zbyte64
@zbyte64@awful.systems
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 11 hours ago:
Communists are just as selfish as anyone else. Their point is that if we want a better life we need to move beyond capitalism, communism is an appeal to our selfish nature as much as it is a call for cooperation.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 1 week ago:
Well, they ain’t harvesting organs for no poor folk and rich people don’t like to die
- Comment on We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. 3 weeks ago:
Ahh but they’re calling it a protest because they got an NyTimes article written about their leaving.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 3 weeks ago:
I’m suggesting that the choice between industrialization and skilled labor is a false one because China is industrialized and has a skilled labor force. I agree this is because of American owners seeking profit, but it seems the same won’t happen to China now that they’re industrialized.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 3 weeks ago:
Deskilling blue collar labor is how America gave China a manufacturing edge. What do you think will be the result of deskilling white collar labor?
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a question: why don’t you take their advice seriously instead of being so sensitive to their manners?
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 4 weeks ago:
Enshittification is a paradigm shift, but not one we associate with the birth of the internet.
On to your list. Why does misinformation appear after the birth of the internet? Was yellow journalism just a historical outlier?
What you’re witnessing is the “Red Queen hypothesis”. LLMs have revolutionized the scam industry and step 7 is an AI arms race against and with misinformation.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 4 weeks ago:
LLMs are not like the birth of the internet. LLMs are more like what came after when marketing took over the roadmap. We had AI before LLMs, and it delivered high quality search results. Now we have search powered by LLMs and the quality is dramatically lower.
- Comment on Ideal Business Stack? 5 weeks ago:
Regardless of the team size, I say simplify as much as you can so you can dedicate your resources customizing what makes their business special. You mentioned a PBX system and no infrastructure, this makes me think you talking about Customer Management. It sounds like you’re documenting as you go, fantastic. Maybe loop in a noob time to time to review the documentation or have a Q&A that reifies the docs. Best of luck!
- Comment on Ideal Business Stack? 5 weeks ago:
I think a concern for the business is whether other people can help maintain the system. As such don’t go too custom and roll your own. Take things like nextcloud and see if you can fit the requirements by bolting on a few docker services.
- Comment on Hype-fueling science fiction or plausible scenarios? 1 month ago:
I can’t take made up curves seriously
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 month ago:
I’m surprised it didn’t end as a crypto announcement
- Comment on If the USA and China goes to war, how likely will Chinese-Americans end up in "internment camps" like what happened to Japanese-Americans during WW2? 1 month ago:
It’s not even a question when we’re literally fighting for due process.
- Comment on China launches military drills around Taiwan 2 months ago:
The premise was that there really isn’t a historical equivalent. The analogy being shit is kind of the point.
- Comment on China launches military drills around Taiwan 2 months ago:
Like I said, hard to find a historical equivalent. Like which side would you compare the execution of landlords? The north paid the slavers restitutions instead.
- Comment on China launches military drills around Taiwan 2 months ago:
That is a much better example. I will borrow this for the future. Thank you.
- Comment on China launches military drills around Taiwan 2 months ago:
It’s hard for Americans to think of a historical equivalent. Imagine if Texas managed to splinter off and join the UK common wealth during the Civil war.
- Comment on FediForum Has Been Canceled 2 months ago:
Stop confusing young autistic vulnerable people.
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I’m old and autistic and not confused by the fact trans women are women. Hope that helps.
- Comment on Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year. 2 months ago:
Because shit for brains says we just need to train our AI models until they’re sentient. So that means we need all our workers reviewing the output of AI as much as possible until that happens.
- Comment on Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year. 2 months ago:
Until AI can sexually assault their workers, can it really be said they’re qualified for the position?
- Comment on Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year. 2 months ago:
Lol, yeah. Keep paying us developers to write that philosopher stone. For writing general AI my rate is 100x because it’s magic you can’t explain.
- Comment on My sister’s AMAB friend likes to look like a girl and even said she wanted to be a “Japanese woman”, why would conservatives think using she/her pronouns for her is forcing an agenda? 2 months ago:
There’s a plenty of ideological reasons, but I think it is partly the environment being so stressful makes it harder for people to be considerate to new viewpoints or people.
- Comment on Just watched the movie Hacksaw Ridge. Got me thinking can people in the military turn down an order because they disagree with it on sensible grounds? Like Trump ordering them to invade CN? 2 months ago:
This is why they fired the JAG lawyers at the Pentagon: there won’t be any legal expert opinions in the military to tell the soldiers the order is illegal.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 2 months ago:
Billionaires are often referred to as dragons because they horde wealth. A Guillotine that could know the difference and decide to only harm billionaires which be a technological marvel.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 2 months ago:
Real AGI is a Guillotine that only removes the heads of dragons.
- Comment on China: Chinese Communist Party Membership Positively Correlates With Citizens' Wealth As Party Members Gain 'Preferential Access' To More Valuable Housing, Study Finds 4 months ago:
It’s small potatoes really. The real money is in insider trading.
- Comment on Demanding a pronoun is like demanding a burkas. 5 months ago:
Whatever you just said is like demanding a burka. It’s performative stupid.
- Comment on Equal under the law or something 5 months ago:
They really are arguing that murking a CEO has more potential to change things than just about anything else.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse Too Complex? Can It Embrace Simplicity Without Losing Its Identity? 5 months ago:
I think the fediverse is friendly enough. Instead of competing with corporations with streamlined experiences, develop power user tools that actually improve the content on the platform. Like I do want a powerful fediverse search tool, but it doesn’t need to be built into every server.
- Comment on If a hostile country has installed a puppet leader to dismantle your government from the inside and the only thing that would expidite its destruction is a violent revolution how do you combat this? 5 months ago:
First all, glad your friend recognized this.
I found this article to be a prescient good grounding: wagingnonviolence.org/…/10-things-to-do-if-trump-…
I’m finding local communities to participate in (potlucks, picnics, movie night, anything that doesn’t spend more money). Sending holiday cards to my neighbors, anything to connect and integrate because what comes next will test all our bonds.