FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
For a counter example; the accusation of the IDF blowing up that school in Iran. Not a blood libel, just a plain old accusation of atrocities.
It was unsettling to watch California governor Gavin Newsom on Monday spouting off a rejiggered blood libel this week, and not simply because Democrats have mostly succumbed to a fashionable Jew hate.
The term Blood Libel is used constantly in the Pro-Israel press to refer to anything that anyone accuses the Jews of having done wrong. Accusations of Antisemitism have become the new thought terminating cliche.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
it's not trolling, but rather their genuine belief,
distinction without a difference. Having strong half-informed opinions and arguing about them is fun.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
I don't like that we're describing every accusation as a blood libel now. I'm not a fan of creeping woke rhetorical norms.
The doctor above objected that while they had seen cases of dogs anally penetrating humans, it was always consensual. This is an absurd assertion: the dog has no concept of consent.
I remain blissfully ignorant on the practicality of this entire episode.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
The answer: because it's fun.
Empirically, shitposting is proven to be one of life's great joys. The richest man in the world and the most powerful man in the world have both purchased their own social media networks specifically to feed their massive shitposting habit. Kevin Durant is an all time great basketball player, the night after the USA beat Serbia he was an olympic medalist, immensely rich, in Paris with thousands of other super hot athletes, and what did he choose to do that night, exhausted from his effort on the floor? Shitpost on Twitter.
People who can do anything they want still choose shitposting on twitter all night.
Having half-informed opinions about things is one of the great joys of life. Whether you're in a dive bar in Reading, PA; you're a weirdo autist on themotte, or you're on your iphone on your private jet.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
I love the argument that dogs have sex with humans, yes, but they can't rape humans because they have an instinctual understanding of the Oberlin model of consent.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
The AI investment boom is not based on fundamentals or on logical projections of existing technologies, there is an irreducible element of immanentizing the eschaton that underlies the story here.
Some portion of those working in AI believe in some form of the Singularity built around building the first AGI. This can range from "whichever company invents AGI first wins" to "fully automated everything" to a full on Singularity where technological progress goes vertical. Motivations range from the pseudo altruistic "We, the responsible and noble and freedom loving, must achieve AGI before They, the evil and oppressive and cruel, achieve it first" to the desire to become an all powerful feudal lord empowered by their newly created machine god. This doesn't matter to the analysis, the common aspect is the belief that after AGI is achieved, things like capital allocation and debt ratios won't matter.
They're not analyzing this along the lines of "based on our current services on offer and revenues this might be too much capital..." They're analyzing it along the lines of "what gets us closer to AGI before anyone else."
See, I can listen to something at increased speed and get the gist of what is being discussed, I just don't believe that one can listen to something at an increased playback speed and not lose some ability to reflect on and construct the meaning of the content in the process. I don't think this process is compromise free. Could I listen to the Iliad at 5x speed and comprehend the words? Sure. But I wouldn't want to because when I listen to the Iliad being read to me I want to reflect on the meaning, to experience it, to enjoy it. I guess my question for people is if you find the content so light on meaning that you have to listen to it at 5x not to get bored, why not find better content to listen to?
But anyway I was thinking about your point about video games when i was playing WoW, the only real video gaming I've ever done, and it's the same game revived 20 years later. And for some reason, there's an overabundance of Healers in all the dungeons. Used to be, tanks were easy to find, but Healers were hard to find. Tank is the masculine active dominant role in the group, the protector, the leader. Healer is the feminine, submissive, supportive role, the passenger princess. Tank means making all the decisions for the group, leading from the front, pulling, telling everyone what to do, telling the mage to slow down so they don't pull aggro. Healer means hanging around in the back, if the group goes well you barely have much to do, at most you tap out and tell everyone to slow down you can't handle that much.
20 years ago everyone wanted to tank and no one wanted to heal, so guys would get their GFs to start playing so they could find a healer. Now the queue is full of healers, and no tanks. I made a Paladin to try healing, and instead I tank all the time.
That seems like a change.
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