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The whole thing was a scam

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Re: The whole thing was a scam

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Post by bionsystem »

ml-anon wrote: post #109
tombert wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've said it a million times, but I'll repeat it. There are a lot of conspiracy nuts like Alex Jones, and the amusing thing to me is that there is a conspiracy of elites who are exerting large amounts of unelected control of the government, and who are actively working to keep you down to enrich themselves, and it's not even a secret. We call these people "billionaires", and at this point they don't even bother hidin…

Not to mention trafficking and raping children

I still fail to see if that is their side hobby or the entire point for them.

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Post by Cyphase »

Gud wrote: post #235
knollimar wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it does matter and this quote is always flaunted like it's some deep insight but it intentionally ignored nuance. An amount you can comfortably retire on is way different than $5. We love to pretend humans have unflinching morals but they don't

I believe the problem is making sex about morality.

No kink-shaming.

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Post by vasco »

moab wrote: post #217

How does Brockman sleep at night? These guys used to seem like standup ethical guys. It seems no amount of intellectualism is enough to ward off the poison of wealth.

It's the other way around, people who are good people will "drop" from the race way before they get to this stage.

So it's more that only psychopaths will continue to push up the mountain when they already have many hundreds of lifetimes worth of wealth. Imagine being in that situation and still wanting to be involved in backstabbing power games rather than enjoy time with your kids.

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Post by tgv »

127 wrote: post #156
croes wrote: post #119

> In capitalism, the market decides. > In oligarchy, connections and donations decide. > but after Brockman had donated 25M to Trump’s PAC Sounds like they paid Trump and the government, can it get more capitalistic? Oligarchy and capitalism don’t contradict each other

Free market capitalism and corporatocracy are two opposite things. (Free markets don't exist without strong institutions and regulation)

I don't know how you can say that. What does "free market capitalism" entail according to you? Wikipedia's definition is just a ruse to be able to claim that free market capitalism is sane, but you can't exclude a governing authority and monopolies at the same time, because the latter always arises. So, in reality, you have to choose, and if you choose absence of authority, corporatocracy is an automatic extension of free market capitalism.

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Post by concinds »

> It’s one thing for the government to reject Anthropic’s terms—and entirely another to banish them permanently and, absurdly and punitively declare them a supply chain risk. Worse, they did it in favor of someone else who took pretty similar terms and happened to have given more campaign contributions.

Marcus is so overrated. He's not even good at straight factual reporting. The terms were not "pretty similar". He missed the whole point of the recent controversy.

> Anthropic deserves a chance at EXACTLY the same terms

No, those terms are bullshit.

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Post by breppp »

ikr678 wrote: post #146
tombert wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've said it a million times, but I'll repeat it. There are a lot of conspiracy nuts like Alex Jones, and the amusing thing to me is that there is a conspiracy of elites who are exerting large amounts of unelected control of the government, and who are actively working to keep you down to enrich themselves, and it's not even a secret. We call these people "billionaires", and at this point they don't even bother hidin…

The only war is class war, but those at the top spend a lot of money creating new culture wars instead to keep us busy.

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Post by jacquesm »

bityard wrote: post #188
tombert wrote: post #138

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At least in my case, I have just cut off contact with her. My parents are pretty decent people so I still talk to them a lot, but I can't deal with my grandmother anymore. If she thinks my wife (who was evidently on a Green Card at the time she said that) doesn't deserve to be here, she's allowed to think that, but she's not entitled to me being nice to her. I weighed my options and it came down these three choices:…

My step-mother (who didn't come into my life until around the time I got married. She is actually a pretty nice person overall, she is just... shall we say, opinionated, and could be somewhat racist once the conversation turned to politics. I always stopped participating in the conversation when she made racist statements, but she never fully seemed to take the hint. Then we had a child. Once our kid was old enough t…

And she'll continue to think the way she did before. But at least she shuts up so you've achieved that much. Beware of what happens when you leave your kid with her if you are not around, better yet, don't.

Re: The whole thing was a scam

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Post by jacquesm »

tombert wrote: post #138
bjelkeman-again wrote: post #125

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It cuts deep when it becomes so personal. What the heck do you say to grandma when that happens? I can’t imagine what I would do. In the end I think to preserve democracy one has to become involved. Standing on the sideline at this point doesn’t cut it.

At least in my case, I have just cut off contact with her. My parents are pretty decent people so I still talk to them a lot, but I can't deal with my grandmother anymore. If she thinks my wife (who was evidently on a Green Card at the time she said that) doesn't deserve to be here, she's allowed to think that, but she's not entitled to me being nice to her. I weighed my options and it came down these three choices:…

To whoever downvoted this: you're an ass for downvoting this without at least explaining why you disagree. It's perfectly valid to give up on people, there is only so much time and energy to go around. You could lean into the negativity or you could choose to spend your time and energy on other people instead.

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Post by ks2048 »

moab wrote: post #217

How does Brockman sleep at night? These guys used to seem like standup ethical guys. It seems no amount of intellectualism is enough to ward off the poison of wealth.

I've also noticed that he is the CTO of the one of the most important tech companies in the world, and none of his tweets are remotely technically interesting - just banalities.

You would think he might have something interesting technical to say... but no.

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