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11hr ago
You do deserve it though, you were ripping us off, coasting as we risked for your security." Indignation Europe is weak and so a failure as an "ally".
I endorse some version of this. We have a real free rider problem and even rhetorically going against it is denounced as throwing away our precious soft power.
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1d ago
This is now more interesting than the original discussion and I'm also curious. Where's the authors' names and institutions?
The sources are real rather than AI hallucinations.
Top of page six has to source where a source should be, but a human can make that mistake. Or this is an unfinished draft.
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1d ago
Be sure to include Stephen King since supposedly the original filmed version of IT devastated the American clown industry.
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2d ago
I saw a collage of medieval illustrations featuring human sized bipedal white rabbits with weapons attacking or enslaving humans. I don't get the larger point, but they liked drawing menacing rabbits.
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2d ago
Fuel prices make everything more expensive. You pay your share at the grocery store.
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3d ago
But it's really important to note here that among the influencer right truth does not matter. It simply does not. They do not give a rat's ass if the story is real
Agreed. They could hardly sink lower in this regard.
Only mainstream respected journalists from major media outlets are a more debased group with less respect for truth.
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3d ago
Both parties keep doing this. Running bizarre looney candidates in critical races. There's hundreds of millions of Americans and these are the ones all political focus is put on for key elections?
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4d ago
Irvine California? Asians don't count as diversity. The whole point of BIPOC is to exclude Asians and "white and Hispanic" people.
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4d ago
For one example, as of now in 2026 the climate alarmism was finally admitted to be made up or whatever.
Not everyone has heard this happy news and some are still panicked about climate change. Such as most young Americans according to some polling.
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4d ago
divide that actually matters is rich vs poor
Then call me the General Secretary because I've been on this since I was a teenager. That's not always completely true. But it is generally fairly true.
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5d ago
A practice run for the Chinese hackers who've already infiltrated much of American infrastructure.
I watched the Cyberpunk Netfix show and it had a bit about needing to pay a subscription to use your own washing machine. As shown by it locking up on a child when full of his wet school clothes. And the resulting cost of living ends up high enough that a regular non-corpo working mom can barely afford to live. They don't explicitly say the prices were algorithmially determined to be exactly what you can bear, but I'll assume something like that is happening in the setting. That's quite a cynical "late stage capitalism" take; as appropriate for cyberpunk.
But back in real life they are actually pushing to make something like that sci-fi dystopia real. We're just missing the cool cyber mods and true AI. We get to keep the appliances that lock up and the most banal forms of electronic surveillance.
I think the federal government does not want more Ruby Ridge and Waco style debacles. It's a PR disaster when they burn down the home of defiant people*. Some gun control advocates like to use feds death-squadding or bombing people who don't comply with gun laws as a trump card. Something about fighter jets being used to enforce compliance in a way an AR15 can't stop. They act like it is a mic drop debate ender to point out the feds have armored vehicles and fighter jets. But the fantasy of feds burning and bombing their political opponents is just not going to happen in the modern era. A century ago a little bit of that could happen but the feds are just softer now. Photos of federal agents standing over charred ruins mixed with dead children will prevent this†. Not that they have any moral issues with murdering their fellow Americans, but the terrible PR would harm their supporters in elections and they can't stand that.
*Branch Davidians actually burned down their own compound. But it looked like the feds did it and FBI agents perjured themselves denying that they used incendiary tear gas canisters.
† Like all those photos from Waco.
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8d ago
"Pokémon descriptions make no sense." -> "Yes, pokedex entries are made by a 10 or 11 year old child. This is how they perceive the world."
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8d ago
The Weasley family is pure-blood, but they are
... silly Irish stereotypes. "My father told me all the Weasleys Irish have red hair, freckles, and more children than they can afford."
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9d ago
The basilisk is infinite negative consequences for some people in particular. Yudkowsky most of all. I don't take this at seriously, but he does and had multiple online meltdowns over it. In his mind he's being credibly threatened with hell in a way his atheism won't protect from. And he fears for his child's future due to the ruin this will bring. Quite a tough spot to be in.
only if the PRC refused to come to an agreement or cheated on the agreement
That's nuclear war with one extra step. They're already pretty mad about America restricting their ability to get more compute and also bypassing the restrictions. They both won't agree and would cheat even if they somehow did.
That agreement would not include China because they refuse to cooperate on this matter. They're already denouncing America trying to lock in a permanent advantage. If somehow impossibly they signed it, they'd violate it anyways. Then we can go to plan B: nuclear warfare because they cheated.
And worse yet Yudkowsky's example was Russia refusing to abide the agreement. Russia is quite oppositional and has by far the world's largest nuclear arsenal. Yudkowsky made sure to choose the most extreme example and hard commit to the upcoming nuclear war because of a hypothetical Russian data center.
In real life there are international agreements. A few European countries sign an agreement to not use cluster bombs. They don't have any and would have no use for them even if they did. The US and Israel don't sign the agreement. So we have cluster bombs and are not bound in any way to refrain from using them. This is of course denounced as "violating international law". I'm looking forward to China and Russia "violating international law" as understood by EU technocrats and Yudkowsky's proposals. They'll do it and then we can move past any mistaken understanding that we can international treaty our way out of this problem.
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10d ago
Pros: No more politicians.
Cons: You've been mentally merged with all other people and the machine intelligence.
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10d ago
You just have to believe that AI is an existential risk and now that's more important than charity.
The most delicious of moral treats. With infinite negative consequences you can justify anything. Like Yudkowsky's proposal to bomb foreign data centers even if it certainly leads to nuclear warfare. Anchoring your justification on infinity makes any action permissible.
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12d ago
Good standard, but even in this case not good enough. She wished she didn't do it weeks later after rumors circulated around campus and she was disinvited from the Halloween party.
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12d ago
I read an article describing aid recipients being asked where they think the aid comes from. They had no idea. I'm growing increasingly skeptical of of our precious soft power and the ruinous consequences for losing it.
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13d ago
Also that Jesus's dad was a Roman soldier named Pantera who cuckolded Joseph.
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13d ago
Supposedly Nigerian email scams make sure to purposefully have terrible grammar and spelling and implausible claims. They don't want to waste their time on people with moderate or high amounts of skepticism. Someone so dumb and trusting that they'd reply to such an obvious scam is their target.
He dropped out of middle school. In some manner I don't understand given truancy laws.
The tech and finance jobs are gatekept behind official credentials. Not excessively, but having never attended high school is a problem.
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