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readyplayernull commented on     · Posted by u/duxup
readyplayernull · 6 months ago
We humans forget what freedom is, but do we need to be tosed in jails and beaten the shit out of us to remember?
readyplayernull commented on Warren Buffett saw the selloff coming and hoarded cash   fortune.com/2025/03/15/wa... · Posted by u/adam__smith
readyplayernull · 6 months ago
So how many Melania coins did he buy?
readyplayernull commented on Canada has far too few soldiers. Here's a radical fix – mandatory service   nationalpost.com/news/can... · Posted by u/amichail
beardyw · 6 months ago
Still doesn't answer how you quantify "enough".
readyplayernull commented on     · Posted by u/sleepyguy
readyplayernull · 6 months ago
They'll get turned off.
readyplayernull commented on Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI (2023)   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/pcfwik
readyplayernull · 6 months ago
> GPT-4’s text entitled “Why Did I Write GEB?,” if taken in an unskeptical manner, gives the impression that its author (theoretically, me) is adept at fluently stringing together high-flown phrases in an effort to sound profound and yet sweetly self-effacing at the same time. That nonsensical image is wildly off base. The text is a travesty from top to bottom. In sum, I find the machine-generated string of words deeply lamentable for giving this highly misleading impression of who I am (or who I was when I wrote my first book), as well as for totally misrepresenting the story of how that book came to be. I am genuinely sorry to come down so hard on the interesting experiment that you conducted in good faith, but I hope that from my visceral reaction to it, you will see why I am so opposed to the development and widespread use of large language models, and why I find them so antithetical to my way of seeing the world.
readyplayernull commented on Ask HN: Could the U.S. government stop risking shutdown?    · Posted by u/keming
readyplayernull · 6 months ago
It's intended, will give more power to the power hoarders. They'll also use this:

https://www.newsweek.com/insurrection-act-explained-trump-ad...

readyplayernull commented on Johns Hopkins University slashes 2k jobs   reuters.com/world/us/john... · Posted by u/KnuthIsGod
neuronexmachina · 6 months ago
I wonder how many deaths the USAID cuts will cause in the next decade. Congrats again to everyone who voted for this.
readyplayernull · 6 months ago
And pandemics.
readyplayernull commented on Ask HN: Is human technology advancing faster than human wisdom sustainable?    · Posted by u/oatmeal1
readyplayernull · 6 months ago
The whole problem is that wisdom is controlled by greed.

But what if, in the future, the brains of current world leaders are examined and they find the cause of their actions is saturation of microplastics? So destroying the planet wasn't their fault, but just like lead and the Romans, they got crazy from pollution itself?

readyplayernull commented on Government shutdown looms as DOGE cuts spending   washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/adam__smith
readyplayernull · 6 months ago
> Trump will at least temporarily have more power over federal operations. That’s because in shutdowns, presidents enjoy wide discretion on exactly what to close, furloughing employees, and what to keep open, making workers perform their duties without pay.

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