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1yr ago
Imma be real I have no idea what VTubers are. Virtual YouTubers? Strong suspicion that it's all media invention. Have never seen literally anyone mention them irl. And people here follow streamers.
Besides, how are they related to VR?
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1yr ago
You can't conclude that just because one technology didn't pan out. To me VR problems seem much more 'hard', related to hardware and biology and economies of scale, while AI continues to make rapid progress is infinitely more valuable economically.
A year ago you would've listed a different set of problems. They got solved. Things like "maintain coherent style" sound like research problems that are being solved right now.
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1yr ago
I don't understand your point. Leftists would probably agree that these days white supremacy and patriarchy are instantiated through socioeconomic effects and networking effects.
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1yr ago
I'm guessing because avoiding these pitfalls is politician 101. They're not actually having a debate up there, Trump doesn't have to answer the question he can weasel out somehow, and Dems know it. This is more useful for actual debates where opponenets are trying to convince each other or the audience, i.e. they answer questions more or less honestly
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1yr ago
Influence ops are definitely a thing. Your point may just as well be made to argue that they are easier to implement than one may think. I've seen a convincing paper analyzing twitter bot activity in influence ops around the war in Ukraine recently: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07038
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1yr ago
I'm blaming Peterson for popularizing a very shallow reading of Marx, not the concept of cultural Marxism.
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1yr ago
This is just Jordan Peterson's idea of what Marxism is, based, apparently, on reading a political pamphlet. Marxism is a critique of political economy, or an analysis of capitalism. One of the intermediate conclusions is indeed that capitalism requires a class division (or, that it is constituted in a social division of ownership). Further conclusions are that this actually limits productive capacity for example, and should be abandoned for the sake of scientific planning of the economy.
This is of course wrong, I'm just pointing out that wrongly interpreting a relatively small part of his ideas, abstracting it away from its foundamentally economic context into a completely generic "oppressor-oppressed" framework, is intellectually lazy and plain wrong. It is wrong because the moralistic dimension is unimportant to the actual intellectual content, and this approach is what set Marx apart from the myriad of other socialists at the time or before him.
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1yr ago
Plenty of sf classics were written by leftists though? Gibson, arguably the father of cyberpunk, is even woke now.
I'm not even sure what baseline you could pick that would make your proposition true. Straight white men are already a pretty unwoke demo.
But I don't know the numbers, you may be right that conservatives are very overrepresented in sf classics.
Imagine working your ass off, being in that top 0 point whatever percent of the population that could ever be CEO of anything... And then sleeping with some woman your age. It sounds almost autistic: he didn't get the message (that sexual access is one of the main components of the payoff for male success).
I'm not saying sleep with your intern. Or never have a serious relationship. Just that the opportunities and expectations are different for different classes of people.
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