VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
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VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
He’s an idea of a person, and has successfully convinced Democrats that the idea he is projecting will win and therefore allow them to acquire more power.
Is this intended as a Nietzschean "will-to-power" joke?
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
Most of the advice I've seen suggests that injuries like this are a lot more common if you're really pushing limits. The advice I see on sport-specific fora (lifting for other sport fitness, not lifting qua lifting) is to avoid small maximal sets, and that 1RM measurement isn't worth the injury risk.
Strength training is good, but it can be good enough much better than sitting on the couch without hitting an exertion requiring grunting or even breaking (much of) a sweat.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
2d ago
Imagine this justification used for crimes:
[state]: pay the fine for running a red light
[person]: but i didnt run a red light
[state]: Well someone ran that red light, and we can't let it be known that running red lights will go unpunished. You were nearby and I've already captured you, it would be too much work to go get the real culprit if it turns out it wasn't you.
It's not quite analogous, but IIRC some states have written their traffic laws such that the owner has strict liability, regardless of whether they actually drove the car through the light. "I didn't run a red light" "But someone you lent your car to (you didn't report it stolen) did, so pay up" isn't that Kafka-esque.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
3d ago
I'm sure at least a few folks have had to sit through a threat brief involving not falling for a loose rewording of Cunningham's Law.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
3d ago
Of course excluding "military secrets but art", "private personal information but art", etc.
I'm old enough to remember the first few bytes of the leaked AACS master key (09 f9 11 ...) because people made so much art, some of it decent, out of it. Controversy over that was a big part of the downfall of Digg, but you're not wrong that I'd probably feel differently if it was nuclear launch codes and not content protection keys.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
3d ago
I haven't played that one, thanks for the example. I have played BioShock (and Infinite) and Dishonored, though. Maybe I just missed that one: I'm not a PS gamer, and missed the PC release and don't really play that many single player games anymore.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
3d ago
This trope feels very gendered: I can't think of any comparable examples where the player ends up playing dad to a boy. I'm uncertain if that's a fundamental type difference (sons grow up and become protectors themselves, daughters narratively always need protectors -- not agreeing with the position, just observing the trope), or a difference in magnitude that protecting daughters has a stronger emotional valence and makes a better story.
Also there exist unfalsifiable yet anonymous algorithms for digital vote counting where you could be sure your vote was part of the count via a hash...
I don't think any of these systems have solved the last-mile "assigning digital IDs to people" in a practical way. We've had enough trouble getting RealID drivers licenses for things like flying that I doubt we could enforce smart cards for voting any time soon, and I bet both sides would oppose it today for different reasons.
ETA: and that's all before you get the fun chance to explain the cryptography to the median voter.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
3d ago
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
CS Lewis had a point there, I think.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
3d ago
I know the guy gets autistically fixated on random shit, but I can't recall him ever caring much about PR.
There was that entire arc involving a branded garbage truck, but I'm not sure that is indicative of deep political ties to the local leadership, or just riffing on the news cycle.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
3d ago
Is this something the DOJ could consider federal charges for? I'm pretty sure "state law enforcement or judiciary deciding to look the other way at hate crimes" is something we've written laws about in the past, but no clue if even the current DOJ would be interested in this case specifically.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
4d ago
a small number of pills which can be posted from a legal clinic in a blue state
IIRC current telehealth rules revolve around the locale of the patient, and traditionally doctors are licensed by the states and only have authority within those states. While blue states have allowed this (and I'm not even sure it bothers me too greatly), I wouldn't expect it to not get challenged in court WRT state extradition law and such, or for red states to find an equivalent axe to grind to upset blue state authorities on similar jurisdictional grounds.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
4d ago
Are there many laws generally about the acceptable set of arguments you can put in front of a jury? "Ban the X Defense" IMO is usually trying to appeal to some sense that this was an affirmative defense (see self-defense law), not "you can't ask the jury to consider this". The only one I can think of offhand is that directly appealing to jury nullification is heavily frowned upon.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
5d ago
You are the librarian of a magical university. Your goal is to reshelve literally three thousand books that have been thrown onto the floor by a rogue fairy.
Ook!
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
5d ago
I'm pretty sure the Vatican has similar signs, as do some cultural sites (cathedrals) across the EU. Also occasional bans on specific types of garments: Switzerland bans face-covering headwear.
I've definitely encountered my share of "tourists go away" graffiti in a few EU countries with lots of tourism, which seems like the subtext of the sign there too.
VoxelVexillologist
🇺🇸 Multidimensional Radical Centrist
6d ago
Because OF COURSE the LLM has an internal model of the chessboard in the system; that's the only reason it could possibly make moves that are correct at a rate better than chance.
If I trained a Markov model on the textual representation of thousands of games, and constrained it to only play legal moves, I bet it'd do better than random chance, but worse than a classic min max engine, which has defined metrics for what "winning" means. Is that an internal model, or just "usually a player castles after moving their knight and bishop" correlation?
The last few tech-related meta cycles have both changed everything and not consistently boomed or busted from a stock price perspective. Personal computing in the '80s took over everything, but even Apple's stock has been up and down and looked like a loser before Jobs returned. The Internet around 2000 looked like it would change everything --- and it did --- but my pets.com shares were a bad idea.
I'd bet AI is similar, and picking a specific single winner is improbable. Weak predictions: local models can do most of what people want; big models don't scale much past human abilities, but enough to be game-changing; AI doesn't think truly creatively well enough to replace human cultural achievements, but it's consensus-centering output may be a pragmatic counterbalance to rage-seeking social media algorithms.
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