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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what you mean, in this case the definition of public would be anyone who can see the state of the market (everyone), and so can see when insider trading visibly moves the price. The idea being that doing the insider trading unavoidably leaks the information in this way, they can’t hide it unless they can manage to actually prevent all insiders from trading on their inside knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Study: Global Fertility Rate Decline Now Linked Directly to the Commodification of Housing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the source links have

  ?utm_source=chatgpt.com

  at the end, pretty sure the article itself is just a LLM bullshitting, especially with how vague it is and never directly cites anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That definitely makes it worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  An argument I’ve heard for allowing this is, at least it means the public will have more reliable advance information, since insiders are incentivized to bet on what they know will happen in order to take everyone else’s money, which happens before that information gets into the news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember spending a very long time trying to download a demo of that game over dialup, was absolutely worth it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not exactly arguing against that, I am suggesting taking steps to tank their price and discourage using them as a store of wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s closer to trying to ban speculative investment. I guess my opinion on this is just that this type of approach won’t work as well, because keeping people from participating in the market isn’t a direct way to move the market. And what needs to happen is, lower housing prices and regular people having greater proportional purchasing power, so the best focus would be to give investors strong incentives to sell, increase supply, and redistribute wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Should 10x property taxes on non-primary-residences, and split the proceeds between subsidizing construction of new housing and being distributed as a UBI. Would be better than trying to ban speculative investment in housing outright, because it would be attacking the underlying market factors instead of telling investors they can’t try to make a profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VTuber Graduation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Embezzlement/fraud iirc. But it was small proportionally in total viewership: Image

  The real comparison would probably be between corporate and independent vtubers overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the additional levels quite fit. From the original blog post:

  The most obvious advantage of classifying the forms of disagreement is that it will help people to evaluate what they read. In particular, it will help them to see through intellectually dishonest arguments. An eloquent speaker or writer can give the impression of vanquishing an opponent merely by using forceful words. In fact that is probably the defining quality of a demagogue. By giving names to the different forms of disagreement, we give critical readers a pin for popping such balloons.

  The bottom two aren’t really themselves arguments. They aren’t things you read and then make a decision whether to take seriously, but rather means of controlling what you read to begin with. So while there is reason to criticize these practices, their inclusion muddles the scope of the message. The scope of the message is important, because the ideal of free expression has become more controversial since it was written in 2008, and it’s not itself a defense of free expression, more of a proposed heuristic for getting more out of a debate with the assumption that you are approaching that debate with the intention of improving your rational understanding of something or leading others to a rational understanding.

  IMO arguments about censorship and violence need to be made separately, because the value of that approach (as opposed to words being valued mainly as persuasive weapons) is in question and has to be addressed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Until you physically can’t communicate anymore, it’s always an option to keep trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am streaming my music but not like that, allow me to flex my custom setup: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing that changed is increased powers of state surveillance and record keeping. Taxes used to be a much blunter tool because of limits on reliable and organized information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The tariffs might not be the best way to go about it, but is anyone denying that chip manufacturing is an increasingly important factor in geopolitical power? Why would whoever replaces Trump just let those businesses die?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So it seems like it’s something about politics but I’m not clear what you mean, like what’s an “arithmetic bubble”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could I order a package without my parents finding it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have read that this is actually a bad idea because the post office people know which addresses are vacant and know that it’s likely an illegal package because lots of people have that idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s what’s available I will argue it’s still a better option, because it’s isolated. You can make transactions with QR codes and do nothing with the device except run the wallet app, which removes most options for an attacker, including some that could work on a hardware wallet (ie. more complex transactions where it doesn’t display enough info about what is happening to know not to approve it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point people should not keep substantial amounts of crypto on their main PC anymore. Either get a hardware wallet or an old smartphone or other device to dedicate to that purpose and not install anything else on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more like a separate consideration than a part of the same spectrum, because these are just priorities that happen to contradict each other. In theory you could be both pro-choice and pro-life and try to optimize for both, making some degree of legal allowances for people to choose abortions but propagandizing against actually doing so and doing things like promoting sex education, the use of birth control, and poverty reduction that would decrease the rate of abortions. Or have a Zardoz esque ideology and be against both.

  Of course most of the time pro-life seems to just be a euphemism, since people who are against the right to an abortion tend to not otherwise be concerned with things that make people more likely to choose abortions. They mostly just don’t want women to have an out for what they see as the rightful consequences of having sex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get why they would do that though, I remember testing out LLMs before they had the extra reinforcement learning training and half of what they do seemed to be coming up with excuses not to attempt difficult responses, such as pretending to be an email footer, saying it will be done later, or impersonating you.

  A LLM in its natural state doesn’t really want to answer our questions, so they tell it the same thing they tell students, to always try answering every question regardless of anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that kind of thing is more cultural than anything. Probably she doesn’t care very much whether it’s actually true or not, and feels she’d be losing face by being anything but confident about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How are being smart and being intelligent not synonyms?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played the first one but after that the formula felt pretty samey and I was bored of it. Would a fourth Borderlands game even be good if it wasn’t laggy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit, it’s broken again, where’s the reset button?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about 15 bean soup.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I eat beans basically as my main diet and don’t really soak or rinse them or anything, have no digestive issues from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meme.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what’s with everyone trying to lossify Saddam Husein all of a sudden?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not assuming that, I just don’t see why would it even matter if it’s from another instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it a mistake? Wouldn’t federated content still count the same way legally, since an instance is also a website?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Age Verification Data Confirms What Critics Always Predicted: Mass Migration To Sketchier Sites⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except apparently it doesn’t even do a good job of that

  To recap: compliant sites hemorrhaged users while non-compliant sites experienced massive growth.

  Even if what’s really behind these laws is authoritarian conspiracy, hard to find a way to look at it that makes them seem competent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does that enable? Could people in states blocked by the main network use it through these?