ozmodiar

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by ozmodiar 5mo ago
I think China has too much to gain by looking like the word's stable alternative to America. What really gets me depressed is their current trajectory towards cultural homogeneity, even internally. There seems to be a real push to calc
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by ozmodiar 5mo ago
I've certainly noticed a seismic shift in how bad support and updates have gotten with some 3rd party vendors we use, and the answer they come back with is always that they're experimenting with AI. Not saying AI isn't part o
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
I'm having trouble thinking of groups of people who are even able to change members outside of modern capitalism. Through most of human history we've been stuck with our group or tribe. Heck, I see people stick with groups that ar
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
I am both shocked and not shocked at how many people support incel garbage reasoning here.
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
I think the tragic thing is that not everyone has a price, just the vast majority.
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
It doesn't need to be most, it just needs to be enough. I dont think it's close to a majority, but at the same time its more than enough.
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
"Glorified" is underselling it. Thier ability to microtarget anyone based on any trait is basically the death of democratic discourse. Now, if you're saying the data is just there for anyone to do this, you're correct, a
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
So we should just do whatever unethical thing we want, as long as it isn't strictly illegal/we won't get caught? Actually that does seem to be the Silicon Valley mantra. I dont know how people think this is going to play out
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
A lot of that turned out to be pushed by Epstein and his associates. It's not hard to figure out why they would enjoy a world with lots of racism, sexism and general inequity. Its really disturbing when you consider how much power this
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
The US bullying other countries to follow its interests has also existed before a year ago. People are just waking up to the idea that it's going to get worse and not better.
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
Don't worry, China is coming out pretty far ahead so I'm sure we'll still be in a unipolar world when this is all over, and you can sleep safe at night. I imagine you didn't know.
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
I've been thinking of this too. I think Steam is, and I'll even throw in Mozilla, despite a few missteps. Gog seems okay, but that's much smaller. If we can expand to large tech organizations then Wikipedia has remained prett
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
It does concern me, and it should have concerned them enough to fall on their sword for their principals. They have FU money, if they're not willing to, who is?
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
17. Top members of government, education and business (particularly tech) part of pedophile kidnapping and rape cult that has been shaping reactionary culture for decades now. I seriously don't even know how to process the world I live
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
If they don't support any principles then it isn't a side worth supporting. If my choice is between China 1 and China 2 then idgaf.
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
AI's approach: * User has history of anti AI rhetoric, increasingly agitated and unstable. * User has removed all phones and cellular connections from their car. Increase monitoring through surveillance cameras and monitoring of their
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
It's so much worse than that. The government actively encourages a lack of business ethics. Heck, it started the term with a crypto rug pull. Money continues to funnel upward to all the worst players, and watchdogs are being targeted a
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
Not to mention that he and his cohorts had such close ties to Epstein that I find it impossible to imagine he didn't know exactly what was going on. This is someone who's known for building profiles of anyone who mentions him onli
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
Don't worry, I'm sure that trusting these systems to a group of ghouls from the Epstein files won't have any negative consequences.
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
Elon just needs a wild party to blow off steam.
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that there are no heroes to cheer for.
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
What's the deal with the settlers? That's really where I lose all faith Isreal has good intentions.
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
And given his penchant for information control, I dont doubt he knew everything that was going on.
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by ozmodiar 7mo ago
Part of it is also that when we look back we think of people's suffering as sacrifices that needed to be made. Now that it's us being sacrificed it really shifts a lot of people's perspective. I think we need a better solutio
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by ozmodiar 8mo ago
I see this so much with regard to Chinese/Russians and increasingly Americans (I know people in each camp). The point of the propaganda is just that, to make them distrust all information and fall in line by default. It makes it imposs
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by ozmodiar 8mo ago
Why stop at international law? It's no different than a lot of civil, financial, criminal law. You just get big enough and now there's nothing the system can do about you. It's become increasingly apparent that having the rig
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by ozmodiar 8mo ago
The troubling thing here is: what is a "better" society? As you said, it's just the one that outcompetes the other societies on the globe. We'd like to believe such a thing is an egalitarian "healthy" liberal s
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by ozmodiar 9mo ago
I'm open to the idea that companies need much larger barriers to functioning internationally. Not just because of their ability to pump money overseas, but also because they are often used to blatantly further the security goals of the
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by ozmodiar 9mo ago
Looking back at the degrading lives commoners have suffered throughout a lot of human history, I'm pretty split. And that was before rulers had AI and autonomous defenses to keep everyone in line. Frankly, I think this exact line of th
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by ozmodiar 10mo ago
"Source of truth." Right, that reminds me of the other issue exacerbated by AI: widespread media illiteracy. (Apologies if that was the joke, can't tell anymore).

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