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BlameThePeacock

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  • If you agree with this view: Why do you think societies should allow billionaires to exist? How does that benefit the common good?

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  • It's not even close to enough to eradicate poverty from this planet. You vastly overestimate how much small amounts of money affect things. It may pull some of the ultra-poor out of poverty, but a single $2,000 payment wouldn't manage to get anyone in the first world out of poverty, and there are plenty of people living in the first world.

    Cost of living varies by country, you're trying to suggest that redistribution would help people, and it would, but A) that's not how any sort of tax would be redistributed and B) the amount of money relative to each country isn't enough to solve any of the problems we're seeing.

  • If you agree with this view: Why do you think societies should allow billionaires to exist? How does that benefit the common good?

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  • Those numbers are for US billionaires divided by US population. If you were to try to divide global wealth from billionaires vs global population it likely wouldn't even be a thousand dollars.

  • If you agree with this view: Why do you think societies should allow billionaires to exist? How does that benefit the common good?

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  • My proposal is to destroy the market completely with a land value tax. How does that have anything to do with being stuck in the status quo? It's incredibly radical by the standards of the average person right now.

    If something is an investment, by necessity it must increase in price faster than inflation. If you tax the ability for that to happen completely away, it's no longer an investment vehicle. That's not economics, it's not science, it's basic math.

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  • Go run the math. If you were to tax away say everything people own that's greater than $50 million dollars, and give it to everyone else, the total amount each person gets is something... but not as much as you would think. On the order of tens of thousands of dollars in the US for example. That would happen one time.

    The most significant problem with housing costs isn't that corporations can invest, it's that ANYONE can invest. Investments require that an asset appreciate faster than inflation, and if that happens by definition it will always become increasingly more expensive than people can afford. Homes cannot be an investment for anyone, or they will always become too expensive.

  • If you agree with this view: Why do you think societies should allow billionaires to exist? How does that benefit the common good?

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  • Billionaires aren't the problem. They aren't good, but even eliminating them would not move the needle.

    The only real fix for a significant portion of the current affordability problems is a sizeable Land Value tax. Henry George was mostly right, he wrote that shit out for us more than century ago, and we're still ignoring him while we fuck everything up because we keep treating land as this giant pyramid scheme of investment.

  • How does this scam work?

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  • Yes it's a scam. Likely there will be money requests forthcoming.

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  • I own some laser tag equipment that's amazing hardware and has absolutely shitty software. I rebuilt the entire server side of the software stack using a local LLM (Qwen3.6 35B A3B) running on my laptop. I'm very happy with the outcome, I never could have done that myself.

  • Looking for AI that's good for fanfic limited third-person Writing.

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  • That writing guide is exactly why this isn't working. You're thinking about this whole thing wrong, which I pointed out in another post. This isn't a single prompt problem. You need to separate all of the parts of your process into components.

    Having the Tense, Mystery and Restraint, and how to use Punctuation in a single prompt is pure insanity.

    You need to have about a dozen different agents, each focused on a specific task, with one coming up with the Mystery ideas, grabbing character background and information from another, and a third writing the main plot points out. Then, once you have the plot points, an editor goes through and identifies issues for correction, where it goes back to those original agents for revision. Once that's been sorted, a new agent can write the initial story out into more detail, and another agent goes through and confirms tense and punctuation is consistent.

    All of these agents should have multiple examples of what they're expected to be outputting.

    AI isn't smart. You need to make it smart by building it properly.

  • Looking for AI that's good for fanfic limited third-person Writing.

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  • "I made a skill and use Style and project on Claude"

    You definitely didn't "do all that" with a single skill. "That" is not even a single agent.

    You need to spend 10x more time setting it up than you do writing with it. The writing should be really fast once you get the architecture in place. Also, if you wrote the skill yourself, you're doing that wrong too.

  • Looking for AI that's good for fanfic limited third-person Writing.

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  • The problem is the process, not the model.

    You can't start by generating the actual text, it has to be an iterative process of setting up characters, timelines, plots, plans, etc. Then running a first pass for planning chapters, then running passes to generate the prose, then editing, revising, and verifying.

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    Why are so many people still fine with using "The C Word" despite it being officially a derogatory slur towards women?

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  • Has anyone ever taught you about the dysphemism treadmill and euphemism treadmill?

    Banning words, or trying to reframe them as bad has never worked. It just pushes people to use different words that end up with the same meaning.

    Sexism, Racism, Ageism, all the isms... they will always exist as long as more than a handful of humans exist. Humans in large groups are pretty terrible. We didn't evolve to be particularly nice.

  • What are the most important things to teach a child that they're not going to get in school?

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  • The answer to that is yes... Everyone should be able to do a little bit of plumbing.

    However you don't need to a plumber every time you use the toilet so that's a bad example.

    The concern is scale, Someone cooks your food every time you eat. One person can only cook for a limited number of humans. It only takes a dozen people to actively provide water to every house in a city.

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  • The problem with your argument is that humans need to eat somewhere between 2 and 5 times a day. Nothing else on your list comes anywhere close to that level of frequency or importance. Just because you learn how to cook doesn't mean you have to cook every meal either. You should still just know how to do it.

    That being said, there is an economic line where this matters. If you make $100 an hour, and have the opportunity to work overtime, cooking is a waste of your time unless you're batch cooking or just doing it for enjoyment. However, If you're making $12 an hour, the time cooking likely saves you more money than you would make working and then using that to pay for meals out. The actual tipping point will change depending on your wage and the cost of food.

    I'm a bit of a wierdo in this, I have not once in my almost 40 years of life ever ordered food delivered to me. I've gone out to eat, I've picked up takeout myself, but I have never had food delivered to my home. I make enough for that to make sense, but I just don't.

  • "You can't out train a bad diet" and "you can't out earn bad spending habits" what are some other true clichés along the same lines as these?

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  • So many exceptions to that one that it's useless. You absolutely can overpower bad technique in a lot of situations.

    Go watch idiots break car windows in rescues. If you smash it hard enough, it will eventually break. Whereas a small tap with a sharp object in a corner can crack it with almost no force at all.

  • "You can't out train a bad diet" and "you can't out earn bad spending habits" what are some other true clichés along the same lines as these?

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  • Hardware for local inference?

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  • I'm running Qwen 3.6 35B A3B (the MoE model) on an 8GB Vram Nvidia GPU with 32 GB of ram, with tweaking (and Turboquant) I've got it up to 30-40 Tokens per second and a 260k Context. It's very usable. I've seen people report success with Dual 3060 Cards, but you're still talking $1000-1500 for that kind of setup even if you have parts of it already.

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  • Slammers were metal, pogs were not.

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  • The best way to fix the cost of living crisis in the first world is to tax the absolute shit out of land value (not property value, land value which doesn't include the building)

    I'm talking like a 10-20% tax per year on the value of the land. So if a house is worth $1.6 million, and $1 million of that is the land, the tax per year is somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000.

    Now you might think, there's no way anyone could afford that... and you would be correct.

    The point of the tax is to do two things A) reduce the value of the land (which in turn makes the tax cheaper) and B) for pieces of land that are still extremely valuable, force them to be developed into dense units (which don't increase the tax since it's on the land only) and spread the tax out among more people to make it reasonable.

    The tax amounts collected should be returned to everyone via a basic income and/or income tax reductions.

    This makes it so that say a family of 5, living in a reasonable amount of house for them, gets enough back to not pay more at the end of the day. While that retired couple with a 5 bedroom house practically downtown gets very little back and a high tax bill, pushing them to sell that to a family or even a developer depending on the market there.

    It hurts people who take up too much valuable land, and rewards people who choose to live in condos or townhomes if they want to be in town, or to live further out if they want a detached home.

    Side effect, it also entirely fucks over property speculators. Developers can still keep doing their thing, just better because now they don't have to pay a stupid amount for the land up front. They just have to build at a reasonable pace to reduce the tax bill, rather than holding a project in limbo while the values all go up around them.

  • What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap

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  • A medicine dispenser application for a nurse is still just CRUD operations for the most part. There's nothing innovative about how the code would be written in an application like that.