jkf
2hr ago
It's even worse, really -- I'm sure you could establish a reasonably strong correlation between Trump-voting parents and MAGA-chud children over the entire population; on the other hand there are millions of SIG 320s out there, with very few NDs at all and zero strongly confirmed ADs. The probabalistic argument isn't even particularly strong.
jkf
2hr ago
It's actually a lot easier to see what's going on by watching the video (maybe slowed down a tick) with sound -- it's clear to me that he has his trigger finger not only outside the guard, but wrapped around the grip -- as you would hold a hammer or something and a finger's width lower than you normally would.
That seems like the safest way to handle a gun that you aren't sure of the loaded/safety status of -- but would be fairly uncontrollable if that gun were to somehow go off.
jkf
2hr ago
More like 1923 Germany, if anything -- even there, at least there were some firefights.
jkf
2hr ago
Is this a thing that is associated with fascist dictatorships more strongly than with other forms of government?
"Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State" is arguably more of a generic totalitarian sentiment, but I think it's safe to say it's pretty strongly associated with fascism?
jkf
2hr ago
Are you going to tell me that it's outside the realm of possibility that the agent didn't get his finger stuck inside the trigger guard?
Look at the video -- he's not even holding it in a normal firing position, he's got his hand wrapped around the lower grip. (as one would when handling an unknown firearm -- not sure the training on this, but it seems like something that would happen pretty often in a legal CCW jurisdiction, and Grey Jacket looks pretty well trained)
Note that this also means that if the gun did go off for SIG reasons (that nobody has really been able to replicate in controlled circumstances), the recoil would cause a lot more muzzle flip than usual, potentially even causing him to lose control of the gun -- like I said last week the would be extremely obvious, not a matter of trying to see the slide moving in grainy compressed footage.
I can't say that it's out of the question, but it's extremely implausible -- the only real evidence ever presented is "SIG lol, amirite" which seems awfully weak if you're going to present it as "the most likely explanation".
jkf
22hr ago
Snopes is actually good (almost like old times!) here: https://www.snopes.com/articles/465371/wife-beater-tank-top-origin-of-phrase/
They reference a 1979 newspaper article, which seems to rule out Cops as the source: https://www.snopes.com/articles/465371/wife-beater-tank-top-origin-of-phrase/
I think it's one of those vernacular things that just didn't really get written down often; the newspaper article seems to be deliberately going for that slice-of-life effect.
I can say that we would wear those shirts in the summer right near the beginning of the Cops run, and did call them that -- but it wasn't like a new term that needed explaining, so I doubt that's the origin per se. It's not like the term was actually used on the show, or that it was the exclusive choice of shirt for the unfortunates getting busted.
jkf
1d ago
I do have personal experience in this area -- granted that was a while ago, but if it's become harder that's an argument that it's worth more money than it was, yeah?
jkf
2d ago
That's the point; it's a bad definition! The fact that you can get different results from an LLM even if you don't deliberately introduce randomness is not evidence that the model has developed agency.
However if I write some (theoretically) deterministic code it seems hard to describe that as having its own agency?
jkf
2d ago
If you are defining agency as "non-deterministic behaviour introduced by variations at the level of floating-point math imprecision", just one?
jkf
2d ago
It's almost as if they designed the entire system in a way that explicitly allows private equity to drain trillions of dollars from the middle class.
Almost -- probably good to keep in mind that for children that would rather inherit, the option does exist to not do this. You can certainly move your elderly parents in with you and bear that burden, people do -- it is very difficult, but that just means that the money siphoned off is in a sense payment for services rendered by the MedIC to the heirs.
jkf
2d ago
American problems need American solutions, certainly; Trump is not the man for this job, I propose Larry Fink.
jkf
3d ago
No worries, the two white dudes are practically Buzz Lightyear from central casting! And they only have to get the woman in proximity of the moon AIUI; piece of cake.
jkf
3d ago
Simple solution -- elect a leader who has been a globalist neo-con since before it was cool, and coincidentally owns a podbuilding company; et voila:
Non-pod based houses can remain as a Veblen item, and the useless eaters can be happy in their pods; what could go wrong?
jkf
3d ago
If it's all hype, it is the mother of all hype cycles and something that approaches a mass movement of hysteria. This would be outright falsehoods and lying on a level usually reserved for North Korean heads of state and Subsaharan cult leaders.
Or, like -- every western government except maybe Sweden, 4 years ago?
I'm not really kidding, but to engage with the meat of your argument -- translating natural language documentation to machine code is literally what programming is, and always has been.
If you have perfect documentation, the coding is trivial; so if LLMs can add another layer to this and become essentially a somewhat easier/more efficient programming language, that's great -- but it doesn't so far seem like they are particularly good at generating that documentation based on (complex, real-life) non-technical enduser requirements for broad problems. Which has been the Hard Problem of Programming at least since Fred Brooks.
If a programmer can say to an LLM "hey build me a Salesforce clone based on such-and-such requirements" and make it happen, that is a pretty big efficiency gain, but not really AI. Which would be a pointy-haired boss saying "hey build me this thing I thought of that doesn't currently exist, but is Salesforce scale" and making it happen; this would be kind of scary.
jkf
6d ago
I expect him to claim that he was there doing journalism, and as such not a part of the group disrupting things; a 1A vs 1A battle!
The truth of that claim will probably be more important than balancing the right to worship with the right to journalist, but I expect that is the issue.
jkf
6d ago
One option then, is to hack federal law in order to go after the protestors
In this case it's not really even a hack -- "disrupting a place of worship" is black-letter FACE act AFAICT.
(or maybe you could say that the hack took place when that law was implemented, in that including places of worship was not the initial goal of the legislators -- but that seems neither here nor there)
Those don't seem all that salient at the moment (nor Trumpy)?
It started well before the mandates; how else can you frame widespread and clearly unconstitutional restrictions on freedom of movement etc. "for the good of the state"? I literally had reddit normies upvoting and commenting in agreement with (less famous) Mussolini quotes at the time -- it was very bad.
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