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Comment on SpaceX stock tumbles 23% from its high as average investor sees gains wiped out in ~finance
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Comment on We can fix the future, Star Trek shows us how in ~humanities
quinsabe Link ParentAs someone that's seen all of Star Trek minus most of the fan made series. Star Trek is political af. It may not come out with a specific bill in legalize, but it does in fact explore specific...As someone that's seen all of Star Trek minus most of the fan made series. Star Trek is political af. It may not come out with a specific bill in legalize, but it does in fact explore specific policies thinly couched as plot narrative. Most good Sci-Fi is a political statement hidden behind alien make up. It's why the newer versions of Star Trek flop, when you remove the political commentary and the supporting ethical exploration, you might have phasers and star ships but you don't have Star Trek. Star Trek is meant to be a little uncomfortable if you're paying close attention, calling out current political and social issues through the juxtaposition of an alien world.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
quinsabe LinkOn top of general agent exploration, I've been working on a simple LLM chat with MCP and dedicated part chatting with Langgraph supervisors. It started mostly as practice project for vibe coding...On top of general agent exploration, I've been working on a simple LLM chat with MCP and dedicated part chatting with Langgraph supervisors. It started mostly as practice project for vibe coding that suffered from scope creep. I'm bringing it back down to just a simple web interface with a PWA to make it easier to play with other expirements.
A longer burn project is a meal planning web app that is AI powered, and allergy aware. So eventually I can quickly generate a weeks meal prep plan, shopping list and include storeables like baking mixes. There might be easier ways to accomplish the same task but the fun is in the project and learning how to overcome the issues of vibe coding, as a study in agentic automation.
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Comment on Do we want to stop all crime? in ~society
quinsabe (edited )LinkMy take is no, it's a perfect goal, something to strive for but in reality the only way to stop all crime is for everyone to live in a prison and identify those who through biological mental...My take is no, it's a perfect goal, something to strive for but in reality the only way to stop all crime is for everyone to live in a prison and identify those who through biological mental diversity are predisposed to immoral acts. It's an effort that in the closest realization creates a dystopia that will be too fragile to be sustainable as crime becomes relative to caste rules.
The better effort is to design a decentralized, anti-fragile world that combats the banality of evil. Instead of cameras or gun control, you focus on removing the factors driving good people to evil acts. Theft of bread arises from the existence of the hungry. There will be some level of crime as a cost of a strong and free world, but that far from discouraging or defeating, is a reason to iterate on a world that compassionately teaches sociopaths to be compassionate, the the lonely, isolated, and nihilistic, that they have an community. That everyone has a responsibility and duty to caretake the world around them.
We have social signals that indicate nudges to crime like trash field streets with no green spaces. We need to first act on our knowledge of creating a good society and engendering a civic duty that is tangible. We know what creates problems in our communities, but often ignore them as someone else's issue or lack of resources for ourselves to act disempowering the strongest force to prevent crime, ourselves making friends with our neighbors and looking out for on another. That does not ignore that biological mental diversity will create seriel killers, kelptomanics, those who will always jump the guard rails of civil society.
Yet first, over surveillance or authoritarian power options to combat crime in totality, I suggest we focus on building and strengthening the guardrails that we can all maintain to nudge human behavior in bounds. Providing the security a worker needs to say no to dumping toxic chemical run off, or the time and resources someone needs to speak up when they hear or see domestic abuse or just be mindful enough to invite the angry racist to dinner and through social norms erode and diffuse those beliefs.
For most to commit an crime is due to an imbalance, hunger with lack of bread, desire imposed by consumerism as need, an community propagandized in to a enemy the source of their troubles, trauma normalized into expectations, an a single act that keeps food, shelter and belonging. If we tackled Maslow's Heirarchy of needs seriously in the structure of society we'd be left with solving the crimes of those for who that isn't enough.
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Comment on Who is allowed to practice identity politics? in ~society
quinsabe Link ParentA key aspect of the status quo argument that's overlooked is that Democrats have held congress for a generous 6 years of the last 34 (going back to 1990) and Republicans have held congress for 14...A key aspect of the status quo argument that's overlooked is that Democrats have held congress for a generous 6 years of the last 34 (going back to 1990) and Republicans have held congress for 14 of those same years. For anyone under 40-45, Republicans are the establishment and status quo.
401k's are a political tool to allow businesses to wield greater political power. Before 401ks existed people were more friendly to exercising political power that was good for the nation but not great for investors in the stock market. Easiest way to neuter the political will behind the cigarettes trials or legal action against monopolization or other anti-competive business practices is to make it seem like it will affect people through their holdings in a 401k. The auto investing aspect isn't much more than a pyramid scheme, the return continues as long as large amounts of new money feeds into the system, if fewer people feed money into the market, valuations turns back to inflation and rational investment for liquidity movements entering or exiting the system. Likewise funds require rational investors to drive the stocks into meeting the requirements to be included in the fund, if that rational investment loses strength through too much passive investment or gambling driving the market, you get this situation with SpaceX. Once SpaceX becomes a factor in 401ks it's going to be much harder politically to let it fail.