ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
It doesn't need to be today, and I hope my death is not one that happens after a prolonged period of illness and lingering, but any sadness would mostly be because I'm leaving behind people that I love and that love me and that my absence in their lives will be painful and/or traumatic.
Along those lines, growing up religious (and still religious) I never really feared death until I got married, and even then only because I fear leaving my wife behind to fend for herself, not because of any fear of my existence ending.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
For me, cryonics is yet another attempt to fill the God-shaped hole in society. You need to learn to accept your mortality; even if cryonics worked freezing yourself wouldn't save you from a bullet or a skydiving accident or anything else.
That said, I'd put your chances at far, far less than 1%. Most cryogenic places have trouble simply avoiding going bankrupt, and even those that stay afloat seem wildly mismanaged and/or incompetent. Best case your head will be frozen to a bunch of tuna cans like Ted Williams.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Sure, happiness is a state of mind, not a state of being. Men in POW camps in war have found tremendous happiness before, to give one example of many. And I am willing to bet that a significant chunk of women in Afghanistan are happier with the Taliban back than they were under US occupation, especially the more devoutly religious muslim women.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
And potentially face prison time for not correctly complying with regulations.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
From the exact same speech:
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Trump said nothing remotely approaching incitement, legally or morally.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
I think what Trump did was worse. The constitution at least mentions electors, and that attempt to steal an election would have been subject to the SCOTUS oversight. By contrast, the constitution is silent about armed goons breaking into the Capitol, and it seems unlikely that the SCOTUS would have been in a position to rule against them without the mob interfering.
What, exactly, did Trump do on J6? I'll give you a hint, he didn't tell his supporters to break into the capitol and riot.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Yes, that's my point. When it was people blaming Christians for the actions of a feminist activist group his response was
I am personally uninterested in the exact ideology behind restrictions on communication between consenting adults. Besides, targeted media is one to which both feminism and Christianity have objections too.
When @ArjinFerman jokingly blamed it on libertarians in response, he wrote a 4 paragraph response trying to clear them of blame on the issue.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Did libertarians (libers) have anything to do with A) payment pricessors coalescing into a handful of entities and B) payment pricessors feeling empowered to block lawful transactions?
Why are you suddenly caring who gets blamed?
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
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.
ChickenOverlord
2mo 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
2mo ago
Middle of nowhere, northern Utah here.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
"W-watch th-this, Aunt Marie. I post the letter N in ch-chat and the rest of chat responds."
ChickenOverlord
2mo 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
3mo ago
If I have to tell it to avoid common footguns then it's faster to just write it myself
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Sure but the chaos would be limited to a single subthread instead of being scattered everywhere
ChickenOverlord
3mo 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
3mo 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
3mo 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
3mo 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
3mo 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
3mo 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.
I never claimed all or even a majority might like it, just a significant chunk. And that chart is only overall life satisfaction, with the male drop being almost as big as the female.
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