Plebcouncilman @ Plebcouncilman @sh.itjust.works

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Well yes, that’s typically how new markets work. This is not a bad thing.

I’ve said this a few times in a different way and I always get downvoted. The fact is that the people who will use the LLMs to think for them, were not gonna think a lot in the first place.

I don’t think this is an American thing. It’s a human thing.

No shit it died. They stopped supporting it and on top of it it’s a browser that requires you to be logged into an account to use, which is a turnoff to techie people who are the most likely to adopt nee things early.

Oh and Microsoft Edge can do most of the things Arc does.

Not really. You dream, even if you don’t remember it. So there’s some continuity there. It’s not the same thing as turning it off and on again. Like there will be a consciousness in your body, and it will be identical (at least for up to a second or two) to the consciousness you are now. But it won’t be the same consciousness. Or at least it’s not clear to me that it is.

Bet you $500 that the next democrat president won’t tear down the system and will in fact give even more contracts to Palantir & co.

Us? Do you own NASA? Do you have any say on how funds are assigned to NASA? No? Then it doesn’t belong to “Us” it belongs to the government, a distinct organization with different goals and motivations than “Us” the people.

For everyone else, yes. But the you you are now will cease to exist. Your consciousness won’t transfer.

You can legally play them on an ROG Ally or other Pc handheld . It is not illegal to emulate a game that you own.

But I get that it’s just that I don’t think Nintendo games warrant buying an entire system anymore. If their consoles had more third party support maybe, but I just don’t see the value at the current price of the console.

They landed people on the moon and then did fuck all for decades.

When Musk started SpaceX he was not well known yet, SpaceX came before Tesla.

He was able to get into the businesses he has because he was rich yes, but you can find many accounts of engineers that worked under him speak of how good he was at finding ways to cut unnecessary costs.

He’s not a technical genius that’s for sure. But he has been a good CEO for SpaceX. Terrible one for Tesla though, mostly because he bought into his own myth and became a drug addict. But I refuse to simply wave away his achievements simply because I don’t like him. I can not like someone and still acknowledge they have done something good.

Right? Like I’m assuming a lot of these people are self labeled progressives but they sure sound conservative to me. If any risk or collateral damage is unacceptable to make progress then we might as well just fucking go back to living in caves and be done with this civilization thing. I understand the disillusion with tech, and specifically the owners of said tech but you don’t have to swing to the other side and become a fucking Luddite or something. The problems are solvable through other mechanisms rather than just stopping tech innovation or this terrible terrible idea of nationalizing corporations.

These are the same people who complain about Trump having too much unfettered power btw. And here they are discussing giving him even more power. Ain’t that something?

No matter how much you cut from NASA it always had more funding than SpaceX did and innovation in space exploration was dead until SpaceX came around.

Nationalization will make SpaceX yet another bureaucratic, money waster for the government to maintain. By being private if SpaceX becomes shit the government can just drop them at any moment.

Giving things to the state is a dumbass idea. Exhibit A: the entire current administration.

Yes it does.

What’s the appeal of the switch for when PC handhelds exist ? I just don’t get it why you would buy this unless you had children. Nintendo Games are good but they’re really not that good either.

NASA was always there and they couldn’t achieve what SpaceX has while simultaneously having a lot more capital to do so. I’m sorry but if there’s any proof that private sector’s self interest is a better driver of innovation than common interest SpaceX is it. This is a terrible idea that sounds like a good idea if you do not understand how good Musk was and is at cutting costs. That’s his actual real skill in business and is well documented. Doesn’t make him less of a prick but you also cannot downplay what he has achieved with this company.

How can you actually write all this after saying capitalism is anti democratic, with the implication that being anti democratic is a bad thing. Look at what you wrote, and think long and hard if you actually want a popular democracy. The US system would work very very well if it had more parties and electors started acting the way they are intentioned to act (not vote for the president their constituents chose but rather the best choice according to their platform, utopic I know).

And yes both parties are right wing but that’s because Americans, on average are right wing. No shit political parties in democratic states mold themselves to be attractive to voters. But calling it a police state is the usual hysterical progressive stance that no one that has actually lived in a police state will take seriously. The US is not a police state. It is a corpocratic state though, no doubt. It’s a huge issue that I believe might come to a head soon, Trump is accelerating that with his blatant corruption. And then I hope money’s power over politics will be curtailed. Or not, we’ll see.

One thing I’d like to point out that Trump spent far less money than Kamala. And Kamala had the support of mass media while Trump didn’t.

What I get from you is that you are of course deeply troubled with the state of things but have not yet a clear idea of what would be a better system, you’re simply angry at what it is right now. Which is fair. But I think you need to make up your mind whether you think more government is good or if government as a human organization is inherently corruptible and therefore what we actually need is less government, and whether true direct popular democracy is good or whether we should become more technocratic/meritocratic/aristocratic because you seem to be flip flopping between one stance and the other. Even highly educated countries are electing right wingers right now so while education is a factor it’s not the only factor.

Yes I’m aware of the business plot. But I think you also need to understand the context in which that happened. The Federal Government was never meant to be as powerful as Roosevelt made it, the United States was envisioned as a state of states, kinda like what the EU is right now. So it is not surprising that a plot would form to take down a president that was trying to make a government that was much more powerful than it was ever meant to be. Trump is aesthetically a reaction to Roosevelt, but in reality is a result and even somewhat of a mirror image. Assuming that you are a principled person and not one that thinks politics is a team sports If you are outraged at the way Trump acts, you would be outraged at the way Roosevelt acted had you been there.

Well the problem is that you’re hardly saying anything anyone doesn’t know, especially if they are on lemmy.

Why did China become capitalist?

Marx himself said that communism can only arrive through capitalism. Though he is hardly an oracle, that logic makes sense to me.

I don’t believe in communism, simply because I don’t believe that abolishing private property is something realistic, it seems even anti human. And so far the track record for communism is not great, because concentrating all wealth in the hands of the state (who is controlled by a few people) is somewhat of a bad idea it seems (who would have thought!)

I do believe in socialism. But the conditions are not here yet. Humanity grows on having something to exploit. We’re currently building the next exploited class which will be AI and advanced robotics.Once all human labor is rendered worthless, socialism will not only be viable, it will be necessary. Capitalism is the only force that provides the means to get there.

Is it unfair for us in the present? I guess. But it was also unfair for all the billions of humans who have died through history to create the conditions of the world we live in, which whatever you may think, is a vast improvement over every other period of time. Humanity is a constant project, and it is always the case that the present humans need to make sacrifices for the future humans. If that doesn’t happen our species stagnates.

The point of capitalism is that it creates endless hunger for endless desires and thus endless growth. In serving yourself you serve others. Of course capitalism needs to be curved if this is the case because it otherwise becomes destructive so in comes events of mass discontent, and massive political shifts much like you see now and in the Great Depression. We are soon approaching a point in which we will need a New New Deal.

But keep in mind this is not even the worst era of capitalism. Despite the disparity in terms of sheer wealth, the disparity in quality of life is much much smaller. I’m not dismissing the problems, but I think that one needs perspective as well.

Also people have a terrible idea of what democracy is. Democracy has never been “we all have equal say”. That’s a fairly recent interpretation of it. Democracy through most of its history has been “these specific group of people have equal say, and they decide for everyone else”. And that is basically the reality of almost every human system. We can make ourselves equal in rights but we will never be able to make ourselves equals in charisma or ability, and thus some people will always have more power than others, even if not officially others will look upon them for leadership.

Wow there’s so many things wrong in this that I don’t even know where to start. The sentiment is right, but your entire understanding of how the economy or even capitalism works is terrible. I hope you are like 15, and not a grown person.

You can still buy stocks worth $2, some of them might even end up being worth $120+ 17 years. The reason the stock was worth so little back then was that the company was smaller, see how that works? The guy buying AMD back then was taking as much risk as you are buying a $2 stock today.

Capitalism is a very flexible and moldable system, it can adapt to almost any conditions. Many of the problems that are inherent to capitalism can be smoothed and fixed but it requires political will to do so. I think capitalism works extremely well in two circumstances : a. System in which there are good wealth distribution system or b. Government avoids regulations in ways that increase the barriers to entry to markets in such a way that no one can ever compete again in said market without having more capital than the current competitors.

I prefer a. Just saying b. can work too but it’s actually much harder to pull of because the government would need to willingly dismantle itself and not in the way Trump is doing it.

How is this running on ROG Ally these days? I wanna play it but the cowards at Sony won’t port this to Xbox.

Somewhat inconclusive proof that TDS is real.