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by bshepard 3mo ago
Public goods are not the same as socialism.
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by bshepard 3mo ago
The continued existence of socialism after its complete moral and intellectual demolition in the 20th century is profoundly depressing. Let us not walk on the road to serfdom, please! Remember Hayek! Remember the Khmer Rouge! "Socialis
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by bshepard 3mo ago
I am happy to see how much collective negativity there is to this kind of pointless, time wasting, inaccurate, cringey computer generated boilerplate. Maref, whoever you are, please consider actually writing your own words, not outsourcing
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by bshepard 3mo ago
It would be nice if there was a systematic way to stop AI written content from appearing on HN: the writing is excruciating to read, and there is (obviously) no reasoning involved. It is a form of cognitive pollution, and should at least be
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by bshepard 3mo ago
Very conventional, and perhaps good, advice would be to publish useful material adjacent to your problem, educational content that can lead to your solution/app. You might also try working with an LLM to generate less conventional mar
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by bshepard 3mo ago
LLMs surely can help with language learning, but when they write posts like this, the zombie/body snatchers/borg effect is so strong as to be unreadable. Just write it yourself! You can do it! It will be better, please please stop
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by bshepard 3mo ago
Perhaps the real mass psychotic delusion is the delusion of mass psychotic delusions in.others.
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by bshepard 3mo ago
The problem is that "the problem" is not clearly stated. There is surely climate change, but what it means and what we should do and feel about it is very unclear and contested. What is clearer is that certain intellectuals have u
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by bshepard 3mo ago
German culture is more about extreme anal attention to details and correcting others than Young Werther! In other words Prussia won, not Weimar.
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by bshepard 3mo ago
Anxiety over commodification is very, very old, and tends to miss the upsides of commercial society. Intellectuals, by our nature, focus on problems -- often to the point of creating problems where (perhaps) there were none before. Happily
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by bshepard 4mo ago
Who is "they"? Rabelais? Mozart? Alas many of us humans DO find poop to be funny, forgive us fallen shit stained beings.
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by bshepard 4mo ago
What are the human rights costs of a human rights regime constituted by unelected bureaucrats seeking power over society via moral posturing?
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by bshepard 4mo ago
It is less exciting than religious fundamentalism!
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by bshepard 4mo ago
This is untrue, the book is filled with incidents of motorcycle maintenance. Perhaps you have not read it? The second chapter centers around a complex issue involving a piston seizure: "“I remove a glove with my teeth, reach down and
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by bshepard 4mo ago
This is an inaccurate paragraph which should have been edited better: "When Europeans began to draw on ancient precedents in the Renaissance, they did so loosely and freely, and each country did so in its own way, such that French, Ger
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by bshepard 4mo ago
The AI writing patterns here are obnoxious on both a sentence by sentence level and at the level of overall meaning and content. Because a machine wrote this, lacks human intelligence, so is not worth reading.
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by bshepard 7mo ago
It would be worth thinking harder before moralizing.
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by bshepard 8mo ago
I wish this was written by hand and not created by an algorithm that recycled cliches and presented single data points as decisive. But...it's 2026?
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by bshepard 8mo ago
Because the international order is fundamentally anarchic, while domestic orders are (supposed to be at least) nomic, structured by law and rights. Yes, there are attempts at creating international law, but these amount to treaties more t
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by bshepard 1y ago
"It’s November 28, 1660. Europe is in the early stages of transforming from the Middle Ages into something new" This is a grotesque misrepresentation of European history! By 1660, universities had existed for more than a half mill
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by bshepard 1y ago
"You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and
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by bshepard 1y ago
I would advise those to read the book and grasp the argument before 'rebutting' it.
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by bshepard 1y ago
On a more conceptual angle, Landrebe and Smith's "Why Machine's Will Never Rule the World" clarifies the limits of computation w/r/t complex dynamic systems. Here is the core argument: "an artificial intel
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The Cutesy Inquisition: From Pet Rentals to Playing God(cruzzbunch.com)
2 points by bshepard 2y ago|0 comments
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by bshepard 2y ago
Human civilization is built on the creation of shortcuts. Insulin is a shortcut for T1 diabetics to avoid death.
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HyperEnlightenment, or Injections in the Rain at the Haus Der Kunst(hyperrealreal.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 2y ago|0 comments
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by bshepard 2y ago
This is meant primarily for Thai people, but there is also a history of foreigners making it very large in Thailand.
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Nine Ways Infinite Thailand Can Make You a Billionaire(infinitethailandstrategies.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 2y ago|3 comments
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The Social Stack: Bolos as a New Layer of Human Organization(theboloist.substack.com)
1 points by bshepard 2y ago|0 comments
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by bshepard 3y ago
location: EU remote: yes willing to relocate: within EU technologies: institutional dramaturgy: meaning, I'm a generalist who can inform you about other, usefully related contexts. email: b.shepard@udk-berlin.de

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