TylerLives

>Ukrainians don't have a choice.

Why not? What in the life of an average Ukrainian will change if he is ruled by a bureaucrat from Moscow instead of a bureaucrat from Washington? Let's say that he prefers a bureaucrat from Washington. Does he prefer him so much that he's willing to die for this? In an ideal world Ukrainian people would have sovereignty, but this is not the world we live in. By refusing to accept this, we're pushing them to commit national suicide.

I would love to know in what way have you determined that the Ukraine is less corrupt than Russia.

>Funding of free press is supporting a democracy

It's not really "free" if they depend on foreign donations. Do you believe that those donations come with no strings attached? If the Ukrainian "free press" disagreed with the party line, would they still receive money? Or would they be banned, like the opposition parties that opposed Zelensky?

>Wars are bad and that's why people starting wars should eat shit.

In the real world, this is not how things work. The loser always pays the price. The longer the war goes on, the more Russia will ask for in reparations. If the war continues for a few more years, and the Ukraine loses more land and people, will this be better for them? Can they at least have a referendum, to make sure this is what Ukrainians really want?

What's the alternative, fight until the last Ukrainian? And we can't even have a referendum there, to make sure this is what Ukrainian people really want?

Fair enough, elections could really cause political instability. Would you be in favor of a referendum, simply asking Ukrainian people if they want to continue fighting or accept peace under whatever conditions are offered by Russia and the US?

>Also, while polls say Ukrainians want peace, the part that is not reported says the majority of Ukrainians does not want to give up land for peace.

I find this hard to believe. Do you think it would be fair to confirm it via a referendum? That way all the political instability of elections could be avoided, but we could still make sure that it's what Ukrainians really want.

>as if Russian or Ukrainian people are bots who can't desire freedom and non corrupt governments.

Even with all the propaganda and force being used (and there is a lot of force, search for videos of how Ukrainians are being conscripted), I am certain that the vast majority of Ukrainians would vote against Zelensky and would be highly motivated to end the war. Whether such decisions should be left to the people is another question, but it's not even true to say that Ukrainian government represents the people anymore, which is why they refuse to hold elections.

>No most Russians don't speak Chinese but yes they get news from official media which is China aligned

China owns Chinese media. Russia owns Russian media. US allies don't own their media. USAID was funding 90% of Ukrainian media [0]. Don't you think this can be a problem in situations where interests of the two countries don't align? Was this war good for the Ukraine?

[0] https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1887501752213409919

What about the other ones? How would the US react if some foreign power was funding NGOs in their country with the goal of overthrowing the government? Btw I'm from Serbia where this has happened in the 90s and is now happening again.

This is why all the smart Russians are leaving Russia to go study at the Chinese Harvard. This is why they're all getting their news from the Chinese internet and why they're dependent on the Chinese military for protection and can't domestically produce weapons. If they refuse a request, China will bomb their gas pipelines or finance a revolution. Oh wait, I was thinking of a different empire.

I haven't followed Gumroad much, but I remember them being very pro freedom and having some interesting hiring practices. IIRC they were all being paid equally (based on position and hours of work) and had no meetings. Now I see a Code of Conduct.

I've never understood "fat acceptance". Is your view that having more fat people in the media will help other fat people fell better about themselves? I have sympathy for them and understand that for some people it can be very difficult to lose weight, but I don't see how "fat acceptance" is going to help them. Especially given that on some level they must know how others really feel about it. It's interesting to see how these types of initiatives always produce the opposite of what they claim to stand for.

This is a good video on the topic https://youtu.be/F7-18qCOfJo You can skip the first 13:40.

Sure, there was never a perfect meritocracy. I believe we should move towards a more meritocratic society and hiring based on gender and race goes against that.

That's maybe 1% of DEI. The other 99% is stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33165844 and making characters in video games ugly

>Any relevant experience

I think it comes down to how well you think the government functioned prior to Trump. If you believe that it was terrible, then having experience in the old system can be seen as a negative. Btw I don't think you're entirely wrong in your concerns. I dislike both DEI and RFK's ideas. Unfortunately the question still remains, how can we find the best people for the job? I think the medical industry is incredibly corrupt and at the same time don't believe Joe Rogan will find a solution to this problem. Imo, the only solution is to fix the existing institutions, but I'm not sure how that can be done.

The two are incompatible. You're either hiring based on race, gender, sexual identity etc. or based on merit. Firing people who got hired because of racist and sexist DEI practices increases merit.

I don't think years of experience is a good measure of merit. If you believe they're worse at their jobs, you should demonstrate that in some other way.

How will this help your software engineering career?

I never claimed that all suffering is good, or that we should maximize suffering, only that eradicating all suffering would be highly undesirable, and even impossible, as lack of suffering would inevitably bring about new suffering.

Without suffering everything would become meaningless instantly. It would be like playing a video game with cheats.

It's actually about LLMs. They're fundamentally limited by our preconceptions. Can we go back to games and AlphaZero?

Not sure about Canada, but Trump's actions will make a lot more sense if you consider that to American rightists, American leftists are a much bigger enemy than Russians. I think the same is true in the opposite direction. These 2 groups can't stand each other and often sabotage the other's efforts. We can put that aside and ask what's best for the world or America, but as long as there is this hatred between the parties in the US, both sides will act primarily against the other.

This has been my experience as well. Breaking problems into smaller problems where you can easily verify correctness works much better than having it solve the whole problem on its own.

I don't have a way to prove this and it's based purely on intuition/experience, but I disagree. I think ideology doesn't meaningfully influence such people. There is a deeper psychological drive and they only create a philosophical justification later, which is of little importance. This is perhaps true of humans in general.

He was installing Arch.

As long as people are not willing to acknowledge that we're not blank slates, but posses vast intelligence inherently, and that even the simplest life forms are infinitely more intelligent than LLMs, there won't be progress.

Lots of aspirin - https://raypeat.com/articles/aging/aspirin-brain-cancer.shtm...

When you suppress ideas in this way, they become more attractive to a large number of people. There is a problem with bad ideas spreading quickly on the internet, but censorship hasn't helped with this imo.

I believe he is being honest. I remember him making similar remarks in the past, saying they don't want to be the arbiters of truth. Most tech companies were like this before, but they were pressured by some other force to censor. Glad to see that's changing.