TequilaMockingbird
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It's not a proof, and in order to be "a bluff" there would've had to have been an intent to decieve.
Last week @2rafa asked "When will the AI penny drop? and the answer i would have liked to give at at the time was "when the footprint of a decent tokenizer gets small enough to run organically" or "when the equipment available to the hobbiest and semi-pro comunity catches up with the requirements of a decent tokenizer".
Until that happens specific questions will be doomed to be answered unspecifically.
The broad consensus (which i agree with) within the robotics and machine learning communities is that the existing generative models are ill-suited for any task requiring autonomy or rigor and that this is not a problem that can be fixed by throwing more FLOPs at it.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4mo ago
What is the internet for if not "bullshiting around"?
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4mo ago
Not to hand, sorry.
Ever since I first read The Selfish Gene I have been fascinated by the idea of a "cognitive ecology". That is the concept of ideas themselves as organisms that breed/evolve. That ideas themselves could be described as "predatory" or "symbiotic". That different ideas might vary in their evolutionary fitness and be specially adapted to different information environments, or to fill an "ecological niche".
With this in mind, what Hlinkians such as @Dean and @FCfromSSC appear to be describing is a Taxonomical Ranking of ideologies with "International Socialist" (Communists), "National Socialist" (Nazis/Fascists), and "Intersectional Progressivism" all as Species within the Genus "Rousseauidae" which itself resides within the Family "Western Enlightenment".
While it may be reasonable to claim that this Taxonomical model isn't "a good way of dividing up different ideologies." or that "it's just something Hlynka latched onto because it seemed like a good way of putting all his enemies onto one side" I do not think that it is reasonable to call it "incoherent". Besides, it being "bad" is just like your opinion man.
I think that the issue a lot of people here had (have?) with Hlinka and his ideas is that he essentially presented an "outside context problem". His politics weren't incoherent as much as they were Alien.
I was actually just thinking about this in the context of @OliveTapenade's comment on @KulakRevolt in the Snow White thread last week. Where one extolls "rejecting modernity" "embracing violence" from a comfortable office the other talks about that time he surreptitiously pulled a gun on a police officer durring a traffic stop while praying to avoid violence. The two might as well have come from different planets.
It has been theorized that JD Vance or somone else highly placed within the Trump campaign was a Mottizen or SSCer due to how seeming references to the community like "Shiri's Scissor", "this is not a coincidence because nothing is ever a coincidence", and "youre still crying wolf" kept making thier way into official statements and twitter posts.
Shakesneer and Hlynka were considered to be the prime suspects.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4mo ago
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4mo ago
The master's tools will not dismantle the master's house.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4mo ago
why the hell does she care about who is the 'fairest where that means most just' part or whether that applies to her?" but you can't have a Snow White story without the Magic Mirror, so, eh.
The evil queen literally does a whole song and dance about how you can get away with murder so long as you're rich and hot, but did anyone in the writers room think about how it fit into the rest of the movie? I don't think they did.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4mo ago
Sorry, i thought i had provided the full link.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4mo ago
people just don’t like the paradigmatic young woman of the Modern Audience.
On multiple occasions I found myself wondering "who is this trying to appeal to?"
Outside of the bits with the AI-generated Dwarves it doesn't feel like a kids movie, at the same time it doesn't feel like a movie made for adults either. The whole thing has a very YA tumblr fandom "I'm thirteen and think this is deep" vibe to it.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4mo ago
On the other hand the last thing we need is a story in the Atlantic about Trump officials leaking classified war-plans on theMotte.
Once again I am begging you people to recognize that Christian Conservatism With Liberal Characteristics is not the Default Ideology against which all others are measured.
Is it not though?
At least within the context of the United States, Christian (Burkean) Conservatism With Liberal Characteristics was the dominant ideology from the nation's founding through the latter half of the 20th century, and while it may be in decline it's not dead yet.
Christian Conservatism With Liberal Characteristics is the ideology that conquered the continent and put men on the moon. It would seem to me that any discussion of "transforming", "reforming", or "restoring" America has to happen within that context.
why don't you link the post that actually got him banned?
Because that comment never came up in the discussion.
Yeah, because all the moderators are massive HBDers,
Members of the mod team did endorse the harassment of him for his views on IQ as "providing a valuable public service".
Officially he got banned for antagonism and boo-outgroup posting.
Unofficially it looks like he may have been banned for breaking with the rationalist consensus on race and IQ. A week before he got banned he alluded to having been threatened with a ban if he didn't "bend the knee", and the fact that his ban was announced as a top level post without citing any specific rule-breaking comments would seem to suggest that whatever happened to justify his ban happened out of the public eye. Is there an epic blowout in some mod's DMs that we never got to read?
Conspiratorially he and the mods knew that the 2024 election might make him a public figure and target for "journalism", so it was decided that he would go away to reduce the potential of theMotte.org getting caught up in Trump-related drama.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4mo ago
Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Margaret Wies are all good but might not make the break.
Have we discussed the live-action remake of 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs since it came out?
In an effort to drum up business my local theater is running a promotion that includes free movie tickets for spending money at local bars and restaurants. While it's not something I would've spent my own money on, I elected to use one of my free movie vouchers to see the new Snow White because I was curious, and wanted to form my own opinion of it.
I expect most readers of this thread have at least a passing familiarity with the various controversies surrounding this production and more knowledgeable people than I have already done the business and Culture-war narrative side of things to death. So I'm going to focus on the on-screen product.
As a movie Snow White is solidly "Mid". Not good, but not terrible. The writing, acting, and set-peices are all passable. The humor is bland and inoffensive, and the songs are mostly forgettable. Gal Godot may have the dramatic range of an Electric SUV on 5% charge, but "Sultry Femme Fatale" is well within that range, and she seems to be having fun vamping it up (As is often the case the "villain song" is one of the better ones). To Rachel Ziegler's credit she sings well and serves adequately in the role of "pretty princess" / "coquettish ingenue" coming across as substantially less "Girlbossey" than I had expected given her off-screen persona.
The movie wastes no time establishing it's left wing-wing politics. The opening song and dance number is essentially all about how wonderful life is when people give according to their ability and receive according to their need. The word-play between "fair" as in "light-skinned" or "pleasing to the eye" and "fair" as in "fair use" "fair trade" and a "fair contest" is a recurring leitmotif throughout the script and it gets established in this bit.
Because Disney princesses are not allowed to have a mother the good queen falls ill and dies at the end of the song which is when a wild Gal Godot appears. She is a beautiful noblewoman from a far-off land across the sea whose people, covet wealth, power, and beauty above all else, and have magical powers. The King (Snow White's dad) is naturally smitten and immediately marries Gal Godot presumably because she is wealthy, powerful, and looks like Gal Godot.
In her new position as Queen, Snow White's stepmother immediately begins to subtly corrupt the Realm and remake it in her own harder and more covetous image (think Pottersville versus Bedford Falls in It's a Wonderful Life). In case you haven't picked up on it yet, Snow White's canonical origin story in this movie is about a virtuous and happy left-wing government being subverted and taken over from within by an evil Jewish woman through a combination of sex-appeal, blood magic, and propaganda.
We skip forward an indeterminate number of years, Snow White has been kept cloistered in the castle "because it is not safe". The evil queen Gal Godot has been sowing fear about a nebulous threat on the southern border as an excuse to get Snow White's Dad out of the picture and to crack down on dissent. (I wonder what that was intended as an allegory for?) Snow White catches a thief named Johnathan played by Handsome McStrongJaw raiding the Castle's pantry, and he informs her that life outside the castle walls is not all sunshine and adorable woodland creatures. Snow White's response is to inform the Queen. You see, if only the queen knew what was going on she would put a stop to it. Johnathan is arrested and put to death, but Snow White helps him escape the castle because this is a Disney movie and he is the designated love-interest.
Snow White is getting a bit too uppity and too "fair" for her own good so Gal Godot convinces the one black guy in the palace guard to take Snow White out to the woods and kill her by getting all up in the guard's personal space and offering him anything he wants. Black guy takes Snow White out to the woods to kill her, but he gets cold-feet and decides to tell Snow White about the whole murder plot because she was nice to him and asked him how his day was going.
Snow White flees into the enchanted wood where she meets the Seven AI-Generated Dwarves we are all familiar with from the 1937 original. After some hijinks and another musical number the Dwarves inform her that the enchanted wood is also home to Seven Bandits. A troupe of erstwhile actors who are plotting to overthrow Gal Godot and have recently been joined by our "prince of thieves" Johnathan. Snow White sets out to find them and a bunch of stuff happens without any real rhyme or reason. There is singing, there is dancing, there is peril, but none of it really effects the plot or evokes a feeling.
The proverbial "final battle" of the movie is Snow White and the Seven Bandits leading a protest march against Gal Godot that ends with the Townspeople and Palace Guards all drinking a pepsi turning on the queen and reinstating the socialist order from the opening musical number.
In conclusion, for what is otherwise a very bland and boring movie in the watching there seems to be a lot going on. And im curious to hear other people's thoughts on it.
I also find it funny that what is easily the most "woke" movie in recent memory could plausibly be interpreted as endorsing dissident right ideals, Jews Bad, hereditary monarchy good, "the people" are sheep, etc...
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4mo ago
And yet the FBI also found that classified information was routinely emailed from that server to staffers personal (ie non-government) email accounts and devices without encryption.
TequilaMockingbird
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4mo ago
Because the specific documents that set the whole email-server scandal in motion were classified intelligence reports from the Department of Defense. Hillary was the Secretary of State.
For 1, the screenshots have born the theories of more skeptical users from the previous threads like @Dean and @Setulla out. If anything they were being generous
For 2, it demonstrates that the demand for rigor is isolated. The media is niether good nor honest, CMV.
The "Hoax" is two-fold.
It is now clear that the original claim about "Administration officials leaking classified war-plans" was (at a minimum) grossly overstated if not outright false.
In addition, we (the general public) are being asked to believe that the same people who voted for Clinton in 2016 and who supported keeping the nuclear football in the hands of a dementia patient for the last 3+ years, are now "genuinely and deeply concerned" about operational and national security. NOT just reaching for anything they can use to attack the outgroup because Orange Man Bad.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
4mo ago
You mean '61 don't you?
what is it that makes Israel worthy of the friendship of the US whereas NATO is worthy of relegation
I understand that users here tend to be particularly stupid when it comes to anything involving jews, but the simple answer is that unlike the Germans, the Isrealis pay thier bills and have actually managed to win a war in the last century.
TequilaMockingbird
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4mo ago
We will see
Ian was always a Bill Maher/James Carville type "left wing", not a pink-haired tumblr thot left wing, and CalBear is a ArfCom-style angry Vet conservative.
This happens because while the model has been programmed by some clever sod to apologize when told that it is wrong, it doesn't actually have a concept of "right" or "wrong". Just tokens with with different correlation scores.
Unless you explicitly tell/programm it to exclude the specific mistake/mistakes that it made from future itterations (a feature typically unavailable in current LLMs without a premium account) it will not only continue to make but "double down" on those mistakes because whatever most correlates with the training data must, by definition, be correct.
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