kibiz0r

• Programming
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• Leftist politics
• Cognitive science
• Philosophy

Obviously, this is woke Nazi communist satanic slavery.

Good thing there have been no significant changes to technology, psychology, philosophy, or society in the past 50 years.

Yaknow what does hobble investment and innovation?

It rhymes with “shmonopolies”.

If everyone with a grievance brought a city to a standstill, we’d have anarchy.

If everyone made visible in the streets, the injustice that exists in our governance, we'd have democracy.

If you’re gonna cite MLK…

First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

I need help finding a source, cuz there are so many fluff articles about medical AI out there...

I recall that one of the medical AIs that the cancer VC gremlins have been hyping turned out to have horribly biased training data. They had scans of cancer vs. not-cancer, but they were from completely different models of scanners. So instead of being calibrated to identify cancer, it became calibrated to identify what model of scanner took the scan.

The funny thing is: You're not wrong, you're just talking about it at the wrong level.

Individually, if you don't save and invest, you're gonna be screwed due to unpredictable expenses, inflation, and lack of runway for retirement.

But if you zoom out and look at a whole population, it's also true that tons of people are in such severe financial conditions that they can't save and invest, so your advice is something like "buy a life jacket" to someone who's already 10 feet underwater.

And if you zoom out even further, there's no way that we're going to solve severe wealth inequality through individual action. And especially not through investing, which helps you as an individual relative to other individuals, but also provides more options to the wealthy recipients/managers of the funds to extract wealth at a rate higher than your ROI, which accelerates the concentration of assets in the hands of people who already own a disproportionate amount of them.

OP is like: Even if you have highly-valuable skills, you can't get ahead, because the game is stacked in favor of renting out your assets instead of delivering valuable labor.

Reply is like: Yeah, but have you considered renting out your assets though?

In this case, probably. I don’t think the world was asking for a Pinterest clone.

But the problem is, Google does this with everything.

Stadia had an incredibly successful moment with the Cyberpunk launch. Yet Google failed to hype it up, and then announced about two months later that they were laying off a bunch of devs.

At the same time, they restructured the monetization and improved the client, making it a really compelling service. And all the news was “Stadia is dead”. And then it was.

A government that’s just small enough to fit through your front door and rule your personal life.

Reminds me of the two hard things in distributed systems:

• 2: Exactly-once delivery
• 1: Guaranteed order
• 2: Exactly-once delivery