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BlameThePeacock

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  • How do you design an economic and taxation system to keep the domestic rich in line and well-behaved and scare off fuckers like Peter Thiel from ever taking root and parasiting in the first place?

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  • Income taxes are sub-optimal, tax property that people live on and that businesses operate on. Then add a 100% inheritance tax on any amount over a few million dollars.

    The whole thing should be based on "use it or lose it"

  • Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming company concealed serious risks of ChatGPT

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  • "had asked ChatGPT what would happen if a human body was put in a garbage bag and thrown in a dumpster, days before they went missing."

    Answering that question isn't a crime, nor is it actively helping them commit a crime.

    There are legitimate reasons to ask that question that have nothing to do with committing a crime.

    I have asked Google, and AI agents, many questions which if taken in the worst way would constitute a crime but I was doing so just to debate a topic, or look up a law. I know other people do it for writing. Some might do it to look up =criminal cases that they have seen reported in the news.

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    Why are so many people still fine with using "The C Word" despite it being officially a derogatory slur towards women?

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  • Has anyone ever taught you about the dysphemism treadmill and euphemism treadmill?

    Banning words, or trying to reframe them as bad has never worked. It just pushes people to use different words that end up with the same meaning.

    Sexism, Racism, Ageism, all the isms... they will always exist as long as more than a handful of humans exist. Humans in large groups are pretty terrible. We didn't evolve to be particularly nice.

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  • That applies equally to everything I said.

    If they're suing OpenAI, they should have already sued and won against the internet service provider, the computer manufacturer, Microsoft/Apple for the software, etc.

    Or the gun companies.

    Yet all of these companies have a free pass to facilitate crimes. Why should OpenAI be held to a higher standard than the rest of them? This is pure political theater.

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  • You know what also allowed the Gunman to find information, ask questions about shootings, and shoot people?

    The internet. Computers/Cellphones. Other Human Beings.

    I get that people are looking for reasons to bash AI, because it's scary as fuck. However people step back and realize how bad some of the other technologies that we have are. There were mass shootings started long before ChatGPT became a thing.

    Oh, and guns. We invented guns. That was a bad idea.

  • What are the most important things to teach a child that they're not going to get in school?

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  • The answer to that is yes... Everyone should be able to do a little bit of plumbing.

    However you don't need to a plumber every time you use the toilet so that's a bad example.

    The concern is scale, Someone cooks your food every time you eat. One person can only cook for a limited number of humans. It only takes a dozen people to actively provide water to every house in a city.

  • What are the most important things to teach a child that they're not going to get in school?

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  • The problem with your argument is that humans need to eat somewhere between 2 and 5 times a day. Nothing else on your list comes anywhere close to that level of frequency or importance. Just because you learn how to cook doesn't mean you have to cook every meal either. You should still just know how to do it.

    That being said, there is an economic line where this matters. If you make $100 an hour, and have the opportunity to work overtime, cooking is a waste of your time unless you're batch cooking or just doing it for enjoyment. However, If you're making $12 an hour, the time cooking likely saves you more money than you would make working and then using that to pay for meals out. The actual tipping point will change depending on your wage and the cost of food.

    I'm a bit of a wierdo in this, I have not once in my almost 40 years of life ever ordered food delivered to me. I've gone out to eat, I've picked up takeout myself, but I have never had food delivered to my home. I make enough for that to make sense, but I just don't.

  • "You can't out train a bad diet" and "you can't out earn bad spending habits" what are some other true clichés along the same lines as these?

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  • So many exceptions to that one that it's useless. You absolutely can overpower bad technique in a lot of situations.

    Go watch idiots break car windows in rescues. If you smash it hard enough, it will eventually break. Whereas a small tap with a sharp object in a corner can crack it with almost no force at all.

  • "You can't out train a bad diet" and "you can't out earn bad spending habits" what are some other true clichés along the same lines as these?

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    what do you think about biocomputing?

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  • You're right, chemistry was not your strong point. The sugars produced by photosynthesis are the ones that get turned into coal and oil. Plant respiration actually is the reverse of photosynthesis (it's essentially human respiration) and is done for exactly the same reason that humans use it for, to produce energy for use by the plant. A plant just does more photosynthesis than respiration, which causes it to grow over time as it accumulates carbon based molecules and stores them.

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    what do you think about biocomputing?

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  • If you take the holistic view, servers are already powered by photosynthesis. It just happens that most of them are powered by photo synthesis that occurred millions and millions of years ago.

  • Hardware for local inference?

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  • I'm running Qwen 3.6 35B A3B (the MoE model) on an 8GB Vram Nvidia GPU with 32 GB of ram, with tweaking (and Turboquant) I've got it up to 30-40 Tokens per second and a 260k Context. It's very usable. I've seen people report success with Dual 3060 Cards, but you're still talking $1000-1500 for that kind of setup even if you have parts of it already.

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  • Slammers were metal, pogs were not.

  • A kid in my semi hometown in arkansas said he was going to shoot up a wal-mart if we went on a hanta lockdown. He was arrested and everything. Can you really be charged fed for typing?

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    Would "third world" pricing absolve the CoL crisis in the first world?

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  • The best way to fix the cost of living crisis in the first world is to tax the absolute shit out of land value (not property value, land value which doesn't include the building)

    I'm talking like a 10-20% tax per year on the value of the land. So if a house is worth $1.6 million, and $1 million of that is the land, the tax per year is somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000.

    Now you might think, there's no way anyone could afford that... and you would be correct.

    The point of the tax is to do two things A) reduce the value of the land (which in turn makes the tax cheaper) and B) for pieces of land that are still extremely valuable, force them to be developed into dense units (which don't increase the tax since it's on the land only) and spread the tax out among more people to make it reasonable.

    The tax amounts collected should be returned to everyone via a basic income and/or income tax reductions.

    This makes it so that say a family of 5, living in a reasonable amount of house for them, gets enough back to not pay more at the end of the day. While that retired couple with a 5 bedroom house practically downtown gets very little back and a high tax bill, pushing them to sell that to a family or even a developer depending on the market there.

    It hurts people who take up too much valuable land, and rewards people who choose to live in condos or townhomes if they want to be in town, or to live further out if they want a detached home.

    Side effect, it also entirely fucks over property speculators. Developers can still keep doing their thing, just better because now they don't have to pay a stupid amount for the land up front. They just have to build at a reasonable pace to reduce the tax bill, rather than holding a project in limbo while the values all go up around them.

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    Why is AI dialogue so fucking bad?

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  • Because it hasn't been trained on significant amounts of dialogue as a primary source for speech patterns. It also isn't meant to be distinct unless the instructions make it distinct.

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    Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws?

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  • Canada restricts hate speech, as does most of Europe.

    Yet its the US with the speech suppression issues going on right now.

  • What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap

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  • A medicine dispenser application for a nurse is still just CRUD operations for the most part. There's nothing innovative about how the code would be written in an application like that.

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  • You're both correct, and also wrong.

    A lot of code already exists. Or at least in a close enough form that it can be easily adjusted to address a new situation.

    When someone comes up with an idea for a new App at this point, it's almost never because it's an entirely new branch of computing. It's very likely just CRUD with a visual design, and then a small more complex algorithm to mix the data around behind the scenes.

    What's the difference between a dating app and an automatic meal plan builder? The algorithm doesn't care about whether or not the recipe swiped back when it matches it up to you.

    You're right that they're not going to be inventing entirely new things most of the time, that's just not what's needed of them most of the time.

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