TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
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I feel like it's another one of those midwit bell-curve memes. The low information take is that if you're going to peddle propoganda/bullshit, at least make it a Studio Ghibli meme. The "midwit" take is that as very serious people thinking seriously about serious topics you (the public) need to take our ideas very seriously. Meanwhile, the the high info take is that engaging seriously with propoganda/bullshit is a waste of time but Studio Ghibli memes are fun.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
3d ago
It's just dumb, and displays a gross ignorance/lack of understanding of algorithmic behavior.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
3d ago
What little technical discussion i caught was in "not even wrong" territory.
ZorbaTHut and TracingWoodgrains were(are?) both long time dramanauts and I am reasonably confident that there are at least two others. That's a minimum of two, possibly as many as four or more, out of a population of ten admins. Greater than 20% is a "significant percentage" if you ask me.
CCing @SteveAgain
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
9d ago
Risen indeed!
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
9d ago
If "misinformation" leads to accurate predictions is it really "mis" information?
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
9d ago
They are not intended to follow from eachother, they are two independent statements of fact intended to corroborate the claim made in the subsequent paragraph.
My understanding is that the mod team has a lot of overlap with folks from rDrama. The Motte's underlying code is a fork of rDrama's.
Which "side" the mod team is on is whatever side that rDrama is on, which is less about left or right and more about a cultural aesthetic. Gay/Trans/Furry PC-Gamer Master-Race rise up. A metastasization of whatever was going on with Hot Topic in the late 00s.
A key feature of this culture is antipathy towards "normies" and anyone else who isn’t in on the joke. Both the extant left and right have factions within them that are at war with the "default" culturally christian, 2.5 kids and a dog view of middle America and it is with those factions that the culture of rDrama (and by extension theMotte) sides. The side that thinks that TracingWoodgrains trolling LibsOfTikTok was just chef's kiss is the side that the moderators of theMotte are on.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
9d ago
Speaking of noticing things they don't want you to notice, its kind of funny how "patriot front" fell off the map around the same time DOGE and Kash Patel started cleaning house.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
9d ago
"Uncontroversial" my ass
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
10d ago
You're forgetting that jews are not actually people in this context.
Ive said this before but i think it bears repeating. Any definition of the "online right" that excludes the various Limbaugh and Brietbart succesors who comprise the core of the Tea-Party/MAGA movement, the Rogan-listening Bar-stool bros, and the crunchy-con/trad-cath homesteaders is excluding the vast majority of the online right by volume and is thus unfit for purpose.
What you are describing is not a "novel development" it is an intra-tribal squabble.
There is always the option to fall on your sword.
Maybe, but my point is more that the the kind of guy who listens to Rogan and might have voted voted for Bernie in 2016 is likely to have a strong negative reaction to the rape of young women and strangulation of toddlers even if said women and toddlers are jews.
The Democrats went out of thier way to alienate as many people as they could, and are now struggling to understand why they are unpopular.
Stuff like this is a large part of why i stopped trying to discuss AI and Machine Learning with people outside the industry.
The conversation has become saturated with idiots, grifters, and pseudo religious nonsense. While I would love to tackle the big philosophical questions about the differences between algorithmic vs agentic behavior and what it means for our theories of intelligence and free will, or discuss the nuances and trade-offs of different technical approaches, these are not the the questions that Cowen, Yudkowsky, Alexander, or anyone else in thier respective circles seem interested in exploring.
Chad Truman vs cuck (((Oppenheimer))). Nobody in Hiroshima cares who built the bomb, they care that it was dropped.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
10d ago
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
11d ago
You asked if racial discrimination was a priori a bad thing. I responded that from a Western/Culturally Christian perspective, yes it is a bad thing and provided a rationale. Specifically that the emphasis on individual merit is a key component of what sets "the West" apart, and that racial discrimination goes against that. You responded by pointing out that judging people individually is often difficult/inconvenient and urging me to cosider the possible benefits of embracing racial discrimination but none of that has anything to do with why I maintain that it is a priori a bad thing.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
11d ago
What "job" would that be?
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
Im not claiming to be phsycic or omniscient. Im saying that behavior is the best predictor of behavior.
Again I ask, what did you think the parable of the Good Samaritan was about?
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
Ive been around the internet enough to know that engaging with the specifics of a Gish Gallop is a fool's game. That's why I didn't.
No matter how much you try to hedge and caveat you are still trying to argue that knowledge of group differences is more valuable and informative than fine-grained information about individuals, and that is a premise that I reject.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
12d ago
Yay, Christian Conservatism With Liberal Characteristics has been defeated. Oh noes all the people who used to believe in Christian Conservatism With Liberal Characteristics are suddenly voting for Trump and refusing to defend liberalism from the leopards that are currently eating its face. Who could have seen that coming?
It devalues individual merit by arguing that you should focus on group differences instead of individual merit.
6 paragraphs of why that's actually a good thing doesn't change the underlying argument.
I think you're ascribing a level of competence not in evidence.
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