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"More Choice for Consumers"

A truly laughable fig leaf for the non-existent anti-trust regulators.

Native and natural in the sense of 'adapted to its environment', not 'static'

Transplanting 'English Manor' grass and lawn practices to a desert creates an unbridgeable adaptation gap. This kind of lawn cannot survive without draining every aquifer in a 300 mile radius. Texas lawns, in particular, yearn for death, you can watch them die in real time.

Lawns that require almost no maintenance using native plants have always been possible, but they don't reflect the class and status dynamics that neighborhoods want to show off.

They'd rather have dying sickly grass most of the year, and pay yearly to to replace, than allow a single 'weed' to be a part of their landscaping.

Nvidia wasn't the thing to bet on in the run up, Samsung, SK, TSMC, 'DRAM' and construction stocks were far more lucrative.

Be sure to still dismiss any legitimate complaints or concerns as envy or fomo though.

> I'm very pro-union BUT

You are 'pro' an abstract, unrealized union, which is not 'pro union' at all.

You have abdicated your obligation to align your actions with your stated beliefs.

Do not give up before trying. Do not believe the hype that your labour power doesn't matter. Even Amazon couldn't stop their most exploited workers from unionizing, is your company bigger that that? Is your position weaker than theirs?

Worse that can happen is that you started talking with your fellow workers and they aren't interested.

Just because SV is run by several millenarian cults doesn't mean you should take their delusions about neo slavery and feudalism (Thiel/Yarvin; your doomerism stems from here) or apotheosis (anthropic, EA) as inevitable. You should assume they believe their own hype, but not assume they understand material reality outside their insular social bubbles.

Thiel's last 3 or 4? attempts at building his techo-utopia collapsed before even starting; They have no motion outside of what they can purchase.

Dessa is written in a swirly feminine font.

There's no male or neutral voice.

All examples are of white male software engineers talking to what I assume will be ultimately marketed as a 'girlfriend' bot (or used for love scams).

The single paragraph hand waving at the importance of 'safe AI empathy' doesn't dissuade me at all.

Sell your idea as what it is, yet another 'perfect' woman shaped object a hypothetical man can own and use how he likes.

It's hard to find any sector not impacted deeply by the price of money (US10Y).

But yeah, natural monopolies with inelastic demand (power, water, healthcare, shared infrastructure) should be publicly owned, imo.

> humans are far more anti-social than social creatures

We are social!

Violent Individualism, Solipsism, Alienation are (primarily) socially constructed and we can choose to live another way.

You can build solidarity and community in the US, despite the odds. But if your social skills and belief in others have atrophied; You'll have to be the change you want to see.

Strike up conversations with your neighbors, pick up new hobbies, volunteer, say yes to things, go outside your home every day, host events, even when it's weird and awkward. Set good boundaries, there will be setbacks, but decent people will stick around.

This kind of thing is harder around wealthy, workaholic adults, but it's still possible, and people are desperate for genuine connection, but their social habituation is atrophied too (COVID made everything worse).

> I keep opening my mouth.

You also might need to practice communicating differently if everyone misunderstands/rejects? you when you try to reach out. This might be something to work out in a safe environment. Also, if you are expecting another rejection, it can be easy to assume other people hate you when they don't think that (or don't think about you at all).

As to the justice system... well, it can be repaired or reformed, but that will take a sociopolitical movement. I recommend joining something.

Not only do they have a profit motive, they have a 'Guaranteed Rate of Return'; All this at the citizen's expense.

The only court remaining to hold oligarchs to account is the court of public opinion.

A [free, or discounted] pardon awaits every member of the trump family.

If you could press a button and obliterate the joy experienced by every professional at their work, in exchange for a 1% boost in marginal productivity for the next 2 quarters, would you do it?

Nicotine addiction has not been 'solved'.

Tobacco consumption still causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year (439k). That number won't start going down (due to alternatives) until 2030, according to AJPM. Phillip Morris ($PM) is near an all time high, despite killing millions.

It killed both my grandfathers, it's likely killed someone you knew and loved, please get your facts straight.

And on your other point, fat people already get a lot of social 'friction', from people exactly like you who call them 'people of walmart' who eat 'garbage'.

A fat person who has exercised more and eaten less than you, and lost weight every day for a year will still be called a 'lazy fat-ass' by a person like you until they actually reach the promised land of 'normal'. (and before you ask to invalidate my opinion. No, I am not fat).

On France, Paris is a delightfully walkable city. US cities are car-or-else (excepting NYC). We're the ones who made our people sedentary.

You are on HN, most people here are hacking the attention economy to keep people seated and glued to screens.

Are you willing to vote to give up your car and a part of your future compensation to be surrounded by fitter people?

The social changes you have imagined are forms of shame/intolerance maximization (governments should not do this!), rather than designing our world around good food, human movement, and healthy habits (a thing governments can and should do!)

Regardless, GLPs are an absolute win, and once most people are a healthy weight I hope you will dial back on you reflexive disdain.

Keto changes the way you feel about eating if you enter ketosis for long enough.

Fasting does too, for that matter.

Paleo is just trendy keto with some woo on top.

The don't use the same mechanism as glp, nor do they have same success rate, but similar idea.

Eliminating sugar makes it harder to consume a 64oz soda at 800 calories in 3 minutes and still be hungry.

Anywho, most diets achieve some weight-loss.

But! keeping your mind and body from demanding you eat more to return to homeostasis is actually the 2nd hard part, and the part that most people fail at. And we'll see how much glp losses are sustainable (without shots) here pretty soon.

Regardless, this technology is good and we should subsidize everyone getting to a healthy weight. Searching for reasons they are actually morally inferior or stupid is counterproductive.

Monopoly: Exclusive control of a particular market that is marked by the power to control prices and exclude competition.

Mathematics is collaboratively and publicly produced, it is vetted for free by peers, and results are publicly available. There is no 'market' and no 'price'.

These results, like the invention of LLMs, are often used by private companies for the generation of private profit.

"Open" AI used a private, unreleased, for-profit model to generate those papers.

What, precisely, did the mathematics 'oligopoly' gatekeep you, or anyone, from?

> their slice of the pie

There's very little money in academia, and even then, its a struggle to get any funding at all. What are you even talking about?

Final point, 'knowledge' is socially produced as well. Until the papers are accepted, they are machine artifacts that might be knowledge, but that same system you disdain will be what incorporates and validates those insights.

Tao is very prominently an early AI adopter. He, and other mathematicians, have fruitfully integrated it into their work. The way it is integrated matters, and it is carelessness and selfishness on the part of OpenAI that he is objecting to.

> It's time for the social fabric [of math] to be ripped up

This is the attitude of a social arsonist. You can, and should, integrate changes without maximizing destruction for its (or Altman's) own sake.

> an industry being disrupted.

This is the SV euphemism for law-breaking and monopolist practices in a country that has forgotten how to prosecute those with the most power and privilege.