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What's the point of pardons then?

Our current administration ran on a platform of paying criminals who were convicted of breaking laws.

Please don't break HN rules.

Where's @dang when you need him?

I'm as smart/dumb as anyone else on here and I'm sorry this conversation turned into whatever this is.

Controlling what people eat is definitely authoritarian/right-wing.

For a historic example, you may be interested in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Grain

Maybe try a different example to make your point?

My point is I was replying to a comment that said most of Florida will be underwater in 2100, which is not true, as I said.

What is your point?

Ok, well 'most of the Florida Peninsula' is significantly above 2m elevation.

Your link implies less than 2m, strengthening my point?

I said 'even in the most cataclysmic scenarios'

This is not true.

Even in the most cataclysmic scenarios, scientists project Sea level to rise 2m by 2100, and most of Florida is above that level.

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/what-are-best-and-worst-case...

>Since when did direct democracy became a right wing concept?

It's intended to make Parliament powerless (when you read the document, I'm sure you saw that part), so, I'd say it became a right wing concept when it was proposed by a far-right political party in 2017 to move Germany to the right.

You may be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority

This is a very obviously biased argument that both sides make about themselves.

The AfD literally published a manifesto of new and notably more conservative policy goals in 2017.

They do not claim to have the political stance of Germany 25 years ago, they themselves say that they are something new (For example, point 1 is an adoption of Swiss-style direct democracy, which is a notable shift to the right).

I encourage you to think much more deeply than "I saw this meme and it resonated with me," because the same is true of the American Tight, despite Elon's claim (Regan, for example, was very famously against Tariffing Canada).

Obviously we can and do whatever we want, but yeah, maybe being more optimistic generally would be a good thing for us.

I think being thoughtful and baseline positive about the way we predict the future in popular media is a good idea.

Nihilism isn't good in and of itself, so I'm not sure what you're arguing society would lose if we actively chose to be less nihilistic.

And isn't that the great lesson of AI?

The things we say publicly actually do matter and the post-modern descent into absurdity and nihilism has tangible negative consequences?

Do you make the claim that AI is something more than a reflection of its training data?

I'm curious what other things you would argue influences an LLM's behavior.

I am also generally one to trust the claims of the people who train the models, though you're welcome to the highly improbable belief that they operate in a fantasy world.

Just a reminder that AI models' actions are reflections of the text humans write and the more we fret and make up doomsday scenarios that we then post online, the more likely a model is to do those things.

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/teaching-claude-why/

>The number of members with GH claims per 10,000 beneficiaries under age 18 rose steadily from 5.1 in 2001 to 14.6 in 2016, without a dramatic change around 2003, the ISS approval date.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6795021/

Just as a reminder for everyone here, 0.14% of US children (+3x in a decade) are given Human Growth Hormone because they are short. Our government says that being in the bottom 2 percentiles is a medically valid condition to be treated with hormones.

Differentially focusing your emotional response on sex-expression hormone therapy vs. hormone therapy generally is reflective of bias.

I think a lot of us HN-types are people who like to post riddles like this instead of news about what actually happened.

>And no, HN is not social media in any normal sense of the word. The pedantry involved in that comparison is extremely tiresome.

The amount of times I've read a very thoughtful article only for the comments to be political drivel (the worst was peak-COVID SF discourse) weakens your argument quite a bit.

It's even more foolish to think outside forces aren't using bots/tech to sway the discourse.

Just because it's not engineered for the mainstream's dopamine addiction doesn't mean it doesn't do the same thing.

>Why would you?

Because the fundamental building block of society (which we are losing rapidly) is some amount of care for your fellow person.

Your comment is a great example of how we Prisoner's Dilemma'ed ourselves into a world of isolation and decaying institutions.

>There is only one market that large: the global labor market.

This isn't even close to true and it's kind of the central thesis of this article.

Saudi Aramco has consistently been a $2tn company in the oil market.

Walmart is a $1tn-ish company focusing on a fraction of US retail.

It also ignores the idea that the economy is not zero sum and companies create their own market/economic value all the time.

It is an extremely weak argument to just post the links.

Please supply actual instances of the supposed bias.

Explain to me how 'learning on the fly' is different than iterative self-prompting.

Maybe me today would say you need to do some more research and thinking on how LLMs work?

You and OP are both unnecessarily diminishing what 'glorified search' is.

If you had told me that in 2015, we would have a tool that can iteratively search the world's best and largest unstructured database and synthesize outputs in language (any natural and structured language), I would have said that is basically AGI.

This whole desire for it to 'reason' (autonomously prime its search with a few thousand token) and 'think' (search for the best information within its parameters and synthesize that with its context) is semantic and will feel irrelevant as the technology progresses and we become more used to what these things are actually doing.

I honestly struggle to imagine what AGI will be if not an ever-improving semi-structured database (parametric or otherwise) that we become increasingly good at searching.

We invented a word for a very specific thing (consciousness) and are now debating whether that relatively unimportant word represents a large open set or a narrow closed set.

We do one thing in our bodies with relatively binary nervous system and a fundamentally continuous endocrine system. That's clearly and unanimously consciousness. We also, however, see other animals with similar set-ups but less capabilities, so we understand it exists on a spectrum.

We separately invented a thing that gets to similar outcomes with fundamentally binary logic gates.

Our minds are drawn to comparison and classification, so we fight over how similar or different those two things are in a way that often feels unsatisfactory because in order to meaningfully compare the two, we have to reduce them in a way that feels like its underselling either/both.

Implying that software is somehow divorce from Infrastructure/compute efficiency and utilization isn't a claim I've seen many make either.

Yeah, it's almost like the point I was making is that everyone is overselling AI agents' capabilities.

Isn't the whole selling point of AI agents that you now can do things like scale 3x without scaling your team accordingly?

Well, then we get into the area of 'How many people know Google is logging their searches to serve them more targeted YouTube ads?'

Why would a career bureaucrat be a more efficient way to figure out how to attract and retain ATC workers, ass opposed to a union representing those ATC workers?

Your proposal intentionally injects inefficiency and noise into the system because you don't like some political boogeyman.

This is a discussion with nearly unanimous agreement that poor ATC working conditions are causing Americans to die in preventable aviation accidents.

Maybe this is the one evidence-driven case where you can be open minded about the value of a public employee union?

I'm not positive this was a secret (See: Reddit post about it from 2018):

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/8i7byi/pokemo...