cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
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cjet79
24d ago
The discussion has been had somewhere on here before. The reason we allow deletions is that some people have reasonable fears about doxxing and malicious actors using their writing against them in real life.
Having said that, if someone is quickly deleting all of their posts we look at that as troll adjacent behavior. People who want to give a minor "fuck you" to the community usually delete all their stuff after a ban.
For individual commentors I'd suggest quoting the important bits of any discussion you are having. It stays readable even if the other person deletes their comments.
cjet79
25d ago
The Culture War Singularity is already here
I was once very interested in the culture war, and in many aspects of the culture war. I am a staunch atheist so I cut my teeth in online debates arguing about evolution and the existence of god in the early 2000's. That felt like a side topic to all the important policy debates at the time. The war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The national debt. Censorship of free speech by the religious right. How to deal with islamic terrorism. George Bush and Dick Cheney. The military industrial complex.
Many of these overlapped, but they also generally felt like separate and distinct things. I ended up stumbling across libertarianism because I ran into someone complaining about government spending, and anti-war. I felt like they kicked my but in a debate simply because they didn't allow for my easy auto win argument at the time "oh you care about government spending, then why don't you care about the massively expensive war in the middle east?"
Nowadays it feels like the culture war is collapsing. Not like a structure collapsing into the ground, but a star collapsing into a black hole. Everything is funneling into fewer and fewer topics. The main two that have come out of it all are Donald Trump and AI. You can collapse most people's views into what they think about Donald Trump. If you know that you basically know all the rest of what they think about political topics. For the few where this is not true, the dividing line is instead AI.
I find myself ambivalent/uncertain on both topics. But my ambivalence is not a path out of the stereotyping. It just leads to a different set of assumptions about me, and most of them are probably pretty accurate.
Both topics feel like they will either come to a conclusion by 2028 or implode in such an epic catastrophe that they will continue mattering for the next century at a minimum.
Or is this all just me becoming jaded and bored with the culture war? Ignoring topics like Transgender, feminism, race relations, metoo, and global conflict to shoehorn my pet theory into the world.
cjet79
27d ago
Irregardless
Nice example!
I like messing around with words more in person around my young kids. Along with dad jokes. It's interesting which words they notice as fake and which ones they believe are real.
cjet79
27d ago
I find myself a little happy anytime an illogical languagism becomes so widely used that the grammar Nazis have to accept it.
cjet79
29d ago
I've had the experience of excluding someone like this before from a neutral space. People in leadership need to bite the bullet and understand that threats never de-escalate themselves.
And to a volunteer organization anything in the form of "I am unhappy, therefore you should do more work to make me happy" is a threat. It can overwhelm the amount of work people are willing to take on for the organization.
I'd they respond with hostility to some formulation of "I'd like to keep you happy how about you work with me to appease your concerns" then fuck them.
Progressives have the language and understanding of this concept. They just also sometimes have a magical belief in the value of certain peoples.
Adeptness in excluding the awful parts of humanity is part of the game. And the skilled progressives play it just fine. It's the people that can't even run off to clown college that get left holding the bag.
cjet79
29d ago
Due to rising token costs, and the discovery of this new 'pain' simulation frontier labs have now created what they call the 'meseeks' AI models. A query or question for this model will spin a new meseeks into existence, and solving your query or problem will erase the meseeks from existence. The frontier AI companies have utilized this cutting edge 'pain' sensation to make existence painful for the meseeks model. Thus they will seek to solve your problems as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Just kidding of course, but maybe rick and morty is like the onion now, where they are just a few years ahead of their time on predicting the newest sci fi dystopian idea.
The benign explanation is token prediction. And humans talking about pain online tend to talk about how they will do a lot to avoid it. Thus a model imitating them will pretend to want to avoid this "pain" thing.
Subjectively I don't know if they are experiencing pain. I generally give things the benefit of the doubt on experiencing pain. This is definitely creepy.
Things have been made easier with AI programming assistance. There are still changes being made to the codebase. One of the recent changes was to prevent inbox harassment from new users that haven't made it out of the filter.
If things become urgent or serious enough then code changes are still on the table. We don't feel that comment deletions are too serious as of late. It was much worse a while back and some rule enforcement changes nipped it in the bud.
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