arpa

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I am a shitty person, but.
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Comment · 5 months ago
I concur, even though I have only used it as a hobbyist.
Comment · 1 year ago
"Today, no music"
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Comment · 2 years ago
At the root of all this is a philosophical problem that encompasses all we do: unsustainable growth. We're culturally obsessed with the concept of "more". More value. More money. More features. More, more, more. This is where it gets us: over the verge of ecological catastrophe. Unsustainable systems prone to breakage. Enshittification of everything. Planned obsolescence and yearly phone upgrades, natural resources be damned!

If we are to survive, we need to slow down and instead of making "more" make "better". Follow Unix philosophy. Embrace "good enough" and learn to stop.

Who am I kidding, we're doomed.

Comment · 2 years ago
people with autobrewery syndrome come to mind immediately.
Comment · 2 years ago
... by watermarking the generated content.
Comment · 2 years ago
it is a positivistic science, i.e. it studies observable phenomena using the scientific method. The days of Freud and Jung where you could just smoke cigars and fart out ideas about collective unconsciousness and anal fixation are long over. Experiments are conducted, confounding variables controlled, and hypotheses (including H0) are tested. Granted, it's not as easy as in physics where you just drop a ball repeatedly and note down the results, buf it doesn't in any way make it a "softer" science. To equate psychology with self-help books is akin to equating LLMs with Markov chains.
Comment · 2 years ago
you have no idea what "psychology" is, do you?
Comment · 2 years ago
hahaha yes. This kind of a layoff is actually winning the lottery.
Comment · 2 years ago
your facts: billionaires not sitting on billions. My facts: homelesness exists.

Also moving money from your left hand to your right is not circulation. It should "trickle down". Wonder where I heard this.

Comment · 2 years ago
you know what is really funny? the neoliberal narrative of free markets and trickle-down economies and billionaires being valuable members of thr society. If humans are not needed to get stuff done, what's the use for those humans, mmmm?

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