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- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 day ago:
A GPU?
- Comment on Happy 30th Anniversary! 2 days ago:
Hmm. There’s only 1 thing I know about top gear. That presenter guy, the old one, what’s his name? His father-in-law was awarded a Victoria’s Cross for actions during the Battle of Arnhem; the famous a bridge too far. 7 VCs were awarded in that battle, but he was the only one who made it out alive.
I wonder if that ever became awkward. Like guy comes home and says:
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I did this super dangerous stunt for TV today!
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Oh, you did something dangerous, son? Do tell.
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- Comment on Contributions 2 days ago:
smh
That guy should be happy that no AI will ever be trained on their work. It’s ok to contribute to progress, but only if it’s progress the cool kids approve of. Know your place, nerds.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 2 days ago:
The most striking image yet to emerge from the fall of Srebrenica comes in a BBC film to be screened next week. It shows the indicted Serb war criminal General Radko Mladic presenting the commander of the UN peacekeeping force at Srebrenica, Colonel Ton Karremans of Holland, with gifts wrapped in Christmas paper. Mladic was evidently in a expansive mood and he had good reason to be: at that very moment his troops were preparing to massacre the 4,000 men and boys who the UN had handed over to him.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 2 days ago:
Oh yes. If you’re a Dutch soldier you even get free drinks, and it only costs your honor.
“Toast of shame” - Mladic and Karreman drinking together
Happy 30th anniversary. Cheers to the Dutch Army.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 2 days ago:
I never understood why Starbucks became big in the US, but I always assumed it was something like that.
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- Comment on Pirates are Popular 5 days ago:
You asserted that models are trained on private data. You were unable to back up the assertion.
I am not interested in psychological or rhetorical tricks. I see no value in it. If you’re willing to have a rational, fact-based discussion, science-style, then I am willing to assume good faith until evidence to the contrary is apparent.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 5 days ago:
Just a recent example. Of course they’re vague about what “public” means, but if you really believe they aren’t using all the photos, you’d be pretty naive in my eyes.
Ok. You can’t give an actual example, so you use emotional blackmail to discourage disagreement. Noted.
If that’s what you want to call conservative go ahead, although it’s not what I’d typically associate with that word.
It’s called Chesterton’s fence.
Not sure where you see the problem?
To cut right to the chase. The problem is your intellectual dishonesty. First, it’s privacy, then it’s intellectual property, then privacy again. You try the spiel about sticking it to the corporations. When that is debunked, inequality is fine. Now it’s about “intellectual workers”, as if any of the higher-ups would share the loot.
You don’t give a fuck about logic or reason. You’re just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. You’re working through a list of talking points without ever engaging your brain. A third world guy will do that for a dollar an hour.
And don’t tell me that you’re doing this for free. Doing free labor for billionaires so that billionaires can get some free money from the rest of us is the stupidest thing I ever heard of. Ahh. But I have heard of it.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
I companies are training models on photos and texts posted only for your friends
Can you give me an example or two of such a model?
And yes of course I believe in intellectual property and copyright, if that was your question. They’re there for a reason,
Thanks for bringing us back there. That’s the classical conservative argument. It’s not wrong.
One thing you said earlier was: You can have limits on inequality by implementing rules.
So, how do such reforms stack up against your conservatism?
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
stealing.
Stealing is something you do with property. It’s not something you do with privacy.
So what do you mean by “personal privacy”? Most would consider stuff intentionally made public to be explicitly not private. What actually is the problem?
- Comment on If corporations are the GOP and the GOP are corporations why isn't it assumed that corporations will stem inflation due to tarrifs while the GOP is in power even if its at loss? 6 days ago:
Mostly, they can’t. Businesses like Walmart have margins of around 3-4% or so. If the cost goes up an extra 10% or more, that’s it.
I don’t see why they’d gift billions to customers, to prop up a guy who’s ruining them.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
You obviously have strong feelings on intellectual property. What actually are your views on that?
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
You can have limits on inequality by implementing rules.
Ok. And how would these rules fare against your convictions on property?
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
Again, don’t treat me like an idiot. Lemmy is full of threads where people cheer on big corporations like Disney when they go to court. I get that you only care about your ideology and not whether Disney, Adobe, or any other of them profits. But that’s how it goes. Either you change your ideology or you accept what kind of world you are fighting for.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
I’ve been saying that each person owns their data and have the right to decide what it can be used for.
Fair enough, but that’s a really fine point. You can do what you like with your property; use it, make it a gift, destroy it, give it to charity, … But in daily life of most people, property rights are all about money.
Your ideas demand a massive amount of free money for the likes of Disney. On a societal level, that’s basically it. I feel justified in ignoring a few people who have idiosyncratic plans.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
So you’re not seeking rent. Good on ya, because no small artist would be getting any appreciable amount of money. The big bucks go to Disney, Adobe, Getty, and the likes of them.
What am I supposed to do with the information you’re giving me?
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
I draw some quiet satisfaction from feeling that I’ve had a positive influence on the world. I really don’t understand why some are so outraged that they may have benefitted some stranger without payment.
Amazing how propaganda by the rich is so successful in making people believe it’s not them who are the parasites.
Look… You believe society should pay money to property owners. Who owns most of the property? Rich people. You have your ideology but don’t treat me like an idiot.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
And some people will say that a fair society should give back to the King what those revolutionaries stole by creating republics everywhere. You think of your ideology as the one true definition of fairness, justice, and whatever. That’s just ordinary dogmatism.
As far as I’m concerned, society should be ordered to fulfill everyone’s material needs; food, shelter, health care, and such things. Otherwise, people should not be interfered with. They should be free to make the best of life. That is simply incompatible with rent-seeking.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
Yes, I’m sure very few AI haters will be getting any rent personally. They are supporting rent-seeking by others. I’m sure many do so out of “principle”, or as it would be more commonly phrased, out of ideological dogmatism. I’m a left/liberal guy. I want a society that works for everybody.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
Your gaslighting game is shit. Like Copyright lawsuits aren’t half the news being cheered by AI haters. Not a single privacy lawsuit in sight. How stupid do you think people are?
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
Rent seeking is long-established economic jargon. It doesn’t necessarily imply a landlord analogy. A landlord may not be extracting an economic rent within that definition.
The point is rent-seeking, not an analogy to landlords.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 6 days ago:
Is this some weak attempt at gaslighting? If you want to make a career out of this, you really need to up your game. I mean, can you imagine some think tank going: Landlords don’t want to profit from those apartments, they just want to avoid people squatting in them for free.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 1 week ago:
To be clear, here is what I mean by rent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 1 week ago:
Seems to be mainly about property owners not getting enough rent.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 1 week ago:
ikr?
- Comment on UAnon has a completely relatable reaction to his country's invasion. 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Pirates are Popular 1 week ago:
The AI haters I’ve seen really hate free access to information. Well, there’s apparently other kinds.
- Comment on A Little Shoutout 1 week ago:
Finally, don’t feel too bad if you kill a couple.
Aww :(
Thanks, though. Appreciate it.
