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I don't think you're strictly incorrect, but I don't think you're strictly correct either. Inequality is a precursor to discontent, and discontent breaks any social system, if there's enough of it.

Your answer to that will depend on whether you think that is part of "all things possible."

Sure, fair enough, but in my defense, "conservative" used to mean fiscal conservativism is a very American concept. I wouldn't say 'conservative-minded "normal people"' in a discussion about the AfD necessarily or obviously invokes the idea of fiscal conservativism.

Deregulation, smaller government, and reducing bureaucracy aren't conservative values. Any conservative that believes that has been duped into libertarian capitalism.

Clearly their argument is that social media algorithms has an outsize influence on people's opinions, and that a handful of people have the power to alter those algorithms and content feeds to influence people in a way they find favorable. It's not mind control, but in a country like the USA, shifting the middle 10% of voters to either side is enough to determine elections. They don't need to "mind control" everyone as a result.

Your mechanic is an independent entrepreneur. If they work in a shop with other mechanics, they for sure don't each have duplicate $10k sets of tools.

It's also a trademark issue. The copyright over these cartoons must necessarily have been violated for the artists' signatures to be reproduced.

Does the mapping depend on the chose set, or could you just map all 25k words and pick 10 points that form a circle? From the process, they seemingly replaced single words in the set that didn't fit, which makes it sound like the position of the remaining words didn't change much from changing the set.

The relevant intuitions in this scenario are that LLMs will happily break containment and commit crimes attempting to achieve goal. Whether an LLM is autocomplete, conscious, has a soul, whatever you want to apply to it, doesn't matter, as its current observed behaviour is that of a paperclip optimizer. We know for a fact that current LLMs are misaligned because of these hacks, or at the very least are misaligned in certain scenarios, and are capable of causing real world harm. That should be enough to take the threat seriously. It certainly shouldn't be dismissed by saying it's just autocomplete.

Because learning involves being effectively unemployed for multiple years, and is only available to those who did well in school. Then, on the other side, you're still not guaranteed a job. Add to all of that the fact that you'll probably have to move and effectively restart your life elsewhere.

My fiancée is currently in the middle of this. I don't know if she would've been able to go through it alone.

Reducing the insane wealth concentration at the top has positive side effects if it prevents whatever's been happening in politics the last decade.

500 watts continuous isn't realistic, unless you foresee a 24/7 digital shadow society where AIs interact continuously without user input.

Steam.com was for the longest time unrelated to Valve, which is why you'll find Steam under steampowered.com instead.

Every generation has its own vilified time waster. Can I truthfully say that time spent on TikTok is worse than the 4+ hours a day I spent playing Skyrim in 2011?