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Totally right.

In it's database it knows that the answer that is given in the most source texts to the question "Did you do something illegal?" is "No". And that is what it's replicating.

If the database mostly contained confessions of criminals it would answer "Yes".

But in either case it would not be related to whether it had done it or not, but to which answer appears more commonly to that (or a similar) question in the training data.

It's not lying, it's too dumb to understand what it did.

Well, it started with a violent uprising in which 300 people where killed and the Wiki article you linked has a section called "government" which reads as follows:

At a local level, people attend a popular assembly of around 300 families in which anyone over the age of twelve can participate in decision-making. These assemblies strive to reach a consensus, but are willing to fall back to a majority vote. The communities form a federation with other communities to create an autonomous municipality, which form further federations with other municipalities to create a region.

Each community has three main administrative structures: (1) the commissariat, in charge of day-to-day administration; (2) the council for land control, which deals with forestry and disputes with neighboring communities; and (3) the agencia, a community police agency.

That's direct democracy on a community level and representative democracy on a higher level. Pretty similar to what is practiced in many democratic countries.

And if they have a police agency and an army it's hard to call them anarchist.

And they themselves don't do that either. Only outside anarchists project themselves onto them and say they are anarchists.

Government is born instantly whenever multiple people have to interact and it's about actually important stuff.

Take for example the story of Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen, Denmark.

This area was a large military base in the city of Copenhagen, that the military abandoned. Before this area could be redeveloped, anarchist squatters moved in. Somehow the government didn't step in and let them form their own society.

From the start the people living there noticed that they had common areas and infrastructure that they had to manage, so they formed local councils and each local council sent representatives to the one big council that was responsible for the whole Freetown. Of course, these people wheren't elected politicians, but only people selected by the majority of the smaller councils and sent to the big one to speak for them. No representative democracy at all, only anarchism.

Then they noticed that keeping up the common areas and infrastructure costs money, so they instituted mandatory contributions of all inhabitants. That of course weren't taxes, just mandatory contributions.

When people had troubles with their neighbors or other people, they could bring that conflict in front of a council for the council to decide who was right and what should happen. Totally not a court trial, just a council trying to settle disputes that could set mandatory consequences.

In the 80s then the Bullshit Motorcycle Club and the Hell's Angels fought over Christiania (I mean, who doesn't want to control an area with no real law enforcement?), and the Bullshitters won and took over the Freetown. After a particularly gruesome murder by the Bullshitters, the inhabitants of Christiania asked Copenhagen's police and the Hells Angels for help and they all together where able to break up the Bullshitters and drive them out.

To make sure that this wouldn't happen again, the big council decided to make some more solid rules (e.g. banning biker jackets, no hard drugs) and hired some strong men to make sure the rules where kept. These guys totally wheren't a police force. But if someone was breaking these rules, the strong men would drag that person out of Freetown and call Copenhagen's real police to deal with the offender.

So these anarchists reinvented representative democracy, taxes, laws and a police force. They just called all of that differently.

That's the thing though: you can't get out of the system without overthrowing it.

The people who are currently in charge of institutionalized authority have a lot of power and they got it, because they wanted it and used the current system to gain the power. They are not going to let go voluntarily.

And there is no opt-out of the system either. If a bunch of people act as if the authority doesn't apply to them, they'll get into trouble real quick. So doing this as a grassroots effort will also not work.

That's why the Communists that actually managed to communize a country all did so with a revolution and a state afterward. And yes, in the USSR they originally claimed they will only do the state-thing until the population is ready to go stateless, but who'd actually do that if you are Lenin or Stalin and that sweet sweet totalitarian power tastes so good?

Nope. I live in an actually developed country where the police generally does a very good job (nothing is perfect) and there is maybe one home invasion in the whole country every 10 years.

No need to have an alarm system, a dog or a fortificated bunker as a home. Also very few people (even very few criminals) have guns, hence gun violence even in criminal settings is close to non-existent.

The murder rate here is 1/10 of the murder rate in the USA, with almost all of the murders are people killing their spouses. Other kinds of murder are very rare.

We never had a single school shooting ever.

Old laptops can often be a pain if they don't have mainstream hardware.

I have a laptop with a touchpad made by Elan. I couldn't even find a website for them, but the laptop's support page has a Windows driver that works well.

I put Linux on there maybe 5 years ago, and there just is no driver for this touchpad on Linux, so it works in PS2 mouse modus and nothing else. No multitouch, no gestures, no way to change any slightly more advanced settings like sensitivity.

I'm not a fan of the current capitalism, but your explanation has some internal contradictions.

So to not have an institutionalized authority that coerces people to follow the rules, you first coerce (or even kill) the self-serving fuckwads.

Say you managed this during a revolution where generally everything goes. Revolution is done and now how do you guard your system from self-serving fuckwads using that power vacuum to gain even more power than before?

Do you just hold lynchings whenever some envious randos thing that someone holds too much power?

How does one get a fair trial if there is no judge or jury? War tribunals?

But what if someone doesn't comply?

When someone who owns the path to your house decides they won't let you use that path anymore.

Or when the guy who owns the water works doesn't like you and decides that your house won't get any water any more?

Or even more simple: what if you and your neighbour have a conflict that escalates further and further? Should you just duel? Or maybe shoot the neighbour in their sleep before they do it with you?

And lastly: To get to this state, you need to coerce the current coercive institutions out of said power. Is that not being coercive yourself?

I wanna see you helping yourself if five armed home invaders silently broke into your house and shoot you before you wake up.

The analogy with mommy and daddy doesn't really make sense.

Unless your parents are filthy rich or very powerful, they usually can't provide you anything you can't do yourself once you reach a certain age.

The same is very much not true with a stateless society vs the mafia.

If you are part of the mafia, even just as a lowest level thug, you will have an advantage over being the person who gets blackmailed by the mafia.

I know, many Americans and also people from other countries have very traumatic experiences with the local police and thus a very bad opinion about them. That's understandable, especially if you have never seen what good policework looks like. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

In most Central European countries, for example, the policework is really positive. Sure, there are negative examples there too, nothing is perfect, but most of these countries are in the very top of the safest countries (discounting micronations that are too small for statistically relevant data).

Of course, power corrupts. And because of that, modern democracies have a lot of safety nets that stop hostile legislation. And since these safety nets are staffed by people voted in by very different groups of people than the legislators, these are actual checks and balances compared to the farce that happens in the USA.

That's another issue: The political system in the USA is not a democracy, but a presidential two-party-system in which the votes of most people don't count. They basically vote in a dictator (ok, not fully, but if the party holds senate, house and surpreme court, it is a dictatorship, and in a two-party-system that happens pretty easily) every few years and Government just does whatever they want, because nobody can hold them accountable, and in the worst case they'll get voted back into office two legislatory periods later.

And if you don't live in a swing state, your vote just doesn't count.

The USA has had their system for far too long and never had a chance to overhaul the whole system. So politicians are using centuries old loopholes, wide enough to drive a cargo ship through them, and nothing is stopping them, because the people in power got to power in this system and changing anything is just a risk for them to lose that power.

Hellbinders (2009). It's a movie in which a soulless Action hero, a ninja warrior priest and Cain, the biblical son of Adam team up to battle a horde of demon-possessed ninjas.

It's a low-budget movie where the script was written by three stuntmen, that was directed by three stuntmen and the whole cast is also stuntmen. The VFX look like the people responsible for effects and cutting where also stuntmen.

The film was made to prove that stuntmen can do everything the other people in the crew usually do, and all it does is proving that there's a reason stuntmen usually only do stunts.

It's so bad that it's involuntarily funny.

During lunch time

Titles are a bit inflated in small companies, so "head of software development" meant I was the team leader of a team of 7 developers including myself. But yeah, they really thought they knew so much more about open source and open source developers than me.

I did tell them. Multiple times and in very direct words. They told me I don't understand nerds or open source.

Both marketing and CEO are jobs where Dunning-Kruger is considered an asset, not a problem.

I had an encounter pretty similar to the one in the article at a former job.

I was the head of software development at a 10 year old "startup" with ~50 employees.

The CEO and the marketing lady walk into my office and tell me about this great new hardware (basically an underpowered server with 15 SFP+ ports for network traffic manipulation) they found somewhere in China. They don't have an use case for that yet, but they have a solution: They will sell it really cheap (€5000) so that, I quote, "some nerds will buy it like the Raspberry Pi and they will make software for free for us".

I ask them why they would be doing that, to which the marketing lady says "Because they are nerds. They do stuff like that."

Needless to say, not a single "nerd" bought that dirt cheap €5000 networking device with a huge amount of SFP+ network ports as a hobby device, let alone produce free software for it.

That device was a total flop.

But it also goes to show what they must be earning if they think that anyone would spend €5000 as an impulse buy with no further reason.

I did maintain an opensource project for a while and that taught me how to do it correctly:

• Don't. Just don't.
• If you really, really want to, just do what you need to fulfill your needs, never do something for someone else.
• If someone is really insistent, say you'll do it if that person pays for the implementation of the feature, and use your day job's hourly rate for it.
• Then don't implement anything you don't want to, because nobody is going to pay for it anyway.

Or to put it differently: Never see your project or contribution as anything more than a hobby. You will never see an return on investment.

They kinda look like John Oliver and his wife.

OP, do you know where the books of Moses in the old testament come from?

Exactly, it's a copy of the Jewish Torah which Netanyahu quoted.

I found a few sources:

-Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-goal-of-war-is-to-defeat-the-murderous-enemy-ensure-our-existence-in-our-land/ -Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amalek-and-jihad-israel-ground-invasion-gaza-c2cfaeb1 -Times of India: https://m.timesofindia.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-cites-amalek-theory-to-justify-gaza-killings/amp_articleshow/104802548.cms -TAZ: https://taz.de/Benjamin-Netanjahus-Kriegsrhetorik/!5964144/ -NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-hamas-war-gaza-attacks-hamas-idf-netanyahu-long-fight-rcna122651#rcrd23808 -MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/netanyahu-cites-amalek-theory-to-justify-gaza-killings/ar-AA1j2pvC

Google has a huge amount of hits on this topic. Seems pretty certain that he used a Nazi reference.