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  @diazona@techhub.social @sakhavi@aoir.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social Your first example has historically been disproven. For all most a century, gasoline has been an economical way of getting from point a to point b, because setting aside the external costs (such as health effects of pollution) is "setting aside ethical concerns". " Setting aside ethical concerns" is just an attempt to justify short-term short-sighted thinking, which leads to the tragedy of the commons...

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  @diazona@techhub.social @clew@ecoevo.social @sakhavi@aoir.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social No, it's everyone saying it's not possible in the real world to "set aside ethics". As for LLMs, we already know that they don't work, they can't work, even Sam Altman has pretty much admitted it, it's just that like in previous bubbles, irrational FOMO has always cause bubbles, and they always burst. This is why we see the latest exit strategy - that LLMs are too importa...

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  @clew@ecoevo.social @diazona@techhub.social @sakhavi@aoir.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social The worst part about gas-powered vehicles is that at the beginning of the previous century auto manufacturers bought up and closed many bus and streetcar companies and closed them, forcing the public to buy has-powered automobiles. So the auto manufacturers did what became a habit - setting aside ethical concerns to further their own interests. It's pretty obvious "setting aside ethical conce...

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  @diazona@techhub.social @sakhavi@aoir.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social I doubt there's ANY good to come from setting aside ethical concerns, or any valid excuse to do so. Please provide an example to educate me, because this sounds like techbro bs.

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  I'm guessing white house bigwigs don't like competition. https://lite.cnn.com/2026/04/10/politics/white-house-staff-prediction-markets

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  @neil If you check, unsigned code will give you a warning, but you can install it. As compared to all the npm crap that installs without warning off github. Trying to download an update to LittleNavMap usually triggers a warning, but I trust the author far more than most random stuff on github that's signed.

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  @Infoseepage @zackwhittaker Problem with bitlocker is you can't just pull the drive and recover your data on another machine without the key - which can get lost, our you get locked out of your account.