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Comment Re:Space civilizations needed (Score 2, Insightful) 35

The Earth has started to suck. People are too tribalist and idiotic. The only temporary escape is space colonies. But what's going to happen though when "nations" start claiming entire zones of space? Fuck that. Tribalism must end.

Greed, irresponsibility and selfishness are far worse, tribalism is nothing compared to classsim, rich people are powerfil and self-serving, they have literrly hoovered up all our capital and now most people are wallowing in poverty

that's the real problem

qwcan't have capitalism without capital, so we get economic slavery, yes boss, no boss, right away boss

Comment Re:Just another classistexploitive platform (Score 2) 42

but it takes real evil to cheat and steal from billions by corrupting our societies, face facts, we live in a classist society domninated by the upper class, there's no democracy, free enteerprise or rule of law, what we have is economic slavery and indebtured servitude, indeed, this is exactly what evil looks like

it's easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the gates of heaven

for a perfect picture of what complete evil looks like just look at our political leaders and our CEOs

Comment Re: "All lawful purposes" is a lie (Score 1) 76

They might be responsible for the user using their tool to cause a meltdown under some legal theories, so they explicitly put that in the contract to make sure.

Likewise, I'm sure Anthropic doesn't want to get hauled in front of a Nuremberg-style tribunal one day for facilitating crimes against humanity. So they avoid going into that zone. This has never been a secret, so I'm not sure why the Pentagon is having a panic attack about it all of a sudden.

Comment Re: "All lawful purposes" is a lie (Score 1) 76

If Anthropic violated the terms of any contract that has already been agreed to, the gov't would have said that.

The government is obviously trying to void the terms of a contract they've already agreed to, however. Otherwise, they wouldn't have their panties in a wad about Anthropic not "letting them do stuff".

Consumer or not, there is a contract. The biggest difference is that the consumer doesn't get to negotiate and has to scroll it in a tiny text box. The EULA for the software in a system I just bought said that I can't use it to control nuclear power plants. That was the vendor's subjective preference.

Comment Re:Limits of "science" as a human enterprise (Score 1) 23

Most scientific discoveries benefit humanity, even if it's discovering "this doesn't work." Most modern scientific discoveries are made by professional scientists. They are making the world better for almost everybody, and they deserve to be rewarded for their accomplishments. They earn their privileges.

The Dark Ages were caused by Christians being more interested in their god than in retaining and advancing scientific and technical knowledge. The consequent human suffering is a matter of historical record. If the incentives (including privileges) to advance science are removed, science will atrophy again and humans will suffer again.

We are not living in a feudal time. By and large, the "class" we end up in is the one we earn. In most places, a fixed "class" (excepting those 0.01% at the top) is a fiction.

Sorry, not buying your suger coated crap
Tell me, how is science doing in solving the opiod crisis, global warming or class exploitatin, billions living in poverty and dispair ?

no, you a privleged first worlder just pretrent 'science' benefits everyone, but not equally

the rich get most of the benefits, while the poor pay most of the price

people are dying in vast numbers and the scale of injustice is global and what we get is denail and self-justrifications

Comment Re:Good! (Score 2) 117

Decent ... covers things like:
2. Not taking off your shoes and socks and stomping around.

From The Good Place, Most Improved Player (S01E08):

Michael: This is a quick litmus test. A handful of questions designed to tell whether you are fundamentally good or bad. ...
Michael: ... Did you ever take off your shoes and socks on a commercial airline?

Eleanor: And socks? Ew, who would do that?

Michael: People who go to The Bad Place, Eleanor, that's the point. And unless I can figure out a compelling reason to keep you here, you will spend eternity with murderers, and arsonists, and people who take off their shoes and socks on commercial airlines.

Comment Connectivity (Score 1) 117

United notes that it will offer customers who forget theirs a free pair of wired earbuds. "Don't worry if you forget your headphones for your flight," the airline states on its website. "If they're available, you can request free earbuds." You'd better hope your device still has a headphone jack...

My device still uses a pneumatic jack like the old-school airliners. I hope they still have those stethoscope thingies on board, otherwise everyone is going to be listening to my scratchy loop of lounge music.

Comment Re:Claude (Score 1) 20

Does it matter? Your choices are "support the best (overall) AI, which just got blacklisted (1950's Red Scare-style) by the Trump government for refusing to illegally surveil US citizens" ... or "support the AI that said it will happily surveil Americans illegally".

To me it's not even a choice.

I feel like I should point out that they didn't refuse to illegally surveil US citizens, they refused to surveil US citizens for the government. Their entire existence is built on surveilling everyone everywhere all the time to whatever degree they can.

I can't help but wonder if their reluctance to do so for the government is fear of a FOIA request revealing just how pervasive it is.

Comment Re:So mark my words (Score 1) 124

Your links are to Iranians in the US and Canada. Supporters of the Shah, other people who don't like the Islamic Republic, and their descendants, most likely. Not really a good sample. What about the people OF Iran, you know, the ones who voted 98% "Yes" for the Islamic Republic in 1979, and THEIR descendants? The ones who like to chant "Death to America"? Sure, a few were having second thoughts earlier in the year, but the leaders of that bunch all got killed; there's almost no one left in country to oppose the Ayatollahs.

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