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

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about 15 bean soup.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  all the privacy debates surrounding Google search results from the past two decades apply one-for-one to AI chats, but to an even greater degree. That’s why we (at DuckDuckGo) started offering Duck.ai for protected chatbot conversations and optional, anonymous AI-assisted answers in our private search engine. In doing so, we’re demonstrating that privacy-respecting AI services are feasible.

  I like and use DuckDuckGo but I don’t see how they can guarantee this, similar to how a VPN might claim to keep no logs but you can’t really know for sure.

  I think it would be cool if there was software that downloads local copies of wikipedia, stackoverflow etc., and you can ask questions that will be responded to with relevant informative pages without that query going to a server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue Archive, [an anime RTS], got hacked, but the hacker just spawned the same character everywhere without touching valuable data, Nexon confirms  - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like a stretch to call it an RTS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is good logic but I think what you are missing is that the factor behind investment demand driving up price is volume of capital rather than number of landlords. One company can buy any number of living spaces if it has a way to profit on them, cancelling out the effects of any number of principled refusals by individuals to buy property in pursuit of that profit.

  That said, one thing that is weighted to individuals is lobbying local government to protect their investments, so more people becoming landlords isn’t necessarily good, because your finances being tied to something is a powerful source of bias, for instance towards opposing new housing developments that could increase housing supply and reduce price of your properties, or opposing higher property taxes for non-primary-residences. But if someone supports effective policies towards affordable housing, even knowing it will harm their investments, I think they get credit for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well like I said that’s kind of the sentiment I expect because people like to make this about individual morality, but care to elaborate at all? Do you disagree with any particular part of what I’m saying?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This will probably be an unpopular opinion but I think the reality is that the choice whether to be a landlord has no effect on the supply of housing and so is almost totally irrelevant to this essentially systemic issue. The only kind of stuff that matters here:

  • Supply of housing influencing its cost
  • Wealth of the poorest influencing their ability to pay for housing
  • Other factors (the credit system etc) limiting people’s access to housing
  • Legal ability to use housing as a speculative investment (ie. low property taxes even if you own multiple properties)

  The idea that people would buy property and then provide housing on a charitable basis in defiance of the market isn’t realistic and isn’t a viable solution to the problem. The only solution is to build the right incentives into the system. Someone can support the latter without trying to do the former.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I often do the opposite, pick a bright color that is not the color of the base material, to make the repair stand out more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I see, didn’t read the second image at first

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you have memory problems and need to write down events, is there a system which you can verify that its not tampered with? (Like a digital checksum, but for a journal)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pull an eyelash or similar, keep it between a specific page and check every time that it’s still there. If someone tampers with the journal it will fall out and they won’t realize it matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately email is the only way they have to verify your identity. No email, no account.

  That isn’t really true, I’ve restored access to multiple game accounts before in situations where I lost access to my email, it mostly involved providing information about the account that only the person using it would know, like the names of characters on it and some other stuff. If a company can’t handle this it’s because they don’t want to pay for competent customer support workers and just rely entirely on automated systems.