gaygroyper100pct
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gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
I am not sure about this specific one. I don't think that we disagree on much - we certainly seem to agree that we'll see more of these with twitter not putting their thumb on the scale.
The 6 words after the word "discoverable" in the comment above clarify this point.
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
How do you propose to turn political twitter into an amount of money remotely proportional to the risk it poses to sports&celebs twitter?
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
re: my regex having lots of false positives, that's fine. You go to the bottom anyway. There's no shortage of people to populate the top of the replies to Tom Cruise and Drake.
I stand corrected on what western anime nerds like.
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
I cannot reveal the anecdata on which I've based this without being either super vague or alternately revealing details which are likely traceable to a small set of people. The tl;dr; is that someone I trust was briefly involved in a situation of this sort on the periphery, hated it tremendously, but described the process to me.
Feel free to dismiss it as you see fit.
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
What I was originally responding to:
My sense is that EA does not lack for scandals
I do not generally characterize "believes things different from me" as a scandal. I guess you disagree?
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
I agree that CFAR/MIRI are weird and perhaps hold beliefs that differ from yours. But that's true of many folks. Did you know Muslims believe a powerful being is going to torture me (or perhaps a simulated me?) forever after I die because I do gay sex and didn't visit Mecca?
Actual specifics I've identified in this story:
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A mentally ill person who did psychadelics thinks MIRI is like Leverage and currently has assorted vague mental illness symptoms similar to the typical tiktok "I'm mentally ill" influencer.
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Said mentally ill person attributes their mental problems to MIRI. "I had paranoid fantasies about a MIRI executive assassinating me...."
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Multiple people at CFAR had mental health issues. One person took a seminar then did some crimes.
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The word "corruption" is used with no specifics.
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"I had disagreements...and there was quite a lot of effort to convince me of their position..." :O
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Some anti-CFAR protesters were unruly and local cops in a rural area got really excited about trying out their SWAT gear: https://sfist.com/2019/11/19/four-people-in-guy-fawkes-masks-scare-sonoma-retreat/
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"I was certainly socially discouraged from revealing things that would harm the “brand” of MIRI and CFAR, by executive people." :O
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Leverage leverage leverage, it was like leverage. Did you hear leverage was bad? I want some of the attention that leverage girl got.
The allegations against Leverage are equally non-specific and mostly come down to "I didn't get the social status I was seeking."
https://medium.com/@zoecurzi/my-experience-with-leverage-research-17e96a8e540b
I do agree that some of these folks would be better off attending church than CFAR.
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
First of all, the architectural style is Anglo-Indian. It's influenced by the British but with many local adaptations. If these buildings were in London they would look out of place.
In any case, I don't see why it can't be both. Victoria Terminus is a functioning train station that was build for the long term. It's not anything like what gets built by people solely focused on resource extraction - e.g. a logging camp or oil well. It indicates a long term investment in infra and human capital as opposed to simply a desire to snatch and grab.
You're also glossing over a non-trivial chunk of what British Colonialism involved: the idea that it was Britain's duty to educate and improve the places they colonized. Literacy worked for Britain, why not Bengal? If a negro sets foot in London he becomes free, so why is he not equally free in Dahomey? (Note: literal argument used by imperial abolitionists.) And given proper education an Indian can of course become as competent a soldier or administrator as a Britain - it is the duty of the colonialists to provide this opportunity.
That's the ideal, at least. You can read Charles Napier's biography to hear it expounded upon in detail, as well as a bunch of complaints about how it's not being lived up to. The British were not universally as awesome as Napier, of course.
As for the China example, I do not identify as American so perhaps the example is inapt. However, suppose hypothetically that China was a) far more advanced than the US and b) made a long term investment in transmitting some of that advancement to the US (even while imposing a China-style political system). I would consider that an investment, albeit one I perhaps resented or opposed for other reasons.
Note also that this stuff was not necessarily unwelcome to many Indians. Various princely states were closely allied with the British and more progressive ones treated Britain as a source of knowledge; for example, the Nizam of Hyderabad built Osmania University with assistance from the British. It became more British (e.g. language changed from Urdu to English) after India conquered Hyderabad in 1948.
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
I wish I had a good answer for this. A lot of Indian Literature runs into a problem where the only ones who are interested in translating it to English are English speaking white people or practically-white Indians. So you run into a Heisenberg's uncertainty moment, where the act of translating it makes it lose what made it special in the first place.
He should probably read Half Girlfriend by Chetan Bhagat.
::cringes in NRI::
It's about how English plays into modern class roles, quite distinct from caste. Chetan Bhagat is also the only famous person I've seen who is willing to discuss this.
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
Consider someone making lots of detailed, high quality posts on Romanian politics and nothing else. I might block this user simply because I DGAF about Romanian politics, and there's just soooo much of it.
This could also be solved with "mute toplevel comments by this user but not replies to something I wrote".
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
It is difficult for me to put into words why "the kind of person who does public kink shows" automatically registers to my mind as "the kind of person who is likely unfit for public office at any level." I don't think that being into BDSM or dressing like a dog or even crossdressing is especially likely to correlate with being bad at making dispassionate policy decisions, or whatever else it takes to be a good public servant. But being quite loud and public...
Similarly, most defenders of this guy would probably object very strongly to giving the same job to someone like Andrew Tate. That would be true even if he had a degree in nuclear engineering or wrote 12 academic papers on the topic.
Sorry you're right, I misinterpreted your claim as actually asserting that CFAR/MIRI were doing something scandalous as opposed to merely claiming the media might invent something.
As a claim about the media, I agree. But if the media wants to hit someone, they don't need actual material - they already did that to polite white boys who defend themselves against violent criminals or who stand around doing nothing at all (all captured on video from multiple angles).
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
On the one hand this seems a bit misguided: if you're going to send death threats to someone, shouldn't it be a literal neo-Nazi,
Those are pretty hard to find. And once you actually do it, you're mostly just punching a homeless guy who can't do anything without an FBI informant holding his hand through the process.
some men who are perfectly capable of finding a willing partner still enjoy the feeling of control over an unwilling one. And someone whose entire brand is money, power, and bitches might easily be the sort who considers "consent" an optional and/or silly concept.
I think a plausible story of Tate raping people is a story much closer to Sam Brinton - a guy with a weird unstoppable compulsion.
But that compulsion doesn't sound at all like Tate's public persona from what little I've read. Tate's persona seems to be "[they] sit there and drink all your drinks and play with your d*ck, go to your house and suck your d*ck". That's not a story of forcing women at all, that's a story of being so cool and socially accepted that women want to have sex with you.
That latter motivation also fits a similar story of him having a harem of women doing onlyfans to enrich him.
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
While I admit I am a wog by birth, I consider myself to be a trans white man who aligns with 100% WN.
Given their archaic phrasing, I'm surprised they didn't also track the use of "h**t" and "w*h" to suggest that internet sexism also increased post Musk.
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
I'm confused by don't shit where you eat. Isn't tinder, by definition, randos and not where you eat?
Out of curiosity, what is it you believe is awful about my hot nerdy friend's game? Women get the hookup with glorious glutes guy they wanted. Maybe a friendship develops, maybe not. But it seems like a good shot at everyone getting something of value.
colonialism (or colonial-ish actions) necessarily being Actually A Good Thing.
That's not what we're discussing.
Scroll up a bit: https://www.themotte.org/post/221/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/39886?context=8#context
It was proposed that a distinction between colonialism and immigration is immigrants are "are invested in the success of their new home country". But if you take British India as a central example of colonialism, this distinction doesn't actually distinguish.
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
Literate programming is also executable.
Take any jupyter notebook, click "restart run all" and it re-executes the code cells.
I literally gave a principle a few comments up that lets me determine whether it's locals enlisting outsiders. I can't think of any cases where that principle fails to reproduce leftist views, though I can think of one edge case (and a fix, simply using the term "adjacent" as modern leftists do).
https://www.themotte.org/post/221/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/40194?context=8#context
Why do you feel the need to misrepresent what I said?
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
Nope. Please read more carefully.
tl;dr; you refuse to provide a clear principle by which I can determine whether it's locals enlisting outsiders or outsiders enlisting locals. This makes me question your good faith.
You said so yourself: "So basically, the theory is that an alliance between colonialists and domestic factions will result in political domination."
If colonialism is political domination at a level as low as that of the Nizam of Hyderabad or British Bengal, then Democrats and their Mexican allies are far past that point. I note you again refuse to state a clear principle. Odd.
I do agree that American Republicans want more control over my life than the British did, they are irrelevant to this conversation since they don't plan to make it happen by bringing in foreigners to help them.
You are also grossly misrepresenting their positions.
They want to say who you can marry,
No Republican has ever proposed a law saying I can't declare a man to be my husband, put him in my will and make him my medical proxy. They just said he can't get my social security benefits when I die.
or who you can sleep with,
This is not a mainstream Republican position and has not been for many years.
or whether you can have an abortion, etc, etc.
This last bit is true. The British also wanted control over whether I could burn a widow or keep slaves.
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
Whether that happens via the application of gunboat diplomacy or not is at most an exacabatory factor. If Britain had signed sphere-of-influence treaties with the Princely States absent coercion,
To an extent this literally did happen to Hyderabad. I mean there was certainly violent coercion, but mostly from the Marathas - a voluntary alliance with the British worked well for them. But unfortunately the alliance led the Nizams to grow weak, and instead of building up an army they started building infrastructure and universities.
Hyderabad didn't lose self rule until it was colonized by India during Operation Polo in 1948.
gaygroyper100pct
1yr ago
I could be wrong about Jews specifically. I was mainly inferring from the fact that Jews have, for all of my lifetime, been considerably wealthier than others. It's possible that this only happened to the children of immigrants. I'll take your word for it that my example should be reduced to only cover Indians.
(Or at least Indians are the only easily identifiable group, due to self-identification with the "Hindu" religious grouping in surveys that also include income.)
Also worth checking whether - by this stated standard - immigration is colonialism in basically every country that uses a merit based system (e.g. Canada, Australia).
What would have been necessary to reach this threshold on the specific topic I chose, according to you?
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