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maybe it's not too late to find out that US was always like this and the fairy tale our parents listened on CIA's RadioFreeEurope was just - a fairy tale for gullible grown-ups ;)

ha ha fair enough - but he does mention there's a culture of isolation and cu-throat competition at the school so, maybe it's just a reaction to that

rare here: well written and insightful, I would take this course. I'm curious about why he penalized chatbot mistakes more, at first glance sounds like just discouraging their use but the hole setup indicates genuine desire to let it be a possibility. In my mind the rule should be "same penalty and extra super cookies for catching chatbot mistakes"

LOL

if little green AIlens come and get blamed for the financial crisis, I'm sold 100% on Capricorn One (1978)

... urgently needed now ;)

Take a look at that sea of kids taking the GaoKao to get into Beijing univ and you know the software stack is lost already, it's now only about the fabs (hence the Greenland?).

you are behind the guy with $1M and ahead of the homeless bum with 10 stolen bucks. The elephant in the room is that all three of you are indistinguishably close to each-other when compared to Bezos/Musk/Koch etc ;)

"I'm increasingly of the opinion that we need to reimagine the operating system itself..."

yeap!

and the average $1.4M is now worth a not yet fully paid mortgage and 2 cars on operational leasing..

"boredom lab researcher"? Well...

I remember as it was yesterday, many years ago I saw on National Geographic a NGO lady flown thousands of miles to Africa to sit on a boulder and explain (I imagine - the Tv was on mute) the intricacies of her trade. Lower left on the screen there was her name and her job title: "Human Lion Conflict Specialist"

separation of concerns -> division of labor (hint: there's always a power imbalance even if it's hidden under reification)

Ha ha Thanks! Now I'll just get back to "[redacted] movies" since it still doesn't make much sense to me, unfortunately humanity's future is doomed regardless of what you place under [redacted] - it's not a question of bad Musk vs St. Steve Jobs

peak anticlimax title ;)

50000 published - 500 retracted = 45000 slop noise to bury the 2 lonely actually novel ideas

Given my search history I'm guaranteed to get porn if I search for "[redacted]" so, a little help here pls, what is redacted supposed to mean?

> "Or take this depiction of a workshop, by a French painter, 1888. The room is clean and well-lit, the machines are human-scale. The master and the apprentice are intent on their work; one can imagine a paternal affection between them"

Yeah, sure, because Charles Dickens was a russian bot, there were no exploited children toiling naked and hungry - it was well-lit paternal affection, suuure.. I wonder why people don't trust our publish-or-perish papers anymore..

"Alterantives" - LOL!!

Again: some people buy a Rolex from the factory, like Kissinger and Obama, others buy it from ebay - it is still a yellow overpriced trinket.

The "Oohhh...I get it now... F_ck!" will be epic. At some point they will rediscover that insight from 1917 explaining that money are not backed by gold or oil or even leaving your computer overnight - money are backed by guns! Why is this green paper money and this pink one that I like better is not? / Because my big gun say so!

greatest f_ck up in the XX century by far, maybe of all times since the techno-feudalism - regardless if it's Trump or woke flavored - might prove impossible to overthrow.

> "Your phone will not just be a tool for consumption; it will be a weapon for truth. It will run its own blockchain node. It will prove ZK-statements in milliseconds. It will run state-of-the-art multi billion/trillion parameters LLM’s locally, meaning you will have an AI (probably AGI*) advocate that works only for you, not for a tech giant. You will be a walking center of power. You will be your own bank, your own identity provider, and your own judge."

... and flying cars will take us to Mars holiday spots.

Here's what will actually happen:

I will prompt the TSMC AI for a ASIC with hardwired certificates tied to my biometrics running instagram and X, maybe - if I can afford it - even a pay as you play minesweeper extension

maybe they finally discovered George Carling ;))

agree! Social-media contributions as files on your system: owned by you, served to the app. Like .svg specifications allows editing in inkscape or illustrator a post on my computer would be portable on mastodon or bluesky or a fully distributed p2p network.

there's a wikipedia link above (showing indeed Czechia amongst the least "nostalgic" - only 25% in 2021). As for elections results, how many ppl don't bother to vote (31% absenteeism vs 36% best electoral score, ANO)? how many tv stations do communists have, how many lavishly funded NGOs? how many instances proving the "communist" party to be no more that a pale imitation if not straight up controlled opposition...

As for the "flawed methodology": 66.2% of Romanians regret Nicolae Ceausescu in a study..."commissioned by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile" - I'd say if the "institute" of bad-mouthing communism had to admit that number... well it seems the russian bots are extremely efficient, maybe we should listen to them instead of useless Ursula bots ;)

Just a few days ago EU replaced SUA infrastructure with its own sovereign imaginary infrastructure. Replacing now those 5G Huawei chips in the new imaginary infrastructure with imaginary 800G chips... yeah, sure...

Those 50-60-70+% of people in former communist states don't "romanticize", they just remember being better. Utopia - no, but better than capitalism. Without an example of a communist state shielded from constant attacks, sabotage and sanctions from the dominant capitalist we will never know how good it could get. We just know the imperfect as it was, it was still better.

My phone never feels lonely - it is in constant contact with it's mothership reporting all my moves, moods and murmurs

There's a school shooting every other day here but no worries, look, Russians have them too

- What capitalists did in 6 months that communists didn't manage in 50 years?

- Make communism look good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_nostalgia

20 or so yrs ago I read a 300 page "EU Start-up Grants Guide" - small print legalese or Kant is children prose in comparison. I managed to reduce to 5 criteria to get 100 points needed to qualify:

20 pts - parrot EU buzzwords profusely without any context or logic

20 pts - spend a tone of money for certificates issued by EU approved firms

20 pts - prove your firm is already rich and wants the grant only to get richer

20 pts - sign yourself in for insane bureaucratic oversight and 30% of revenue kick-back to EU selected services (all your suppliers need to be 'preaproved')

20 pts - !!! THIS !!! prove that you already participated in previous projects

So basically it was 300 pages of gibberish summarized as "you are neither sufficiently 'well connected' or obedient to get grants"