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Well it’s now illegal to make cars that don’t spy on you https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Properly_Paranoid

There are situations where you don’t care about government spying but care about random criminals And there are situations that are the opposite

That was suppose to be a reductio ad absurdum, not a genuine argument

> If people really cared, they’d choose browsers that have better control If people really cared, they’d chose reputable suppliers that sell non toxic food. If they are eating food…

Nukes are the only thing keeping corrupt ruling class and their ambitions in check. On either side of ideological divide. It’s the only weapon that’s going to hit them along with t…

Does this sentence have any meaning at all? There are 30 Active military conflicts right now.

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> The main actors threatening (and delivering) a hot war are China China is actually the adult in the room. Since 1979, 45 years ago, China has not dropped a single bomb on foreign…

That’s fine too, in that case Open Weight models made by China are doing humanity a favour

Has anyone had any luck in writing drivers using LLMs? It’s one of those areas of software that is very niche and no one wants to do it. And it’s also relatively testable

> we have to speak of the policy of the Chinese government as the policy of China This does not even have meaning in English. Policy of US government is not policy of US? When Trum…

> They want to… watch the US AI labs crash and burn. I don’t think dozens of large independent companies and thousands of researchers are working just to spite Sam Altman. Ad much …

> You can't rely on asking the customer It’s not even been five years of AI, and we’ve already arrived at the point where the human is wrong and the AI is right. Mind you this is i…

There is too much fantasy about distant habitable planet and not enough about making a planet in solar system habitable or building artificial habitats The second is likely easier …

Platform must be the most abused word ever Apparently, everyone is building the platform all the time, even when it’s just a user facing application

Nice to meet a fellow appreciated of the French revolution. There aren’t many of us these days.

> They were arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and taken into custody He was arrested, jailed, tried and convicted. He was not imprisoned , which I did not say he was.…

> value. All billionaires could be instantly broke if the general public decided they were broke. Are we taking about abolishing the fiat currency system or bringing back the guill…

> But what we really need is a massive boycott Is it? What’s the most effective boycott you can think of ever achieved?

> This is ultimately a failing of democracy itself. This stuff was legal Nah, it’s corruption the CEO of the company that forged fire safety documents was given legal immunity.

> A large part of this is life coming at parents faster than they can keep up, let alone stay one season ahead of their childs growth. The amount of administrative tasks, bureaucra…

> Except social media as a concept isn’t the issue Are you sure about that? So far the negatives vastly outweigh the positives. Imagine a statement: > as a concept there isn’t an i…

Why are we conflating having a camera with social media that is addictive?

We imprisoned kids for making an offensive video of a burning cardboard xopy of grenfell tower But we gave legal immunity to the corporate executives that forged fire testing certi…

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