soulofmischief

We should only let the dumbest and least capable of deception or hubris run our governments, then.

It's a multi-mandate to focus on what's best for your yourself and society such as your mind, your body, your chosen family, your friends, your neighborhood/community, your city, state, country, the global population, and more abstract things such as the human condition, when evaluating things such as privilege or fairness or duty.

You often have to make compromises somewhere in the hierarchy, especially in late-stage capitalism where even access to basic needs comes at a moral cost, and as such those compromises sometimes come with a moral duty. I am writing this via a computer built from limited natural resources, some of which have been obtained through what I see as slave labor. I don't eat meat and still have to acknowledge the harm that clearing and maintaining farmland does to wildlife, even if the result could theoretically be a net gain.

When you start viewing situations through the lens of game theory, you realise some compromises are inevitable for the rational individual. But you must acknowledge the individual is not the only concern. As such, I use AI as part of my work, but I opposed the local buildout of a large data center in my community and tried in vain to make the person responsible for the deal understand the issues it could introduce. This isn't NIMBYism, we need a halt on all buildouts until fundamental environmental and accountability concerns are addressed.

And many other aspects of my existence and quality of life, poor and underprivileged as I was growing up, have depended upon US imperialism. I have also produced a ton of waste just existing and owning pets. It's abhorrent.

I continue to ask myself how I can fulfill the moral duty which I have accrued and reduce my dependence on exploitative economic systems, but I also recognize that AI is the new social leverage and we only have so much time to use it to our advantage before it becomes institutionalized and wielded against the people. I also might only find future income stability by evolving with my industry.

Life is complicated.

What can you not say about a man like this. Beloved by all and someone to look up to on and off the screen. Many of us grew up learning from and laughing with Sir Patrick Stewart and his characters. He was an actor's actor, committed to his roles.

No being is so important that he can usurp the rights of another, but yesterday we lost someone very important.

I can like the concept of the engine, and the leverage it provides, but I hate traffic and get anxious about having an accident on the freeway. And the people behind the industrial revolution have destroyed the climate.

I love computers and the internet, and the internet has ruined a lot of people and things around me.

It's possible to be interested in a new technology and enjoy its leverage while still being extremely apprehensive about how it intersects with game theory and politics. The race to the bottom of the barrel keeps coming for the jugular of every cool new thing.

Human expertise and appeal to authority have long been a proxy for correctness and soundness in a body of work.

It's not a perfect proxy, but I'm usually going to trust a domain expert over the confident idiot who constantly lies to me, hides and downplays mistakes, and flits around opposing positions like a drunken moth.

At this time, if I see a text is AI generated, I have to assume it is unsound and possibly even nefarious. There is way too much information assailing my daily life that I have no other rational choice.

One of the issues a lot of people have is that if Aaron had formed an LLC and hired someone to connect the laptop for him, jailtime would never have been under the table and he wouldn't necessarily be directly liable for any large fines he couldn't pay.

There is a general sentiment that it is wrong for licensed organizations of people to get away with crimes ranging from these to supporting literal child labor, when an unlicensed group or individual faces decades in prison for the same offenses.

And there is another sentiment that Swartz would not have had to do what he did in the first place if copyright and the DMCA hadn't been erected only to be weaponized and discriminately applied,

Because we don't write the history books others use to teach our children.

Deepseek refused in this case, GLM 5.3 talked itself into it.

Hacking firmware for old devices I own and would like to give a second life or fix that one thing that always bothered me. I couldn't even get either OpenAI or Anthropic's models to craft a simple nefarious OpenVPN payload.

Correct. Can you articulate the point you were trying to make, then?

It's only confusing if you don't understand the direct correlation between ADHD and drug abuse statistics as well as a host of other things that compound to ruin people's lives. No one said it was a root cause, either. It's well established that ADHD, while having genetic foundations, can be part of positive feedback loop which worsens the condition as well as your ability to cope with it. No need to argue about it; these correlations are well-established in literature.

As someone who deals with ADHD and whose immediate family tree all have it, whose parents fell deep into drug addiction and fucked their and my life up, who has watched both his sister and brother destroy their lives from drug addiction and untreated ADHD, it is not a net good. Romanticizing mental illness is not good. This disorder sucks and I would rather not have it at all. It's not a "creative thinking" disorder, it's an executive function disorder that gets in the way of everything.

Context clues go a long way. I said the same operating system, not the same version of the same operating system. I can't help it if you want to read something that isn't there.

I didn't claim that you did, reread my comment.

Do you realize how much money some people are making out of this racket while spending billions to convince you that socialized healthcare is the devil's work?