nmeagent

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by nmeagent 4d ago
> Amish don't like contracts. So they may be the last of us not to have to deal with the obnoxious plague of forced binding arbitration agreements...
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by nmeagent 4d ago
Oh no, Mr. Internet Rando, don't scold me! You seem to be a little sensitive about the subject. Which AI firm do you work for?
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by nmeagent 4d ago
> Yes, let's lie and call something stealing, then pontificate about morality. We could also acknowledge that everything that could justifiably be considered stealing is not necessarily covered by current statute.
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by nmeagent 4d ago
I'll remind you that a fictional product that provided longevity and woo woo powers of prescience and was only available on one planet in the entire universe was the key context that enabled such a centralized society. Dropping thinki
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by nmeagent 5d ago
Yep. Perhaps humanity would be better off if we instituted and enforced the notion of "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." It's worth thinking about; just because we can build AI systems doesn&#x
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by nmeagent 10d ago
Perform your own trivial extrapolation and cut out the sealioning nonsense.
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by nmeagent 10d ago
Then you weren't paying attention. Watch the videos of the mob inside the building. If they hadn't been led away from the senate chambers by capitol police [1], we'd be having a very different conversation right now. Did y
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by nmeagent 11d ago
Why hold back? Clearly we should install live-feed cameras in every home so we can solve most domestic crimes; surely a little police abuse shouldn't prevent such a profound reduction of crime. It's not like any of these people
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by nmeagent 13d ago
Oh how adorable, a collection of fascist AI-slopware. "Protect the border from the coming horde." is particularly nauseating. What's the Coming Soon game going to be? "Build a concentration camp for political dissiden
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by nmeagent 18d ago
Hey Google. Why would I ever choose to use a product administered by such abject cowards?
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by nmeagent 23d ago
What nearly every country in the world does or does not do has absolutely no bearing on this issue in the United States.
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Amazon reinstates binding arbitration, bars class-action lawsuits(reuters.com)
9 points by nmeagent 1mo ago|1 comments
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by nmeagent 1mo ago
Ah, but if we stopped the drug war those in power would have less flexibility to effect unjust or even blatantly racist outcomes [1], e.g. they wouldn't be able to disproportionately charge disfavored minorities for possession or other
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by nmeagent 1mo ago
> Our FBI is infested with Christian religious cultists. The idiots who show up on your doorstep to try and preach their religious values. Those people. They become FBI agents. So what? I'm not a Mormon myself, but I've met an
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by nmeagent 1mo ago
Just to be clear, I am talking about the suckers, marks, and rubes in the United States that believe blatant fascist propaganda and are so unbelievably and completely stupid and deluded as to support undermining the rule of law merely so th
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by nmeagent 1mo ago
Imagine being such a sucker that you think it's remotely justified.
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by nmeagent 2mo ago
Would you refer to someone as a midwit in a typical office environment and expect your professional reputation to remain intact? If you were to do this on an ongoing basis for whatever reason, how long before you're asked to have a li
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by nmeagent 2mo ago
I would bet real cash money that many many people, including your coworkers, think that anyone who unironically uses the term "midwit" is completely and totally obnoxious.
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by nmeagent 2mo ago
> surely you realize that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are large cities today? I don't think you understand the massive difference in scale between detonating a couple of atom bombs vs. thousands of thermonuclear devices, each with at l
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by nmeagent 3mo ago
> HN users just like the rest of the normies will happily oblige and upload their passports. Speak for yourself; I would drop HN like a bad habit and never look back.
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by nmeagent 3mo ago
It was the most random thing I could think of to ask at the time. It is apparently pungent enough to be banned on public transit in some Asian countries, though I couldn't tell you which one(s). I've never had it myself, but the
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by nmeagent 3mo ago
Durian fruit -- yea or nay?
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by nmeagent 3mo ago
I keep chromium installed mostly to run virtual tabletop software (specifically Foundry VTT), because webgl performance in firefox is not great (though it has improved somewhat in the last couple of years). There are also a few sites (most
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by nmeagent 4mo ago
So all it takes to overturn federal statute is an authoritarian decree and maybe some signage changes then? That's not how any of this works and you should know better. It's more than a name change anyway; it is indicative of sw
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by nmeagent 4mo ago
No it isn't. The name was set in statute by the National Security Act of 1947 (as amended in 1949); as with many if not most of Trump's regal decrees, changing it would require an act of Congress, not mere executive fiat. Don&#x
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by nmeagent 4mo ago
Department of Defense. Don't obey in advance.
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by nmeagent 4mo ago
In the mid-80s the world was estimated to have some 60000+, so 12000 is somewhat of an improvement. Ideally through arms control we could reduce this further, but that's no trivial undertaking.
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by nmeagent 4mo ago
Are the livelihoods of the original creators still there?
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by nmeagent 4mo ago
> We didnt go extinct from the nuke Yet. We've come very close (see e.g. Daniel Ellsberg's The Doomsday Machine or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls ). A catastrophic mistake or miscalcula
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by nmeagent 4mo ago
Well, that AI mouse pointer idea is one of the most horrifying things I've seen in quite awhile. Hard pass, do not want, do not trust anyone involved.

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