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My counter argument is that you only need 1% of the population to be bad apples in order to destroy a high trust society. Hell, even a single serial killer on the loose will make a lot of people too afraid to walk alone at night. One or two burglars can be responsible for 50% of the burglaries in a town. And so in and so forth.

The other problem you have is that a lot of crime tends to be financially rewarding, so if left unchecked it will tend to grow over time as the criminals get richer and expand their operations.

For all those reasons, you need surveillance to catch criminals and restore trust even if 99% of the population are good people.

Yeah ultrasound sucks. I have an ultrasound distance measurer and it thinks a 1.8 meter gap is 0.6 meters. Extremely inaccurate.

Clankers absolutely can run sudo if you have passwordless sudo

Yes if people don't want to play they can just do a resign vote, majority wins. No need to kick ban anyone.

What kind of problems are you trying to have it solve ?

You hit the point where your agent is churning for hours and running more and more tests and inadvertently breaking more things trying to make the change in all those places

I've had this experience with vibe-coded applications written by Claude itself. For some reason, Claude doesn't seem to use any good practices unless I tell it to, and seems to require me to walk it through a decent design up front.

I would far prefer getting managed C# over the Electron garbage that constitutes much of Windows nowadays.

Kant also said something similar:

If he is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.

If by practicing kindness towards rocks, you become more inclined to act kindly towards other humans, then surely that is a net win.

It's hard enough to be unemotional when the livelihood of yourself (and others you care about) is on the line, but it's doubly hard when you think justice has been violated.

I think people often make this mistake, where they think they've killed their ego, and then fail to notice when their ego returns.

I think people generally underestimate how hard it is to permanently kill their ego. What ends up happening, then, is that a lot of people genuinely believe that they have humility when in actuality they don't.

"Winning" in this context doesn't matter because people have the freedom to choose which algorithms they want to use.

Like in the same way that windows has "won" in that it has 99% of desktop market share yet I can still use Linux happily.

I don't want government regulation here for the same reason I don't want the gov to step in and tell Linux what regulations it has to follow

Yeah everything is a browser app now gotta ship a whole browser engine even for a simple messaging app.

The US allowing Iran to levy a toll on Hormuz would completely discredit the US and set the precedent for other countries to levy their own shipping tolls . It's a non-starter.

Doesn't that mean that your process is then responsible for ensuring that an app with a read-only capability cannot do a write ?

You're moving the burden of enforcement from the kernel to the user level ?

I am so tired of people talking philosophy without knowing any philosophy. So here is some Aquinas for those who want some actual substance.

What is the ultimate good for humans? Specifically what does the good for us, and thus our well-being or happiness, ultimately consist?

It cannot be wealth, because wealth exists only for the sake of something else which we might acquire with it (ST I-II.2.1).

It cannot be honor, because honor accrues to someone only as a consequence of realizing some good, and thus cannot itself be an ultimate good (ST I-II.2.2).

For similar reasons, it cannot be fame or glory either, which are in any case often achieved for things that are not really good in the first place (ST I-II.2.3).

Nor can it be power, for power is a means rather than an end and might be used to bring about evil rather than genuine good (ST I-II.2.4).

It cannot be pleasure, because pleasure is also a consequence of realizing a good rather than the realization of a good itself; even less likely is it to be bodily pleasure specifically, since the body exists for the sake of the soul, which is immaterial (ST I-II.2.6).

Aquinas identifies three general categories of goods inherent in our nature.

First are those we share in common with all living things, such as the preservation of our existence,

Second are those common to animals specifically, such as sexual intercourse and the child-rearing activities that naturally follow upon it.

Third are those peculiar to us as rational animals, such as "to know the truth about God, and to live in society," "to shun ignorance," and "to avoid offending those among whom one has to live" (ST I-II.94.2).

These goods are ordered in a hierarchy corresponding to the hierarchy of living things (i.e. those with vege-tative, sensory, and rational souls respectively).

The higher goods presuppose the lower ones; for example, one cannot pursue truth if one is not able to conserve oneself in existence. But the lower goods are subordinate to the higher ones in the sense that they exist for the sake of the higher ones.

I had a chemistry teacher who insisted that the fissile isotope of Uranium was U-238 not U-235. I challenged him on this multiple times and he refused to budge on this. I get that it's a simple mistake to make (it seems like U-238 is bigger so intuitively ought to be less stable) but he could have just looked it up and he didn't, I guess he was just so confident about it that he thought there was no way he could have been wrong about it.

Wonderful teachers that give unreliable information with total confidence?

How would less competition make the world better?

The author might want to look into elite overproduction theory.

Same thing happened in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th century. Most of the radical revolutionary groups had a core of highly dedicated and highly educated people.

University students being the most radical and prone to revolution has always been the case.

Elites revolt when they feel that they are getting a bad deal in the existing social order. This happens when the elites which are being produced cannot be absorbed into the existing social hierarchy. That's why unemployed students from elite universities - some of the most intelligent and capable in society, yet they have no income - are the most dangerous - because they have the most to gain from a successful revolution and very little to lose.

You mean surrogate activities

Bad economy means the interest rate will be cut which means higher stock valuations. Bad economic news is good financial news.

Happiness is to a large extent related to how many close friends you have and how much time you spend with your friends.

Nobel prize is usually awarded many years after the work was done and by the time its awarded the scientist is usually well past their prime

Interesting how much oil dropped on this news despite the fact that the Iranian policy at the strait has not significantly changed:

Iran has told mediators it will continue to limit the number of ships allowed to cross the Strait of Hormuz and charge tolls for the remaining period of the cease-fire, officials familiar with the matter said. Vessels that pass through the waterway will need to coordinate with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IRGC would still be able to block ships that belong to countries Iran deems hostile

Source: WSJ a couple hours ago.

Which NUC do you have? A lot of the nameless brands on aliexpress draw 10 watts on idle.

Yeah that's the problem with ARM devices. Better just buy a N100

I can't stop thinking about this article while reading this: https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly....

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