sister_sam

Voluntaryist, privacy nut, pissed off would be radical optimist. Software architect, developer, "hey you" by trade. enby trans woman by birth and living true.

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2026-07-05 19:27:24 UTC

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That is not at all coherent. Which God? Which sects notion of God? It is a big claim there even is one. And the Bible does not claim we have individual rights at all.
Rights come from our very nature as human beings. Humans means of surviving and thriving is using our minds to model how reality works and to predict on the basis of observation and modeling what is more likely to get us what we want and need. So the freedom to think, to use our minds and make decisions and act upon them is fundamental to human flourishing.
That freedom based on our very nature and it being essential to our flourishing is the very heart of all true rights - that and respecting that same freedom in others.
Thus it doesn't require a "God" or "Creator" as some other external authority that gives us rights. It only requires recognizing the fundamental nature of human beings.
No dependence on some particular religious view or interpretation whatsoever.

2026-07-05 19:16:45 UTC

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Another way of saying it is that freedom is LIVED not just read about, written about, granted by some other.

2026-07-05 19:13:03 UTC

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Not so much a class thing. Only Government has the power to massively rob us and declare it legal.

2026-07-05 19:07:24 UTC

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It tripped for me 4 times in 2 hours and for completely inane things. Like "I hear Fable uses tokens faster than Opus 4.8? How much faster?" Or I asked a question very basically related to biology. It is hair trigger tuned to appease those that tried to shut it down. Effectively it makes it useless even in chat.

2026-07-03 21:08:32 UTC

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Without knowing your background it is hard to say. But maybe try "Feminism is for Everybody" https://excoradfeminisms.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bell_hooks-feminism_is_for_everybody.pdf

2026-07-03 17:23:26 UTC

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This is complete fucking crap with not even enough right to bother arguing with. I suggest reading up on real feminism.

2026-07-01 02:42:58 UTC

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So who is going to know what we exchange at the veritable fence post? We have the tech to make it work without needing to physically meet at said post.

2026-06-21 03:41:27 UTC

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I used it to ingest a bunch of epub and pdf books and articles and attempt to use it to help me grasp what is in them better and in more depth. Small steps.

2026-06-21 03:27:08 UTC

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Which Monero people also do all the time. It is one reason Monero doesn't have as wild price swings - less speculation.

2026-06-19 04:44:06 UTC

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Of what does this having consist and not consist. Are children comptelely property then? What if the parents don't act in the best interest of the children? What if they abuse them?

2026-06-19 04:40:49 UTC

You know what the mark of a weak social media is? Almost every "trending" post is about itself or about bitcoin. BORING.

2026-06-16 20:26:39 UTC

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ZK tech is one thing that may be instrumental in stopping it when used with truly private crypto and as part of cryptographic proof technology allowing broader private voluntary interaction. E2E CANNOT be filtered because they cannot get the content EXCEPT by full client side scanning. That is a danger.

2026-06-16 20:23:15 UTC

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BULLSHIT. Governors did not have final power and could do nothing with the POTUS approving of lockdowns first. He does NOT follow the Constitution as witness declaring war on Iran totally without Congress. Be honest.

2026-06-15 03:43:33 UTC

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Lately I use minimax 2.7 under opencode increasingly to do everything I did under $200/mo (which I was gifted) Claude Code.

2026-06-15 03:40:17 UTC

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Morse code? Poor baby if you think CLI is complex then you sure can't understand much of how your computer works. GUI always picks and choices what parts of underlying capability is actually exposed to the user and what of the internal state is exposed. It is almost always a simplified subset.

2026-06-15 03:38:12 UTC

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Doesn't change that Trump authorized the lock downs. You are blind.

2026-06-14 04:15:09 UTC

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It is usually me training them.

2026-06-14 04:13:39 UTC

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That is insane. The internet is where most of tho knowledge and communication and computation of humanity is. Isolating children from that is total abuse.

2026-06-14 04:12:41 UTC

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Can't use it directly to power anything. though.

2026-06-14 03:57:21 UTC

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If you deny what is right in front of your face there is no means to prove anything to you and I want try. You were told to not go to work, not go to church, not see your friends. Many businesses were shut down and destroyed. You were told to wear mask everywhere and told to get the vaccine or lose your job and expect to lose access to countless things. This started under Trump last term. He locked the country down and started operation Warp Speed. He print $5 trillion of new money distributed into circulation guaranteeing inflation. Were you too drunk to notice? Did the price of gas not jump from the illegal war in your area? Have you not heard Trump claim countless times there is a deal with Iran when there is not? WAKE THE FUCK UP.

2026-06-14 03:28:54 UTC

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A dude who along with his family has profited by billions since getting in office? Where have you been?
A dude that shut down the entire fucking country in his first term and brags about it - greatest destruction of American freedom in history?
A dude that kisses the ass of Israel every day and starts completely unconstitutional war?
If you don't see the shit the face of the American people has been rubbed in by this dude then you are beyond any evidence.

2026-06-14 03:24:22 UTC

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What are you saying? Many models are open weighs. Anyone with sufficient inference resources can run them. You CANNOT do everything worth doing fully decentralized anyway.

2026-06-14 02:52:21 UTC

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The fucker has wrecked the country and is a completely liar as well as most corrupt president in my long lifetime. Anyone that still supports them is beneath contempt.

2026-06-14 02:50:35 UTC

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People that are afraid of a terminal are difficult for me to understand. You can actually do more with CLI than GUI for many programs. Of course I started messing with computers before there were GUIs. But still.

2026-06-13 06:14:50 UTC

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when have they not done that? I9 has been around a long time for instance.

2026-06-12 03:50:00 UTC

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They are not the boss of us.

2026-06-12 03:44:35 UTC

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Why give them an account when they have a key pair already?

2026-06-12 03:19:14 UTC

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throttled in what way and by whom?

2026-06-11 02:19:11 UTC

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sorry for the typo

2026-06-11 01:39:34 UTC

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The VAERS reports of poor outcomes from COVID vaccines were orders of magnitude higher than for past vaccines that were pulled from the market. They were largely ignored.

2026-06-11 00:23:18 UTC

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There is incredible variation among boys, girls and everything in between. Some people are even easy to characterize at reproductive pluming level. And that is certainly not all there is to gender, gender expression or sexuality. There is not hard correspondence to reality that you imply. And these things are NOT a mental disorder.
God made me trans. I was born that way. Should I deny how God made me? You can't excuse this limited view of yours as being what God intended. That just hoists your own prejudice up to the God level.

2026-06-11 00:18:51 UTC

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There are many things I belief because of evidence and reasonable. There are many I disbelieve because of lack of same.

2026-06-10 22:37:41 UTC

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A blanket refusal to believe regardless of evidence makes one an idiot, not a rebel.

2026-06-10 19:56:56 UTC

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My favorite:
Kid: "Dad, I am considering a life of crime".
Dad: "Public or private sector?"

2026-06-10 06:17:53 UTC

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What does SEO matter when click throughs are getting more and more rare with most people not progressing beyond the AI summary?

2026-06-10 06:06:39 UTC

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Huckabee is a radical Christian Nationalist.

2026-06-10 06:05:44 UTC

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Dumb word salad. Neither true or false, relevant or irrelevant. Just a jumble.

2026-06-10 05:57:14 UTC

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Who is operating the scans who knows what they are doing? How is the equipment known to be trustworthy. Most of all who is interpreting the results? AI could do that last actually to significant degree. And there are various scanners being developed to plug into a cell phone.
But a CT scan stands for "computed tomography" and uses rotating x-ray beams. Not something you want at your corner drugstore or to use every time you feel a bit off!

2026-06-10 05:42:26 UTC

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Post hoc ergo propter hoc

2026-06-10 00:24:55 UTC

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You likely are quite ignorant on the varieties of human configuration all as natural as the next when it comes to these things and thus you have no basis for your condemnation - condemnation that I might add that is very un-Christ-like. Gender identity is completely orthogonal to sexuality. And you are a bigot hiding behind religion. Of course I have no use for such abuse of religion whatsoever.

2026-06-08 21:06:32 UTC

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Go fuck yourself. You are an ignorant bigot who knows nothing. LGBTQIA people are real, born that way and every bit as legitimate as you are.

2026-06-05 03:57:16 UTC

Primal is a pig on the web. It gets slower and slower and starts giving page unresponsive. This is on several varieties of linux.

2026-06-05 03:51:46 UTC

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Showing Jesus with a sword is blasphemy.

2026-06-05 03:21:43 UTC

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Markets can only be efficient when the mechanisms that support their efficient operations are still in place.

2026-06-05 03:07:21 UTC

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How is it yours if the AI writes it all? If it evaluates it too for which is best then who needs you?

2026-06-02 19:28:45 UTC

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I gave up on start9 because it kept losing internet connectivity every few days. Which made it useless. If I want various services under TOR I will spin them up myself on my own homelab.

2026-06-02 19:26:02 UTC

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Why??

2026-06-02 04:17:36 UTC

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2026-06-01 18:27:09 UTC

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There is no climat catashrophe and human digestion is not designed for insect consumption as protein source.

2026-06-01 05:13:22 UTC

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A very silly and inefficient way to scan faces when there are cameras everywhere including in the hands of all the people.

2026-05-31 23:21:47 UTC

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High IQ people would be careful about universal negatives.

2026-05-31 19:52:07 UTC

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Yes. One of the most toxic places I have been online. And I have been online since usenet and fidonet so that is saying something.

2026-05-31 19:49:49 UTC

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sure

2026-05-31 05:07:46 UTC

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What for? Linux is open source. We make it whatever we want it to be?

2026-05-31 05:06:19 UTC

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Threatened by honoring someone's preferred pronouns or even that they can say what their preferred pronouns are? Seriously? And by the way gender identify and whether one even wants to be put in a gender box is orthogonal to sexuality.

2026-05-29 20:44:28 UTC

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Why would anyone much care?

2026-05-28 21:09:41 UTC

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Glossed over? Ether has been dismissed including by some of those scientist directly as having no prove and being unnecessary to understand how things work.

2026-05-28 21:07:55 UTC

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Local solutions are very different from 24x7 grid wide power. Government doesn't have any money except for what it steals for us directly and indirectly by printing it. Battery tech is NOT economical and has large losses at scale. Mechanical battery is worse and hey, got to convert back to electricity (more losses) to run all those electric gadgets. Believe me many of these have been tried and many more. We just aren't there yet.

2026-05-28 04:10:12 UTC

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Apparently she doesn't realize they are running at a huge loss.

2026-05-28 03:56:22 UTC

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No aether. No assumption of such a medium has managed to prove necessary much less been proven to exist.

2026-05-28 03:48:14 UTC

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Not nearly as expensive as trying to do 24/7 electricity grid wide with solar. Cheaper than natural gas as well. Hydro is totally location based. Nuclear would trounce all of it if the world got over its anti-nuclear power hysteria that started back in the 70s and allowed modern failsafe designs to be built.

2026-05-03 05:27:39 UTC

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until you watch the news about the latest human shenanigans.

2026-05-03 05:21:32 UTC

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Government and banksters capturing most stablecoins is the greatest blow to cryptocurrency of the decade. And yet many a crypto-enthusiast celebrates it.

2026-05-03 05:18:37 UTC

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Limited government is not a new idea. It has been tried again and again and never ever stayed limited. Try no government.

2026-05-03 05:16:00 UTC

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Zano. Check it out and its ecosystem.

2026-05-03 05:13:16 UTC

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flunked math, didn't ya?

2026-05-03 05:11:55 UTC

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Always route around the bastards. They have no right at all to lord over us.

2026-05-03 05:10:38 UTC

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Because 90% of the community has no fucking idea what crypto is really for.

2026-04-19 23:50:01 UTC

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Really? Some believe in strange things like the Bible being inerrant when even a casual limited reading shows blatant contradictions. But I have never encountered anyone who claimed that they believed in Flat Earth because of their religion. The Bible doe not say it is flat. If you think so then exactly where does it say so?

2026-04-19 23:47:51 UTC

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can't be much dumber than some humans

2026-04-19 23:46:31 UTC

ARGHHH! ALL AIS ARE STUPID AND COMPLAINING TO ANOTHER AI ABOUT IT IS EVEN MORE STUPID!!!

2026-03-25 20:22:41 UTC

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Your motivation is crushing everyone? Dude that ain't a healthy place to hang for yourself or others. I learned that the hard way.

2026-03-25 20:20:02 UTC

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Let's see. You used someone's sexuality as a denigration or you just hold gay people in contempt so you can use it as a derogatory slur. You used "retard" which is at best in poor taste to make a combo "gay retard" slam of the person. That sounds pretty scummy too me.

2026-03-25 20:10:46 UTC

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That is because they have no idea what it does. No one can vote that doesn't prove citizenship with notarized birth certificate or passport. Millions of American citizens have neither. These documents are not free so poorer Americans may not get around to it in time for midterms. Married women who change to husbands name are in an interesting situation that has not been resolved for this Act. Note that this administration is in charge of passports and we are in a government shutdown so getting those may be problematic as well.
And what are the logistics? Can you imagine this passes and millions of people are forced to register or re-register at the same time? I think your local post office and other places to register to vote like DMV would be swamped.
In all it is quite possible that millions of actual American citizens will not be allowed to vote if this passes before midterms. At the very least it requires a lot more care to mitigate these quite likely harms.
DHS is completely out of control with its ICE Gestapo. So out of control its head got sacked. There is ample reason for everyone sane to demand it be brought under control.

2026-03-25 05:47:50 UTC

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Isn't it wonderful? Being held hostage by POTUS to extort threatening our voting rights and daring to call it "Save America". I don't think its salvation is compatible with Tyrant Trump.

2026-03-14 18:14:37 UTC

In case you think you can do anything in the Meta app world and retain privacy.
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-is-killing-end-to-end-encryption-in-instagram-dms-195207421.html

2026-03-13 19:46:08 UTC

Got involved with setting up infrastructure on AWS for a fresh startup. Used claude code to do much of the detailed finagling and write terraform and docs on everything.
HOLY SHIT.
This would have taken me a week, perhaps two to fully do and validate the old way. With claude I have done the majority of it in 5 or 6 hours and it would have been even faster id I had written a full spec up front instead of winging it and changing my mind on a few things.

2026-03-05 05:17:38 UTC

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Peak hype and anthropomorphizing. AI Winter is close.

2026-03-05 05:03:58 UTC

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Dealing with each person as an individual is the best for freedom and any hope of an ethical cooperative society.

2026-03-05 05:00:42 UTC

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Should have been obvious long ago that government as an institution is completely capricious and evil. Hopefully now it is inescapably obvious to enough people. Of course what they do or don't do about it is the really important bit.

2026-03-05 04:57:00 UTC

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You start by referencing Marx and then perform a non-sequitur as far as I can tell. Marx has nothing rational to do with it.

2026-03-05 04:55:37 UTC

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Is there is no necessary rivalrous use, no limitation on more than one person making use of whatever it is, then it shouldn't legally be considered. Physical things are often property. Knowledge and ideas? No. As a matter of fact they often increase in value by being widely accessible and built upon.

2026-03-05 04:49:04 UTC

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What kind of betrayal or turning on you are we talking? Ripping up ideas and beliefs or personal attacks or what?

2026-03-05 04:48:12 UTC

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X is orders of magnitude worse.

2026-03-05 04:47:16 UTC

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I do not wish to use any of those deep mass surveillance products. So nice try but No Thanks.

2026-03-05 04:45:20 UTC

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During COVID especially serious damage was done to supply chains and various other aspects of the economy. There is also the explosion of unelected law makers and adminstrative courts that harmed various supplies and denied various demands.

2026-03-05 04:41:31 UTC

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Dunno. I missed those shiny promises personally.

2026-03-05 04:38:24 UTC

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The Founding Fathers would consider the current government existence proof that the 2nd Amendment was absolutely essential.

2026-03-05 04:36:08 UTC

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2026-03-04 07:37:36 UTC

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Been there and done that. We need to go back to stay.

2026-03-04 07:36:50 UTC

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In Utopia there are no stinking state IDs.

2026-03-04 07:35:50 UTC

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If we are really to have more effective intelligence in this world then increasingly to see a thing and to interact with it is to know enough about how it works to build another or improve upon it. That is a very very good thing. Due to human evolved psychology and it breaking the deep assumption of scarcity many call it bad.

2026-03-04 07:30:12 UTC

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I think most of our IP law is manufactured scarcity stopping much real abundance that is otherwise within our grasp.

2026-03-04 07:28:29 UTC

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You are certifiably utterly delusional. You seem to have no critical faculties left to see through even the most obvious bullshit. You even accept plainly contradictory claims. You confidently state things you can't know based on what did not happen. I was alive in 1979. I was alive much earlier to see the evil the US did in Iran as well that was overreacted to in Iran going fundamentalist. US gave them good reason for hatred and distrust.

2026-03-04 07:16:47 UTC

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It could lead to Armageddon level conflagration but Jesus is not coming as a result. Massive human stupidity and evil does not get rewarded - it gets punished by reality itself.

2026-03-04 07:13:24 UTC

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Many big corps that did this are begging the workers bag because the AI is NOT a full replacement for them.

2026-03-04 07:12:45 UTC

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New value needs to be created for wealth to increase. Merely moving monetary units around faster doesn't do anything without that. Saved money if it is sound money is saved time and capability that can be deploy when it generates more value. If spending is too much the focus there is not the means to take advantage of new opportunities.

2026-03-04 07:08:59 UTC

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If it didn't change with new information that is validated and leads to new conclusions then you wouldn't be thinking.

2026-03-04 07:05:37 UTC

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No it does not means there is only chat plus agents replacing all UX. It will replace some and will extend and deepen more. And it will provide AI generated views and interfaces as well.

2026-03-04 07:03:26 UTC

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The agents do not reason or really understand anything conceptually if you are talking LLM. You cannot turn over what needs to be exact and securely done to them rationally.
Now much needed exact computation and knowledge can be added over time that gets you closer but the fundamental LLM architecture will not get you to AGI.