I would love to discuss this with anyone that’s willing. If their government is as awful and fucked up as everyone says why does the average Chinese citizen generally have a better life than the average American in their respective societal totem pole (in cities specifically) ?

Because the social contract of 21st century authoritarian societies is “We give you prosperity, you do politics through gov-approved channels.” Punishment for dissent depends on how insecure the state feels right now.

On the plus side, the government cares about your prosperity. As long as it lasts, elites can divide power among themselves however they like.

On the minus – society doesn’t control its government (power transition happens by committee, not elections) and it can’t force any kind of change when elites are against it. Modern states have so much repression power, they can shut down any activism when they don’t mind bloodstains.

And when prosperity ends, the new contract will be “Do as we say and nobody gets tortured”. source: Im russian

For art to be art you need space to express yourself through individual choices:

• play an original song on a real instrument, and you have the entire artistic spectrum to yourself
• if you make the music for it out of individual pieces, you narrow that range. The sounds are not yours, only their composition and words
• when you record a cover of a rap song over some elses beat, you further narrow it down to your performance only. Its still artistic expression, but to a much less degree than an original song

In a prompt generated image, the image itself is not your expression. The prompt is, but comparing the amount of choices you need to make with a painting over a prompt, its just so… less art?

There’s also “A Half-Built Garden” novel where the whole “git as means of direct democracy” is central to the plot. Is gitpunk a genre?

Because modern windows is garbage and old windows is full of holes. Or at least that’s why I switched 🤷

You can give LLM some API endpoints for it to “do” thing. Will it be intelligent or coherent, that’s a different question, but it will have agency…

The problem imo is deception. I honestly think bots wouldn’t be out of place on facebook if they were all clearly marked as such, and you could filter all generated content with a single toggle.

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Its also popular and easier to google issues for.

M cannot replicate the particle after they read it, so A and B will detect M’s attempt when they compare results.

The same as classical one-way encryption, it only works through authenticated channel tho. It’s not magic, you have to have some kind of pre-existing secret or rely on third-party authentication

It’s at least half a decade earlier on the enshittification timeline.

It is better than xitter right now (almost anything is) but the earlier you quit the black-box-algorithm-skinnerbox needle, the better.

I’m not worried lol I’m poor. I’d like a number cause if you’re for death penalty, you should’ve thought long and hard through all the details.

Cause you know. It’s about killing people.

Can I ask what’s the cutoff? How much money/how high of a position qualifies you for the electric chair?

I’ll check it out, thanks!

Windows’ lightweight photo editing thing. Great for highlighting screenshots.

All image editing software on linux (that I’ve tried) is 10x more clunky.

Breaking the rules isn’t fascism though. Fascism is fascism.

What do you think is a more ethical choice:

a) uphold the law, knowing it will let fascist come to power and kill thousands

a) break the law and stop him