago
A doctor refusing to heal a bigot is not even remotely the same thing as refusing to work for a megacorp because of their direct involvement in military action that kills children.
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by UncleMeat 14d ago
I'm slowly making my way out of tech and going into food preparation for the poor. I previously thought working at one of these companies to extract as much money from them as possible so that I could provide as many meals to the poor
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by UncleMeat 17d ago
In 2017 Sergey was seen protesting Trump’s signature Muslim Ban policy. A highly visible act of resistance against one of the things that Trump cared about the most. Does anybody believe that this would happen today?
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by UncleMeat 18d ago
Scale matters. The “well technically an army of tens of millions of cops could achieve the same thing” argument is thoroughly unconvincing.

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