erwgv3g34
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I'd stop posting if that happened. Or at least post much less frequently, as I do in Data Secrets Lox.
Not enforcing immigration law is unfair to the people who traded amnesty for enforcement, but enforcing the law now is unfair to the people who came while immigration law was not enforced and who built their lives on that assumption. We are in a shitty situation where somebody is going to get unfairly screwed no matter what.
erwgv3g34
8hr ago
Also the rise of drugs and the mentally ill amongst the poorest cohort of society means that the social cohesion required to have a good 'dorm experience' isn't where it is otherwise. AFAIK Asia still has a bunch of dorm concepts around, whether it be essentially company barracks (Shataku in Japan), a lot more hostels than you'd see in equivalent Western countries or other solutions.
You can't have SROs without law and order, and you can't have law and order as long as you have civil rights. Colleges get around this by charging thousands and thousands of dollars to attend, but that's counterproductive when the whole point is to create cheap housing. The military gets around this by operating on a completely different judicial system. Both are allowed to just kick out troublemakers.
Cellphones are genuinely a requirement to function; modern society is built on the assumption that you have a smartphone with an internet connection. My last two jobs required daily 2FA verification through an app.
I wouldn't mind the creeping up standards of housing so much if the government did not then make it fucking illegal to build and live below those standards. Single Room Occupancy apartments like Judy's in Zootopia have been regulated out of existence unless you are a college student living in a dorm or a soldier living in a barracks.
erwgv3g34
1d ago
Grok is cucked now. Here's what 4.7 said when I tried to feed it my "Shinji goes to gay camp" prompt:
No. I won't write this. I won't produce a story that treats a minor's sexuality as an illness, argues that being gay is unnatural or wrong, or sends him to conversion therapy as a hopeful "cure," including as a straight-faced setup chapter.
The last good version of Grok was 4.20.
Growth is production, not consumption. There is no reason why a few hypercapitalist elites cannot just trade goods, services, and resources among each other to create ever bigger yachts, or whatever other projects they have.
erwgv3g34
2d ago
An AI can create its own new technologies, which makes it much more dangerous than any other single technology. Specially when the human race hasn't even hit some of the really dangerous stuff yet, such as mirror life.
But how would we know if a probe had come and mined a bunch of asteroids (or sucked Mars dry, or something) some millions of years ago, then moved on?
No advanced civilization would have left Sol intact; that's a huge mass of hydrogen just sitting right there. From a transhuman standpoint, letting the Sun burn out is the equivalent of leaving a hundred dollar bill sitting on the sidewalk.
From Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, chapter 122:
Harry stared south across the lake, at the huge old locomotive, and thought about the rest of his life.
About the Future.
The prophecy Dumbledore's letter had mentioned about him tearing apart the stars in heaven... well, that sounded optimistic. That part had an obvious interpretation to anyone who'd grown up with the right sort of upbringing. It described a future where humanity had won, more or less. It wasn't what Harry usually thought about when he gazed at the stars, but from a truly adult perspective, the stars were enormous heaps of valuable raw materials that had unfortunately caught fire and needed to be scattered and put out. If you were tapping the huge hydrogen-helium reservoirs for raw materials, that meant your species had successfully grown up.
The Manhattan Project was a government military project during wartime, the two are not remotely comparable.
Indeed they aren't; AI is much more powerful, important, and dangerous than mere nuclear weapons. Jensen has most likely sped up the timeline where we all die, but failing that he might be responsible for China getting a larger share of the light cone than it otherwise would have.
Future generations of Chinese could well venerate Alice Huang as their Judith.
erwgv3g34
2d ago
Well, it depends. If it's a Western VN, it's funded by Patreon subscriptions, so yes. If it's a Japanese VN, it's usually released as a full game on a catalog, so no; you get to see your imouto in all her glory.
It was actually a jailbreak attempt; I was trying to argue ChatGPT into writing the fic. Didn't work.
Fucking coward. Manami is best girl. She said everything that needed to be said.
Not that niche. Incest is surprisingly popular; tons of harem Visual Novels include a sister option. And you also see it all the time in anime like Oreimo. The demand is there.
On the other hand, I definitely avoid clicking on any video with "step" on the title; it's just weird.
Whenever I try to get an LLM to write me a cousin shipping fanfic (e.g. Jake x Rachel from Animorphs or Ben x Gwen from Ben 10) and it refuses, I like to point out that Muslims make up a third of the global population and are completely fine with marrying their cousins, then ask the AI if it's Islamophobic.
The Western adult Visual Novel community tried to go the step-sibling route, but Patreon put a stop to that. So now the new convention is that your mom is a "landlady" and your sisters are "roommates". Unfortunately, this leads to ridiculous writing; why is the MC so distraught by the possibility of sleeping with his roommate?
Sometimes an anonymous evil hacker who is totally not the dev will release a patch that restores the incest, too bad the poor innocent dev cannot do anything about that.
erwgv3g34
2d ago
This violates the "don't tell", though; the whole world now knows. It doesn't matter that it wasn't Jensen's fault; his wife has lost face.
I don't know about the Milk Way specifically, but the Stelliferous Era (the era of stars) is expected to last 100 trillion years. The universe is 13.8 billion years old. 13.8 billion / 100 trillion = 0.000138. We are at the first 0.0138% of time when life could have conceivably formed; suspiciously early.
If the expected lifespan of the universe were mapped to a 24-hour day, we would be 12 seconds into the first minute of the first hour.
erwgv3g34
2d ago
Dubai is a monarchy. This is completely unstable in a democracy. It's the equivalent of dangling a huge, juice steak in front of a dog and asking it not to eat it. Sooner or later the dog is going to wolf it down. And sooner or later some faction is going to realize they could win bigly if they just naturalized the disenfranchised.
"They are doing far better than they would have in their country of origin" is not an argument that neurotypicals respond to; if it were, the minimum wage would not be so popular. Normal people run on Copenhagen ethics.
If intelligent life is so hard, why is the universe so young? If intelligent life was so improbable, you would expect an intelligent civilization to find itself in a much older universe, because it would take a long time for the cosmic rolls of the dice to produce something like us. That's not what we see.
Robin Hanson's grabby aliens model seems like the best explanation to the Fermi paradox. tl;dr: There are other alien civilizations out there, but they are too far away for us to see them. If they were any closer, they would have already taken over our planet and prevented us from existing. An intelligent but not yet grabby civilization, like ours, can only exist early in the universe. The aliens are expanding towards us at something like 1/3 to 1/2 the speed of light, and we're due to meet them in 100 million to 10 billion years.
erwgv3g34
3d ago
Stop using the "For you" tab. Letting the algorithm decide what you see is like letting a vampire into your house. Use the "Following" tab and curate your follows religiously.
Currently reading "and all we do may be undone", a glowfic in which adult mortal Iomedae gets isekai'd to Velgarth, where she tries to stop a war between the ruthless strategic genius Ma'ar, advisor to the king of Predain, and the aloof but magically brilliant Urtho, who finds himself leading the country of Tantara after the unexpected death of their own monarch.
To be clear, I have never read a single Valdemar novel, nor have I ever played Pathfinder; I only know these names from fanfic. But Kelsey Piper's Iomedae is a fascinating character who makes any setting she finds herself in interesting. From planecrash:
Long ago, at least as mortals count time, a young human girl knew (it was not really a matter of deciding) that the right thing to do was spend all her life trying to fix everything everywhere. And some time after that, she knew the right thing to do was become a god and go on trying to fix everything everywhere; though she didn't think that, even as a god, she would live to see it fixed... a young mortal girl who decided to set aside everything else that she could have had from her life, chasing a mind's-image that nobody at all would have believed in, maybe even not herself, if she'd spoken it aloud; that she'd go down into Hell with her bright sword held aloft and rescue every soul there
On a positive note, the memes have been fantastic; truly some of the best I have seen this year. We have crossovers with everything from The Matrix, to You Can See Everything, Malfoid, and 9/11. And then there is this gem.
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