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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • The fine for financial crimes needs to be in addition to whatever profit was made from the crime.

    The problem - the greater, potentially insurmountable problem - is… corruption and dishonesty.

    If you use a term like “profit”, then they’ll find another way to move money around and categorize it as something else that doesn’t qualify. Many huge companies already pay little to no taxes this way. If they can find ways to lower their tax burden, they can find ways around most things. It will not always happen, but given time I’m sure someone will innovate faster than law can keep up.

    The end result will ultimately be auditors or auditing… which if not purely independent can be corrupted. This can come from the company, if they are hiring auditors or self reporting, by whatever authority is in charge of auditing, or by the powers that be starving the auditors of resources which is exactly what has happened to the IRS and US tax system.







  • A critique of capitalism, no matter how accurate, is not a “world view.”

    I couldn’t think of a better word for it while taking a shit… you literally used it in your response… and now you want to criticize my word choice?

    The point was that there was something akin to idolatry because a person’s name was in the term for something people agree with. Goalpost shifting?

    I’ve never seen liberals goose stepping…

    I see. I’m going be similarly pedantic, because you are clearly a disingenuous troll. Liberals wouldn’t be caught dead praising anything but capitalism. Goose stepping, yeah, Lol. Project much, troll? ✌️


  • No, because not everyone is so well known for having formalized a specific worldview that the worldview itself is named after them.

    Do Keynesian economists worship Keynes? Do people who deeply believe that Newtonian physics is vital for understanding reality at the macro scale practice idolatry?

    You are either disturbingly naive or a troll. Terms don’t magically become religious just because they incorporate the name of a foundational figure in them.





  • In a world where there is no accountability for the powerful, and in a country where this fact is blatantly advertised and bragged about by the powerful, there is no reason to trust.

    This is my biggest concern about the way things have been going. Without reasonable laws and consequences for breaking them, society will basically just collapse into “might makes right.” The rich and powerful have that might and use it openly to take more wealth and power for themselves leaving everyone else with less and less. Without a base level of financial stability for the average person, more and more people will grift and cheat and lie, trying to survive and support their loved ones.

    We really need to come together and fight back but those in power know just the right things to say to keep us divided.




  • Are you telling me that a human sending form messages is in any way comparable to an LLM sending messages?

    What matters is that humans used to be involved. Now they just review the results at some point. You are evaluated, chosen, further evaluated, informed, and given answers to questions you might have about a job and the company offering it all by the LLM. Everything that might theoretically be handled by agents saves the company money and let’s them cast a wider net.

    Then you’ll be end up working as a reverse centaur for some rich kid’s startup. Sure, you can spend exponentially more time than the company does verifying things or ignoring, filtering through junk… but if you are desperate, unemployed, hopeful…

    Theoretically, at least.


  • How long has it been since you were recruited? I avoid LinkedIn, but I’ve never needed to look for work because my dad knew a guy and I proved competent when that got my foot in the door.

    Still, from what I have heard in the last year or so it has become, at least in part, a cesspool of scams and disingenuous employers wasting your time in their search for cheaper labor… both often powered by LLMs.



  • Because of the way they our political system is set up, and the laws and regulations that surround political spending, money is everything to a party politician even if it isn’t.

    As a politician, your party controls everything. They control what committees you sit on, whether or not the rest of the party will vote for something you work on, whether or not you will receive any financial assistance (or opposition) in your primary or general campaign.

    What determines your status in the party? How much money you contribute to them via fundraisers. What’s a great, efficient way to raise funds for your party? Fucking over the population by catering to the rich.

    That’s what I’m saying. This is why campaign finance laws and regulations need to change. It’s extremely difficult to do anything, even if you get elected, when you don’t have any power.