ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
16hr ago
Another factor (technically fits under deluge I guess?): widespread access to pornography leading to men seeing lots of dicks which desensitized their natural disgust reaction to another man's dick having sex.
ChickenOverlord
17hr ago
d argue that holding someone against their will for no reason other than you can is wrong
Sure, but law enforcement/prison (usually) isn't a "just because we can" thing. Similar to how many people oppose murdering babies (which, by the way, violates their bodily autonomy) "just because we can". I.e. when "it's inconvenient for my lifestyle and/or the baby will have Down's Syndrome or similar" which accounts for roughly 95% of abortions. I'm personally a pro-life absolutist who opposes it even in danger to the life of the mother type situations (though I've grown into that position over time, I sadly used to be more "moderate" in my support of child murder), but for the modal abortion it's essentially done out of convenience, not necessity.
Any Trump supporters care to steelman this?
I don't like it, and I'm disgusted by it, but he's still a better pick than Kamala or anyone else the Dems have (or theoretically might) put forward as a candidate on any and all issues I care about. So yeah, the Dems are still so awful that Trump can blaspheme Christ and he's still better than the opposition ("Hey Jamie, pull up that clip of God being booed at the DNC").
Trump doesn't support the mass importation of Muslims and Hindus, though he definitely is only doing token opposition to things like H1B visas where it would really make a dent in stopping them. And yet I can't imagine the Dems doing anything other than increasing the amount of Muslims and Indians coming in.
So yeah, Trump is far from perfect, but he still manages to better serve my interests as both a Christian and an American than the opposition.
ChickenOverlord
18hr ago
"My Body" is always my body, morally it is wrong to remove bodily autonomy from a being regardless of the reason.
Do you support abolishing prison? Or law enforcement entirely, since almost all criminal law enforcement requires taking people's bodies and holding them against their will (and threatening them with bodily harm if they don't comply)? I can't think of any moral framework that includes absolute bodily autonomy without resulting in absurd results in all other walks of life. And we're not talking about weird edge cases here, we're talking about normal things a society needs in order to function.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
I mean there's nothing keeping you from making one. WinCo is the biggest one in the US that I'm aware of, and Mondragon in Spain is pretty sizeable too.
However my favorite example of commies deciding they don't like having to share the means of production is when the creators of the game Dead Cells started out as a co-op, but after they hit it big they created a wholly owned (non-co-op) subsidiary to hire all the new developers and other talent they needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Twin
Motion Twin was founded in 2001 as a private limited company in France. In 2004, it became a worker cooperative with equal salary and decision-making power between its members. The name Motion Twin refers to an animation technique, called motion tween, and the red star in the logo was chosen due to its revolutionary connotations.
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In 2019, Motion Twin assisted in the establishment of Evil Empire to take over development and support of Dead Cells, allowing other Motion Twin developers to start on their next project. Evil Empire is run by Steve Filby, Motion Twin's former head of marketing, and is not a cooperative, since the company wanted to scale beyond ten employees. Motion Twin continues to maintain creative control over Evil Empire's work on Dead Cells."
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
Suggest he become a JAG, best of both worlds and his chances of getting KIA are near zero. And I think they'll pay off his law school student loans if he stays with it for a decade or something like that.
Elon musk might have alot of haters, but he has a ton of rabid superfans going to war on the internet trying to squash anything negative about him.
Sam Hyde's Dear Elon video goes into this quite a bit. Right-wingers don't care that he's a weirdo obsessed with electric cars and who has tons of children he doesn't actually raise with a dozen different women. So long as he is willing to side with us on the core issues we care about (like immigration) or at least not be actively hostile against it (like he seems to be with religion), the right is willing to accept and love him, warts and all. It's when he sided with Vivek Ramaswamy's overtly anti-white and anti-American views on immigration that a lot of the love the right was showing for him evaporated overnight.
Personally I've never loved (nor hated) Elon, I've always seen him as a rich, sometimes entertaining weirdo who finally fixed the space industry. But his interests aren't mine, and never have been. When our interests align I'll gladly accept the help, but I will never expect him to be a reliable ally.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
You could have just quoted the lyrics to We Didn't Start the Fire to save yourself some typing.
Law hasn't been a great field for a while either. Source: I'm a law school dropout.
Around the time of the 2008 financial crisis, tons of universities added law schools. They basically bring in the same amount of revenue as medical schools, but with waaaaay less overhead. The legal job market got flooded in the mid 10's. I'm sure supply and demand have normalized a bit since then, but law isn't nearly as surefire a way to be wealthy as it used too be.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Maybe this belongs in the small questions thread, but how does Iran unilaterally restrict access to the strait without Oman's buy-in as well (at least without effectively performing an act of war against Oman)? Also is there anyone here familiar with international maritime law (and preferably not of the sovereign citizen, "how dare you stop me while I travel in my vessel, officer" types) who knows what rules exist (if any) about allowing access to the high seas from territorial waters that are otherwise "trapped" by another country's territorial waters, like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia currently are?
https://preview.redd.it/t8si5jmaw9pg1.jpeg?width=646&auto=webp&s=6f8a203626ed9fda42160a04d358b04f7c528b7d - The text with the white background is the lovely work of the "localizers"
https://i.redd.it/qm0ypm1csz3b1.png - Literalish translation would be "Crap! Why did I have to babble on about some weird fashion theory to a pro model of all people!?"
And over 20 examples are provided in this Twitter thread: https://x.com/BoundingComics/status/1741000080889720927
Also for an example of a localizer doing an amazing job and trying to be true to the source material is the fan translation of Mother 3 (AKA Earthbound 2): https://mother3.fobby.net/ https://youtube.com/watch?v=WjMllYgUOeU
You have to address the arguments made by people, not the person.
It's more than just arguments, it's evidence and what sources they cite. If someone is constantly citing the Weekly World News as their proof that Bat Boy exists (or worse, is straight up lying or making up their own fake evidence), it doesn't matter how good their arguments are for why Bat Boy is real. There have been tons of lies on all sides of the Ukraine war, and I'm extremely skeptical of any of the Youtubers that regularly comment on the war because of the amount of sheer lies many of them have peddled.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Gell-man amnesia everywhere, it seems.
This actually makes me happy to hear, based on some things I had read a few months ago it sounded like translators were struggling to find work. I've already had to deal with subpar LLM translations in some animes etc., and sadly I think companies like Crunchyroll are going to be too cheap to go back to real translators. Though it might be an improvement, given their human localizers's penchant for injecting modern woke politics into their translations.
Edit: typo
More in AI skepticism news: Turns out most AI benchmarks are bullshit!
https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustworthy-benchmarks-cont/
Specifically the following benchmarks are trivially exploitable: SWE-bench, WebArena, OSWorld, GAIA, Terminal-Bench, FieldWorkArena, and CAR-bench.
I don't have too much to add to this, but I'll try. Assuming this paper isn't bullshit itself, it makes you wonder why no one was looking more closely at the results submitted by various AI companies. In one of our other discussions about this recently, someone said:
A team member did a full matrix test on models implementing solutions to multiple problems and then evaluated all implementations with said models. In the experiment, 5.4 was the undefeated and universal victor: 5.4 and 4.6 always preferred 5.4’s solutions.
When I asked if they had manually verified them, they said they hadn't. It seems a lot of the things people claim about AI and its capabilities are "too good to verify", similar to how salacious stories about the other tribe in culture war stories are "too good to verify". It seems to me that a lot of people want to believe that AGI, or the death of software development, or similar things, are right around the corner. As a result, they often believe whatever the claims of sociopaths like Sam Altman, or the weirdos who believe in AGI over at Anthropic, tell them. Including, potentially, the benchmark results we see published with every new release. On the other hand, to be fair, skeptics like me can certainly be quick to believe negative stories about AI. I mean, look at me rushing to post this negative story about it here.
Regardless, I am personally of the opinion that we are near a breaking point regarding AI. I think either the bubble is going to pop and a lot of the things people claimed AI was going to take over aren't going to materialize, or they are an we are in for some major economic disruption. I don't think "AGI" is around the corner in either case though. And certain professions like SEO slop writer, translator, and others are definitely disrupted forever regardless.
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
But it’s a degree of magnitude worse (or maybe two) if my neighbor then deliberately gives the cold shoulder to a Black family that moves in on our block.
Would it still be wrong to give them the cold shoulder if they were blasting loud rap music at all hours, street racing, and selling drugs? If they actually live up to the stereotypes, is it wrong to treat them differently?
Like it's one thing to give the cold shoulder to a black family that, for lack of a better descriptor, acts white. But if they actually match several of the stereotypes then I don't see the issue.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
Full time job is writing boring income tax software, side gig is a different legal compliance industry (but a niche one, so I'd rather not get too specific). What do you do?
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
Starcraft 1 taught me to type. I wanted to coordinate with teammates and trash talk opponents online. Kids growing up with voice chat will never have the incentive to learn.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
thought I was done with gaming hard, until I got a boring hybrid corporate job where I have no hope of advancing due to outsourcing. I get my basic tasks done during the workday, then I game. It’s not perfect but it works for me for now hehe.
Literally me, but I'm 100% remote. Recently took a side gig for more money though so that's cutting into it.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
The General challenged this prima facie discrimination and his reward was that he got canned for it.
Hegseth was just counteracting decades of systemic racism and sexism against white men in the military.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
The funniest part to me is that Bob Dole actually outlived John McCain, even though Dole's age was a major angle of attack when he ran against Clinton in 1996.
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
The thing is, I think a lot of SMEs and domain experts don't realize just how bad things are even without AI.
I do, I've written about it here (and elsewhere) even before AI became a big thing. My grand unifying theory of modern software development is roughly:
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There is greater demand for software than there are competent developers/engineers capable of delivering it
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There are "enough" incompetent software developers to meet the demand
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Companies hire more incompetent devs than competent because there are far more competent than incompetent
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Companies create retarded processes and systems like scrum and agile because carefully managing and babying your incompetent devs is the only way to eke out something functional
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The competent devs get sucked into these shitty processes (because they want/need jobs, and companies are terrible at identifying talent so they get lumped in with theretards), so even they generally aren't making quality software because of the bullshit processes etc. they have to deal with
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
Absolutely, either way I think OP is jumping to judgement prematurely until we know the specifics of the deal
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
Where is the actual 10 point proposal? Or is that being kept confidential while it's still under negotiation?
EDIt:
Assurances of "safe" passage through the strait of Hormuz, but no assurance of "free" passage.
The "COMPLETE" part implies free. If it isn't what actually happens feel free to correct me.
You generally can't remove a baby without violating their bodily autonomy. Most abortions involve essentially blending the baby up and scraping them out.
That's just straight up weird, children have been almost universally considered to be of greater moral worth than adults for all of human history. Even animals are often willing to endanger or sacrifice themselves for the sake of children. Even from an atheistic and evolutionary point of view, ensuring the safety and well-being of children (over that of adults) is essential to the perpetuation of the species. Children are innocent (this was discussed more thoroughly by someone else in this thread), and innocent people have greater moral worth than those who are guilty of wrongdoing (and all adults have done some amount of wrongdoing, some more than others). The same way a serial killer adult has less moral worth than a non-serial killer adult. I don't see any way to see this differently without completely throwing out the idea that morality exists.
Because I'm not a utilitarian? Only utilitarian ethics (and similar deranged branches of ethics) would reach the conclusions you're suggesting. Just because all human life has inherent value but some are more valuable than others doesn't mean any and all measures to save the life of another are mandated. But there is nothing incompatible with this view and the view that we should not take active measures (like abortion) to end an innocent life.
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