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disparagus_impact
6d ago
I actually found a way to connect them.
Like Lindsay, Jane Doe was enthusiastically consenting to sex until she found out later on from her girlfriends that she had been harming her soul and body.
Lindsay was enthusiastically shopping around medical professionals for the best drugs until she found out later on that she had been undergoing psychosis when the police started accusing her of murder.
disparagus_impact
7d ago
It'd be a brilliant move for the Trump admin to shut down all coeducational universities under the guise of investigating all sexual crimes committed up to this day.
Perhaps prevent any new Pell grants to these universities until they can prove that no rape is happening at any time.
It's not like in-person universities are needed at this time, students can just google/AI a curriculum.
disparagus_impact
7d ago
Now you gotta go and find out:
- her stance on the Cornell story
- her stance on Lindsay
disparagus_impact
9d ago
Author seems like somebody who used to be kinky and now has a lot of cats. Curious.
Is there any decent research on the effects of Toxoplasma Gondii on political beliefs?
I suppose there is a little bit of chicken-or-egg effect here, is it pre-existing personality traits that cause catladyism or are the personality traits from the stuff in the water turning the frogs gay?
Why are rationalists so focused on AI alignment when they haven't figured out woman alignment yet?
disparagus_impact
9d ago
There are high-fertility communities around you.
If this is something you care about, just drive around town until you see some families that look like you in a minivan. Or go ask the local Honda or Toyota dealership. Or look up local homeschooling groups on Facebook.
Then make friends with these people and have your kids mingle with them and when you'd be thinking of sending them off to college or what not, start talking about it with these people.
It may be impossible, it may not work, but if you care about your kids' future and you spend time doing things like picking which school they should attend, it should be a no-brainer to take some steps to get them a spouse.
disparagus_impact
9d ago
I think what matters to men is what status correlates with.
A woman raised in a trailer park with low-status parents is more likely to be either obese or on drugs, most likely covered in nasty tattoos, foul-mouthed, may have had to exchange sex for housing. All traits that a lot of men might not like.
On the other hand, a woman raised by absent professionals might have similarly damaging personality traits, but might be more effective at concealing them (having parents bail them out, paying for abortions, etc).
The ideal for a regular guy is a humble woman who was not raised in desperate circumstances but with strong conservative family values. Unfortunately these women usually get taken pretty quickly.
disparagus_impact
9d ago
To all the commenters, given the general outlook on the dating market, do you intend to arrange marriages for your kids and if not, why not?
disparagus_impact
9d ago
Maybe. Call it online stalking, I call it intentional dating.
In which case, don't get caught? There's a number of pitfalls, like verifying an actual adult female before offering a meeting.
I'm not saying you should launch a bot that automatically creepily propositions every female within a given radius.
But just consider that most people spend a fraction of their leisure time online, and that usually means that they are not available for a chance encounter out there.
disparagus_impact
9d ago
The best dating advice for a teenage boy is to tell them to start selling drugs.
Unless you're religious, in that case you'd better start working on the arranged marriage.
There is no logical argument not to defect in the society-wide prisoner's dilemma if there is no recognized objective morality.
Do what you have to do and let the journalists decide if you were a good criminal or a bad cop.
disparagus_impact
9d ago
I think you need to find smaller niches. Somebody already mentioned that every app is a dating app. Linkedin is a dating app. Pinterest is a dating app. Goodread is a dating app. Youtube is a dating app. Themotte is a dating app if you're into lawyers and AI-doomers.
Think of the most female-coded hobbies you can think of and find some kind of gathering point for them. There, find and befriend a somewhat representative example of a woman you wouldn't mind being married to. She's probably already taken, but this is to give you an idea of what you want.
That woman may have friends, cousins, sisters, built on roughly the same model, that are not taken. Another aspect of it which you are probably aware of, is that you have to completely hide your awareness of the woes of the dating market. Take some kind of imaginary bluepill.
Then once you find somebody good enough, go for it.
disparagus_impact
9d ago
I have a hard time imagining that the worldview of all these men would be vastly different.
I'm sure they all understand the concept of a 'nagging wife' for example.
Even the dirtiest of communists seem to have part of their interest focused on the sexual side of the revolution. I would be really surprised if there was a single white male seriously into progressive activism that was not a sex pest.
disparagus_impact
9d ago
oWo what's this? Do you have a permit to carry or are you just happy to see me?
disparagus_impact
16d ago
Several years ago I was very concerned about sending my kids to a school with a majority of non-white kids, for practical concerns with violence.
Now there is an additional concern in the whitest of schools, which is the tendency of white educators to enforce progressive values.
Here's an interesting anecdote, the son of a Polish immigrant was getting in trouble in elementary school, because of his rowdy behavior. Compared to all the other kids of tech-wealthy Indian immigrants at that school.
disparagus_impact
25d ago
Perhaps it's because being far-right in China or India is the only way to achieve bare-minimum outcomes of civilization, kind of the way European governments tightened during both world wars.
Those who managed to escape the bottom of the barrel wish to get what the Americans are getting in terms of social freedoms.
If they are able to be successful back home, and are well-adapted to the social expectations, there isn't really a reason to move. Servants are cheaper, the upper-crust are probably doing relatively well compared to other countries.
Without tight control of the population, these places literally start blowing up, trains derailing left and right, etc, then they just start eating each other by the thousands. Orgies and writing snarky articles about the government are not worth that risk.
In the US, the elites have been turning the dial on moral decay for decades for the fun of it, perhaps as a flex on other countries' elites as well, and yet, aside from a few hotspots of degeneracy and crime, there is a remarkable resilience of the economy, public safety...
disparagus_impact
26d ago
disparagus_impact
26d ago
My point was just that we generally at some point believe what others tell us.
Whether it's that a picture in a textbook depicts something that actually happened, or that a given natural phenomena is explained by what they are saying.
Photograph-based scams are pretty much as old as the camera, like the Cottingley fairies.
It is conceivable that miniatures of icey landscapes were used in photographs with clever angles and painted backgrounds to fake Antarctica. I don't have a reason to believe that's the case but it's possible.
I assume you are referring to transgenderism? That's really not what most adherents believe (speaking as someone who was firmly pro-trans, and who is still broadly sympathetic to it) - given that most of us are atheists.
People who use words such as 'wrong body' are clearly referring to some kind of dualist conception of the mind - body, analogous to souls.
because I've never seen an angel, seen photographs of an angel, or heard any other convincing evidence they aren't made-up.
I've never seen a woman who can lift heavy things yet feminists will have us believe they are equal to men. Moreover, there are many things that Science has revealed to us that were prior excluded from our understanding. I can't see or smell radiation myself.
Without a God, there is just people's subjective moral preferences - "sacrificing children" (i.e. killing them for no good reason) feels immoral to me, and to many others.
There's plenty of good reasons they come up with for these abortions.
And it might even be true that humans need a God to maintain a stable society long-term. But none of that has anything to do with whether God, angels, etc exist in the first place
Pure coincidence.
Also, nice try, but I see what you did there: the pro-Clancy defence is that she was mentally unwell so it wasn't her fault.
She was just being a girl. In her murder era. Going goblin mode on the kiddos. Being brave and independent. Performing self-care?
People who believe in abortion don't believe the fetus counts as human, so it's okay to kill it with full awareness of what you are doing.
Pure coincidence that these people would excuse a 'true human' having a little bit of an oopsie moment while taking one of these mental health days off. Like there's some kind of slippery slope when you grant certain people the right to kill whoever they deem inferior, and celebrate it.
disparagus_impact
27d ago
Well that would require me to believe in satellites and photography (aren't these devices stealing your soul anyway?). It could be AI-generated for all I know.
This is not as odd as it sounds. There is a significant portion of the educated Western population who claims that God sometimes gets confused and puts a soul in the wrong body.
This is something they teach children in many parts of the West.
'Don't sacrifice children because an angel told you not to' is not that odd of a belief, by comparison, imo.
But that's from growing up in a civilization that was deeply imbued with Christian values. Somebody who grew up in a Mayan city might be fine with Clancy-style late-term abortion.
disparagus_impact
28d ago
Those who deny the validity of scientific investigation (including supply and demand)
Well there's all kind of scientific investigation. Is scientific investigation the highest course of action no matter what? Should we be scientifically investigating something right now instead of having a conversation?
Those who don't bother to avoid ambiguity
There's a trade-off between avoiding ambiguity and time. Users of this website are obsessed with avoiding ambiguity but it makes every discussion longer to read / longer to respond to.
Even if those major topics are not known to Alfred, it is well-advised for him to assume that, if he bothers to learn more about Beatrice, then he eventually will come to learn her opinions on those major topics, and to dislike her.
The implication being that if you get to know somebody you will inevitably end up disliking them. While I don't think that is necessarily true, if you do believe that to be true, why do you want to speedrun that inevitability by throwing lists of questions at them?
You should enjoy not knowing them that well for as long as you can.
Also if you stopped constantly inquiring about various topics you would be less likely to form an opinion that would lead you to dislike somebody over it. ie touch grass
disparagus_impact
28d ago
Mamdani's laced statement obviously means there is influence in some manner.
No, as I have already addressed in my lengthy previous response, there is only one factor offered in the 'laced' metaphor, and it's the IDF lacing.
Not Hollywood movies, not racist stereotypes, not cowboy trainers at the academy, not toxic masculinity... The only factor specified in the metaphor is the IDF.
Mamdani's statements are not evidence of him holding a conspiracy theory.
Why do you think Mamdani goes out of his way to single out the IDF when talking about police brutality in his city?
Even 'the boot on your neck' part of is is hyperbolic. The large majority of police interactions have no boot on a neck, and there is a second conspiracy theory here, held by paranoid schizophrenes, libertarians and other fringe people, which is that normal policing is some kind of tyrannical action.
Normal people who are not part of the extreme progressive tribe think that it is appropriate to put away some dangerous people, and to have government workers in charge of applying the necessary violence to that end.
Such language was last appropriate when Biden-era government people were shutting down businesses and shutting down the bank account of Canadian protesters over some grandma coughing in China.
disparagus_impact
28d ago
You were asked: What do you think Zohran meant by the IDF laced the boot on your neck?
I think it bad faith to assume it the way you do. There is an Israeli-NYPD partnership, this is verifiable fact. He did not say the boot of NYPD is only the IDF, as you claim, just that it was "laced" by them. Even in the literal reading of the analogy, laces are only a part of a shoe so the reading of "only" doesn't work there either.
LLM said:
I think the most charitable—and probably most accurate—reading is that Mamdani was using “laced by the IDF” as a metaphor for institutional influence Unless the chatbots are also trolling or something, this seems to be a fair way to interpret the comment.
This is how I understand this:
If somebody singles out the IDF in a metaphor about police brutality / government violence in an American city, they probably mean that the IDF is a major influence on police brutality / government violence in that city.
Unless that quote is truncated and it was 'a variety of factors and institutions, among which Hollywood movies, racial stereotypes, bla bla bla, the IDF...', the intent is to single out the IDF, which as far as I understand, is not clearly responsible for whatever is getting done in the NYPD.
You claim that the LLM said it was a metaphor for institutional influence. It is quite concerning that a foreign government military organization would have institutional influence over American government forces. You seem to think that this careful word choice by the LLM is not a big deal. I think it is, even tho LLMs have incentives to downplay narratives around jewish or israeli power, what with their owners being subjected to 'institutional influence' from jewish/israeli powers.
Note that LLMs are also conditioned not to get too upset at brown people so unlike say some zionist pundit from the ADL, it would not go too far to vehemently denounce Mamdani.
If the IDF had a major influence on policing practices in NYC -which I don't think is true but could be, I would say they have a minor influence despite the over-representation of Jews/Israeli in that city- it would be shocking.
Saying that they do have a major influence as a matter of fact, as the only important explanation in the metaphor (boot + lace), shows that you are used to making this kind of claim linking foreign government influence + 'minority groups' and unjust government practices.
Perhaps he did provide all the evidence supporting this shocking statement before or after that quote. In that case it's only shocking because of our ignorance.
If Mamdani is not offering the evidence anywhere else, then he is just making a statement to presumably inflame animosity either against NYPD or against the IDF / people associated with the IDF.
People who do not like the NYPD will dislike the IDF a little bit more, people who do not like the IDF will dislike NYPD a little bit more.
If the LLM cannot detect that Mamdani's statement is shocking if not accompanied by evidence, I see it as evidence that it is unable to properly weight the inflammatory nature of statements if not easily scaled along the usual 'white man = racist' chart.
Has authoritarian political views
I find it amusing that you'd have such criteria when 2 or 3 of your other criteria sound like something a grammar-nazi would care about.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. I suppose you can find some grammar-appreciative people to be friends with, perhaps in the editing or copy proofing world?
I used to be more mindful of language rules myself.
Now there are language mistakes that I like. How my daughter says 'bloopy' instead of 'bluey' and calls her brother by the second half of his name. How endearing!
Perhaps if you care to not be so hung up on what most people consider trivial language mistakes, taking up a foreign language would help?
When you are the one desperately trying to express yourself in a foreign language, begging native speakers not to immediately switch to English or ignore you, perhaps you will feel more inclined to be magnanimous toward others' mistakes?
Is religious
What's the problem with that? We all hold some beliefs we can't justify from the ground up. I've never seen Antarctica, I have to believe that it exists if anybody talks about it.
And of course anybody who disagrees with you at all, even on something as minor as favorite food or preferred HVAC temperature, must be distrusted at least a little.
Distrusted in what sense?
Do I trust that they will keep the AC at the exact 'right' temperature when I'm not around and they have control of the thermostat? Perhaps not, but why 'dislike' them for that?
I think it's important to respect that other people's preferences might be as arbitrary/determined as mine, and I shouldn't dislike them for that. Unless we're talking about extreme levels of causing discomfort to others.
disparagus_impact
28d ago
While I was not necessarily implying that you were literally making people fill forms, sending questions back and forth is loosely similar, considering that that is not how people usually communicate.
Consider how people go to a therapist for talk therapy, not 'answering questions' therapy, which could potentially be a more effective way of systematically diagnosing and treating mental illness.
The ideal conversation for me is that they tell me something sincere, that matters to them, that strikes my interest and for which I can find an interesting aspect to ask about. Then they can fill in some details, and perhaps I have some kind of related experience I can bring up that could be of interest to them. If they don't respond in a way that indicate that they have interest in what I'm bringing up, then we can stay silent, or go back to the previous topic with a different angle, or try something else.
Reading some of your questions, I don't really know where the conversation possibly could go from there.
Do you have a preference for the texture of facial tissues when you use them to wipe your nose?
Are we trying to find out if I have some kind of touch sensitivity? Unless you're a genetics researcher looking for people with a specific phenotypic trait to sample, I don't get what's the point of this question.
Why did you dislike the people you attempted friendship with?
You clearly have a social side considering your communications here, but you have standards I don't understand and you're not satisfied with what you're getting.
disparagus_impact
28d ago
AI companies have been systematically adding biases in various cultural and political matters.
There are many examples related to for example boycotting Israel vs boycotting X country, 'should I be afraid of white man?' vs 'should I be afraid of black man?'. Image generation forcing black people when prompted for greek philosophers...
One funny example I saw myself was simply asking who is objectively more attractive between Melania Trump and Michelle Obama.
Michelle Obama is the big winner, probably due to tons of biased media coverage in the training data, but also because there is probably some kind of important lock on calling any black woman less attractive.
disparagus_impact
28d ago
I appreciate your usual output of strange court cases.
I eventually couldn't tolerate my pseudo-friends any longer and kicked them all to the curb
Well what was the issue? They didn't want to fill out your forms or they didn't want to send you a form to fill back?
I think a friend is just somebody who is willing to give you a little piece of their day in exchange for the simple pleasure of spending time with you.
You can be friends with different kinds of people in different ways. Maybe there's somebody who you only talk about sports with, or anime, or strange court cases.
If you already thoroughly know somebody, how are they going to surprise you, how are they going to teach you anything?
Making them fill out a form to give you the information you care about is in a way spoiling the fun out of the friendship.
Ideally this is somebody you can be sincere with and you can be humble with, you are not worrying over the way you are phrasing your thoughts not to sound dumb or offensive, in a way one would rewrite a paragraph to avoid modding on themotte.
If the spreadsheet-filling game is a core friendship need for you, I'd suggest frequenting fans of map-coloring or 'productivity' games like factorio, I assume they'd be more likely to be into spreadsheets.
It's a Christian website after all.
Without Christianity as the source of Western civilization, it's hard to see anybody else coming up with rationalism, truth-seeking, etc.
This kind of topic would be more at home on a Japanese website, where child-abuse enthusiasts might be a peculiar but relatively esteemed community.
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