My claims are self-evident. Anyone with any common sense can tell this is just a description of reality. Cars don't just appear out of nowhere. They are for the most part highly predictable. I should add the caveat that…
That's not really fair though. Almost all pedestrians who get hit by cars could have avoided the accident if they were observant and took responsibility for their own safety. People just walk out in front of cars,…
Good point!
No, it's perfectly coherent. You just struggle with reading comprehension. The choice is how you pay the tax. The owner can choose to sell stocks or they can take dividends. Or they can take up a loan or pay themselves…
I'm not attached to the random figure I threw out. Put it at $10M then. That said, if you have $5M invested in a business that makes you $65k a year you're being stupid. Sell the farm, put the money in some safe 5%ish…
I agree it should be progressive. But to me, the point is not to tax normal people who have worked hard and saved up some money. Many, if not most people will save up $500k over the course of their lives. That's not…
They get punished by wealth tax because the crooks who implement wealth tax put the limit at some ridiculous point that ends up impacting "normal people". The whole point of wealth tax is to tax the ultra rich, so you…
It's not confiscating a fraction of Tesla, it's forcing Elon to give up some of his share of Tesla. He doesn't give it to the government, he sells it. To whoever wants to buy. Could also take dividends, that would be…
We already do work for them. They're the ones who own all the corporations.
Yeah but every time anyone actually does implement a wealth tax they start it at like $500k or some similarly stupidly low amount and then everyone starts (somewhat rightfully) complaining that granny has to sell her…
> The "tiny" problem is that it is still one of the 3 possible faint solutions to overheating and we WILL need at least one of them operational in the next 50-200 years We need them now. We currently don't have any time…
The bonkers crazy stance is yours. Carbon capture cannot work. We would need to build at the very least tens of thousands of carbon capture plants, way more than we currently have power plants. So to me, the bonkers…
We could have just built nuclear power plants. Invested into the technology, built breeder reactors and all that. We wouldn't have had to sacrifice anything, except of course for the astronomical profits of oil and gas…
It always puzzles me when people think fusion is just infinite free energy. You're not just gonna have one fusion plant producing a billion zetawatts of electricity. Each fusion plant will likely produce roughly the…
It's not just heat, it's ocean acidification. As the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increases, CO2 in the water increases as well. When CO2 dissolves into water, it forms carbonic acid. This is the same stuff…
And hitting a microscopic speck of space dust would be like a nuclear explosion.
Because it's irrelevant. The thing would not exist without me. Specifying that I used AI does nothing except invite criticism and crap from luddites. Plenty of people will boicott a thing just because AI is involved. If…
Oh yeah that might be the iffy thing that made me stop the signups, it probably required a steam login.
Google is a multi trillion dollar company. I could not care less about their finances, they're fine. Certainly doing better than me.
I've used AdBlock and sponsorblock for years, and certainly saved both days/weeks/months in ads and hundreds of dollars in subscription fees
Yeah, "everyone" knows that. Except the world har an incredible amount of people who fall for these kinds of scams. And there are less obvious scams around. I almost fell for a strange scam a while ago. A Steam user by…
I also don't really care whether they're conscious, but I do think it's worth challenging the claim that they are. LLMs are programs processing data. Lots of programs exhibit emergent behavior. A simple example is…
Not really sure what you mean, I have the view I presented and I'm able to use LLMs effectively. The understanding that they're not human allows me to treat them as such - I don't say please or sorry or thanks or other…
I definitely agree that consciousness is mysterious. But I think the assumption that AI is conscious begs the question "then why isn't 7zip conscious?".
> we teach machines to learn I feel like this statement is too anthropomorphizing. We don't teach a computer anything. We write normal computer programs that can process data(training), turning it into what is…
My claims are self-evident. Anyone with any common sense can tell this is just a description of reality. Cars don't just appear out of nowhere. They are for the most part highly predictable. I should add the caveat that…
That's not really fair though. Almost all pedestrians who get hit by cars could have avoided the accident if they were observant and took responsibility for their own safety. People just walk out in front of cars,…
Good point!
No, it's perfectly coherent. You just struggle with reading comprehension. The choice is how you pay the tax. The owner can choose to sell stocks or they can take dividends. Or they can take up a loan or pay themselves…
I'm not attached to the random figure I threw out. Put it at $10M then. That said, if you have $5M invested in a business that makes you $65k a year you're being stupid. Sell the farm, put the money in some safe 5%ish…
I agree it should be progressive. But to me, the point is not to tax normal people who have worked hard and saved up some money. Many, if not most people will save up $500k over the course of their lives. That's not…
They get punished by wealth tax because the crooks who implement wealth tax put the limit at some ridiculous point that ends up impacting "normal people". The whole point of wealth tax is to tax the ultra rich, so you…
It's not confiscating a fraction of Tesla, it's forcing Elon to give up some of his share of Tesla. He doesn't give it to the government, he sells it. To whoever wants to buy. Could also take dividends, that would be…
We already do work for them. They're the ones who own all the corporations.
Yeah but every time anyone actually does implement a wealth tax they start it at like $500k or some similarly stupidly low amount and then everyone starts (somewhat rightfully) complaining that granny has to sell her…
> The "tiny" problem is that it is still one of the 3 possible faint solutions to overheating and we WILL need at least one of them operational in the next 50-200 years We need them now. We currently don't have any time…
The bonkers crazy stance is yours. Carbon capture cannot work. We would need to build at the very least tens of thousands of carbon capture plants, way more than we currently have power plants. So to me, the bonkers…
We could have just built nuclear power plants. Invested into the technology, built breeder reactors and all that. We wouldn't have had to sacrifice anything, except of course for the astronomical profits of oil and gas…
It always puzzles me when people think fusion is just infinite free energy. You're not just gonna have one fusion plant producing a billion zetawatts of electricity. Each fusion plant will likely produce roughly the…
It's not just heat, it's ocean acidification. As the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increases, CO2 in the water increases as well. When CO2 dissolves into water, it forms carbonic acid. This is the same stuff…
And hitting a microscopic speck of space dust would be like a nuclear explosion.
Because it's irrelevant. The thing would not exist without me. Specifying that I used AI does nothing except invite criticism and crap from luddites. Plenty of people will boicott a thing just because AI is involved. If…
Oh yeah that might be the iffy thing that made me stop the signups, it probably required a steam login.
Google is a multi trillion dollar company. I could not care less about their finances, they're fine. Certainly doing better than me.
I've used AdBlock and sponsorblock for years, and certainly saved both days/weeks/months in ads and hundreds of dollars in subscription fees
Yeah, "everyone" knows that. Except the world har an incredible amount of people who fall for these kinds of scams. And there are less obvious scams around. I almost fell for a strange scam a while ago. A Steam user by…
I also don't really care whether they're conscious, but I do think it's worth challenging the claim that they are. LLMs are programs processing data. Lots of programs exhibit emergent behavior. A simple example is…
Not really sure what you mean, I have the view I presented and I'm able to use LLMs effectively. The understanding that they're not human allows me to treat them as such - I don't say please or sorry or thanks or other…
I definitely agree that consciousness is mysterious. But I think the assumption that AI is conscious begs the question "then why isn't 7zip conscious?".
> we teach machines to learn I feel like this statement is too anthropomorphizing. We don't teach a computer anything. We write normal computer programs that can process data(training), turning it into what is…