N_Lens's comments

On: Washington Post – In the Long Run, Wars Make Us Safer and Richer (2014)

[N_Lens]

Opinion piece that I thought was thought provoking.

On: Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record

[N_Lens]

"The masses/general populace are the enemy" - once you understand that this is the fundamental belief at the root of the elites behaviour, everything will make sense. Flock cameras and AI surveillance is designed to reign in 'the enemy'.

On: Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting

[N_Lens]

Nowaymo!

On: Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust

[N_Lens]

Thanks for the sensible chuckle.

On: Why consumer choice is stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it

[N_Lens]

What an angry blogpost!

On: The happiest I've ever been

[N_Lens]

There’s an old saying regarding what you’re saying.

[anal_reactor → N_Lens]

Higher social classes have always despised the lower ones. Imagine going to ancient Rome and saying that slaves should be given full citizenship and treated as equals.

[throwaway290 → anal_reactor]

"liquid crap" is obviously exageration but if you take a truly random slice of population 90% will be any combination of not interesting/not a nice person/hidden agenda or want to exploit you/have crazy views/...

many of them are higher class than me. in absolute numbers it's more lower class simply because there are fewer rich people than poor people but take 5 truly random people of either high or low, I think you would agree with me that only 1 at best you would want something to do with.

[anal_reactor → throwaway290]

In low socio-economic communities shit behaviors are more tolerated.

[throwaway290 → anal_reactor]

Disagree. I think it's about the same

On: Does journaling help people understand themselves long-term?

[N_Lens]

I've been journalling for ages and I'm yet to see the value of it. Will keep it up regardless, someone else may derive value from my journals with tags and notes.

On: When the Bubble Bursts

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I think the article misses the mark somewhat - a lot of ordinary workers don’t possess enough of a refined or sharp skillset, that they cannot be replaced by an LLM. A lot of people don’t have the output necessary to justify their salary (many in the C-Suite included). LLMs can approximate a lot of that kind of effort, or the appearance of effort.

I don’t think it’s fair that we’ve organised our value system around this “false meritocracy”; but that’s how things are, unfortunately.

On: Judge says he will order Greenpeace to pay $345M in oil pipeline case

[N_Lens]

Remains to be seen if humanity will survive capitalism.

On: Self-improving software won't produce Skynet

[N_Lens]

That kind of recursion also plays a role in a certain human cognitive process - the one leading to psychosis.