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by lenerdenator 5d ago
I'm not chastising them for anything. I'm explaining my view on the rationale of their leadership. That being said, if you're talking about the 1953 coup, ask the British about that. Also, it doesn't take away from the f
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by lenerdenator 5d ago
"The largest issue with Iran having nuclear weapons is that it almost certainly intends to use them against an already nuclear-armed power, Israel, in a way that really doesn't have any rational endgame."
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by lenerdenator 5d ago
Believe it or not, they're not exactly a 1-to-1. Up until fairly recently, Israel was a stand-out in the region for actually having things like decently fair elections and a political class derived from a relatively wide sample of its
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by lenerdenator 5d ago
The way this was dealt with historically, for better or for worse, was to put the cheap housing under the flight path. The proles were left to deal with the noise. The Harlem neighborhood of Kansas City North is a good example of this. It s
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by lenerdenator 5d ago
You're right. Violent authoritarian thugs are bad. There should be systems in place to sweep them away. Ideally, through peaceful means. I'd be interested to see what has been implemented with regard to this under the stewardship
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by lenerdenator 5d ago
It's not propaganda. It's just the result of the policies that the CCP has implemented in the past, and given their death grip on politics in China, it could very well happen again should it be found advantageous to the survival o
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by lenerdenator 5d ago
> Hong Kong belongs to China if you forgot If that's not a healthy attitude to take towards a territorial possession, I don't know what is.
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by lenerdenator 6d ago
I know that it's not a luxury that all metro areas can implement, but if you look at airports like Denver or Kansas City, there is a very, very good reason that those airports are out in the middle of nowhere. Lots of accidents happen
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by lenerdenator 6d ago
> Stanford Mmmmm. Yep. There's yer trouble.
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by lenerdenator 6d ago
Oh, no question. But realize, that is their mindset.
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by lenerdenator 6d ago
It is the job of management to figure out how to make gains over the next 90 days, not make gains sustainable. The money available for consumers to spend in wake of their unemployment is the problem for whenever that issue occurs. If there
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by lenerdenator 7d ago
The risks of AI, while mostly hypothetical, have been understood for years. If they were really this concerned about the risks of AI re: the survival of the human race, they wouldn't have joined a company working in such a space to beg
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by lenerdenator 7d ago
Given that their cameras are being shot, spray-painted, stolen, cut down, and bagged, I'd say that what they want is irrelevant. Perhaps they could try a different market. The UK seems more amicable to such things.
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
Because people are apathetic by nature until things become a real problem. It's not just Meta, either. How often do we have people on here talking about how amazing Chinese models are when the list of security breaches involving the Ch
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
> When all it really needs is civic responsibility and an understanding that the government derives its power from the people, and thus the people always get the government they deserve. You've had people being apologists for all ma
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
> Sure, you trust your government today. Most Americans really, really don't. Gallup puts Americans' trust in major institutions, including several parts of the government, at around 30% [0] In OECD countries, trust in govern
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
Sycophantic behavior.
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
Well, at least with Flock, "Your elected leaders voted to enter the municipality into the contract." For the other part, well, them being tried would require them to be in a jurisdiction where the local prosecutor actually has the
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
If he knew how to wear a suit and answer questions from politicians, there are several regulatory penalties over the last decade that Meta doesn't have to pay. The job of a CEO is to have a vision that is compelling for the market and
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by lenerdenator 8d ago
This is what happens when you let business school grads do whatever they want to make money; particularly, gutting the company over the long run without having to make considerations for the people who did the actual value creation. If you
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by lenerdenator 12d ago
Technically, they do already kill people for profit. When some coked-out analyst in Manhattan projects what a company will be able to earn in profit in the next fiscal quarter, people listen to him and thus, the company must perform to that
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by lenerdenator 12d ago
Exactly . Even that guy could read the situation.
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by lenerdenator 12d ago
Eh. People have come back from worse. You can walk over the border between France and Germany.
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by lenerdenator 12d ago
The schadenfreude is that, at least for OpenAI, they were originally set up to make open models . They were set up as a public benefit company and their returns were capped at 100x. They (well, Sam) went out of their way to put themselves
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by lenerdenator 12d ago
Not really. They'll get over it. Just gotta make the hole the perpetrators are in deep enough.
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by lenerdenator 12d ago
To them, the consent is using the device/service/whatever. You see it in various bits of EULA and ToS all the time. "Continued use of <insert thing here> implies agreement with the license terms". Now, is that at a
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by lenerdenator 12d ago
It needs to be far more focused than the last one. We can come back from this, but some people need to spend a significant amount of their lives in prison.
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by lenerdenator 12d ago
>It's not really a dream though? Right now I think it's still a dream for a few reasons, not the least of which is that all of this goes to shite if you have mass unemployment in a country with more firearms than people legally
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by lenerdenator 13d ago
That's more-or-less what you are now, especially if you work at a company like Meta where 1) the guy at the top holds majority control of the company's shares and 2) keeps making massive, expensive mistakes either by accident or d
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by lenerdenator 13d ago
The problem I see here is that ultimately, you'll have capital wanting to replace workers like others have said, and have someone roughly equivalent to a manager or vice president driving teams of agents to achieve business outcomes. T

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