The more I see him in the real world the more very upset I become that I genuinely really liked his story. HPMOR is a banger, possibly one of my favorite pieces of amateur literature in existence.
I didn't know the author was a wanker at the time of reading, and now that I do, I want to make myself retroactively un-like his work, but I can't.
Logic and strategy tell me that Trump is going to enact the Insurrection Act no matter what happens. He has never once in his career been beholden to a fact before. Project 2025 and his own speeches tell us that this is his goal.
A few years ago I'd have agreed with you.
With America firmly in Putin's pocket now and Europe dragging their feet on resistance, the possibility that they could just glass Kiev and get away with it is growing.
I have lived a million lives in a thousand worlds and taken away a little something from each of them.
It doesn't beat going out to real places with your real body. But it's much more than just being stuck in my box.
They aren't agents unless they have a badge and a warrant. Failing to produce those means you are being assaulted by unknown assailants. Your freedom and life are already in danger at that point and you have a legal right to self defense.
That was pretty much always the only potential path forward for LLM type AIs. It's an extension of the same machine learning technology we've been building up since the 50s.
Everyone trying to approximate an AGI with it has been wasting their time and money.
People regularly die of neglect out in the streets, where everyone can see them, as well.
Fair enough, you got me there. Didn't realize there was such a population of internet craving people in what's supposed to be one of the last relatively untouched areas of nature on the planet.
That being the case though, why didn't this all happen in 2013, when O3b launched to specifically solve this problem for them? It's still running, by the way, after several rounds of upgrades, and significantly more stable than Starlink with their dinky little 5 year disposables. Microsoft, Honeywell and Amazon all use it. But the original and ongoing intent of the project was explicitly to bring internet access to all otherwise unreachable areas, such as islands, deep in Africa, and the open ocean.
I don't oppose Brazilian villagers having internet if they want it, but the situation in which it arrived to them feels suspect to me. I have no proof that Starlink actively went out and pushed internet service onto them like a drug dealer but it would not be out of character for Musk and his subordinates to do so, and that just feels bad.
Regardless there is already an existing solution to this. If you want internet in the Amazon you can use satellite internet. It does not have to be Starlink. If you want good internet, maybe don't live in the Amazon. People in general should probably be leaving that place alone. The article you linked even talks about one of the village leaders splitting his time between the village and the city. We can try and run a fiber line to Manaus and/or Porto Velho and that should be able to serve a reasonably large enough area around them, but even if that fails there are already other solutions.
Thing is, he's absolutely right. It's way beyond past time to create a powerful political third party in the US that genuinely represents the interest of the people.
Elon Musk, however, should not be allowed anywhere within brick throwing distance of it.
Nor should most anyone else who is actually capable of funding it. Herein lies our actual problem.
That's actually a super valid point, wow. Part of me kind of hates that this is the method the game uses to usher you into a Neutral run to begin with, but part of me also recognizes the sort of mad genius at work here guiding the player by their expectations.
Suppose I just got salty when I was seemingly unable to do things the obvious "right" way. I'm the kind of guy that will often rerun a checkpoint in a game until I get a gold medal. But you're intended to fuck this up, it sounds like, a new player isn't really even supposed to find out that you can progress without fighting Toriel?
I dunno. Still doesn't explain the reaction from my friends (who told me to play the game blind, mind you). Maybe they all knew all the spoilers about it going in.
I still stand by my statement that this interaction could have been done a little better. But I better understand why it exists in the form that it does now. Thanks!
How does doing nothing help us at all?
Being out in the streets making a big noise means that the government sees their people being upset and the cops out managing the protest could be in danger themselves. Protesting in the streets interrupts business and draws attention. At best, it means someone knows you're pissed off and can't ignore you. At worst, it could scare the cops and politicians away from interfering in the protest - or even, force their hand into enacting the changes you're protesting for - due to concerns about their own personal safety.
If you enact a change in government and no one complains about it that means it is A-OK to continue this course of action. Silence is explicit approval when our only means of expressing disapproval is to speak up. If you aren't speaking up then you are expressing that you approve of the events that are unfolding currently.