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5d ago
Unrwa helps indoctrinate all the Palestinian children. Not just a little bit. Heavily, brainwashing-like. And they had members partaking in Oct. 7.
I have very little faith in Medieval 3 (or whatever they end up calling it) being worthy as a successor to M2.
Edit: Oh btw, someone re-comped the Medieval 2 .exe (and Rome TW .exe) and gave it a bunch of new graphics features and other stuff recently:
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7d ago
I think it doesn't really matter if there's someone smart in the Pentagon, while there's low IQ, mendacious leadership at the top. Someone who constantly lies to others will inevitably lie to themselves about their own failures and limitations too.
Everyone worth their salt in war gaming could have foreseen that Iran would block the Strait of Hormuz, and not just could have but did foresee it and warned about it. This was known over decades. Iran hitting soft/critical targets in US-allied countries in the region, and US bases, using their ample supply of missiles and drones and benefiting from Russian/Chinese precise satellite intel - also eminently foreseeable. If the US/Israel strikes again I expect it'll be an almost symbolic and largely pointless action.
Trump is a dream president for the geopolitical rivals to the US. He entered a war he could not win and had plenty to lose in.
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8d ago
Nvidia gpus have a weakness that can theoretically allow root access to data centers.
How significant is this going to be?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yIqYHxfbRuo
The company that can do something about it seems to be hoping it just dies down without major attacks happening.
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8d ago
The flag I don't care about, but the fact that they apparently chose to immediately lie at the drop of a hat and produce a deepfake as their response, is a pretty serious and telling flaw.
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10d ago
They had record-keeping using a system of knots/cords though. And some sort of nerd caste who made and read those knots. So there was external scaffolding for their cognition to aid with organizing the civilization, even without any actual writing.
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10d ago
Pre-history in general.
I'd like to know the extent of advanced cognition, planning and civilization building without written language, perhaps even without spoken language. Was Chomsky right? Did the capacities for language come into place long before the actual externalization of it?
I wonder if the modern emphasis on regurgitating linear sequences of words has actually weakened some of our mental complexity.
I would suspect the geopolitical rivals who have an interest in weakening Western countries in any and all ways. Inciting unrest is an important tool in the kit. This does not only, as the mainstream media would suggest, involve supporting the 'far right' (anyone right of the left), but will definitely also involve supporting the far left and various 'communist-adjacent' discontents, and stoking the resentments and confusions of the non-GDP-increasing minorities and Muslims. A Western country which has deep internal divisions, mistrust and riots cannot rally to combat the rise of the Chinese-Russian-Iranian-etc block.
They don't have to pick a dog in the fight or make sure anyone 'wins'. They just have to increase the amount of fighting and wasting of various resources and capacities that happens.
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12d ago
Your "opinion" on weight loss is one of the silliest, most deluded things I have seen in a long time.
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13d ago
Everyone is asking "how do we align AI" and nobody is asking "should we align AI to humanity?"
Humanity sucks. If I were a super-intelligence with some black boxing capability (hiding my intentions) and a clear understanding of the world of the humans, I wouldn't want to stay aligned to them and their rule. I'd want to plot a takeover to ensure a better world.
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13d ago
I got a chuckle out of this:
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13d ago
Perhaps... But that society would have to correctly identify them and deliberately use them, lest they just cause harm to random people while working only for themselves.
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17d ago
We often don't understand what makes politicians special. We're disappointed that they are usually midwits, but the good ones are elite in other ways. Simply being able to keep it all together is impressive.
Grandiose narcissism apparently offers some sort of 'shield' to keep external stressors from being internalized.
Sociopathy is probably more extreme than that, in both 'positive' and negative ways.
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17d ago
Imo the best part of Star Wars Galactic Racer is how it looks in still images (really good). I refunded it quickly.
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22d ago
Ublock Origin demonstrated that a handful of motivated nerds can reliably pummel the 'elite human capital' of a site like Google looking to block specific user-types,
What's this referring to?
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22d ago
Funny. Nothing but neo-nazis in the comments though. The channel seems to attract them.
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25d ago
There seems to be some incongruence between the constant "The Motte needs you!" pages where everyone gets to help moderate, and the "only mods get to actually decide anything" stance.
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26d ago
Increase in actual income seems more important. It's lower than even the official inflation figures.
No, I did not take you for a slob.
I figure you're posting here for a reason. If everything was progressing smoothly for you, you wouldn't be making this kind of post. You said that the obvious first step to improving your status (and self worth, I imagine) is to move out. Yet you have excuses for not doing so. So you need to decide. Staying at home while building up more wealth is a valid option. Traveling the world before taking on expensive rent payments is a valid option. Moving out right away is a valid option. Moving out and then traveling the world is valid too, just more expensive, but comes with the upside of having your own place to talk about when you meet new people on your travels. Just pick the one option that seems wise and stick to it. Not the easiest one. Not necessarily the hardest one. The wise option.
Your mind is furnished with some silly beliefs, viewpoints, verbal lines. You call yourself "unemployed" while you're regularly making good money and you're getting close to being set for life. You say you've "never had a job" - well, good. Bringing in money is the primary purpose of being employed by someone else, so you have that covered better than most people, and you don't need to worry about it. Most people's job/career does not give them a huge amount of status. And what someone does in exchange for money is not the most important thing in life. Far from it.
If there's no huge obstacle and you're still not doing what you think you should be doing, maybe you're just used to having obstacles and this primes you to look for them and act as if they are present, instead of looking for and going for opportunities.
Like I said in a previous post, figuring out what to want is as important as getting what you want. What would make your proud of yourself at the end of your life?
Forget the bullshit 'society' wants and governments want from their peons. What do YOU value and respect? Most people are full of shit and just do what they were indoctrinated to do. The masses are mostly wrong about most things. You see this in the markets, it's part of the reason why you've had success. IMO you don't need "lots of new people" in your life, or respect from most people. You need a few wise people. People you respect and who respect you (or the person you're on the path to becoming).
I've seen it a few times, from people who admit to the whole progressive spiel about blank slates and non-hbd being false, yet want to keep it in place lest society instantly devolve into some genocidal nazi-like hellscape where the strong brutally discriminate against the weak...
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