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by ddq 1mo ago
Climate change was already a crisis before the current wave of data center construction, but don't let that stop you from leaving insulting comments.
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by ddq 1mo ago
>The US doesn't even kill foreign leaders. Is the US military somehow not "the US"? Do you not have any shame just blatantly lying like this?
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by ddq 1mo ago
Because it is a machine and a person is not. Those who don't understand or deny that difference are part of the problem. But for those who would insist on equivalence, it would be only fair to take them at their word and treat them as
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by ddq 7mo ago
In addition, it broadcasts that the sender is too busy with all their important work to spend time refining and proofreading, that you're getting their raw, unfiltered thoughts directly from them, not through an assistant, and that the
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by ddq 8mo ago
"The only people being arrested in the Uk are for supporting a proscribed group." Why are you claiming that members of Palestine Action are the only people being arrested in the UK for speech? That is not true. Low-effort, bad-fai
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by ddq 8mo ago
Then why did you say 80-year old women were "the type to sledgehammer police officers though apparently" and then immediate shift the goalposts? Further, the statement "The only people being arrested in the Uk are for support
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by ddq 1y ago
We stop collaborating. Technologists, engineers, and support staff make this machine run. It must be made personally infeasible to continue contributing to our own shortsighted destruction. The incentive structure can and must be changed.
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by ddq 1y ago
Yes, only 3x rather than 2x. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treble_damages
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by ddq 1y ago
Also just bad faith comments muddying the waters. The evidence has been abundantly available to any inquisitive minds to find out for themselves Musk's worldview, goals and especially his methods, the simpler explanation is they are me
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by ddq 1y ago
Can you provide evidence-based numbers of how many people's lives have been saved or improved vs how many have been ruined or ended in part due to the guidelines DSM? Or what the outcomes would have been had psychiatry not continued to
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by ddq 1y ago
Then make app switching better, replace the overlong animation with a snappy transition and make returning to the original app seamless. They're loading these phones up with RAM, they should be able to support true multitasking. The UX
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by ddq 1y ago
After decades of consumerism, most consumers already have most of what they need/want, so in order to keep selling widgets, corporations must manufacture demand. Enough big screen TVs have already been built and sold to give every Amer
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by ddq 1y ago
At this point, I simply want to pick whichever protocol has the highest concentration of my kind of folks. The Discord audience is not it.
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by ddq 1y ago
"Deeply, deeply deranged" is fairly inflammatory language to express your own reductive ignorance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Anti-BDS_laws_in...
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by ddq 1y ago
On the contrary, that detail makes it even more enraging. A real life Jean Valjean.
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by ddq 1y ago
This to me is the most urgent moral issue of the day: our active stunting of our children's development. Our collective misguided and counterproductive approach to pedagogy does not cultivate a learning mindset but rather stifles child
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by ddq 1y ago
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by ddq 1y ago
In the '70s they called it "heightening the contradiction".
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by ddq 1y ago
Market Daoism?
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by ddq 1y ago
The market of markets must be free, or the idea of a free market is a myth. Which it is. Capitalism cannot simply be removed, it must be outcompeted by a superior usurper.
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by ddq 1y ago
Then punitive measures are in order. Add it to the pile of illegal, immoral, and unethical behavior of the feudal tech oligarchs already long overdue for justice. The harm they have done and are doing to humanity should not remain unpunishe
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by ddq 1y ago
Sounds like IEEE is in need of fresh leadership and soon. Complacency at this point is folly.
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by ddq 1y ago
Yep, you're right on the money. The correct course of action is for those of use who recognize this to cease arguing on the Internet with those who don't and connect with one another offline. We're in dire need of something a
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by ddq 1y ago
Yes, a lot of us feel the same way. It's clear to me the next step is for us to start coming together, grouping up and sharing our ideas. I read on the internet every single day people expressing these feelings and for some reason we r
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by ddq 1y ago
Here's hoping this is the 21st Century Copernican Revolution. Have you played the game Outer Wilds?
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by ddq 1y ago
Meanwhile the theoretical potential existential risks of advanced AI massively eclipse the capacity of crypto for catastrophic harm. The _good_ ending is if we merely waste a bunch of energy on slop machines to put millions of people out of
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by ddq 1y ago
Metal Gear Solid 2 makes this point about how "over the past 200 years, a kind of consciousness formed layer by layer in the crucible of the White House" through memetic evolution. The whole conversation was markedly prescient for
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by ddq 1y ago
Humanity clearly must not go down this path, yet it does nothing to alter its trajectory. Those who study history are doomed to watch it repeat. It's hard not to develop distain for the collective stupidity, but more enraging is the im
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by ddq 1y ago
I'm more concerned about the possible negative unintended consequences of making it available to everyone first. Genetic modification is well-explored Pandora's Box in science fiction and present humanity seems so ill-equipped in
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by ddq 1y ago
And how do you plan to deal with the latency of connecting the neurons of your brain to a remote virtual uplink? The speed of light limits the size of a virtual brain that is able to function in the same manner as a biological one. The trut

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