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  • Governments have criminalized the practice of managing your own health. Despite the fact that for most of human history bodily autonomy, and self-managed health was the norm, it is now required that most aspects of your health must be mediated by an institution deputized by the state.

    JFC

    go back 200 years before the “gubmint” got involved in public health and tell me that average life expectancy was better than now

    before the pandemic it was possible for people to believe that libertarianism was an answer to everything, turns out if it was a tiny minority would have hoarded all the PPE while the people they were gonna sell it to died of the plague. libertarians have not been able to square this circle since


  • It’s a wrap!

    One of the easier years imho. Better than last year in any case.

    I get the feeling that this is Eric’s way of saying goodbye, and that this might be the last year, but I might be wrong.

    Puzzles by difficulty (leaderboard completion times)

    1. Day 21 - Keypad Conundrum: 01h01m23s
    2. Day 24 - Crossed Wires: 01h01m13s
    3. Day 17 - Chronospatial Computer: 44m39s
    4. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
    5. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
    6. Day 20 - Race Condition: 15m58s
    7. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
    8. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
    9. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
    10. Day 22 - Monkey Market: 12m15s
    11. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
    12. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
    13. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
    14. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
    15. Day 18 - RAM Run: 05m55s
    16. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
    17. Day 23 - LAN Party: 05m07s
    18. Day 25 - Code Chronicle: 04m43s
    19. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
    20. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
    21. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
    22. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
    23. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
    24. Day 19 - Linen Layout: 03m16s
    25. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s










  • @geriksontoTechTakesNever Forgive Them
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    12 days ago

    I honestly had no idea of the original Russian meaning of the gloss. To me “refusenik” implies some sort of hard-left hippie.

    Edit finally went and read the linked article.

    Schneier and Sanders:

    We agree with Morozov that the “refuseniks,” as he calls them, are wrong to see AI as “irreparably tainted” by its origins.

    Morozov:

    Meanwhile, a small but growing group of scholars and activists are taking aim at the deeper, systemic issues woven into AI’s foundations, particularly its origins in Cold War–era computing. For these refuseniks, AI is more than just a flawed technology; it’s a colonialist, chauvinist, racist, and even eugenicist project, irreparably tainted at its core.

    But the original term was not for people refusing to take an action - it was the state refusing to allow their actions! It’s done a 180, but considering no-one now remembers the plight of Soviet Jews attempting to emigrate to Israel it’s not that strange.





  • re: day 14 part 2

    I had nfc how to solve this but someoone on the subreddit mentioned that miminizine the “safety score” was the way to go too … I guess your explanation is the correct one. Also the way the puzzle is generated is to start with the tree and go “backwards” a couple of thousand steps and use a number of of those as starting positions. Probably throw in some random robots as noise.


  • Diamond Age is an interesting idea, the original Primer was for the elite and used distributed encryption to farm out the qualified work to skilled artisans. In the end though, a cut-down primer (using some sort of AI? it’s been a long time since I read it) is used to educate and train the girl army used by one of the faction in the final battle.

    It’s not really explained but I suspect the OG Primer had a robust payment model that ensured that the service oculd be kept solvent.