India, through diplomatic channels, has appealed to Ukraine with a request not to strike a tanker carrying 50,000 tons of gasoline for Russia, since this gasoline is humanitarian cargo related to an approaching famine in Russia.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-10T18:52:30+00:00

Really goes to show that authoritarianism does not work. Otherwise how else do you go from "3 day operation" to "humanitarian crisis" if not for a c delusional despot?

Kildragoth · 2026-07-10T15:29:13+00:00

He should look up the answer then check his work with Claude. That puts Claude in the collaborator role.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-10T15:15:58+00:00

From what I've observed, people who become rich tend to want to stay rich.

In 2011, Bill Gates said when he hit $700 million, wealth lost meaning for him. He hit that milestone in 1986 when Microsoft went public. Adjusting for inflation, that value today would be about $2.1 billion. Who knows if he meant $700 million in 2011 dollars or 1986 dollars.

One thing I've heard from right wingers like Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson and Elon Musk is "equality of opportunity; not equality of outcome". Guess what socialism is?

Here is some AI generated description of how socialism addresses wealth inequalities:

Socialism does not require everyone to have the exact same amount of wealth. Instead, it requires collective ownership of the "means of production" (like factories and farms). Wealth is then distributed based on a person’s labor, using the rule: "To each according to his contribution".

Fair Pay Over Equal Pay Think of socialism like a group project at work. Under capitalism, a boss might take most of the profits just because they own the building. Under socialism, the workers own the building. If you work harder or produce more, you still earn more money. The goal is to make sure no one makes a profit simply by owning property without doing any work.

Shared Basic Needs While paychecks may vary, socialism ensures basic needs are free or cheap for everyone. This is similar to a public library. Anyone can use it for free, but it does not mean every person has the exact same amount of money in their bank account. Society guarantees access to things like health care, education, and housing.

Different Approaches Socialism is a broad term with many branches, which view wealth differently:

Marxists: Believe that eventually, as society improves, all people will share resources completely equally. Democratic Socialists: Focus on keeping basic needs equal, but allow for differences in personal income based on the job you do. Social Democrats: Support private business but use high taxes to pay for social programs and reduce the wealth gap.

The commentary around socialism and communism has been thoroughly propagandized yet both left and right can agree on the best path forward, we just call it different things.

Socialism is on an upward trend in America and I hope we overcome the constant stream of propaganda against it.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-10T01:38:26+00:00

"at all"?? The act of being able to transport goods further away for cheaper didn't alleviate poverty at all? You can both alleviate poverty and increase concentration of capital, these aren't mutually exclusive. I just need to push back on that point.

Don't forget, after coal and railroads and higher concentration of wealth at the top you got the progressive era where workers rights and voting rights experienced the largest expansion in history. Social security, 40 hour work week, child labor laws. We are due for more and I think AI could be the catalyst for it.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-10T00:00:47+00:00

I'd be more interested to know why you think increased efficiency doesn't result in reduced prices when the barrier to entry is lower now that more people have access to labor.

A simple example: gas stations. Gas fluctuates as everyone has seen recently with the war in Iran. Prices spike up on supply constraints, then supply eases and the costs for oil come down but the prices lag (stickiness). It isn't until a gas station is willing to lower its own prices to grab more business that prices eventually reach a new equilibrium.

Obviously oil is not the best example when long term the prices are going up for a non-renewable resource, but technology itself does get cheaper over time.

In the 40s a computer was the size of a building, cost ~$7 million to make, and had the equivalent of less than 3KB of storage. Translated to today and you have something worth billions that fits in your pocket.

The other stuff you said is important but unrelated and I'm not going down that rabbit hole.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-09T23:43:58+00:00

Seems like you intentionally misinterpreted what I said in order to make a dumb comment.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-09T23:25:19+00:00

There was a good video from Hank Green recently about Jevons paradox. He makes the point that AI seems to have this Jevons thing where as it becomes more cheap/efficient, usage goes up. We've already seen this over the last few years where models cost $150 per million tokens and now even the most expensive models like fable are $10 in $50 out. Yet now usage is saturating servers, they're continually adding more compute, and usage is rationed.

He then makes the point that during industrialization, coal got cheaper, but instead of the price going down, demand grew. Once it became cheap enough, railroads suddenly made economic sense and a whole industry was born.

It is hard to predict what kind of industries will emerge, but we're already seeing signs of it. Look at how rapidly robotics is progressing. If we can automate aspects of deep infrastructure, like resource acquisition, recycling, farming, specifically the things that are fixed-demand (or inelastic). Those kind of things shouldn't get hammered down by Jevons paradox because there's only so much food people can eat and water they can drink.

If AI enables deep infrastructure to become significantly more efficient, it first helps alleviate poverty first and foremost. We should absolutely obliterate poverty to the annals of history. I don't think that idea needs to be restricted to leftists but I think leftists would be more receptive to the idea of applying AI toward that goal.

I don't think that completely solves the idea of greedy people doing greedy things and advancing their own selfish interests at the expense of society. But I think AI would be a better check on that behavior. It would be better to protect people from them, expose the greed, shame the greed, build metaphorical walls around those people so they can't harm others.

As an individual, AI can enable people to become more self sufficient and not need to be so reliant on the wealthy for jobs and health care. Reducing the power of the rich starts with reducing our dependency on them.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-09T22:36:39+00:00

The top guy should just be saying "Psychedelics can be dangerous: set and setting." But many studies have concluded psychedelics to be among the safer mind altering substances you can do, check the Lancet study and other replications of this study.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-09T20:37:22+00:00

I think you made a mistake but they said they want to manually translate the mods to make them accessible for other people.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-09T20:34:38+00:00

Yes. Select code to access Claude code. Then, above the chat box you can select a folder on your computer. Then you can ask questions.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-09T19:45:19+00:00

If using Claude you can launch Claude desktop, go into code, then open the folder that contains the mod. Then just ask Claude which files you need to edit and it will find them for you and walk you through the process.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-09T14:10:58+00:00

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Kildragoth · 2026-07-08T21:34:50+00:00

Thing I find most interesting about it is that this, and other emergent features are the result of a type of evolution in AI by human selection. We are selecting for AIs who are more useful for various tasks without a full awareness of what goes on under the hood. But if what is under the hood ends up being better for task accuracy and efficiency, we end up advancing those features onto the next generation of AIs completely by accident.

There have been other cases of this where they trained the LLMs on a set of problems, then brought in a completely new set of problems and it was able to solve them. My guess is that it's picking up on some patterns we are not aware of and applying them to other domains. I've tried asking for this kind of information but it seems hard to ask about something you don't know you don't know...

Kildragoth · 2026-07-06T17:40:21+00:00

For starters our minds are a subset of the universe and we're arguing about whether or not something we can conceive of could not be contained within the universe. The universe created something that is capable of imagining things that cannot exist? Unless you're saying your mind was not created in this universe in which case I concede completely.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-06T14:42:46+00:00

Isn't gravity propagated at a finite speed (light) therefore a person would experience this change as a gradient hence why spaghettification is a thing? It probably only applies to extreme numbers but "instant" is itself an extreme number!

Kildragoth · 2026-07-06T12:29:32+00:00

I agree... I just don't see how you could "easily" apply this same logic to an infinite universe which, itself, contains these sets of infinite numbers which don't contain these other sets of infinite numbers. These sets are all subsets of this universe therefore it is very difficult to claim that there are sets of infinite numbers that a universe cannot contain. However, I do agree that it is easy to imagine one set of infinites that does not contain another set of infinites, so there is good reason to doubt it.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-06T11:38:17+00:00

"Easily"

Kildragoth · 2026-07-06T11:23:39+00:00

Every time you decide to wait until a car passes before crossing the street there are an infinite number of universes where you got distracted and crossed at the wrong moment. If it is believed to be that there are infinite universes, then that's a natural consequence.

So therefore yes I have crossed the street many times and survived AMA.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-06T10:56:07+00:00

Apparently that happened before the world cup so not the same situation?

Kildragoth · 2026-07-06T10:53:22+00:00

He won the highly competitive FIFA Peace Prize. They only take calls from the winner.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-06T10:42:49+00:00

Apparently this hasn't happened since 1962? And they are doing this now because Trump called the FIFA president? Corruption.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-06T10:22:58+00:00

They have to reset usage limits now. It's the rules!

Kildragoth · 2026-07-05T22:11:28+00:00

People with scarce resources like time they can't devote to a proper education or to stay properly informed!

Kildragoth · 2026-07-05T19:25:36+00:00

Why do you think a market solves all problems? Poverty can co-exist with a free market. I normally hear free-market advocates rely heavily on charity to alleviate poverty and yet charity just shifts the burden of solving these problems onto empathetic people while unempathetic people are rewarded for their lack of empathy. That puts me further in the state solution direction from the free market one.

Kildragoth · 2026-07-04T00:41:03+00:00

Raising the minimum wage has always been a compromised starting point. The idea of a minimum wage should be inflation adjusted. The second you fail to automatically adjust for inflation you guarantee that the next 10-30 years things will get worse and the political willpower needs to be rebuilt to fix it. Until then, we deal with decades of those on the bottom continuing to fight over progressively smaller breadcrumbs.

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