cscurmudgeon

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by cscurmudgeon 1y ago
If you are talking about Khalil, he didn't just speak against Israel, it seems like his role in an org which openly supported Hamas may have played a part but didn't matter legally. The legal issue was that he left out facts on h
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
The analogies are all over the place lol. Is social media pure evil like tobacco OR is it a necessity like a utility? How can it be both? EU pretends it is both while getting backdoor access. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp&#x
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Hard core meditators in Hindu traditions were ascetic beggars and still are. We just don’t see them writing books or posting on YouTube.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
To any neutral non European observer, this is what they may see 1. Europe propped up Russia despite Obama and Trump’s warnings before the war 2. Europe still buys more from Russia than they give Ukraine in financial aid 3. Europe is more fr
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EU spends more on Russian oil and gas than financial aid to Ukraine(theguardian.com)
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
My assumption: There will be use cases where cost of using this will be smaller than the gain from it. Data from this will make the next version better and cheaper.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
The green card queues for employment based green cards for China born applicants tell another story https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/green-car...
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Even per capita more Chinese are leaving the country for US than the other way round.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
AOC is against taxes and other countries paying their fair share? She realized prices are going up just now?
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
An easier solution would be money not being power.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
The same Gary Stevenson whose memoir claims Financial Times debunked? https://archive.is/DguLm
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Shouldn’t America’s resources (money, military support, Starlink, etc.) then belong to America?
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
So the US is within its rights to ban TikTok?
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Mor businesses participating in health care should drive costs down.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
> A Chinese company used a Chinese cloud. Using a Chinese company for every thing except for distillation for which they used OpenAI lol.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
A US Tiananmen-comparable example would be ChatGPT censoring George Floyd's death or killing of Native Americans, etc. ChatGPT doesn't censor these topics
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Is there any evidence that this incidence was due to poor regulation?
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Do you mean this or the response to it? How does one respond to fluff like this? > AI’s workplace impact must align governance, social dialogue, innovation, trust, fairness, and public interest. We commit to advancing the AI Paris Summit
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Now imagine that but with everyone in that line except the leaders.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Show me a large scale society that hasn’t have both. This over commercialization may be needed as a buffer against hyper scarcity
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
I would rather live with ads than with literal bread lines my family stood in decades ago, in a socialist state (that funnily had more govt propaganda than ads).
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
http://radleyice.com/chairman-mao-and-the-sparrows/
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Don’t blame this on the market. A true market won’t have a heavy handed regulator in bed with a govt approved monopoly.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
But somehow you can use us as the world’s ATM! https://www.statista.com/statistics/275597/largers-donor-cou... Imagine a fraction of that going back to citizens!
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
The funny thing is Russia an China can claim to be less racist as they are homogenous societies.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
A US Tiananmen-comparable example would be ChatGPT censoring George Floyd's death or killing of Native Americans, etc. ChatGPT doesn't censor these topics
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Somethings never change. Reminds me of this joke from Regan: Two men, an American and a Russian were arguing. One said, “in my country I can go to the white house walk to the president's office and pound the desk and say "Mr presi
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Aren't Japan and Taiwan are ethnically homogenous? > China looks at America and shows its citizens what an alternative fate could be, and it works. Not really though. Still, around ~10k PhDs from China get green cards. I am not sure
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
There is organic celebration which is good. But we should be wary of and point out astroturfing. Are we going to pretend astroturfing is not a thing?

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