stillwithit

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by stillwithit 3y ago
Genius of the highest order
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by stillwithit 3y ago
If saving people from malnutrition is your concern, good news; it’s still a problem today. Perhaps we could all spend less time generating empty rhetoric online and more time engaged in what we claim to be via logic, our real concerns It fe
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Funny how this topic blew up in the late 00s and early 10s. Google Fiber popped up looking to push the issue It’s sad how we’re perpetually fighting the same battles with the professional managerial class who tacitly understands their only
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by stillwithit 3y ago
There’s less knowledge needed to manage these systems than we want to believe. Tech is mired in hustle culture, which means it’s generating a lot of useless “knowledge” to role-play hustle. Over engineering re-engineering to justify busines
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by stillwithit 3y ago
You seem to argue for ultimate freedom for others as some abstract goal while ignoring how you take from others by existing You generate waste and increase costs by reducing resources for others You get in the way of others free agency due
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Your paraphrase is a strawman (melodramatic one at that). Nice job ripping it asunder to show us all how serious you are
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by stillwithit 3y ago
WFH means biz isn’t coming back there any time soon even with the homeless gone. It’s why homeless are downtown now rather on the fringe; fringe used to be emptier more frequently as downtown filled. Now folks are home on the fringe all the
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Yes, yes I do have family history with addiction Both times my family wished for euthanization options rather than watch family rot But patronizing high minds said no; in our society they must suffer until they die Americans have spent so m
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by stillwithit 3y ago
But those effects are not universal. Not everyone is locked into iMessage. Of course you’ve hardly been forced into hard labor in the gulag. Can we use government for something more universal than saving you from your social groups choices?
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Well we all better stop flying and driving if we’re set out to reduce human suffering. But hey the toxic mess we leave for the future to suffer through won’t be our problem so shrug This is the most disingenuous and self righteous thread
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Yeah and humans have seen it for centuries and failed to stop it Who is to say any progress we make won’t be undid by another pandemic we cannot predict, or some nutter launching the nukes We have political agents hell bent on war and subju
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Until recently Portland had a shitty local government structure that voters recently approved to modernize. Former city council members often railed against it; as a member they’d be assigned city bureaus (fire, police…) to basically manage
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by stillwithit 3y ago
So? Then they’re out of the way. One or way or another, none of us are getting out of this alive. Not sure where the religious conviction we must save all souls comes from or has any value.
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Academics have no authority to demand others normalize to their opinions. I went through academia. They wanted people to come up with ideas back then. Now they want people to normalize to theirs. It’s just people in rooms waving around pres
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by stillwithit 3y ago
It’s also not artificial intelligence. It’s electron state in a synthetic machine which has learned nothing about the world through its own agency and curiosity but the “sit, stay” demands of organic intelligence. Universe already made matt
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Stuff like this feels petty by all parties. Use an app that’s already universal if users are so desperate. Playing whack a mole back and forth over a chat app as if it’s some high minded fight for speech when countless options exist is melo
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by stillwithit 3y ago
You mean social media? Curious why social media is to blame when adults exploiting and denigrating youth is timeless. When society as a whole turns a blind eye to their future struggles; drill baby drill! What you want to afford a home and
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by stillwithit 3y ago
We humans are soooo good at fixing systemic issues. Surely we’ll eradicate this decades old issue at great cost, plus the same old costs, and new costs; it’ll be just as tidy and a big win as your tidy little post puts it. It’s so simple it
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Yeah Reddit is compromised by psyops Would not be shocked if antiwork is one as it keeps people apathetic and in their seats by giving them an impotent rage echo chamber
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Lectures are cheaper than actual education. So we ram language constructs into people’s brains, which we started doing centuries ago to preserve knowledge. Yet it comes with none of the warnings by the long dead mathematicians who initially
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Disagree.
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Wait what? If company don’t make $ it don’t survive? HN could really elevate the discourse if they flagged the submarine ads of VCs
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Why all the free material riches and special treatment then? If they’re effectively useless, why provide such privilege?
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Oh you’ve polled all the people and learned they really believe? Most just “follow orders” and I’m guessing if pressed would see no value to the hallucination. Anti-corporatism is everywhere; how many actually believe as you say? I doubt th
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Thanks for reinforcing my point about over reliance on euphemisms. “Rich people” in a fiat economy is due to the valuation of their assets, often but always, large stakes in corporations. All of which is politically correct hallucination. N
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Stop hiding reality behind euphemism. The rich are just people. The sooner we accept that and dispose of the bizarre “deification” of the rich the sooner we can discuss deprecation of their influence and reach. The apathetic kowtow to a han
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Because American exceptionalism, grit, fair play where our system doesn’t let anyone put their thumb on scale; no sir, the American economy is not at all “regulated” in a generic sense of the word, to serve certain interests. American tech
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Bonobo tribes that kill their alphas live in harmony. I am sick of the euphemisms we give normal people. Traditional human language does nothing but propagate ridiculous hallucination. Billionaires only exist because of propaganda. We could
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by stillwithit 3y ago
Not just AI either. Nothing launched under his tenure has survived. The business hasn’t diversified. Google under an unimaginative McKinsey suit is the epitome of burn money and accomplish nothing.
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by stillwithit 3y ago
“Heist” Huh? Disagree with the use of that term. If anything copyright is the heist. Disney subsists on back breaking labor of others while it wags around papers saying it owns things that make it rich enough to avoid real work.

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