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New comment by forshaper in "Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits"

forshaper — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:11:58 +0000

I've known people who grew up on sailboats who loved it in retrospect. At least the boys. I was generally struck by their competence & confidence.

New comment by forshaper in "A Cop's Case for Flock"

forshaper — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:53:45 +0000

Like many solutions that could work, the problem is often somewhere in adoption.

New comment by forshaper in "OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects"

forshaper — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:58:18 +0000

It is a broader, pre-existing problem. For example, most truck drivers in some states who don't tie down their rebar are not stopped, and it doesn't come up until another vehicle is actually hit.

New comment by forshaper in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"

forshaper — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:31:01 +0000

Thanks for the answer!

New comment by forshaper in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"

forshaper — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:35:50 +0000

Can someone explain why it wouldn't work to have porn companies use only certain domains, and filter based on those domains, if people are so intent on blocking it?

New comment by forshaper in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

forshaper — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:18:14 +0000

Which would fit with PAP values, historically.

New comment by forshaper in "FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks"

forshaper — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:47:53 +0000

Well a lot of this is simply published. Like, from reading a bill, agency rules, memos, whatever. Most of it is not hidden, except by...boredom? Like you had to be interested for whatever reason to go looking for it. Or embedded somehow in one of the institutions where you can see what the people at the bottom of the institution can see, without wanting to make a career out of it. Since if you decide that, then there's no incentive to notice.

New comment by forshaper in "Effective altruism is this century's biggest idea"

forshaper — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:43:12 +0000

Pick an ideology that allows for selfish wants. For example, long-term greed would actually allow a lot more win-win coordination than currently happens.

New comment by forshaper in "Effective altruism is this century's biggest idea"

forshaper — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:48:14 +0000

It all starts with credentials in hiring, for future reference.

New comment by forshaper in "Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes"

forshaper — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:44:43 +0000

A pattern I notice in well-educated, intellectual people seems like the habitual equivalent of blaming winners at a casino, and using that to give the casino more power.

New comment by forshaper in "Gemini 4 Argon"

forshaper — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:23:31 +0000

a distributed market research institution with no direction?

New comment by forshaper in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

forshaper — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:40:37 +0000

you know I would go back to cleaning toilets if it paid the same as staring at a screen

New comment by forshaper in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

forshaper — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:00:11 +0000

This happened to my grandfather (blacksmith to working on cars and motorcycles), who was illiterate. From what I gather, it was a lifetime of trial-and-error-and-keep-what-works.

New comment by forshaper in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

forshaper — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:32:38 +0000

There are several? And there exists companies whose entire business is just providing them? iirc

New comment by forshaper in "Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?"

forshaper — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:17:40 +0000

Not SWAT or SRT. They just called it the tactical team to differentiate them against regular security guards. The ones I've been around are not sworn peace officers, but are nonetheless armed. Usually they were previously peace officers or military combat arms, but I don't think that was a legal requirement. So they don't have the same use-of-force or arrest authority as peace officers, but can still act within the rights of the property owner.

New comment by forshaper in "Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?"

forshaper — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:50:20 +0000

We have one here, in a town of 60,000.

New comment by forshaper in "Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline"

forshaper — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:49:16 +0000

worth something! I wasn't aware that they picked those up.

New comment by forshaper in "Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline"

forshaper — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:00:36 +0000

Axon and Motorola must be pretty satisfied with all this.

New comment by forshaper in "Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs"

forshaper — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:56:13 +0000

I assume it is easier to manipulate someone who lives in symbols than someone who lives in dirt.

New comment by forshaper in "Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?"

forshaper — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:08:57 +0000

A lot of hospital have armed tactical teams. Though I would guess that in major metro areas they would be more hidden, and so less used.