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That's a good point. I grew up in rural Ohio a couple decades ago, and confederate flags were quite popular. In my youth, I remember going to one guy's trailer to bring back some more beer, and every threshold in his trailer had a confederate flag. Many of the people in the little, almost all-white towns, were somewhat afraid of the somewhat bigger towns that had a decent black population. I still see similar things where I live now, where my older neighbors living outside of a major city, are somewhat afraid of the city. Curiously, I live in the actual south now, and don't see confederate flags nearly as often than I did in rural Ohio.

A lot of the far right is accelerationist. They've been hoping for a "race war" for many decades. Then there is the newer Effective Accelerationism/Network State/Dark Enlightenment stuff that the ultra wealthy seem to be into.

I think a lot of people keep jewelry as a hedge against currency crashes/bank collapse. I believe there are also federated cryptocurrencies that are probably more efficient that PoS (Ripple and Stellar; probably more too). Most cryptocurrencies are disinflationary, which causes other problems. Predictable inflation, even if somewhat high, is generally beneficial to capitalist economies (incentivizes people to invest/spend instead of hoarding).

Crypto crashed a few times, but recovered fairly quickly. A lot of companies went bankrupt. The crashes didn't severely affect a significant portion of the population. Most people and institutions had little exposure if any at all, and the crypto industry didn't really employ many people. Most people with a 401k are significantly exposed to AI due to top-heavy index funds like the SP 500. Not sure how exposed major financial institutions are.

I thought about it before (a Meta recruiter contacted me a couple years ago). The expected total compensation was insane. But, I would've likely had to move, I despise the company, and they were already doing stupid layoffs back then too, so decided not to move forward.

So far we’ve found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can’t

This seems like a statement designed to deceive. I would like to see comparisons like the percent of vulnerabilities Mythos found that an expert also found (and somehow make sure those vulnerabilities weren't leaked into the training data and the prompts don't hint at the answer).

It's not a particularly dangerous job though. In the US it's ranked the 22nd most dangerous job. Delivery drivers are ranked 7th and farmers are ranked 8th. Logging is the most dangerous, followed by pilots and flight engineers.

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.