I would agree with that, although until recent history many more people (as a percentage of concurrently existing people) were less under the thumb of others. Now virtually everyone has some tyrant large or small taking their labour (or as a Marxist would say surplus labour value).

I’m not really interested in ranking stuff, there are just a lot of people now is all.

The taking of the information as training data does not in itself harm people it is true, however the regurgitation of this at a scale to overwhelm human endevour does.

For example stackexchange is dead. Because who is interested in asking questions and getting slop, and who is interested in competing with slop answers produced at multiple times the speed. This resource, previously maintained by a community of volunteers to mentor people in their craft.

The fruit of this commons is now a resource you need to pay for, or will very shortly. This is just one paltry example. The commons of the internet is being enclosed and if the project is successful then it will have a similarly deleterious effect in human online freedom and craft as the enclosing of the physical commons did.

More impactful and incalculably more evil for sure but I actually don’t know if in terms of number of human lifetimes stolen it would be larger. Probably if we count secondary effects caused by the slave trade and ongoing marginalisation though (like if your life falls apart because you got attacked by slavers then the labour you would have done for yourself/your community is stolen in a sense).

Kinda silly and bizarre maths to do anyway. Chattel slavery vvv bad, slavery in general v bad, Looting and enclosing commons also bad. Rich people exploiting others is bad and they should be punished for doing what they knew was wrong.

Buddy, 3 objects in a void is too complex to be solved.

The motion of a pile of sand being kicked is too complex to understand.

Not being able to describe analytically in totality is not a place on the map you can start doodling dragons.

Do you even know what a neuron in a neural network is?

and digits are sticky, owner, group, all

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Me when my wife says that I don’t hold anyone else to that standard and I’m forked by having to reveal my superiority complex or hiding my self-disgust.

I remember my wife getting me to watch that starballs movie where the grand moppet character or whatever was some vile CGI rigged corpse.

I felt viceral disgust and a portent of the future. Fuck me for thinking that it should mean something that someone lived and died, and that things should end and decay so new things can take their place.

I wasn’t sure, the gui is nicer in some ways but defs less direct and given that you said “terminal is more direct” I thought you were using the gui because you hadn’t made some simple helper scripts for searching the database quickly

I use bazzite on my BC250 console but bazzite’s package management is horrible lmao.

It’s good for something you install and never touch but not adequate for general purpose computing.

Pacman is an amazing package manager, dnf is probably better but inertia has me prefer pacman. The rest suck

pacman can list all packages and their description, then you just grep for key words

Thaaaat’s why I had to spend time kicking a ball on an elastic band and playing with putty!

Also why I confuse left and right a lot and change dominant hands for different tasks!

Huh, the more you know.

Probably also explains why I am near insensate to a lot of pain but will actually kill anyone who splashes me with cold water.

No, I am trying to make a point here. Everyone knows decisions can have consequences and that change should be managed. Chesterton’s fence is not “try not to fuck up in ignorance” it is a specific argument made by GK Chesterton and pushed by cryptofascists in the tech industry via the “rationalist” movement to try and equivocate:

• Doing stuff recklessly is bad, but so is not doing stuff out of fear. We should have robust ways of making decisions

and Chesterton’s argument

• Every tradition and social structure has some important reasoning behind it, and if you want to get rid of some prohibition or institution because you think it’s outdated, useless, or obstructing progress then that is a demonstration of your lack of qualification to make such a change.

In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

Is where it comes from, in a book describing why he’s a Catholic.

But the reality of the world, especially social institutions is not like this. There is a cunning sleight of hand here, a fence only gets built because someone has a reason to build a fence. Many things in life are not built: they arise spontaneously or emerge from chaos through more complex forms of interaction.

If we switch the argument to being about diverting a watercourse, or regrading land, it suddenly falls apart because it becomes clear that these things do not exist for intelligent reasons.

I don’t think it’s a bad idea to try and understand the world or to mitigate risks when making changes. I think chesterton’s fence is a shite argument because it implies that everything which exists has a planned purpose and favours the status quo which may be intolerable.

Never change anything because society is too difficult to actually understand was the essence of his argument lol. He was a reactionary christain opposed to social change and it’s a bad argument.

You should be able to change things without assuming that everything which seems silly has some unknown and important purpose. You should manage change by assessing risks and hazards which are known and planning appropriately.

Alright, share some tools to make fake ids

Annoying, I won’t be able to access reddit posts as part of searches.

I really wish people hadn’t been so eager to abandon independent forums for hobbies.

Who is agreeing with genocide?

No people who don’t make the slightest effort to teach themselves something and instead expect other people to spoon-feed them are antisocial and deserve mockery.