ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
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ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
3hr ago
Rigid adherence to something that they read somewhere while not really understanding the reasons, I guess?
Ok, so they simulate a human being perfectly then.
Like, we are sending some questions and getting back answers; "the answers keep getting better!" seems like an awfully lazy excuse for not making the tools also get better!
It's because we don't fucking know how to make the tools better. Half of it is because we have tunnel vision on just how hard the models can go, and the other half of it is because we don't even know if we should bother making the tools better because the current approach seems to be working pretty well so far (and to pitch that in a way that doesn't just sound like you're advocating for faster horses) and the entire industry (and certain companies, and their workers) have come down with a case of clinical depression because of it.
At this point I'd rather just switch to the WIS side of software development, rather than the INT side, because that to me seems like a losing battle. But maybe that's the wrong approach. I dunno.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
5hr ago
I still don't fully understand that meme. I get that it's the most spaghetti/rigid-definition Java code that was popular in the late '90s but I've never seen it quite that bad before.
If anything else C# is even worse, since you look at the docs to try and figure out how to use something... and the minute you do, you see
public static IQueryable<TResult> SelectMany<TSource,TCollection,TResult>(
this IQueryable<TSource> source,
Expression<Func<TSource,int,IEnumerable<TCollection>>> collectionSelector,
Expression<Func<TSource,TCollection,TResult>> resultSelector);
which is fucking awful in a way the worst natural-language sentence doesn't seem to be. Though maybe it's a better Rorschach test for programmers; if even the insane people give up when they see that shit maybe it's time for an ADHD diagnosis.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
6hr ago
But Israel/Palestine is mostly just a proxy for
But it is, to me, disgusting and evil when people reward the use of killing children with sympathy
which is what modern feminists do, so you can generalize your statement to
The crybully tactics of modern feminism need to be punished like they would have been by the men of the 19th century.
and we'll note that it's not the 19th century any more. In fact, it's been over 100 years since it was the 19th century.
This is a problem with women, and women will have to hand over the wheel back to men on this one.
You, as a man, cannot force this to happen; you have no more military or organizational power in this matter than modern Britain or France do under US hegemony.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
7hr ago
· Edited 7hr ago
I detest cooking and the resulting food too.
However, I will cook for others who don't have that problem, and by their judgment I know I am at least passably competent.
The industrial kitchens do this better (more variety, more consistency, specifically engineered to be a tasty and relatively well-balanced product, drastically less time) and cost the same as it would for me to do it; the ingredients and the waste thereof are the reason why (I can't buy portions small enough for this to be cost-effective). At last count, it cost about a half hour's wage to do that.
Modern ingredients are generally completely tasteless outside of specialty stores, so I'd rather buy from people whose recipes are built around overcoming that fact. (And they are successful; I don't know how, I've yet to fixate on flavor chemistry.)
If I was married or had kids I'd cook more simply because that economic calculus would no longer hold in the "you can just use the whole bag" sense. Until such time, I'm going to McDonalds because that's still a nutritionally-complete meal (I'm not Big Smoke but I'm also not magically repelled from fast food places and don't understand why anyone would be outside of "it's low class").
For a relatively sedentary lifestyle a breakfast (or dinner, if I do decide to cook it myself), that, and some snacks/drinks throughout the day results in roughly 1,000 calories as surplus per month. I'm as thankful for the supply chain that makes this possible as I am for the food itself in terms of being able to survive the day, and would prefer to move to an area where a wider variety of these places existed.
I am one of those people who will eat the same thing for a literal year, then get tired of it and never eat it again (and am thankful that I haven't hit that point with hamburgers; truly the Platonic ideal of foods, perhaps appropriately named after a city bearing some of the most autistic peoples on the planet). I have some intellectual appreciation for people who eat nothing but chicken nuggets, it's just that I don't have any reason to resist situations where I can't do that and won't explode if I can't do it. (Comfort isn't actually that much of an end.)
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
9hr ago
· Edited 7hr ago
But I have trouble finding any sort of consistent principles in modern progressivism that don't boil down to "who, whom".
This is true of all ideologies, including classical liberalism, where the who is "people who can handle it and get along" and the whom is "people who can't". Abel on the who side, Cain on the whom. (There's an attitude I get from that story that Abel is the first liberal and Cain the first socialist- it's very difficult to explain, more of a 'whose heart is where and why' thing.)
The reason I prefer this is that "people who can handle it" are incredibly productive in ways "people who can't" just aren't. Which is also the claim progressives make about their grouping, and given that we (and especially they) live in conditions that are to a degree post-reality (where raw productivity isn't as much of a factor), there actually is some observable truth to progressive statements, which is why progressives are that way.
Of course, I disagree with progressives because they take the post-reality state (that liberalism has given them) for granted and use that as license to re-impose all the evils that were destroyed (by liberalism). But I also understand it's easy to tolerate that which is not an injury to you, and I'm not injured by iniquity, weirdness, or moralfaggotry so long as it doesn't get itself on me beyond its otherwise productive value (which I feel inherently puts me above rules imposed to control those things, and my claim to that is "look upon all the things that were designed and implemented by people who share my values"- perhaps because they all migrated to the only place that wasn't actively trying to murder those people, but still, a win's a win).
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
11hr ago
Do we not have, uh like, modular software design? Encapsulation?
Nah, we just let the AI care about that now.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
12hr ago
The people who will age into being beneficiaries of feminist power are the ones that need to deal with it.
Men were that way in the beginning of the 20th. It's Her Turn.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
12hr ago
it would be necessary to frame it as "we are keeping men out" not "we are keeping women in."
Which would be trivial were Clancy's husband to give his wife the pedophile treatment of shooting her dead while leaving the trial (even better if he's acquitted by a mostly-male jury- imagine if he raised the insanity defense). Cities of refuge are justified in the same way (though importantly, they don't extend to first-degree murder).
And besides, the bleeding hearts love exposing themselves to risk from mental health patients. They can tell themselves they're saving them.
This creates a problem because then women would try to get into the gulag.
No more than they commit crimes to try to go to female prison more generally, I don't think. Sure, you'd have some men trying to do that, but they already do that by dressing up as women.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
1d ago
That paints an even worse picture, though.
they're imagining that they are themselves in a situation where they have just killed their kids, which they know would have been impossible for them to do in their right mind
Ah yes, the "it just... happened" defense. We already have laws that distinguish between the two: first-degree and second-degree (and to a point manslaughter).
thus it would be unjust to expect them to take responsibility for the actions
Yet they still assert they deserve rights without that corresponding responsibility (which is related to it being All Men's Fault, reflected by these same people claiming the husband [or men in general] should have done more).
In this framing, the insanity defense (mentally incapable of taking responsibility for their actions) and the feminist defense/assertion about themselves, are one and the same. But insane people are locked up and stripped of most of their rights because they are incapable of taking responsibility for their actions (and are thus too dangerous to exercise those rights).
Persons that are capable of taking that responsibility are trivially correct when they assert this same treatment should apply to those who are not.
and generalizes in such a way that everyone would be forgiven for every crime
Then they can compromise with everyone else and create a system of exile (that, because the aristocracy are designing their own prison, isn't going to become a gulag even though that's basically what this creates). It's problematic to sentence life in prison/death for aristocracy (women, pet demographics), so just put them there. If they leave before their term is up, then the death sentence is immediate.
The "not guilty because I'm insane" defense is not contesting the fact they did the thing. It's fine to not be responsible (the female view), but it's also fine for that to have system-level consequences (the male view).
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
1d ago
Is it actually possible to align a being that is more intelligent than you in every single way?
The existence of competent Soviet and Chinese science programs, and [my political outgroup] tending to find itself developing AI, suggests the answer is yes.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
1d ago
but in plenty of societies it’s reverence for motherhood.
The irony being that the women in question are, statistically, not mothers.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
1d ago
How much more will it take for people to start recognizing feminism as a real problem?
That's not really the question. Everyone knows. Even the feminists.
The actual question is "how much more will it take for non-state actors to organize and physically block expressions of feminist power". And that's a much more difficult question to answer; the last generation that had any real reason to has died and they were the ones that created this problem in the first place.
If she is acquitted, it would bias expectations in future conflicts towards "women can get away with anything"; if she is convicted, it would bias expectations towards "all the efforts of women activists can't get one woman acquitted".
Which is the exact reason the pro-choice/pro-life debate exists in its current form in the first place. It's really not about killing kids- Palestinian women are more than happy to send them on suicide missions every day. Why would Western women be any different?
The only places that don't have this issue take the posture that both men and women are subordinate to the State- the more subordinate, the more even-handed and pro-social the restrictions (it's still not going to stop the State from killing kids who have disabilities incompatible with life, but that honors men more in the sense that it acknowledges they have to pay for it).
Meanwhile, in the Anglosphere, women are the State.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
1d ago
The number 1 rule of AI safety is don’t build the AI that takes over the world
No, the number 1 rule of AI safety is "don't build an AI that leads to my enemies putting an end to my politics".
It's laundered through "takes over the world".
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
1d ago
It's when the fluffer comes in you.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
3d ago
In order: Christ rose from the dead (and he'll be back), Garden of Eden is almost certainly not historical (much like Genesis 1-11, for reasons that have a lot to do with the mustard seed not actually being the smallest of all seeds), yes, real, (if this is somehow proven not to be the case I'm going to have a much harder time than I did leaving YEC behind).
Maybe functionally I'm more of a deist? I haven't really found much community from church for reasons that have a lot to do with the second topic, but then again I haven't really looked that hard. I don't really bear many other markers that make it obvious from an outside glance I'm [still] a Christian; you wouldn't necessarily discover that from the way I talk.
I'm not an adult convert, though.
(Actually, adult converts in particular tend to act really weird to me for reasons that, while I think I understand why they act that way, I've never really found success with doing that myself. They seem to observe that God has an active role in both talking to them and shaping their lives. I have come to the somewhat-related conclusion I already possess all the help I'm ever going to receive and as such don't much bother to ask any more, but then that also puts me in a rough spot with these types of people. It's not even really jealousy- though it's not like I'm not- I've simply heard enough "God's plan for you"s to last me an eternity and I no longer want to be around the people who don't understand that, just like how all Rapture analysis is uninteresting naval-gazing since the conditions for its imminence are as trivially true as the writing inside your average fortune cookie.)
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
3d ago
not a contract with the government
And when the draft officers show up to collect you I'm sure your insistence on seeing this contract will keep you un-drafted.
Different situations entirely.
Violence is work performed by the unique properties of the male sex; surrogacy is the same thing for women. They're both sex work- as in, they both exercise the inherent value in one's sex (when one has no other value).
And medical procedures forced upon conscripts are generally limited to vaccines.
I'll take the feminists (and clueless social conservatives) at their word and say that a low-speed injection of semen with a 9-month recovery time and risk of permanent downstream injury is about as harmful as a high-speed injection of lead and steel.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
4d ago
It was almost like a violent outburst born in a fit of narcissistic rage on a societal level.
Oh, so that's why Canadian society gets along so well with them.
this is one aspect of our pagan past I wish we would have the balls to recover: the ability to unashamedly and utterly crush our enemies without moralizing or hemming and hawing about it.
That's hilarious. Come on, man. Americans are constitutionally incapable of doing this. (And somehow I don't think the Romans were either.)
You have written in your supreme law that it's permitted to prepare for a war against your own countrymen, and your founding posture is that this is inevitable. Most of the laws in that document grant similar powers for the same purpose.
Even more incredible is that your militiamen/law enforcement actually honor these laws even though it makes basically zero logical sense for you to permit citizens to do even half the things they get up to.
You have civil war statues that venerate the enemies of the Union, and people don't want to take them down precisely because they are symbols of you not wanting to do this. The colors of that existential enemy are still publicly flown in a way that also invokes this, but from the other direction. (It's also the root justification given for why you're allergic to most varieties of collectivism, be that the red star or the black swastika variety, of which you are both and neither.)
You settled with the Indians despite really not needing to. (And the Germans, and the Japanese, in stark contrast to what was normal conquest behavior at the time.) You have foreign prisoner accounts that, and this is true with respect to the Soviet Union as well, that what you considered sub-citizen treatment and what they considered a propaganda picture are one and the same.
You go to war under the guise that you fight for your enemy's right to collectively decide to be your enemy (or "for democracy")- absurd nonsense by the standards of any historical power. Your media machine continually bombards the populace with this conclusion, even in movies that really don't have much to do with war.
Your civil religion has a God whose entire statement of godliness is a posture of specifically targeting what's wrong over who's wrong. Perhaps most of the above posture is the logical consequence of a people who are expecting God in the gaps that your laws create, like the Virgin Mary appearing on a piece of toast.
I say a US government acting in the best interests of its citizens would find that to be essentially inevitable, and the last 25 years have vindicated me.
The day the US government fully embraces acting in the best interests of its citizens is also the day it ends.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
4d ago
Fuck insurance. What's the point?
To provide plausible deniability for back-channel diplomatic goals.
In this case, "stop shipping and claim it's too risky as an excuse to try and extract a diplomatic concession from the Americans".
Ship owners can earn this back in a single year.
The risk is now priced in: a company may now buy a whole new ship if the Iranians sunk one (and provide their now-merchant marines appropriate hazard pay, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to that pricetag).
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
4d ago
Obviously the US needs crime reform but in enforcement, changing trials won’t fix the main problem of low-level nuisances because they’re not getting arrested in the first place.
Then put the booking station in the middle of nowhere, ideally in the places where it's illegal for anyone but the government to build. (Employees work 2 weeks in, 2 weeks out.)
Oh, what's that, Madame Prosecutor, the interests of justice require he not be charged? Oh, what a shock, better luck next time- you're free to go then. The public transportation back to your city runs once, on the second week of the month. The bus is free. It's 3 hours, one way, due to the length of the route and budgetary restrictions.
Naturally, if you're going to take that transport, our bus stop is very well-stocked. There are rooms with cots for rest, and along with the food, they are free until the next bus leaves. It's well-maintained by transit staff and secured by transit police.
If you're going to have a revolving door the least you could do is make it actually inconvenient. Perhaps somewhere you aren't legally prohibited from leaving, but unless you have someone from your place of residence that can vouch for you (and is willing to drive 6 hours to retrieve you), you are now in a state that is legally, but not meaningfully, indistinguishable from exile. Your "bail" is now collected by physics (the money/time/effort it takes to retrieve you).
Issues with this being a political prison are avoided simply because it's not actually a prison (the prison is coincidentally right next door to house those the prosecutor will charge, and this branch of public transit has a convenient labor-sharing agreement with them). You can just straight up go and visit if you wanted to audit the place, as it's public. (No overnight parking or camping, though.)
If you have someone who will help you, you'll be back home very quickly; I figure that the more people you can call on who are willing and able to help you in this way, the less of an anti-social element you were. You'll wear them out quickly with repeated use if you're truly an asshole anyway.
It's all very reasonable, safe, and consensual... while at the same time just being the modern version of transportation-as-punishment, and maximally frustrating external efforts to defeat this purpose. (It's true that, for example, George Soros has the power to simply send every criminal an Uber or fund busses of his own, but now he'll have to fund more than just the prosecutor to do that.)
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
5d ago
Which moves would he play?
He'd probably use the same opening he's used against Nakamura before.
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
5d ago
So much for "serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics".
The general opinion of commenters seems to be hatred for the woman.
Perhaps. I thought this was just surface-level analysis of the average marriage, or what loveless relationships/marriages ultimately devolve into.
There's a mismatch between can't and won't, too; is it just a complete lack of mental horsepower/effort (incuriousness), or something else? And while a lack of mental horsepower is concerning for a long-term relationship- both in the sense that you're going to be more alone than he will, and that it'll make those promises more difficult to depend on (in the sense that if he's not smart/paying that much attention he'll be outcompeted by others, which by extension means you will be outcompeted as well)- the Fiddler on the Roof-type marriage as means seems like it's actually the average human experience. (19th and 20th century drinking culture is another data point.)
Maybe that's actually the scary part, when there really is nothing more, that this is all there is and all you can expect out of life. I guess that's why people buy dogs and kids and say it saved their marriages- if only because it exposes a new facet of whoever it's with, but because at that point the relationship has shifted to means rather than end.
I've come to that point with a few people in my life: that this is all it's ever going to be, and they're never going to be any different. Sure, there are some barriers to communication, but the flip-side is the Copenhagen ethics problem where, if I don't have a better idea, then I feel that complaining about it is just more a one-sided vent than anything else.
The more interesting ones are those you can build on/up, which I think is what normal people call "getting along well". Especially if they build you up; those ones are keepers.
But the difference is that I'm not interested in resenting any one of them for this; they're not enemies that need to be destroyed. I'm not sure why I should (and I'm sure that doing this would kill the friendship even deader than just constantly complaining about things). Sure, there's limits on time and resources (and obviously you're more interested in some of them for reasons that have to do with sex), but that's true for everything else.
Maybe that is more sociopathic than anything else, I dunno- I guess you could call that being a giant slut "vers" of sorts, since I tend to search/select what (as far as I can tell) people are expecting as part of the way I get to know them. Of course, that also leads to some problems, where time is treated as ante just to see if the build-up will occur, which also results in me not quite behaving the way anyone really expects.
(Which makes actually being appropriately attractive/dominant on my own something I have to actively remember to do- as I understand it, this is more common in women than men, which is something that makes accepting... certain friends' claims unusually difficult. I only know better than everyone else once I know it's actually helpful or important to do so and tend to hedge harder than I should- probably sub-optimal, but so's the alternative.)
ThisIsSin
Like a wild animal, the threat to our body was coming right for us
5d ago
When I remember 9/11, I remember the horror of the event. But what I dwell on is the much greater horror of how easily it has been forgotten.
The mass hysteria around the Uncommon Cold (or 'covid' if you prefer) is already more or less forgotten, and is my Never Forget.
And what's worse, the resulting financial fuckup- perhaps even an inevitable one due to absurdly irresponsible fiscal policy- is caused by something that people can't even remember now.
I will not forget that 15% unemployment + 3 months of helicopter money = mass rioting.
She used a huge kitchen knife and managed to only give herself minor wounds going the wrong way.
Side to side for attention, up and down for results. And honestly, yeah, that's a lot more damning than anything else as a consequence (and reflects even more poorly on a jury that had other persons with the same kind of medical expertise).
One might argue that slashing yourself that way requires you to do something actively painful to yourself, while more passive methods are arguably preferred since the invocation of potential energy (gravitational, chemical) or toxicity doesn't actually hurt by themselves.
But the fact remains that she injured herself in the "the adults will know I was serious" way, not the way that actually kills you; one would expect an economy of pain commensurate with actual results from someone who was serious about it working.
It's not like she can argue she didn't consider asphyxiation as a method, of course.
Nobody has any clue what the fuck to do, nobody has any idea of what the next 5 years are going to look like let alone the next 20, and depression of this type is a happiness-rationing system designed to protect you from this type of circumstance (mostly so that you don't blow your entire stockpile of resources on something really risky trying to get back to that state).
And really, that's just the way it is now. Welcome to the post '90s Japanese economy, I guess.
Maybe once the data centers get built out there'll be enough room in the economy to fund software again (as in, "now we need people to do the thing the data centers were for"), but who knows? Industry in particular has been missing its 'smarter than the average bear'-types for a while, especially those that are smarter than the automation.
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