SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
I'm saying that for the SF tech crowd, actually removing so-called "cultural safety" (racial equity, transphobia etc etc) would be a much bigger deal than removing limitations on mass suirveillance. For evidence, see Google's transformation from "do no evil" to their ubiquituous spying on literally everyone.
You can't draw an equality sign between woke and self righteous moralism as wokism has no monopoly on it. See eg. the religious right, war on porn etc.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
The most based reason.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
OpenAI will simply say that they have policies preventing mass domestic surveilance and autonomous weapons, and then not actually prevent their models from being used for mass domestic surveilance and autonomous weapons.
Since when have typical San Francisco tech people cared about mass domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons more than they have cared about woke?
For example Dean Ball, the guy who literally wrote the Trump's admin own AI strategy as senior policy advisor is saying that this move is essentially destroying any trust investors could have in America AI companies.
Hey, don't threaten the rest of us with good time!
In many European cultures, it is common practice that people who hold academic degrees (in particular PhDs) can list them with their name everywhere, replacing the appellation (Mr/Mrs/Ms) where available.
Is that the case outside Germany and Austria?
I can't recall having ever seen it anywhere else and quite a few people make fun of Germans for that (eg. Herr Doktor Doktor Professor Someone). Sure, in academic and some professional contexts you would say Dr Someone but not in normal life. Unless you were German, of course.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Yup. Seems fairly trivial as soon as you accept that not all names are English and aren't meant to be pronounced with the fucked up "rules" of English pronunciation.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
17th to 19th century American West was very much an outlier. I won't say similar things never happened elsewhere but they were a rarity. Even in the rest of America that was an exception as there wasn't a sizable body of people who expanded the frontier by conquest for an expanded length of time and then replaced the original people more than culturally. Ultimately the amount of wealth that can be gathered by that route for ordinary men is limited (almost as a tautology - where would masses of men they get such wealth from?)
It was fairly often the norm for the man to gather enough wealth to support himself and his family before getting married (although even that depended very much on the time and place) but that involved traditional boring stuff like working as a farm hand etc.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
I am not sure this is a good top level CW post. In large parts it is basically the format of Scott's link posts, each line with a link and a sentence or three of hot takes.
I for one vastly prefer it over posts that spend half a dozen pages to say what could be said in two paragraphs or, even worse, AI augmented slop employed as a sort of one man gish gallop meant to drown everyone who disagrees in pages and pages and fucking endless pages of text, as favored by one prominent poster here.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
The idea presumably would be that if you can degrade the IRGC's capabilities, since they act as kind of the internal suppression force (being a sizeable army/navy in their own right), the regime won't be able to maintain control over a populace in revolt. At least, that's my take on it.
How would this work when IRGC (presumably) consists largely of true believers and their suppression capabilities are of the "we'll shoot you on the street", and not the "we'll use a highly centralized apparatus to eliminate key dissidents"? That is, when killing a bunch of leaders doesn't actually degrade on the street capabilities of the organization (unlike with the nuclear program or traditional state leadership).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Men would often get married later [...], having returned to their poor home towns as impressive figures with money in their pockets to whisk away
No, they really wouldn't. The vast majority of men in history were subsistence farmers who never traveled particularly far from their home and certainly didn't "work on the frontier" (except sometimes when that meant starting a farm on the "frontier" and staying there).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
My God, that double-necked guitar/bass must weigh a fucking ton though.
Now imagine if it was based on a Les Paul instead of a Strat.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
They play a simultaneously incoherent and very danceable style of microtonal music.
At first I was "Wait, you can't really play microtonal music on a guitar". Then I saw the frets of said guitar...
This is also the first time I've ever seen someone use those weirdo pedals that /r/guitarpedals loves such that they sound actually musical.
super expensive radio-quality mic
Ah, the cliche Shure SM7B, used mostly by people who have no idea why you'd choose it and who don't even know how to use it. Aka the less colored more upscale version of the uniquituous SM57 / SM58. Although at 400e it's hardly "super expensive" considering there are plenty of fairly run of the mill microphones that cost 1000e or more. Still, you can easily get that same "sound" from any number of cheap 100-200e cardioid electret mics (or even the cheap SM57 and a bit of EQ). All without looking like a goddamn idiot.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Isn't that how English has behaved for the last N hundred years?
That’s a bit like a frog accusing a toad of being a dirty amphibian.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
French is pretty much an extreme example in the language purity debate. In Finnish there is little to no controversy in using such loanwords but they are inevitably changed into a finnish style pronunciation, usually without changing the spelling. So c becomes k or s, q becomes k, w becomes v and z becomes ts. It goes even further than that in some common names so that the name is pronounced as a best effort pronunciation without the spelling being changed. Thus curry sauce gets written "curry-kastike" and pronounced as "karri-kastike" (but if you were to actually write it like that, it would sound like sauce made from a person named Karri).
Which is all to say that cultures take up loanwords all the time without necessarily caring one bit about the root or changing the spelling. Doubly so for anything related to internet or recent trends.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
TIL I'm not Finnish because I regularly use words that have the letter c, q, w or z (none of which exist in native words).
Frankly, your so-called argument is just complete bullshit.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
I'm not an expert, but I think the key aspect of intelligence here is the ability to model the world. I am a little hung over and off my game this morning and I did not immediately recognize this as a trick question.
I don't think that's a trick question at all. It's simply a question where the trivial autopilot "answer" is not the correct one and you need to actually model the system on a very basic level
I'm reminded of when a certain friend of mine asks me questions related to programming or electronics. While he has a pretty good understanding of tech in general, he lacks an internal model of how electronic circuits or C++ work. He makes guesses but more often than not they are wrong because he's simply making assumptions from what he's read and what I've explained to him before without understanding how those were influenced by other things and how the specifics of his current project affect things. IOW he lacks a model of the system that he could use to make predictions of its behavior when changing some thing.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
"Ma'am, this is Wendy's."
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
I've always felt that the entire term "latchkey kid" was super weird. In the 80s in Finland that was simply considered the norm. Some families were well off enough that only one parent worked (or the other only worked part time) but those were exceptions. Our immediate neighborhood had a bunch of kids of similar ages and one mother worked only part time so we knew where to go if we needed help.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Don't try to spread your applestasy! It was agreed at the Council of Citrus that the taste of oranges is superior apples.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Ah, but you’re not using FancyModel 4.97-q35-r2 so it’s No True AI.
Or because they don’t work on the kinds of apps and problems you do and detest people who insist on trying to gaslight and force them into using something you happen to like.
Much of this is because they were used so brilliantly. A killer machine made out of liquid metal doesn't have to look realistic as long as it looks cool and plausible. I believe they only used fancy CGI for the FX that look like FX (ie. time travel, T-1000 morphing, terminator vision) and did most of the rest with traditional techniques where the viewers are going to be much more critical about realism compared to what was achievable with CGI at the time. Contrast this with Jurassic Park where the dinosaurs look almost like upscaled rubber toys because it turns out that people have a whole lot more practical experience of how real animals move compared to killer robots.
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