Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

Philosopher of the Apocalypse Carbondale, Illinois Joined July 2007

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

a week ago

@AppleSupport This is…insane. How can it possibly be the case that when you delete filtered-in rows in Numbers, you also delete filtered-*out* rows??? medium.com/@mubin.khalife…

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

a week ago

@avidseries Thomas Jefferson.

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

a week ago

@avidseries Ayn Rand.

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@connorpklocke 1) As many as the market desires. 2) If that were the most cost-effective method, that’s what they would do. 3) Why do we need a new factory? A new store? A new farm? A new house? Why does what someone else builds have to benefit you?

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

2 weeks ago

This is correct.

John Ennis @johnennis

2 weeks ago

Sooner or later, I think people are going to have to come to terms with the fact that “stochastic parrot” is actually a correct way to describe an LLM Yes, it turns out that stochastic parrots can do a tremendous amount, and the technology is revolutionary, but it is still

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

2 weeks ago

@j_fishback So…don’t subsidize them?

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

2 weeks ago

It occurs to me that if we had genuinely-perfectly-enforced speed limits, we wouldn’t need speed limits at all. Just ticket those who are actually driving recklessly. Speed limits are, and always have been, just an easier proxy for reckless driving.

sonch @soncharm

2 weeks ago

Real problem here is more basic. Speed limits as they’ve existed are basically 5-10mph under the desired speed. That’s the equilibrium. ‘25’ on a sign basically means ‘stay under 35 and you’re probably good, unless a cop really wants to pull you over for some other reason’ This

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

2 weeks ago

@soncharm It’s so much worse than that. Ever driven around a cop car? Cop cars form “wolf packs” around them, of people afraid to go faster than the cop car. This is inherently dangerous. This is what a rigorously-enforced speed limit regime would look like (ish).

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

2 weeks ago

@xwanyex If you use “literally” hyperbolically, that’s just called lying.

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

2 weeks ago

@jeremyct How much would that cost? If people have free access to doctors, many will go for every hangnail. Economics teaches us that the quantity demanded for a free, valuable product is infinite. Is there infinite money to pay for this?

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

2 weeks ago

@beinlibertarian “Once the land is gone, it’s gone.” Completely false. You can just tear down the data center and turn the land back into farmland if needed.

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

2 weeks ago

@bearlyai If I could use Bearly with, e.g. Beaver for Zotero, I’d subscribe. But as it is, I’d have to pay for Bearly *and* e.g. OpenRouter.

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

2 weeks ago

@bearlyai In Bearly 5.2.5, the “Join Our Discord” link has expired.

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

2 weeks ago

@ArmandDoma Speed limits are one of those things which, if enforced consistently, would break the system.

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

a month ago

@Kyshores1 Are ya’ll still in business? If so, your website is wrong…

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

a month ago

@bdkjones Seems like leasing & then buying is the best option. You basically get an interest-free loan.

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Jim Syler 🤖🚫🔪🌎 @Calion

a month ago

@T_Hates_Cali @conor64 You mean “those who wish to control others’ behavior by force."

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

2 months ago

It is not a coincidence that socialism is more popular among people with high social and educational capital and less popular among the working class––both cohorts understand who is best able to game centrally planned systems.