Bombadil
2d ago
I understand why large LLM developers are against distillation. It is essentially patent infringement, basically a way to copy their weights. It destroys their business model when someone can just wait until they finish the expensive training process and copy their results. But seeing as these corporations did not care about the intellectual property concerns regarding the data they used for training, I have a hard time seeing that they really have a patent to infringe upon. They neither produced nor owned the data they used for training. It follows then that they also don't really have a claim to their weights.
Bombadil
2d ago
That seems counterproductive to doing experiments. You would want your solvents to be as uniform as possible, to ensure that your study conditions can be replicated and verified by others.
Bombadil
3d ago
We are talking about replacing your daily water intake entirely. I agree that the claim seems unlikely when you consider it seriously though. The more relevant question is why would you want to distill your drinking water in the first place?
I got it from chemistry teachers and people working in labs. It might just be something they say to keep people from drinking it. Just like the story that the lab ethanol is treated with something that makes you puke, so that students won't steal it for their parties.
Why are you doing reverse osmosis on your water? It sounds like an expensive way to treat it with no obvious benefit.
The intuition for why distilled water is bad, is that it will leech out minerals from your cells through osmosis. Obviously, there are no human trials to prove this, as is pointed out below (do note that the paper cited in that comment is not peer reviewed, and only "published " on researchgate, so take it with a grain of salt). It is entirely possible that this is a story made up by chemistry teachers to keep students from drinking it. This has historically not been studied, as distilled water is expensive and there is no obvious reason for drinking it instead of tap/bottled water.
I would say "ask your doctor", but frankly your dietary choices seem speculative enough that there won't be significant amount of research done on them, and so no real authoritative evidence in any direction.
I think you need to face that you are running a dietary experiment here. You are going to have to be the expert.
Bombadil
4d ago
What happened to Neuralink? I recall them moving to human trials a few years back, but there have been no news since. Did it turn out to be harmful to the patients?
Bombadil
13d ago
Maybe political activism? Demonstrations and activist orgs seem to attract a lot of women.
Bombadil
13d ago
Each time I fail, I make some adaptation that hopefully improves my odds, and each time the reality of the situation proves I wasn't cold and calculating enough
Do you think you may be overfitting here? If every time a relationship fails, you make an adaptation that would have ensured it worked, that does not necessarily mean you are becoming overall more desirable to the women that you want. Meanwhile, you are slowly giving up on something you value deeply.
I agree with the overall gist of it; Being the sensitive young man is endlessly disappointing, but that does not imply that meeting cynicism with cynicism of your own is a good solution that increases the odds of landing the relationship you want.
Bombadil
14d ago
Get Claude to walk me through it
This option is good in theory, but in practice requires a good amount of self discipline. It is just so easy to prompt the AI in a way that straight up gives you the answer, then convince yourself that you were the one to think about it following the LLM's guidance. If you are mindful of the pitfalls it can work, but I am not sure I would trust the average person to do it properly.
Bombadil
14d ago
It is generally easier to send people back to their country of origin when said country actually wants to take the people back. The issue with arab (pretty sure most of them are not African) refugees and illegal immigrants is that their country is unwilling to accept their citizens back at the airport. They are more than happy to get rid of them.
Bombadil
16d ago
Could an open source model solve the problem of radioactive CW threads triggering a filter? After all, if the model is open source, would that not mean it is possible to fine tune it so that it fits with the spirit of themotte?
Bombadil
16d ago
I think how best to do this depends a lot on the motivation. Why would we want to compete with Reddit in the first place? What does this space stand to gain from becoming a serious competitor to reddit?
Bombadil
16d ago
This doesn't really sound like the problem is with education, but more that the mothers have zero time to do stuff outside their immediate duties. Given modern work hours and convenient household appliances, part of me wants to question that premise. But taken on its face, I would assume poorly educated mothers should face a similar problem where they want to their life to have meaning beyond kids and use whatever skillset they have to attain status, but just can't find the time and energy to do so. In other words, what you are pointing out is a problem with the overall structure of society, not women attaining skills and knowledge at higher education.
Otherwise, what is keeping the intellectual women from organizing book clubs, starting a podcast, or using their skillset to discuss the state of the world over a glass of wine?
Is it gaming as a hobby that is the problem, or is it gaming to the point where it consumes your life and responsibilities? The latter she can definitely get around just by meeting enough men. Even in STEM, far from everyone has that problem. The former is a lot more difficult given just how popular gaming is these days. While she can go to bars or clubs (lower odds of gamers as they tend to stay home), those are less than ideal for the purpose of looking for an actual relationship. Looking for them at part time jobs and active hobbies is the main other way I can imagine you would filter them out.
That said, if her problem is with gaming as a hobby, maybe she should reconsider her standards. If a man is responsible and takes care of the things he needs to do, then why is it so bad that he spends his downtime gaming? If you need a man who not only has his life well put together, but are also only interested in those whose hobbies are high status, then your dating pool quickly becomes very small.
Communists and the far left tend to believe that people need to be forced to do good things
My experience is the opposite. Communists (the real life activists that is) often have experience with retreats or even small communities in which the participants would organize labor between them, and each person would do their fair share of work. They assume that this could be transferred onto larger society if only the boundaries of class and money were to be removed.
The issue they keep running into is that this communal lifestyle doesn't scale to the size of a modern city. When you no longer know everyone, it is much harder to care about them. Once you stop caring about everyone, it becomes harder to care as much about your duties. Add to that the fear that other people are abusing your work ethic to make bank or live in luxury. You have no way of knowing if someone on disability actually deserves the money. In a small group, you know that resources are given fairly to everyone, because everyone knows each other. A larger system is much easier to cheat, people suspect each other more easily, and thus you end up needing some controls.
Bombadil
17d ago
One might posit that it is not education in general that makes women not want children, but rather what specific lessons they are taught at institutions for higher learning. If I were a social scientist not worried about career suicide, I would look into whether there is a causative relationship between exposure to feminist ideology and not wanting a family. It would certainly make sense that an ideology whose prime thinkers take pride in criticizing motherhood, degrading men, and advising women to sleep around and postpone marriage would result in fewer marriages and children.
Bombadil
17d ago
When were leftists the rebels? Haven't Universities and intellectuals have leaned left since the end of the cold war?
Bombadil
17d ago
Mostly young people who are too concerned about their own circumstances to really care about other people's pronouns. They just want to live and let live, and only struggles with trans stuff insofar as the presentation of the trans person is clearly different from their claimed gender (admittedly happens more than you would think), or if the trans person somehow makes their life worse. Also older leftists, but their stance is obvious.
Bombadil
17d ago
This sounds less like the purpose is to criticize Trump, and more that it is to drink some nice wine, talk about books, and discuss some (in their circle) noncontroversial politics. Just a nice night out for older, well-off leftist intellectuals really.
Bombadil
17d ago
As the world is becoming increasingly fragmented and less globalized, we are currently witnessing the end of tech companies with world-spanning monopolies. It just doesn't make sense to give another country that much leverage over you. Instead, every major economic power will have their own OS provider, their own equivalent to word, their own email hosting service and so on.
Bombadil
17d ago
This might be a matter of social circle. Most people I have met care way more about your presentation than your birth sex. If they get to know you as a woman and believe you are a woman, then the revelation that you are actually trans won't make them suddenly think of you as male. The only exception are anti-trans activists.
Bombadil
18d ago
There tends to at least be some degree of pushback within those circles. Even amongst bodybuilders, being on steroids is not uncontroversial.
Bombadil
18d ago
Related is the "What is a woman?" question. Normally used to dunk on leftists, it can be used in a ship-of-Theseus sense. When have you undergone enough hormonal replacement, voice training, and surgeries to be more female than male?
I know the most hardcore anti-transers will say the only thing that matters is your birth sex. But as you said, the heuristic for most people is just "Does she appear female?" Which lends some credence to the Judith Butler theory that gender is primarily a performance and thus "Am I a man or a woman" is determined by the actor and the audience.
Bombadil
18d ago
I think the main risk is in advertising the lifestyle to others through success and streams. There seems to be a subculture where the ideal body is one you can only achieve through chemical modification, often without the aid of a doctor. Specifically people who don't qualify for gender dysphoria taking estrogen in order to appear more androgynous and attain the ideal femboy physique for longer. It bothers me that this kind of thing seems widely accepted within these spaces, and is not challenged by leftists outside them.
I am of the opinion that violence for the sake of teaching should be reserved for very rare moments, and that making it illegal has largely been good for the education system, as other methods generally get you there without risk of traumatizing the student.
As an occasional lump myself, I have an alternative suggestion: Confiscate anything with access to the internet. Easy, no friction access to mental stimulation really is the culprit here. It doesn't even have to be completely effective. Just making it significantly harder to access the internet should prove effective.
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