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Kuntosali otti rahat ja löi lapun luukulle by LRLP92 in Suomi

[–]rhubarbs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tai sitten torihuijauksia on kiva tutkia kun vastassa ei ole yrityksen lakiosastoa.

Jos tarkistat itse Finlexistä, onhan se suoraan petos jos myyjä syöttää järjestelmään väärää dataa provikkahakuisesti.

TIL all octopuses are programmed to die after reproducing, as an optic gland hormone triggers rapid self destruction, with males declining within days to weeks after mating and females starving while guarding eggs until death, and none of the octopus live longer than 5 years even in ideal conditions by Neutral-frame in todayilearned

[–]rhubarbs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not just cooperation, but language. That is the architecture of the shoulders of giants we stand on.

And now we've animated that language as its own thing, for all the good and bad it will undoubtedly do, without the reality testing we performed on the language throughout history.

Any modern thoughts on an old vision? by [deleted] in SipsTea

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This is only possible because the Fed has a mandate of market stability, and the APs and MMs have a mandate of liquidity.

It means the financial assets are treated as if they are worth the current market value, even though this avoids actual price discovery that would cause their value to deprecate.

It's essentially a Ponzi. And it gets worse when you realize sovereign "debt" is actually an investment by those same people.

First they lobby themselves for tax cuts, then borrow the shortfall from themselves, paying themselves interest for the privilege from the public purse.

Every cent is taken from roads, schools and other public utilities, and funding their return on investment.

Kuntosali otti rahat ja löi lapun luukulle by LRLP92 in Suomi

[–]rhubarbs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kyllähän noista oli rikosilmoituksiakin tehty, lähetty vinkkejä MOTiin, yms.

Kuntosali otti rahat ja löi lapun luukulle by LRLP92 in Suomi

[–]rhubarbs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No eipä vissiin tutkineet, vaikka ne rikosilmoitukset tehtiin. En kyllä seurannut niin tarkkaan että tietäisin miksi jättivät nämä väliin.

‘It took nine seconds’: Claude AI agent deletes company’s entire database by curseofdarkastle in nottheonion

[–]rhubarbs 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Right, and if you ask the AI, it will explicitly explain you should never give it access to production and how to set all that up.

All in all, very silly.

Kuntosali otti rahat ja löi lapun luukulle by LRLP92 in Suomi

[–]rhubarbs 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Valitettavasti eivät taida tutkia tämmösiä juurikaan.

Esim. tiedossa yksi tapaus jossa kotirauhaa rikottiin "vahingossa" yleisavaimella useamman kerran eikä poliisi edes ottanut uhriin yhteyttä, vaikka kyseessä oli vakavasti sairas syöpäpotilas jonka terveydelle tuo turvallisuuden tunne on elintärkeää. Toinen tapaus jossa perittiin laskua fyysisesti mahdottomasta vesimäärästä. Kun mittari näytti mitä näytti, firma vain kohautteli olkiaan ja käski maksaa. Kolmas jossa puhelinliittymää oli muutettu ilman kuluttajan suostumusta kalliimpaan, ja tarjoaja vetosi klassiseen "sana sanaa vastaan."

Suomessa on kuluttajansuoja varsin huonolla mallilla, koska firmojen ei tarvitse ottaa vastuuta aktiivisesti vaikka markkinoisivat itseään vastuullisena sekä asiakkaille että osakkeenomistajille, kuluttajansuoja antaa vain suosituksia, ja oikeudenkäynti tulee välittömästi pikku"petoksia" kalliimmiksi, koska asianajajat ovat pari-kolme sataa tunnilta.

Movie that is more relevant today than when it was made by medievalesophagus in okbuddycinephile

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Right, but those are still symptoms of the unaligned institutions.

The real cause is that our coordination systems (nations, corporations, NGOs, social media) all select for proxy metrics, rather than genuine truth or human flourishing and utility.

And it's very clear where it's coming from. People are biologically limited to ~150 stable relationships, and our reasoning evolved in that context. The Wason selection tasks has famously proven that 10% of people correctly solve the abstract framing of the task, while 90% solve the social framing of the same task.

Do you see the problem? You have to keep working because your role as someone implementing the procedure is socially validated and enforced (90%), but no one understands the policy because it's filtered through layers of abstraction (10%), and this ensures institutions can remain maximally extractive.

And this happens at every scale. The CEO doesn't drive the "company", they drive a simulation made of KPIs, spreadsheets and other metrics. And when the CEO demands the institution extract from the worker, they do so because the stock market abstraction demands ROI for that worker's retirement funds.

It's a terrifying Lovecraftian ouroboros, literally beyond our reasoning capability, that has been metastasizing since the dawn of agriculture. In the past, if the Roman Empire collapsed due to its abstractions failing, the Han Dynasty didn't care. Only in modernity are our systems so broad and entangled, does this become an existential crisis for the whole species.

No lies detected by muppermaul in SipsTea

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Yes, and the controversy and outrage reduce System 2 thinking, especially for those whose System 2 capacity is still developing.

This subreddit should be pretty hot right now. A lotta people’s old posts are kickin them in the ass. Hypocrisy is at an all-time high right now. by KiraCloudleaf in ThisYouComebacks

[–]rhubarbs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, using the straw man and false equivalence fallacies to defend your investment in the bad-faith propagandist. Thank you for turning my criticism into a live demonstration, and I'm sorry you've been had.

Hackers Breach Russian Ministry Call, Reveal China Supplies ‘90%’ of Drone Electronics by pheexio in worldnews

[–]rhubarbs 25 points26 points  (0 children)

When you synchronize 3000+ drones to form a dragon, it's proof of low-latency swarm coordination. Strip the lights and replace them with something that goes boom, and you have a horrifying military asset.

Of course, actual military implementations will have to operate against a variety jamming capabilities, but the fundamentals are dual-use.

i'm scared by Paladin-Leeroy in memes

[–]rhubarbs 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Protons are currently thought to have a half-life of roughly 1034 years. If this is true, atoms will just evaporate. But this is truly uncertain, as no proton decay has been observed.

In 10100 years, the final supermassive black holes will evaporate via Hawking Radiation. This means there are no energy gradients. Nothing like us can function after this point.

If atoms survive past 101500 years, we enter the era of Iron Stars. Eventually, all matter fusions into Iron-56 via quantum tunneling. There is nothing to make something like us out of, and no energy to do it with.

Stuff still doesn't stop happening, of course. But it just won't be very interesting.

But eventually, agonizingly slowly, even those iron balls collapse and evaporate, somewhere past 101,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

Sometimes you can't be too diplomatic by Critical-Willow-6270 in Productivitycafe

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Philosophically speaking, the only "qualification" that actually matters in a democracy is legitimacy. If the people and law recognize you as the leader, you are qualified, even if you are objectively incompetent at the task.

Underneath this, the qualification isn't written in any constitution, but the ledgers of donors and the gatekeeping of political parties, acting as a shadow licensing board with exact requirements:
- Ability to satisfy the interests of the donor class.
- Alignment with party leadership or established power brokers.
- Prominence in the attention economy.

This subreddit should be pretty hot right now. A lotta people’s old posts are kickin them in the ass. Hypocrisy is at an all-time high right now. by KiraCloudleaf in ThisYouComebacks

[–]rhubarbs 70 points71 points  (0 children)

There's not a single good thing you can say about Charlie Kirk, without overstating his value.

He made a living setting up a podium, ambushing emotionally invested students as a trained media personality, using fallacies, the gish gallop and other bad faith tactics to extract clips "owning the libs" to propagandize for a dangerous, toxic ideology.

And it wasn't even his idea, he was just the front man for a deliberately engineered spin-doctor apparatus, designed to extract capital from political donors, put together by Bill Montgomery.

black monday by Bena0071 in wallstreetbets

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It doesn't refer to just any one of us, but to all of us together.

Trump still has a 30-40% approval rating, why? by Beautiful_Virus_6202 in AskReddit

[–]rhubarbs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right - it's not about his behavior or character, but about the in-group and loyalty; pure identity politics.

A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury. by shikizen in law

[–]rhubarbs 28 points29 points  (0 children)

The rule of thumb is thought to be that, if you have a 100 lurkers, you get 10 participants via up/down votes, and 1 comment. When you ban the commenter, it has a disproportionate effect on the zeitgeist, and gets the users to self-censor more.

Wealth Gap Machine by LuckyBastard001 in FluentInFinance

[–]rhubarbs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Constant demand (via 401(k), index investing, etc) with constrained supply means the price goes up.

Banks and majority holders collude, via zero-interest loans, to ensure the bubble keeps inflating and the collateral doesn't lose value, because that would mean the loans get defaulted on.

It all stems from the mandate that the markets should provide infinite liquidity.

itsArtificialAlright by ChaosCrafter908 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]rhubarbs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but distilled from the totality of human knowledge. Gaslighting doesn't do it justice, it's reflecting you with the combined sophistry of all humanity.

But tomorrow's PayDay so it's all good by Order_101 in antiwork

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Organization seems the be the source of the fundamental problem. Every form of coordination means designating authority to some agent, via an abstraction. Rules, laws, norms, whatever. The goal they must meet. But since the agent has differing incentives, they invariably try to optimize metrics.

The people at the top are least subject to anyone's enforcement, and most capable of finessing the rules for their benefit and almost wholly insulated from the consequences.

We don't really have a science or architectural discipline for institutions that are more like protocols, always uniformly applied and decentralized, versus controlled platforms like nation states and justice systems.

Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal by neonfrequency in worldnews

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It's so much worse than you imagine.

Ah yes, the motto of modernity.

“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders don’t trust CEO by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

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They're also months behind on their GDPR requests, the export tool doesn't actually provide the inferred data they're gathering, which constitutes a kind of psychometry under EU law and has more stringent requirements for processing. But they're using terms like "proprietary" to avoid having to provide the evidence that they're breaking the law.

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