HighResolutionSleep
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HighResolutionSleep
2mo ago
I'm not sure I find "fault" in any of them
HighResolutionSleep
1mo ago
What's stopping you from doing that now?
HighResolutionSleep
1mo ago
Does it count as voluntary as long as you're allowed to leave the club and its premises at any time for any reason?
HighResolutionSleep
1mo ago
It seems you have rediscovered the ancient wisdom that the reward for hard work is more work. The office doesn't work based on objective principles (like any org will insist to its grave), it works on the squeaky wheel getting the grease—and the strongest links getting the heaviest loads. Don't get me wrong: being a star performer can have its benefits in the right orgs with the right incentives—but if they aren't there (which seems to be the case as evidenced by your frustration), there's absolutely nothing wrong about withholding that performance.
I imagine that at some point, you (probably implicitly) volunteered yourself to be Bob's fixer. Now that you've shown you can do it, it's expected. It's hard to unwind that expectation without drawing attention. You can't just up and stop fixing Bob's mistakes, but you can steadily fix them less and less. Your cover is that maybe his fuckups are getting worse and worse, or perhaps your own responsibilities are growing and you have less and less effort to offer for it. There are likely a dozen more angles of attack for someone who knows your situation as intimately as you do.
Don't explicitly offer these things as explanations, but try to weave them implicitly in the excuses that you offer for why you couldn't fix Bob's mistake in a timely manner that avoids pain for his higher ups. Leverage plausible deniability to the maximum extent. Feel out how much pain you can expose Bob's superiors to using which narratives as cover and lean in to the ones that work.
Good luck.
HighResolutionSleep
11mo ago
Call me when the AI replaces my job, and we'll talk revolution.
Truly more prescient words about the modern flavor of the human condition have never been spoken.
I hope that the future brings plenty for everyone, but until that magical day comes, I'm laying another brick in my wall every sunrise therebefore.
HighResolutionSleep
14d ago
My parents forbade me from reading fanfiction.
That's strange. How did that happen?
HighResolutionSleep
2mo ago
So what's the internal way of saying this?
"I suffer this discrimination because I cannot rally enough political support from people like me to stop it."?
"I suffer this discrimination because I can't muster an army capable of conquering the United States."?
"I suffer this discrimination because I won't strap a bomb to my chest a blow up some government functionaries."?
I suspect that this has been almost possible since about 2022, but now specifically with a 100k token context length, it's now completely possible if not practical.
With a little effort, I'd reckon you could fit most of the gist of someone's personality, at least the part of it they showed you, in about 50k tokens. Then you'd have about 40k give or take to have a small conversation about how their day has been.
Perhaps a few have done something similar with fine tuning, but now any old Joe could probably do it for $20/mo.
The future may very well be now.
EDIT: Some back-of-the-envelope quick math:
Based on what I've seen from how machine learning tokenizers work, most words take up about 2-3 tokens. That means that 50k tokens might be about 20k words, which is I guess is about 1000 sentences. Given that "write this in the style of that" has been something that generative models have been frighteningly good at for years, I imagine that would be well enough data to effect a very convincing pantomime.
Then you could have a fully-contextualized and interactive conversation spanning about a small novella. I don't think this is something you could do with previous models, particularly with their relatively tiny context windows.
It's interesting to think that there may very well be an entirely novel form of gratuitous self-harm at my fingertips that categorically did not exist mere months ago.
HighResolutionSleep
7mo ago
Cui bono?
If we're to believe the stats, nobody.
HighResolutionSleep
3hr ago
The problem is that nobody is joking.
HighResolutionSleep
2d ago
Is the only principled position either zero immigrants or infinity immigrants?
HighResolutionSleep
29d ago
Security is hard.
I like to think that this will get better as time goes on. If you think about it, humans have only really been writing software at an industrial scale for two, maybe three decades now. We're not good at it yet.
Every single one of us is running a kernel that was written in the 90s using paradigms formed in the 80s with a computer language that was invented in the 70s.
So little about how we do computing has even caught up to modern thinking. I don't know if Rust specifically is the future, but something like it is.
HighResolutionSleep
1mo ago
On the positive side, it makes single people much more likely to find someone!
I've always wondered if it would make a funny reality TV show to take some incels and femcels and make them date and cohabitate. I think witnessing the children to come out of such relationships would be even funnier!
HighResolutionSleep
1mo ago
I can't believe I've wondered about this literal exact same scenario.
The conclusion I've come to is that I would absolutely want to be knife guy, because baseball bat guy has only one good swing and if it doesn't connect or doesn't hit hard enough, I'm on top of him and his weapon is now worthless.
HighResolutionSleep
3mo ago
Let's compare this to the list of statements offered in the comment that suggest women could play a role in the conditions that lead to divorce:
I believe that as much as I believe that guys watch PornHub for the plot.
The key thing to observe here is that Twilight, the version without the hot sex, was outsold by Fifty Shades, the version with the hot sex.
Are you going to tell me that the romance was that much better?
HighResolutionSleep
6mo ago
I've seen them agree that it's bad, I haven't yet seen them agree that watching porn is like being sexually promiscuous.
HighResolutionSleep
1yr ago
Pound sand.
HighResolutionSleep
20d ago
It's not hard to make reactors, the US has the technical chops to fit a 300 MW PWR reactor on a submarine along with sonar, torpedoes, stealth all for a total cost of $2 Billion.
Maybe the solution is the for US to commission giant submarines with gigawatt reactors on them, where they can tap into underwater transmission cables that just barely reach out into international waters.
Wouldn't be the dumbest thing we've ever done to get around crippling regulations. Maybe.
HighResolutionSleep
2mo ago
But if you embrace victimhood as part of your identity, you're dooming yourself.
Not if this leads to political action. See: feminism. The problem is men as a class have trouble getting to that part.
HighResolutionSleep
2mo ago
"I suffer this discrimination because people like me are unwilling to exert political influence in sufficient number to stop it."
Is this internal or external locus of control?
HighResolutionSleep
3mo ago
My comment doesn't blame men for the breakdown of marriages.
The comment in question:
In the same way, the person that initiates the divorce isn't necessarily the person that ended the marriage.
I speculate that is more likely for men to "quiet quit" on a marriage, in a way that is less possible/likely for a woman.
The woman might be the one who files the divorce papers, but in a lot of cases the man checked out a long time ago and has been, sometimes willfully sometimes passive-aggressively, baiting her into filing.
A man will stop doing anything around the house when he checks out of his marriage. Men typically do fewer chores around the house to start with, and have a greater tolerance for mess/disorder/eating trash.
Often this extends to kids: he's not scheduling doctors appointments, buying them clothes, keeping track of their schooling.
I could also just do another common thing men do and just...stop coming home after work.
This is before we get into things like Exit Affairs, when an extramarital relationship is just a tripwire to make her file, or physical abuse.
So the dynamic is often that a man stops doing anything around the house, stops substantively being a husband, and then a wife files. So the decision these women are making when filing isn't "Happily Married Woman vs. Divorced Woman" it's "Abandoned, but legally married woman with no legal tools to control her spouse's use of marital assets, still expecting divorce vs. Divorced woman, with legal tools to control spouse's disposal of marital assets."
HighResolutionSleep
1yr ago
I think laws need to reflect facts like, for example, that women can get pregnant and men can't.
And I think that they should also reflect facts like, for example, women are the sole authority over the reproductive process from start to finish, where such facts are applicable.
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Get bent.
If you really are sincere about "Laws against rape, or laws recognizing only women get pregnant: choose one," well, that is certainly a take.
Get bent.
HighResolutionSleep
1yr ago
I used to think that things like flags and symbols were silly and pointless but I now realize that they are extremely important touchstones for revealing people's true dispositions
Yes, there are a thousand differences between the two novels—but let's not be silly here. Porn isn't a feature you take or leave with a piece of media. It's either primarily what you want or you don't consume the material. It's not a matter of statistical chance that the most popular piece of women's media ever is such a hardcore piece of smut.
Sure, and there's no Fifty Shades for men. Girl lust and boy lust don't look exactly the same but there's no reason to think that one is inherently more conducive to monogamy than the other.
Okay, so what's your point in objecting to anything I said? Well that's obvious: because you do disagree that women are no more pure in their sexual intent. You just spent the previous paragraph praising the virtues of women's sexual gaze, how it's all about relationships and all that. We're talking about non-monogamy and its consequences for the human race. You posted about how specifically men's sexual vices are destroying our societies—the vice of sexual liberalism and the men who pushed it for their own gain: the gain of having less attached sex with women. The gain that men got at the expense of women. Men's ill-gotten gain against women.
Do you think I'm stupid?
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