YourNetworkIsHaunted

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago)

See, you're assuming the goal of moderation is to maintain a healthy social space online. By definition this excludes fascists. It's that old story about how to make sure your punk bar doesn't turn into a nazi punk bar. But what if instead my goal is to keep the peace in my nazi punk bar so that the normies and casuals keep filtering in and out and making me enough money that I can stay in business? Then this strategy makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Quick, find the guys who were taping their phones to a ceiling fan and have them get to it!

Jokes aside I'm actually curious to see what happens when this one screws up. My money is on one of the Boston Dynamics dogs running in circles about 30 feet from the intended target without even establishing line of sight. They'll certainly have to test it somehow before it starts autonomously ordering drone strikes on innocent people's homes, right? Right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

You know, that 30% figure is already enough to make it hard to express the value and power that the 1% control in terms of money - the numbers just don't seem real. In practice they will never face a financial obstacle and can treat money (or their stuff as valued in money) as worth whatever they want it to be at the time.

In that sense the fact that Bitcoin valuations are basically made-up by whales and exchanges is pretty obvious to understand.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

There's got to be some kind of licensing clarity that can be actually legislated. This is just straight-up price gouging through obscurantism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

AI finally allowing grooming at scale is the kind of thing I'd expect to be the setup for a joke about Silicon Valley libertarians, not something that's actually happening.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Computer scientists hate him: solve the halting problem by smashing all running computers with a sledgehammer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Sure we've been laying the groundwork for this for decade, but we wanted someone from our cult of personality to undermine democracy and replace it with explicit billionaire rule, not someone with his own cult of personality.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Reading the article explains the article, my dude.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know next to nothing about C++ but I do know that I heard that closing line in the original voice and got goosebumps.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I'm pretty sure you could download a decent markov chain generator onto a TI-89 and do basically the same thing with a more in-class appropriate tool, but speaking as someone with dogshit handwriting I'm so glad to have graduated before this was a concern. Godspeed, my friend.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Obviously mathematically comparing suffering is the wrong framework to apply here. I propose a return to Aristotelian virtue ethics. The best shrimp is a tasty one, the best man is a philosopher-king who agrees with everything I say, and the best EA never gets past drunkenly ranting at their fellow undergrads.

 

I don't have much to add here, but I know when she started writing about the specifics of what Democrats are worried about being targeted for their "political views" my mind immediately jumped to members of my family who are gender non-conforming or trans. Of course, the more specific you get about any of those concerns the easier it is to see that crypto doesn't actually solve the problem and in fact makes it much worse.

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