Asylum Seaker

Radish farmer by day, digital dreamer by night.
#permaculture #banklessness #decentralism #anarchopluralism #bioregionalism
Humbly on Bundjalung land.

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@zhusu Btw look at mah radishes! Broadcasted and covered in straw, the Fukuoka way

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@NatSciChannel If we called it "volatility" they might get it. Energy trapped in the system causes wild swings as feedback loops fight each other and cross thresholds that cause sudden reversals etc.

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@WhiteCorrela @MyFirstCousin As for the "why", its for the same reason we can tell others that something belongs to us and not them - state violence backs it.

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@WhiteCorrela @MyFirstCousin The reason is because past a certain threshold the average rate of return on capital exceeds the average rate of economic growth, meaning large piles of wealth keep growing regardless of who owns them. This leads to a lopsided distribution of power that destabilises society.

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@TantumHon11590 @WarMonitor3 You can call them criminal states if you want but they aren't sending any personnel. Individuals from all over the world are voluntarily joining the AFU. Individuals from North Korea are sent by their state, they have no choice.

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@Rainmaker1973 The moment the tiger realised there are prettier cats out there

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@IcedKnife Call it impermanent loss or something

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We can see that Oreshnik makes it a bit easier for Russia to nuke cities at a shorter range than before. Since the 1960s Russia has had the ability to nuke any city on Earth with a virtually unstoppable ICBM, Oreshnik barely changes the picture. Its use as a conventional weapon against Kyiv is psychological only, calculated to impress idiots but really an expensive waste.

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@glevonian Being the best at ending the world isn't really going to help Russia's position, because being 2nd best, 3rd best, 4th best at it is functionally the same. It doesn't make up for the other ways in which it is lacking.
Russia's future is to be a buffer state between EU and China.

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@SagamiCharlie1 @WarMonitor3 Better for the environment

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@JonathanWasenda @WarMonitor3 You show it

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@gabriel67891734 @ArmchairW Only Ukrainian strikes can be described as retaliatory.

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@FightWithMemes The guy on the left becomes so despondant with 9 to 5 he ends up giving her black eyes every other weekend, coming home later and later from the pub, kids seeing this grow up to ceeate a whole new culture built on values opposed to those idealised in the picture

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They didn't tell me personally, I just watched what they did. In addition to their own harvesting of the public domain, most of their "stolen" material came through Common Crawl, a third party. They also used free resources like Wikipedia, and they made deals with IP owners like AP, News Corp, DotDash Meredith etc.

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Private property does not predate human beings. Animal territoriality is possession enforced by physical presence. Private property is an absent owner's enforceable legal claim, backed by courts, titles, and police. One requires a state and contract law. The other requires just claws. These aren't the same thing.

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@StevenVerner @SteveDubuc @draecomino Not true, a good chunk of the training material of those models is licensed.

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@SanFranciscoLP @cboyack It is not the default to understand stuff as belonging to someone, that's an idea that has to be installed. People don't see it as aggression until they are conditioned to do so. And there are levels to it, personal property is different and the distinction is ancient.

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If you really want or need something it takes effort to just leave it alone. Especially if you need it to survive. If you're an absentee owner of a farm, and the workers on it are starving, they will have to exercise significant restraint not to just take the food. The default is to take the thing you need, imposition of property rights forces us to behave differently.
I'm not saying property rights shouldn't exist, but I'm saying the mutual restraint necessitated in a law-abiding society does function as a foundational form of reciprocal contribution that should grant baseline bargaining power to participants, even those with no money.

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@SteveDubuc @draecomino Did openAI, anthropic, xAI etc create the training material their products are built on?

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@draecomino Accusation or confession? All the material scraped by AI companies to build their products was created by someone else. They harvested it like forests and oceans are harvested, as if that material was placed there for them by god.