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warumdarum··on The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
Corruption depends on the rule of law. And you can not have rule of law, when the primary state-forming institution is the clan-family. Its just not possible. So any culture, that can not produce state-builders, is doomed to fail forever, with the history dotted with failures. Its hard to understand- but these states you see on the map, named and infamed- are not real. The clan who rules and the cityparts and cities they own and live in, that is the state. The rest- is conquered territories, ruled by other clan-families, who are subjugated and extracted from.

Which is why these countries are so much more prosperous when outsiders rule them, supressing the clan systems for anything more meritocratic.

warumdarum··on AI Makes Me Sad
In a way its worse- nothing is stopping claude from decompiling all the things- and then adding the source code it decompiled to the training data, as if it was just another github to crawl. So if one of your installers is out there- you have provided the perfect example of something working.
warumdarum··on OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News
Its a trade-off- a humanity racing and potentially going offer the cliff, needs all the tools to continue existance as an civilization. None of the involved decision makers caring long-term worries about the AI-companies or the artists. Fleeting momentary things, but the capabilities are eternal, as long there is a chip, with a solar panel half way around the world, some medieval tribe with a tablet can recover western civilization from basic principles. Thats the best insurrance against regression into stone-age facism or socialism money can buy.
warumdarum··on We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
Is that already economic delamination? As in the singularity extracts the most valuable ressources (new thought generators) from the traditional economy keeping mankind alive and stable- towards itself?
warumdarum··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
But if you want to avoid withdrawls.. you better harvest and store that honey. And that wheat- all that beer, all that mead. Just to stop shivering.. the addiction of civilization.. and all you need is earthen kegs and a cellar.
warumdarum··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
What is a new hypothesis other than a conspiracy of circumstances making better sense..
warumdarum··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Because alcoholism forces hunter gatherer cultures into settlements, which are the next stage of civilization and reward those doing that choice?
warumdarum··on US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution
Because it stops society falling apart and regressing. Humanity is not some angelic, monolith stoic super species, which is just programmed wrong. Its half-sane monkeys which fall apart in a regression as soon as the surplus bribery stops and then try to sew the bakeries oven apart, so everyone has something to eat.

One can not create policies that destroy the thing they want to protect from a crisis to come, by inducing a different crisis by ignoring the material you work with. Trump is your doing, you brought this guy forth, by deindustrializing the west, by making western buisnesses unable to compete. Stop working with idealized paper-cut outs of people- and actually engage, with the species you got. And no, your good intentions and noble goals, do not entitle you to wing it.

warumdarum··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
So far, it appears those smart people have created a ideological caused self-extinction of western civilizations and thus a take-over by unapologetic expansionist imperialist cultural systems. Not very smart and not very longterm loadbearing.. it seems those "smart" people are mostly ideological driven and unable to work with the flawed, half-animal humans given.
warumdarum··on Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
Life is inheritly expansive and colonialist. The trees war the grass for the light by throwing shade. So people have these little plot-armor, little stories justifying endless expansion- having three kids, who consume thanks to modern industrialized society energy and nutrients like a medieval village and do the same. Without these "Im-good" self-repairing stories, people would stop having kids and wither and die. To demand people to be rational there, is to start a death cult.

These whales sing songs about how sharks have no souls and the metal fish dwellng on the surface mauled there ancestors.

warumdarum··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
Beating a exponential curve with a stick. The military never changed
warumdarum··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
27th?
warumdarum··on Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt
Colonial horror stories with subtile racist undertones. Only white people could do such evils and become acteurs in history. Exceptionally evil, superior you could even say and the only ones locked into a story of repentantce in topdown anti colonial revolution.

Everyone is heartily sick of this, no explanation power and thus not helping anyone to overcome anything. The Rosamunde Pilcher, of looking at history.

warumdarum··on Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt
Everything on earth is made of the dead severaal times over.
warumdarum··on Over 30% of new ArXiv submissions now read as AI-written
Weimar moment of science
warumdarum··on The Anti-Palantir Manifesto
The data its built on. Science goes where the data is and all of metas/googles social network data, aka all of human behavioral data builds the actual basis for Sims. The palantir in the company name is a reference to cellphones. Seeing stones to look into the heart of the man of the west and east..

Its basically a privatized science. With that you can give accurate scenario tree modeling and predictions to governments free of the retardations, idealizations and ideologies that plague the open source "sciences" that actually don't even want to know.

They also sell Datamining related tools that allow to implement policies.

Before 2008 - 2012 there buisness base just didn't exist.

warumdarum··on Valve say there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, prices going to increase
What is this fever dream? Is the us government even behind the hemorrhoids?
warumdarum··on Valve say there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, prices going to increase
Have fun to reprogram your games for memory efficiency with llms trained on code grown during a memory glut. What a blindspot..
warumdarum··on France, Germany vow to develop Palantir rival
You need the social media and collected behavioral data to derive the social models and have accurate sims though..
warumdarum··on EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
You still dont get the realities of climate change, do you? The world you want centralize micromanaged for the greater good, is going into locally different wild swings preventing local production of goods if not adapting and improvising locally on a add hoc basis. This is a starvation machine on which poorer parts of the world depend, disguised as a park management.
warumdarum··on How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner
Git blame -> graph of all employees , route from ex employees to successor or departmenthead
warumdarum··on Designing emoji for the way we communicate today
Always look on the smile side of janus
warumdarum··on Designing emoji for the way we communicate today
You can now add a excellent emoji to a thumbs up emojii and do a market penetration animation
warumdarum··on EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
Socialist micromanaging you say? You should see what those maniacs do with there farmers. The job has literally turned into bureaucrat who ocassionally works a field as hobby.
warumdarum··on In Germany if you say a restaurant is just ok they send the gestapo after you
Lets take the average machine building company, i promise you the engineers drawing the machines sit in quiet climatized rooms. Meanwhile the "software" sits in bustling cattlefarm like largescale offices. There is no money for startups but there is money for playing startup and the various wirecards. Wha are theset the fuck is wrong with that culture, that it stopped innovating and tried to life from rent-seeking on ic vehicles? A d when pressed for answers- all it has is these lame passive aggressive rhetorical questions?
warumdarum··on In Germany if you say a restaurant is just ok they send the gestapo after you
Germany manages free speech and democracy as well as it does producing software. I really want to know where the cultural difference originates from. Why are CAD drawing engineers respected while programmers are walked allover. Why is eastern europe exempted from this cultural curse?
warumdarum··on Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
You can also be excluded from experimental rollouts by writting profanities in the comment boxes. On mf a day keeps the experimentals at bay.
warumdarum··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
It also had ridiculous rules to enforce "quality" but in the end it was to enforce user work by convention. Like one question per question only. Nobody could just post a project with a set of questions. Nobody was allowed "stupid" questions, nobody was allowed to do in depth meta excursions, the site reeked of rigor, where a true academic would have allowed for rigor to go lax when moving away from certainty aka to the funnel stage of enlightenment. It also would not allow for grouping questions into a format thats similar to the youtube "project" format.
warumdarum··on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)
I wouldn't give much on the opinion of a topological donut. I should know, I'm one
warumdarum··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
A political movement that destabilizes the living situation for large parts of the population feeding them to the populists to archieve a lofty abstract goal, thats almost poetic.
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