peterashford

Famously, technology didn't exist before Capitalism. No technology was created under Communism, for example

That sounds like a strawman. What you're arguing against is not how I read the parent

I don't think any significant social change has been bought about by people asking nicely. Votes for women, anti racism, worker's rights, land rights - all hard fought for.

Qualia vs phenomena. Both are real

It isn't

Being pro Palestine in no way implies a "reverse genocide". JFC

As long as that speech doesn't come from CNN or criticise Charlie Kirk, Israel or Trump? I'm sceptical about how much the US really values free speech

As a New Zealander, I would agree - no reason to prefer the Chinese. But Trump's America is not an attractive option either and there's no reason to prefer it. And given the choice between two ugly options, the rational choice is the cheaper one, surely.

what? on every post? is that really practical?

Yeah, this is the C++ kitchen sink approach and its the reason I don't favour rushing features. Never a second chance to get it right the first time

I'm always switching to the latest versions. Performance upgrades with no effort. Why wouldn't you (assuming you're not pinned by a dependency)

I was a volunteer in PNG at the PNG Institute of Medical Research, which at that time was run by Michael Alpers, the guy who did the initial scientific investigation into Kuru - the disease mentioned in the article. Fascinating stuff. I lived for just over half a year in Goroka the highlands, then a further year in Madang on the north coast. That was 25 years ago now but I will never forget it.

It may be tiresome, but it's true. It doesn't refute the article's premise thou, only retesting with newer models would and that would be the same tiresome requirement you already called out

I agree with you somewhat but I also just this morning read an article from a Blender educator who tried to replicate the Blender demos and couldnt get the same quality of results nor get results without errors that werent evident in Anthropic's demos

People mythologising Apple design will never get old

Expecting a corporate to police itself is, obviously, a joke

This is what I came here to say.

I'm sure the behavioural point is correct, but surfactants effect oils in a way that water does not. Water will not be as effective

What makes you say their government is corrupt? And how do you imagine this change effecting their chances of employment? Capitalists thumbing through their list of Places to Exploit and they get to Naoero and exclaim "That's too hard to pronounce! I'll exploit people from N'Djamena instead"?

Einstein? Rutherford, I think

Yes. Not that it was ever up for sale, obviously

fortunately, it's not a consumer product

Well, Adam Smith was a true Scotsman, and he hated rent seeking and I'm pretty sure he'd hate neoliberalism as well.

You're taking a strawman of the parent post. Their point was about people espousing dogma. You turned that into 'anyone who disagrees with me'. Not cool

Its not the literal intent, obviously. It is the consequence, however

Traditionally, this has been the solution to mass inequality

Yeah but this is the entire point of Neoliberal economics: enabling rent seeking behaviour to allow Capital to accrue wealth by virtue of being the biggest pile of wealth. It's ultimately not sustainable: the reductio ad absurdum of this state of affairs is one Capitalist owning everything. Clearly the pitchforks will come out before that, its just a question of how long it takes before it all explodes

She's a philosopher in the same way that Erich von Daniken is a scientist

I buy 3D assets. I bought some just recently. AI assets are currently bad. They look ok but the topology is awful

It's not bias, the results are unusable

In my experience using Claude code for Go and Java code, I've seen little advantage for one language over the other in the LLM agentic context. I did a little experimentation with Zig which was less successful. Presumably to do with the relative lack of documentation and still being a somewhat moving target. That said, I have had Go concurrency code written with weaker models prove to be buggy, which shows up rapidly when reviewing with stronger models.