ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
18d ago
The same could be said of the Allies... it was Great Britain and France who declared war on Germany and demanded unconditional surrender.
Why did they declare war on Germany? Was it just out of the blue, or was there a specific reason for it?
ChickenOverlord
19d ago
Middle of nowhere, northern Utah here.
ChickenOverlord
20d ago
"W-watch th-this, Aunt Marie. I post the letter N in ch-chat and the rest of chat responds."
ChickenOverlord
22d ago
As far as I understand that tape is fake and/or it's not Fuentes in the video. Even the geniuses at Kiwi Farms (who never let a salacious accusation go to waste) don't seem to think it's real.
And just for transparency reasons, my opinion of Fuentes any time he comes up amounts to roughly "Who gives a shit?"
Also polling was done recently and 6% of those polled had a favorable opinion of Fuentes, 33% had a negative view of him, and I presume the rest had no clue who he was: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bj9_tUbMG1yCnME1rc7ggQF7qt8mmxetIfD7bQL167w/htmlview#gid=0
And, confirming my stereotypes for the median white nationalist, Fuentes has highest favorability amongst young black and hispanic men.
ChickenOverlord
23d ago
If I have to tell it to avoid common footguns then it's faster to just write it myself
ChickenOverlord
29d ago
Sure but the chaos would be limited to a single subthread instead of being scattered everywhere
ChickenOverlord
29d ago
Probably something from Oracle
Nonsense, academics have to walk on eggshells when publishing on topics related to things like biological sex and gender identity, race, and many more topics lest they face consequences to their careers.
An example that comes to mind that I read a few years ago (and will try to dig up) was an economics paper that worked together with a utility company in some third world shithole. The research in question: whether cutting off water to non-paying customers would result in more payments to the utility company, resulting in the utility company being able to invest in their infrastructure and provide more and better water service overall, leading to fewer people being without water service overall than a system that treats water access as a "human right".
The research reached the obvious conclusion that anyone who has taken econ 101 would have expected, and the researchers didn't lie about this, but they couched everything they said in tons of trigger-warning type language to avoid conflict. It absolutely had an effect on the strength of their conclusions, how strong of a stance they were willing to take, etc.
Edit: Turns out it was Kenya. Found the paper with its milquetoast conclusions that any econ 101 student could have told you - https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w27569/w27569.pdf
And here's one (of many) articles from the "water access is a human right" faction going after the paper and its authors: https://developingeconomics.org/2023/12/11/when-economists-shut-off-your-water/
ChickenOverlord
29d ago
Sure, but compared to other research (especially medical research trying to do double blind studies with human patients) the cost of doing math research is significantly smaller.
ChickenOverlord
29d ago
Tao isn't the best example to defend academia because 1) he'll be fine (allegedly his funding was partially restored, but moreover he and his students have plenty of potential sponsors), and 2) his field doesn't have obvious, real-life impact.
Also, what kind of serious funding does a theoretical mathematician actually need? I could see the need for licenses for certain software like MatLab etc., and the need to rent time on supercomputers, and the need to buy research papers, books, etc. But all of those (except maybe supercomputer time) are things universities are already paying for so the marginal added cost of supporting Tao's research is going to be minimal. The biggest expense is going to be the salaries of Tao and his team.
But how many companies can directly turn voice synth into revenue?
Not directly, but I've started seeing (or rather hearing) tons of ads that use AI to generate the voice work for the commercial, so that's probably huge savings over hiring a voice actor and booking recording studio time. My favorite is when I hear a voice regularly used for memes being used for ads (I heard this voice in a radio ad about dealing with depression and just busted up laughing):
https://old.reddit.com/r/creepcast/comments/1gg2cjh/try_not_to_get_scared_scariest_stories/
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
I don't think it's a kickback thing. I work at a megacorp (over 10k employees worldwide) and the focus on AI came all the way from the C suite
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
Personal anecdote, we had an order from the higher ups that we must use LLMs, and that they will be tracking how often we use them. I asked Windsurf (which they provided me with a license for) and it generated C# code with the following issues (amongst many others):
- It wrapped all uses of HttpClient in a using block. Despite HttpClient implementing IDisposable, you aren't actually supposed to dispose it because this will lead to socket exhaustion when under load
- All DB queries it generated were called synchronously. Similarly to the socket exhaustion issue above, this will lead to thread exhaustion (and generally lower capacity for simultaneous connections, throughput, etc.). On the bright side, at least it parameterized them all.
I started generating crap to please whatever tracking mechanisms they are using, but have completely ignored the output.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
"Are the children wrong?" is not on par with "Listen up, you dumb motherfucker" in terms of rudeness.
Sure, but I was quoting a well-known 4chan copypasta, not actually calling the poster I was replying to that.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
For whatever it's worth, I think both your example comments are wrong and retarded (and I even replied to one of them with a 4chan copypasta effectively saying as much) but I didn't downvote either of them. The reason being that downvotes (and upvotes) are for narcissistic ninnies who care way too much about imaginary internet points.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
In fact, Frank Sinatra was once charged with seduction for promising to marry a woman if she slept with him then backing out. Turns out the woman he banged was already married but didn't tell police (or him) that so the charges got dropped, but it led to his famous mugshot. This all happened in 1938, when Sinatra was 23, so it's interesting to see it predate the sexual revolution by so many decades.
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/celebrity-mugshots/frank-sinatra/
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
A post ban edit 5 days after you got banned? Must have really struck a nerve
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
The median American doesn't need to fight though, only a small percentage does. The same was true in Afghanistan, Syria, and in any other guerilla conflict you can think of. In fact the "3%ers" (who I assume are mostly glowies) are named after the supposedly only 3% of colonial Americans that fought in the Revolution.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
America has a ton of motivated political irregulars of many political stripes, and loads of impractical terrain not far from farmland.
Also the I-70, I-80, and I-90 freeways run through some very mountainous territory full of some of the most conservative groups of Americans. Rebels in the mountain west could literally cut the northern part of America in half. All interstate transit would have to be on the I-10 and I-40 through Arizona.
More broadly, I think that the idea to use guns to keep the government in check was fine in 1800 but today is just laughable.
You're making me break out the old /k/ copypasta (how do I make the quote one continuous block I don't know how to internet):
Listen, you fantastically retarded motherfucker. I'm going to try and explain this so you can understand it.
You cannot control an entire country and its people with tanks, jets, battleships and drones or any of these things that you so stupidly believe trumps citizen ownership of firearms.
A fighter jet, tank, drone, battleship or whatever cannot stand on street corners. And enforce "no assembly" edicts. A fighter jet cannot kick down your door at 3AM and search your house for contraband.
None of these things can maintain the needed police state to completely subjugate and enslave the people of a nation. Those weapons are for decimating, flattening and glassing large areas and many people at once and fighting other state militaries. The government does not want to kill all of its people and blow up its own infrastructure. These are the very things they need to be tyrannical assholes in the first place. If they decided to turn everything outside of Washington D.C. into glowing green glass they would be the absolute rulers of a big, worthless, radioactive pile of shit.
Police are needed to maintain a police state, boots on the ground. And no matter how many police you have on the ground they will always be vastly outnumbered by civilians which is why in a police state it is vital that your police have automatic weapons while the people have nothing but their limp dicks.
BUT when every random pedestrian could have a Glock in their waistband and every random homeowner an AR-15 all of that goes out the fucking window because now the police are out numbered and face the reality of bullets coming back at them.
If you want living examples of this look at every insurgency the the U.S. military has tried to destroy. They're all still kicking with nothing but AK-47s, pick up trucks and improvised explosives because these big scary military monsters you keep alluding to are all but fucking useless for dealing with them.
Dumb. Fuck.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
Summary execution for not picking up your dog's shit, for not returning your shopping cart, and for dropping gum on the ground (or sticking it under a table, etc.). All of society's other problems would self-correct quickly after I implemented these rules.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
though not easy to follow unless the plausible threat of eternal damnation is attached
Or the threat of shotgun weddings.
ChickenOverlord
1mo ago
It's a reference to this meme (apologies for the iFunny link it was the fastest version I was able to find):
https://img.ifunny.co/images/1fc743a3a8bc67f6f16403b2ef05ae1634dc672725db781e5738c8b384845f0d_1.jpg
I've never pretended the Brits didn't have their own ulterior motives (and their meddling in Greece towards the end of the war is ample proof of that) but there didn't need to be negotiations to prevent the war. Germany could have just, y'know, not invaded.
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