shimman

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by shimman 4d ago
Yeah, there are very real effects happening now regarding labor as well but to dismiss it all and worry about science fiction that is on par with evangelical beliefs is just extremely weird.
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by shimman 4d ago
Yeah but we're dealing with a known liar, killer of 100s of thousands of children, and a person with a weird breeding fetish. Why would one assume good faith when discussing any Elon Musk venture?
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by shimman 4d ago
This goes back to not liking the idea of consent and having to establish an entire worldview to justify actions against someone's consent. It's the work of authoritarians and needs to be rightly called out.
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by shimman 5d ago
Of course there's a meaningful analogy. The poster wants to make Tao sound unreasonable and against "progress" while ignoring the very real concerns Tao has. It's what fanatics do when they want to enforce their view on
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by shimman 5d ago
Unlike the employees at OpenAI + Anthropic that are on the verge of extracting multigenerational levels of wealth.
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by shimman 5d ago
I'm sorry but pressuring workers over this stuff is frankly disgusting and I reject you for your anti-worker + anti-human sentiment. What sort of human looks at a group of people and goes "it would be really nice if we made people
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by shimman 5d ago
Your great leadership doesn't seem to care, so either your management knows better than you or maybe you should push back on the notion that you worked with "great leadership." Only poor leaders ignore their workers, which is
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by shimman 5d ago
Let me throw a curve ball at you: do you accept the premise that most modern corporations are centrally planned economies under the rulership of monarchies, oligarchies, or general authoritarians? If so, do you think introducing democracy i
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by shimman 5d ago
There is no professional developer in the US. There are no licensing requirements to write code. There are no repercussions against developers that write code that immiserate or kill Americans. The person slinging wordpress plugins at an ag
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by shimman 5d ago
Nah, you're still blaming workers and not leadership. If leadership is okay with not training workers (something American corporations would do in the distant past) then it's not fair to continue to blame workers when leadership i
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by shimman 5d ago
This was always due to pressures by management and the company environment, not the workers themselves. It's hard to blame the people writing code when they have to deal with nontechnical leadership that wants to have a feature factory
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by shimman 6d ago
Don't really believe you, looking at past comments you don't really come across as someone raised in America while also being completely unaware of what local politics looks like or how US citizens engage with politics. Not too me
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by shimman 6d ago
Because the US has mostly been an imperial force of evil among the world, not a net benefit outsides of the elites that benefit from the deliberate colonialism + death. War Is a Racket is almost a 100 years old and it's about one man&#
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by shimman 6d ago
This is a very childlike understanding of how people engage with politics across the US. Fitting that immigrant tech workers wouldn't understand the culture then cry foul when rightfully called out on it. Maybe DHH was right.
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by shimman 6d ago
It should be noted that MSFT is the only tech company that explicitly asked the FBI to surveil about workers that were protesting the Gaza genocide: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/microsof...
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by shimman 7d ago
Wow looks very good. I will say I've been highly impressed by Chinese consumer electronics they are often high quality, have many features, and usually are cheap.
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by shimman 7d ago
Do you have a link? Highly interested in that thread. Do you know if people discussed how state solutions faired? I'm assuming something like Pix from the Brazilian Central Bank does an even better job at prevention while providing a p
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by shimman 7d ago
It is common in our industry isn't it? There was another startup that fired all their employees then one month later got acquired by CloudFlare. Hard to not see this as fraud in the loose sense of the word.
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by shimman 7d ago
No, it's more like society would have failed in raising me as a human being if I'm okay with completely ignoring the people that raised + provided for me where I purposely replace human connection with a chatbot.
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by shimman 8d ago
This comment is one of the most dystopian things I've read on this site.
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by shimman 9d ago
We have an entire insurance industry that makes money denying care to Americans while they die, or are those okay deaths since it's done under the confines of shareholder value?
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by shimman 9d ago
I think we can say Altman is worse, his products lead to actual deaths of people just like Holmes. Altman caused children to commit suicide so I think that's worse. Altman will likely be seeing the inside of a prison cell by 2030. The
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by shimman 9d ago
What is your claim for the last one? I'm not finding it on google. What was the program?
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by shimman 10d ago
I mean these are cold inhumane companies and their employees reflect it. SF is truly where human ingenuity goes to die, truly a blight on the industry as a whole and holding us back tremendously.
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by shimman 11d ago
Clearly it should, at least, never be the company that stands to profit from selling said technology to the government. Like you I am highly skeptical, the idea of classrooms is an idea that is over 5,000 years old. It's kinda been nea
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by shimman 11d ago
I'm a disgruntled tankie because I think corporate dems suck? Okay.
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by shimman 11d ago
That's great if you're talking to a high schooler that has never been politically active, but I'm literally a democratic party operative. I've attend state conventions, state nominating conventions, platform conventions,
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by shimman 11d ago
What is unproven here? This is all found in various wiki articles or just being alive at the time (yes Obama did bailout banks over people, yes Clinton did condemn large swaths of the US to poverty). I honestly don't understand your ot
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by shimman 11d ago
Nah, this is the same tired excuse that has never played out in reality. Destruction is totally fine of useless institutions. Especially those that are openly antagonistic and profit from killing Americans. US institutions are designed to i
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by shimman 11d ago
No, it's more like "oh wow that explains why Americans do not trust institutions, have massive unfavorable feelings about the democratic party, and voters no longer believe democratic politicians are pro-worker." Like this is

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