I think this explains his stance a bit https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=rRDEkMAcwrQ I agree with some bits (because code quality does matter more than being nice when it is your profession), disagree with some (because being a grumpy idiot will harm your ability to build on collaborative projects).

PS: but yea, then there is also the video about the tech industry where he cherrypicks outrage and contradicts himself and agrees that Linus is rude and divisive…which sort of discredits him, because he only seems to like angry but competent people when they agree with him.

This is what you get when you mess with the S’pore police.

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Backdoors are bad, 'mkay?

No need, they can just lie :)

I’m comparing Malthus’ overpopulation to a white supremacist who supposedly invented the tragedy of commons. Sounds similar. Overpopulation can happen in some societies e.g. Easter Island, but is not everywhere the cause of most ills.

It can be a reductive approach if you look at the world exclusively through those glasses, but the effect the expression alludes to exists in very specific circumstances e.g. street cleaning, overfishing, pollution. It’s like saying overpopulation is not a thing because that social darwinist Malthus was the first to refer to it.

This is not so bad. Reddit is crawling with bot spam and that will increase as users leave the platform every time it does a stunt to pump the stock price. The percentage of real/fake content will decrease and will poison the training pipelines. It’s a great experiment to test model collapse in real time, really.

Evolution is based on the species, but they all coevolve…to optimize…what? What sort of problem would a biosphere organism be trying to solve?

genuine c/programmerhumor

Looks like a fig tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig

PS: I use the PlantNet app when I go on walks. Fun stuff, the other day I identified valerian growing all over. Great time of the year for plantIDing.

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Y’er a fungus, harry! 💮

I guess a hard determinist would say that humans have as much “free will” as a rock. There is nothing useful to saying these systems are similar in that regard.

This is because there is such a thing as “causal inertia”: there is a difference in agency where a human system bases its decisions on a large spatial, time range of experiences (moments to life-long experiences and multi-generation planning, tiny tools all the way to architecture planning, a large number of connections by multiple means to other humans’ experiences) to make “decisions”. What do you call that?

Because it exists and if it’s not called free will, that’s probably the closest thing that scientifically can be measured and associated with “free will”.

We may just be “transistors” responding to the environment, but we are complex enough to introduce chaos by connecting lots of unrelated things to the point of being as close to being unpredictable as any random system in the universe.

I could try being the devil’s advocate and argue a point or two, but I won’t because I’d be overall a worse person without piracy lol

Thank you for your service…but before you go…what did they taste like?