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lkey

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    Comment #49212391

    You created an account for this? Manipulating children to get them addicted or push them deeper into a fatal mental illness (like anorexia) for profit is the same thing tobacco com…

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    Comment #49187997

    There's a consistent pattern of people 'solving' a minority population's 'problems' without ever looking at what problems they actually have. I have 'solid evidence' from my time i…

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    Comment #49185754

    Contributing to a net loss of funding and attention, all while making the public more ignorant and more passive , results in material harms to the population they claim to serve. T…

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    Comment #49163694

    > If it can be controlled then it will concentrate power like never before , and I believe this will destabilise civilisation. We already live in a reality with unprecedented conce…

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    Comment #49162638

    Advocating for nuclear war as a means of 'harm reduction' should be causing you serious cognitive dissonance. There are dozens of escalating, yet fundamentally less destructive mea…

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    Comment #49160987

    I did not, I read kypro's (the OP I was replying to) bio, to whit: Every problem is a search problem. Nuke the data centers. P(doom) = 98.9% (Aug-2026) P(doom) = 98.2% (July-2026) …

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    Comment #49159884

    It is not 'logical' to imagine a hypothetical doomsday scenario that justifies a preemptive nuclear war. (which is what the grandparent commenter's bio contemplates, 'nuke the data…

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    Comment #49159153

    Your 'serious' proposal is unlimited global military bombing campaign on civilian infrastructure by the United States (which is currently losing a war using the same strategy) to '…

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    Comment #49134592

    You don't accept it is possible that it was initially flagged as a dupe or spam why? There is competition for primary submission here, especially for the primary AI companies. More…

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    Comment #49134221

    Forums change with the times, and this one never existed solely to burnish your ego. Moreover, mister elite , you don't know why this press release was flagged. I'm not sure why we…

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    Comment #49122508

    I think it's a difference of reading levels. AI 'writing' makes me ill, but that's happening because I can ' feel ' the prose's samey hollowness in every paragraph. But! If someone…

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    Comment #49043504

    I am not surprised. I'm aware that the US never adopted: https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/... You have stated an unfortunate fact while hiding your value…

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    Comment #49042840

    "becoming an adult" is a thing people do, this will include no longer agreeing with everything your parents taught you. This is mundane and what you have described. "my parents are…

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    Comment #49034091

    The article calls another entity exerting its right of free association 'censorship'. This too is signaling a certain set of values. Even Immoral and Amoral companies serve values …

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    Comment #48845271

    It's a conflict of core values, and you've demonstrated it here. You have defined success (for a project, and possibly a person too) as solely 'relevance'. Jarred would agree with …

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    Comment #48845025

    Using an LLM as a proxy for an 'unbiased' source of personal confirmation bias is perhaps the most common 'use-case' for an LLM.

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    Comment #48844973

    Edit: Ah, my brain's been fried by comments that say this unironically and I read this as sincere, thanks commenter below, and apologies commenter above.

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    Comment #48844896

    Please, I'm begging you, and the people that scan across this comment: Finishing mastering reading comprehension; It will help you for the rest of your life. I'm not snarking, this…

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    Comment #48844702

    Its an attack an Jarred's public, (un)professional behaviour. One most of us in the community have born witness too in recent months. "Jarred, in his professional capacity, drove a…

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    Comment #48762880

    And yet, history and the present moment shows that fines alone do not change behavior. They are simply incorporated into the budget. Google has revenue far in excess of the fine du…

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    Comment #48735757

    Capital be praised that capital owners are back on top. May the low-waged ever be trodden upon and forever know their true place. Those that died or became disabled during covid ar…

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    Comment #48724167

    If the gulf states are your north star, then you are straightforwardly advocating for a return of systemic wage theft, indentured servitude and slavery, all under threat of executi…

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    Comment #48687730

    * the primary vector of contagion is unfiltered air circulation, not touching tables and menus (which are wiped down). * I want you to go and tell another human being, in person, t…

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    Comment #48678417

    The top 1% hold 41% of all wealth on the planet, so they are still getting a discount in your contrived example. Meanwhile at that table, 68 people are sharing 3 meals between them…

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    Comment #48611334

    Compilers have specifications, test suites, and teams of human beings (over decades) to ensure that what the compiler produces is nearly deterministic relative to code input. This …