Bombadil
1mo ago
You need an actual alternative to academia though. Even if a lot of stuff coming out of academia is no longer scientific, it is also still the main source of actual good public knowledge. Corporations also do research, but they keep their results to themselves and don't want to spend money on educating the next generation.
Right wing colleges are surely quite rare, and Ivy league universities still lean left to my knowledge. Left-by-default is the norm as far as I can tell.
Bombadil
1mo ago
You have won a few battles, but all you have done is halt the advance. The woke have simply retreated to more easily defended positions. As long as they control academia and the arts (science AND culture) they will keep coming back and continue to be relevant.
"Woke 1 was crazy" does not mean that wokeness is dead. It simply means that mistakes were made and Woke 2, when it happens, will account for the learnings of the past.
Bombadil
1mo ago
How about a modern James Bond who defeats crime syndicates that are using LLM's to hack people's crypto in order to use the money to fund bioweapons, while having to navigate modern norms regarding sex?
Bombadil
1mo ago
They should have access to fiction that takes place roughly in the current time, and reflects the era we are in. James Bond does not do that. At least litRPG characters are from our current world.
Bombadil
1mo ago
How are LLM's reliable here? They are word predictors not engineers. They have no way of calculating what is and isn't feasible.
Bombadil
1mo ago
In a competition it is certainly a form of cheating, since you are not displaying your own skills. However, you are also not taking credit for someone else's work. Like riding an electric bicycle in Tour de France. You are technically the one crossing the finish line, but you did not do what the competition is supposed to be about.
In academic writing, the goal is to contribute to the literature while adhering to academic standards. Since there is not actually another person behind the text, I don't think it would be plagiarism in that case. Publishing the results of your research faster due to AI is not something I believe would be punished.
Bombadil
1mo ago
That's fair, but also an issue specific to certain journals. I don't think there are any general recommendations surrounding AI assisted writing in academia, as long as the data you give the model isn't sensitive.
The issue is mostly with bachelor and master's students not learning anything when they AI generate answers for their assignments and reports.
Bombadil
1mo ago
Does passing off AI-generated text as your own writing also qualify?
Don't think so. As long as none of it is wrong, the formatting is fine, and it contributes to the literature, then it would probably be fine. Not like there is a way to prove it is AI-generated in that case anyway.
I think AI would be regarded as a tool here. Like, you don't have to cite your calculator when solving equations either.
Bombadil
1mo ago
That seems like moving the goalpost. If I can live comfortably, have high quality (though meat-free) food, and not have to work then that is post scarcity. Vegetarian or not.
This thing is not that useful to me. The citizen has no reason to believe a datacenter will impact his community positively. The dispute is not that the things won't be useful to the owner or shareholders. The issue is that it won't be useful to those asked to sacrifice for it.
Bombadil
1mo ago
People living in a city should get a say over what is build in the city though. Data centers impact the environment, housing prices, and electricity availability. These are all issues that markets and investors do not care about, but locals do. And I don't see why the concerns of investors should be more important than the concerns of the people whose lives they will impact.
Bombadil
1mo ago
If we can reach post-scarcity by becoming vegetarian, then I am more than willing to make that sacrifice. That seems way better than trusting the people arguing for LLM's.
I think the problem is that his comment is really doing two things. @faceh is trying to make a point about how social norms and messaging affect men - MeToo and the articles he linked are illustrative examples of this - but is asking for examples of concrete pro-natal policies. Explicitly pro-natal policies are rare and thus hard to list. I can only really think of subsidized fertility treatments and government support for families with children. I think this serves to dilute the argument about culture and rules regarding relationships, sex, and dating.
If we expand our list to include these rules, I think there are actually many policies that could be reasonably argued as pro-natal that restrict in order to protect women. They are just not branded as such. For example child support, alimony, and intimate partner violence laws are all policies that disproportionately restrict men. These all affect the incentives for women to get into long-term relationships and have kids. Meanwhile, I truly am hard-pressed to think of policies that are explicitly aimed at making relationships and children look like a better choice for men.
One wonders how one could advocate for workers' rights and treating employees fairly, and yet also support the importation of a workforce to be exploited by employers for the sole purpose of reducing costs.
Traditionally, I believe communists were against mass immigration for this very reason. By all means spread the revolution to the rest of the world, but do not import cheap labor as it only benefits the business owners. Supporting immigration is a relatively new thing, and one that is mostly rooted in the belief that rich countries have a duty to help poor people, whereever they may be. It is the drowning child thought experiment brought to its logical conclusion. If someone is suffering and we can do something to help, it becomes a moral duty. If it requires sacrifice then so be it. Especially when people are literally drowning trying to reach our shores.
Bombadil
1mo ago
This could potentially mark the beginning of the end of the freedom of movement between EU countries. Right wing politicians are already pouncing on this, and no one wants to spend resources on welfare programs for people who didn't earn it. Even the left struggles with justifying this, with their main fallback being that the immigrants will start contributing more than they consume eventually. A way of thinking that can be true, but has been proven wrong enough times that it has lost much of its power.
Bombadil
1mo ago
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.
Bombadil
1mo 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
1mo 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
1mo 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
1mo 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
2mo ago
Maybe political activism? Demonstrations and activist orgs seem to attract a lot of women.
Bombadil
2mo 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.
The press and special interest groups do not produce the data themself though. They rely on others to do so, and are very much biased. You need primary sources for that ecosystem to work.
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