JarJarJedi
Streamlined derailments and counteridea reeducation
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JarJarJedi
2d ago
JarJarJedi
2d ago
I put something like that in my custom prompt, and it helps to some measure. But I'm not sure it's introspection capacities are strong enough to even know it's fabricating.
JarJarJedi
3d ago
Why is it petty and stupid? The Military is not a general charity or some kind of all-around governmental funding/hosting agency. It has a very specific (though complex) goals and needs certain means and instruments to achieve these goals. If the army would suddenly declare it is founding a set of scholarships for people to learn play Ukulele while walking a tightrope, I'd be surprised - it doesn't seem to be aligned with the Military's mission at all. That doesn't mean I think playing ukuleles or walking tightropes is evil - it may be wonderful, but it's not what the Military is supposed to concern itself with. It used to be that Scouts embody all those qualities that the Military does concern itself with, so it made a lot of sense for them to cooperate. But Scouts are a separate organization, and they may decide they want to do some other thing now. Maybe concentrate on ukulele playing and tightrope walking, maybe on learning all the pronouns, maybe evaluating all the ways to be maximally safe and inclusive and writing them down in the notebook. The organization does what it wants to do. If that happened, and the goals of Scouts and Military are no longer aligned, why is it stupid to recognize this fact and part ways?
JarJarJedi
3d ago
Which was not, to my very clear memory of the time, what anyone was actually arguing.
There was a time where "not anyone was actually arguing" for open borders, welfare for illegal immigrants, on-demand access for men to women spaces and women sports, teaching in elementary schools about gay sex, declaring "whiteness" a root of all evils and many other things that we are observing today. Slippery slope exists, and is very slippery. So if some people saw this discussion and thought "if we don't object, in a short time we'd have public schools with Ebonics as primary teaching language" they may be right or they may be wrong, but they certainly weren't out of line to suspect a possible trend.
I understand how it may be frustrating to actual linguists that didn't want to play politics, but the reality is the science is now serving the politics, not the other way around. And the science community, in the search for power and influence, largely made it so. So now those are the rules by which they'd have to live - the rules of politics.
JarJarJedi
3d ago
On confrontation ChatGPT crumbled, apologizing, saying "because the text was hard to read" it simply pattern-matched the writing with similar writings it had been exposed to and extrapolated the entire remainder from that.
That's what happens every time it hits some complication. LLMs are psychopaths, they are trained to give you what you expect to hear from them, so if they can't give a satisfactory answer they will invent some lie that sounds plausible because something similar happened in their training corpus. If you catch them, they'd say "you are absolutely right, let me try again!" - and you can't even be mad, there's nothing there to be mad at. You can force it to make any kind of apology you want to hear, but it's all pointless because there's nothing in there that could apologize - it's just an engine whose whole purpose is to produce an answer you'd most likely expect to receive. If that's where they are looking for GAI what they will find if they succeed is just a lie machine that is lying in so sophisticated ways that nobody is smart enough to catch it.
JarJarJedi
3d ago
As if no one has ever advised Zelensky how to talk with Trump.
Maybe they did, but it certainly looks like he didn't listen. If Trump indeed were so easy to manipulate - I'd expect Zelensky, having not many other levers, to solicit every advice in existence on how to do that and manipulate the heck out of him. But that doesn't seem to be happening.
JarJarJedi
7d ago
I'm now looking for a git frontend that doesn't completely suck balls
I've been working with git for a long time, probably over a decade. Never seen a frontend that would replace CLI for me. And in fact I don't think there exists any frontend that would deliver on what you're asking for. It's just not how git is meant to work. You have the right to want to do different things, but I don't think any git frontends would deliver them to you, because they are mostly paving the walkways, not trying to make git look like not git.
For (1), git is usually pretty conservative about touching your files, unless you tell it not to. But yes, each command has a "force" flag which will completely ruin your day if you force something that wipes your files. I feel like asking for a tool that can't do that is like asking for a safe knife - the only safe one is a useless one, as it won't cut.
For (2) if you have one remote, you should be fine, if you have multiple ones, there some setup is requires, probably some custom scripting and hooks would help. Unfortunately, that part of git UI is not excellent - I have occasionally pushed and pulled from a wrong remote and it's confusing as hell.
For (3), by default that's how git treats it, if you're in the main repo, the submodule diffs would only be shown as "modified" without any details. If you need more stuff happening there, probably hooks could help.
For (4) that's not really how git is supposed to work, but if you never use "add" command and only use "commit" then it should be like that. Of course, some more advanced command may have implied "add" so it again can get confusing.
For (5) unfortunately I don't think it's possible, at least not with how git models the universe - it keeps the state in files themselves during merge process, so if you are in the middle of this process, that's what you'd get and I don't think any frontend can change that, unless it basically reimplements a lot of it in a different way.
JarJarJedi
7d ago
While putting full or even equal responsibility on Poles would be ridiculous, it is also an historic fact that Poles (e.g. Armia Krajowa) were not exactly friendly to Jews and committed various atrocities (not at the level the Nazis did). Example: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/1946-us-document-reveals-poles-treated-jews-as-badly-as-germans-did-543940 (I don't necessarily agree with the title, but it contains some evidence to that) So the claim underlying the offense is real, and that's something the Poles, understandably, are not very happy to discuss. Bit it's a part of history too. It doesn't remove any responsibility from the Germans, there is a lot of blame for everybody to get their part.
JarJarJedi
7d ago
I am not sure who to believe because in my area (very red state with a lot of Mormon and Evangelical presence) there are virtually no presence of groypers or groyper-adjacent propagandists, as far as I could see, but I am not sure who to believe about what happens in DC - and what happens in DC may have much more influence on the national politics.
I'd like to read Ross Douthat's view on that (link?) but I think it won't be able to convince me, on this stage, that groypers aren't a problem for Republicans. I may be very wrong on the size and importance of that problem, but it is the problem nevertheless. And it's not only a problem from my POV (which is obvious - I am not going to vote for a politician that genuinely considers me subhuman evil monster, whatever other position he could hold, I am only a human and have my limits) but from purely practical purpose - most of the normies won't flock to a platform that enables edgelords so far out of the consensus. At least unless they have something very attractive to offer, which groypers don't. And, also, if you want to bank all in on hating the Joos, there is enough competition to vote for on the other side, so you don't have any advantage even if you embrace that oldest of all low roads. Maybe if they ignore them enough they'd just wither away. Why couldn't we get lucky just this time?
JarJarJedi
7d ago
That could be so, but to change them, you will need to make those people active and on your side. And to make homeowners actively on your side with the message "you home price just dropped, we will make it drop even further!" does not look like a winning strategy.
JarJarJedi
8d ago
The local zoning codes are as they are not because of some random accident. They are such because usually people want them as they are - or are ok with them as they are. What would make them change their minds? If housing markets suddenly drops - e.g. because it became harder to get a mortgage - then they are unlikely to say "well, let's make it drop even further by increasing supply now!".
JarJarJedi
8d ago
The main question is: did you pay for accessing that platform?
The main two reasons why trackers are used are actually same reason, but in two instances. It's behavioral tracking. Internally, it is used to see how the site performs, which functions are used and which are not, what links are clicked, which options are selected, etc. etc. This happens in every single project I've ever seen, and it can be (actually, will be) both client-side and server-side. The former is visible to you, the latter is usually not, but it's always there. If it's a paid product, it will be used to make more people pay more money for the product - and for the provider to spend less money on providing it (e.g. by optimizing it or shutting down options that aren't used). Some of it can also be outsourced, because not everybody is an expert in properly doing that, and there are shrink-wrap solutions that can do a lot of it for you.
If you didn't pay for it, then somebody else did. Usually via ads, which serve two functions - one obvious, exposing you to the information the advertiser wants you to see, another unobvious, collecting the same behavioral information, for the same purposes, but for third-party advertisers or marketers. This also has a lot of specialization, so ad platform may have its own tracker and also use a third-party tracking solution to track some aspect that their own tracking doesn't provide. Finding high level of third-party tracking on a private paid platform is usually a case for a beef with the provider - though some providers are big enough to pull it off (like ads on Netflix - what you gonna do, stop streaming?) I.e. if you have no alternative, then why not make a quick buck on the side?
That said, 230 sounds like a very high number - even with what I said, that many separate tracking items look excessive. Though if it counts tracking events then it's plausible - depending on how much things are being tracked and how diligent are the tracker developers on optimizing the performance (not always their best suit since their competitive advantage lies elsewhere) it certainly can get that far.
JarJarJedi
8d ago
Of course. But the politicians who don't offer the voters some goodies also wither away and are replaced with ones that do. It's easy to discuss theory but when the question is "do you have a chance for your family to have a home or you'd need to move to some bumfuck place in the middle of nowhere to afford it, or rent increasingly shittier apartments for your whole life" - how many people would be disciplined enough to still maintain "the government should not have any role in it"? Sadly, not so many. The politicians successfully sold the nation the dream of "every family can own a house" (with some sad exceptions of course, but you don't want to be a sad exception, you want to be a normal family) and now it is expected to deliver on it, and if certain politicians don't, then others will replace them who do.
JarJarJedi
8d ago
And yet in all other markets people take losses all the time while still not wanting
Not the same "people". Most individuals that participate in stock market, for example, do that via relatively safe vehicles, or if they don't, it's commonly understood as being a very high-risk activity. Buying a house is understood as a part of being a responsible adult. If that results in massive losses, you'd have a lot of very angry people around who would demand the government to "do something about it" - and since we have a democracy, people usually get what they want, for better or (usually) for worse.
JarJarJedi
8d ago
"Prices falling" means massive amount of underwater mortgages - we all saw how much fun that is - and also massive budget problems in every place that relies on property tax income.
JarJarJedi
8d ago
A lot of people discover they have no hope of ever buying a home, and probably elect some asshole that promises them to fix it quick and easy, usually by taking other people's money who don't deserve it anyway, and it'll get only worse from there.
JarJarJedi
8d ago
Went back to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I tried to read it once and got to about the middle and abandoned it because I just couldn't make any sense out of it. On the second attempt, I kind of understand what he's talking about much more - not exactly agreeing or liking everything, but at least I now understand what's going on. Willing to see how far I get this time and if I can get to the end without losing it again.
Also after finishing Asimov's autobiography that I mentioned a while ago, I realized I never got to read the prequels to Foundation series, and read Prelude to Foundation. Which was pretty decent, but a bit underwhelming - maybe a curse of all prequels, since reading the Foundation series (a long, long time ago) was so exciting, and the prequels do what prequels usually do - describe things that happened before the important things happened. Also, the appearance of robots there was kinda meh - yeah, robots, so what, nothing really changed. So I got exactly what I should have expected, which wasn't bad, but also wasn't an absolute must read. I'll probably read Forward the Foundation next sometime soon.
JarJarJedi
8d ago
Generally true, but in this case I think it reflects the real state of affairs. See also on Groypers: https://roddreher.substack.com/p/what-i-saw-and-heard-in-washington
JarJarJedi
12d ago
Hamas says fighters holed up in Rafah will not surrender | Reuters
I am not getting it - where's the "crisis" there? If those Hamas dudes want to sit in the tunnels, let them. They may stay there until their expiration date and nobody would be worse off for it. If they try to come out with weapons, they'd be dealt with. Why there are any "talks" at all? If they don't want to submit, let them rot. It's not like those are infant children or something. How insane it is that Israel is supposed to beg the enemy that they captured to surrender and offer them "talks"?
JarJarJedi
18d ago
You build the clown world, you get the clowns. If nothing is supposed to make sense, it's not exactly a surprise a particular nonsense - a man claiming to be a "birth mother" - is demanded to be accepted. It's only basic logic - from a false premise, anything can follow.
JarJarJedi
18d ago
Yes but for over 90% of people both inside and outside Russia there's no dichotomy here. Theoretically it exists, and there are people very passionate about it, but in practice unless one needs to make a particular political point, nobody cares about it (by nobody I mean the majority of Russia's population, of course if somebody is a Tatar nationalist, they'd care a lot). In English, there's not even a word to separate these concepts - they are both described with the same word! - but even in Russian they are often used interchangeably. I.e. if some division of Russian army attacks under Pokrovsk, one could say "Russkie are attacking", and it wouldn't sound wrong, even though the actual soldiers could be 50% Buryat and 50% Tuvan.
JarJarJedi
20d ago
Her insistence on (1) independent (2) city travel is to keep her options open for finding a better partner.
It may be not as cynical as that, at least not rationally. Seeing somebody twice a month, without trying for anything more, sounds like friendship situation. Maybe dear, close friend, maybe with, you know, benefits, but still a friendship. As an introvert, if I saw a friend twice a month, I'd say "we meet very frequently". So it may be just how this is for her - no more than that. And I would not tell a dear friend to the face "I don't want to see you any more than that, twice a month is plenty, any more and it'd get clingy" - but if that's what I want, that's how things will arrange themselves. I mean, a friendship is a wonderful thing too, just need to be clear what it is.
JarJarJedi
20d ago
There's want and there's want. I want to be a billionaire, who wouldn't? But do I spend every living second on thinking about new business ideas and trying to invent yet another startup that would make me one, or do I work in my decently paying salaryman job and enjoy my hobbies, neither of which has even a remote chance of making me a billionaire?
JarJarJedi
21d ago
Something I've read somewhere and it stayed with me something: How do you know the difference between a moral man and a jerk? A moral man says: I believe in X and therefore I must do Y. A jerk says: I believe in X and therefor you must do Y.
I'd say "emotional blackmail" is the closest term. "Manipulation" is more neutral.
Good luck. As somebody who went through it twice a couple of years ago, it's gonna suck, but it will likely be temporary. Take care of yourself, physically and psychologically, and let your wife and others help you. And just grind through the tedious and sucky part, eventually something will come up.
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