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People who cheer for their own disempowerment are fascinating.

subsistence234on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions

>these are the people who think they are best qualified to prevent an artificial superintelligence from destroying humanity

do they believe that?

they happen to be the ones who can pull the brakes in order to allow someone on earth the chance to prevent it.

if they don't pull the brakes and if humankind is unlucky that superintelligence emerges quickly, then it doesn't matter whether or not anyone on earth can figure out alignment, nobody has the chance to try.

subsistence234on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions

they're not sure whether they can align super intelligence, they're sure that somebody needs to figure out how to align super intelligence before it emerges.

subsistence234on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions

that tweet would be more at home on a linkedin page.

subsistence234on Unity plan pricing and packaging updates

And a weirdo who hates a developer could keep auto-reinstalling (or just re-triggering the "new install" signal to unity servers) 1000 times per day, every day.

subsistence234on Appeals court rules White House likely overstepped 1st Amendment on social media

people spreading the absurd notion that face masks work the same outside hospitals as inside hospitals are causing panic and mask shortages. therefore they needed to be silenced. (that was the state of public discourse in april 2020, maybe you have repressed the memory)

subsistence234on Appeals court rules White House likely overstepped 1st Amendment on social media

>They were deplatformed,

which is a penalty for "lying" and prevents them from saying "wrong" things.

in that time What's "wrong" and what's a "lie" could change within a few weeks (do masks help? in march 2020 people were called lunatics for believing so, in October 2020 people were called lunatics for not believing so. or consider the absurd psyop about the accidental lab leak hypothesis)

subsistence234on Appeals court rules White House likely overstepped 1st Amendment on social media

It's as if this crazy court ruled on one hand that the USPS can't refuse to deliver your mail just because they don't like your opinions, but at the same time the court ruled that Texas is allowed to force the USPS to deliver everyone's mail regardless of their opinions?

subsistence234on Appeals court rules White House likely overstepped 1st Amendment on social media

and even if it's true we don't want to hear about it. and if we don't want to hear about it, censoring it was justified.

subsistence234on Public restrooms are hard to find in America

he thinks whether something is true or not just depends on how much upvotes it gets

subsistence234on Public restrooms are hard to find in America

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446500

>Coffee affects me strongly. What can I say. I get a cleanse every morning for 3 bucks. Cleansing your digestive tract is actually really good for you. People pay big bucks for cleanses.

sounds like OP

1. knows that he gets uncontrollable diarrhea from coffee.

2. enjoys it. why else do it every morning?

subsistence234on NYU Professor says he's locked out of X after declining to meet with Elon Musk

trolling?

the problem isn't that you shit on elon but that you suggested he's bad because he's middle-aged or divorced, especially when this "insult" applies to the other guy as well.

You could try making an (extremely tenuous) argument that getting divorce is weakly correlated with certain character traits, but is that really what you're trying to do?

subsistence234on Elon Musk’s X sues anti-hate researchers

>Elon Musk's latest legal move is straight out of the authoritarian playbook – he will stop at nothing to silence anyone who criticizes him.

says the group trying to silence people they disagree with

subsistence234on Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

>4chan killed Terry Davis.

weird. they seem to like him

subsistence234on The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

women in tech care about tech

subsistence234on FedNow Is Live

creating money in the sense of lending on margin is very different from the sense in which the Fed creates money.

subsistence234on FedNow Is Live

they're not a "hate group," they're a "collecting embarrassing info on creeps" group. of course the creeps aren't happy about that, and frame it as "hate."

subsistence234on FedNow Is Live

But if you HAD done bad things and they WERE documented on KF, you might try even harder to get it shut down. And if you had plenty money and influential contacts, and no moral qualms, you might succeed. Only temporarily though.

subsistence234on FedNow Is Live

That story only holds water on social media or clickbait news.

subsistence234on Ask HN: Whatever happened to the “coming wave” of delivery drones?

quintessential social justice moment

subsistence234on How to register a Kei truck in Pennsylvania

no it's not, it addresses the core of the idiotic argument.

"we should ban participating in traffic without the safety features of a new car." No we shouldn't for the same reason we don't ban bicycles, motorbikes, scooters,... which are at least as dangerous to drive as an old tiny car.

subsistence234on Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username

running a social network for people that can't handle rude words on a screen is hard.

subsistence234on Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username

the whole userbase of bluesky, judging by how they're acting right now.

subsistence234on Show HN: RDrama Featureset

Kinda hilarious that one or two people can build a better site for fun than reddit can for profit with 2000 employees.

subsistence234on Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City

"if there's a [X] at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 [X]"

subsistence234on That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job

Yup. Everyone in the office loves edgy fart-porn childrens-cartoon fursonas who have regular consent-accidents.

subsistence234on That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job

If you're the owner of your company, the company won't fire you. You can still harm your company (and thereby yourself) by attacking your biggest customers on social media.

subsistence234on Threads, an Instagram app

Supercuts Deluxe, twitter edition:

Twitter is done. There's no question about it. BREAKING NEWS: a bombshell. Today is a turning point, today was historically bad for Twitter. A turning point. We're at a turning point here. The beginning of the end for the Twitter administration. The beginning of the end! Breaking news: we have ANOTHER bombshell! Mike Zuckerberg might have to assume the office of the Twitter. The call for impeachment. Rumblings of the word impeachment"". Breaking news, another bombshell out of the Twitter HQ. I believe this is the beginning of the end. It's really the beginning of the end. The beginning of the end. He may be feeling the walls closing in on him. All the walls closing in on him. The walls closing in. Breaking news: a new bombshell. One astrologer says says this means the beginning of the end for Twitter. The beginning of the end of the Twitter presidency. Twitter will resign. Is this the tipping point? I know we've said it over and over... you think this is the tipping point? ... and over and over... this is a tipping point... and over and over. Breaking news: Twitter off the rails. This was the beginning of the end today. The beginning of the end... Reminds me a lot of the last days of Nixon. Breaking news tonight: new bombshell. This is the beginning of the end....

and so on and so forth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VdynwAkQy8

subsistence234on Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

Interesting to see how much a single competent person can accomplish, versus a thousand full-time employees for a billion dollar company.

subsistence234on Killing Community

from the perspective of average redditors, intelligence is obedience to social norms. obedience is their highest virtue, and the more intelligent you are, the better at obeying you can be.