DiscourseMagnus
3d ago
Whether you're using geographic or magnetic compass directions, east and west do not cancel each other out that way.
DiscourseMagnus
3d ago
The existence of map projections does not make the Earth flat.
DiscourseMagnus
3d ago
The presence of measurements on distance is an extraneous detail that gets it thinking of it as an instance of the generic question "should I walk or drive SOMEWHERE that's X distance away". And also the real answer is even more obvious than the answer it gives, to the point that it assumes no one would ever actually ask it that.
DiscourseMagnus
3d ago
I think there are two separate cognitive skills involved in correctly answering a trick question like this - both important, but the mix of them can make the results a bit confusing. One is the general intelligence to come up with and understand the right answer. The other is the social intelligence to recognize that you are being asked a trick question, and should round off any confusion you have to that trick question and not to the non-trick-question it's mimicking. It's common for models to give a trick question like this the wrong answer, while noting in their reasoning that the question is trivial as written and they assume whoever wrote it made a mistake.
Note that this second skill, of trick question detection, varies highly among humans as well. It's common for simple trick questions to go viral on social media as a kind of ragebait. And in addition to the throngs of people who fail the first-order IQ test and give the wrong answer, there's often a bizarre number of people who fail a second-order IQ test and somehow miss that the question was deliberately constructed as a trick.
DiscourseMagnus
5d ago
I'm slightly reassured it was only 72 men over 9 years and not, like, a thousand. Suggests the candidate pool is not a vast ocean.
She was in late middle age.
DiscourseMagnus
8d ago
There are definitely a lot of people who use the preferred pronouns of trans people they like and not mass murderers, it's just not a position with intellectual support on either side of the aisle.
DiscourseMagnus
8d ago
I've come to interpret most tightening of laws after a tragedy as being symbolic. The buyback after Port Arthur probably didn't have much effect, but it was expressive. The point was for the government to communicate, "We care, and we are taking this seriously."
Nope. It's so that anytime they want, the government can with maximum ease send men to your house to tie you up, rape your wife, kids, and pets to death in front of you (if you have any), and drag you off to some blacksite to do medical experiments on you for the rest of your days. That's what "monopoly on force" means.
DiscourseMagnus
8d ago
It's unfalsifiable, but the obvious course isn't hiding the suicide, it's reporting it but avoiding romanticizing it directly or giving it more coverage than you'd give a tragic accident. Robin Williams is the classic example of the wrong approach on both counts; it was all over the press with loving tributes endorsing his decision to kill himself.
DiscourseMagnus
8d ago
If you decide that it all traces back to that one forum post, then it makes the chud gamer side looks really bad, which is why the feminist side usually frames it that way.
This is not my impression at all; it seems to me that exactly the opposite of this is true. The feminist side is the one that tries to obfuscate the specifics of the incident and make it a general culture war thing, because the specific incident did look really bad for them, and it pains me to see their opponents buy into that frame.
DiscourseMagnus
8d ago
I suspect a synthesis where women are having less casual sex than a redpiller believes and more casual sex than a normie conservative man believes.
DiscourseMagnus
10d ago
They're in US territory and I don't think we ought to give them up, so they should assimilate. Ideally we would acquire even more territory and make the people there assimilate too.
DiscourseMagnus
10d ago
Ah, my mistake. Half-remembering the story I thought he got citizenship.
DiscourseMagnus
10d ago
White American monoculture is dead; it's split in half along partisan lines and both halves want the other slaughtered and subjugated. I have nothing in common with Bad Bunny but I hardly have more in common with the average Democrat.
He's a very bad American; "American" is not a value judgment. Hillary Clinton, Jay Jones, and Tyler Robinson are all Americans. Roman Polanski is an American and neither resides here nor was born here. Jeffrey Epstein and Charlie Manson were Americans.
DiscourseMagnus
10d ago
Yeah, I have issues with the (lack of) Puerto Rican assimilation, but casually disrespecting it and treating it as a foreign country looks to me like a clear case of Republicans shooting themselves in the foot. I expect that the next time Democrats get a strong trifecta and are looking for ways to lock it in - this could easily be as soon as 2029 - Puerto Rican statehood will be a high priority, and that could easily be the killshot of the Seventh Party System.
DiscourseMagnus
10d ago
Among your broad groups, I'd add a loose grouping of southern Central America and northern South America - Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela - as a region with a lot of crime and social instability, separate from Mexico, but also a lot of US strategic interest.
DiscourseMagnus
10d ago
The one thing missing from this analysis is that it doesn't need to be a fallacy at all (in the context of the unrealistic hypothetical button); for most values of n, the nth percentile of attractiveness woman is more attractive than the nth percentile of attractiveness man.
DiscourseMagnus
11d ago
Unfortunately, Karens who spend far too much time online possess a sort of heckler's veto, in that it's wise to stay abreast of what summons them so you can avoid doing it needlessly or at least be prepared for them when they show up.
DiscourseMagnus
11d ago
Okay, I like J. K. Rowling, I think she was underrated back in the day by Serious Literary People, but I still feel like bringing her up torpedoes your case about more creative artists going further.
DiscourseMagnus
12d ago
Do we know why he has that alias? I feel like the Occam's Razor solution, in the absence of an official explanation, is that he's from the Soviet Muslim tradition of having an Islamic name and an assimilated one for records. Could also be a convert, though, or some form of con artist.
DiscourseMagnus
13d ago
Olde[r] women viscerally hate it when older men date younger women, which has led to the Left broadly being hostile towards age gap relationships.
I'm also quite cynical about this phenomenon, but for what it's worth, I felt a pretty visceral hatred for those relationships myself when I was a younger man.
DiscourseMagnus
13d ago
As an aside, old people have vastly poorer reaction times. Epstein would be in his 70s; gamers in that age range don’t really play shooters anymore, they play MMOs, RPGs, strategy games.
Although "it's someone other than Epstein playing" does weaken the case for him still being alive, it doesn't directly imply that he's not in control of the account. Who's to say, after all, that he didn't have some Gen Alpha girl playing Fortnite right in front of him?
DiscourseMagnus
15d ago
Yeah, that's what it means to be a servant.
I think the original description of the problem failed because I agree that it's a good and normal thing for Trump to demand loyalty from his subordinates. The thing I find unseemly about the cult of personality around Trump is that it seems to demand loyalty from many who are not supposed to be servants of the President. "My President right or wrong" is no approach to being part of an electorate, even if he is on the right partisan side.
DiscourseMagnus
19d ago
Correct, but the one the message you're responding to referenced is real.
Yes, I generally find that "heretofore-unheard-of modern degeneracy" is a bad framework for thinking about this kind of thing, when it would be better to remember the nearly forgotten examples from antiquity, and think of them as regressions. Trans women are equivalently just the modern version of Grugg the castrated male temple prostitute; "multiple systems" are just the modern version of Grugg stalking around the village and gibbering, possessed by fifty demons. These aren't new challenges to the Christian order; they’re reemerging aspects of human nature that Christianity stamped out pretty well.
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