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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
22hr ago
How are you doing that if you don't consult Google or your Shakespeare box set?
I would have similar examples in my memory. What does that memory look like for an LLM if not reference to a database? I just asked the Edge default copilot for "the 3rd line from Shakespeare's 31st sonnet", and for "without searching the web, the 5th line from Shakespeare's 41st sonnet" and it produced both without any trouble.
Are you suggesting that Copilot is re-deriving particular lines from the sonnets from first principles?
This is a sincere question, I honestly don't know how the nuts and bolts of these things work.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Then, if it doesn't have access to internet search, how is it looking things up?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Do you see the average human seeing a random reddit comment from 5 years ago and then pinning it on the right person, and associating it with their other work?
If that person had a searchable database? Sure.
It's possible I'm just entirely misunderstanding how they work down in the guts, but I interpreted the task as something like "I searched my database of training data, found the exact post, and replied with the linked username", which is powerful and "superhuman" in an objective sense, but the sort of thing I would have expected from Google search 15 years ago, pre-enshittification.
Identifying you by new writing would be much more impressive and alarming, and it sounds like they can actually do that for people like Scott, from some of the other posts people have made.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
I believe my son knows that he can tell me, and that I'll focus on doing my best to help him navigate the full breadth of social elements, including both "bro talk on xbox" and also "not catching a video that will make you unemployable". So I believe that he himself did not know the meaning, and judging by the group calls I overhear, I'm pretty sure his friends don't either beyond "insulting bad word".
Take that for what it's worth, meaning "I say that I believe that I think that he doesn't understand."
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
That would probably be ideal, and he does adhere to that standard regarding certain other common terms after I explained the socio-political dynamics. But those words do serve a role in ingroup-bonding-via-shared-transgression-of-social-norms, so if he was going to use one, it probably ought to be the one he can claim as "our word".
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Sorry! It just seemed like a succinct way to describe to the regular Mottizan the social class of the mom from the story. No stray or slight was intended, and it was only after someone reached out to ask if I was an alt of yours that I realized that might have been overly familiar - at which point it had already been quote replied.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Is that recognizing you by style? Or is it just that the current training sets are so exhaustively scraped that even AAQC motte posts are included? I'm pretty sure they scraped reddit to the bone, right? Failing to connect the author of a unique reddit post literally in the training data 40% of the time actually sounds kind of horribly bad.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Early 40's. My drinking is social/event and sporadic. The thing is, I like drinking, but only to get drunk. I rather dislike the feeling of having 1-3 drinks. I like the taste, but I feel like I get little of the upside effects while still feeling enervated for the rest of the night. My idea amount would be a pint of whiskey over the course of an evening, culminating in a tall glass of water and then passing out.
The problem is that doing this basically ruins me for the next day. It's just not worth it any more.
The big exception is concerts of a certain exuberant, energetic variety. I get drunk enough to lose the perfect amount of inhibitions, but a few hours later I feel fantastic. I have absolutely no scientific basis for the claim whatsoever, but I feel like I sweat the alcohol out, or maybe it's just getting buried and swept away by other happy brain chemicals.
Most of my friends have quit or severely cut back, some for the post-40 hangover reasons, some for more serious medical concerns that justified cutting all things bad for them, and some in preference for legal THC.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
I've discovered that my son's friend group, a wide assortment of several dozen boys aged 13-15 across a few towns, have been liberally using the words chud, cuck, and kike. Importantly, and concerningly, none of them know what those words mean. When I overheard the lingo, I sat the boy down and explained cuck and kike, and particularly how he should never let a teacher or other authority figure hear him using kike, and avoid being recorded doing so if reasonably possible (not the end of the world, his mother is Jewish).
But I was at a bit of a loss to explain "chud" without tediously lecturing about the last decade of deep-in-the-weeds political fights on twitter. They call each other "big, stinky chud", which seems to roughly cash out as "sweaty lacrosse player". He relayed a story to me where one close friend's older brother was caught using the term by his mother, an educated woman in her own right who is married to a very successful lawyer. He told her it meant "cool guy", and now she's using it with that intended meaning.
Imagine Mrs. FiveHourMarathon calling all her nephews "chuds" because she thinks that it's a cute kid phrase like 6-7 or aura.
Any advice for how to concisely explain the concept?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Can you link one of those studies that isn't hopelessly confounded, such as by taking massive losses to follow-ups?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
If you think the US is currently treating Europe with more respect than China does and THAT explains the decline of loyalty to Atlanticist project, this speaks to your enormous, delusional entitlement.
No, you're just completely failing to get the point. That line was in reference to the pre-Trump treatment of Europe, where we paid for their safety and shipping lanes and rebuilt their nations after they destroyed themselves and their "gratitude" amounted to hateful sneering about their shitty healthcare and otherwise acting out their inferiority complex (see, for example, the recent dissonance coming from people in the UK learning that they would be the poorest state in the union - behind even Mississippi).
Post-Trump, they're being treated as closer to what they are - increasingly marginal nations mostly run by unreliable, suicidal idiots that hate their own people. And if the "kingly" reception from Xi is enough to make them swoon, then that just hammers home the "idiots" part.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
On the contrary, there seems to be little to no evidence for this claim. Even Chase Strangio had to admit at the Supreme Court that there was no evidence that transitioning improved mental health outcomes.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
3d ago
I don't buy it, and I wouldn't expect Trump, Rubio, Vance, Et Al. to either.
I'd go a step further. They shouldn't buy it, and being indifferent to exactly that sort of bad faith manipulation is Trump's entire brand and greatest selling point. Which in turn is exactly why so many people find him aesthetically horrifying.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
This is the part that kills me about this.
Iran purposely slaughters 30k protestors: I sleep.
America has outdated targeting data on one bomb out of 30k: Real shit.
It just seems fundamentally unserious. It's impossible for me to take criticism from someone espousing this position as anything other than bad faith. You would need a thousand words of throat-clearing denunciations of the Iranian regime to counter the obvious who/whom.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
My first thought is to place them somewhere they are visible and available for perusal by guests, but not the primary focus of a decorative arrangement. Near or on a book shelf, maybe, or among a handful of comparable items on a mantle. Somewhere that says "These are noteworthy family memorabilia, but not something I am specifically trying to show off."
Do you know the story behind the purple heart?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
It's amazing to keep seeing this from people who hear Trump's bombastic bullshit and turn into Amelia Bedelia.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
Maybe you're just not aware that the Iranian plan is to fight a long war, which necessitates not shooting their load in the first few weeks.
They literally tried to. That's what a 90% drop off means.
And the grand idea of what you're saying is that Iran's been totally smashed but the US navy is just too cowardly to secure the straits of Hormuz?
Iran is doing Houthi stuff. They don't "control" the Strait, they're an unacceptable insurance risk.
But not so degraded that America can actually protect its bases in the Gulf. Not so degraded that American troops can quit hiding in hotels. Not so degraded that America can actually protect the oil facilities of its allies, protect the basis of the petrodollar.
Yeah, America needs to play like I do when I'm mopping up single player Starcraft. Zero losses, because I like the aesthetic, and because the world is full of people rooting for Iran to win and America to lose.
So no, you don't put a carrier where a cheap drone might do millions in damage and kill a sailor. You do shoot down the overwhelming majority of the "irregular militia" levels of attacks Iran launches. If one missile got through and blew up an empty truck every two weeks you'd still be right here sneering.
Fantasy. After losing the last few Middle East wars against vastly inferior opponents, I would've thought the hubris bubble might've been pricked a little but noooooo...
This is just fundamentally unserious. Those wars were smashing successes. It was turning the peoples who lived there into Minnesotans that we failed at.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
8d ago
nor have Iran's missile and drone capabilities been severely degraded. Their attack rate over the last 30 days before this ceasefire was fairly stable.
What a curious choice of cut-off! Sort of like counting Muslim terrorist casualties starting in 2002, isn't it? Very convenient how it lets you ignore the 90% dropoff from the first week of the war.
Don't worry. I'm sure Iran-senpai is just hiding his power level! He's baiting out Trump's secret moves before he unleashes his ultimate technique, which is... ????
You don't need to kill your enemies to beat them. Killing helps but disorganized, shambolic killing isn't the key thing. The key thing is to defeat your enemy's plan, not just blow up their soldiers.
Rose Tico-ass logic.
Trump crows about blowing up the Iranian air force and navy. Who cares? Is the Iranian air force the lynchpin of their plans, like the German luftwaffe in WW2? No. Their conventional navy also is not a big part of their plan. Destroying random bridges or power plants - not going to help.
Yes, their conventional forces have been dumpstered, their missile and drone options brutally degraded, they can't pay their people and the industrial base to rearm is a smoking crater.
All according to keikaku (keikaku means plan). Iran is definitely winning.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
I get full on hateful when I see posts along the lines of "I asked AI about X and this is what it said!"
Bitch, you didn't do shit! It feels like the midwit bro version of the meme. I think I'd be more forgiving of even a simple coding project, just because that ought to involve a tiny modicum of effort.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
The second pet of the same type (cat/dog) is usually great because it usually breathes a bit of new life into the older animal. You're not just getting the kids a new puppy, you're getting the hound a new puppy.
The kid angle is too particular to the kid. We've had a few pet losses over the years. My son is sad for a day or two, but ultimately fine. My daughter still brings one up as a point of trauma 8 years later, to the point where my son has expressed horrified dismay at the thought of how she'll react when our oldest cat passes.
Just make sure they know it's something that you'll take care of, and give them space to be involved if they want (memorials, burial, etc).
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
Now that you point it out, the whole thing being confused or misleading makes much more sense. I think I crossed a mental wire with the Suez.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
I saw a picture earlier purporting to show tons of sea traffic going around the Horn of Africa, supposedly rerouted from the Straight of Hormuz.
If we assume the SoH is going to be fully closed long-term, so that people adjust and buy into the next best marginal shipping pattern, what would the actual long-term consequences be? Are we talking more like a 15% increase in shipping costs or 200%?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
9d ago
The US having tactical military dominance over Iran can hardly be "stunning".
I am skeptical that many people of the strongly anti-Trump persuasion would have, two months ago, committed to a prediction of "The US dumpsters Iran's military with training accident levels of cost". I think we'd have heard a lot of rhetoric about how Hegseth is an incompetent, drunken Christofascist retard and that the US would massively underperform.
A willingness to debate requires a degree of disagreeableness. The same brain chemicals that make a man more eager to get into an argument also tend to make him more right-wing.
There's a notion on the right that leftism is a biological phenomenon, and I do think there's abit of truth to that idea.
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