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Comment #49217536
Communist countries are opposite of UBI by design! You are actually expected to work and work hard and freeloaders are punished. Of course work is extremely inefficient in communis…
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Comment #49177060
> In some countries, especially less developed ones, poverty levels are declining, but in the US the trend seems to be the opposite. This *seems* does a lot of heavy lifting here. …
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Comment #49165013
Why do you think it would fail? I think it’d be zero shot.
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Comment #49164884
Not really. Why would that be the case?
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Comment #49164826
Poverty and inequality keeps declining all the time thanks to economic growth.
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Comment #49146603
Do you think this was supposed to be art? Wow.
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Comment #49146251
Yeah, it appears that if your prior is that AI can't be good, no evidence can convince you that actually current models are extremely capable.
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Comment #49146235
> 8 months ago, he was (very reasonably) claiming that reliable agents are at least a decade away, but this now goes against the interest of his employer, so the narrative has been…
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Comment #49146127
If revolution happens, lives of almost everyone would become much worse. And for sure lives of IT workers which would be in kulaks category. (disclaimer: it's first world i.e. USA/…
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Comment #49146102
Surely you realise that average person can just buy stocks and reap benefits of it? And I'm not sure if you are serious about stock price-GDP division (typically higher stock price…
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Comment #49145368
Clearly written by someone how did not get cancer that was deadly few years ago but now can be effectively suppressed. I can make same argument - shipping back in time was absolute…
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Comment #49143502
That's very myopic view. The gains by the rise of IT have been staggering in e.g. medicine. Modern drug discovery would be impossible without advances in computation, and we are ge…
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Comment #49138265
Recently using "" stopped working for me in Google search. While it was laughably bad at search before, now it's borderline unusable. Now it just ignores half of my search term and…
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Comment #49134367
> Plagiarism brings a slap on the wrist unless the case is very high profile, like the example posted by azan_20 in the sibling where the plagiarising academic had many accolades a…
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Comment #49134340
It admitted not running any search when pushed on it. Though yeah, google search is so bad right now that I understand why you'd consider that.
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Comment #49133682
> therefore the $2000 number could be completely misleading, similar to P-value hacking by not disclosing the total experimental setup. I don't think that comparison to p-hacking i…
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Comment #49133664
I guess that's because there are serious problems on which many professional mathematicians worked on years. If it was just a matter of hiring an expert, they would've been solved …
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Comment #49128945
Civilization is thriving and we are living in the best times (thanks to capitalism).
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Comment #49121716
Would be great if you'd lose job for plagiarism! Here's example [0] from Cambridge where they actually defend person that plagiarized A LOT. [0] https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07…
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Comment #49119820
It’s because their products are really bad. Last time I tried Gemini it repeatedly lied about running internet search when explicitly asked to do it. I know their models benchmark …
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Comment #49119781
People already do.
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Comment #49117813
So wrist slap?
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Comment #49117804
People should get paid for reviewing. That’s the solution. Publishing companies rack in billions of dollars in pure profit exploring free labor. Once people actually get paid for r…
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Comment #49117784
Honestly these examples absolutely DO look like generic AI slop, no offense.
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Comment #49117562
I think it's really far fetched to say capitalism is bad idea. It's great system, it has some problems, but the upside is so big and alternatives are so bad that it's really unfair…