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by api 22d ago
Yes he does, and he’s also a social media addict. With X the alcoholic bought the bar.
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by api 22d ago
I think the root of the problem is “vetocracy.” We’ve created a system where small minorities can hold everything up, sometimes for ideological reasons and sometimes for financial reasons. The classic case of the latter is homeowners opposi
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by api 22d ago
That’s just a microcosm of everything. The culture war ate the entire public discourse to the exclusion of practical concerns and even coherent ideas. It’s all vibes and tribalism and bashing the other tribes, while the tribes themselves be
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by api 22d ago
Internet access sort of has a reason: the US is geographically huge and more sprawled out. But that's not enough to explain all of the difference.
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by api 23d ago
We are still building renewable energy even with a stupid government because it's now cheaper than fossil fuels in many markets.
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by api 23d ago
I call degrowth "abstinence based" environmental policy in allegory to abstinence based sex education. The latter is the "we don't need condoms or birth control, just teach people not to have sex" thing, which doesn
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by api 23d ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita Still a ways to go but trending down for some time now. India and China are trending up and might cross us by 2030-2035 unless they reverse direction.
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by api 23d ago
> Even the worst of people do something good every now and then. But if you reward that, they won't change. Scratching my head on that one. I mean... is something not better than nothing? Or do you only get rewarded if it's 100
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by api 23d ago
Finding out NFTs were just links, didn't even embed the asset, was such a moment for me... like either the people pushing this are complete fools or 100% conscious grifters who know it's total bullshit. I suspect it was a mix. Ins
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by api 23d ago
Along with 4chan back in the day (less today) I'd add pre-porn-ban Tumblr (non-mainstream due to having porn). That was the other huge one and was a point of origin for a lot of today's gender-fluid stuff and the overlap it has wi
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by api 24d ago
True right now, but what happens if it mutates? A few thousand is nowhere close to pandemic but it's enough to give the virus many opportunities to evolve against its new environment. On the plus side, most viruses become less deadly a
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by api 24d ago
This needs to be taught in school. I’m shocked at how many people don’t get it. I’ve believed this forever which is why I follow the “strange” including weird cultural spaces, fringe para-stuff, whatever. What it really is is the interface.
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by api 24d ago
Pretty solidly false. Some have a thesis. Some have rules about what they will not invest in. The theses and rules vary, of course, because there are many investors. This one seems to have a thesis of “make 80s and 90s noir cyberpunk real.”
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by api 25d ago
What is the hook for them?
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by api 25d ago
Another criticism of this book is that it seems to give Wolfram credit for a bunch of discoveries made by a huge array of people in math, CS, and areas like complexity, game theory, artificial life and AI, etc.
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by api 25d ago
So much work is being done on running these things more efficiently, and it’s why I think the data center build out is a huge bubble.
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by api 25d ago
The truth is that the web is a shit GUI framework. It's slow, clunky, incredibly resource intensive, hard to make uniform, verbose to code. It's terrible. The way the whole industry adopted it is understandable given the install b
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by api 25d ago
Accessibility is a giant problem with almost every open source GUI library too. It seems like an absolute slam dunk for AI. Create an integrated AI screen reader app that observes the screen and talks to you. It wouldn't even need to b
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by api 25d ago
I kept saying "policing" here because unfortunately this is the absolute worst kind of evil for a society to have to deal with: the kind that is not absolutely black and white. Murder is a tidy kind of evil. If you murder someone
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by api 25d ago
In my opinion at least, any attempt to intentionally engineer addiction is morally wrong and should be at the very least civilly if not criminally actionable (if it can be proven). It's mind control. That phrase is often associated w
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by api 26d ago
That just means one giant corporate entity runs the country.
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by api 26d ago
Most don’t vote. That’s a form of voting. A lot who don’t vote have this mistaken idea that “well nobody perfectly fits my values.” They never will. It’s always a vote for what you think is a somewhat better outcome, especially if you only
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by api 26d ago
People get what they voted for.
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by api 26d ago
Another thing they got right was the merger of governments, large corporations, finance, intelligence agencies, and globalized organized crime into one big sprawling mass of Machiavellian nihilists scheming for power. None of these people r
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by api 26d ago
Only true in the 20th century. Since George W. Bush it's been Republicans by far. These are objective numbers. I'm not sure how people can argue with them. Clinton's balanced budget and surplus is a bit of an outlier, and my
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by api 26d ago
Is that really true or are a lot of these books out of copyright? And if they're not out of copyright why can they train on them without permission? They probably argue that training is fair use, but if I take a film and compress it wi
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by api 27d ago
If they were sharing the scans it would be great but they’re not.
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by api 27d ago
It's a lot worse. It's like comparing a bow and arrow to an M-16. Yes they both shoot projectiles, but... The quantity is endless. You can run out of channels, sweep through them a few times, give up, and get bored, while doom scr
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by api 28d ago
I’m not afraid of AI, even AI with extreme abilities. I am afraid of humans with AI. That’s because I’m afraid of humans. When I look around the world I see humans murdering and robbing each other. When I get online on almost any social med
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by api 28d ago
… or the safety argument is an attempt at regulatory capture and an effort to outlaw open models. The absolute nightmare scenario for these people isn’t terminators. They’re fine with that, and in some cases are already doing it or supporti

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