TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
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Honestly the fact that this is the worst (or most sympathtic depending on your framing) case they (the anti-Trump/pro-illegal-immigration advocates) could find actually increases my confidence that the folks at ICE/DHS are trying to do thier due diligence.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
If the issue under debate is due process, how can his immigration status be "irrelevant"? His immigration status is what determines how much process is due.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
Even if he were to publicly disavow such tactics now, what reason would anyone have believe him?
What if disavowing the nobel lie is itself a nobel lie craven attempt to get people who stopped listening to come back.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
A cynic might even suspect that both the woke left and dissident right do this on purpose.
Chattle Slavery (as distinct from other flavors of compelled servitude) was something of an aberration in the West. To the extent that it coexisted, that coexistence was never "comfortable". The tension between Christian doctrine/ideals and the political and economic expediancies of colonizing the New World was arguably a major driver of intra-Western conflict from the 17th through 19th centuries. As @The_Nybbler quipped a couple weeks ago, if Thomas Jefferson had survived to see the ACW he probably would have said "I told you so", as this conflict, along with the recognition that it must eventually come to blows, was widely acknowledged at the time.
“Racism”, in the sense that both Yglesias and yourself describe is about devaluing individual merit in favor of an emphasis on group differences/membership. That is why it is "a priori bad".
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
Are you trying to claim that all deliniations between ingroup and outgroup are "racism"? or are you arguing against any form of delineation that isn’t based on race?
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
Racism hasn't changed at all, its just been reboxed and rebranded.
However if you prefer, let us taboo the term "racism" and instead discuss "racial identitarianism". Racial identitarianism is a priori immoral and anti-western as it encourages the devaluation of individual merit.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
As i said, i hadn't heard of him before yesterday, but based on the first page of search results he's notable as much for his politics as for his work in economics. And as @Dean says, being popular doesn't mean he is not "a hack".
Now if his description had been "Economist at the University of Chicago and Vocal Libertarian" or "Vocal Socialist" I might not have come away with the impression that the article was written with the sole intent of trashing Trump and his supporters, but it didn't and I did.
Racism is effectively the rejection of individual variance/merit in favor of group variance/merit.
To the degree that we still live in a Christian-influenced Western Enlightenment Culture, racism is a priori bad, because the emphasis we place on individual merit is a key trait of Western Civilization.
What did you think the parable of the Good Samaritan was about?
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
13d ago
I'd hadn't heard of him before today but the top result for the name "Scott Sumner" in my search bar was "Economist at the University of Chicago and Vocal Critic of Donald Trump".
If his opposition to Trump and Tarrifs is notable enough to show up in his academic profile and Wikipedia I think its safe to say that he is not an unbiased observer.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
13d ago
Is there any reason beyond the words of random partisan hacks to believe that those allegedly "up" are indeed up and that those allegedly "down" are indeed down?
The lack of named sources coupled with lack of comment from both the USG and Nvidia would seem to hint that the story was false from the start.
Personally, NPR's presentation of themselves as a bastion for "serious people" also doesn't help the story's credibility.
The real question is wether this pressumed fabulism stemmed from "orange man bad" or some beltway-bandit trying to pull a pump and dump on Nvidia's stock.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
14d ago
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
15d ago
What about the 20 or so people who refused to take plea-deals and and ended up being held without trial for four years until Trump re-took office?
You're pulling the same trick, claiming that Trump and the people who voted for him can't possibly believe the things they claim to believe because "all right thinking economists" are in the opposing camp is not an argument, it is assuming the conclusion.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
15d ago
If authority is delegated by the Attorney General than it is ultimately the Attorney General's call whether Garcia can be removed. Someone should call Pam Bondi and inform her of the situation.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
15d ago
Garcia was not in the country legally.
The interviewer asks Trump if he would deport someone who was in the country legally and he responds "if they are criminals, yes"
Attorney's name/address got entered in the "client information" portion of some form seems like a simple mistake that might not be caught immediately.
Its not a "hidden" assumption, its a pretty open one, and another place where the consensus of the pseudo religious AI safety crowd breaks sharply from that of the people actively working in the field.
Assuming that "perfect IQ" means "perfect knowledge" is a very spherical frictionless cow sort of assumpton that while elegant in theory, is not realistic.
I think you need to have a clear idea of what "intelligence" even means before you can start to assess how valuable it is.
No they did not specify any circumstances under which they would update, they explained why even if x y and z were to happen they are not high priorities and thus beneath consideration. While there is a throw-away line about giving Trump credit for setting "wokeness" back a bit the possibility that Trump and the people who voted for him might genuinly believe the things they claim to believe is dismissed out of hand.
This is one of several areas where the consensus of those who are actively engaged in the design and development of the algorithms and interfaces breaks sharply with the consensus of the less technical, more philosophically oriented "AI Safetyism" crowd.
I think that coming from "a world of ideas" rather than "results", guys like Scott, Altman, Yudkowski, Et Al. assume that the "idea" must be where all the difficulties reside and that the underlying mechanisms, frameworks, hardware, etc... that make an idea possible are mere details to be worked out later rather than something like 99.99% of the actual work.
See the old Carl Sagan quote about in order to make an apple pie "from scratch" you would first have create a universe with apples in it.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
16d ago
Setting aside the big questions of what machine intelligence even looks like, and whether generative models can be meaningfully described as "agents" in the first place.
The scale of even relatively "stupid" algorithms like GPT would seem to make the "hard takeoff" scenario unlikely.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
16d ago
How can you claim to be "evaluating a choice by it's effects" when those effects have yet to manifest and there is significant disagreement regarding what those effects will be and what "bad" even means in this context?
I actually had the complete opposite intuition. All he's done is reinforce the perception that this is a tactical choice rather than a principled one.
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