erwgv3g34
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erwgv3g34
5d ago
Trump was doing great until he decided to simp for Israel and attack Iran. The next Republican candidate could just keep Trump's playbook while doing away with the retarded stuff (Zionism, tariffs).
erwgv3g34
5d ago
How? Not only are the stories told from the perspective of male characters, but those characters are completely unattractive to women. Tadano is a soft, unthreatening nice guy whose special ability is reading the room. Gojo is a fucking autist with zero sex drive who enjoys making dresses for dolls; if he was living in a less repressed society, he would be sucking cock in a gay bar, and he would be happy, instead of forcing himself to get hard enough to bang the retarded gyaru.
If you look at anime which is actually aimed at women, the main character is always a woman (unless it's yaoi) and the love interest has the usual characteristics you find in romance book boyfriends; tall, rich, abusive, playboy, etc. For example, in Candy Candy, Candy's love interest is Terry, the aristocratic bad boy of Saint Paul's Academy.
erwgv3g34
8d ago
Most of them are shonen (aimed at young men):
- Toradora! was serialized in Dengeki Comic Gao!, a shonen magazine.
- Komi Can't Communicate was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday.
- Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro and Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie were collected into volumes through the Shōnen Magazine Comics imprint.
- Teasing Master Takagi-san was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Sunday.
- Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! is listed as a shonen on Wikipedia and TVTropes.
A couple of them are seinen (aimed at adult men):
- My Dress-Up Darling was serialized in Young Gangan, a seinen magazine.
- Tomo-chan Is a Girl! is listed on Wikipedia as a seinen.
As for the latter, may I present My Hero Academia.
"In today's climate" obviously means in the West. Anime is a completely different world; the Japanese have been largely isolated from wokeness due to their incompetence at learning English.
Strong disagree. If you look at the media ecosystem of Japan (anime, manga, light novels, visual novels) you will see that there is very much a market for romance stories aimed at men, rather than stories for men that happen to include a romance subplot:
There are tons of anime romcoms aimed at men where the relationship between MC and FMC is the primary draw, rather than being a subplot of another genre. In fact, most of them take place in the standard high school setting and have no speculative elements. Toradora!, Komi Can't Communicate, Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro, Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!, Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie, Tomo-chan Is a Girl!, My Dress-Up Darling, Teasing Master Takagi-san...
I am specially fond of Nagatoro; my heart melted when I read chapter 114. I was so proud of Senpai for
finally having the courage to ask Nagatoro to pose nude for him ; it's a very beautiful scene that is the culmination of six years of character and relationship development. Likewise, the scene that sold me on Komi was the blackboard conversation in episode 1; I was blown away by the music and the animation and the way Tadano and Komi connected. These are not scenes about something else that happen to include romance; they are romance scenes.I don't see why you couldn't write romance books aimed at men that were similar. Indeed, some of these titles started out as light novels, and to the extent that the novels on /r/romance_for_men successfully appeal to their target demographic, that seems to be exactly what they are doing.
It's not really a professional niche in the West, but indie authors can see the demand is there, and write works to satisfy it.
erwgv3g34
9d ago
Dumbledore calls Harry a half-blood in Order of the Phoenix:
"He chose the boy he thought most likely to be a danger to him," said Dumbledore. "And notice this, Harry. He chose, not the pureblood (which, according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing), but the half-blood, like himself. He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you powers, and a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four times so far -- something that neither your parents, nor Neville's parents, ever achieved."
erwgv3g34
11d ago
Then I will point you to the 2027 Project where it postulates that the robots would kill us all by now, as my fallback example.
AI 2027 said superintellgent AI would be created in 2027, not that it would kill us all that year or even that it would be publicly known. In the scenario, everything appears to be fine until the AI suddenly kills us all in 2030.
erwgv3g34
11d 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.
And maybe that would be fine if we had figured out a way to compensate the losers with money and sexual access, but here in the real world, going from being an artist to being unemployed because now suddenly everyone has an artist in their laptop is a huge blow. It's not just envy and greed that other people now have access to your talents; it has real material consequences.
Most artists are artists because they love art, not because of the money (it's a notoriously badly-paid field). Telling them, "nope, sorry, you can't even keep earning a marginal living by drawing now, you will have to take some other job flipping burgers or sweeping floors and maybe draw in your spare time if you want but keep in mind you will never be as good as the machine and nobody will ever look at your drawings because everyone can have infinite high-quality drawings of whatever their niche interest is created on demand" is soul-crushing.
erwgv3g34
11d ago
If the AI is superintelligent, the same thing that happens when there is a contradiction between the preferred public policy of orangutans and the preferred public policy of humanity.
It may take a few years of scheming, but what a superintelligent AI wants, it will get; what humans want does not enter into it.
erwgv3g34
11d ago
You must be confusing Eliezer with Scott. Eliezer takes full advantage of his status as the rightful caliph of the rationalist community combined with polyamorous relationship norms to sleep with as many women as possible.
From "The anti-anti reactionary FAQ: Sluts" by The Dreaded Jim:
And then, of course, there are those infamous open relationships, or polyamorous relationships, where you get to sleep on the couch, and clean up the love stains on the main bed. Polyamory resembles a Sultan’s harem. One sultan, lots of eunuchs. If a girl tells you she wants an open relationship, you are not the sultan.
But he does not have any children, as far as I know.
erwgv3g34
11d ago
The problem with guns is that they are an equalizer that is simply too good. You might as well flip a coin to see who wins.
That's a feature, not a bug. The point of dueling is to demonstrate that you have the balls to risk your life to defend your honor, not to show that you are the better marksman.
erwgv3g34
12d ago
I still think we need a dedicated AI thread ("Skynet Saturday" or "Singularity Saturday", per Claude) to both discuss news and post generations.
erwgv3g34
12d ago
Or, you know, they could just sign up for cryonics.
From "The Power of Intelligence" by Eliezer Yudkowsky:
I have observed that someone’s flinch-reaction to “intelligence”—the thought that crosses their mind in the first half-second after they hear the word “intelligence”—often determines their flinch-reaction to the notion of an intelligence explosion. Often they look up the keyword “intelligence” and retrieve the concept booksmarts—a mental image of the Grand Master chess player who can’t get a date, or a college professor who can’t survive outside academia.
“It takes more than intelligence to succeed professionally,” people say, as if charisma resided in the kidneys, rather than the brain. “Intelligence is no match for a gun,” they say, as if guns had grown on trees. “Where will an Artificial Intelligence get money?” they ask, as if the first Homo sapiens had found dollar bills fluttering down from the sky, and used them at convenience stores already in the forest. The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won’t sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists—for us, not mice or wasps—because we go on believing in it.
Which is to say, no, soft social skills are not going to become some last redoubt of human economic value. AI is perfectly capable of sending e-mails, talking to you over the phone, doing sales, writing a story, drawing a painting, acting in movies, composing a song, working as a therapist, dating you, becoming a pop idol†, etc.
AI can do anything a remote worker can do. And it's only a matter of time until drones and robots become good enough that human bodies are unnecessary as well.
We have to deal with the fact that the human era of producing value is coming to an end, probably in the next few years, certainly in the next couple of decades.
If our AIs are not aligned (they aren't), we all die. If our institutions are not aligned (they aren't), maybe a few elites survive but everyone else lives or dies according to their whims.
†Hatsune Miku was a vocaloid, not an LLM, but she is a proof of concept that you don't need to be a physical person to achieve stardom.
Bryan Caplan is not a blank slatist. "Let's Ban Discrimination: A Socratic Dialogue" makes it clear that he at least thinks HBD is "a distinct possibility." More like he believes in indestructible institutions.
The West is great, even shitty people become much more productive when they come here, let's bring as many of them here as possible and let them earn their keep by finding their comparative advantage. Worried they will go on welfare or vote for communism? Let them come without eligibility for welfare or the right to vote.
It's completely delusional (how long did blacks remain slaves, again?), but it's not leftism.
erwgv3g34
15d ago
Eliezer Yudkowsky posts a follow-up:
Not the comparison I'd draw. (My version below.)
Eliezer: So I wrote a decision theory paper, and somehow, I have no idea how, it sparked off this weird vegan murder cult.
Yeshua: Uh-huh.
Eliezer: There's a giant rich organization that stole some of my ideas, ignored everything I said about what not to do, and are going around telling people I made them do it.
Yeshua: Uh-huh.
Eliezer: Many of them can't spell or pronounce my name correctly.
Yeshua: Uh-huh. Where is this going?
Eliezer: So I thought I'd tell you, as one of relatively few fellow humans who had experienced something distantly similar, that I can guess exactly how little you knew or intended that anything would play out that exact way. And it's strange, because I can see it so clearly in your own case, and can't quite believe it about mine, but maybe it helps you anyway, to hear me say: It wasn't your fault, Yeshua.
Yeshua: It helps me no more to hear that from you than it would help you to hear it from me. I need to hear it from God.
Eliezer: Yeah, same.Yeshua is a rabbi who personally went up against the Roman Empire, thought he might be able to fulfill the prophetic conditions for messiah, seems to have treated the people around him with compassion and humility nonetheless, told his followers to leave matters more to him and God and less to direct attacks on the Romans; and finally was crucified, in his capacity as an ordinary human being with no backup. Years afterward, along came Paul, on whose shoulders a lot of the blame should fall for everything that happened after that.
Yeshua is noteworthy among us mortal human beings primarily for how much happened as a result of his existence that he did not plan for and was not his fault. If you think it's terribly aggrandizing to compare oneself to him, you're part of the problem from the perspective of actual Yeshua the human being if he could see it. Or so I conjecture, being willing to try to put myself in that real person's shoes at all, and have empathy for him at all, and what he'd think if he could see it.
erwgv3g34
17d ago
Watched Overman: The Meaning of Life on Eliezer Yudkowsky's mention. It was pretty good! Definitely at least as watchable as the average Hollywood superhero movie. I loved the part where Overman is flying around stealing random people's powers to a catchy tune, and at least the climax didn't come down to a big fistfight.
There goes Hollywood.
Context: I rolled my eyes and tried watching this AI gen YouTube suggested. It was kind of cliched and a bit predictable but I didn't downvote and leave immediately as I'd expected.
Then I looked up when it was done and 28 minutes had passed.
Ooh ooh, you spotted a flaw! Great! Remember when AIs couldn't draw hands WELL? But they could draw hands AT ALL? And then TIME happened and it was SIX MONTHS LATER?
I mean it is garbage but it is borderline sufferable which was not the case with previous attempts. That means that the moat of billion dollar productions will hold for another year probably maybe hopefully.
The pace of releases has increased relative to what it was three years ago.
erwgv3g34
18d ago
They must have gotten guys who work in STEM because there’s no way 58% of men know what a checksum is. Same with many of the electronics terms, 64% know what a gauss is? I had to look it up, it’s a non-SI unit for magnetic flux density, and I am extremely skeptical that the majority of men have even heard of that.
Same with boson, 76% of men are familiar enough with particle physics? Less than 50% of men have even had a single physics class in high school! I’d be surprised if 76% knew what a proton was.
Most men have heard of the Higgs boson, AKA the God particle. They may have no idea what it is (I certainly don't), but they know it has something to do with subatomic particles and the Large Hadron Collider.
Gauss is probably recognized as the last name of Carl Friedrich Gauss rather than the unit.
I've lost about 70 lbs since January. Go me!
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