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It’s phys.org

Of course it’s clickbait

Did they find evidence of their service being used to bomb schools in Iran, like they found for Russia tracking launch sites in Ukraine?

If not, then why would they go on such a tangent? Do you expect them to list every one of their personal geopolitical stances, regardless of the relevance to the article?

What makes you think they are being absolutist when saying fuck Russia? You can disapprove of an unprovoked invasion from many, many ethical perspectives without going near absolutism.

What about 1 of everything?

Or very far eastern Canada :D

What does “lamence” mean?

> all the same morally questionable practices existed under Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden.

I’m gonna need a citation on this claim

This is actually fascinating, and simultaneously unsettling. Recommended reading for sure, especially in today’s social and political climate with LLM agents running rampant.

Maybe I’m just groggy with Friday Brain going on, but I’m having trouble understanding what you’re suggesting.

Do you think this was a scam attempt to extract money in the form of reparation donations?

I’m just a lowly dev and don’t have experience with seeing the bills from cloud providers for a whole org.

Can you (or someone) shed some light to help me understand how this would ramp up to millions? Both for curiosity’s sake, and to make sure my self-deployed projects (0 AI, all manually configured) don’t bankrupt me.

> That said, my experience in an urban area on the west coast has given me many examples that support this notion that it's not just a housing problem.

You would know more about the situation in west coast cities better than myself, I’ll admit.

What I take issue with is how the anecdotes closely align with certain political talking points - it rings an alarm bell or two, and begs for more concrete sources. Personally, I couldn’t find any reliable sources saying one way or the other.

Anecdotes are highly susceptible to confirmation bias though, along with other biases. It’s one of the reasons propaganda is so effective: our preconceived notions influence how we see and interpret the world around us. This affects me too, I’m not immune to propaganda (2015 me thought the idea of a Trump presidency was “funny” because of the memes and I thought he had zero chance of winning, for example - don’t worry, I’m not American so no votes were cast!)

I appreciate you taking the time to respond with such detail, and you seem to be writing in good faith, but I think this issue is a lot more nuanced than (paraphrasing - not trying to directly attribute a quote to you) “the homeless in west coast cities are there because they cannot function normally in society”.

It’s a sensitive topic for me personally because my family was one of those “sheltered homeless” families for a few years when I was still single-digits of age, and growing up in severe poverty I also met many other homeless people. I can guarantee you, if wealth inequality were not so severe then many people wouldn’t have fallen into drugs and mental health crises to begin with.

Many folks see it as a “chicken or egg” problem, when really, we all know that struggling to make ends meet and being evicted is highly stressful and traumatic. Wealth inequality is the root of many of these tragic stories, and it’s unfair to label everyone in that position as if they’re fully to blame for their situation in life.

But, again, I’m not American and my culture is much more socialist and cooperative. So maybe the unhoused in America truly do fit your descriptions, and I simply have no idea what I’m talking about. :P

In any case, thank you for your thoughtful and insightful replies.

> Most visibly homeless people in wealthy west coast cities are severely mentally ill in ways that prevent them from living a normal life or even living peacefully with other people without some kind of institutionalization

Sources? This just sounds like cope from a wealthy individual who wants to feel better about not helping the problem.

> Filipinos will actively practice out any trace of their accent to sound as white as possible

Oh, so they have strong Swedish accents? Or South African?

On the topic of racism, skin colors don't have a particular sound.

Huh? I exclusively view r/all and its loading fine for me across all devices.

I have been putting my agents on their own, restricted OS-level user accounts for a while. It works really well for everything I do.

Admittedly, there’s a little more friction and agent confusion sometimes with this setup, but it’s worth the benefit of having zero worries about permissions and security.