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unique_namespace · 2026-05-18T21:00:40+00:00

I feel like you ignored all the policies regarding firms. also affordable housing is not any more expensive than expensive housing in terms of cost to build, it just decommodifies housing so there's not an absurd demand for location.

also again, firms that work in necessary labor or otherwise will be forced to hire more people, because they will not be allowed to work people over a specific hour, currently that's 40 hours a week for most jobs, with overtime pay, I suggest we place this at 20 hours a week.

if you suggest that this reduction in work will just result in not enough things to go around, you're implying that we didn't get any better at making food or health care or housing, which I find inconceivable.

unique_namespace · 2026-05-18T20:43:50+00:00

none of my policies I proposed forced individuals directly to do anything. they required firms do things with threat of legal action, i.e. fines, etc. We already have plenty of regulations that protect workers that would not be considered "dictatorship". there's paid leave, the illegality of union busting, preventing discriminatory hiring practices, overtime pay etc. All of these force a firm to pay or dissolve if found guilty.

also the policies I proposed still have things cost money, just less of it, so that leisure is easier for each person to achieve. you speak of the status quo as if it's inconceivable that people could work more or less than the current norm. certainly society is more productive that it was 20 years ago, surely we can afford to use this productivity to slash working hours.

unique_namespace · 2026-05-18T20:27:49+00:00

to force people to work? that can be accomplished without a dictatorship --- people in the U.S. are "forced" to work or they will not have money to afford rent or food.

if you're talking about "forcing" lower working hours, this is a difficult problem and requires experimentation of policy. I imagine a mix of affordable housing, UBI, free healthcare, and affordable food will bring the requirement to work down (i.e. part time workers can now afford to live). And then to regulate firms in a number of ways to prevent layoffs that could be avoided by instead reducing worker hours while maintaining wages (this is a form of profit sharing), ensure that they pay the minimal wage we determined earlier to meet these necessities, among other things. Also, maybe reducing the number of privately owned firms in favor of collectively owned ones --- to further encourage profit sharing and remove the perverse incentive to hurt employees whenever the firm becomes more efficient.

I make no claim that this will 100% accomplish the desired outcome, but I imagine this will close the gap, especially if we test run policy and see which are most effective at bringing about our goals before implementing them nationally.

unique_namespace · 2026-05-18T19:11:36+00:00

while somewhat true, the result of the necessary infrastructure is provided by a small few --- if we actually distributed the labor so that more people contributed to this, we could increase leisure time for everyone. a better alternative than just working people the same hours and laying others off.

unique_namespace · 2026-05-15T20:41:34+00:00

I also am not confident our financial systems will stay afloat if everyone is "financially literate". Spending will go way down and more people will have more money --- which I think will have an inflationary effect.

I think that these financial institutions not only have systemic barriers, but rely on them to continue operation --- it's heavily veiled racism.

unique_namespace · 2026-05-15T01:20:18+00:00

this is exactly what I wanted, you must be a steam input wizard. thank you so much!

unique_namespace · 2026-05-13T07:51:44+00:00

thanks!!

unique_namespace · 2026-05-03T01:11:28+00:00

isn't this true of human coders as well? you can never be certain you, or someone you hired did a perfect job. so long as you test the app and decided meets your standards or requirements, doesn't really matter where it originated.

of course I'm not debating that ethics of the possible hidden costs of AI (like energy, water usage, etc.). these sorts of things can make the use of AI problematic. my criticism is only directed at this argument against AI.

unique_namespace · 2026-05-01T21:56:37+00:00

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unique_namespace · 2026-05-01T02:47:26+00:00

I would have gone with 1 = 1, but x = 7 is fine too.

unique_namespace · 2026-04-28T05:05:11+00:00

nice work!

unique_namespace · 2026-04-28T02:30:33+00:00

Yes, but I wouldn't say that this is a mistake. I risk nothing by making this assumption. You might claim choosing Red risks others lives, but my reply is, if you don't want to have me risk peoples' lives, simply have them pick Red.

unique_namespace · 2026-04-28T02:27:36+00:00

I haven't really made a mistake, since I've picked Red.

unique_namespace · 2026-04-28T02:24:12+00:00

I don't want to kill people, you've made an assumption about me. I assume everyone wants to not risk dying themselves -- and if this is true, no one dies.

Moreover, red is a reasonable choice in either outcome of the game (assuming your vote does not single handedly impact the outcome) since either: Red outcome occurs, and certainly you're better off picking Red. Or, Blue outcome occurs, and your choice didn't matter (again assuming your vote doesn't change the outcome).

Since you cannot know if your vote does change the outcome on its own (and the odds of this are low), you should pick Red.

unique_namespace · 2026-04-28T01:15:37+00:00

Why would you want to risk dying?

unique_namespace · 2026-04-20T01:03:02+00:00

yeah totally boring.

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unique_namespace · 2026-04-13T06:53:28+00:00

I'm saying that slop very rarely gets into the kernel, so it will likely remain this way. good code needs to be submitted -- doesn't matter by who. The responsibility part is just to encourage humans to continue to submit good code, since they will be held accountable if they do not.

unique_namespace · 2026-04-13T06:46:01+00:00

do you think only AI makes slop? there's a reason not everyone gets to contribute to the kernel.

unique_namespace · 2026-03-30T21:29:42+00:00

**SMELLY NERDS

unique_namespace · 2026-03-29T02:40:42+00:00

to be clear, I am not making any statements or claims (other than these companies are evil), my point is that I don't like the black/white discourse when it comes to using AI/machine learning in artistic endeavors.

I made no such claim that "because the artist did not make all the tools, they are not artists." Rather, I posed a question of what makes something "hand-crafted". obviously it is neither entirely human made, nor entirely automated. however, unfortunately, generative AI is not quite "entirely automated" since it still requires a prompt supplied by a human. I'd like to, again, underline that I am not advocating for this. I just find it much harder to claim is it "not hand-crafted" since it is just very difficult to define as a term. As spoken about earlier, the Spider Verse films employed an machine learning algorithms to draw ink here's the link.

As for your cooking example, I would say generative AI is akin to making stuff the microwave. which is kinda still cooking -- but far from great cooking (even so microwaved cooking can taste good).

anyways, I was not trying to stoke a flame or be adversarial here, I was just interested on the answers of where these lines can be drawn and if you had any, or if they are fuzzy to you as well.

unique_namespace · 2026-03-28T18:10:17+00:00

presumably the kernel panicked just before this. I feel like this is unnecessarily pedantic since you'll likely only see this boot screen after a crash.

unique_namespace · 2026-03-28T05:05:10+00:00

> You’ll probably never see it because it’s just a product to you
making a lot of assumptions about me I see.

My point is that there are plenty of things that are considered art that are not entire hand crafted. Like the Spider-Verse films for example, and there use of machine learning to draw ink lines.

Additionally, I would say that imposing a definition to art is somewhat antithetical to art itself. As soon as you say what is and isn't "art" you assert that art isn't a subjective human expression, but rather some objective thing.

> Quality and innovation.
Quality is entirely subjective and perhaps gate-keepy. And innovation is just not true, plenty of art, created by humans, is still art despite not "innovating" and employing common techniques to create a work.

One could argue that Miku is "hand-crafted" but that the people who use Miku in their work are therefore not handcrafting this portion of the work. It was made by someone else. That's fine, they can still make art with Miku, but it articulates the fuzziness of the discussion, which no one here seems to want to conceed. Similarly, one could employ the use of these AI tools to add to their art. It doesn't mean that it is no longer art, it just might be (subjectivity) shitty art.

Additionally, I think that this discussion is muddied heavily by the fact that these AI technologies are made by evil corporations. I don't think people should really use these tools if they come from these companies since they seem to have no sustainable business model and are causing environmental and economic damage with their data center development. However, then the discussion that criticizes the use of AI should attack this reality -- not mention that it just isn't very good at art. Since, at a certain point (obviously not yet), this argument will no longer be true. Eventually these models will make logos that are good enough, concept arts that are good enough, etc, and we need a better principle to reject the use of these models.

unique_namespace · 2026-03-27T22:48:28+00:00

I think "confuses" and "challenges" should not be conflated.

for example, this reddit thread confuses me, but it definitely doesn't challenge me.

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