Posts by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
(DIR) Post #B0CviQ4avg4ZNL2Zkm by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-13T04:49:14.827512Z
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 @toiletpaper I strongly believe in the level playing field so that the best players can win. That's an allegory for removing market distortions. I agree with you though that plebs are easily confused between opportunity and outcome. There is no natural or rational reason to assume an equality of outcome in any given competition, and life is just a series of competitions.
(DIR) Post #B0DQYUWYPMRAY7A8rg by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-13T12:11:46.830832Z
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@h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @amerika @cjd @verita84 consultation = consolidation, damn autocorrect
(DIR) Post #B0DQcjLfEWzpgV5eu8 by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-13T12:03:03.859397Z
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@FourOh-LLC @amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @cjd @verita84 Code can write code and we're in an AI arms race to develop superintelligence, with the winning corporations standing to make trillions of dollars. The race to advance far outstrips any caution that might prevail.
(DIR) Post #B0Df2RpIOwLqED6ivY by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-14T00:22:20.251166Z
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 I'm possibly more concerned about a "benevolent" AI that thinks it knows what's best for us (and its idiot human enablers). Life could easily lose all meaning by making it completely safe and homogeneous. Reminds me of The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams.
(DIR) Post #B0DfGi92WhOytR8yQq by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-14T00:25:17.636329Z
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 @toiletpaper The playing field needs levelling because well meaning governments and academics have distorted it with intentionally discriminatory mechanisms. When someone gets a job because of the colour of their skin or their gender instead of merit, that is a distortion.
(DIR) Post #B0DfY5eUNdUcir8nTc by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-14T00:26:47.271085Z
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 Maybe. Hard to predict how a super intelligent one year old with access to the internet and no body would behave.
(DIR) Post #B0DfyCT7etNlORH528 by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-14T00:32:23.241852Z
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 @toiletpaper Respectfully disagree. I'm all for getting rid of discrimination but the answer is not more discrimination towards your perceived disadvantaged group. It's getting rid of discrimination entirely except on the basis of merit.
(DIR) Post #B0DzzPCxmGlqHCZINU by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-14T00:59:27.716993Z
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 @toiletpaper In that sense, sure. Any discrimination other than on merit is distortion, and "levelling the playing field" is shorthand for that. After all, what happens on a playing field if not competition, hopefully based on merit only. You wouldn't watch a football match where one team was granted free goals for being "socially disadvantaged." That's not a real competition.
(DIR) Post #B0Fwn3mngepooefkHo by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-15T01:29:48.644204Z
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 In business I'm a bullet point guy. Thankfully I'm senior enough to get my way. I despise waffle.
(DIR) Post #B0GbVwez1ah1udyQDY by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-15T01:10:30.102043Z
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 I've used AI for 2/3 of the things you mention (I refuse to do long wordy business emails). I find it a real time saver. I've also had AI build websites from scratch, which it does in seconds, and then tweak/edit as needed, so another big time saver.All sets this a new baseline, so that your expected level of productivity will require use of AI and those that don't adapt it will be at a disadvantage.I compare the nature of work now to how it was at the start of my career (last century) and the required level of productivity has gone up massively. That requires expertise with all the tools that makes that possible.TLDR Choosing not to use AI will be like choosing not to have a mobile phone. Technically possible, but puts you at a disadvantage, plus inconvenience, so you'll use it.
(DIR) Post #B0GbaJE54BCH3gTGPQ by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-15T01:16:51.589419Z
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 @toiletpaper Now there we agree. The law should stay out of personal choices as far as possible. Our society should be built on cooperation and mutual obligation, not lawyering rules written far away by politicians.
(DIR) Post #B0GbgDhqVCTdfzDCcK by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-15T01:28:37.701621Z
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 @toiletpaper Diversity is a red herring at best, and an outright lie more often. Try having a diverse opinion, such as hiring being on merit, or that there are only two genders, in a place infected with DIE thought, and you'll very quickly discover how orthodoxy, not diversity, is the rule.
(DIR) Post #B0GbwQSKrmDvqugVTE by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-15T01:33:32.662953Z
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 @toiletpaper Yes, cultural fit is very important, and that is part of being the right person for the job. I won't accept a contract if I don't like the people I'm likely to work with. There's a question I love to ask the interviewer/s, "What do you like most about working here?" If they look at me like I just landed from Mars, then it's a good indication for me to walk away. If they love the question and jump to respond, then that is very positive.
(DIR) Post #B0GcGJ5xwXxOoahYHo by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-15T01:40:22.012911Z
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@amerika @h4890 @Cosmic @FourOh-LLC @cjd @verita84 The problem I see with Nihilism, the idea that life has no meaning, is that it can have very different results for different people. A creative person will invent a meaning for themselves and hopefully create a fulfilling life. A less creative person might get lost in the essential meaninglessness and become depressed, even suicidal, because it seems to be true that we fundamentally need meaning in our lives.Religion and tribalism once solved that problem, because everyone around you had exactly the same meaning. The world is much more interesting but also much more complex to navigate now.
(DIR) Post #B0H44RpkQSJL9sFVWy by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-15T01:15:12.536604Z
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 @toiletpaper I disagree strongly that wokeness levels the playing field. In theory, that's what it sounds like, and that's how the Left promotes it. In practice, it's intentional discrimination and bastardry of the worst sort. It's fundamentally nasty, a weapon to be used against one's ideological opponents. It's giving people jobs based on their skin colour and gender (immutable characteristics) rather than their ability to do the job and values (things which can be changed). Wokeness is straight up evil, no different to a deep south lynch mob from the depression era.
(DIR) Post #B0V3EGcwCxlcmdfrbE by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-22T01:03:29.383772Z
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 I do software consulting and I own a small business. I absolutely get the need for focus. I often have my phone set on do not disturb, but I think there are too many inconveniences to not having one at all. I get a lot of communication on mobile, and increasingly I find I need it to do MFA.
(DIR) Post #B0V3K1wRikUkyWXz4S by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-22T01:05:01.106894Z
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 It's a tool. Up to you if you let yourself get enslaved by it.
(DIR) Post #B0V3NaxTzBdeRjjQrw by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-22T01:09:37.137786Z
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 @toiletpaper Yep. I think that talking politics at work has always been unwise, but in our highly polarised times and woke workplaces it's even more dangerous. Best to keep politics out of work. You can always join a political party, they organise a lot of social events and meetings.
(DIR) Post #B0V3hEyJRQ1631UIGO by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-11-22T01:24:21.017417Z
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 @toiletpaper I think that's a brave move to try to change a company's culture unless that's what you've been hired to do. That sort of thing has to come from the top down and there must be political will to change, especially if you're going against the trend . Most of the people I work with seem utterly sick of DIE and wokeness but just go along with it because it's a part of work and for the most part it's a mild annoyance rather than a real problem. Here in Australia, you know that if you go into a meeting with the bigwigs there will be a formal acknowledgement of country where we pretend that the Aboriginal people have some sort of mystical timeless connection to land and the other bugbears of the day like getting more women into technical jobs. At day to day practical meetings all anyone cares about is meeting requirements and deadlines so that we keep getting paid. Politics is barely a blip. I don't even really care what the systems I design and build are used for, I care that they work and the client is happy. I won't do anything obviously questionable, I've turned down good money to build gambling systems, but most of the stuff I do is CRM related.
(DIR) Post #B0rKbBnHbaPpFB1cci by korsier@libertarian.communitynetwork.space
2025-12-03T02:55:08.913881Z
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@h4890 @amerika @Cosmic @cjd @FourOh-LLC @verita84 @toiletpaper My experience with agile is that unless competently managed it results in chaos, this most enterprises which claim to be agile are actually watergile which is a mess of both worlds.Having worked for said military industrial complex my main takeaway was how dysfunctional it was at the organisational level much in the same way as most public sector organisations. Lots of embedded opaque power structures.