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				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 15, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I was going to say the same thing. The same people who thought Corporate Memphis was a good idea will be the ones who determine the types of prompts that will go into an AI generator. If beauty wasn't their priority before, there's no reason why it will be now, and Corporate Midjourney will not be an improvement.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 1, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
As a counterpoint, whoever destroyed the Georgia Guidestones seems to have gotten away with it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 1, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


All evidence I see both today and historically Russia will expand until they militarily can not. If we didn’t fight over Ukraine they would take the Baltics. If they are strong enough then they would take Poland.




Nukes change the equation. Poland being in NATO is a signal that the US is willing to use nuclear weapons to defend it. That's not a war they can win - at best, it would be a draw, and even that scenario would be the end of Russia as a civilization.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 1, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Jeffersonians are the dovish nationalists, whose central ideal is perfecting democracy at home and avoiding foreign entanglements that might distract or corrupt American national purpose. These are your classic anti-war isolationists.




An ironic name, considering that Jefferson got America into its first war in the Islamic world in order to protect American trade.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


In a podcast on the Lunar Society, Ilya Sutskever of Open AI wrote that he imagines a situation where every human will have access to the wisdom of our greatest sages and wise men.




This was the promise of the original internet, before all this *gesticulates vaguely* happened. And it came true! You really can use the internet to access the wisdom of all of Earth's greatest sages and wise men at the drop of a hat. But it's not what most people use it for, and I suspect that will be true (and indeed already is) of AI as well.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I am weary about accepting their solutions blindly.




You mean "wary". "Weary" means tired, and comes from "wear" in the sense of "worn out" or "weariness". "Wary" means cautious or concerned, and is related to "beware" and "aware".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Nominative determinism. What foreign policy goals couldn't she accomplish with a name like Victory New Land?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Even Minecraft somehow has 30,000 M/M stories and 7,000 F/M stories. I shudder to think of what's going on in there.




I think a lot of those are also real person fiction, focusing on popular Minecraft streamers (such as Dream and the people he played with).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Many of those things are linked together.


Modernity causes urbanization, which leads to higher house prices/cost of living and higher quality of available entertainment. The higher cost of living means that it's more expensive to support each child, so parental investment has to go up. Feminism, female education, and female workplace participation are all intertwined and mutually reinforcing. The idea of a workplace and accompanying workforce is a product of modernity and urbanization (premodern women spent all their time working, but not for a boss who pays cash wages). That workforce then requires a certain level of education.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
There's also the TSA from a year before.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Why would AI researchers want to work on something harmless when they could work on something cool, exciting, and world-changing? Sure, money can be a motivator, but I think you'd hit diminishing returns there fairly quickly, and any offer you could make would be weighed against the possibility of becoming the Mark Zuckerburg or Jeff Bezos of AI, which would give you a net worth of much higher than $30 billion.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 17, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Perhaps this is a potential market for Boston Dynamics. An airgapped robot with janitorial tools instead of hands seems fairly hack-proof, or at least less likely to access secret information than a human.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 10, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"The slippery slope is a fallacy!" they say, as they strap on their skis.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 3, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Because all of those things inspire question about policy, and any question about what policies should be enacted by politicians is political by nature. This is also why things like Covid "got politicized"; the virus itself isn't political, but the question of what we should (and should not) do about it is.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 27, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


In fact, the opposite is often claimed, that proliferation of such media provides a substitute for the negative behavior, actually reducing it.




It may or may not reduce it, but it certainly doesn't eliminate entirely. There are so few real mass shooters that it would be hard to tell if anyone was actually dissuaded from committing a shooting due to the game, though the game would certainly be banned if even one shooter referenced it in his or her manifesto.