pjc50

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by pjc50 3d ago
What?
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by pjc50 4d ago
No, the gender role stuff is absolutely critical and you can't just handwave it away. Married women couldn't own their own property independently in England until 1870. In particular, the belief that a married woman had no agency
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by pjc50 6d ago
This has the useful property of being regulation-exempt because it's already literally everywhere. Unlike "F gases", which have much more serious greenhouse effects and are regulated in the UK (and elsewhere): https:/&#
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by pjc50 6d ago
Yeah, I think people forget that before the internet there was the telcos. They had a "microtransaction" infrastructure, and they were determined to use it by gatekeeping everything. The power of the internet making almost everyth
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by pjc50 6d ago
Really this is the problem: the internet has enabled the global Hater community, who come together and find common cause in their hate, and that radiates outwards into everywhere else. Even if you're trying to define your place as &quo
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by pjc50 6d ago
I generally agree with this, but a problem I can't solve is: at what point does a "large group chat" become a "public channel"? If, hypothetically, someone is organizing a thousand people in balaclavas to turn up ou
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by pjc50 6d ago
> you physically cannot feed yourself, get to appointments, or do anything without operating a vehicle? You also physically cannot feed yourself, get to appointments, or do anything else once you've been fatally run over by a vehicl
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by pjc50 6d ago
We think of "frictionless" as good, but the friction was the only thing preventing services from consolidating to a single point. Of control and failure.
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by pjc50 6d ago
Oh, indeed. There's been a real public reversal in tolerance for open racism, over the past (see date) almost exactly 25 years. This is now coming full circle in the UK; the Daily Mail (!) has a rightwing extortion mob outside their of
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by pjc50 6d ago
You also can't make a card purchase if your card is stolen ..
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by pjc50 6d ago
> killed the business model of the Web in favor of ads I don't think there ever was another business model? Nobody has ever got true microtransactions for the web to work. Even the old days of premium rate telephone numbers and payi
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by pjc50 6d ago
> cars Good example: cars come with a tracking identifier (license plate), tied to a responsible individual, who is subject to a test, and whose permission to use it can be revoked if they abuse it badly enough.
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by pjc50 7d ago
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49625933 - is it actually enforced?
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by pjc50 7d ago
An absolute classic of "we've done no requirements analysis at all, but our exec went drinking with the wrong people and that now defines the solution, regardless of the problem".
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by pjc50 7d ago
This is a bit like asking "do people prefer vegetarian meals if we don't tell them there's actually meat in it?" People care about the production process even if they can't tell you're lying to them about it.
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by pjc50 7d ago
I am explicitly asking people to fill in the blank on how it would succeed. It's intelligence, not magic. A lot of these scenarios seem to assume that nobody else gets a move. That there wouldn't be a human response.
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by pjc50 7d ago
If you substitute "shareholder value", this is basically how corporations already make decisions with effects on human life.
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by pjc50 7d ago
> Gastown, the agent management project that could only end up working on Gastown, unceremoniously and quietly set aside. I was ignoring that, but it did seem somewhat intentional by the human running it? There's a lot of "I&#x
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by pjc50 7d ago
This feels like a distinction without a difference, like the endless wrangling over which piece of metal in a gun legally constitutes a firearm. The combination of the two may or may not be dangerous, but it's definitely the more usefu
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by pjc50 7d ago
The killer robots are expensive and dependent on physical supply chains. While text is sufficient to radicalize humans into attacks.
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by pjc50 7d ago
Ender's game model, presumably: the AI helpfully assists a human to build a nuclear bomb / pandemic virus / autonomous killer robot swarm in their basement. But again, I would like people to be clearer about how the threat is
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by pjc50 7d ago
How exactly does that work? The nuclear system of MAD relies on physical threat, lab A achieving ASI (artificial scary intelligence) does not prevent lab B achieving it. I would like everyone involved to be a lot clearer about their threat
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by pjc50 7d ago
China is a regulated discourse environment, but I get the impression that they're nowhere near as pessimistic. Why would they be? Everything in China is under the control of the government. That includes the AI, all the telecoms infras
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by pjc50 7d ago
Internet isn't real. People (well, public discourse) have got extremely bad at dealing with forseeable risks and their mitigation. You can see this in things like climate change and vaccination, but also in discussions around regular c
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by pjc50 7d ago
This is just a bizarre thing to say that you're working on technology with that high a downside potential. If you were saying that while running a biology lab, or building a nuclear reactor, people would be demanding your head on a spi
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by pjc50 8d ago
> I understand people often like to express extreme positions on the Internet, but I think it's pretty easy to see an ideal society has rules somewhere in between "you're not allowed to know your customers" and "
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by pjc50 8d ago
The panopticon is only supposed to look out, not in.
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by pjc50 8d ago
It takes the structure, the affair with Julia, the "we have always been at war with", best buddy/big brother, and the forced rehabilitation from 1984. This is also part of the joke, the reader is expected to twig.
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by pjc50 8d ago
Prepping should be local. Here in Scotland the things I would prioritize are snowstorms (once had food delivery to supermarkets delayed for several days) and high winds (friend was without power for six days). Here we don't get true hu
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by pjc50 8d ago
Well, yes, that's a huge structural problem in many American cities. When people perceive the police as more of a threat than crime, the situation deteriorates. Somehow "make the police trustworthy" isn't considered an o

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