AmericanEconomicThinkTank

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Cake day: September 22nd, 2025
  • AmericanEconomicThinkTank@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Buckle up buttercup; fascist rule hasn't even hit its peakEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Nothing like 40 years of political maneuvering and policy influence throughout a system of government to unravel.

    Small consolation, while many work to also influence local offices and political bodies to properly prop up their power, it’s also some of the easiest areas to get your foot in the door and make change yourself.

    Hell, even under the Putin regime, opposition thrives in areas like schoolboards and townhalls, they tend not to be the ones thrown out windows. Just high enough to make a difference, too small to be noticed.

    Lol unless the industrial complex keeps growing surveillance and monitoring without hard laws put in place, in which case oh well.

  • AmericanEconomicThinkTank@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•you wouldn't encrypt your ruleEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Haha helps not viewing it dead tired. Totally see where you were coming from there. It is an interesting point to make, especially given most view the need for IP protection for an individual or firm to extend only within reach of that party. Some are often enforced where common overlap occurs, like I could build surfboards under the name Tide and the soap people can’t do jack.

    Yet, books long out of circulation and print are still given full protection. If copyright technically allows home movie showing to extend to streaming, why isn’t allowing home vcr recordings of tv movie broadcasts extended to downloading online streams given the actual method of data transfer is indistinguishablen from just watching it.

    Shame that general priorities in law and policy are uh, what they are, I honestly would’ve loved seeing this stuff explored in the courts more, over just giving priority interest to corporations lol.

  • AmericanEconomicThinkTank@lemmy.worldtoShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works•The economy
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    4 hours ago

    I could give you some indepth economic analysis, and behavior philosophy behind business spending, but the easiest?

    Just unionize. Now. Volunteer time to talk outside work hours. Speak to local professionals like accountants and lawyers to help pro-bono with getting setup.

    Talk to political offices locally, run if you can.

    Talk about these issues with strangers. Print out your own corny pamphlet newspaper to educate someone willing to read.

  • AmericanEconomicThinkTank@lemmy.worldtoAsk Science@lemmy.world•How badly is global warming / climate change going?English
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    4 hours ago

    To a good point yea, it’s experience based, it’s why the top schools are already exposing the topic of disinformation and media literacy to younger generations. Trust but verify is an excellent mantra, take time to properly think through and challenge new information you encounter, keep a change of pace to stay mentally fresh, destressing yourself when possible all work together to keep a healthy learning mindset.

    It’s essentially a holistic approach to learning and processing.

    Unfortunately, geopolitical interests, personal ideology, and everything in-between will make true online objectivity nearly impossible, so learning to best navigate it is pretty much the only approach for now. Besides keeping offline as much as possible.

  • AmericanEconomicThinkTank@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can we trust LLM CALCULATIONS?.
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    5 hours ago

    Nope, language models by inherent nature, xannot be used to calculate. Sure theoretically you could have input parsed, with proper training, to find specific variables, input those to a database and have that data mathematically transformed back into language data.

    No LLMs do actual math, they only produce the most likely output to a given input based on trained data. If I input: What is 1 plus 1?

    Then given the model, most likely has trained repetition on an answer to follow that being 1 + 1 = 2, that will be the output. If it was trained on data that was 1 + 1 = 5, then that would be the output.