DBDr
2yr ago
Those experts weren't experts then.
AI is a while from generating novel texts and scripts and such (don't ask me how long though); but it is about 15 minutes from getting fed a couple hundred hours of footage and being able convincingly replicate a specific human saying whatever the fuck you want them to say.
DBDr
2yr ago
As I read more and more philosophy, I see more and more that "There is nothing new under the sun" (ecleiseiathies, or however the fuck you spell it).
Nietzche was as right then as he is now. "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."
People leave out the most important part of the quote, though: "How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?"
The service religion provided to people and societies in the past is no longer available to fully industrialized, scientifically advanced western style societies. If you want the binding moral force of religion back, you gotta give up all that other bullshit and live on a pillar in the desert.
DBDr
2yr ago
No, the muscle chickens can be good!
They obviously aren't as good in slow cook/stew situations, but as bulk protein they are excellent.
Again, it is pure choice. We could marinate this chicken in something acidic with salt aromatics/spices to encourage flavor penetration from aromatics and improve texture and flavor at a cost of basically free at scale because we use those same ingredients in the coating before frying and we need to wash and dry the chicken anyways before breading, or we could make it bad because we don't actually give a shit and want you to suffer.
DBDr
2yr ago
As soon as we get withing sight of being good at one narrow section, they invent some new contrivance we all have to learn; despite the fact that all languages are just C or lisp. NO, I will not be taking any questions
DBDr
2yr ago
Nice.
Yeah, Us here in the USA aren't seeing much compared to how it around the world. Hooray for hegemonic dominance!
It's too bad our food is so bad though. I really don't get it. We have all the ingredients to make good shit, we just choose not to. To pick an example: I did maintenance and installations for grocery store food service equipment for a while, and it's all top quality steam injected ovens. The dudes that work in the bakeries are sometimes Simpsons squeaky voice teen but usually are at least kinda interested in making something food like.
Flour is flour, salt is salt, yeast is not yeast but even the boggest standardest breadmachine conditioned yeast can make something good.
I can only conclude that it is bad on purpose.
DBDr
2yr ago
This is pure anecdote; but the main problem I've seen for working class types during my time in Europe was rent and durable goods.
Every other thing is cheaper and of much higher quality than what is available in the US. Eg, a loaf of bread in Parris is .79 cents; the same loaf of bread in the US is either 4.99 or can't be bought at all; eat this dogfood instead.
This seems to be across the board for food, cloths, services, the whole shebang.
On the other hand, Europeans seem to make less money.
On the other other hand, Ya'll work a LOT less, like a lot a lot less.
On the final hand, once you get above US 70k purchasing power equivalence, ya'll seem to pay quite a bit more in taxes.
I'd like to see a breakdown of what the actual differences on the ground are instead of the theoretical economics of it, but I don't trust any of the breakdowns I've seen. Either conservative "European mothers eat every second child to prevent starvation" or librul "Non gmo locally produced by women owned businesses Milk and honey rain from the sky twice a day and three times on weekends."
DBDr
2yr ago
Yup.
Unpredictability is the actual risk from climate change to mass agg; at least in the USA.
In coastal Socal this year we had a very long cool spring so my eggplant is just now setting flowers; and if it doesn't set fruit before it swings to full summer I'm gonna have to build enclosures for shade cloth and all sorts of other silly bullshit.
DBDr
2yr ago
Depends how broad you are being.
Definitionally, we all contribute the greater culture; but in this context I would say an audience is required and specifically that that audience influence what culture is produced in the future.
Eg, GRRM? Producing Culture. Christopher Rowley? Not producing culture. Osamu Tezuka? Culture. Deen? No culture.
DBDr
2yr ago
I am playing with max debuffs here, what with being an introverted autistic shaved gorilla, and all I can say is:
Anybody at any sort of event for anything that isn't normie as fuck has something interesting to say and will say it at length if you give them .2 of a chance.
DBDr
2yr ago
Disagree again then.
If the most interesting thing about you is a 'sales plan', you aren't interesting. Most work is brain dead easy because most people aren't in the top percent, by definition. There is usually nothing there of interest or of value; unless you are in the arts or the sciences. I'd much rather talk about something other than the rote and routine drudgery people have to do to not die. Almost anything other than that, really.
DBDr
2yr ago
Maybe it's my area but flaunting status would be buying a big dumb mcmansion or a Maserati or something. Nobody gives a shit about my nerdy obsession with Shostakovich and how he is the best modern composer and fuck the haters.
This is socal though, where your either buy your 700000 dollar luxury truck in cash or live on the street with no in-between.
DBDr
2yr ago
Disagree there.
There are vanishingly few producers of culture in the world; and many many hobbyists. If you are after that set you better be lucky or good.
DBDr
2yr ago
Nah dude, I was old as fuck when I got my degree (at least in comparison) and I know what I like, and that is gems and the institutes thereof and steam engines and classical music. The people around don't need my help in terms of money, they all have theirs; and when they need something heavy lifted or a pipe soldered or a some such they know who to call.
You gotta be less cynical! They good life really can be good, and money absolutely buys happiness 1:1. If it doesn't, you need to spend it on different shit.
DBDr
2yr ago
I don't know, dude. I always liked them things and I never give a shit about status, autist that I am.
I just think that low culture is the equivalent of jangling_keys_10hrs.wav.
It's fine for what it is, and I like to watch the keys jangle sometimes too. That said, when it's the upper limit of what you can appreciate it probably says something about your IQ.
(this isn't helped by 'good' low culture getting appropriated up the status ladder. Lots of literati types going out to see Billy strings or Chris Thile do old fashion country; +-0 shelling out to watch NASCAR)
DBDr
2yr ago
Middle class is upper class now! Inflation, donchaknow.
Basically, I mean the type of people you meet at the event for the opening of a new exhibit at the museum of steam engines and early mechanized agricultural engineering, which is sick as fuck.
DBDr
2yr ago
After recently becoming rich (read: middle class in socal), I've started doing more rich people things; eg I'm a member of a couple museums I like near me, the gemological institute, and I bought a membership and season tickets to my local orchestra. Hence, I've been going to more soirees, concerts, events and such and have developed some feelings.
Re: Some types of 'cultural' activities are just better than other types. I know, I know, taste and what have you. That said: if the only thing that you do outside of work and buy shit is watch sports, I am tired as fuck of you. Even if I disagree with 80% of the people here on 90% of reality, at least your fucking here! That already give you a bunch of points or interest.
Everyone I meet at these highfalutin type situations likes dumb garbage prole entertainment. They watch sitcoms or NFL or MMA or whatever. The problem seems to be when that is the ONLY thing you consume.
Secondly: Man I love having a social circle that includes some cultural elites. A lot of dudes I used to be around in trade actually had more money than these people, but they spent it on eg a bigger truck or cloths or shitty furniture that is still expensive for some reason or vacations to Cabo or Acapulco. I know that finding these things to be fucking lame as fuck and boring makes me an elitist piece of shit but fuck man. Acapulco? You're gonna spend 10k for 7 days in a shitty hotel?
Basically, I am devastated but unsurprised to find that the better half actually do live better.
Also I got the subject of my most recent ban in the mail and it is fucking beautiful; a heavily used Stanley no. 8 type 9 jointer from 1900ish in nearly mint condition somehow; many carful owners. It is now my precious son and lives on a special shelf so I can admire it from my computer.
DBDr
2yr ago
Seems fucking stupid to me, a god damn socialist.
Nate was, of course, a LIBERAL (spits, makes sign of the cross) and had some takes I thought were pretty dumb, but he is the guy at 538. It's just him. The whole point was that his models beat random chance and beat the average at doing something purely empirical: using poles to predict outcomes. Why bother even having the outfit at that point?
Also, why bother sending a letter at all? Pointlessly demonstrative. If I wanted to punish Rasmussen from Morris's position, I'd just make consistent noise about "Rasmussen is so biased we actually give them negative weight in out model" or some shit.
I have the journals, and productivity is the same on average; ignoring years where it is +-0.
I use solely traditional methods of fertilization and so I can rule out productivity increases from technology (excepting market access to things like cheap fish emulsion, rock phosphate, etc.) and things seem about the same across the board.
That said, productivity increase from non-heirloom crossbreeds (especially in stone fruit where the difference is MASSIVE) make it hard to know for sure in some areas.
If I solely grew for yield and not for pleasure (because it is a hobby for me), I could be seeing much higher yields even staying organic by choosing more hybridized plants and using some GMOs.
EDIT: Complete failures in the past where usually due to conditions that just didn't exist in my growing zones until recently. EG; the zone 13 farm is seeing the first drought in 3600 years at least. Nobody alive or their parents or their parents or their parents or their parents or their parents back to the conquiesta has recorded weather like we are seeing now.
It still isn't catastrophic because modern irrigation tech; but its defo not good. Lotta cows getting slaughtered early.
DBDr
2yr ago
ANNECDOTE TIME!
As someone who has actually done it; it certainly effected my crops negatively in zones 9 and 13 (beans, avocados, stone fruit, nightshades, corn, rice, etc etc)
Corn has done fine every year; but everything else has had complete failures a couple times due to the seasons becoming unreliable. I've had killing frosts as late as april; when I look at the journals people had before they never went past late feb/early may.
I've also had complete failures of stone fruit due to temps swinging between 60-90 degrees in a couple days; which again was never reported in any of the journals going back 60-80 years.
Also, I've had failures of some squashes and such because the pollinators either swarmed early or late due to the seasons starting early or late; which is annoying as fuck.
Basically; my growing seasons are still perfect but the timing has became unreliable; which sometimes leads to completely unavoidable unpredictable total failures.
You can't put up frost cloth when you have no warning it's gonna sudenly drop below 40 after a 72 degree day.
DBDr
2yr ago
This view is irrational. You are treating your tribal positions as the default.
Until recently, AA with the majority opinion. As in, more than 50% of all people said "yes, good". It is therefore rational in a democracy to implement it. The republicans didn't even give much of a shit about AA because their donor class still could (and still can) just buy seats at whatever table they want.
That is changing now; but only over the last 4-6 years, long after conservative obstructionism hit full swing.
Conservatives deciding to make governance impossible against all norms wasn't some sort of principled stand against the bugbear of AA; it was a realpolitik move to consolidate power.
When team R does X and it works, you can't be surprised when team D does X right back.
DBDr
2yr ago
Your causal arrows are backwards. Watching Obama get cucked over and over by the legislature (even when he had a majority!) managed to finally penetrate the thick ridge of bone the average congress critter uses to protect the part of their brain that turns sense data into long term memory.
I think the trauma of loosing two seats on the unelected unaccountable high priest council finally traumatized regular dems into realizing that the reps aren't playing the same game as them.
DBDr
2yr ago
No. It used to be that you got punished for violating norms by getting banned from the club; having to cry alone in your mansion instead of drinking cocktails at the gala style thing.
That boat sailed with Grover and Gingrich and finally Mcconnell proving positively that norms aren't real and rules that require a majority vote are just loyalty checks.
Just like conservatives are picking up some lib tactics in the culture war; libs are finally waking up to the fact that political compromise is fucking stupid and you can just lie to your opponents and it will never actually come back to you.
That twitterism is forever true: You gotta Get the Bag.
Once you have the Bag, you can start worrying about other shit; but you don't owe dick to shit unless you have at least a bit of bag to your name.
It only feels like a problem to me once you have The Bag and keep trying to get more Bag.
It's reverse social contract theory; and it's why I feel more sympathy to shoplifters and gang bangers then financial criminals and patent trolls: If you don't have security and safety, why the fuck should you abide by all the restrictions of society? What have they done for you lately?
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