WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
3d ago
If I'm in an MMA match, and I'm put in an armbar, and I don't tap, did the guy I'm fighting break my arm, or did I make him break my arm?
What if NATO is on the sidelines yelling at me that I can still win this thing?
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
3d ago
Generally I make all the decisions, in so far as spending/saving is a decision. Lately it hasn't felt like much a decision, with multiple random and unpredictable 4 figure bills falling out of the fucking sky each month this year. Mostly been treading water month to month through major mechanical, home and health related bills.
That said, the savings are generally "my" savings in that I've allocated and managed them. I've managed some of my wife's money from before we were married, or come up with plans about what she should do with it aside from leaving it in a savings account forever. But she's hyper risk averse, so it's unlikely to ever move. At least I got her to move it from a 0.01% "savings" account to a "high yield" account 10 years ago. Even that nearly gave her a panic attack.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
3d ago
Yet the most central part of ensuring the continued existence of a sovereign Swedish state, i.e. the creation of a new generation of Swedes, is apparently not even a moral, let alone a legal, duty on the part of the citizen? Everyone is expected to die fighting the Russians, but it's wholly acceptable to make choices whose aggregate consequences ends with Sweden going the way of the Dodo? That old Goldfinger-line pops into my head. "You expect me to have children?" "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!" Really, what is the point of this gung-ho never-surrender sentiment, and for that matter all the increases in defence spending in Europe, if we're just going to allow death to conquer us all from within? There are ideas here which should be connected, yet they seem to lie strewn all about in disorder in a way that's both frustrating and disheartening to see.
So I was listening to Gad Saad on Joe Rogan recently, not really haven't heard about anything he's done since probably 2018 or so. And he's laying out his thesis about a parasitic idea. This thing you see that causes such a strong emotional reaction, it overrides your entire brain and even your survival instinct, and your priorities, even your identity, is replaced. And by example, he brings up Queers for Palestine. Joe, seemingly entirely missing the point, just rebuts "Yeah, but what if they've seen the images coming out of Gaza that are so upsetting, they feel irresistibly compelled to be angry about it and protest it?" With much sympathy for this perspective. Yes Joe, that is precisely the "parasitic idea" infection vector being described, thank you for participating. And he goes on missing the point for another 90 minutes or so.
But I digress. Everything about this national behavior sounds like a country hijacked by a civilization scale parasite. The country possesses zero survival instinct, even to propagate itself into another generation. And yet it happily throws it's blood and treasure away on... what exactly? Ukraine also committing suicide, but faster? Giving all the land to Africans faster? It's absolutely baffling.
It's a shame one way or another billions will die before either the parasite wins, or the parasite is exterminated with gigadeaths of collateral damage.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
3d ago
Thanks for the archive.
Reading the article as best I can, I tune out with the emote:fact ratio skews over 75%, it sounds like she's observing what happens when something deeply personal to you becomes a meme and the normies flood in and start LARPing, because yes, somehow, someway, Orthodox Christianity has become a meme. When my wife and I were searching for a parish, and deciding what type of Christian we wanted to become, we witnessed some of this. There was this weird, redpill, manosphere, Orthobro social media vertical that kept peeking out of the algorithm in a way we didn't see with other varieties. We saw clips of popular Orthodox priests trying to split the difference between welcoming these brain rotted, too online individuals into the faith, but also begging them to leave that shit at the door and forget everything they read or saw online.
As much as I want to dunk on another entitled woman who wants to modernity for she but not for thee... she's probably not bullshitting.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
3d ago
I think I have about $3000 ish in a safe. But sometimes it gets dipped into and not replenished when we are too lazy to hit an atm.
That said, the safe also has about $20k in gold though. Didn't mean to, but 6 oz appreciated in value a lot the last 10 years.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
4d ago
Were I to try to hook up with random women, it would be exhausting, inefficient, and likely disgusting. But I think you underestimate the world Gigachad lives in. Imagine a world where you can ask very nearly any woman, assuming they don't offer first, to suck you dick and they just do. No foreplay, no buttering them up, no having to pretend to be someone you aren't. For reasons you fail to appreciate, you have something they want, and they are of the belief that if they suck your dick good enough, or empty your balls aggressively enough, you'll give it to them. And the line of women leaping at the chance to try to fuck you until you love them, no matter how much shit you give them back, is inexhaustible.
You basically have to imagine the default female experience of having too many available options coming at them from every direction, except most men treat it like the dream life it is instead of somehow still finding something to complain about.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
All reading about all this dysfunction does is make me wonder why anyone participates at all. Where is the Indian Bill Gates or Steve Jobs who sees money on the table, drops out, and changes the world?
But that just takes us right back to the big obvious question. If India has so many great engineers, doctors, scientist, etc, why can't they achieve great things in India? Why do they need to come here with all the externalities they bring with them?
What you are describing is not an education system, it's a system for fleeing the country and/or other Indians. Because for whatever reason, nothing can be achieved in India. So everyone with any sense at all has one goal, get out by any means necessary. The rest will sort itself out later.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
Sorry for the late reply. Been busy, but circling back to this has been on my todo list.
I mentioned Scott Adams because before LLMs were even a thing, his world view was basically that people don't think at all. They are hypnotized by language. They think in words, and those words can be used to completely hijack their consciousness, hypnotizing them. In his world view, people were only barely capable of a defense against this at best. And even at people's best, because our entire world model is often built on language, it ends up with all sorts of terrible pathways being laid down that are horribly wrong because of words and how lossy an abstraction they can be. Choose the right name for something, and even with firsthand experience telling them otherwise, people will walk away believing the opposite of reality.
All the shortcomings of human cognition that Scott Adams pioneered broad public awareness of pre-LLMs sound a whole awful lot like all the ways LLMs are shit these days. I never really followed up much with Scott Adams the last few years of his life. I don't know if he ever chased down this avenue too, but I hope he did.
I'll be deeply curious if LLMs can be trained to be better next token predictors than the humans that deny they are in the first place.
I invested in Intel over a span from 2021 to 2024 with the thesis that Pat Gelsinger would turn them around, and also that some powers that be would realize we shouldn't keep all our chip fabricating eggs in one basket off the coast of China. I ate shit on that thesis for 5 long years of continuously losing money.
I'm up 300% of of today.
And this is why I go long and don't fuck with contracts.
Also, I doubt it's going to stick, so now I'm considering my exits.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
16d ago
Objectively, humans are next token predictors. Watch a child trying to negotiate another cookie, or a man trying to get laid. Watch any politician, or their media mouthpieces. Go back and read what Scott Adams said about master persuaders and hallucinations.
I know we like to think we're rational beings with the scientific method. But that might account for like, 0.00001% of human cognition or less. And I'm curious how often LLMs might stumble on a deep scientific truth with pure dumb luck and token matching.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18d ago
I finished my protracted play through of StarCraft 2. Took me a few months of on again off again play.
The Terran campaign I played on normal, and it was easy to the point of being tedious and boring. I definitely feel like some pussification happened in the difficulty, and "hard" became normal, normal became easy, and easy became "This is mathematically impossible to lose unless you are a game journalist".
The Zerg campaign I played entirely on hard, and that felt about right.
The Protoss campaign I started on hard, but towards the end I caved and had to switch to normal. They just throw too many high level units at you when all you start off with are zealots and stalkers. Also too many obnoxious defense missions where it feels like Protoss are just too squishy on defense. I forget which mission it was that finally broke me and caused me to switch to normal, but it was some defense mission where your allies start off covering your east, west and south entrances, and you get repeatedly hammered from all three directions.
Then I played the epilogue on normal, because I'd already switched, and also the Nova mini campaign. They felt alright on normal. At least not tediously boring like the Terran campaign on normal.
All in all, it was alright I guess. I had to obsessively watch every dialog because I can't help myself. Which really slowed things down because the game feels like 50% dialog and 50% gameplay. The story beats of "Cure Kerrigan of her Zerg infestation, then re-Zerg her, then she saves the universe" was as dumb as it always was. Especially with that being the penultimate climax of the Terran campaign, and then completely undone halfway through the Zerg campaign. It reminds me of all those show runners that end season 1 on this show altering cliff hanger/climax, and then completely chicken out and backtrack in the first episode of season 2. Like in Santa Clarita Diet when the first season builds up towards Drew Barrymore turning into a feral zombie, and then in the first 30 minutes of the next season they cure her and go a completely different direction with the story.
It also got pretty tedious how every campaign is some weird neoliberal fanfiction about all these different peoples coming together in a melting pot where all their differences actually make them strong enough to defeat the big bad. In every single campaign. I don't remember StarCraft 1 being remotely that obnoxious and one note. Oh well.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18d ago
Nobody can agree on all cause excess mortality statistics, and whether its a signal, noise, or potential causes. We already lived this.
Thanos snap people turn to dust or everyone pretends nothing happened.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18d ago
I also enjoyed season 4. Season 5 was lazy slop. But it was at least better than the last season of Game of Thrones and didn't entirely and retroactively ruin the show for me. Its a low bar to clear, but many shows fail it.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18d ago
How do you even know the button did anything then? That's just the normal end we all get.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18d ago
On the one hand, I agree with the consensus that this is almost certainly false.
On the other hand, there are so few checks on female behavior, it often gets outlandishly and cartoonishly out of control by the time there are any consequences. It's often only during the murder trial that the decades of their psychotic behavior are given the moral consideration it was due. A shame it took someone dying before they couldn't "teehee, I'm just a girl" their way out of their shameless malice anymore.
But yeah, all that said, 99% chance it's bullshit. 1% chance it was an open secret, and all his coworkers are just going "Niiiiiice".
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18d ago
Basically this. If you don't immediately perceive that a vote for blue is a vote to be killed, perhaps you deserve that outcome.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
23d ago
Its mildly amusing how the reddit left doesn't want to claim this particular guy, but they do want to praise the idea of killing Trump, so they can't reject him either.
I remember back during the war on terror, one right wing blog or another, maybe Little Green Footballs (whatever happened to that guy?) or Jihad Watch. There was some interview with a veteran who had served in the middle east, talking about how these people simply cannot be allies. Their brains are completely broken, and they simply lack the intelligence to realize how broken they are. As an example, he cited a common conversation you may have with an Arab would contain both praise for the 9/11 attacks as a great victory for Islam over the evil United States, and also insistence that it was all a Jewish plot to provoke the United States into attacking the Middle East.
Turns out there is nothing uniquely Arab, or requiring exceptionally low intelligence, to support double think this overt and retarded. Apparently millions of Democrats, highly educated and otherwise well adjusted, are perfectly capable of simultaneously believing that Donald Trump needs to be assassinated and that it's a shame all these courageous shooters keep missing, and also that they are all hoaxes and staged by the evil Orange Man to raise his political capital and make them look bad.
But, while I can no longer endorse the bent of that random blog I read in the 90's that this behavior is uniquely Arab, I can endorse his conclusion. You cannot engage with those people. They belong in asylums, not voting, running for office, or dictating policies. Unfortunately the inmates run the asylums now.
Knowing where we are is the first step in formulating a plan to protect yourself and your families from them.
You say that. But without Trump to campaign for Vance, where are we? I take nothing for granted after Kirk's assassination and how much it felt like some core to the MAGA movement that was load bearing in a way I hadn't appreciated was ripped away. After he was buried, suddenly Republicans were looking at getting slaughtered in the midterms. Turns out political murders work.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
24d ago
But why? Within 30 minutes of finding the code, I found my answer. Within 10 minutes of dicking around in a sample project, I had my proof of concept. How would an LLM have improved on that? I don't need the LLMs validation or approval.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
25d ago
So, I had an interesting problem at work, that revealed something fascinating I think.
I have to beat around the bush some, so bear with me. We're using a popular framework for our database layer. We went to do things to this database that theoretically the database is capable of, but the framework doesn't support. Sad face. All the web searches, and associated AI formulated answers confirm, it's not possible do said thing in said framework.
Except it is. The Framework is open source. You can just read the source code. Turns out you can ask for the handle to the underlying interop pointer, and it'll just give it to you. You don't even have to do weird fucky things like dig around in private data space. It's a public API call to just get the interop pointer. The driver it's calling is open source too, and you can just call the function you want on the interop pointer it gives you, and it just works. It's fine. If it's confusing, the test cases for the driver in it's github even shows you exactly how to do it, multiple ways. Reading unit tests are awesome for stuff like that. This is the furthest thing from impossible. It's practically spelled out for you with examples if you just read the fucking code.
So, why does AI all think it's impossible? Because as of 3 years ago, this functionality wasn't exposed by the driver. So all the stack exchange questions about this correctly stated that as of 3+ years ago, this was impossible. LLMs got trained on stack exchange (supposedly), and now stack exchange is a dead site. The LLMs (supposedly) killed off the source of knowledge they were being trained on, and now they can't learn that a few years later this task is not just possible, but trivially easy in like, 6 lines of code. Totally within the remit of the typical "how do I do thing" programming question.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
26d ago
I hated having upstairs neighbors but that is not inherent to apartments,
Correct, it's inherent to neighbors.
Well.
Certain neighbors. The ones I pay handsomely not to have anymore.
Hey, you know something else interesting about Tokyo? It's virtually entirely ethnically homogeneous. At least compared to your average European city where Europeans are the defacto minority.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
26d ago
I had a similar experience back in November when the company I worked for went out of business. Applied to everything that looked even remotely in my ballpark, and crickets. Updated my profile, and got scouted by two different headhunters almost immediately, both with offers better than my old job. My total compensation for one of them was nearly twice what I was making before.
It's kind of fucked though, when the job market is entirely "Don't call us, we'll call you. No, don't even apply until we've told you to." But the stories I've heard of people scamming the interview process are horrendous. They aren't even all Indians! Though most are... Internationalization and AI have really fucked things. The signal to noise ratio interfering between qualified candidates and open job positions is through the roof.
Turns out the bar is in hell, and the primary challenge is convincing a recruiter you are a real person and not an Indian or an LLM. Or an LLM behind a brain rotted meat proxy.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
29d ago
’m far more interested in discussing the larger pattern that Clav is symptomatic of. Young men don’t see any viable paths to success, or have good role models for how they should live their lives. They look around and see the traditional paths (like college) are uncertain at best. They notice young women’s expectations have increased and they often don’t meet them. If they see a successful person (like a retired boomer) they don’t think that path is still available to them. If everything is uncertain the best thing to do is look around for successful people and imitate them. So, they find an influencer like Clav and realize they can play the social media influencer lottery by trying to become viral like him. If society tells them to figure out everything on their own and won’t provide a clear path that is likely to succeed then becoming viral on social media, giving up, or gambling suddenly seem like much more attractive options.
A start would be to bring back men's clubs and groups. Make Boy Scouts for boys and their dads again. Bring back men's only sports and dining clubs. Give men some capacity to network among themselves, and even give candid advice about out of earshot of the breasted commissar's that dominate every other public space.
Men need their own culture again. Not in the way gonzo youtuber stars are "culture", but in the way a small towns local chapter of a men and boys club is culture. Sure, the advice and guidance young men might get from both of those might be directionally aligned. But the gonzo youtube version takes it to a place that's unhealthy, but unfortunately, it's all that is allowed to exist.
Is there any belief by any serious thinker that this is a war of genocide?
Ukraine gets to choose between being Russia's puppet state and being used as a buffer between it and NATO, or being NATOs puppet state and filled with Africans. Such is the fate of minor nations. There will almost certainly be more Ukrainians in three generations under Russian dominion than NATO. Unless you stretch the definition of Ukrainian to mean anyone on Ukranian soil, but then what was the point of keeping Russians out if you can just change the meaning of words and suddenly everyone is Ukranian?
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