SoulFire
a natural neural network
Politics is the continuation of drama by other means.
Programmer and mind upload enthusiast from Finland. Trying to become a better writer.
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SoulFire
a natural neural network
1d ago
Or all police officers get run over and the problem solves itself?
SoulFire
a natural neural network
4d ago
Well, I guess that's kind of different. It still seems kind of extra, and I imagine it's not like Maduro himself was personally carrying a machine gun.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
5d ago
How absurd! By this standard every foreigner with guns is a criminal.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
1mo ago
Isn't that what video games and entrepreneurship are for? Certainly, modern society is not very Darwinian with associated externalities in forms of ugliness and degeneration, but I'm sure that people have found plenty of first-world struggles to learn and adapt around.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
1mo ago
Your case is that human beings will seriously malfunction without more frequent infant deaths?
SoulFire
a natural neural network
1mo ago
Ukrainian drone forces commander claiming Russians were using several times more last year.
I can't find anything on this, and I severely doubt the Ukrainians would state this.
very gamified Ukrainian drone ecosystem one isn't up for scaling sufficiently.
The contents of the article don't corroborate the claim made in the caption of the hyperlink. Do you have any evidence to support the claim that Russians had several times more drones in 2024 or that the Russian drone program is "overwhelming" or that anyone on Ukraine's side actually claimed this?
SoulFire
a natural neural network
1mo ago
I believe the straw on the camel's back was when we had a comment removed over someone trying to civilly and factually explain (((parentheses))).
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
Yeah, "Pussy, huh?" were the last words he uttered on tape. That and with the case where Buzz Aldrin punched Bart Sibrel sure reminds me not to insult anyone on their courage lest they suddenly find it. Though I'm sure any modicum of de-escalation at any point would have gone a long way for the Goys.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
Well, I suppose this is in line with eyewitness testimony being famously unreliable. I'd expect for video review the mind can also add/remove/compress the events in such unusual ways that it becomes a completely different story in memory.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
"I don't care if I'm dying, your brutally autistic son's wheelchair makes too much noise in the morning, and I'm going to report you to the HOA! Why haven't you shoveled your driveway?! You're a disgrace, no wonder your son is a retard!"
I don't recall this part of the altercation post the actual shooting starting. I assume you're talking about Jeffrey Spaide killing James and Lisa Goy.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
Jesus, what is this, the sexual code for robots? I always saw sex as something raw, animalistic, spontaneous. Wrestling and overpowering with even some violence if that's what she's into.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
This will be very reformative and beneficial.
Perhaps it would be. It seems to work for foreign policy. Tautologically if we remove contracts which are harmful to society, then society will benefit. Of course, you'd have to factor in the increase to future counter party risk evaluations. But perhaps we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with if boomers had operated under the assumption that future generations would annul any one-sided agreements that they should be robbed. And now is a good time as any to set new precedent. Surely, anything will beat continuing our civilizational death spiral in Boomertopia?
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
People collecting pensions they were promised as part of their work agreement is not parasitism.
People who are net negatives are parasites irrespective of the method they've used to swindle the rest of society. If they have managed contracts which state they should receive more from the system than they have contributed, then these people are a drain. It makes little difference whether they then extract this tribute with sword and cutting throats or through the laws of a bullshit system of their construction. What obligation do later generations have to maintain a Ponzi scheme which they did not vote for, and in some cases was constructed before they were given the right to vote. If the elderly have unilaterally erected a contract in my behest, that I should be drained for their benefit, then what is this contract worth? Surely, tyranny by lawfare is still tyranny.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
And, like, what would distinguish a straight man as a bottom?
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
bottom-straights
Ahah, could you elaborate on the characteristic of this supposed demographic, so people outside of yourself could derive meaning from this term?
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
The TV debates are what's really boring. His interesting discussion is in psychology. What I find most fascinating are his ideas of human perception, like such relating to the orienting reflex with error detection and novelty in the environment; how our value judgements shape our cognition not only in the decision making domain but in the very way that we perceive the world; and him likening such to modern AI where bottom-up approaches have triumphed over top-down manual programming of structure into ANNs because of the frame problem and such, where AI can't even see the toy environment without integrating an unexpectedly massive amount of information. I also find his ideas about the useful information narratives and archetypes to be interesting and gets me thinking about why humans find stories so entertaining in the first place.
As for going insane, that just sounds like more gossip by detractors. He did have his run-in with benzos, which seems more like an error with the medical establishment not properly advertising the risk of physical dependency that prescription use can induce. Then he tried to detox by putting himself into a coma in Russia which was also a pretty big error, and he seemed cognitively devastated for a little while, but his slump was nothing I'd say resembled insanity.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
The primordial desire to throw feces at one's enemies! Truly, the more we advance, the more humans stay the same. I can't help how much I giggle at the concept of literal shitflinging on an industrial scale.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
Jordan Peterson went downhill when he became weird lobster medicine man
Just when did JBP become this? This seems more like a caricature by ignorant detractors rather than an earnest condensation of what he espouses. JBP always used serotonin in lobsters to exemplify how despite 500 million years of divergent evolution, we still share a lot of psychological commonality in the function of serotonin in how we process defeat and dominance.
The only woo he pushes is that carnivore diet, but considering the historically unreliable and still indecisive state of nutrition science, I don't believe this and other theory about ketogenic diets have been proven to be ineffective.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
Considering the events which transpired, vanilla Stalinism appears to have been cannibalistic enough.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
2mo ago
If a leftwing group chat made jokes about the Holodomor, Mao or Pol Pot, this would make me very much disinclined to trust them with any power, as they have clearly not learned from the past.
I would instead be more inclined to trust them. Considering the typical handling with denial and apologia, leftoid humor at the expense of the genocidal tendencies of communist regimes would indicate that these atrocities at least occupy some mind share rather than ignorance and sweeping under the rug.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
7mo ago
That's farcical. If California made a state-owned housing corporation, they would build zero houses. The state is precisely the obstacle to house building. The reason we don't have houses is because if you try to build a house, they'll put you in jail.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
11mo ago
I propose that term be reserved for participants in animal roleplay.
SoulFire
a natural neural network
11mo ago
Incidentally, what's up with the utter absence of Japanese innovation?
What absence? Aren't all tech products adopted outside of Japan included as cases of Japanese innovation? Ranging from Toyota's seven Mudas to even the Nintendo Wii.
Duty to retreat or duty not to deliberately place yourself in front of a vehicle to cause a confrontation. I don't think the principle to stand your ground automatically means you get to aggressively claim increasing land because once you have it, you can't be forced to retreat.
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