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Well usury is another problem entirely :-D

All things being equal , probably yes. But remember: the uber-rich are allowing millions to immigrate to the rich world, to prevent precisely this. (I'm not commenting here on whet…

No, corporations want people without children, since they have more disposable income to spend on the pointless tat they want to sell you, and are willing to work longer hours to m…

Yep, absolutely right. Energy is very easy to produce cleanly (nuclear, and solar is looking better and better). The barriers to doing so are political and financial, not technical…

The level of precision a subject can reach is peculiar to that subject, but it doesn't follow that nothing can be accurately predicated of it: "It is characteristic of such knowled…

Exercise helps my ADHD, but it requires quite a bit of sequential cognitive processing to actually get to the point of starting it. Adderall makes this initial part much easier. I …

Greetings, fellow Thomist. You are correct that usury is any amount of interest, and attempts to pretend otherwise are sophistical, but I suggest you may want to look again at corp…

Look up the English Enclosure acts. They brought about a large-scale robbery of peasants by landowners in the 17th and 18th centuries, and created a proletarian class that needed f…

I think this is one reason people like asking LLMs things. They have many downsides, but they're never rude or belittling.

Once you see it, you can't unsee it: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html And if you have more time: https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/kupdf.net_bernays-et...

Curious to hear if anyone has tried running the 2-bit or 3-bit quantization of this. With a bit of investment I may just be able to swing it locally. I already have 96GB VRAM, so w…

How far would you take this? Let's grant that the difference between murder and a just killing is what someone (maybe the guy in power) says it is, nothing more. Would you say the …

Yes. A full-recourse loan and a non-recourse loan are different: in the way a cat and a dog are different, not in the way a small dog and a big dog are different. It's most unfortu…

For those of us who have read Paul Graham's submarine essay, should the last paragraph be a giveaway? The "AI theoretician's" quote seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the…

It's astonishing to me that advertising and marketing is accepted as normal. The majority of B2C marketing is designed to manipulate people's emotions so that they act against thei…

Someone posted these photos a while back which seem to capture the spirit: https://issung.com/posts/lanphotosarchive/

> During the Middle Ages, Western civilization described humans as composed of two distinct entities: body and soul. This is absolutely, completely, demonstrably false. Soul-body d…

I was seriously considering investing in an RTX 6000 rig, and I think this is just enough to tip me over the edge. I know it's not as good as CC, but at least I know it'll be there…

I am interested in hearing how to get hard drives to last longer. Should you keep them locked away in the closet? Spin them up occasionally but not too much? Keep them always-on? I…

Yes, I'm grateful I run Linux. You can get quite a bit done with 4GB RAM and a 6th generation (or even earlier) CPU. All 64-bit. I don't think such ancient hardware will be affecte…

Peter Hitchens had a hell of a time trying to fix Wikipedia's appalling biases: https://hitchensblogarchive.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/goodbye... Search the site for other examples o…

Potentially-ignoramus comment here, apologies in advance, but amazon.com itself appears to be fine right now. Perhaps slower to load pages, by about half a second. Are they not eat…

Worth remembering that the Venerable Bede was writing The Ecclesiastical History of the English People two centuries before Athelstan, so clearly there was some notion of unity as …

This will have a big effect on those in passive index funds I think? Tech made up about a third of the S&P last time I checked, but the AI hype is also affecting non-tech sectors.

I recommend "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science" by E.A. Burtt if you're interested in that period. It discusses both the science, and the different philosophies of phy…