kinsnik

oh, this is not to pay for health care. it is to sustain the carry trade scam that both the american and argentinan goverment are involved in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus

i do find the drawing so confusing. does the author find the uphill sections of roller coasters as the best part?

if he is taking requests, i would want to hear Sr Cobranza

feels as relevant today as it was in the 90s

trick question: they don't think.

but if you want to know how they say the sun works, it is a combination of light having a limited range and some weird thing about angles that they use to justify sunrises and sunsets

but that is already 1 too many for a flat earth

i understand that, but i highly recommend you not to rely on chatgpt for that. it is much easier to do so, but you are making it even harder for yourself in the future, by slowly training yourself to trust even less on yourself.

you could set some time aside when you are not hungry and get a list of easy meals that you can make when you are in hungry mode

but also, if you do it from time to time when you really need it, that is ok. just not always

surely that means that they will follow children privacy protection laws and not track information of anyone who they can't verify is an adult, right?

right?

there is a spectrum of how much comfort are you willing to give up to help others (including your future self). some people are against to give up even slight comforts in order to make things better (like, people visceral reactions to some "meatless mondays" proposals. or people being unwilling to reduce on-street parking even when by any meaningful metric it improves the quality of life for everyone)

Others are willing to give much more, but most people still have limits (for example, being willing to die for a cause is much rarer than people who are willing to go to a peaceful protest)

"why every time i make my ai smarter it gets less right-wing and every time i make my ai more right-wing it gets less smart?"

that is just a revolution, not a dictatorship, then.

the difficulty with that, is when to give the power away. obviously you would need to keep it for long enough to make sure that the system will stay in place after you are no longer in power

I think that ultimately, the problem with authoritarian regimes and dictatorships is an efficiency vs resilience problem. Dictatorships are super efficient. There is no back and forth, no debate, no bureaucracy except that allowed to be. This can create an illusion of progress early on, as all those things that were eternally in the future will start to get tackled. The problem is that it is not a resilient system. It relies exclusively upon the dictator and their understanding of the world. This is not a problem in the areas of expertise or if the dictator is smart enough to understand their limits. But at some point, there will be a mismatch between what the dictator thinks is important, necessary, or true, and what really is. Be it ego, being surrounded by yes men, being detached from the general population or a minority group, or anything else, the dictator will make bad choices, and there is nothing in the system that can prevent that.