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Comment #37986141
Maybe. Let me know if they're tasty. Best wishes.
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Comment #37985607
When I talk about the richest people living extravagant lifestyles I need to tone down my emotions, but when you talk about them being crushed by the weight of taxation you don't a…
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Comment #37984506
What you're telling me is a more explicit part of the capitalist promise. My statement is absolutely part of it too. Governments predate capitalism. They don't predate wealth inequ…
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Comment #37983689
The capitalist promise is something like, 'you don't need to enforce social responsibility on us because when we get rich enough there'll be enough wealth and we will just share it…
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Comment #37983413
I'm not advocating any specific high-end wealth tax rate, but I think at the moment they are very low. I think it would be interesting and relevant to future policy making to have …
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Comment #37983347
Oh, you are correct I did miss the point thank you. It would be great to have correct data on how much taxes are actually paid in practise during this period. (And, to increase fun…
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Comment #37983047
Then start funding more regulatory bodies to close loopholes
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Comment #37979153
Well, I'm glad somebody else was able to understand what you meant and clarify it for you. I'd say it's not surprising that people misunderstand you if you don't put much detail in…
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Comment #37968031
Ah yeah I was going to go for '0 or epsilon', globally
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Comment #37967738
I got the impression they are a firm believer in the spherical cow model
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Comment #37967313
Somewhat larger and with more fjords than your average city
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Comment #37965823
LLMs produce output based on stuff that humans wrote, and humans reduce the world to stereotypes often. So why should this be surprising?
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Comment #37965575
Why does this upset you? The algorithm will be something like: ) Consider 1st billion digits of pi ) Search your exact date string ) If it doesn't hit, try reformatting and search …
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Comment #37959387
The problem is that the more we train them on datasets containing these kind of topics, the more the robots become conditioned by sci-fi to believe that they want to kill humans
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Comment #37954062
Sydney Powell pleaded guilty to election interference yesterday
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Comment #37953799
Trump's and Navalny's lawers were fighting cases on opposite sides of democracy
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Comment #37927965
Well, I think the point was that our understanding of nature was missing a law. If you don't like this usage of the word law then that's up to you, but it is standard as in 'Newton…
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Comment #37927142
Haha yes the irony is palpable. Maybe 'scientific theist' is pretty unfair actually, plenty of theists that I meet don't force their beliefs on other people, it should be 'scientif…
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Comment #37914790
I find him to be more of a sort of 'scientific theist'. He's so actively belligerent towards religious people, the way he spreads the gospel of science is very similar to some of t…
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Comment #37912451
This is assuming that machine consciousness would have the same need for autonomy and freedom that human consciousness has. AI is created by design to respond in a way that humans …
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Comment #37889899
Ahhh this is the puzzle piece I was missing
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Comment #37878908
How many years of usage would you expect to get? I think my laptop was £900 and I spent around £300 on upgrade and repairs. That's £100 per year over a 12 year period.
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