Pongalh
1d ago
Murphy's "it just feels in my gut wrong" isn't going to cut it. It can supplement it though. And you say "pretended to be doing," but it's just weak empiricism, not a total absence. It's cursory and vaguely suggestive, which counts for something. Scattershot qualitative impressions are in a similar boat.
Pongalh
1d ago
Lots of the creativity of the 70s came out of super-cheap housing in cities and a dole system that didn't ask too many questions,
Maybe you're talking past each other. The other commenter is talking about singularly spectacular artists, whereas what you mention here cultivates "scenes" and creative group endeavors.
Pongalh
2d ago
But Murphy came with no empirical evidence whatsoever. And there was more to the discussion than that.
Pongalh
2d ago
Right. Having to pay for a simulacrum of a conversation they wish they were having with a badass power couple wifey just feels patronizing.
Pongalh
3d ago
pseudo-intellectual
What's pseudo about it? She's genuinely an intellectual. In fact she bested Meghan Murphy in their debate over porn and sex work on Benjamin Boyce's podcast a few years ago. I remain more on Team Murphy, but she lost that battle.
Anyway, maybe it's just me being jaded and experienced, but I don't see the value in spending so much on these women. They're still just meat sacs after all, they don't warrant such money being spent on them. There's no way they are so differentiated from some other attractive, smart woman that they should command these prices. Do they come with some state-of-the-art virtual reality experience that enhances the encounter, Strange Days-style?
I'd like to see a profile on the guys paying for these women. That would be more illuminating. If they're twenty-something rich, nerdy Asian guys, that would track. If not, I'd have to revisit my murky thesis. These men might too be enchanted by the aesthetic of it all, just like some of the women who will see the article and especially the photo that comes with it. "I'm with this high-end escort like I'm in some Mission Impossible movie or something. It's a cool story I'm in. The people looking at me from across the hotel bar don't know she's an escort, anyway. They may think she's with me organically, and that we're a power couple out here slaying."
Pongalh
5d ago
Maybe it means vaccine went from "get it and you won't get X" to "get it and it reduces your chances of getting X somewhat"
Pongalh
5d ago
In discussion of Graham Platner today on Breaking Points, Platner is given kudos for claiming he was a bad boyfriend in the past, but that the current accusations against him and nebulous and thin gruel. Points to them for not falling back on Believe All Women (even if because the worst complaint against him is from a Republican who dated him, so it's thought to be motivated), but it occurred to me how unlikely it would ever to for a woman to feel the need to 'fess up to being "a bad girlfriend" and atoning for it, for a political career. It'd be like, "Psh, yea I was a BRAT, and anyway who said I was a bad girlfriend? Probably some douchebag who thought he was owed sex."
Pongalh
7d ago
I saw a post on YouTube from "Stipey UK" and it didn't look very peaceful. People encircling police and throwing trash cans at them, light property damage to residents.
Pongalh
15d ago
Wow. If we were in a bar I would demand some more details. Unless your expression was telling me don't.
Pongalh
15d ago
I thought the movie took place in Seattle. That would explain the rain and even the desert at the end. Eastern part of the state has some.
Pongalh
20d ago
Why doesn't he just get the tattoo removed? Hesitancy to do that is the thing that should be disqualifying. Now that he certainly DOES know.
Pongalh
26d ago
A straight guy around women and gay guys is the lamest. The only thing that saves you is the gay guy being flirty, which may induce interest toward you by the woman.
Pongalh
26d ago
I know from experience. Well, that is to say, if you can get tired of an 8, there's no reason you wouldn't get tired of a 9. It's on a spectrum. I don't think experience "gets over a hump" so to speak at which point you're fine with the same person forever.
Pongalh
27d ago
This is a common misperception, that a guy with an attractive wouldn't get tired of sex with her. Not so. Men with a 9 will mess with 5s just to keep things interesting.
"Show me a hot woman, and I'll show you a man who's tired of f***** her"
Pongalh
27d ago
What happened with that notion. I'm pretty sure once the 90s arrived James Cameron DID win awards with CGI. Terminator 2 iirc
Pongalh
27d ago
I've wondered about the reception of AI art compared to hip hop in the 80s. Similar claims were made then, about plagiarism, the dilution of musical art, electronic instruments merely aping the real thing etc. I think what's different this time, or why the democratization idea doesn't go far, is because AI is a development given to us by a small number of wealthy nerds, and deeply corporate. Hip hop was DIY, and welled up from poor neighborhoods populated by people who are considered the antithesis of nerds.
If you’re in a museum looking at, let’s say, Palaeolithic stone axes, you might feel certain emotions or a sense of connection to humanity’s distant past. Then if you learned the collection was made by a boomer in the 90s in the Palaeolithic style, you’d be disappointed, regardless of whether the axes looked “good” or not, since they’re literally just crude chipped stones with hardly any aesthetic values on their own.
You thought you were looking at legitimately ancient stone axes, but discover they're fake. That has nothing to do with the visual impression of the axes in an artistic way. This is orthogonal to the labor theory of value wrt to AI art though. The boomer making the replica may very well work twice as hard at it than the stone age man. It's still worse. Its value is lower, despite the labor.
Pongalh
27d ago
Yea. I think right-leaning rationalists think to themselves, "If I can believe in Christianity or Islam or any of those, why not be a woke progressive? They too believe untrue things. And at least it's considered mostly normal in day to day life in the best places in the country to live, to boot."
Pongalh
27d ago
I would rather the universe not be a boring place.
I never understood this. Why the universe is thought to be more boring without god. I'm endlessly fascinated by perfectly worldly things, and contemplating otherworldly.
Pongalh
1mo ago
Some of my former colleagues took this as a sign that these young people were in fact not “choosing” as free individuals. One said, “We will have to consider ways of freeing them.” Perfect liberal consent requires perfectly liberated individuals, and the evidence that Amish youth were responding to the pull of family, community, and tradition marked them as unfree.
This is curious, because Deneen and his ilk dislike liberalism for its threadbare consent-only worldview. But by that same worldview, the young people who return to the Amish lifestyle are perfectly legit. Who are you to second guess their choice? Have at it, Josiah.
Pongalh
1mo ago
Malcom Collins actually agrees that the depiction of the child is a bit off, giving the pedo accusers something to latch on to. Strangely adult features on what is supposed to be a child (in which case, robbing it of what is supposed to be attractive to a pedo, come to think of it, defeating the point?).
I don't care how many times someone asks me if I want to eat pieces of shit for breakfast. I'd say no every time.
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