Get enough people in the room and they can describe "the system". Everything OP lists (QAM, QPSK, WPA whatever) can be read about and learned. Literally no one understands generative models, and there isn't a way for us to learn about their workings. These things are entirely new beasts.
Readit Newscamgunz commented on Nobody knows how the whole system works surfingcomplexity.blog/20... · Posted by u/azhenley
camgunz commented on Please stop using OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot xda-developers.com/please... · Posted by u/bandrami
You don't have any control over any of the workings of Facebook, Tiktok, etc; you use them, you have to accept what you get. You have full control over the entire working of OpenClaw, and so can always improve it.
You have no control whatsoever. It's a non-deterministic program running under the control of one company on the hardware of another. The only thing you can control is whether or not you stuff all your data and agency into its widening maw.
The only way AI companies can recover their capex is to replace workers. That's why their interfaces are only facially built for the workers they're replacing (engineers, finance, etc) and why this is a non-starter: it totally undermines the business model.
camgunz commented on Please stop using OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot xda-developers.com/please... · Posted by u/bandrami
There's always a viable solution. Just need to look+think hard enough. Sometimes someone just randomly happens on a solution too.
A system's purpose is what it does. The way to stop the attention stealing machine (Facebook, TikTok, etc) from stealing your attention is to turn it off. The way to stop the data stealing machine (OpenClaw) from stealing your data is to turn it off.
camgunz commented on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/Wilsoniumite
Rich and powerful people go to jail all the time. SBF? Ghislaine Maxwell? Maybe that boundary is pushed but at least in theory in the "western/democratic" world you can't get away with breaking the law simply by having power (and yeah Trump and such - but in general). So sure, there is some erosion of rule of the law in the western world, but it's still a thing.
But you are right that people assume that. They also assume the rich pay no taxes. So they "assume" a bunch of nonsense. Some once told me assume makes an ass of you and me.
I think people think the US is supposed to follow this thing called international law, or at least they'll express some outrage when it doesn't.
The manipulation is that people believe in this thing called international law as something that anyone has to follow where in practice no country would ever let international law supersede its laws if it went against their interest and there is no mechanism to force this. You keep seeing news about this and that being against international law (be it Israel or the US or Russia, would be the typical use case) and people actually think this is a real thing, like there's some law book somewhere that applies universally to every country. Very few people have the real and correct understanding that these are just norms or treaties or agreements that countries decide to follow or not on a case by case basis as per their interest, i.e. not a law in any real sense of the word.
Well but I think those instances are like, "wow this dude actually went to jail? how badly did he fuck up?" or whatever. Like, a counter example is like, one person went to jail for the financial collapse of 2008--to the surprise of no one (though, a fair amount of justified outrage). Rich people also frequently pay no taxes, like famously Amazon.
But, I don't think people have a detailed understanding of these things. I do agree they're at best fuzzy about what international law is (I am also fuzzy on it). I just don't understand what's manipulative about it. Like, what are people induced into doing based on the premise that the US follows international law? I think anyone operating in that sphere (international shipping, piracy outfits, aid organizations, criminal syndicates) is probably savvy enough to know the US will just blow you up and lie about it for thirty years.
camgunz commented on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/Wilsoniumite
I'm not sure "everyone knows" applies here. This is one of these situations where the language is intentionally confusing. Because most people when they hear about laws have certain assumptions about what those are and how they work.
In this case this assumption is completely disconnected from reality. So yes, neither Trump, nor Putin, nor Starmer, nor Macron, nor any US citizen, and likely no citizen, or government of no country with any sort of power (India, China) or with a patron country with power isn't subject to any "international law". I.e. doesn't exist, it's just a word salad to manipulate the masses.
> Because most people when they hear about laws have certain assumptions about what those are and how they work.
I disagree; I would guess most people assume rich/powerful/etc people aren't subject to laws, no matter the jurisdiction.
> In this case this assumption is completely disconnected from reality.
How many people think the US is bound by international law? I looked for polling but I couldn't dig anything up
> ["international law"] just a word salad to manipulate the masses.
How are people manipulated by this?
camgunz commented on Two kinds of AI users are emerging martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald
I think this article is generally insightful, but I don't think the author really knows if they one shotted the excel to python transformation or not. Maybe they elided an extensive testing phase, but otherwise big bugs could be lurking.
Maybe it's not a big deal, or maybe it's a compliance model with severe financial penalties for non-compliance. I just personally don't kind these tradeoffs going implicit.
camgunz commented on Why aren't we using SSH for everything? (2015) shazow.net/posts/ssh-how-... · Posted by u/thunderbong
A thing I ran into is there are no virtual hosts in SSH, i.e. you can't have an SSH server at happy.example.org and ecstatic.example.org if they're both the same IP address. There was a patch for this but support waned. It's a huge blocker.
It is political. Designing everything around cars benefits the class of people called "Car Owners". Not so much people who don't have the money or desire to buy a car.
Although, congestion pricing is a good counter-example. On the surface it looks like it is designed to benefit users of public transportation. But turns out it also benefits car-owners, because it reduces traffic jams and lets you get to your destination with your own car faster.
But having a car is kind of bad. Maybe you remember when everyone smoked, and there was stuff for smokers everywhere. Sure that made it easier for smokers, but ultimately that wasn't good for them (nor anyone around them).