kodomo
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kodomo
5d ago
On the left, it's a kind of utopic socialism that can't ever actually work. On the right it's a very vibes based "RETVRN" ethos with some nihilstic streaks.
The overlap between these two in practice is the necessity of talking and connecting with the people who immediately surround you.
Which may include getting to know why your wife considers it a chore to have conversations with you, why a member of the HOA doesn't want you to have a dirtbike circuit in your front yard, and why one may feel aspirationally sympathetic towards native americans.
The culture war is well-representative of the karmic tangle that the US currently finds itself in.
The most practical advice I have is, to echo Nietszche, "Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors"
kodomo
9d ago
The only credential in comedy is whether you know how to make people laugh.
All of these words you post and you don't even tell us if you actually found his monologue/joke funny.
As someone who finds him usually quite funny, I found his monologue to be noticably half-assed and unfunny. I'm more amused by the fallout than the actual jokes.
kodomo
1mo ago
You can't just round off everyone who wants to get credit for their work to closed-minded.
Calling them names doesn't get around that.
You are projecting.
"Closed-minded" is simply descriptive.
Patents and other IP law are state-enforced artificial scarcity on a medium that is inherently abundant and infinite (ideas and digital media). This is state-enforced closed-mindedness.
It may be useful in some limited carrot-dangling sense, but thank goodness that US law is not Universal Law
"Good people want rewards for good work. "
These "rewards" often come with the implied threat of state-violence if someone """steals""" their idea.
Taking glory-seeking and monopolistic tendencies out of the equation of innovation is a rare moment for cultural renewal. Maybe innovators in the US will finally have to focus on actually building things like China rather than becoming rent-seekers.
China is opening a port in Peru and releasing actually open ai models that the world uses while Americans get steamy at OpenAI for being too innovative.
Perhaps it is the karma that Openai bears for not being open enough.
Anthropic had their own internal leak moment that gave everyone a good idea of how their internal agentic-harness works. Perhaps some event will open OpenAI in a similar way.
kodomo
1mo ago
Closed-minded people may indeed choose to become increasingly closed-off.
It is their own choice to live in isolated misery.
It's good to weed them out.
kodomo
1mo ago
end >US< tech innovation forever
Thank goodness for China, who has the freedom from bougie liberal moralizing, no Mouse-fueled Suffocating IP-law, and no social friction about power usage of datacenters (Building datacenters is actually a convenience for their powergrid because they produce so much excess power)
kodomo
1mo ago
Many people prefer not to become an ethnic minority in their own motherland.
kodomo
1mo ago
I hope OpenAI steps in many more things if it means pushing forward research and rattling the cages of those who want to resource-guard scientific discovery.
kodomo
2mo ago
Anthropic destroyed millions of books, one of the greatest evils we can imagine
Who is "we"?
Destructively digitizing non-rare books is really "one of the greatest evils you can imagine"?
Please get a grip and some semblance of a sense of proportion.
Hyperbole does not help clarify anything.
kodomo
3mo ago
Critical features of transistors are measured in nanometers.
Who is confused?
kodomo
3mo ago
I really don't care about some person's made-up definition.
Nano-technology is technology at the nano-scale.
kodomo
3mo ago
Fish, meet water.
Transistors are nanotechnology, curently making people's lives better.
Taking a "nothing ever happens" stance in this day and age just reveals that you don't know what to do with the tools in front of you.
Reevaluate what you can creatively do with the device you carry in your pocket.
kodomo
3mo ago
"Our model is so powerful that we are scared of releasing it" is a recurring marketing ploy that has been used since gpt-2
kodomo
3mo ago
The key word in your example is "state-funded". That isn't rival institutional power, that is basic capital command-flow. Very few taxpayers are happy with carte-blanche funding of anything, and few legislators would risk their reputation in such a way. There are some basic parameters of public-interest (I understand that such a term can be twisted, but it remains there in a functional system) that require enforcement (very disrespectful to my imagined Fraud-punk religion where committing fraud is cool).
Much of the contention that morphs the state into a civic church is the morphing of the word "public-interest" to become anything you can imagine, so long as it is dressed in anti-discrimination language (see below for why).
Neoreactionaries have identified the modern civic-religion in the US as having been conceived with the Civil Rights Act which goes far-beyond state-funded entities:
State-sanctioned Racial-districting, private businesses can't freely associate if that includes turning away members of a specific race from their business, neighborhoods cannot limit who purchases homes in an area.
Basically it's the point at which the constitution morphs away from being a limiter on state-power. Now the state can enter and enforce its religion anywhere where a civil-rights grievance can be claimed.
In Europe, the encroachment is a bit more baked-in: For instance, Germany simply outlaws home-schooling outright. This is fairly insane from the perspective of an American: nobody is free to educate their child outside of the state.
Arguably the ability to educate your children away from state-propaganda is a God-given right.
In fact there is the case of a German homeschooling family (The Romeike family) obtaining deferred-status to stay in the US due to state-persecution in Germany. They were initially granted Asylum and then revoked by the Obama administration (An administration emblematic of upholding civic-religion).
The contrast between the traditional limited-government american legal view to grant asylum to such a family vs the civic-religion upholding Obama administration clarifies much: From the traditional american perspective, A victim of state-persecution is offered a lifeline by the US. From the perspective of the Obama administration, offering this family asylum validates apostasy from the German civic-religion which is disrespectful, being a fellow civic-religion.
kodomo
3mo ago
As an example from my own experience, there is a niche of Youtube electrical engineering instruction that is largely dominated by English-speaking Indians.
I agree that since the Anglosphere has more of a culture of media-creation/video-creation, most of the well-produced, viral content will continue from here in the near-future.
Don't discount the effects of a changing passive audience: they determine what gets popular.
India currently has the largest YouTube Userbase with 518 million compared to the US's 259 million.
kodomo
4mo ago
Africans, Indians, etc. are to normies what normies are to tech-nerds.
When people say "normie", they approximately mean "the masses of regular people in the Anglosphere" which is a global minority and techliterate (especially in English-first tech ecosystems) compared to the masses of people elsewhere.
The internet has formalized equality, so if a similar percentage of people in Africa and India join the internet as the US, then there will be many times more African and Indian users than native-English users.
kodomo
4mo ago
East asians tend to have more-neotonous features than other races which adds fuel to the pedophilia hysteria.
There is still a puritanical element in the US that permeates all parties that manifests into such situations as:
-German tourists perplexed as to why their toddler is not allowed to be naked on the beach
-Men prosecuted for having pictures of themselves naked as child
The word is really losing its weight when every other Reddit thread includes some variant of the statement "This nation is run by (a) pedophile(s)". Big win for horseshoe theory when basic-bitch redditors are unironically using an Alex Jones talking-point.
An interesting edge case is that of fictional child porn such as hand-drawn pornography of various disney princesses and other underage cartoon characters. This apparently is mostly accepted, I guess?
Also there is the classic "1000-year-old in the body of a child" character.
kodomo
4mo ago
Fucking hell, man.
Relevant life advice from Sam Hyde:
"If you ever catch the eye of a female cop: I hope you wore your bulletproof vest. I hope you have your vest on, man. I am praying for you, unironically. Because that gun on her waist at some point is going to accidentally go off. She's going to draw it out thinking it's a taser, she's going to have her finger on the trigger before she's ready to fire. Something you did made her feel threatened. You're taller than her, she feels threatened for her life. The only recouse she has physically is to shoot you."
My guess is that she passed through the police academy with lowered physical standards compared to her male counterparts. Fundamental negligence in governance.
kodomo
4mo ago
The point isn't to make you laugh, it is to focus attention on various chronic absurdities
kodomo
4mo ago
Don't stop there; the argument can be taken further:
"Sports are one of the few truly meritocratic domains, so if society were to become truly meritocratic it would have similar demographics as sports"
kodomo
4mo ago
These things often function as a collective social "shit test" to see which men are willing to actually voice disagreement with patently absurd ideas.
kodomo
4mo ago
It brings warmth to my heart to see people under the spell of the culture war pretend that Kimmel is funny because it deflates credibility and makes the whole premise so lame.
Although I have distaste for the "mediocre White guy with unearned success" rhetoric in most of its uses, he is kind of a good example of it which makes the fact that that side of the culture war is rallying behind him funnier.
Also he wore blackface, for whatever that means to anyone.
In the interest of balance I would say a similarly tasteless outgrowth of the culture war on the other side of the comedic divide is anything and everything surrounding KillTony
kodomo
4mo ago
If you think bot accusations are bad now, imagine if the great firewall fell and 1 billion Chinese internet users suddenly inundated socials.
You mention how the barrier to entry corresponds to the degradation of the internet and I am reminded that someone pointed out that the popularization of "Dead Internet Theory" perfectly corresponds with the adoption of the internet by a huge number of Africans and Indians.
Part of the nature of libertarian wild west ethos is that it gravitates to places where there is no establishment yet. So don't waste your time in an established domain pining for the old days. Focus on new domains instead.
The US is obviously not a hold-out for freedom of information, as the USG would happily enforce IP law upon the world if it could (as orchestrated by the mouse). AI is a bit of a miracle in this regard because it came into existence faster than IP law could contain it.
Ironically the most "authoritarian" governements are some of the last bastions of hope for freedom in various fundamental domains: I'm thinking about the pricipled stand that Putin made with Snowden when a weaker country may have extradicted him (remember how few countries actually offered asylum to him (none in Europe btw)?), and China is really a darling when it comes to ignoring US ip law (ip law essentially being state-enforced artificial-scarcity on an inherently abundant medium), and it is former soviet territories that allow for true freedom of information via Anna's archive, Sci-hub, LibGen, etc.
The real libertarian frontier of AI is local open-weight models/paradigms(Hermes, OpenCode) which China is much more culturally-aligned with at the moment, at least for base models (I was about to say "GLM not withstanding" here until I checked and found out that Z.ai is indeed also a chinese company)
Many of these authoritarian policies emerging in California/Europe are partly an emulation of China. I have heard it said that China is the only government that took the internet seriously from its inception as a governed entity.
Even being somewhat libertatian-minded, I greatly admire the fact that Xi can label OnlyFans as socially-damaging "Western degeneracy" and wipe it in an instant from infecting China.
I tend to prefer using a decent LLM guide me through various textual analyses of literature that I have pulled from LibGen than have reddit-level arguments online. I think many young people are realizing that interactions with LLMs can often be more meaningful and healthier than an average interaction with strangers on any established forum in the World Wide Web.
kodomo
4mo ago
Building data centers faster than anyone else in the US is "fake internet shit"? Why are Anthropic and Microsoft paying xAI a combined $2 billion per month for "fake internet shit"?
You really have trouble squaring Spaceflight and AI?
Do you also have trouble squaring Ecommerce and AWS for Amazon?
"Are they an ecommerce company or a web service provider?" No serious investor thinks this way.
Your incredulity inhibits your imagination.
Fact-checking as in when one personally checks the facts and investigates a topic or "fact-checking®" where an institution Larps as the ministry of truth with a poorly-disguised political bias?
The former, yes, all the time.
The latter... mostly offers smug-confirmation for people who project authority onto institutions like the New York Times.
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