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dailydogma
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dailydogma
29d ago
I am being plain. The redesigns look like men. Some users pointed that out and redrew the design to look like 3d girls. Then some girls who look nothing like the men started gas lighting saying that they think they look like the men drawings and not like redrawn girl versions.
dailydogma
29d ago
I don't accept the premises of neoclassical economics, insofar as neoclassical is even logically consistent.
dailydogma
29d ago
But it was just a niche bit of fetish art, made by a niche fetish artist, that had accidentally escaped containment and reached a far larger audience than it was ever intended for.
As far as I can tell, this was not fetish art, and there are normal looking girls on tiktok insisting that they think they look like that. So it's a bit more normie/mainstream than your example, even if it's ultimately inconsequential.
dailydogma
29d ago
Big if true.
dailydogma
29d ago
On one hand, I feel like I properly advertised the post as being about something unimportant and small scale. On the other, I also want to reject the attitude that individuals are categorically unimportant and worthless. The artist is a literally-who, but in the grand scheme of things, so is Blizzard corporation, or whoever. The idea that we must receive some kind of permission from above in the form of enough funding, enough recognition, enough attention, before we think, comment, and care, to me, is wrong. We should not let our minds be beholden to the collective in that way. I think we can produce fruitful thought by observing individuals who are not authorized by the blob to have millions of dollars or millions of eyes on them or dozens of published articles written on them.
dailydogma
29d ago
I don't like how you sidestepped the entire substance of what I wrote. So I will just say I answered your question somewhere in the text above. Was I unclear at any point?
dailydogma
29d ago
I just thought it was funny how people are gas-lighting about the art looking like men. It says something about human nature and the culture war more broadly.
Obviously this is unimportant. Just don't read if you don't like the subject matter (I don't know what it is about anime that seems to annoy so many non-fans, as if most people here don't waste their time with movies, TV, sports watching, and video games, which are all equivalent). It was just food for thought, it doesn't seem any worse to me than the median thread here in this regard? Don't we have media threads, for example, on the Odyssey movie, or gamergate++, pretty routinely? I skip more than half the threads I'd say because they don't appeal.
dailydogma
29d ago
This truly seems like a tempest in a teapot to me.
That's why I called a mise en abyme.
Why should literally anyone not involved in the flame war on Tik Tok care one iota about this
The idea is that it reflects greater trends.
The artist in question has about 400,000 followers, so, more than BAP on X.
dailydogma
29d ago
Ah, good point, I remember some of those as a kid. Not manga, but paper choose your own adventure. But the base rate of branching stories in VNs is >95% I'd say and in manga it's the exception, obviously.
Doki Doki Literature Club Redesign Controversy as a «mise en abyme» of Certain Culture War Issues
I saw a small-scale controversy on Tik-tok (ugggggh, I know right?) recently. First let me give the background. Doki Doki Literature Club (DDLC) is a knock-off visual novel, in the same way that California Champagne is a knock off of Champagne. Visual novels are the video game version of anime and manga and as a consequence, they can only be produced in the Japan region of Asia. They are not really video games, but more like something in between a manga and an anime delivered in .exe format on a computer. The only dynamic element they have is a tradition of branching choices, which anime and manga cannot do.
Anyway, it is not that important that DDLC is a knockoff, except that it provides some background for the type of people who like it. The art of this knockoff is quite faithful to the real deal, but the story is not. I have never played it and am not planning on it, because I am a snob, but from what I have gathered, it's like the anime girl version of Depression Quest. It also features a lot of annoying deconstructive quotes like, «these girls are like if you took all of the traits that make someone human and just took the cute bits» said by the player character in the middle of it. Quite rude for some foreigners to do, no? Kind of like making something in California called Champagne but you somehow criticize the concept of using Chardonnay grapes and making it have gas in it while you're at it, while taking the alcohol out of it for tee-totaling Americans. Almost like it's a product of hatred for the original thing.
Well, it will turn out that you will of course get a lot of fans that hate the fact that it comes in a wine bottle. The wine bottle of DDLC is that the characters look like cartoon, moe, teenage anime girls. They have round faces, big eyes, cute mannerisms, and wear bows and and school uniforms for most of the VN, as is customary.
Here are some examples of official art from the game.
Now, what if they were designed to look like real girls? Obviously they would look like this, right (edit: this is one of the original redesign posts)? Well no, because they obviously look like cross dressing men here. The fact that those redesigns look like men is now being denied by real girls who look nothing like those men.
I can only describe this as gas-lighting. And it perfectly parallels the way gender discourse from the left happens in the broader culture war. Transgenderism of course is the biggest gas-light of them all, but feminism broadly is filled with some of the most bald-faced untruths of any political ideology. Many feminists believe women aren't mentally different from men, and can beat men in fights, for example. On the trans issue, we are supposed to believe that people can be born the wrong sex, that sex doesn't exist, that there is, in a meaningful sense, more than two sexes, and that sex changing operations are good for people. To me, these claims are about as credible as the claim that those redesigns look at all like 16 year old girls with two X chromosomes and not cross-dressing men. It is hard for me to understand how blind or dishonest one must be to really make those claims.
dailydogma
29d ago
but why wouldn't worker-efficiency-capped services rise in cost at pace with (or more than!) average incomes?
Strictly speaking, this is a pseudoscientific attitude. The burden of proof is on economists to show that this is a law, and that burden is not met by some facile equations lacking data, which don't model human behavior properly anyway.
Speaking less strictly, obviously Baumol effects became popular as a concept despite the terrible technique behind them, because they sound plausible. I'm not denying that. Most of neoclassical economics is like that. It has to be, since it's not a science. If it's not plausible-sounding, who will buy it?
I am making a mostly technical critique here, which is why I said it's a nitpick. But more substantively, I think there are subtle but important effects of this reframing. First, we reduce «Baumol effects» to «Baumol's hypothesis.». Because it is merely a hypothesis. With this we recognize the plausibility of something like it happening, without dogmatically assuming that it is the entire story, or that the details of Baumol's original writing were particularly correct.
Now that we can think freely, I will say it seems to me that if a hypothetical Baumol mechanism were to happen somewhere, I don't see why the price of worker efficiency capped services should rise systematically faster than average income. Causal inference and probability are the future of economics, alongside integration with human behavioral biology. So let's think under that framework. What should be the causal effect of productivity improvement in some sectors of employment on the average cost of the services across all the other sectors? It seems to me the causal effect should not be greater than the total increase in average productivity, although I don't know for sure. In fact I think only part of the productivity increase should trickle down, so I hypothesize it should be strictly less than than the average productivity improvement. In other words, I expect the services to get somewhat cheaper at least, although not as cheap as they would be if wages were capped and workers were forced to remain in the field.
But as scientists, this is just a hypothesis, and we should have a causal inference study to know for sure. Still, if the services get more expensive than the productivity gain, I start to look for exogenous shocks. In this case there are some obvious candidates for that, but it's controversial to talk about. What isn't controversial is blank-slate neoclassicism. The exogenous shocks I'm thinking of are controversial because they aren't blank-slate.
A nitpick as it's not his central point but, neoclassical economics is fantastical pseudoscience. There is no evidence for so-called «Baumol effects.» They exist as the result of a facile equation made out of thin air by an arrogant academic in the 1960s, not as the result of a real science. Childcare is not that expensive, people who have children just consume more of it because of dual income, housing is more expensive because of mass immigration, medicine is more expensive because of the selfishness of the doctor's guild and boomers overconsuming it. To really understand the situation, you have to understand why old people go to the doctor so much, why Western democracies politically choose demographic replacement, why feminism has progressed to the point of practically forcing dual income. None of these questions can be answer neoclassically. There are no pretty little neutral human-nature free Name Effects that give you an out from reasoning about human nature.
dailydogma
29d ago
Now Balaji is asking to meet with the PM of Malaysia as essentially equals
I believe Balaji is a superior to anybody in Malaysia and he should be asking them to bow and kiss his feet when he graces them with his brilliant presence. The issue with this is that they are narcissistic communists so they will try to kill him instead, and Balaji has no basis for declaring that reaction objectively illicit, wrong, and deserving of extreme punishment. For that you would need a new law and a new people, even a new metaphysics ... hm ... or in other words, a new religion. And then you need believers willing to do good on Earth in its name. And EA is not that. Maybe he should work on that.
dailydogma
29d ago
You need to be a writer first.
dailydogma
30d ago
You gotta cut it out with the chip on your shoulder.
I'm just doing philosophy, but you're not engaging with it. You just committed the ad hominem fallacy.
dailydogma
30d ago
t really sucks ass having to compete with other men for stuff like good jobs, girls, etc. I'm in the gym 4 days out of the week, calorie deficit, I just got out of another 2nd round job interview, gonna do another tomorrow, hoping to get something high paying with the degree i got
Boomers didn't have to do any of this. You probably have to to the extent you live around strivers and immigrants from India and China. I didn't have to do much of this because I don't live very close to those places, and neither have my similar aged family. But the consequence is no flashy Silicon valley wage or job. I have come and gone from striver dominated places and every time I felt I was pushed to behave like this. They had dry dating pools, I ended up feeling pushed to lose tons of weight just to get matches that I could have easily gotten at home, the jobs were cutthroat but not very important, just like you experience.
dailydogma
30d ago
dailydogma
30d ago
Two things. First, truth. How do you know that? Maybe it's the consensus among self-anointed seniors at your firm, but is it the consensus? Do you have data on that? A lot of consensuses are illusions.
Second, validity. Even if yours is the majority/consensus view, does that imply your view is correct? Is it well thought out? Is there evidence for it? Or ought a marginal view also be listened to? Is there any reason consensus views must be superior? What if they are the result of bias?
dailydogma
30d ago
Surely it must come. Desktop Linux is so good now, the only thing holding the market back is the inertia of Windows. I only use Windows to do Windows development, and I refuse to do Windows development without a mac or a linux device that remotely connects to the Windows instance. It is really an unusable, awful operating system. The part where they put ads in it is where I became completely done with it. It was unbelievable.
dailydogma
30d ago
Juniors should be incapable of operating at the scope and scale of seniors. Their tasks must be small in scope and complexity to have a hope of success. Fortunately seniors can guide them through such work.
I guess I'm a senior then because I do maximum scope and complexity at my company. Strangely a lot of firms still deny I'm senior and want me to in practice be 30 years old for considering me for such a role.
If it's clear to you, you can hire a bunch of junior engineers for your project and have them become greybeards for half the wage. Then you get more than a cookie.
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this assumes that seed funding is growing on a tree in my back yard. How about you just start a payment processor, for example? Even if you have a better alternative to Stripe, it's silly to believe there aren't structural reasons as to why competition isn't infinite.
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regardless, there are many firms doing this. I have worked for several. it works. I have never worked with anybody with more than 4 years of experience at any firm. If by senior you mean 3+ years of experience then I am one, but usually it means 8+.
dailydogma
30d ago
Why is it that if something is unclear to you, it is unclear, while if it is clear to me, all I get is a cookie? Are you superior to me?
dailydogma
30d ago
Who do you think is taking out Klarna loans to get Taco Bell delivered? Upper middle class people?
This is interesting because Key were obscure about the ages of the characters in Air, while in Kanon they were aged very obviously, at least to the extent that you find out their specific years in school and then can deduce from that. The reason for that could be twofold. First, the main character is older in Air. We don't find out how old he is exactly but it's implied he's between 20 and 25. He pretends to be Misuszu's classmate to her aunt but it's implied that he's slightly too old to pass well for this if you look at him too long. But still young enough to attempt it. Later he confirms he's over the age of 20 but it vague about how old he really is. In Kanon the player character in his second to last year of high school which makes him about 17 per the Japanese school system the girls are either in his year or the year above, making them 17 to 18.
In Japan, high school is three years and starts at the age of 16, with most people graduating after turning 18. Additionally, Air occurs at the end of a school year, but all of the girls are not graduated, so they must be starting their middle or last year, making them closest to 17 or 18 years old.
The only way they are plausibly younger is if they are actually attending a combined junior-senior high school and are in the lower grades. The evidence that this could be the case is mostly circumstantial; it seems that Japan does have some schools like that. The setting is a small village, and I think they are more common in small villages due to economic factors. Also the characters all act extremely immature, which could just be moe writing, but they do act like they could be on the younger side.
The most direct piece of evidence would be Misuszu's homework. She was catching up on math from the previous school year and specifically is working on quadratic equations, IIRC. That seemed a bit held back for Asia ... I studied that when I was 14, so that's what first gave me the idea. The internet says this is usually studied in Japan first in the last year of junior high or the first year of high school. So it's possible she enters her first or second year of high school after the events of air, which could mean her summer birthday is her 15th birthday if she will turn 18 during the summer after her graduation, and was actually in her last year of Japanese junior high prior to the summer.
In my translation of the VN she says «will I ever need to use things like quadratic functions in my daily life» and «this is the right formula, I solved it.» This is very vague still. It sounds like she's applying the quadratic formula in her homework and has been introduced to quadratic polynomials. Claude says the first year of high school in japan is usually graphing and basic functional analysis of quadratics. So, she would likely be graphing a function instead of applying a formula. Claude is very interested in the distinction between the word function and equation, but I don't know how important that actually is and what the Japanese says. To me they are the same thing.
But it is just as possible that she is turning 16 or 17 because she could be 18 before her last year, and she could be entering her second year of high school. Ultimately, the VN is too vague on her exact age. The cake only has 11 candles as well, but you could suppose there is one for every gap between the nuggets. Then there's 12 on the cake with one obscured, and three missing since they eat two pieces with two nuggets, so that makes 15.
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