dailydogma
6d ago
While I'm sure the life of a low-tier rock star/reality tv personality is not necessarily the healthiest or most spiritually fulfilling, do we have any indication his likely alternative life paths would have ended any happier?
No. He probably would have been a teenage suicide on account of being 4'11" if not for the fame opium.
dailydogma
6d ago
I have absolutely no idea why you're bringing up adult women who claimed to be the victims of sexual misconduct when my post was specifically (and very explicitly) about child actors of both sexes.
They have something in common which I discussed above. If you can't figure it out, I recommend this book. Hint: it's somewhere in this block of text
She dwells on the past not because her mom was a bitch, but because she's a bitch too, and she's in a protracted bitch-fight with her mom. Hollywood didn't do it to either of them. The same goes for when these Hollywood narcissists (tip: fame seekers tend to be narcissists) claim sexual abuse. Normal people just get over a sexual encounter they later regretted.
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have no idea what "scientifically consent" is supposed to mean,
Whether or not someone is smart enough to consent to sex, independent of the legal fiction of their present country. A useful distinction for speaking to someone based in the 21st century Earth region of space time, since various factors unknown to them have causes many of their governments to make legal ages of consent above their populations median scientific age of consent.
noncey
Stop that. It's like saying using the word noncey sounds extremely British-prole.
dailydogma
6d ago
It's meaningless to talk about children "regretting" sexual encounters, because children cannot consent to sex and every sexual act between an adult and a prepubescent child is statutory rape.
In that part I was referencing the Weinstein scandal for the most part. AFAIK non of those women claimed to be underage when they allegedly had sex with him.
However, it would fit Epstein too, as I think those women were all old enough to scientifically consent and then regret. McCurdy was around that age during her iCarly career so, I guess it would apply to her too.
but Hollywood did do something to her.
That guy was creepy, not the part where she got rich and famous.
dailydogma
6d ago
dailydogma
6d ago
I can only assume the knives Digwa was carrying weren't visible on his person when Nowak ran into him.
You are aware the massive dagger he used to kill him was visible on his chest when the police were speaking to him, right?
It's bizarre to react to child abuse by taking power away from the child and concentrating it in the hands of their abusers. Parents abuse some children who made a name for themselves and a lot of money, you take the childrens' ability to make money and fame away and leave them with their child abusing parents as a result? Why?
I'm guessing you blank slated it and assumed that Hollywood caused the abuse in the cases you cited, not the parents. That would be a red herring. Make no mistake, these families are mentally ill, parent and child. Jeanette McCurdy has inherited bipolar/borderline personality disorder. If she were instrinsically non-mentally ill, she would be enjoying being rich and famous. She dwells on the past not because her mom was a bitch, but because she's a bitch too, and she's in a protracted bitch-fight with her mom. Hollywood didn't do it to either of them. The same goes for when these Hollywood narcissists (tip: fame seekers tend to be narcissists) claim sexual abuse. Normal people just get over a sexual encounter they later regretted. They're in therapy 20 years later because they are mentally ill and would have arrived in therapy anyways, blaming something extrinsic is just a narcissistic coping mechanism they come up with, often with their therapist who is getting paid a lot to feed their egos. And in both cases people fall for their publicly stated copes and try to transform society to be an overall worse place based on the feverish delusions of mentally ill people. Witch-hunt high status men who had sex, take even more liberty away from children, yes that's the recipe for Utopia, sure.
dailydogma
6d ago
Why should the rate be .01 SD/generation? Why should it even be linear?
The trait mean does not have to be linear with time, it just has to have an average derivative of 0.01.
If the one sample set we’ve got today is a somewhat stronger negative correlation, I would expect that to extend backwards. I know that was the case in 1800s America.
How do you know? Galton claimed it was dysgenic in late 1800s England, so maybe you're correct. But we have Clark and associated data indicating there was an inflection point in the early to mid 19th century in Europe. So I expect that it was indeed a positive trend between 0 and 1800 AD. And this matches what we observed phenotypically.
dailydogma
9d ago
Good point, and grim. But he was also offered those dump trucks by OpenAI, and he took it. But he's not contributing to AI research, just branding. I don't blame him, AI research sucks. There's no theory to it, it's just try random things. Same with quant research.
dailydogma
9d ago
ChatGPT indicates that maybe 10% of the improvement to MRIs from 2000 to 2020 was due to pure math, and Tao was maybe 10% of that. So that's 1%. But it says most of the improvement came from applied engineering using math as a tool.
After all, that's why we do the work and the research, to find out.
But pure math gets way too much status compared to how likely it is to find something useful/interesting. Most of it is pretty obviously a waste of time. Quantitative science such as physics is a much more efficient way to search useful state space with math IMHO.
dailydogma
9d ago
Look, I completely agree with you that if Americans don't live up to their ideals then they will be like the regimes they profess to fight against (Russia, China, Iran, etc.). But this is no where or even close to what's happening. So please don't go all outraged on something that is not true and not actually happening. I can understand your deep distrust, but then it's just as bad to then veer so far into non-truths as well.
It's literally happening in Iowa right now. You are correct that the US federal government shouldn't be singled out. Most states are just as bad. That's because it's an issue with Americans, not something particular to Washington DC. The US federal government is what it is because of politicians and personnel from those states. It doesn't exist in a vacuum or as an entity beyond the United States demos.
As for Snapchat, you already found a case involving significant proactive surveillance, which ought to be illegal. What I was talking about hasn't happened yet, but it's a fair guess that it will with new technologies and the way Americans are becoming even more hysterical about this topic.
As for Europeans, sure, every society has hypocrisy and its ups and downs. The United States is not the worst country on Earth right now, nor in history. But it is probably the most narcissistic. And it is probably worse than Europe unless you really value shouting the N word or making Nazi salutes in public.
dailydogma
9d ago
I'm skeptical of math as a field and how Tao practices it. I think there's a chance he's an invention of his parents and academia and so secret shilling for OpenAI is right in his lane as far as attention seeking behavior goes. Take this with a grain of salt though, I don't want to slander him. He's certainly intelligent but yet none of his ideas have led to anything tangible and the praise heaped on hims just feels like it could be better allocated to practical problem solving, so it makes me a little suspicious that there's a confidence trick going on under the surface. Also, if there's anything to this, he wouldn't be the first, Von Neumann was suspicious too, for example his uncle mysteriously attributed to him physically impossible abilities that have been later debunked. Again, not saying these men aren't smart, I think they are extremely intelligent and what they do is difficult, but that labels like genius are political in nature and that these men and their entourages seem to do everything in their power to claim that label, behind just focusing on the best contributions to math and science they can make. To the extent that I think their contributions to humanity suffer as they chase fads and prove abstractions instead of undergoing less prestigious work to make material progress.
dailydogma
9d ago
https://www.themotte.org/post/3771/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/448352?context=8#context
I consider Frisians and Dutch speaking people to be Anglo-Saxon.
dailydogma
10d ago
This doesn't really happen in my country, it's mostly ones with significant Anglo-Saxon populations, specifically England and low land countries plus Germany, which has a lot of Frisians. It's those people that are the problem, and the United States is based on those people as well. And try saying any of that publicly in the US and you will get fired from your job. You don't have free speech. And if your government did enforce hatespeech laws, it would be with an FBI raid at 3 AM leading to a violent arrest and a decade long federal prison sentence for communicating interstate hatred. And everyone would cheer about how much Justice was done. In the worst European countries you go to jail for about 6 months for being obnoxiously public about your racism. The hate speech topic is a massive American cope that lets Americans overlook how tyrannical their government is and how much they have sold their liberty down the river.
dailydogma
10d ago
You can criticize the government in Europe, you just can't be racist in a few countries with too many Anglo-Saxons (that is, proto Americans).
dailydogma
10d ago
So it's just communism? Oppress the majority for a bad minority?
dailydogma
11d ago
I think men an women hit the wall 5 years apart. Historically, at 25 and 30, but today I guess most would agree you get some extra time. Although I don't know how much of that is cope.
dailydogma
12d ago
dailydogma
12d ago
Upper class white fertility had already collapsed in his day and they were being replaced by the lower classes. Now that's happening between countries. Also my point was more that he explores how quantitative traits works and outlines a eugenics plan.
dailydogma
12d ago
Waiting 10 years is an imposition on young men for the sake of the blob, so no. I support waiting 5 years max and still marrying with a potential age gap of 2 or 3 years. All the arguments against this I've heard are bad. Just credentialism and feminism basically.
dailydogma
12d ago
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Just read Francis Galton.
dailydogma
13d ago
The only good solution to this is a traditional marriage regime, not this monstrosity Americans made.
I am sympathetic to that, but it is ultimately a self own, because you live in a society where you are almost forced to fornicate, so it's not the big evil you think it is. Let's say you marry early. You can't marry that early because the type of people who prosecute the woman won't let you marry until 18. Can you marry at 18? Is your wife older than you? Exact same age? What are the odds of that? Is it natural? They won't let you marry a 16 year old when you're 18, they'll throw you in prison like the 28 year old woman with the hopes that Travonius tears you up a little if you catch my drift. So if your wife is a normal amount younger than you, you're probably 21 or 22 by the time you're allowed to touch her ... when did you start feeling horny, 12? So just wait 9 or 10 years, no big deal? No sympathy for„gooners” either, so if a boy looks up lascivious girls his age, or his future wife's age, during this time, your FBI will arrest him and sentence him as an adult to some United States justice. It's okay, I mean you can have sympathy for horny people? They're just young men anyway, and everybody hates them.
dailydogma
13d ago
By that standard, nobody is innocent.
dailydogma
13d ago
You know it's harm and refuse to protect people like me. For instance, adultery. Nobody pretends like that isn't harm. The Bible is clear that it should be a crime. History is clear that was a crime. Men and women are clear that it's wrong. There are other examples.
So you've never heard „it's giving cringe” before? And your big retort is to go primary school English teacher / grammar Nazi on me? For real?
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