aiislove
8d ago
Have you ever seen Mennonites? I grew up around them, the women dress more handsmaid's tale-ish than this example and the men dress in modern clothing and no one bats an eye or cares at all. (If you google image search Mennonite you will get tons of images of the Amish where the men do not dress in modern clothing so just ignore those if you're trying to argue with me.)
I haven't read the replies below but I'm sure someone has more eloquently explained that the "role reversal" doesn't work for progressives because even if they admit the surface level irony they are bound to a more rigid set of beliefs and presuppositions that aren't simply taken down by a bit of cognitive dissonance.
aiislove
10d ago
I would agree with Hydro's assessment but don't know what kind of evidence to provide. It may just be the barber pole of fashion but there's a huge swing in the past year or two of people going back to 2000s fashion (Ed Hardy and Affliction for the depop ppl, Galliano deconstruction for the high end) which has a much more red tribe/straight aesthetic than the 2010s which were largely extremely gay/trans and alienating to straight people. Hydro mentioned the pop charts, the choosin' texas song has been huge and there's way less snobbery against country music today than there was even like 6 years ago. If Tiger King came out today I think the response to Joe Exotic would be less of a bourgeois dogpile, or at least a more self aware one.
However I think all of this is also playing against a massive backdrop of red tribe people largely abandoning anything they perceive as trashy from about 2004 through about 2020, basically culturally erasing itself in a way that everyone who noticed is too embarrassed to mention. It is similar to the way the 80s were remembered in the 90s, as a trashy embarrassment to be left in the past.
aiislove
12d ago
Huh are you saying you had the ai write a save file for a game and it did it with just one prompt? Did you upload a reference save file or the game code or something with the prompt?
aiislove
13d ago
I lived in Manhattan for a while when I was in college and learned to walk really fast or I'd get run over. Then I went to Vienna and everyone walks so slowly it's like a contest to see who can be the most elegant and have the most free time and have the least to do and it's much more dignified. The older I get the slower I walk because howling at me at 21 works but howling at daddy makes you the crazy one.
aiislove
13d ago
Half and half is just half cream and half milk. It's a bit lighter than heavy cream and a bit richer than just milk.
aiislove
14d ago
I was scraping the bottom of the youtube barrel about 6 months ago and started watching some Tucker Carlson videos. He is somewhat fine/normal most of the time but occasionally drops mind numbingly stupid thoughts or ideas that make me recoil with disbelief. My impression is that he is just not very smart and seems to revel in his kind of aw-shucks naivety that I imagine some part of his audience relates to or finds charming.
aiislove
20d ago
I have had more interaction than most people with non-native English speakers, including as a teacher. There are many second language learners who do in fact achieve native proficiency, often with a greater understanding of grammar and vocabulary than the average native because they have studied it so intensively.
I understand this perspective, having spent half of the last 5 years or so in non-english speaking countries. But in the context of hlynka vs smh it is the more class superior view to have, so you're not really refuting my point but rather reinforcing it broadly, reasserting the correctness or righteousness of formal education standards rather than seeing how treating that as the baseline is classist
He had a massive chip on his shoulder about being "not like the rest of you"
Yes this is the sad part about classism, that it excludes people. The solution to just ban people who are already on some level feeling left out is wrong imo
aiislove
20d ago
I am not an alt but I'd love to know a user I'm similar enough to to be suspected of being an alt of.
smh was at least as literate in English as he was
I can't really read this in a non-classist way, you are implying here that someone who is from an english speaking country may be less literate than someone who has learned it as a second language, basically the implication being something along the lines of the educated noble foreigner's english may or may not be superior to hlynka's white trash prose or something
I do think that classism is pervasive on reddit, on the motte, in the west, and around the world and that it is continuously unexamined, seen as crass to do so by the rich/educated and embarrassing by the poor/less educated and am unsurprised that alluding to the classism here is met with ridicule, derision, deflection and ad hominem
I do recall that Hlynka had a particular dislike of @2rafa, though, so it's very odd that you would be conjuring some conspiracy between us against him....
My impression was that his dislike of her was to some degree a class based ressentiment which is why her "Actually kind of racist" comment and its unobjected-to-at-the-time classism went unexamined and unremarked upon by everyone as far as I was aware
What bothered me most about hlynka's banning was the vulgar classism. Hlynka's "maybe because english is your second language" is an extremely inoffensive sort of thing to say if you're not living in silicon valley or London England but 2rafa decided it was racist and beyond the pail, the largely male mods took her word for it and banned an unpopular but valuable poster. It's no secret that Hlynka was
I suppose it's nice that now you regret his banning but from my memory it was mostly your fault.
More broadly I am against dase's permaban and agree with 2rafa's suggestion to just implement several day bans for valuable posters like him.
Edit: To speak more plainly, I am alleging that hlynka was unpopular among the board due to his class, style and socioeconomic status, that certain posters didn't like him around and that 2rafa in association with a handful of mods banned him on account of his rough style/socioeconomic status as much as the for the antagonism or "racism" he was accused of
aiislove
25d ago
Yeah, I'm with the earlier commenters who said they wouldn't trade in IQ points for athletic ability but would trade some in for other stats. I'd happily shave some intelligence off to be more attractive, less prone to gluttony, less fussy/more impervious to discomfort, better heat and moisture tolerance and so on
aiislove
26d ago
How do you know so much about so many different topics? You talk about zoos like you work at one as well as you know about like, the obscure ethnic tensions of Singapore or Saudi Arabia or whatever. I'm always fascinated by your extensive knowledge of so many different things. What motivates you to have such a deep understanding of so many different topics? People usually get annoyed with me in real life when I try to relate my obscure knowledge of things, mostly they don't want to be corrected or have their beliefs challenged they just want to assert their own opinions at me. Do you talk about these things with people in real life as well?
aiislove
1mo ago
Centaurs (humans using AI tools) don't last forever. They are a transitional stage until the AI gets good enough to replace the humans entirely.
You could say that about photography as well, that the humans controlling cameras are a transitional stage until the cameras get so good that they don't need people. Yet it's been over a century, there's uncountable hours of photography being captured at all times all over the planet all the time and yet almost none of it is interesting outside of like the nature wildlife automated photography that some people like to look at. I could probably find beauty in automated traffic cameras if I felt like it but I'm in the minority and most people would rather see a human produced and curated series of photographs than a randomly generated or algorithmically curated series of photographs
Again I am an artist and designer and no one is telling me I'll have to flip burgers right now, I can think of 50 other more creative tasks I could monetize before I'm going to sweep a floor. lol. Besides that the bottle neck in the economics of art has never been supply side but rather demand side and AI has NO answer for the demand problem. I could already produce thousands of t-shirt designs a day if I wanted ten years ago, the technology was already there, but the demand for this variety of t-shirts does not exist.
aiislove
1mo ago
This all goes back to my hobby horse of arrogance and how bad it is. You alone have to be the scarce valuable thing and now there's someone else so you are sad? Oh my god. If cats evolved to suddenly be amazing artists I'd be so stoked to see the cat art. Computers evolved to be amazing artists so I want to see the computer art. If cats evolved to be amazing at math I'd want to see the cat math. Computers are good at math so now I want to see the computer math. There is no other voice or force in western society telling people to stop being so arrogant but it would solve so many problems if we had this as a cultural idea to even a tiny degree.
Artists are probably feeling the same way.
Did you read my comment you replied to I am an artist and not feeling a big hit to my self esteem if anything I am excited to have new tools available to express things that were completely out of my reach in the past.
aiislove
1mo ago
Doomer responses to this is just so sad. I'm an artist and designer and with every improvement of ai art/creativity I welcome it as augmenting possibilities of creativity rather than thinking my own creativity is worthless. Math people should be so happy they have new knowledge of math opening up to them and excited about the new answers rather than sad that a computer did it better than them. Surely there are now tons of new applications of knowledge and information from the new findings they can work from, I don't understand why they'd be upset about it. I'm sure it's very much like in art where most of the good artists are curious about the new AI tools while the bad ones worry.
aiislove
1mo ago
I have very few opinions on a huge number of political issues which I think skewed my strange results
- 94% match to Federalism
- Countries closest to me: Liechtenstein (94%), Switzerland (92%), Lebanon (91%) and Florida (surely not a country)
- Countries furthest from me: North Korea (31%), Ba'Athist Iraq (32%) and USSR (33%)
- Figures closest to me: Elon Musk (94% match), Montesquieu, Benjamin Constant and Arthur Schopenhauer
- Figures farthest from me: Pol Pot (27%), Stalin (29%), Goebbels (31%)
I took the 60 question version. I guess I lean toward federalism as a midwesterner with certain Appalachian tendencies. I have never thought very much about Elon Musk in general and don't think we're very similar people. When I read "Montesquieu" I was imagining Robert de Montesquieu for a moment which I thought was a very glamorous person to include as a result in this type of quiz.
aiislove
1mo ago
Other great sources of potassium: Potatoes with skin, spinach, beans/lentils, salmon and clams. I happen to dislike spinach, beans and lentils, so I don't get my potassium there. I'm not a huge potato person and didn't eat much seafood until a few years ago. Other people probably get plenty of potassium from those foods but I don't, so the bananas it is for me.
aiislove
1mo ago
For me it's the weather that's they won't stop talking about. It feels like they're trying to control the narrative and manipulate you- they get to say how the weather is, you tacitly agree because who cares about the weather, so they can feel like they have the upper hand when they want to move onto more important matters
aiislove
1mo ago
Where do you get your cramps? I have gotten cramps in my legs and feet, and occasionally elsewhere, for my entire life. If I eat a banana every few days I don't have cramps. I am sure it is tied entirely to potassium intake for me. I never get the cramps within a day or two after eating a banana, every time I get a cramp it has been several days since I've had a banana. I've looked up alternate sources of potassium- avocado is supposed to be one, but I find that avocados don't work as well as bananas for me.
aiislove
1mo ago
I went to school with a girl named Alexa who no one liked because she acted like a know it all robot all the time so I find people barking commands at their "Alexa" charming. Whenever I try to think about the name Siri I think, isn't that what Tom Cruise's kid is named? And then I remember that it is not
aiislove
2mo ago
I wish more publications operated that way. The $40 fashion magazine in the era of endless free entertainment baffles me (though I guess it makes me want them more since most people wouldn't pay for it. Maybe that's the secret.)
aiislove
2mo ago
Yes when I hear "sailor" I imagine it can mean a sailor in the military or someone who sails on any kind of vessel. I like watching "maritime" videos on youtube and people who aren't in the military use "sailor" all the time generically
Apologies for referring to Navy sailors as soldiers in my comment below, and thanks for the correction. Actually it felt weird as I was typing "soldier" but I thought that was because a close relative was in the Navy and thinking of him as a sailor makes sense in my brain but calling him a soldier in my brain felt weird. Apparently my instinct was correct.
This simply will make the US or any country that does this so uncompetitive compared to any country that does not enact such draconian restrictions. Just reading about it has me itching to move to some developing nation that doesn't care. I guess in your broader scenario you'd rather be in whatever country has the nicest standard of living, or every country suddenly has a nice standard of living enabled by AI, but I'd still choose the high agency country you're allowed to make a two person corporation in than the make work pretend garden job world you anticipate
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