ethbr1

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by ethbr1 3d ago
> Everyone who got out of that decade alive and with at most minimal brain damage thinks that we're too obsessed with safety today. There must be a word for this, but the issue today is the normalization of zero-risk. Did some kid
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by ethbr1 3d ago
I think the idea that people are willing to consume an even more slopful Netflix is dubious. There's has already been a decade of complaints about trash content in excess of available viewing hours. The thing with media consumption is
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by ethbr1 3d ago
The more apt analogy is between pre-electric and post-electric lighting (~1850 to 1920), when efficiency of light generation rapidly increased, restabilizing at ~222x as much light for the same unit of human labor. [0] Across that period, f
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by ethbr1 6d ago
HeisenShop sounds like a great app idea for shopaholics -- automatically don't buy / cancel random or exceeding-monthly-budget items without telling the user.
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by ethbr1 6d ago
> Ugh I hate this new-age woo slant the tech industry has these days. As opposed to the Macintosh era? ;) The only reason the early web hype didn't have woo was because it's hard to wax poetic about a bunch of gray pizza boxe
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by ethbr1 6d ago
> randomness felt more like a skin - not affecting gameplay much. DF is a great comparison, because it speaks to the composability of properties and systems as a key requirement. 2,000+ variants that still funnel through one predesig
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by ethbr1 6d ago
Weird. It's almost like synthetic content is less fulfilling to humans than friendship.
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by ethbr1 7d ago
Did you read the study? > i assume it works by improving recovery, if not someone will need to explain what it's supposed to do to make you stronger >> RESULTS Among the men in the no-exercise groups, those given testostero
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by ethbr1 7d ago
> You could just declare yourself owner of Tesla, and nobody would stop you except the former owner of Tesla, if he can afford to stop you. Which they always could, given the vastly different economic starting positions.
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by ethbr1 7d ago
> They'd also have to be self-assembling from the ground up or rely on human slaves. They'd need to understand the world much better. And they'd have to be incredibly more power efficient. All robotics needs to drive dep
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by ethbr1 7d ago
> To me, the far more insidious problem is what happens when Flock needs to keep showing growth? To me, this was always the armored gauntlet underneath the velvet glove of any private entity with strong technical locks, Apple included.
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by ethbr1 7d ago
> 1. Robotics begin rolling out more broadly across the world. To borrow the Strangelove quip, this is not only necessary but essential . Broader physical robotic deployments are the glue that connects {cheap synthetic intelligence} t
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by ethbr1 7d ago
> There's a self-serving aspect of Libertarianism where we dismantle the government so we can build our own government out of corporations with zero accountability to any of the people they govern. A kind of modern feudalism. And a
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by ethbr1 7d ago
To expand, I believe the idea here is that what libertarianism is in principal matters less than what it collapses to in practice, similar to the difference in communism. And there's a central tension that libertarianism, as far as I&#
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by ethbr1 7d ago
This has frequently been true in American history though. Think folks were thrilled with the robber barons of the railroad area also owning newspapers? Imho, the core thing that worsened was the election system. Specifically, closed primari
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by ethbr1 7d ago
The Trump (read: Russell Vought et al.) playbook is transparently self-serving: 1. Complain loudly about weaponization of institutions 2. Use public support to "reform" those institutions 3. Weaponize those institutions
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by ethbr1 10d ago
It's hard to reconcile a conspiracy theory that protestors were allowed to storm the Capitol with the fact that Ashli Babbitt was shot on video for refusing calls to stop breaching a barricade. Police and security trying to manage a
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by ethbr1 10d ago
I struggle to reconcile frontier LLMs' proven decompilation abilities with any assertion that humans possess equivalent parsing skills. They're looking at information as information; we're looking at it in some higher order a
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by ethbr1 10d ago
> If anybody is hiding a button that'd take us all back to 2012 I wish they'd just hit it already. Historically, resets have been a global war or economic meltdown, coupled with massive government-driven redistribution suppor
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by ethbr1 11d ago
You're arguing against something that's been known for decades: testosterone boosts lean muscle mass gain. It may have other negative effects, but it does influence muscle mass. Read the literature, e.g. Bhasin 1996 (and other fol
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by ethbr1 11d ago
There are ways of more cleverly nudging testosterone (and estrogen) production without directly supplementing. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5009465/
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by ethbr1 11d ago
Well that's just like your opinion, man.
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by ethbr1 11d ago
Do you really want to gamble against steganography and one-time pads with a system that understands bitwise noise at a native level?
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by ethbr1 13d ago
Never has "old man yells at cloud" been so literally appropriate. https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/old-man-yells-at-cl... (Don't get me wrong, I agree with the guy on many, many points. But
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by ethbr1 13d ago
Agreed. Anyone advocating for heavy AI use in primary and secondary school education obviously doesn't remember their own motivations at that age. I never cheated, but it's far too high a bar to expect adolescents to be able to re
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by ethbr1 13d ago
It is a key point... if splits are encouraged and made easier (and I agree it'd be healthier for the market if the largest companies did), then liability needs to be handled carefully. One doesn't want to create a 'snake shed
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by ethbr1 13d ago
I'm not sure about the last two, but Amazon nails the first two in spades. Bezos made it abundantly clear the company was about efficiency and scale... and fuck anything else (employees included).
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by ethbr1 13d ago
What are your five largest threats to functioning democracy in the US right now? Because I question any list that doesn't include a substantial chunk of voters being ignorant on concerns of critical importance to the country. And if th
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by ethbr1 14d ago
Once circular funding scales, VCs become the Fed.
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by ethbr1 15d ago
There's always going to be 'the actual Internet' accessible by kids, as in non-corporate, non-walled gardens social forums. Chans, IRC, etc. What this effectively does is disadvantage large corporate social media companies to

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