BANNED USER: Persistent culture warring and petty antagonism
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
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Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
The particular tweet I linked was the one Weiss mentioned, IIUC, but yes, there's definitely been a longstanding pattern.
Because A) all the 3rd world contractors are still using the rules the previous team set up, and B) the exact same thing happened when they did this to Rowling last year.
Believe me, I'd be tremendously happy if Musk's new moderation eliminated this and anyone defending it, laughing at their sudden change of position on "free speech". Hopefully it will, in time.
Because it makes it look like you go for partisan consensus enforcement when you think you can get away with it. When you can't, you fall back on what's carefully crafted to look like objective analysis with the partisanship hidden to muddy the waters as much as possible.
Like I said, it's a lawyerly debating method.
And I wasn't playing archeology: Singal retweeted you a few hours after I made that post, and I saw your account.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Do you really think this is helping you? The obvious deflection, the sneering, what's even the point of it? Acting exactly like everyone in that twitter thread isn't going to convince anyone.
See here. All perfectly fine, I'm sure. https://twitter.com/KingChristianCS/status/1594848557843943429
No rules being violated here, no sir ma'am https://twitter.com/Droidytv25/status/1595123798466269184
Definitely no calls for immediate violence here that are apparently perfectly ok as long as it's happening to a "fascist terf woman" https://twitter.com/A7aKoala/status/1595101534047576072
Definitely no bias on the part of Twitter's moderation team. What a thing to pick on as if this makes their behavior look any better...
I wonder how much is lost per year from accidents, caching/hoarding, wear, etc. The best figure I can get for wear is silver coins losing 5% weight over a lifetime.
Probably much less of an issue these days: nobody's sunk any spanish treasure ships lately, and fewer people are burying valuables to hide them from raiders. Plus more gold gets kept in bar form rather than being periodically switched between plates/ornaments and coinage, with whatever losses are involved.
It's amazing how far a low effort meme can be elevated by the mastodon-in-bio replies proving that it's gospel truth, my god.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
That's exactly what I don't want. Anything with that many men in it should be low profile and covered in active protection systems, not stuffed with enough weapons to make it a high value target in its own right.
You know, stuff like this really doesn't help convince people. Obvious consensus enforcement works in most places, but a lot of people here are instinctively suspicious of it to the point that it becomes counterproductive to even try.
The point is enabling this to empower activists within the credit card companies. No matter what Visa says now, they will fold when the blob uses this as leverage against them.
It's one thing for the CEO to say "this is against our principles, and besides, what would you have me do?" It's another thing entirely for him to resist the entire ESG/LGBTQ-ERG internal party cadre standing in his office screaming "PUSH THE BUTTON OR YOU'RE KILLING BABIES!" This change sets him up for the latter, just like Price at Cloudflare, who swore he would resist the pressure right up until he realized how much they could bring to bear on him, and how many of the people he relied on would stab him in the back.
Although very likely the CEO won't need to make the decision: it'll be done at some lower level and presented to him as a fait accompli that he would have to work against procedural outcomes to overturn.
Notice how on their page about the category code they don't openly say their objective is to prohibit all banks from dealing with firearms companies. They only say that on their other pages because they're good at compartmentalizing their propaganda.
This just sounds like manipulating procedural outcomes by saying "look, there has to be a procedure. It's not our fault that our partisans who control every step of the process make all the procedural decisions in ways that seem disfavorable to you: you just don't understand The Procedure."
It's an ironclad defense for setting policy by backchannel insider consensus while stonewalling any outside input, even from the guy who is nominally in charge (insert your favorite Yes Minister clip here). It's a very lawyerly way of going about things, and so far it's been absolutely foolproof for imposing everything from ESG mandates to Title IX tribunals under the guise of implementing necessary value-neutral systems that only anarchists would oppose.
Edit: especially when you immediately follow up the "unbiased, just neutrally reporting The Procedure" by retweeting this screed. God damn dude, it's as if the entire point is having something to fall back on to muddy the issue in places where consensus enforcement isn't a viable tactic.
On the forum in particular and in EA discourse in general, there is a tendency to give less weight/be more critical of posts that are more emotion-heavy and less rational
Boy oh boy. It's sad to see how much effort Scott et al. need to expend on defense in the comments for every post like this, and they can just post the same one each week until people are ground down and give in. The last one was demanding Title IX inquisitions for EA, right?
But he didn't steal from them, did he? They were smart enough to know how much leash they could give a man like that to safely make use of his talents without him getting ideas. Which is probably the most important part of managing finance guys.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Both of those plus American car companies ask for weird and arbitrary regulations (like "fleet fuel standards") to make it harder for foreigners to sell here.
Unfortunately there's a lot of ground burst targets near some cities, like major railyards, ports, or the giant buried warehouse of ~2300 Trident missile warheads sitting right next to Seattle. Some of those places are going to glow for a long time.
Edit: maybe only a thousand or so now, unless the ones they're planning to scrap are still in storage?
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
That was the incident where they were testing the new shared radar processing, right? So everyone was getting a bunch of ghosts from the computers having to mesh together different radar readings.
It's literally illegal to sell cars without backup camera displays now, and a lot of the other computer stuff is probably also mandatory. Once you have it, the marginal cost of throwing all the other crap in for the people who like it probably isn't very high, so there's only one stable equilibrium.
I think by the time you've put ATGMs and an autocannon on something you're at the point where it becomes a target for weapons heavier than MGs. And if it's also carrying 8-12 passengers it becomes a very expensive liability for the widows and orphans fund, which non-conscript armies have to factor into their budgets these days.
I suspect that we're going to see more semi-automated weapon platforms used as light/disposable combat vehicles, with any vehicle stuffed full of people getting either tank level protection (Israeli APC-style) or being kept well out of any high intensity fighting. Much as infantrymen love direct fire support, they don't necessarily want to sit right next to something that will be scooting away to dodge artillery fire.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
That's a terrifying thought, and explains so much of what happened to the brains of people I used to know a few years ago.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
trans rights issues look entirely defensive from the left.
Does it really? Can you really look people in the eyes who've been ordered to put pronouns in their bios and stop using the word "mother", and say that you are just defending yourself against them?
Tell me, do you keep a diary of your political goals and beliefs? I think it would be very interesting to see how it evolves over time as the Overton window in your head is shifted by party doctrine.
It does seem like the only consequences of this will be empowering awful Title IX regulations and the hiring of another dozen administrators to impose them. Talk about victory even in defeat.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
Is there a name for this Russian cynical parody genre? I only know it as "The Last Ringbearer" style.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
3yr ago
TL;DR A "meet & great the Black Panther Revolutionaries at Leonard Bernstein's condo" party attended by all the most fashionable Manhatten sociop--socialites.
It's well above "aspirational upper-middle class," but it's a window into what was trendy at the time. And it's hauntingly familiar to anyone who lived through 2020: I'd never actually seen the cover before this tweet, only the txt file, but it says it all.
Absolutely. If that behavior towards us is tolerated in six months I'd call his takeover a pathetic waste of time.
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