antibasilisk

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by antibasilisk 3y ago
Unhinged developers and AI; Sounds like a story we'll be seeing more and more
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
I notice that there is a huge difference in the attitudes of people who learned programming in childhood, compared to people who learned in adulthood. As someone in the former group, I find myself agreeing strongly with your assessment. The
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
And that my friends is how we handed control of government to machines
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
It's also worth pointing out that if you practise enough and with a little spare time you can do an dh key exchange with pen and paper. I look forward to the day when I am arrested for mathing too hard with random people in my neighbou
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
People just vote for him because he sounds funny, because the only thing the parliament is useful for is its entertainment value.
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
If you'd have read the article you would see that it has been used numerous times over the last couple of decades.
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
thaaaat is how the world works (that is how the world works)
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
It helps to realize when your panicking is going to create a worse disaster because you haven't accepted the current situation.
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
>I can protect you <huh, from what? >myself (:
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
Why people insist on minimizing the fact that modern hyper-industrialized society (which people rely on to survive) is founded on cheap energy? Trying to execute degrowth at a pace and intensity that would be necessary for climate change to
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
when i moved my hand and let go of the ball the ball kept going so balls spontaneously fly actually
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
>The kill count from not fixing the problem will be so much higher. There is no scenario where the situation is fixed, there are only situations where it MAY be 'less disastrous', but it's entirely speculative.
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
We don't have until 2050, we have -15 years or so.
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
Faster than expected, Venus by Thursday. >Humanity needs to act now. And do what exactly? The kill count from shutting down all emission-producing parts of society would be enormous, and it still wouldn't be enough to keep global wa
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
technology is always good, and if it's not good it's the users fault, and if it's not the users fault then it's society's fault and if it's not society's fault then you're just backwards and you want
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
Except that religious rules aren't 'random rules', they're believed to be of divine origin, there's no meaningful distinction between 'divine rules' and 'divine ethics', but there is a distinctio
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
>The big reason for this is thermodynamics. Yes it usually is
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
>you can learn a manual labor trade quickly As with software you can get competent quickly, but quality comes with time and effort.
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
>while your friends are in college partying with fun girls and making contacts for easy jobs Most of those people are making extremely bad life decisions and you will be significantly more wealthy before they've even left college. T
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
Go into trades, they will take longer to be automated since they require a wider range of skills, labor is still far cheaper than automation, they're more sensitive and have space constraints that are all hard to solve with robotics. I
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
you're only 30 years too late, that must be some kind of record
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
For any given law there may be a preceding reason, but that reasoning is ultimately derived from some kind of base morality, hence my use of the term 'expressions'. >One answer is that these dietary and clothing restrictions ex
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
Religious edicts are inherently an expressions of morality
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
>why is baffling, but thats religion. For any given moral position you can keep asking why forever and never come to a satisfying conclusion unless you actually define what a moral is. Is it just an aesthetic judgement on behavior? Is it
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
In addition to this I always use the legacy icons, it's much more obvious what they mean. I find the symbolic ones impossible to use, and the modern color ones are only a slight improvement over that.
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
Internal recurrent expenditure
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
>Refreshing take on the peak alarmism we see from tech "thought leaders" It's not alarmism when people have openly stated their intent to do those things.
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
Goldman, BlackRock, JPM etc, the usual suspects really
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
>I am laughing up my sleeve here and wondering if they will have any takers. Considering the number of huge finance firms who use Twitter for sentiment analysis, they will absolutely have takers, since it's still cheaper than paying
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by antibasilisk 3y ago
What happens when people stop caring about being arrested? Prison is just a room after all.

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