Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
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Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
2mo ago
The critics had the whole season available to review.
And videogame journalists have the whole game to review, but a recurring feature of videogame reviews is that the reviewer obviously played a game with 100 hours of content for about 2 hours and then wrote their assignment.
People are lazy and cut corners in their jobs, c'est le vie.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
6mo ago
Affirmative action means Whitey's oppression is not small, it's negative. Young Earth creationists at least have the valence of time correct!
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
7mo ago
Israel shouldn't lose points for preventing more Israelis from being killed and this making this comparison look bad.
How do you feel about the sentencing for murder being different from the sentencing for conspiracy?
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
7mo ago
Singapore doesn't have the human capital to become Singapore. It succeeds only because it's the one good harbour for 1000 miles on the busiest trade route in the world (and the colonial British built that harbour). "Muh human capital, muh good governance" is a PR stunt by the Singapore People's Action Party to try and make itself look good via narrative control, but it has very little factual basis.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
8mo ago
But it’s absurd to act like regulations and bureaucracy destroy wealth. They sometimes slow down its growth, but mostly they just distribute it.
You're making Bastiat's broken window fallacy.
You see the resistributed money go to the bureaucrats and think "Look, GDP!", but you don't see how that money would have been better used for more GDP in the hands of not-bureaucrats.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
10mo ago
This case, if true, is obviously tragic.
It's the "if" that should make it a scissor statement. It is very difficult to prove "medical murder", and therefore reasonable people may disagree on the implications of this case. The feminists could insist that Letby is a victim of a misogynistic society determined to punish women, and doctors / hospital managers are trying to use her as a scapegoat for systemic failures in the healthcare system. While on the other side...
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...ok maybe that's why there's no toxoplasma around this. What bloc is going to be a loud comment section partisan for "Yes she did kill all those babies"? Misogynists who do want to blame women for everything are a boogieman that don't actually exist, so who is there to fill up the Internet for the prosecution?
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
5d ago
That wouldn’t even be a correct interpretation of MMT
Having a correct interpretation of MMT does not in my experience seem to be a necessary precondition of being an MMTer.
If the government is truly dedicated to putting down a rebellion, then a well regulated militia isn't going to stop them. You might have guns, but military has more guns, and their guns are bigger.
"The government has jet fighters you can't fight them with handguns" is a favoured rhetorical flourish of gun-grabbers anywhere, and it is factually incorrect. AK-47s beat thermonuclear weapons. Because you don't have to kill their army to make occupation untenable, you just have to kill their tax collectors.
I accept that in the post-AGI world this is less clear though, simply because everything is less clear in the post-AGI world. I'm sure the AGI knows that the best way to clear out freedom fighters is with biological weapons, but the government should beware of Principal-Agent problems here: is the government's AGI really trying to help the government put down an insurgency, or is it trying to Kill All Humans?
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
4mo ago
More well-paid white collar jobs in the form of DEI officials.
This only kicks the can down the road, though. Whites can squeeze out one extra generation of PMC jobbing by jobbing specifically as agitators for their own replacement, but when their children come up against a hiring agent thoroughly steeped in the parents' propaganda, there'll be no cushy jobs for John Jr.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
7mo ago
Anyway, why would you ask the professor this easily searchable question - your laptop is right in front of you!
As a smart kid who did ask easily searchable questions even when I already knew the answer: you don't ask your professor questions because you want to know the answer, you ask your professor questions to prove you're engaged and interested so as to improve her opinion of you. As for slowing all the other kids down - sorry classmates, but this is a War Of All Against All, if your learning must suffer so I can get extra credit, then that is a sacrifice I am very willing to make.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
8mo ago
You're omitting a rather large confounding variable here, namely that the people who aren't deterred by cigarette packaging are addicts who have had their neurological pathways chemically remapped in order to be compelled to purchase the product. Not so with "Breaded soy for frying".
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
8mo ago
I think that a motivated lawyer can make the case that it does, and that a partisan judge will convict.
What's objectively reasonable don't come into it.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
8mo ago
You know that the Russian military is trying to wipe out a European ethnic group/nation like, right now?
I didn't know that. Can you elaborate?
Butlerian
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9mo ago
Spandrell fashioned an entire thesis around precisely this question: bioleninism
Butlerian
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10mo ago
Just as plenty of Americans who illegally aided the IRA during the troubles were loyal to the US.
This is oxymoronic. If you violate the policies and laws of the government, you are by definition disloyal.
Butlerian
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10mo ago
Neither is the average grad student, or Indian call center employee, they just mindlessly regurgitate whatever is fed to them by their professors/supervisors.
Yes, but this is an argument for morally valuing useless demographics less, not for morally valuing babies more.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
10mo ago
How do you figure that? In the case of abortion the mother has presumably agreed to the procedure
If you can do an abortion without the father's permission why can't you do it without the mother's permission?
...being the exact train of thought they don't want you to start down.
In the interests of drawing a line to contemporary culture war from the 30 year old news story that Uncle Ted is, I just want to highlight the extent to which reporting on his death is desperately trying to prosecute said culture war by smashing a square peg into a round hole:
His crimes seemed to begin shortly after he was fired from the family business by his brother for posting abusive limericks to a female colleague who had dumped him after two dates.
"Seemed" is doing a tremendous amount of work here. To me it SEEMED like his crimes began when he saw machines tearing up the forest. Who is it exactly, to whom there seemed to be an incel agenda?
Reading that paragraph, the words that reach my eyes are as printed, but the words that I think they're trying to get to reach my prefrontal cortex are
"Doing anything that a women doesn't like makes you a terrorist. All bad people are incels and all incels are bad people. Anyone who complains about globohomo only does so in bad faith because they're sexually frustrated."
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
11mo ago
Some (me) would say the Iraqi one is much more benign because that invasion didn't leave millions of American-Iraqui colonists / anchor-babies there to cause further demographic and political disruption in perpetuity.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
11mo ago
"they are not stupid, so if they are at the bottom it can only be because society has placed them there."
But if you actually prove that they are stupid, then what?
This is MathWizard's point: progressives don't actually disbelieve that the stupid deserve to be at the bottom of the pile, they simply disagree about who are the stupid ones.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
11mo ago
If I have a perfectly good spanner and I try and use it to recalibrate CERN I'm gonna have a bad time. That doesn't mean I should throw my spanner out, it means I should go back to using it as a spanner. The solution to the Peter Principle is to hit the promotions board with a rolled up newspaper, not to institute rolling firings on everyone that could possibly be promoted.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
11mo ago
We can broaden this to a discussion about climate change or even immigration. Sure, there will be issues, but the doomsters on both issues were proven wrong historically.
This proves too much, because it implies that all those 1700s Native Americans whining about Pilgrims stealing their land were just paranoid doomers.
Sometimes, bad shit actually does happen
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
11mo ago
I ask you not to move the goalposts. Nobody was discussing such other requirements here.
Well I certainly was, and given that I wrote the post to which you are responding, I can assure you that the goalposts remain exactly where I first placed them. My point about working in the wagie cubes was intended to refer to the broad class of "activities engaged in grudgingly" rather than the specific class of "activities engaged in out of purely economic necessity". Revealed preferences need not always refer to the revealed preferences of one's employment.
But with that out of the way:
It feels strange for me to be whiteknighting career e-thots, but I still think your reasoning is flawed. Let's say Job A contains upside 1 and downside 2, while Job B contains upside 3 and upside 4. And let's say the magnitudes of the upsides and downsides run 1 > 2 >> 3 > 4. Job 1 has big upsides and big downsides compared to either in Job B, but in both cases the upside exceeds the downside so you do actually want the job (more than unemployment). That you stick with Job A despite REALLY hating downside 2 is testament to the advantage of upside 1, not that you actually, secretly, masochistically enjoy downside 2.
To but some colour to these scenarios: Job A is Instathot, upside 1 is simpbux, downside 2 is "constant thirstposting in her comments", Job B is office worker, upside 3 is mediocre salary bux, and downside 4 is the anomie of regular office work.
In this rubric we see that it is logically possible that Instathots do not in fact appreciate the drool and asparagus emojis they get in their DMs, but they're willing to put up with it to live the high life. Whether they have any moral right to complain about it is another question - they have signed the Faustian Pact and bought themselves tropical holidays with it, it seems therefore petty to whine that the devil will inevitably take his due. But do they like having to hold up their side of the contract? Well, no-one I know has ever enjoyed holding up their side of a contract, so I can believe that they do, in fact, not, and are just in it for the (lots of) money.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
11mo ago
When or if reaction comes, it will have to feel as natural as say, supporting Ukraine.
...which is to say, not natural at all and entirely the product of MSM narrative-craft and bot astroturfing?
Doesn't it?
I mean, obviously the median woman with an Instagram account doesn't need to post Instagram bikini pics to to able to afford bread. But human beings have other requirements, like high-value mates. How do you think (or how does she think) she's going to get one of those without some kind of self-promotion?
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