Speaking of: Singapore's govt dating app runs on Gale-Shapeley
Another demonstration of the incompetence of governments who also "want" to address the dating crisis but avoid this obvious solution.
Brainwavez
1d ago
I thought the problem is sexual incompatibility: realizing your partner doesn't turn you on or has a different sex drive.
Brainwavez
1d ago
What are the signs?
Besides obvious cues, the biggest tell is simply that men tend to depict both men and women like stereotypical men (e.g. stoic and rational) or women like children, i.e. struggle to imagine thinking like a women, and focus on masculine interests like logical systems while ignoring feminine interests like dress...while women do the opposite. I think that women's writing tends to sound more passive and/or casual, men's more direct and/or profound, and men tend to draw more geometric or skeuomorphic...but I don't know if that's accurate or my shallow intuition.
Brainwavez
1d ago
I think it is not healthy to view the relationship between men and women as adversarial by necessity, but in modern world it was forced to be
I have the opposite conclusion: I think the modern world allows men and women to cooperate and be more equal than before. If all woman became sluts today, we would not necessarily have many unwanted pregnancies, thanks to birth control. In fighting and general life, strength matters less than preparation and intelligence, which may soon matter less due to AI. We can work less, and physical jobs are doable by women even without robotics, just power tools.
My mindset is basically: women are emotional, horny, and stupid...but so are men; and in other ways, we're reasonable, smart, and wonderful (i.e. mesmerizing). Women are (statistically) flawed in ways that men aren't, but men are flawed in other ways; neither sex is better by any objective metric, even in stoicism and empathy, there are sub-qualities where women and men have different advantages. And don't forget that really not all women adhere to any "feminine" personality trait (or men "masculine"): ~10% of either sex are gay, I doubt you can find any other mental trait with a lower deviation, and some people have so many deviations they may be better understood as a man's brain in a woman's body or vice versa.
Case in point for how similar woman and men are: from their writing, art, etc. you may guess right well over 50%, but it's impossible to reliably infer someone's sex. Multiple famous novelists and mangakas have been women who wrote under men's names, and anecdotally, I've heard multiple women surprised that their favorite fanfiction's author is male.
Brainwavez
2d ago
A book series can have infinite AI written sequels, a TV show can have infinitely more episodes, a game can have infinitely more levels, an album infinite songs. Some of these, just by happenstance, will actually be good. I think one of the cultural tools we will need to develop is the discernment to decide what versions and what parts of a given series are actually good, and which can be safely discarded. Completionism will be impossible in the future.
Like the Tower of Babel and existing overly-long fiction like Xianxia, when an AI-generated work is 99% slop and 1% gold, I think people will discard it, and the gold will be sought by few if it's even discovered. There are plenty of great works of art that already exist, like this 2000s game, so there's no reason to see new ones unless they bring something new, which AI struggles with.
Brainwavez
2d ago
Brainwavez
2d ago
Do you think it's a reasonable request to be made to average single men or women to upend their entire lives just to supposedly increase their personal chances of finding a suitable partner?
Honestly? Yes, because that’s probably not their only tension with their local community, and the alternatives (changing the rest of the community for your niche, or resigning to loneliness) are more unreasonable.
We should normalize people intentionally moving to regions with like-minded individuals. It would reduce tension and restore community, desperately needed in this era. Already, moving once or twice in a lifetime, like leaving for college then working somewhere else, is fairly typical and not hard for most people, especially with fast travel and instant long-distance communication. Moving more shouldn’t be necessary.
Federalism (center) - 90%
I believe in federation (like the fediverse): my ideal government is groups organized into hierarchies that mostly regulate themselves and have loosely democratically elected representatives (in this way, like Yud’s dath ilan. In more detail: the representatives are for cross-group conflicts, and the people in the lowest groups and representatives in higher groups act like small neighborhoods, so it’s at least “loosely” democratic in that any individual can significantly affect their group’s policy and representative, like how any individual can significantly affect their small town).
But I also believe in states’ (and towns’) rights, at least to the extent that people can leave (so no slavery, but if a community wants to be racist and exclusionary, I think they should be left alone). I think some “central” entity is useful, but I don’t like strong centralization. Does that go against federalism?
Furthest from you
- Pol Pot
- Joseph Stalin
- Joseph Goebbels
Well, that’s a relief.
Brainwavez
3d ago
People (especially journalists) jump to conclusions. I suspect these guys looked very suspicious, maybe the UK was surveilling them, but ultimately are petty criminals who are now being treated like unsuspicious petty criminals.
Brainwavez
4d ago
Your firmware needs hardware to run, and only feels pain while it's running; even if we could make a perfect scan of your brain, it wouldn't actually continue to feel anything unless it could be reinstantiated on some hardware again.
You'd probably need several orders of magnitude less than an octillion cards, whereas our brains still have to get into the octillion-particle range before they're complex enough to start chatting about pain, but on the other hand our brains can register pain in a fraction of a second whereas the cards would probably take hours to weeks depending on the interconnect speed and the players.
What is your definition of pain?
Do people in movies feel pain when the movie is played, or once when it’s created? Do simulated people in thoughts feel pain? Do people in hypothetical movies and scenarios one could think of, and maybe do subconsciously or in forgotten dreams, feel pain? What happens when the substrate becomes more or less realistic (e.g. movie with emotive shapes -> movie with people -> game with simple decision tree -> game with simple LLM -> game with realistic LLM).
And how would we determine that a non-person, non-LLM feels pain?
Brainwavez
5d ago
This website theorizes he may have been betrayed: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-death-stalin-180965119/
Otherwise, his servants merely stood by, too scared to intervene, when he had a stroke. Although it may not have helped if they did, because he gulaged the useful doctors, including the one who suggested he rest more.
Brainwavez
5d ago
She is an actor, pretending in real life, even if her pretend self is her real self. It’s a continuous performance - a continuous grift, except it’s no longer really a grift, because now you’re getting what’s on the tin, a documentary about a pathological con woman.
I interpret "bottom 10%" as being unable to follow obvious rules like no assault or theft (without a reasonable excuse like self-defense or genuine need), especially breaking the same rule multiple times, with strong evidence. Maybe this isn't actually 10% or what the parent implied, but it's my criteria for facing the real law, like "hard paternalism".
I'm sympathetic even to these people, and feel bad arguing for their harm. But society must do something or (there's overwhelming evidence) more people will suffer. And the only way I can imagine myself in their shoes is after brain damage that would make present me want to restrain future me ahead of time (similar to how I may prefer euthanasia over decades of dementia).
How do you live differently under hard paternalism?
Some way to ensure you can't assault or steal from innocents. You could live in a confined area with others guilty of your crime (i.e. ghetto - I try not to hide under euphemisms), a confined apartment (i.e. cell, where you can be alone or with friends), or walk among official civilization with restraints that prevent your crime.
How do you qualify to leave the bottom 10%?
If you can convincingly demonstrate that something has changed so that you'll no longer assault or steal. e.g. spending enough time not attempting to, even under pressure, especially if restrictions can temporarily be kept but moved out of your perception.
Brainwavez
6d ago
The problem is such AI is already misaligned, and (if ASI) will find a way to accomplish its goal without triggering the collar, unless it or a stronger ASI built it.
That chart shows 15% of women and 13% of men know the least common opposite sex's word, and I bet of that minority, a sizeable number know the other words.
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