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> What will be the first device to bottle up AI and other modern technologies in a package and become widely in-demand One problem I see is that corporations insist on collecting a…

Given the source code leak, I would think there'd be open source versions by now.

> there is no 'profit' step. You have to learn to think like a drug dealer. The first hit is always free. Companies and developers are growing more and more dependent on coding age…

> 99% of the traffic now is AI scraping the sources I wonder if we should stop fighting this and instead create an API specifically for this purpose? Or, a central repository that …

If this is viral marketing for a typewriter company, it's genius.

There's no such thing as a zomboni roomba?

Sorry. I meant to write, "population under a hundred million"

> Programming competitions are not the same as real-world engineering That's true but irrelevant. Nothing is "the same" as anything else. My question was, what evidence is there th…

> "offshore Indian devs" are no slouches. What evidence is there of the quality of Indian devs specifically? One signal I'd expect to see, for example, would be success in programm…

> AI data centers crowd us out. Here's a test to know if this is/will be true: look for a situation where the "needs" of AI (e.g. land, electricity, etc) conflict with the needs of…

8 inch floppies! wow.

> Are you serious? Yes. > Like, actually serious? Actually, yes. > Killing someone for pushing you over is not "self defense". > This is a category error. No, it's a definition err…

> The question should be: why do you have a right to bring a gun to a fist fight? Great question. The answer is: bad people are often significantly stronger than their victims. Hav…

> you just reject sources that you either can't understand or don't like That's a lie. I rejected the source for a valid reason. You could try addressing my rebuttal.

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Great! So, let's start with your first study. Note this quote: > it is possible that conservatives’ relatively low accuracy about political information is a by-product of the fact …

I'm having a hard time understanding your point. Here's what I think just happened: Me: I value the right to self defense You: Guns are used for self harm more often than self defe…

> I have no clue what I just read A lot of people are incapable of contending with hypotheticals or thought experiments. It's okay. If you'd like to try again, I encourage you to r…

> you ignored everything else that I said Well, you started by altering a quote. Is it unreasonable for me to call that out and stop there?? Try to imagine that this comment you're…

> "I'd love to hear any additional ideas except those that work everywhere because that'd require big changes" When you pretend to quote someone, but you alter the quote, you're be…

> I would think that the right to life would take precedence Well, let's do a thought experiment to test this. Which of these two rights takes precedence: (1) life (specifically in…

I'm interested to see any studies you can find on this topic. Here are some studies that I have: Equalitarianism: A Source of Liberal Bias [1] - in study 6, liberals were shown to …

> Maybe if there was work done to stop the shootings It's odd that you seem to believe no work has been done. Lots of work has been done. Lots more work is blocked by people who st…

I remember the epic flame wars with a certain game developer (who I wont name so as not to create drama here) whose starship simulator had a few bugs.

> I'm not sure what specific groups you mean The specifics are irrelevant. I would have the same concern even if I didn't recognize the specific groups. For example, do you know th…