cwood

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[–] cwood@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

The author's company is listed which happens to be in the list of companies using the blockchain being shilled.

That's practically above board in the land of blockchain companies.

[–] cwood@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

Even just saying it was mescaline would help it make more sense.

[–] cwood@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm starting to think that some writing classes would really help the EA/LR crowd.

[–] cwood@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Just a minor paragraph rewrite for clarity.

“The reality of generative AI is you’ve got to have a foundation of cloud computing,” AWS Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector Dave Levy, whose compensation relies on him successfully growing Amazon's computer rental income, told Nextgov/FCW in a June 26 interview at AWS Summit. “You’ve got to get your data in a place where you can actually do something with it.”

It's always so tedious when these little conflict of interest notes are left out of articles.

[–] cwood@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

People who seem impressive until you listen to their ideas are a real theme around here.

[–] cwood@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is there some EA culture thing where every thought has to be expanded into essay form?

[–] cwood@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I applaud your optimism that most people can do this without AI but have you gone and met people? Most people are not that capable of producing torrents of shameless bullshit as conscience or awareness of social and/or professional costs rear their head at some point.

[–] cwood@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

We were all here for the historic moment where "alleged gropers" really came into their own as a political donor demographic.

[–] cwood@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago

Well, minimum 32 years, as presumably there would be some inbox time and drafting time on either end, misunderstandings and subsequent discussion being so critical to avert when followups take a while.

[–] cwood@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago

I came here for his full-throated support of Apple Music staying installed no matter what and I am so sorely disappointed.

[–] cwood@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago

Last year, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, came out against the effort by Próspera to exploit the dispute resolution system to undermine Honduran sovereignty. “In the case of Próspera,” they write, “a ZEDE located largely on the Honduran island of Roatán, investors have created a governing council where 44 percent of members are appointed by the private company and 22 percent are elected by landowners in a system where their number of votes is proportional to the size of their property.”

Why are they being described as crypto-libertarians when it turns out they are moving the electoral clock back two hundred years to before the abolishment of rotten boroughs? That's a significantly conservative political arrangement there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs

[–] cwood@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There is nobody quite as cranky as the (relatively) regular person who has to clean up after the rich person's mess.

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