ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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1d ago
I was sick last week, so didn't get a lot done beyond minor improvements.
How are you doing @Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
It's not a nonsense question. "William" is an example of name, an arbitrary label we out on people that makes it easier for us to communicate who we are talking about, or who we are addressing when we talk. Are you saying "woman" is also an arbitrary label? Why not just say thatz if that's what you mean?
In contrast most definitions, the way progressives try to talk about what is woman is incoherent, and far from simple.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Simple? I still don't know what they are saying they are.
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3d ago
Given that there was comparatively no interest in USAID prior, an about face inside of a few days speaks to mob mentality and blind allegiance to the party line.
How is this a problem particular to populism? Are we supposed to forget the constant swapping of profile pics to show your alignment to the Current Thing? The about face from "Covid is no worse than the flu" to "Covid is the biggest disaster since WW2"? Or from "lab leak is a conspiracy theory" to "Covid did most likely leak from a lab, and we knew about it from the start"?
To USAID in particular, is it really an about-face, or did people react to previously unknown information about it being used for Blue-aligned causes, from spreading transgenderism in the third world to sponsoring the majority of Ukraine's "independent" media?
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
How reliable is data on this?
I don't know, but don't you think this reply is a bit of a cope? You made a simple question indicating curiosity about what are Trump supporters' priorities, and how they measure whether or not they've been achieved. I can give you a simple answer based on publicly available data, but what answer do you expect when you start questioning it's validity? I can't think of a way do a deep dive and sanity check the numbers, and you probably know / suspect that, so I'm left wondering if the original question was even asked in good faith.
and the Trump administration doesn't seem to be especially scrupulous in how it communicates their actions and the associated data.
This is the lovely thing about adversarial systems, you don't really need them to be. There's no simpler way to attack Trump and demoralize his supporters than to show that he failed to stop / slow down immigration. The fact that nobody is doing it is good indication that the numbers are relatively accurate.
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6d ago
Man, if they're tilling the earth with them, I'd think that would be considered more patriarchal.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
Yup, and when you generalize this you get the arithmetic series sum formula. Congrats, you're as smart as 15 (or less) -year-old Gauss.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
and also the (myth?) that Gauss had been forced to add 0-100 to keep him from making trouble in class.
I heard that one too, but as the incident showing he's a prodigy, rather than one proving he's a dum-dum troublemaker. Instead of calculating the sum by brute-forcing, he came up with the arithmetic series sum formula on the spot.
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7d ago
If immigration ranked high on his list, then Trump cut it off overnight. I also appreciate his crackdown on the trans issues, and calling off the dogs set loose on a whistleblower by the Biden administration.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
and a list of the names and addresses of your entire family on the other side.
Yeah, fair, that would be quite effective.
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7d ago
I think unspecified threats to your career and your social circle suddenly treating you like you were a kiddie-diddler is far more effective. Your monkeybrain can grok direct threats and you might go "fuck you" depending on your situation, even if your demise is 100% guaranteed, but it has far more trouble processing the kind of social ostracism that was deployed during covid. Most people can't handle it, and come up with ways to not ask too many questions even in the privacy of their own brain.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
I'm obviously no Einstein, but I think I fit into the "didn't do well in school, did well IRL" category pretty well. If people like me were the reason for schools doing whatever the hell they are doing now, it truly feels ridiculous.
Not only don't I see how any of the changes to education systems that I observed over my lifetime would help me fit in, the only thing you'd have to do to make me happy is get rid of credentialism, and let me learn what I want to do on my own (which is exactly what happened).
To your question, I often wonder if I wouldn't be better off going to trade school myself, but when I was growing up that was widely seen as the loser trajectory, so I was avoiding it like the plague. The end result being years of wasted effort at university, as I'm smart enough to get in, but unable to grind long enough to graduate.
ArjinFerman
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7d ago
This is what you get for training your models on Reddit.
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7d ago
He wants "to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin", he's dismissing the engineered origin.
"It leaked from a lab where we were experimenting on it" is not a natural origin, even if it wasn't engineered.
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7d ago
Ass-covering was the most likely motive for Faucci, but I think for most governments the issue was compliance of the population. Namely, if you acknowledge that China / Eco Health / Faucci were responsible, it would be a tall order to ask people to comply with lockdowns, covid passes, etc., unless you also punish the ones responsible for the leak, and no one really wanted to take on China.
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7d ago
The conspiracy in question is that the lab leak implies some kind of biological warfare work.
No, it's not. Any theory positing the possibility of any leak was deboonked by experts, deemed racist, and treated as a tinfoil-tier conspiracy theory.
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7d ago
I'm not even all that bothered by the governments lying about it anymore, it's all par for the course at this point. It's not even hard to come up with reasons that explain why they did it.
What bothers me is the utter failure of the skeptic, rationalist, and all adjacent movements that went all in for Faucci, even though none of this could pass a basic sniff test, let alone rational analysis.
But my perception so far is that, in terms of actual news, i.e. getting journalists to the physical locations where things are actually happening in order to record them and then report on them.
A few years ago I would have begrudgingly conceded this, but between news not being all that relevant for me anymore (I know it might sound weird, but for an extreme case consider the case of pop-culture commentary channels regurgitating news taken from mainstream media, which, for all their faults, have superior access to the industry, but have lost any advantage stemming from that due to the entertainment industry failing to create anything I'd care about for many years now), and a lot of modern journalism being done by spamming FOIAs, I'm not sure this is true either anymore.
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8d ago
The answer was, TL;DR: "Because good person does not do such things, and you want to be heckin' good person"
Which moral system do you have in mind that invoked the concept of hecking goodness, without at the same time invoking the divine (note: not the same thing as citing divine punishment).
Who said you have to have "utilon maximization as a terminal value"? This is a basic element of any societal critique. "Here's what's bad... and here's a better alternative". Without the better alternative you can often just make a bad thing worse
If supposed public servants refuse to do what the public asks of them, things getting worse on other axes might be an acceptable cost for forcing them to do what you want. Like, I don't care if you're objectively a superior cook, if you're going to prepare meals I don't like, or even feed me poison.
like how the right has spiralled into being the party of Catturd.
Ah yes, so much worse than being the party of elective double mastectomies for adolescent girls.
Random content creators are so much worse than say the NYT.
Your original claim was that there is no superior replacent for mainstream media, not that the NYT will on average outperform a random youtuber. The former seems straightforwardly false, as it's pretty trivial for me to find superior analysis than even that of the NYT, which is usually done at a fraction of the budget, and often part time. This should not be possible if your original claim were true.
The latter claim might be true, but it's a pretty clear case of moving the goalposts.
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8d ago
I think even rationalists express surprise sometimes.
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8d ago
I don't get that guy. I mean I get hiding your power level out in the wild, but what is it supposed to accomplish here?
OTOH, that guy usually used his posts as an excuse to link some wignat website. If it's him, he got a whole week this time, so I suppose he's learning, sadly its the wrong thing.
the “fake news account” Elon quoted was “anti-establishment conspiracy theorists”
I didn't get the impression that he was limiting his criticism to that particular Twitter account, rather it feels like a sweeping condemnation of all AECT's.
AECTs don’t generate valuable anti-establishment takes as often as Hanania
That would be a pretty big point of disagreement as well, but it's open to civil debate.
I read his comments as a pure complaint about Elon Musk’s susceptibility to AECTs like this particular account. But you and @Fruck are taking it as a personal or at least tribal attack? What am I missing?
The missing piece might be that I unironically consider myselfban AECT, so I don't know how to read that as anything other than an attack. I'm aware that there are people in my group that have a few screws loose, but a sweeping condemnation of the entire group based on that feels extremely unfair, and I was under the impression that it's even against the rules.
How is what he doing different from condemning the entirety of, say, Critical Race Theory, based on the conduct of the students of the Evergreen State College?
ArjinFerman
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8d ago
Enough to cause a week-long struggle session on obscure internet forums.
Are you talking about support for uncoditinally legal abortion?
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