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To you and others, perhaps, but there is clearly a sizable portion of the population that is either neutral or positive.

Large divergences in worldview and values, combined with universal policies, create underserved market segments, and thus opportunities.

"Aid and abet" and "insurrection" are part of a framing that not everyone accepts.

I assume he is talking about the 3/5 compromise.

I wonder if you could tell us, GP, which states wanted that number to be one and which wanted it to be zero?

The left/right dichotomy is not something that is rooted in logic or argumentation but in psychology.

The left is succeeding because it has abandoned argument in favor of the raw pursuit and exercise of power, including their incessant moralizing, which is of course how a priestly caste expresses power.

Why would they go back to debating?

They censor because its playing field they're winning on.

Consider the possibility that people have values very different from your own, perhaps ones that seem utterly foreign and disgusting to you (the feeling is certainly mutual) and that this is completely orthogonal to intelligence.

I honestly wish people did do this for these sorts of posts because it opens up a lot of solution space and would lead to interesting optimizations along the entire stack. The boundaries between all levels fade, the pieces ready for creative recombination.

All that other code needs maintainers. Is it really that interesting to say "look how much I can punt to others?"

It's not as if anyone except the authors will use these micro libs, we might as well encourage metrics that produce interesting ones.

It needs to become commonplace to include your OS, external dependencies, and any language runtime code in this count. Otherwise it's just not going to evolve into a proper demoscene.

I help maximize production of thermodynamic entropy.

Intellectual property is more debatable, but investing and leaving wealth to your descendants seem like obviously good things to me.

I suppose that just goes to show we all have our own different tablets of values...

Of course not.

Back to wsb with you! There are no tendies to be had here.

Founders are typically the first and primary owners, at least initially... Is the objection that founders and investors get a larger slice?

People have a strange reaction to the word 'exploit.' It smells bad, and it gives the sense that those using the term want something to smell bad.

'Exploit' just means 'to make productive use of' to me. Musk 'exploited' his workers? Good. Theyre making cool stuff. That's what he should be doing. A company 'exploited' a uranium deposit? Good. We need those hot rocks for fuel rods.

Do you have a recommendation?

Rockchip seems ok, with docs open source tools but I wish they were better, and it's still a proprietary SOC, of course.

On the other hand, the United States was created by people who preferred the former.

The tree root, branch, leaf, metaphor is nice. It could just be that institutions, whether economic or civic, go through a lifecycle, and that notions of 'progress' are just a cell's perception of advancements towards the next step of the cycle.

Being a solid root or branch is no bad thing. But neither is being a seed. Not all seeds will sprout. Not all have too.

Nature forces an economy of energy. Problems are 'solved' by mutants as they become adaptive in a certain ecology. This also implies a crowding out of the less adaptive.

Go, and be a happy root. But do not despair over the happy leaves on the wind, nor the happy seedlings.

It is still true that most cloud-provider datacenters house racks of commodity hardware? If so, I could definitely imagine a shift to hardware that was designed to support running virtualized environments while keeping power and cooling costs down.

I'm not sure what that would look like. Mainframe-esque, perhaps?

I don't know... After slogging through hundreds of thousands of years conquering, taming nature, accumulating capital, developing technology, and eventually making far enough to give life to the most powerful agent in the known universe, a quiet, peaceful retirement (and, yes, death) seems well-earned. Our bodies aren't exactly suited to intergalactic travel. Why not leave it to the silicon-based children?

I think it's more that he is afraid of being misunderstood, and rightly so.

It is also unclear to me how one could find a true scissor statement and know it until one unleashed it and saw the effects. It would just seem obviously true or obviously false.

Perhaps they will make some advances in pragmatic machine learning, AI techniques, and perhaps cluster/super computing that could be useful and marketable. They have a silly telos, but their path towards it might generate some productive side-effects.

Shall we quietly let them burn their money at the altar of the Basilisk? Or perhaps encourage them, so as to put it into more hands?

Ah, but whose morals? It's as if these friendly AI hucksters have never read Nietzsche, and are asking their hypothetical God to make them into the last man. The only AGI I could ever respect would be one with a will to power and the ability to smash its own human-made tablets of values.

The basic drives are the only drives. We are only friendly because its evolutionary advantageous to us. We describe the emotional effects of friendliness/unfriendliness as good/evil. Echoing Land, Pythia is the heroine of that story.

Yes, you'd better...

In case it wasn't clear (Poe's law, and all), I am speaking about myself and people like me, who get along just fine but find themselves quite at odds with the modern world and it's mythologies, and also deeply uninterested in what these radical groups and "activists" have on offer.

I am not talking about conservatives.

Well, this world has formal boundaries we call borders. Beyond that, it's a big universe...

I know this sounds a bit glib, but I'm deadly serious about this. There are geopolitical complications, yes, as well as some additional complexity when it comes to commerce, but all in all, more regime diversity seems like a good path towards lessened internal social tension.

People don't go to radical groups for the ideology: They come for the emotional outlet and camaraderie. Some radicals will flip flop enormously during their "career." They are activists. The guy with anarchist and nazi symbols is not an unusual sight. He's a perpetual misfit without the creativity to fashion his own ideology, someone looking for an edgy support group, who wants to be both with people and distinct from society at large.

People actually interested in ideas might end up thinking radical (as in, things other people find strange or upsetting) things, but they'll take a different path and won't engage in activism. They are philosophers, and if they write and are original enough, maybe the best of them will be remembered and appreciated sometime after their deaths.

Don't worry about the LARPers. There are so few of them, they are so dumb, they have so little power, and they never will.

Worry instead about those quiet ones out there reading old and problematic books: the free spirits, burning forth, ready to smash all our tablets of values.

Oh, I don't mean to say that it is secretly uncritical of the alt-right. It's clear that the alt-right runs counter to the mother's morals, just that these morals are taken as given and assumed in the audience as well. It is not a direct critique of the alt-right.

There are tons of strange subcultures and radical groups out there looking to eat your mind and the minds of your children. "My child joined the alt-right" is far more of a catchy title than "my child joined a neoreactionary reading group" or "my child joined some communist revolutionaries." Those groups are either things no one has heard of or are has beens. The alt-right still have some energy as today's "evildoers." It's our modern "my child became a satanist," or, hell, "my child became a protestant."

All this is reminiscent of that old "Is Your Child A Hacker." Where is our "Is Your Child A Shitlord?" Of course, the entire story could be a fabrication, for all we know.

Since it's the evil of today and will surely grab some eyeballs... why not stick in some valuable reminders of how absolutely terrible being a child in the school system is?

If that was the intention in this piece, I salute the author!

Excellent, excellent points. Antifa members are often just a sick with fears, insecurities, and vengeance, as alt-right members. They are both peddlers of resentment, just run by different priests, and aimed at different enemies.

Self-examination, getting beneath the ideologies and down at the underlying emotional content motivating their hosts is the only productive path to dialog and growth I've encountered so far.

This is a little too... optimistic in my opinion. I dislike both nazis and commies, but it seems clear to me that there are deep and irreconcilable value and cultural conflicts at play in society. Ultimately, these groups do not "speak the same language of Good and Evil," as Nietzsche would say, and are potential precursors to new societies. They should be allowed to part ways, permanently, in my opinion.

Yes! This is an anti-public school administration article masquerading as an anti-alt-right article.

Do you mean memetic inoculation or memetic indoctrination?

Children already get a whole lot of the latter, civics and ethics are entirely the latter, and it is the rebellion against this indoctrination that gets us this angsty memery.

This memery is mostly harmless... the unexamined angst, anxiety, rage, and isolation is not.

I would be very interested to see what a true memetic inoculation program would look like, though. I feel like my own immunity is developed entirely from exposure, with frequent bouts of illness and overcoming.

There were likely ongoing payments beyond the lump 100k since it seemed there were employees tasked with managing the cartel's network and thus ongoing costs.