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When your labor force makes gains in productivity you can choose to do one of two things:

1. Reduce working hours 2. Grow the economy

Guess which option was last picked in 1868 and never again despite massive gains in productivity?

I learned what a crossover cable was as a teenager because I was in an electronics store buying an ethernet cable and I picked the cool-looking black-and-red cable. Then the guy behind the counter told me that the cool-looking cable I picked is a special cable and instead handed me a boring grey cable. :(

So the United States should step in because it knows better than our elected representatives? Are you sure you're on the side of democracy here?

You may not have complete immunity beyond 10 years though, so the recommendation is that you get a booster every 10 years.

But I don't see your point? Are you arguing that the COVID vaccine grants immunity for much longer than advertised? That seems unlikely given the mutation rate of coronaviruses.

This is not public scrutiny though, that comes from the public and their institutions. This is simply a nation meddling in the internal affairs of other nations.

You need a booster every 10 years to maintain immunity.

When did you get your last tetanus shot?

What's legal doesn't matter, it's their store, if they want to claim they own the word Pear too they can do that.

I think holding that kind of power over devices people own is problematic, but I seem to be in the minority here.

Personally, because I'd feel like a fraud, but perhaps that'll just be the new imposter syndrome.

If the AI comes up with better ideas, then why would you put yourself at a disadvantage? Especially if people consider it just another tool even if it did all the creative thinking.

You're assuming a level playing field, but what if better trained AIs are only usable by a select group of people wealthy enough to pay for it?

It's certainly going to exacerbate the advantage that wealthy kids going to elite universities have at becoming geniuses.

If the power saw also drew up the blueprints of the house and chose its design elements, then I'd say the power saw built the house.

The difference that makes AI more than just a tool is that it comes up with creative ideas, or at least plagiarizes them very well.

If you use an AI to generate all your work, then are you the genius or is the AI?

> Usually the maintainer just moved on to other things and the project wasn’t important enough to them to formally hand over

Where is this pool of maintainers ready to take on any project that I can hand over my projects to?

How is closing the strait a continuation of a legacy of guaranteed safe passage?

That's my point though, conflating lobbying and corruption doesn't help. Both are indeed problematic, but unlike actual corruption lobbying can be countered with activism.

Of course not, if there's evidence of corruption then those involved should be rooted out and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

What I'm saying is that if there's no evidence of corruption, then simply assuming corruption will harm your cause because it will make it seem like political activism is futile in the face of supposedly hidden corruption.

Neither examples are evidence of corruption. That doesn't mean they're not problematic, but there's no evidence here of a politician receiving a kickback for any of these actions.

I think it's actively harmful to your own cause when you suggest corruption without any evidence. Just because politicians don't take action on an issue you think is important doesn't mean they're corrupt. It's more likely that the issue you think is important is simply not important to most voters.

Suggesting politicians are corrupt without any evidence will make that worse. If people think their politicians are corrupt they will further disengage with the political process, which will ensure there's even less pressure on politicians to take action on niche issues like this.

Moscow and St Petersburg will be the absolute last places where you will see people struggle precisely because Putin knows it's important to keep those cities prosperous even if it's at the cost of people living outside of the major cities.

When corporations were posed with this question numerous times in the past, their answer has always been an emphatic "Yes!".

This is such a motte-and-bailey argument. Whenever people point out LLMs aren't actually intelligent then you're an anti-AI Luddite. But whenever an AI does something catastrophically dumb it's absolved of all responsibility because "it's just predicting the next token".

I'm getting so tired of this.

The financial derivatives are (supposed to be) regulated, there's laws against insider trading that keep the market fair. For sports betting there's laws against match fixing.

The prediction market CEOs on the other hand seem to be actively encouraging insider trading and match fixing, it's practically their main selling point.

Many languages considered green and blue so closely related that they grouped them together under a single term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction...

Apple is, because of vendor-lock in. Once you're sufficiently dependent on Apple's ecosystem it becomes painful to switch to a competitor because it requires switching to a different smartphone which then locks you out of most of Apple's ecosystem.

> So I'd say things are already exactly as you wish.

Except, you know, the "don't take others with you" part.

That is a crucial, fundamental part of liberalism that people often skip over. Everyone only seems to remember the "I have the freedom to do whatever I want" part and skip over the "until that freedom impedes the freedom of others" part.

> It's easy to turn off the crypto stuff

I'm living under a rock, but my first thought was that you turned off TLS.

Indeed, the problem is that people tell lies on the internet. We need to do something about that, because it's interfering with our super-intelligent AI models. /s

Emphasis on the word "quite"

> President Camacho is the exact inverse of Trump: he is stupid, uninformed, disconnected, and has few resources to address the challenges he faces, but he makes good-faith efforts to do so at every turn.

Camacho does so because he literally has no other option, there is an imminent famine he has to deal with. If he was living in an era of abundance like Trump, then I wonder how sincere and transparent he'd be.