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Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

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Post by merelydev »

toomanyrichies wrote: post #303
merelydev wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is like hating a hacker who hacks into your vulnerable server that is outdated and allows ssh password login. If there is vulnerabilities in the system someone will eventually exploit them, sure not you or me but there is always someone out there that will.

That same hacker can choose to responsibly disclose the vulnerability through the proper channels, or take advantage of it to benefit themselves at the expense of others. Which one they choose objectively determines the quality of person they are.

That is how we find ourselves in this mess, we design systems thinking only of everything that can go right and not what can go wrong.

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Post by ranger207 »

davidfekke wrote: post #304

Nice hit piece. ModelRepublic.org is run by Tyler Johnson and funded by Dustin Moskovitz. A16z funds small tech. This includes companies that do Crypto and AI. You may not like it, but these are products and services that consumers want to use.

I'd like to have a $3000 watch for half price too, but it turns out there's reasons I can't

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Post by webdoodle »

ryandrake wrote: post #240
vintermann wrote: post #33

> Lee's stated goal was to “desensitize everyone to the phrase ‘cheating.’” If you say it enough, he argues, “cheat begins to lose its meaning.” A16z praised Lee's approach as “rooted in deliberate strategy and intentionality.” Investors: but surely they won't cheat me !

Y Combinator's application still asks: "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage." They don't actually use the word "cheat" but that's what they're asking for: Are you willing to cheat if it gives you an advantage?

Is it really cheating if the system is vulnerable? What about things like a filibuster or slow walking an order?

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Post by harambae »

tetris11 wrote: post #259
bodge5000 wrote: post #246

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There's been plenty of good sci-fi written about this, but surely they know that any any display of power is meaningless without someone to have power over? The wedding in Venice only means anything because people live in Venice and you're still able to "take over". Any "paradise" built like this will never be paradise, it'll be just chasing the next extreme until there's nowhere left to go

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> Rich white man's paradise

The majority of new billionaires are either Chinese or Indian [0] so at some point you’ll need to update your race-based hatred (if you feel passionately about it) to remain accurate

[0] https://www.hurun.net/en-us/info/detail?num=FTJ5PSSPOWOF

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Post by aeve890 »

digitalsalvatn wrote: post #61
seydor wrote: post #40

Probably it's a random sample of AI companies. Curing cancer is the marketing slogan, AI is not capable of doing that. But it's good enough to impress bankers and lawyers who will keep inflating the bubble for the foreseeable future.

Curing cancer is such a lazy goal. Finding out how to make everyone smarter is a much better one. That's really it, isn't it. How do we make smarter people, without them getting insufferable?

> Finding out how to make everyone smarter is a much better one.

Yes, smarter people, that's we need of course. No nuance needed. Smarter grifters, smarter drug dealers, smarter dictators, smarter serial killers.

Smarter and more empathetic people would be better I think.

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Post by rglover »

AlotOfReading wrote: post #296
rglover wrote: post #242

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Leave Babylon behind and go build local businesses and communities in what they refer to as "flyover country." That's what I'm doing. Easy? Fuck no. But does it take their relevancy away from them? At the scale of everyone who isn't a coastal barnacle: big time. They view the rest of this country with disdain and indifference. I'm suggesting that others quit looking at these people as lords and sages to be placed up…

What does flyover country have to do with the present discussion? Kalshi is just as big a problem (or bigger even) in Nebraska as New York. Taxes going to Anduril happens whether you live in Malibu or Missouri.

> What does flyover country have to do with the present discussion?

Read what I already wrote above, I made it pretty clear.

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Post by Oras »

webdoodle wrote: post #313
ryandrake wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Y Combinator's application still asks: "Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage." They don't actually use the word "cheat" but that's what they're asking for: Are you willing to cheat if it gives you an advantage?

Is it really cheating if the system is vulnerable? What about things like a filibuster or slow walking an order?

By your logic, hacking is legal due to vulnerabilities

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Post by mdp2021 »

oezi wrote: post #135
pulkitsh1234 wrote: post #81

"A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it, according to the necessity of the case" -- Niccolo Machiavelli It's a self fulfilling prophecy... while us commoners, or so called "activists" or et…

Nietzsche also described it well when noting there are those who deem themselves nobles and feel they are righteously above the laws and those who derive their identity from suffering under the same laws.

> Nietzsche

You have used a bent interpretation: "exploitation" is not involved in that framework.

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