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by vkou 3d ago
Who do I call if I think Flock is stalking me, and who will the police show up to intimidate when I do?
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by vkou 3d ago
The vermin that are building it understand it just fine.
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by vkou 4d ago
The alternative is Sam Altman winning.
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by vkou 4d ago
If you're being given an A-B choice between cinnamon-flavored shit and lutfisk-flavored shit, you might convince the experimenter that cinnamon-flavored shit ranks highly in user preferences.
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by vkou 5d ago
If energy security were that high a priority, the US would have been rushing head-first, instead of dragging its feet, in a transition off fossil fuels and onto renewables and energy independence. It's quite clearly not.
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by vkou 5d ago
The role they exist to perform is maintaining the American empire and hegemony , and they've done a pretty good job of that up until ~this year. 'Keeping Americans safe' is not on their agenda. If it were, they wouldn't
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by vkou 6d ago
You're assuming the truth ever prevails in marketing and PR. It doesn't.
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by vkou 7d ago
Meanwhile, costs will somehow go up by 40%.
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by vkou 8d ago
> and not exactly sure how merely the existence of a solution precludes the advancement of human knowledge. You'd be more sure if you read the tweets. Tao's point is very simple. 1. Working on problems that AI solvers can solve
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by vkou 8d ago
> It’s extremely disruptive, but blaming Google or Apple for any of this is a bad move, imo They have the capacity to push back, instead of pre-emptively rolling over for an autocrat.
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by vkou 8d ago
Increasing COL for everyone is an interesting solution, I wonder how well it would do for your re-election prospects. The United States voted a shit-slinging gibbon in over anxiety of a minor COVID COL increase. (That he caused, but everyon
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by vkou 9d ago
Did the Brexit campaign address the issues of the people who voted for it? Are all those people now better off because of it? Did Trump and his 'no new wars' and '$1.99 gas' and 'Drain the swamp' and 'Bal
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by vkou 10d ago
I think it's more that the 'original cryptocurrency enthusiasts' tend to look the other way, because the more of these weird shitcoins/nfts/networks get minted, the more their numbers go up. It's 2026. Show of
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by vkou 10d ago
I throughly enjoy music edutainment, and I don't think I'm the only viewer who then goes and actually plays some music after viewing it. (I can't honestly say that I go and start doing chemistry after listening to NileRed..
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by vkou 10d ago
It's one thing when randos on the internet choose to express something vile and stupid, it's an entirely different thing when people you know express something vile and stupid.
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by vkou 11d ago
Are the need to make music, the need to read books, the need to work on and improve myself dependencies that make me weak? Lacking those things is not a luxury. What is a luxury is time . Time is incredibly precious.
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by vkou 12d ago
> because they cling to unpopular positions on cultural issues. The Republican propaganda machine will always be ready to make any cultural issue the dems hold 'unpopular'. They turn anything and everything into a culture war
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by vkou 12d ago
Two thirds of those independents will vote MAGA down the ballot to give him a third and fourth term.
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by vkou 12d ago
What would anyone expect to happen when people are stupid enough to elect someone who tried, with multiple parallel methods, including an attack on Congress, to steal one election already .
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by vkou 14d ago
This isn't a 'bad idea', this is a blatant attempt to at election fraud.
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by vkou 15d ago
If you're salaried, every moment of time in your life is on the clock.
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by vkou 15d ago
> If I learned things at one company, took my experience and memory to another company, and applied what I had learned there, am I technically stealing that company's secrets? Human brains are in many ways privileged agents in a le
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by vkou 15d ago
> Does it seem like companies just aren’t that well run anymore? They've never been well-ran, but the laws of physics and economics put hard limits on the amount of stupid bullshit that they could produce. Now that those limits have
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by vkou 16d ago
> "US government commands you to turn over this encryption key and you're not allowed to say you did so" That barely even registers given the scale of more modern escalations against its 'allies'. Escalations lik
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by vkou 16d ago
> If you attack a country, that country shooting back at any military installations in missile range has to be one of the expected outcomes. Americans make war on other people, other people don't make war on Americans. It's on
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by vkou 19d ago
It's easier to be blissfully unaware when the illegal books don't bombard every fucking screen and surface with ads.
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by vkou 19d ago
> It doesn’t fully explain why Congress has allowed the expansion of executive power for nearly a century, resulting in more and more major issues being pushed to the Supreme Court. It's because the US is a presidential republic wit
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by vkou 19d ago
What kind of society do you get when the positive EV play is to always break the law first, litigate later?
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by vkou 19d ago
Generally, one side would come up with their idea of the number and state their reasoning, the other side would do the same, and the judge looks at their reasoning and decides what makes sense. This requires a lot of work to estimate and re
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by vkou 19d ago
Who owns them matters less than whether they ever get inspected.

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