jaco6

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by jaco6 24d ago
Any intelligent powerful person should be going entirely offline now--if I had net worth over $10mm, I wouldn't own a computer--I would have a secretary control my computer for me. We're going to see really horrible, persistent bl
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by jaco6 2mo ago
The best method is, as always, an anti-privacy method. Simply track all citizens' writing patterns throughout their life, from cradle to grave, then diff with any given text's signature--you'll know if it was human written or
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by jaco6 9mo ago
Bookstores that carry porn are porn shops. Apps that carry porn are porn shops, and since the app store has apps that carry porn, the app store is a porn shop.
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by jaco6 11mo ago
Birth certificates and driver's licenses can be and are routinely faked by everyone from high school students to foreign agents. Faces cannot be faked.
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by jaco6 1y ago
Once you become a heavy user it no longer reliably triggers appetite, maybe because you get better at recognizing the hunger is fake and focus on other aspects of the high.
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by jaco6 1y ago
You’re wrong about that, look up videos of strongmen and bodybuilder meals/eating routines. The 2 hour workouts at the top of these fields are very calorie intensive.
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by jaco6 1y ago
Why are the people of Wisconsin taking this without a fight? Sit ins in local FBI branch offices and police stations are in order. Groups of protestors stand in front of police car parking lots—if the piggies can’t leave their sty, they can
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by jaco6 1y ago
(1) Why are you wasting money renting motels? If you need a shower, use a gym. Get a membership at a cheap one that has a shower (walk in and ask for a tour), or just idle around the sidewalk in gym clothes and walk in after someone. Sleep
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by jaco6 1y ago
No one wants AI or AI companies to get credit for AI generated art. That would be like giving the camera company a share of movie royalties. The AI is a tool to aid in artistic output. Even if someone does nothing more than write the prompt
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by jaco6 2y ago
I see lots of warranted skepticism about the capabilities of this tool, but the reality is that this is an incremental step toward full automation of white collar labor. No, it will not make all analysts jobless overnight. But it may reduce
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by jaco6 2y ago
I agree it’s becoming a common sentiment among the online pseudo-intelligentsia, but it’s still rare on a population level, so I will keep spreading the sentiment. I think it’s important, mainly on an economic level (I believe economic grow
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by jaco6 2y ago
Child rearing is a possible solution—it is our evolutionary “purpose” to reproduce, after all, and most people in the developed world today aren’t doing it.
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by jaco6 2y ago
I understand the point of your comment—why do Germans who see few migrants care about it more than Germans who see many migrants? The answer is that parts of the country that have enjoyed homogeneity the longest are the most upset about hav
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by jaco6 2y ago
Not really strictly an economic problem. If it weren’t for widespread dissatisfaction with open borders and pseudo-asylum, millions of AfD voters would be voting for center right or center left parties of the mainstream coalition. The coali
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by jaco6 2y ago
Two things: Even the “cool kids” are staying inside and using their phones all day. Cool used to mean you were at the party, now it just means you have a high snapchat score. Other thing is genuine fear of accidental fentanyl consumption. T
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by jaco6 2y ago
We shouldn’t confuse sympathy for the killer’s motives with sympathy for his action. Many people dislike the US healthcare system, from numerous angles—medical, capitalist, socialist, insurance theorist. It’s terrible all around. That said
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by jaco6 2y ago
The concerns about it being a foreign power seem misplaced. Shouldn’t the main concern with drones be domestic terrorism? A civilian could easily buy a small fleet of drones, equip them with small IEDs or sarin gas, and fly them into otherw
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by jaco6 2y ago
We need to wake up to the reality that solving the obesity crisis (if it is actually something we want to solve—enough healthy people may be happy with paying double for healthcare) may require measures perceived by modern liberals as autho
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by jaco6 2y ago
It would be easier to simply deport immigrants, most of whom are committing fraud by claiming asylum under false pretenses.
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by jaco6 2y ago
I’m troubled by the implications of your comment—you seem to be suggesting that no amount of funding increase can bring about racial equality in testing scores. Is that what you meant to suggest?
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by jaco6 2y ago
Whether we ultimately outlaw facial recognition or not is unimportant. Cameras and data are now so cheap that soon we will be able to track every public movement of every person in the country, making crime impossible. Once you leave your h
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by jaco6 2y ago
How it it racist to conclude that reducing immigration inflows and thus housing demand would reduce the cost of housing?
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by jaco6 2y ago
Sewage, heating, and power plants are included in GDP figures. Government spending is a GDP subheading. And such things certainly create value. I derive significant value every day from my warm, insulated, suburban bathroom. Furthermore, yo
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by jaco6 2y ago
You’re right. If I were European I’d be wondering why we don’t team up with Russia in our own alliance and leave NATO to the Anglos.
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by jaco6 2y ago
I don’t care if you, an idiosyncratic individual, don’t tip. 95% of my customers tip, so weirdos like you have no effect on my average income.
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by jaco6 2y ago
Probably similar to the relief that the belief you will wake up from general anesthesia provides prior to surgery.
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by jaco6 2y ago
Catholic theology actually justifies the belief in Hell by arguing that an eternity of suffering in Hell is a blessing, because it admits the one benefit of existence itself, while total annihilation has no redeeming factors whatsoever.
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by jaco6 2y ago
How is immortality selfish? Selfishness requires taking from other “selves” who have unmet needs of their own. But there’s every reason to believe a society of immortals could either function perfectly well without producing new selves, or
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by jaco6 2y ago
You’re being defeatist and ignoring the evidence presented in the article—even hospice patients want to live longer. You, too, will desire to live before (and hopefully: if!) you breathe your last. This is because the entire goal of the sen
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by jaco6 2y ago
Very well, you think that preserving the brain, or even preserving the nervous system, is futile. But what of total biostasis, preserving the entire organism, just like the archaebacteria that live for thousands of years in ice or other ext

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