iprayiam3
3d ago
The only place I see the left right distinction is in online spaces where right adjacent ai enthusiasts claim the distinction is there.
In real life every conservative I know is very AI skeptical and the people least skeptical are your tech savvy blue tribers (like programmers) and those folks seem split between enthusiastic or doomers
iprayiam3
8d ago
In your mind how is the idea of a human being eternally damned irreconcilable with the a loving God, but not a fallen angel?
iprayiam3
8d ago
Is it the universalist belief that Satan will also be reconciled with God?
iprayiam3
17d ago
I am always surprised at much praise season 4 gets. In my mind it’s the worst of the first four; as it’s a giant retcon/reboot that just creates a new show inside of another one’s skin using the familiarity of the characters to sneak it through.
I think each season is dramatically worse than the one before it.
As for season 5 - go ahead and finish it. However, enjoyers and haters of season 4 alike find it bad. The only camp of fans I think is those who like all of ST uncritically
iprayiam3
19d ago
they wanted me to try and lose weight and get fitter the old fashioned way (which I did).
Ozympic?
iprayiam3
24d ago
“Selected for Aellea’s social network” makes any kind of social commentary or inference from the results completely meaningless.
iprayiam3
26d ago
What does the anti-war side in the US want in the Iran conflict?
Deportations.
Housing affordability. Fraud reduction. A focus on domestic policy. Spending of political capital on wins for Americans.
iprayiam3
29d ago
sure Clav is famous for looksmaxxing, and if he stopped looksmaxxing, hed become less famous. But he's wrong in how much he advocates looksmaxxing as a generally effective strategy for status/success.
If I was famous for hopping on one foot, then continuing to hop on one foot would likely be an important part of my continued fame. But I would be wrong to espouse any general theory of hop-on-one-foot-maxxing that positioned it as a key to fame, generally.
iprayiam3
29d ago
He believes looks are the most important factor in achieving positive social outcomes.
What's funny about Clav is that he (apparently, though I don't follow closely enough), misses the irony that looks are less important than status, which is often self-reenforcing, and thus undermines the very thing he's popular for. Looks is a way to bootstrap into status, yes, but 'maxxing' it, hits diminishing returns fast.
He is not sustainingly popular because of his looks, but his fame, e.g. success. At this point, further maxxing on looks, has negligible effect on his further success, while staying in the spotlight, will.
Contrast his with say, Mr. Beast, who also bootstrap himself into virality. But Mr. Beast didn't misunderstand himself as 'counting-maxxing' but rather recognized the metagame as, 'stunt-maxxing' or 'brand-maxxing' on a path to 'virality-maxxing'. From what I've seen, Mr. Beast (whom I pay little attention to) talks about his own success with this awareness, rather than giving general advice that others also try to do viral video stunts to be successful too.
Suppose instead, after first going viral, Mr. Beast had decided that "looks are the most important factor in achieving positive social outcomes" and doubled down on that, rather than his 'stunt' focused avenue. Would he have ended up with better social outcomes? No.
Looksmaxxing is a stupid ideology because, aside from getting meta-famous for looksmaxxing, as an object level strategy itself -> improving looks is very important to a point, then hits RAPID diminishing returns. This is true of almost anything, unless you are trying to win a zero-sum tournament niche, which is always a bad 'general' strategy.
iprayiam3
29d ago
Late 30s - from time to time.
I’ll drink socially an every few weekends or so. From time to time I’ll buy a six pack and work on it 1-2 a night spread over the week. This is usually while unwinding after the kids go down or doing some late night work at the computer.
I’ll also go stretches without drinking at all, like Lent.
Again, I don’t see this anywhere except people on the internet saying this is so.
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