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How does an autocratic leader lose an election, can Xi lose an election?

How can it be that groups pay for it long term when many of the successful apex predators exhibit interspecies murder and territorialism.

Just to use your own example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapogo_lion_coalition


Wow. I just read that whole wikipedia article and had a fantastic time. Thank you very much for sharing

But to comment on your point: species DO pay for it in the long term when members murder or teratorialism.

Lions are not cannibals. Some lions are cannibals. A successful group of lions cannibals existing (and what a brutal and awesome-in-the-biblical-sense story it is!) does not mean that it pays for the lion species as a whole to have groups of cannibals existing.

In fact, I could only see the “proliferation of groups like this committing atrocities” reach a tipping point for a species - not murdering when this murdering happens will make you cease to exist. So if the species doesn’t have a reason to reach the extreme where this NEVER happens, then it will quickly reach the point where this ALWAYS happens


Totalitarianism is not 'murder', it's 'power'.

On an individual level, even in authoritarian situations murder is still immoral and illegal.

Even within the context of power it's still nominally immoral. Stalin did not kill people, he tortured them until they 'admitted their crimes'. That Stalin needed to present the blood-stained admission is very telling.

Even Bloody Mary couldn't just kill however, there had to be some kind of legitimate premise. Heretics, threats etc.. It's how QE1 survived.


lol thats like 99% of planet earth, including the animals

no it isn't lol

Around the same revenue due to Anthropics strong enterprise strategy

Perhaps, but I'd venture the ear of the regime is even more valuable.

The last time I typed ultrathink, i got a prompt saying that you no longer need to type ultrathink

Your argument is even worse lol. Obviously he's proposing that you can take your doctors note to the pharmacy and get what the doctor prescribed in addition to being allowed to self purchase behind the counter drugs.

When writing banal code, you can just ask it to write unit tests for certain conditions and it'll do a pretty good job. The cutting edge tools will correctly automatically run and iterate on the unit tests when they dont pass. You can even ask the agent to setup TDD.

You are either using it wrong or you are writing extremely niche code that has bad llm coverage

I suspect I fall into the former camp, but I'm not sure where to start when it comes to learning how to use llms "the right way".

I'm not a proper software engineer, but I do a lot of scripting and most of my attempts to let a model speed up a menial task (e.g. a small bash or python script for some data parsing or chaining together other tools), end up with me doing extensive rewrites because the model is completely inconsistent in naming convention, pattern reusage, etc.


or you are in denial about what he is saying

thank you for your helpful snark, the commentor couldnt have been asking just out of curiosity because he's evil

You may want to read the usernames again, they were replying to themselves.

I can't tell if this thread is filled with bookie shills or (buy a mcNuke level)die hard libertarians or people who live under a rock and don't realize how pervasive sports gambling is.

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