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- Comment on Putin too, for some reason 1 day ago:
Or, they do super well by beating people up and taking their things? The person who happily takes from those weaker than them is often not terribly bothered by you giving them the cold shoulder. And they probably have their own coterie of hangers-on to provide them companionship. How do you handle such a person, since simple disfellowship is insufficient?
- Comment on Putin too, for some reason 1 day ago:
It’s worth noting that the Zapatistas aren’t an anarchist group and make no claim to being one. They do have a non-centralized leadership structure of elders who enforce a “restorative justice” system that forces people who perpetrate crimes to do community service. This does require a form of tribunal that local leaders manage.
But, to be clear, all this requires hierarchy, authority, and coercion in ways that most anarchists would reject. Which is the core of the issue.
- Comment on Putin too, for some reason 1 day ago:
You say “invent a scenario” as if people don’t use violence to get what they want all the time.
You can’t “move on without them” if they refuse to leave and continue recidivate. How do you deal with such a person in your ideal, anarchist society? It seems like your solution is to just pretend it wouldn’t be a problem, which is absurd on its face. You’re basically saying no one would decide to steal your food because everyone would just make their own instead. History shows that being incredibly unlikely.
How do you distinguish between tribal organization and anarchist society. Both are small communities that are “self governing.” What is the key difference in your mind?
- Comment on Putin too, for some reason 1 day ago:
And if they refuse to leave? If they simply take your things by violence? What then?
Historically, the answer is to have them lynched, which does solve the problem, but I think most reasonable people would agree that isn’t something we want to bring back.
- Comment on Putin too, for some reason 1 day ago:
And violence against innocents would be punished like in any society.
I think this is the part I get hung up on. The way this has historically been handled is lynchings. The town thinks you murdered those kids? They lynch you. The town drunk says he saw you doing devil worship? Lynched. You piss off someone with more social capital than you? Another lynching.
While I agree that this is self-ordering in some sense, I don’t find it to be morally acceptable. Justice requires systematics that anarchy simply can’t provide. And while no justice system is perfect, I think we can all agree that going back to lynchings is probably not the right direction.
- Comment on Putin too, for some reason 1 day ago:
I think that you’re not wrong, but the historical way that these societies have handled antisocial behavior is via lynchings. I don’t know that this model works if you don’t bring back lynchings, which I personally find unpalatable.
- Comment on Putin too, for some reason 1 day ago:
One could argue that most of the people who want to go all Mad Max do in fact break the law to do so, and are now in jail. Or do you think that disturbed people who want to do harm to the general populace don’t exist?
I think it’s a bit straw-man-y to say that people who argue that “without law there would be chaos” are saying they want chaos. In fact, it’s the opposite. There is clearly some minority slice of humanity that just wants to cause others harm, and we need some sort of structure/order to keep those people from causing harm. I find that most people advocating for anarchy don’t really have a good answer to how we handle antisocial behavior.
- Comment on Putin too, for some reason 1 day ago:
What happens when someone selfishly refuses to contribute to the common good? Or worse, actively attempts to disrupt it?
- Comment on Putin too, for some reason 1 day ago:
Ah, yes, I forgot. Those two famously still in power people… checks notes… Barak Obama and Joe Biden.
- Comment on If a person who has smoked all their life is cremated, will the process produce cigarette smoke? 5 days ago:
If I take a cigarette, remove the tobacco, and put it in a pipe and smoke it, did it produce cigarette smoke or pipe tobacco smoke?
If I set up a condenser, and capture a bunch of cigarette smoke in the air from someone who’s smoking, and then dry that and light it on fire, is that cigarette smoke or cigarette smoke smoke?
I think this is more a taxonomy question than anything, and the answer depends on the above questions, lol.
- Comment on How should leftists respond to the integration of Israel into the American military? Is it even real? 5 days ago:
So, it depends on what you mean by “real.”
There was a bill that got integrated into the NDAA that allowed for increased technology sharing and network communication between the US and Israeli militaries.
While I agree it’s not good, I don’t know that it’s even close to the “full integration” that a lot of the media has catastrophicized it as.
Here’s the wiki article for it, if you want to actually see what it says: en.wikipedia.org/…/United_States-Israel_FUTURES_A…
- Comment on How can I master Chess? 1 month ago:
Duolingo has Chess now.
It’s pretty well done. Decently fun.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 month ago:
Other people have made solid points, but one thing I think people miss a lot of the time is that “because it’s cool” is a good reason in its own right.
I could argue almost any endeavor that isn’t actively feeding the poor is a waste of resources. Oh, you’re making art? Why aren’t you working in a soup kitchen instead. Oh, you’re building a monument celebrating a civil rights victory? Why not a homeless shelter? Literally any end that isn’t active altruism can be attacked as “why are you wasting time on that.”
But one of the best things about living in organized society is that we can pool our collective resources to do awesome stuff that otherwise wouldn’t be possible. It’s good that there are wonders in the world. I’m glad the pyramids exist. I’m glad the Taj Mahal exists. The Eiffle Tower. The Statue of Liberty. It’s amazing what people can do.
And sure, that money, time, and energy could have gone to helping the poor. And sure, none of those were made in a society without significant social problems.
But we can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. And the fact that the poor exist shouldn’t stop us from doing cool things. Even if they don’t have immediate and apparent “value.” I don’t have an MBA. I’m not looking to maximize shareholder value. And I’m all on board with doing cool stuff, even if it doesn’t have a positive ROI.
- Comment on Live laugh love 1 month ago:
Seems like a good way to lose an eye, lol.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 2 months ago:
Sure, it’s a misleading label, but lets not pretend anyone is gonna accidentally eat 100+ calories of it.
Let’s make a liberal estimate. Lest say it’s actually 3cal/serving as listed. Let’s say you spray it for 5s (way more than I’ve ever sprayed a bottle of PAM). That’s 60cal for the entire sheet pan of whatever it is you’re making. If you’re gonna eat the full sheet pan of cookies you are baking I hate to break it to you, but the 60cal of cooking spray probably isn’t moving the needle. And that’s the most liberal application I can think of.
Have you used aerosol cooking spray before? Are you using enough to make a puddle in your frying pan? Cause if so you’re using it wrong my guy.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 2 months ago:
This is a spray oil though. You wouldn’t use it for salad or frying. You’d do a brief spray on a waffle iron or cookie sheet to stop stuff from sticking.
I agree 1500 servings seems like too many, but not wildly too many. I doubt I spray more than half a second of oil on a cookie sheet before dropping cookies on it. 800+ sprays seems perfectly reasonable. And at that scale, the actual amount of calories is a little immaterial.
No one is layering this into their food. Aerosol spray oil is more cooking tool than food you eat.
- Comment on McConnell released from rehab center 50+ days after hospitalization 3 months ago:
Man, it’s almost like it was all conspiracy theory nonsense all along. Who could have foreseen this?
- Comment on Proof of life for the recently deceased 3 months ago:
He should post his long form birth certificate.
- Comment on Proof of life for the recently deceased 3 months ago:
No, the seat would remain vacant starting tomorrow. It was the deadline for a runoff, but the seat just won’t be filled if he were to die tomorrow.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 3 months ago:
The argument given is that it’s a barrier to AI scrapers. So it keeps them safer. From competition.
- Comment on could I get an AI to just rewrite any software I want thereby not having to purchase the desired app? 3 months ago:
Not really. Let’s see if we can’t put together an analogy as to why.
When talking about software, the term “source code” comes up a lot. Think of this as a recipe someone would use to make the software. The software itself (for instance, Windows 98) is like the food made from cooking that recipe.
But something like Windows 98 is more like a giant cookbook full of recipes, and all of those recipes are written in a way to make a giant, cohesive meal.
Now, it’s important to realize that Microsoft has never released any of those recipes. And in the same way that you could make a copycat version of your favorite restaurant’s specialty, you could have AI give you a copycat recipe for some software.
But while you might be able to get close, your computer is a very picky gourmand. The little differences matter a lot, especially when you start trying to use things that were designed to work with the “real” version.
Another important thing most other people have already identified is what the AI can actually do. By default, most AI like ChatGPT is just a chatbot. It can talk to you, but not much else. So, you can ask you to give you a copycat recipe for some software and it will give you one, it’ll just be the recipe. You’ll have to do the “cooking” yourself.
They do now make what are called “agentic” AI’s that can do the “cooking” for you. But again, they would be working off the copycat recipe that the normal AI came up with, which is going to be a little bit (but importantly) wrong at the outset. Especially for something as big and connected as Windows. And the agentic AI’s aren’t free to use like the chatbot ones. In fact, they’re very expensive.
So, all that to say, it would be very difficult if not impossible to do what you are asking via AI.
- Comment on Need a fact check if they actually do blur his neck scrotum 4 months ago:
I mean, that’s why people believe Newsmax too. It’s not that they’re particularly dumb. It’s that most people prefer confirmation bias to facts.
- Comment on Need a fact check if they actually do blur his neck scrotum 4 months ago:
Not immediately realizing this is obviously false has the same energy as when my dad quotes Alex Jones at me.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 4 months ago:
I think you’re undervaluing the form factor. I don’t have unlimited space under my TV, and I don’t think you’ll be able to find a mini-pc that’s appreciably cheaper with the same specs.
- Comment on Karma Just Hit Adobe. Hard. 4 months ago:
- Comment on Boss, please pick up 5 months ago:
Though the fact that you’re asking me this gives me cause for concern that you don’t have that now.
- Comment on easter crack 7 months ago:
I feel like it hasn’t aged super well as a template, lol.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 8 months ago:
If non-human animals cannot consent, isn’t all sex between any two non-human animals rape?
If that’s the case, isn’t this preferable to just letting the animals just rape each other indiscriminately?
- Comment on it's a long distance relationship 8 months ago:
To be fair, the “change one” part is wrong. Two particles that are quantum entangled maintain the same quantum state when separated. But if you change the quantum state of one it doesn’t propogate. They are just in sync.
- Comment on Why didn't Venezuela move its capital further away from the ocean to make the government more resilliant to capitulation? 10 months ago:
As opposed to the US which has a famously inland capital. :P