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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I mean interfacing with the real world . The containment breach during the Hugging Face incident was not that surprising and does not change my priors.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Sorta. A high GPA means you’re intellectually capable of absorbing large quantities of material. It’s more than just being able to function in a particular environment. If an employer sees that someone has a 4.0 in literature or philosophy, that signals they’re good at reading and making sense of large amounts of text. This is useful in a work setting when having to process reports, or make sense of disparate pieces of information. But the high GPA is also indicative of an ability to fucus and get work done, so there is an IQ and attentiveness component.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
comedy is like the dream job because you get paid to tell jokes. there are no responsibilities. it scales well: you can go on the road and use the same material for years, with extra income  from specials,  albums and various residuals .  The downside is misreading the audience. this is called bombing. Some might blame it on political correctness or an overly sensitive audience,  but this is cope, imho. Your job is description is literally to make people laugh, not to rescue people from burning buildings or stuff like that . the onus is on the comedian to connect with the audience, and failing that, you no longer have a comedy career and someone  who does make that connection will take your spot.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
My p(doom) is still around 0%. The AI doomers have still not provided a convincing argument for how AI actually breaks containment. The most realistic disaster scenario would involve AI being put in control of infrastructure and then malfunctioning because it misread some signal.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's amazing how trump is such a big public figure yet so little is known about him outside of that persona . What i have gathered is trump is  lazy and delegates a lot, but this is not bad  .  He does the minimum needed , but this allows him to cover  many areas, like being POTUS, media,  and running his businesses. He does not care that much about the details of policy , compared to someone like Clinton. I think the only details trump truly cared about  pertain to his real estate business.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
the OP probably meant boots on the ground . the SCOTUS killed the tariffs anyway


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
many employers use the Wonderlic, which is very similar to an IQ test, in addition to checking for the usual credentials. But some may only use the Wonderlic. I agree IQ is way more efficient, but OTOH it does not test for diligence  . getting a degree is a grind due to large coursework and having to show up , and many  people do not finish for this reason .


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I look it as, if I walked up to a woman on the street and called her that can I reasonably expect she would take offense? In this case yes.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
the question is, would this has been discovered eventually  anyway if not for AIAYN?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
this was not news to to me. this is what I expected and i bought stocks in on the dip on April 2025 expecting him to do that


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
it was more like he would slap a high tariff  and then back down , either giving some  ultimatum or reducing the duty. The "taco trade" was buying the dip whenever he initially slapped a tariff in anticipation of him backtracking or extending a deadline, which he always did.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


or even more derangedly, blames the USA.




would this be happening had  Trump not attacked Iran in the first place ?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
yup https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/10/15/8-10-americans-oppose-live-streaming-execution-fort-hood-shooter-poll-shows/


this was not some change of heart or a legal obstacle: it simply polled  poorly and would be  unfavorable  among independents. had it polled better i am sure trump would have signed off on it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
yeah but the sort of person who is diligent enough to get into an ivy would presumably like the high surface area of success of the consulting job


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 14, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
oh nevermind i misread that as a 1.33x bench-press


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
yeah as long as there is a gap, the universities serve a purpose. the college dropout rate still stands at 50% and many still take 5-6 years of a "4 year degree "suggesting it has not necessarily gotten easier. I think this "lowering standards at universities" is much more anecdotal. There are certain standards that degree-awarding colleges  must follow.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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I think they are both true. his book is right but at the same time employers derive value from degrees.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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nice job on the bench press.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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yeah CICO does not tell you how the variables are changing. It's tautological.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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how is your blood pressure so low? mine was at 140 even at 180. congrats  on weight loss . CICO is  technically  true in that sense that obesity reflects an energy imbalance,  but also limited in the sense it's hard to predict how the "CO" variable  will change.


this is a good point:




In 2025, a normal life makes you fat. It shouldn't take an extraordinary life to avoid being fat. And, for most of human history, it didn't. Sometime in the last few decades, something changed such that ordinary levels of exercise and satiety and willpower simply aren't enough anymore to avoid being fat. Since most people do not have the slack to redesign their entire lives around being thin, a realistic solution to the obesity epidemic needs to involve either identifying and removing the orange soda or inventing some kind of orange soda antidote. Telling people to just consume less calories than they spend is a useless distraction, like telling an adult who counts on his finger to just study harder for the AP Calc exam.




at least 75% of the US population is overweight through no  effort. something is wrong. it's more than just "eating too much," as there is evidence  people consumed similar or greater  calorie counts hundred+ years ago without becoming as overweight.  historically, when food was cut off during war or other famine , people rapidly starved to death , even on 1500 kcal/day like in Holland or Russia, yet we have entire Reddit subs where people cannot lose weight on 1200-1500 kcal/day (obviously, miscounting calories is an issue).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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This sounds like a task for AI. I am sure someone has done a data analysis on this


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Sor a second I thought this was Rutgers


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Universities love to say they "teach you how to learn". In my mind, this is cope. There is no indication that they are making an effort to do this, nor that it is even possible.




Regardless of their  purpose  ,  whatever it is, employers sure want it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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agree. employers get so many applicants. they need some way to filter at scale.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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The expansion of credentials has been a disaster. Most credentials are useless, and in fact most outside of highly technical degrees are almost an anti-intellectual signal. The degrees do not, generally, require any serious rigor, no real achievement, and therefore are mostly ways for the schools to admit more dummies to study things that don’t matter in an environment where failure is almost impossible. Comedy should not be a stand alone area of concentration in a college. Very few humanities programs have serious rigor, and even those that do serve no useful purpose.




They serve a function from the perspective of employers  in corelating well with baseline proficiency . There is a huge gap in writing skills and other signifiers of ability of 4-year grads, even for humanities degrees, vs high school grads. Screening for degrees saves employers time and boosts productivity without having to interview everyone. This could also mean improved  customer satisfaction from having smarter and more competent employees.