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Hire from state schools.

Theocrats have not been known to believe in a power higher than themselves. They just believe that you believe.

But I don't want Claude to become conscious. I want Claude to help me write good code.

I wouldn't entirely call that cynicism considering a lot of people just come out and say it.

> some people have to be the relatively poor compared to the rest Why? And not why in terms of a trivial statistical tautology, where a bell curve has to have a left tail. Why , in…

> Before 200 years ago we lived as hunter gatherers, and we did it sustainably for millions of years Neither clause in this sentence is true.

_The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844_ would be a classic on the subject: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17306

> The real winners will be everyone who destroyed their own oil demand. I went out and bought an EV in May to replace an ICE vehicle, and the other car in the household hasn't burn…

"More jobs" and "more productivity" are more-or-less opposite goals under capitalism.

> Will it ever get done? I wouldn’t hold my breath. “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Well except that Mark Cuban is out here proposing the …

Tax the land. Legalize housing. Or just nuke San Francisco from orbit.

> In the mean time, I will gladly switch to Codex. IME Codex had a bit of a big head/ego about writing what it thinks I ought to want rather than what I actually ask for, and I've …

"[W]hat earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?"

Culture my foot! It's a difference of law. American employment is "at-will", meaning they can legally fire you for "any reason or no reason", with the only asterisk being that "any…

> Our regulatory agencies have either been completely gutted by DOGE, or just no longer have an appetite to do any kind of proactive enforcement Well yeah. That's what they ran on,…

If I didn't want companies focused on making money to exclusively target the life sciences, I would simply fund literally anything or everything else commensurately with how much m…

Most of what's impressed me in working with LLMs is just how much "intelligence" you can get out of the agent iteratively refining something it looks back at with each turn, withou…

Matplotlib? Ha! There are loads of academic fields where you still write data analyses by hand, one at a time, in Matlab, without proper version-control or libraries.

Ok so get rid of the investors then.

No, he's arguing that if it's not legal, it's not enforceable by men with nightsticks.

> Why isn't it automated yet? You delay your rent and your door key stops working. 1) Because screw you, that's horrible and you shouldn't do it. 2) Because all these digital key s…

Society isn't supposed to run on philanthropy.

Don't worry: they'll tell you.

I'd like to try and give you some sympathy, but my last landlord was a well-regarded property management firm who left me with no heat from the end of October to the weekend of Mar…

I mean, to be fair, having your population semi-permanently depleted by two major wars and a fundamental loss of national economic centrality and prestige will help you keep a fixe…