I don’t think I’m taking side in that text.

I do think you shouldn’t make opinions of text you didn’t understand.

Drumpf

but I think Google may still get split, though not as thoroughly buttwrecked as otherwise

I think I want to read more Sabatini the next weekend. No modernity at all - and plenty of such “pledges” always turning out a lie.

Provided I won’t learn a person who went offline almost a month ago is fine (other than severe burnout as expected). The only mutual acquaintance (who is supposed to know their real address etc) hasn’t yet read what I wrote them. I’ve went offline for longer periods of time, but it’s still scary.

When you are a nation-state, you can find a pretty amount of money to pay for a video of some unfavorable person committing a crime they’ve not committed. Or a dead\incapacitated\unwilling politician saying a speech. Or a person possessing authority confirming something they didn’t confirm.

When you are an entertainment company, you can find a pretty amount of money to pay for a technology to make characters appear consistent a decade after actors died.

When you are a multitude of clueless investors, you can together find a pretty amount of money to pay for Sun hardware in close future, then dotcom bubble burst comes. Same for this thing - it may be just a bubble.

I think all 3 variants are not stable, for #1 people already know deepfakes exist, and also fiction has prepared us for things like Saruman’s voice, charm spells in HP, just convincing illusions in Star Trek, the Force affecting minds in Star Wars, and so on, might be why mainstream doesn’t like geek culture, or tries to present it neutered and bland, for #2 they have to be unbelievably good and generative models are still not very good at philosophy and writing plots, for #3 - I think it’s too optimistic.

Yes, there’s no such thing. Just as there’s no such thing as perfect compensation.

Also by neutral structure I mean what they are pretending to be making now, and by compensatory what’s supposed to have existed before. I hope that hasn’t eluded you.

Sun-Tzu actually described how this works with soldiers, and how do you work with such gentle material. I’d say his book’s parts on psychology are about making a Hugo Boss from a wannabe Oskar Schindler, but if one applies his advice to oneself, one can put different goals.

I also like Marcus Aurelius.

You are pissed at another kid, so you find a dog turd near the playground and you throw it his way.

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That’s old news.

The author was that after getting a look at how Stalin’s USSR worked.

I think we can agree that even a marxist-themed totalitarianism in an English-speaking country is extremely unlikely to be Stalinist, thus similar to 1984.

Internals of state structures being mandated some terminology is not really a violation of free speech.

In theory there are two approaches to discrimination - the neutral and the compensatory. The neutral one is that eventually discrimination will dissolve if the structure is built truly neutrally. The compensatory one is to detect kinds of discrimination and compensate for them specifically. I can imagine both the former and the latter feeling nicer in theory. The former - well, no special cases, just prevent the structure itself from reinforcing injustice. The latter - well, everything in life is a special case, you’ll never have a perfect structure, so it’s better to work with what you have.

It’s like different kinds of interference in radio, requiring different solutions. In fact they are not contradictory and both have their place in a working system (I haven’t heard of such).

Just call it the zero color wink wink

It already is, at least on Armenia and Azerbaijan. EDIT: I mean, the bots were crude-ish, but they don’t have to get better. Harder goals - better bots.

You mean those aggressive morons more Redditish than you expect from even Reddit are bots? Not a surprise.

OK. Then I’d guess it’s him sabotaging the idea of EV’s.

Apparently he did really found SpaceX. I’m not saying he did everything necessary on C-level to make it a functional company, but that’s not really required (though if we think of such companies as Sun, there one can really see Bill Joy’s deep participation in a lot of different core projects).

And SpaceX had such good publicity, also notably one aesthetically the very opposite of sieg heil.

I mean, aesthetics of Tesla advertising and design and everything were pretty different from SpaceX from the very beginning. I wonder how could Musk be the founder of both. Maybe they’ll find traces of a brain worm in him too. Can’t be solely ketamine.

Most of the web now is like that article.

AI has a role in turning pages and pages of text into one sentence.

I’ve heard that what Nazis gave their population economically was funded by a few huge-ass scams and burning remaining reserves. The “back on its feet” part was not their achievement.

Usenet is perfectly controllable for this kind of thing.

Also it’s not intended for sharing binaries, that’s bad behavior.

I can see something new, distributed (no servers), but with Usenet’s feel and paradigm, being the pinnacle of piracy. But there is no such thing.

I still usually pirate when buying requires jumping through too many hoops. Being in a sanctioned country, ahem, adds some just impractical to go through.