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Do you refuse to use a calculator or spreadsheet, because doing long hand division helps you exercise your mental muscle? Do you refuse to use a database, because it will make your…

Social action has a price, both in effort, attention, and goodwill; there is no free lunch. If you are blind to the COST of social action you will fail to realize how you are hurti…

I didn't ignore any of your points. If your house is on fire, then put it out. But DON'T start a social movement that distracts from climate change. Don't distract everyone by clai…

> 1. Pivoting to a totally different issue No, i am not. It's the exact same issue. If you honestly believe that climate change is an existential crisis, then ALL other issues are …

> climate change is a bigger issue - so why can't we focus on it? What it needed was for strong left-wing people to stand up and denounce the distraction. To claim loud and proudly…

> It feels like this collective insanity will never end They simply do not believe that the consequences will be as bad as the models predict. And a lot of trust and good will has …

That would set a bad precedent. We're talking about an adult taking his own life. In Canada the government will not only coach you how to do it, they'll provide the poison and give…

I don't have one, nobody really does. But the blind belief in, and search for, some utopian society is what needs to die. Reduced expectations, less ambitious goals, and a renewed …

You've just made my case for me. It's why democracy can't work. Because the people who vote in the evil politicians don't (and really can't) know enough to make an informed decisio…

If you think there is ever any other outcome for a democracy, you are part owner in what we built. Corruption and capture are inevitable, and blaming the particular politicians in …

Condensed Rainbow.

Then everyone should embrace blacklisting, and master-slave system architecture. But they don't, and it's time to extend that sentiment all the way. We need to stamp out all hint o…

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RIP. You will be missed.

> So was the proposed idea be that people would be required to disclose if AI was used to generate code? Yes. The proposal claimed that there will be too much AI slop, and it will …

They're not an equivalent intelligence as human's and thus have noticeably different failure modes. But human's fail in ways that they don't (eg. being unable to match llm's breadt…

> ask Opus 4.5 to read adjacent code which is perhaps why it does it so well. All it takes is a sentence or two, though. People keep telling me that an LLM is not intelligence, it'…

You joined the conversation too late. Go up one parent level and see that the ONLY thing I was talking about, was explaining the apparent hypocrisy the OP had identified. The rest …

The point that started my original response. Explaining a new, apparently hypocritical, propensity to trust such government actions. Whether any of us agree with it or not, is irre…

That's really irrelevant to the point being discussed. I was just trying to give some context to the apparent hypocrisy the OP had identified, without adding my own opinion about i…

> That’s not an interesting insight IMO. I think it accurately explains the mood shift of the portion of the public the OP was originally criticizing for apparent hypocrisy. The sa…

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You're wrong. A great many of those same people voted for Obama. They are not bad people with evil motivations. They are people that have been abandoned by the Democratic Party, an…