thisisnotauser

As an American, I always see this kind of "cautious" foreign culture he talks about in shows and anime and I always thought it was meant to be a commentary of specific characters in the show, but everyone is like that? That's... kinda sad. I can only hope our good vibes here stateside become more contagious over time =]

This is delightful! But I was hoping for more "why" in the readme, clearly someone wanted to do something fun here and it'd be lovely to hear more.

I've lived in major US cities my entire life and have never been a victim of crime. Do you have any facts to back up this seemingly outrageous claim?

This article is absurd. They make a credible claim that nuclear deterrence through behavioral norms has failed, and then go on to conclude that the best alternative is ... Nuclear deterrence through behavioral norms. Has the author read their own article?

This is written with the genuinely unreasonable treatment of American claims as legitimate and actions as legal, with no consideration offered to the very real likelihood that the American government is simply lying and committing a war of aggression. Frankly, this piece is emblematic of the failure of the news media to hold fascism to account.

Except you need food to live and tv shows are an artificially scarce resource that's actually free to distribute in unlimited quantities, so the harm is very different.

I contend people starving is a worthwhile problem to solve. Can the tech industry solve it? I don't think so, which makes me curious what the point of the tech industry really is.

That's not what I said.

All the security issues patched in software have either been there since it was released or are introduced with feature updates. As a security veteran, the end of patching is hardly as dire as this imagines.

Update:

Patching has always been security theater for systems where security actually matters (national security), because it's assumed nation states already know vulnerabilities often years before there's a public disclosure or patch. These patches have always been to deal with nuisance actors impacting non-critical users. Besides, the user getting tricked is always the biggest risk, and patching does nothing at all for that.

If you care about security, don't get on the internet. The device you're using right now is probably already trivial compromised by unpatched vulnerabilities, if not known only by a state actor than a spyware company. Pretending this isn't the case is worse than discontinuing vanity security theater.

This is like everyone freaking out because they're shutting down the TSA. The idea that patches are important and effective is more dangerous than not patching.

I agree that when people say "I'll have to get back to you" it sounds a little less than inspiring. In the military, we always called that "taking a look up" or a "due out," but it helps to be able to articulate well at the time why you can't give a more complete answer (ie what data you need to look up).

Having worked on half a dozen government projects backed by Oracle databases, this really seems to be Oracle's entire business model: ship the shittiest product on earth, years late and oodles over budget. I've yet to witness something they make being better than a free alternative. Their sales department must be something of legend.

Maybe that's bad?

I used to work on a DoD special project that required rare earths that we could only get from China and we had to write a monthly memo about the risk to our $10B program that China would just stop selling it to us.

The problem boiled down to the Chinese government buying out and shutting down any competitors anywhere in the world, plus Congress requiring the DoD to go with the lowest cost, which was always China. We knew what the problem was, we made the problem clear, no one did anything about it.

Maybe this administration blowing up the government is good, actually.

This seems like yet another a hilariously disastrous misstep on the part of the Democrats, dark money and restricted speech and red tape. Have they considered just, you know, talking to people on the internet? The way normal humans do? The way Trump has done with such wildly incredible success?

It's fascinating that the driving force here was human-driven capitalism enabled by enhanced data collection, and not data-driven decision making at all. It's risk-aversion that's draining art of its artistry, much like the effect of risk-aversion in other industries like defense. Consider how the US department of defense tends to waste money on the same old prime contractors making the same old missiles, while other places like China are utterly devastating us on technologies that radically undermine our advantage that we'd historically considered "too risky" like drones.

I wonder what the next "drones" will be for the entertainment industry? World simulation models like Genie turned into some real-time generated mix of a shared experience of movies and video games?

Seems like a great opportunity for a non-traditional candidate with some backbone to pull an FDR on this Herbert Hoover.

I think a lot of doomerism over AI making everyone stupid is really overestimating how many people have good critical thinking skills today. I've worked in high skill engineering domains for nearly twenty years now and even well-accomplished people are often pretty unimpressive when it comes to really understanding complex concepts.

I anticipate smart people will not suffer some handicap simply because easy answers are now readily available for the vast bulk of people who were never going to think critically in the first place.

Imagine if all the ingenuity and dedication of silicon valley billionaires was invested in making the world better instead of making a handful of people richer.

Could not get past the multiple paragraphs of strawman nonsense. Here, let me summarize:

The counts of the indictment are luxury, bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect to elders, and a love for chatter in place of exercise. …

Children began to be the tyrants, not the slaves, of their households. They no longer rose from their seats when an elder entered the room; they contradicted their parents, chattered before company, gobbled up the dainties at table, and committed various offences against Hellenic tastes, such as crossing their legs. They tyrannised over the paidagogoi and schoolmasters.

Henry Ford famously wanted his workers to be able to afford his cars. When Bezos replaces everyone with robots, who will be left to buy his junk?

It's not peculiar at all because obviously those things are harmless, and that conclusion is harmful to the administration's political agenda, so why even research it when a foregone conclusion is readily available?

It's almost as if monopolies are bad, actually

This page is... Very very short. What are you talking about?

Perhaps such hubris is how all empires die

Imma be honest with you, this is exactly his I would do that math, and that is exactly the lie I would tell if you asked me to explain it. This is me-level agi.

I'm curious how folks imagine this relates to legal issues, such as the perennial section 702 battles. Is it possible that a future functional Congress might be able to finally end warrantless wiretapping by pointing to this massive intrusive criminal activity? It seems evident that this exercise can only ever lead to leveraging that system to further harm Americans.

https://www.intel.gov/foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act/...

Housing is a huge cut of your salary. If housing were affordable, that money could be saved for retirement. Instead, it's paid toward a mortgage by necessity. So there is little room for savings other than hoping the house sells when you retire.

I was here today and had no idea there was radio transmitter stuff around. I even poked my head in a few out-of-the-way doors. Well-isolated, I suppose.

I think there's a big question in there about AI that breaks a lot of my preexisting worldviews about how economics works: if anyone can do this at home, who are you going to sell it to?

Maybe today only a few people can do this, but five years from now? Ten? What sucker would pay for any TV shows or books or video games or anything if there's a comfy UI workflow or whatever I can download for free to make my own?

It kinda makes sense to spend your dollars where they can actually get used.