Recursive_Enlightenment
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Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
Concerning C:
"The same complainant took issue with this statement of Peterson’s: “Well, it’s just poor children and the world has too many people on it anyways.” Rogan had replied, “You’re being facetious.”
In his communications to the college, Peterson referred to this comment. “I respectfully submit that anyone truly listening to that podcast and not merely focusing for a moment on that statement out of context (and who has bothered to familiarize themselves at all with anything else I have ever said before leveling such an accusation) would note instantly that I do not for a second believe and never have that ‘it’s just poor children’ or ‘that the world has too many people on it.’
“The comment was aimed ironically exactly at those who make such claims and I am frankly rather amazed that the ICRC [the college’s Inquiries, Complaints, and Reports Committee] would make such an error in accusing me of propagating those views.”"
Tips (perhaps out of date) for dating leftist women while conservative and male: Treat your beliefs like a peacock's tail. Try your best to signal that you can afford to have these beliefs because of your huge evolutionary fitness advantage over other men. Don't show any embarrassment, your goal should be projecting the view that "I know you find my politics abhorrent, but I'm not going to hide my views because I'm confident that if you get to know me you will really want to date me, and if you don't, well, I have lots of options." Being a conservative white man, surprisingly, gives you a real advantage when trying to date a leftist non-white woman because these women are sick of white men trying to date them to prove their anti-racism, and won't think you guilty of this offense.
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
My guess is that teachers find it much more enjoyable to teach using whole language compared to phonics, and so our non-consumer based public school system mostly uses whole language instruction.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
Imagine someone was raised in a country where the Holocaust is officially denied, and then goes to college in a country such as Finland or Germany in which denying the Holocaust is a crime. This student is genuinely uncertain if the Holocaust occurred, and starts conversations about the Holocaust with his classmates and presents arguments he was given as a child about why the Holocaust was faked by powerful interests. He is sternly told that it is a criminal offense to bring up such arguments. If he is a good Bayesian, how should this criminality cause him to update? (Of course, I don't think the Holocaust was faked.)
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
I've been told by a knowledgeable source that Conan the Barbarian (minus the magic) had a more accurate description of pre-history Europe than post-WW II anthropologists do.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
From the Wikipedia page on the proposal: "Under the endorsed design principles of the Referendum Working Group, the membership of the Voice would be selected by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across the country, with an enforced gender balance at the national level"
I'm guessing that "gender balance" is a form of cultural imperialism and not a big part of how Australian aboriginals governed themselves before whites arrived.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
Imagine all the staff people who didn't realize "fought against Stalin in WW II" probably meant was a Nazi (Finns excluded, of course).
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
I've talked with her a few times in real life and formed a very positive impression of her.
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
“Get a decent career and make money.”- Doesn’t work in a world where women make up the majority of college graduates.
It's better advice than ever if college educated women mostly want to date college educated men. It's women who don't get dating market value from going to college.
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
What gets you fiercely activated, beyond what you can rationally justify?
Computer problems and being forced to go through call trees to contact some organization. If I'm alone I will scream and swear.
Recursive_Enlightenment
4mo ago
Don't forget Haiti. The French revolutionary government, remarkably, decided to end slavery in Haiti. Napoleon tried to bring it back, causing a horrific Haitian race war that may have made US Southerners more resistant to ending slavery and more willing to fight a civil war to keep it.
Recursive_Enlightenment
9mo ago
Tell her you want to move to a leftist state like Massachusetts or California that has similar laws to Europe. Tell her that America is so big thinking all American states are the same would be like an American thinking there is no real difference between living in Romania or England or an American being fearful of living in Spain because of the policies of the Hungarian government.
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
Yes, pillaging isn't that bad is something you could only think if you have never had to worry about starvation.
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
Female education is strongly negatively correlated with fertility. I'm guessing civil society won't let me target this, but perhaps I could greatly reduce the total number of people going to college.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
Silly religious people don't realize that hell only exists for those who make bad acausal trades with future AI Gods.
Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
A central lesson of the Holocaust is: "When someone says they want to kill you, believe them." --- Elie Wiesel
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
Related question: Does the military treat its troops better if you have universal conscription or if you force the military to compete in labor markets?
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
Learn who will hate you if you are not woke and take appropriate precautions.
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
So it's "deep-state" by design and without pretense.
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
The focus in academia is on preventing new Garrett Joneses from getting tenure rather than reducing the scope of tenure by firing the few openly non-woke professors. Most tenured woke professors are smart enough to understand that if you weaken tenure, changing moral fashions means something they have written in the past could get them targeted, especially by a college administration looking to save money.
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
He is 65, and I'm guessing that payments from the dying newspaper industry were dwindling anyways.
Two Tweets from OpenAI's Sam Altman: "eliezer has IMO done more to accelerate AGI than anyone else. certainly he got many of us interested in AGI, helped deepmind get funded at a time when AGI was extremely outside the overton window, was critical in the decision to start openai, etc." "it is possible at some point he will deserve the nobel peace prize for this--I continue to think short timelines and slow takeoff is likely the safest quadrant of the short/long timelines and slow/fast takeoff matrix."
Eliezer Yudkowsky thinks that the rapid development of AGI will likely kill us and he has devoted his life to trying to stop this from happening, and Sam Altman almost certainly knows this. My personal guess is that quantum immortality means regardless of who is right, some branches of the multiverse will survive AGI, and the survivors will have enough computational power to know what percentage of the branches survived, and consequently whether Altman or Yudkowsky were right.
Edit: Eliezer's response Tweet, which I don't understand.
Recursive_Enlightenment
1yr ago
Conan: Total war, might makes right, population replacement through violence. Post WW II anthropologists: Everyone lived in peace. What Hitler tried to do never, ever happened in the distant past and if you think differently you are a Nazi supporter.
Recursive_Enlightenment
3mo ago
A plausible ranking of what a US president does by importance is (1) Controlling Nuclear Weapons, (2) Foreign Policy, (3) Appointing Federal Judges, (4) Regulatory Policy, (5) Budgetary Stuff, (6) Other Law Making, (7) Communications. Almost everyone ignores (1) which is horrible, but that seems to be the nature of democracy. Perhaps it was mostly luck but US foreign policy went extremely well under Trump as he seemed to have deterred adversaries from making new trouble. If you are a conservative Trump did about as well with (3) and (4) as you could hope from any president especially with respect to the Covid vaccines. Washington is broken with respect to (5) and Trump didn't fix it but most likely neither would anyone else. We didn't get many bad new laws under Trump which is the best you can realistically hope for if you are a conservative. If you like Trump's style then he maxes out with (7).
Prediction: If this passes nice hotels will almost never have vacancies. They will have some rewards program that guarantees there are never vacancies because any empty room will be given to a person in the rewards program or perhaps given to a friend of a hotel employee. Or, you go to the hotel expecting to have one room, and the hotel decides to give you two as a bonus for being such a good customer.
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