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  • And a water pipe doesn’t carry electricity, yet we use them all the time as analogies for electric wires.

    If you’ve already made your mind and don’t wanna hear any counter argument, that’s not my issue. I’ll use analogies as much as I can, since they are pretty useful at showing the stupidity surrounding AI. All the hype around AI is American exceptionalism applied to a product.

    No, AI is not different to any other product humanity has made. The same laws and morals apply to it. Now stop voting for an orange clown so an actual human can rule and apply the existing laws.







  • Do those independent commissions have their own military? If not, they can be ignored.

    Of course, institutions and constitutions can protect against some power. But at the end of the day, whoever has the police and military on their side has the last word.

    If democracies don’t often end up as military dictatorships is because people usually vote for parties that at least say they are pro-constitution and pro-independent institutions. Therefore the military ends up in the hands of someone that values those independent institutions.

    But if you give the power on purpose to a party that openly claims they don’t give a shit about the rule of law, you get the USA.

    As I said, constitutions and independent entities only have power if the ones in charge of the military (the ultimate power source) follow the constitution and the law voluntarily.




  • I see the benefit. For example if I have to keep a window open just so it is open. But I don’t need to look at it. For example when opening a VM that I’m going to access via SSH.

    In that case it’s useful so it is open but nowhere to be seen.

    On the other hand, setting up the thing, and later remembering that I have it in case I want to manually close it is a hassle. So it’s just easier to not use the workspaces and just have it minimized. It’s going to be on the far side of the alt-tab queue anyway.