ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
I am willing to entertain claims that official statistics are distorted, but nevertheless someone should make the point: real GDP per capita has more than doubled since 1980s and typewriters.
Distorted doesn't begin to describe it. It's not like someone made an oopsie when refording data in their excel spreadsheet.
Citing these statistics is makes no sense until we establish we're even using the same definitions. If the bureaucratic sector expands to match the gains brought by technology, that's still "P" for the GDP god, and does little to argue against someone who says they're not seeing much productivity gains over their lifetime.
Personal anecdote, we had an order from the higher ups that we must use LLMs, and that they will be tracking how often we use them.
In Europe the push for AI is absolutely bonkers. On top of stories like yours, I've seen academics shill like they were sales reps for their field to adopt it, the public sector incentivizing it's workers to dip their toe in the water and start using them, etc. There was an entire infrastructure of workshop providers ready to go within weeks of when GPT-3 was announced, and it was aimed at some of the most calcified sectors of society.
The mundane theory I have is that this is (another one of) Europe's ill-conceived attempt(s) at overtaking the US in terms of innovation. The conspiracy theory is that they really really want to automate surveillance ASAP. Quite possibly it's both, but either way someone high up had a bright idea, and they'll be damned if they don't see it through.
since the mantra of most owners is to buy and hold.
That's not necessarily it. I used to know a guy that donated 1000 BTC to a minor-mid influencer, back when the price was in single digits. It later came out that the recipient lost his wallet key, without selling a single coin.
Either way, I don't really is see the problem. The pathologization of savings always struck me as economist cope.
I mean, Kulak had that bit about us having flying cars since the Fokker Dr.I. Either way that's not quite how the future was advertised to me. And the moon base isn't going to happen in that time frame, unless the Chinese have some surprises up their sleeves.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
It's nice living in the future*,
I don't know about you, but when I was a kid I used to dream about flying cars and moon bases, not digital panopticons and simulacra.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Responding before reading the whole thing is indeed my weakness.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
And I don't see anything inherently good about human civilization ending. I'm neutral about it. If human civilization ends after my generation, I'm fine with it
Tell me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have kids.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
I don't know if I buy that it's just "simping". Organic trends come and go, they aren't usually capable of maintaining world-spanning activist infrastructure for decades on end.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
But I don't think anyone really wants to hear me recount USSR geopolitical strategies in the Middle East lead to the Palestinian activist networks in the west.
The thought of starting a top level comment with the question "where did all these pro-Palestine activists come from anyway?" did enternmy head more than once, as their level of organization is obviously inorganic to me (and somewhat scary in it's efficiency).
So yeah, I think I kinda do want to hear you recount it, as it would provide something in the way of an explanation.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Depends what you mean by censorship, since strictly speaking it's outside their power, as an open source project. Let's just call it the usual drama.
From what I understand Redot was more a result of loads and loads of features and bugfixes they've been sitting on and refusing to merge, the Redot team just used the brouhaha around wokeness as a good moment to fork and promote themselves.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
It's just that they think this is necessary to uphold modern civilisation.
I've seen no indication that this is the case. They're happy to violate the law when it suits them. If they're not violating this one, it's because they don't want to, not because they're held back by beliefs about what upholds modern civilization.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Have you considered Godot's evil / based twin brother, Redot? I was working with it when they just forked, and it was no worse then Godot, and they're now teasing some pretty impressive benchmarks.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
As mentioned last week I deployed my project and was testing / fixing it over the week. While there's tons of missing features, weird quirks and bugs, it's still a massive quality of life improvement over my previous nitter+miniflux setup:
- Nitter was acting up because of issues with the authentication token. I have 2 Twitter burner accounts, so I thought it would solve the issue if I just switched up the tokens, but each only works half-way. I can either browse twitter with one token or have a working RSS feed with the other. The new setup had some issues with the token as well (it got rate limited, possibly due to both projects running on the same server), but it somehow recovered on it's own within a day.
- The ability to browse twitter from the same page is a huge improvement. What's more every reply tweet I see is getting automatically archived, which wasn't possible with the old setup. On top of that, the ability to follow a new twitter account at the click of a button is a HUGE boon (I used to have to got to the "new feed" page, copy-paste the RSS-view url, etc).
- I might have been having a bit too much fun with custom layouts, particularly for the error pages.
Like I said, far from finished, there's still plenty of retardation in the code, but it works well enough for me to use it over the old bespoke setup, so here's a github for the curious
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
You'd be amazed what you can accomplish with a few electrodes...
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
This all happened in 1938, when Sinatra was 23, so it's interesting to see it predate the sexual revolution by so many decades.
What?
I assure you adultery was a thing for the entirety of human existence. The sexual revolution just ramped it up by saying "it's a good thing, actually".
The whole time the subreddit was up, it is categorically true that places like /r/politicalcompassmemes, /r/4chan and /r/redscarepod had much more objectionable (to the admins) content than we had.
You could say the same thing about /r/GenderCritical, they still got nuked.
There were times when there were more pro-trans voices here, sure, but most people are clearly of the same opinion now as they were then (“it’s not real but it’s reasonable to be individually nice to trans people in your life”).
It has nothing to do with the amount of pro-trans voices, and everything to do with the arguments themselves.
Originally pro-trans people where running around saying how The Science Is Settled, how there's a robust diagnostic process, and how younger people are only put on reversible treatments, and trotting out paper after paper. It took several years for people to catch on that the papers were flawed, raise questioned that the trans activists had no good answer for (exponential increase in dysphoria diagnoses, sex-ratio flip, age-ratio flip). It took several more years still for things to start to come out like detrans people testifying how much of an utter joke the "diagnostic process" was, whistleblowers coming out, the Cass Review, senior Biden admin officials putting political pressure to abolish age limits in the latest Standards Of Care, or WPATH commissioning systematic reviews from John Hopkins, shitcanning them when they didn't like the results, and demanding that any further reviews be approved by a trans person, while also demanding that they be published with a statement that WPATH had no influence over the process.
If all you got from all these years was “it’s not real but it’s reasonable to be individually nice to trans people in your life”, then you simply weren't paying attention. Which is ok, if you aren't interested in the issue, but why are you acting like you know anything about it, and like the conversation hasn't shifted at all over time?
If you don't care about the issue, feel free to not care about it, but your insistence that others shouldn't care about it either is bizarre. Throughout my time on here the discussion went from me always feeling like I'm on the back foot, to feeling like I've some chinks in the pro-trans side armor, to the current state where I can kind of understand how one might call it "almost no opposition" (it's not true, but I can understand). I'd imagine that chronicling the rise and fall of the trans movement might be worth it as a matter of historical social commentary, if nothing else, but for you the issue is not only "minor", it "was played out by the end of the last Bush administration". No matter the state we're currently in, we apparently always have been pre-ordained to be in it.
That's all beside the point anyway. The whole point of this place is to have civil conversations even when they aren't allowed on mainstream forums, and you're telling me I should just shrug off a gag order on my hobby horse, and accept it as not a big deal.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
Welcome!
It's always interesting to get a perspective from another part of the world, though that always comes with a built-in inability to comment on it much, due to the same lack of familiarity that makes it interesting to begin with. It's a bit sad to hear the same sort of controversies are taking place in a completely different culture. What's worse, even the pushback that followed doesn't feel like cause for much optimism, as it reminds me of various backlashes in the Western internet ~10 years ago. Here's hoping China is on a different trajectory, and not just a bit behind on the same path.
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
the admins were most upset about discussion of the trans thing which was comparatively minor.
There go 80% of my AAQCs...
ArjinFerman
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1mo ago
The man who is currently President of the United States, with the support of most Motteposters, did not want a rematch - he wanted to be inaugurated despite losing the election.
I don't seem to recall anyone on the Motte saying "Trump lost, but he should be inaugurated anyway". I seem to recall a lot of questioning of the integrity of the elections. The option for rematch with stricter security measures was indeed absent from the conversation. From either side.
Also, you know as well as I do that Georgescu wasn't disqualified for what he did on TikTok, he was disqualified for paying for it with illegal foreign donations.
Oh spare me. It was clear he was going to get disqualified before anyone said anything about muh illegal donations.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Correct. A long and running complaint of the conservative base about their elites.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
That would be weird, since his last alt was never banned.
ArjinFerman
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2mo ago
Hopefully I haven't made a wrong turn somewhere, and we're still talking about euthanasia, rather than anesthesia.
It's true that my view of doctors is rather mixed, but your argument leaves my scratching my head. I imagine most of them don't perform such procedures.
Mostly monitoring the situation and fixing the odd bug that pops up. Things are pretty stable, so I've been plotting my next move.
Not gonna lie, the main reason this project got as far as it did is using the old nitter+miniflux setup daily, the thought of returning to Twitter, or even just plain old Nitter is unfathomable to me at this point, and it's been driving me to power through until I got something usable. While there's a whole bunch of basic features I should add to make it reasonably usable to anyone who isn't me, the thought of working on them instantly sends me into a comma. OTOH, I've found myself more and more frustrated with Substack, and thinking that it sure would be nice to be able to follow all the people from there on the same app I use to keep track of Twitter. Importing articles would be easy enough, but I think I'm more interested in the "Notes", but the prospect of integrating them was daunting. Cursory searches revealed no alternative Substack readers that I could raid for code, so I thought it would take forever to figure out how to deal with their API... until I actually looked at it. Turns out you can literally just fetch Notes with
curl, so I won't have to worry about reverse-engineering their authentication process, unless I'll want to implement fetching paid content.How have you been doing @Southkraut?
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