mdurak
2yr ago
Sorry, I’ll admit I only skimmed through the text as it’s very long.
the way to go is to ban their NGOs, which includes ethnic supremacist organisations of left wing associated tribes too, not just general left wing organizations, and to not allow the woke to run any institutions and to be intolerant towards their ideology
Let’s say I agree with everything you just said. How would you propose actually doing this? It’s not like anyone in control of any institutions are going to willingly give up their power.
mdurak
2yr ago
As evidence for what you’ve said:
Study: Smarter People Are More Trusting
The researchers posit that intelligent people might be better at correctly evaluating whether people are trustworthy, or whether a particular person is likely to act untrustworthily in a particular situation.
Is there a good name for this concept of “dumb people heuristics”? Or are you aware of other studies that develop it further?
mdurak
2yr ago
Ah thank you! This is just what I was looking for, even if I don’t personally believe that they “have done a rigorous, informed analysis of every agent's costs.”
mdurak
2yr ago
Starbucks sued its union, Starbucks Workers United, earlier this month after the labor organization posted a since-deleted message on X, formerly known as Twitter, expressing solidarity with Palestinians. The message from the union triggered calls to boycott Starbucks, when some appeared to mistake the union's position for that of the company.
At McDonald's, an Israel-based franchise announced free food for members of the Israeli military, prompting a consumer backlash and messages from other franchises distancing themselves from the move.
Indonesians began boycotting McDonald’s and other businesses in mid-October after McDonald’s Israel announced on social media that it had handed out thousands of free meals to the Israeli military amid its war with Hamas.
The boycott comes despite McDonald’s Indonesia, which is owned by PT Rekso Nasional Food, last week announcing that it had “deployed humanitarian assistance valued at IDR [Indonesian rupiahs] 1,5 billion [$96,000]” to support Palestinians.
While McDonald’s is synonymous with the United States, most of its restaurants worldwide are locally owned, and franchisees in numerous Muslim countries have expressed support for Palestinians and pledged money to support relief efforts in Gaza.
So, the Starbucks union posted pro-Palestinian messages on social media, as is their right to do. Starbucks in response distances itself from its union — not even to support Israel, but simply to stay out of it altogether. McDonald’s franchises are independently owned and operated, so McDonald’s in Israel gives free food to the IDF, and McDonald’s in Indonesia and other Muslim countries gives aid to Palestine instead.
And for just doing business as businesses do, https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/propalestine-vandals-who-targeted-starbucks-and-maccas-in-melbourne-dubbed-extremists/news-story/6f6c50b4316aa4426b90702d5ccf1c91?amp
Protesters who vandalised Starbucks and McDonald’s stores in Melbourne during a large pro-Palestine demonstration have been described as “homegrown extremists”.
A Starbucks cafe on Swanston Street in the CBD was covered in stickers and sprayed with red paint yesterday, targeted for the third time in as many weeks.
I mean, I could at least see the Chick-fil-A boycott making sense. You eating at Chick-fil-A benefits the CEO and private owner of the company, so you want to stop giving money to that guy even if that might end up hurting others employed by Chick-fil-A who don’t share such views.
Or the Hogwarts Legacy boycott, where an argument could be made that even pirating the game gives cultural clout to the Harry Potter brand, and therefore you should avoid the game altogether if you dislike JK Rowling enough. I mean, I disagree, but I can at least see where that is coming from. You don’t want to benefit people you dislike, even if it also benefits others who you have nothing against at all.
This, though? This isn’t even hurting “the right people.” What? Am I missing a potential steel man here, or are these protestors not even bothering to pretend like what they’re doing has any rational basis beyond pure tribalism anymore?
mdurak
2yr ago
Do you believe renewables will be improved sufficiently and in time to offset the declining EROEI of oil and gas?
mdurak
2yr ago
Hm, in that case aren’t stable democracies even better for avoiding civil wars over succession crises? What historical factors are less relevant now?
And are dictatorships worse in that regards? Of the ones that immediately come to mind — Stalin, Franco, Pinochet, Mao — their countries didn’t descend into civil war at the end of their reigns.
mdurak
2yr ago
What happened then? All the news articles that come up for me are about this November.
mdurak
2yr ago
As of a few hours ago, Ilya publicly regrets his actions: https://x.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028
It appears he had no plan, or didn’t plan for this level of backlash and therefore effectively has no plan anymore.
mdurak
2yr ago
As of a few hours ago, Ilya publicly regrets his actions: https://x.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028
It appears he had no plan, or didn’t plan for this level of backlash and therefore effectively has no plan anymore.
mdurak
2yr ago
Geopolitics is low status now.
What does this mean? Members of Congress/foreign ambassadors don’t seem low status to me.
mdurak
2yr ago
Interesting. How do such status games arise, so as to replace the previously predominant status games?
mdurak
2yr ago
their privileged legal position and the prestige they enjoy in mainstream discourse is not down to anything they did, it has been granted to them by others, and can be taken away.
This implies that women were not the main force behind the women’s right movements or various waves of feminism in the 20th century. Is there evidence for that?
mdurak
2yr ago
I suppose I don’t really understand this status game. What do they gain from placating minorities? How does that increase their stature in any appreciable way?
mdurak
2yr ago
The Amish, perhaps? Their group identity would probably dissolve if they embraced cutting edge AI tech all of a sudden.
mdurak
2yr ago
If you can sell them for a higher price than you bought them for, you can definitely profit off of owning them.
mdurak
2yr ago
Sounds like a value alignment problem. Could value alignment be a fundamentally intractable problem with intelligent actors?
mdurak
2yr ago
This is the first time I’m hearing about OpenAI hating minorities. What minorities do they hate?
mdurak
2yr ago
Thanks! I’ve seen a lot of misinformation around how proportionality actually means that if the ratio of civilians to enemy combatants is high enough, then it’s automatically a war crime. I can see where they come from, as the wording is rather vague, but upon reading the article further:
Australia, Canada and New Zealand have stated that the term “military advantage” includes the security of the attacking forces.
the expression “concrete and direct” military advantage was used in order to indicate that the advantage must be “substantial and relatively close, and that advantages which are hardly perceptible and those which would only appear in the long term should be disregarded”.
Numerous States have pointed out that those responsible for planning, deciding upon or executing attacks necessarily have to reach their decisions on the basis of their assessment of the information from all sources which is available to them at the relevant time.
It’s not clear to me how much of a consensus this is outside of Australia, Canada, and NZ, but the air strikes by Israel most certainly 1) provide immediate and perceptible advantages to 2) the security of its attacking forces, at least 3) as far as the IDF is aware of, unless there’s any evidence that they have engaged in air strikes despite knowing full well that there were no Hamas military assets at the target location.
So there’s indeed a strong case to be made that regardless of civilian casualties, the IDF has not committed war crimes in this particular air strike campaign. Not that anyone already calling it “genocide” would care to change their minds, of course.
Ah ok, I misunderstood what you were going for. Thanks for explaining.
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