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Again, I think you’re using “authoritarian” to just mean “bad.”

I guess "hierarchical" may be more apt than "authoritarian" for what I was trying to say.

Are minimum wage laws authoritarian?

Depends if they were mandated by an authority or by the people, and how they are enforced.

Why can’t we look at policies imposed by a central authority that have reduced authoritarianism?

Ignoring semantics. Yeah, you can look at these policies. I think most of the policies were borne out of threatening authority though. I also think many of those authorities around the world are feeling less threatened, and many of the good policies are being weakened or rolled back.

I am anti-authoritarian and anti-hierarchy, because 1) it creates a single point of failure 2) it's easier to corrupt a few people than many or everybody 3) the people most interested in practicing corruption are the people who seek power 4) corruption is often rewarded.

Hmm, this is mostly a semantic argument on what authority is. I don't necessarily disagree with most of it, up until he starts getting prescriptive. I do disagree with "transitional governments" that never seem to relinquish their authority though. I do think it's possible to tear down the state and replace it with more bottom-up/accountable structures that are radically different fairly quickly.

A lot of what you're saying seems to be related to the concept of "negative liberty" and "positive liberty."

I'm not sure if the US south framed it as "states rights"/decentralization at the time. The confederacy was authoritarian. Slavery is authoritarian, and the Confederacy forced its member states to agree to never abolish slavery (removing states rights to abolish slavery).

Anyways, IDK if "authority is the opposite of liberty" or not, but I'm opposed authority (including capitalism which is inherently authoritarian). I think regulations, law enforcement, etc can be enforced by the community in a bottom-up approach, rather than a top-down one. Such things are handled that way in some autonomous areas, communes, and tribes.

Idk if that's true. I believe autonomous drones can now beat humans in FPV racing. Ukraine now has autonomous drones that can't be jammed and function under GPS denial, so they can go further than fiber optic tethered drones.

I've heard ghidraMCP works pretty well.

IDK, as I understand it, OpenAI bought 20% of RAM wafer production, mostly just to prevent competitors from getting access to affordable wafers. OpenAI has no ability to do anything with raw wafers.

I thought Dune was good. I read it while I was in middle-school and thought it was engrossing. I also read a lot of Arthur C. Clarke back then, but I guess some people don't like his style. I tried reading Godel, Escher, Bach as a young adult, and yeah, I maybe finished half.

If the company also trains AI, I'm guessing they're also forcing use to gather training data. I.e. tracking feedback, corrections, etc.

Looks like Trump is waiting on some transaction to clear:

THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS COMPLETELY OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS AND FULL PASSAGE, BUT THE NAVAL BLOCKADE WILL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT AS IT PERTAINS TO IRAN, ONLY, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS OUR TRANSACTION WITH IRAN IS 100% COMPLETE. THIS PROCESS SHOULD GO VERY QUICKLY IN THAT MOST OF THE POINTS ARE ALREADY NEGOTIATED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! PRESIDENT DONALD J.TRUMP

That kind of media doesn't really appeal to me so I don't consume it. A lot of rap and country is about that (in different ways; hustling vs working hard at your job). The only recent show or movie I watched that I can think of that emphasizes overworking is The Pitt, but I'm not sure it glorifies it.

I do think working hard (or smart or whatever) is important and admirable, but only if the work is exceptionally important and beneficial to society (not most work), and not if you're being exploited by your employer (most work). The most important work is probably the labor people don't typically get paid to do (or get paid little).

I'm also of the opinion that trying to work too much is usually counterproductive and people get less work done. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of studies that confirm this.

I thought gstack already gave developers God Mode?

Before the Civil War, there was more separation. Things really started going out of wack in the 1950s (that's when "God" was printed on paper money). The swearing on the bible thing is a tradition from England. At US's founding 17% of the population were church members. In the the 1950s, 70% were. Now it's < 50%.