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You’re right. Billion dollar companies doubtless ruin many more lives, but systemically rather than directly.

What is your contingency plan for if the groundwork that has been laid to falsify election results works? Wait harder? The ethical US has rolled over already.

It really is. “This is bad. When will someone stop us?”

What’s your point?

> completely arbitrary You agree that it isn’t “physically accurate”, then… but seem to argue that you shouldn’t be called out for the false title? It’s fair enough to be called cl…

Keep your need for simplified representations of reality (which claim to be complete) out of our information-based community.

The person you’re replying to did not hold it to that standard — they only pointed out that the standard it claimed to hold itself to was not actual. If correcting misinformation i…

> I invite you to spend 10$ to try Kagi for 1 month. What a generous invitation!

And that was true, within his context as senator. He was instrumental in passing the laws that fostered the Internet. It’s astonishing, I know, but the heavily-parroted meme was al…

Because it’s BS. Firefox usage telemetry is public. There is no such increase.

> … like those ICE guys terrorizing all the Latino guys. … and the white guys they don’t like, like nurses with empathy. Don’t you dare think you’re safe because of your color. Unl…

> Seems like being directionally right early that AI would be a Big Deal and scary should count for something? Only if it was an uncommon prediction; otherwise, it’s just evidence …

> The custom is dying with the veterans You might want to update your knowledge.

…but is exhausting at volume from most small aircraft you see. I say sadly, as an aviation geek; we can do better!

> Not believing that AGI is possible is irrational and unscientific imo This is an objectively wrong opinion.

I grew up in southern CA, in a dry pine forest. I can assure you the children I knew traded and set off fireworks. We were all envious of the families who brought them back from Me…

It’s a cultural difference you’re unaware of, not an error.

I did retire somewhat early but also somewhat involuntarily and only after a somewhat fruitless search.

Nobody said it was.

Because honorary degrees are not credentials.

We must find a way to return to SNOBOL/PITBOL. It’s so elegant and effective in Ada (where it’s in the standard library). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL > In the 1980s and 19…

Oh, well better let them destroy everything with greed then. Wouldn’t want to break, like, five eggs to save every other egg in the world… The ethics become laughably simple, with …

Thanks for recommending this! It’s looks exactly to my taste, but I hadn’t heard of it.