How does that one go?

Aw yeah, I love Thrill!!!

So glad to see his work here.

Lots of dystopian news in this one. That Palmer Luckey stuff makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

SnotFlickerman nailed it, so I’ll just add that the “man or bear” saga taught me what a “scissor statement” is.

For me, that was the biggest revelation of the whole thing.

You had people encountering the same general words in the same general order, but understanding them to mean completely different things, and not being able to comprehend how anyone could disagree with them.

It was like a rehash of “the dress”, but not so whimsical.

It was really kind of distressing, the extent to which it laid bare (no pun intended) how poorly we’re actually communicating with each other online, even though it otherwise seems like we’re communicating more than ever.

Aaaaand then we just kinda shrugged that off and went back to internet as usual.

Measles And Grifting America

Reminder that retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar

Dr. Phil, child wife pilot?

Not technically, because there are scenarios where you can give up some freedom or safety without improving the other in return (and therefore restore freedom/safety afterwards without diminishing the other)… but it’s a close enough approximation to be useful, kinda like classical physics vs general relativity.

If you want to be more detailed, you can look at “freedom to” vs “freedom from”. This has its own limitations, but it’s precise enough while still being useful.

For example, assuming everyone involved is constrained by the same rules:

You can’t have the freedom to fire a gun in the air, and have freedom from your neighbor’s falling bullets.

You can’t have the freedom to drive a tank down the street, and have freedom from fear of being squashed as a pedestrian.

That’s some good camo

It seems like any time you criticize AI, you get an escalating series of responses akin to the narcissist’s prayer:

• It must be faked
• And if it wasn’t faked, you were using the wrong model
• And if you weren’t using the wrong model, you prompted it wrong
• And if you didn’t prompt it wrong, don’t worry — “this is the worst it’ll ever be”

Good job, Rich.

I used a hybrid of near-shore telepresence and on-site scrum sessions to move fast and put the quantum metaverse on a content-addressable de-fi AI blockchain

Copyright (or IP law more broadly) does a variety of things, good and bad. I’d like to see us keep the good and ditch the bad.

The good:

1. Accurate attribution. It’s important to know who actually came up with something, so you can continue the conversation with them.
2. Faithful replication. It’s important to know what the canonical version of a thing looks like, so you can identify what has changed about any derivatives.

Until AI, these were pretty trivial concerns.

You could easily Google something to find out who made it. And computers produce exact copies by default, so how likely are you to run into a malformed approximation of the original thing?

But now, these are both under serious threat.

The bad:

1. Keeping culture and knowledge away from people who could do something with it, until they pay up.
2. Preventing interoperability.
3. Coercing authors into signing over the rights to their concepts, so they can’t continue working on them unless it’s profitable for the rights-holders.

You’ll notice I left out the most obvious thing: “It gives creators a legal monopoly to prevent them getting out-competed by wealthy vulture corporations copying them.”

That’s cuz as long as they can pre-emptively force creators to sign over the rights, copyright doesn’t protect creators — it does the opposite.

I think AI only gets rid of the good parts of copyright, while doing nearly nothing about the bad parts.

We desperately need copyright reform. But it should not be rewritten by big AI interests.

The upvote/downvote counter matches right now!

$22??? Wow.

FYI, it’s usually “how it feels” or “what it feels like”, not “how it feels like”

“Workers” is (intentionally) obtuse.

They were paramilitary — private militant groups elevated to public status based on their allegiance, and plugged into the existing military apparatuses.

So like J6ers on the low end, or Blackwater on the high end.

Speaking of Blackwater, what is “Echo Papa” up to these days?

Prince had struck up a working relationship with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, which not everyone at the meeting knew. … Prince eventually excused himself from the group, telling those gathered that he planned to pitch the detention idea directly to Bukele.

…

Not only would El Salvador accept and jail potentially hundreds of thousands of violent undocumented immigrants currently in the US, it would also take in “dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of US citizenship and legal residents.”

Jesus Christ.

Lots of spelling/grammar errors in that article

They convinced a good chunk of the country that it’s a good thing.

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There are significant differences, that we should never brush aside.

And also, we have much more in common than most realize, and we should find a way to work together on those things.