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Being so ideologically rigid that you suggest survival of the fittest over legislation...

Tesco's is infrastructure?

People are mostly sympathetic when it's physical issues. Psychological issues are treated as diseases of the soul that you only need God or willpower or whatever to fix. And most fat people are fat because of the incentives in our society, but admitting that also goes against certain political ideologies...

Why does it matter?

Yeah, it opened up the door for us not owning not even our phones anymore, and soon even the browser itself.

I'm of course talking about the purpose of the department, not about the skills of an individual fireman.

The skills for putting out fires is very different from those for investigating fire-related crimes. It's literally a subarea of forensic science...

I don't know how it is in Europe but down here in Brazil they're lesser gods in all but name. I see no functional difference between their cults and the ancient pagan cults.

They're not gonna admit it because being monotheistic is kind of the whole point of Christianity. Just like they're gonna admit how the Trinity was just a cop-out to the obvious polytheism in the Bible and the traditions.

Yeah, for all intents and purposes that's the spec for emails now

Why do you think you have the moral high ground here?

I mean, ads work same way those obnoxious Mr Beast faces in thumbnails work: I never click on any video like that, but they obviously work for attracting a general public. It's even kind of funny how aggressively the algorithm tries to push them to me: if I were to anthropomorphize it, I'd say it's palpable its desperation to drag me to a popular cluster

So, "ads work" doesn't mean they will work for everyone at the individual level or won't have the opposite effect for some.

Yeah, for simple nearly mathematical functions it's quite clear how to do it. I find it hard to extend this to more business-focused inputs

Yeah, the basis for the modern authoritarianism is "the president alone represents the will of the people". As if Congress and Senate weren't elected as well. As if the public workers didn't have their work created and regulated by the laws the elected Legislative imposes.

With "simple reversion of responsibility" do you mean your twisted logic of "everyone should think first and foremost about my profits"?

In Brazil as well. I think a good side effect, or perhaps the main intended one, is that governments aren't allowed to supress voters and have to make sure everyone has easy access to the voting booths. Every election there are mandatory pieces on TV about how people are voting even in the most remote of places.

Musk is allowed to test in production with 1 ton metal machines racing at 100 km/h without it entailing legal responsibility. Amazing the influence that a few million believers on social media can buy you these days

I find it amazing that a king can just say that a drug works and then it becomes the absolute truth forever

Yeah, it's like those famous posts comparing monads to burritos or something

Yeah, I find it specially frustrating to do it with a slow reader. Like, in 2 seconds I can scan the page and see that what I need isn't there, and the other person is there taking like 1 minute to read everything... Or the opposite, there is the keyword jumping at my eyes and the other person takes so long to even find it. There's also the whole issue of the person not wanting to discuss about anything deeper other than the task immediately at hand.

But when I do with someone faster and that actually likes to discuss the implications, philosophy behind what we're doing it's amazing

My turning point was the Thai cave rescue.

Does Tesla accept liability for any accidents while FSD is enabled?

Economically and diplomatically? No, it doesn't.

I mean, most of international law and deals are basically pinky promises. But grown-ups are supposed to keep those pinky promises

Yeah... I would have thought that fear of Russia was way more ingrained into the American psyche. It's amazing how much they're basically bowing down to Putin

Yeah, rationality is a bug of our brain, not a feature. Our brain just grew so much that now we can even use it to evaluate maths and logical expressions. But it's not its primary mode of operation.

I don't have the internal monologue most people seem to have: with proper sentences, an accent, and so on. I mostly think by navigating a knowledge graph of sorts. Having to stop to translate this graph into sentences always feels kind of wasteful...

So I don't really get the fuzz about this chain of thought idea. To me, I feel like it should be better to just operate on the knowledge graph itself

If we were designed then it was a very sloppy designer. We can easily think of a myriad of ways it could have been done better. And quite mischievous to just leave all this evidence of evolution.

I think that the gnostics with the idea of a malevolent creator god would fit our world better.

Quantum leaps are what we already have: tiny and oscillating all over the place

Not really, based on the little I know from legislation. When it comes to public administration, the principle of "you can do whatever the law doesn't forbid you to do" is reversed: it can only do whatever the law says it can, and there are some general principles, written in the law as well, governing the flexibility in the interpretation as well. And specially they're not at will employees, there are very complicated processes to justify firing them.

For instance, there is no law allowing the president to do a SELECT * in the income tax database. So an honest government worker can just say f-off when he is requested to do so.

Should have made it clear that I'm not American and I'm just finding it wild from afar.

I guess it's a testament to American democratic cultural history that no coup has occurred in American history when the president has such an absolute authority over the executive branch, as informed to me by the other comments. Let's hope for the sake of the whole world it remains like this.