mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
Future apocalypse survivor
User ID: 3273
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
1d ago
So true, maybe he did since she was born in Africa, so it's a double whammy, here I thought Eggers was /ourguy.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
2d ago
So if I'm getting this straight, a person with a 'weird life,' as you're terming it, isn't capable of making good art? And being a "pariah" in high school is an explanation of Kathleen Kennedy's bad choices in making executive decisions regarding Star Wars?
I meant Leslye Headland, I can never get her name right. Her understanding and depiction of the world is totally warped, as she had bad experiences. I have seen zero Star Wars movies and refuse to watch them now since the entire franchise is somehow more longhoused than movies starring women. Headland is a lesbian who made a TV show named The Acolyte that got cancelled for good reason.
Kathleen Kennedy seems to be a bad person, too. LucasFilm also owns Indiana Jones, which is also dead, thanks to the 5th movie where some ugly chick outdoes the 80-year-old archaeologist. Star Wars is a beloved franchise; there is no reason for it to do worse than Marvel. The movies and TV shows released by them have been bad, given what they could have been. My dad has fond memories of Star Wars, they fumbled hard and have started firing the ideological zealots from the studio, begrudgingly accepting some of the criticism. Leslye just hates the world, Kathleen is just a normal exec who has lefty ideas, the latter is much more bearable.
The issue isn't "feisty women" in film. Strong women are neither a myth nor something new in cinema. The issue is bad writing and caving in to unrealistic progressive norms, making women into stereotypes of men rather than writing them realistically--the points you made in your main post were rather more compelling than what you're suggesting here.
Yes, I like feisty women personally, but I also know that she is a woman. You can have a female protagonist; there are plenty of old Sanskrit texts that have them, they are not girlbosses. Young kids can see themselves in Indian Jones, them being made to see themselves in biracial uggos like that chick in the acolyte is parasitical. The critical reception of the literal worst piece of feminised media is top notch, you are called sexist and racist for not watching and loving these shows.
The only suggestion I have for the anti-SJW crowd is that they should acknowledge this and ask why these two things are wrong at all. The Despot of Antrim gets this explicitly; others get it somewhat. This has been a minuscule white pill for me, if Sargon can get it and not get his bank account or channel taken away for stating the obvious, then I hope we can have movies where the maximum levels of leftism do not exceed Watchmen, which itself,, whilst enjoyable,, makes me really dislike Alan Moore's view of the world. A good next step would be Noalsn Oddyssey bombing badly, having sub saharans and literal trasngenders in a movie adapting ancient Greek epics with Halloween rent-type costumes needs to be panned.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
3d ago
A girl challenging you and her showing you who's boss, and then doing that in the movie are different. Mark Renton in Trainspotting, when he meets Diane gets challenged by her despite his awful pickup, but ultimately she does not end up being the man in the movie. I like feisty women, modern portrayals, despite the nudity, are very sexless. You can sense that the creators have had weird lives; the woman running Star Wars, or whatever their latest flop TV show was, spent her high school as a pariah. No wonder her art is that bad.
Movie reviews and demonic modern media
I really like Robert Eggers, his movies are well made and are true to the time period that they are from, the actors are good, you get sucked into eh atmosphere, and there is no modern leftist drudgery. I made the mistake of not posting my unfinished draft and ended up losing 5 pages of progress, so I will try to be brief here. Eggers adapts euro folklore to his brand of extremely immersive cinema; his movie The Northman was the most aryan thing I have seen on a screen in a while; it celebrated values that my own people, a continent away, celebrate. I wrote a review of it here and recommend everything Eggers has made.
The lighthouse
The movie is about homosexuality, I liked it,t but it's my least favorite Eggers movie. It reminds me of david lynch a lot. Worth watching once. I like Eggers when he adapts more straightforward older material that, whilst being simple, conveys a lot of things; in this case, it felt a lot like watching David Lynch in some ways. Great movie, though not the best movie ever, kinda good.
Nosferatu
This movie is amazing; if you removed the cuckoldry from it, it would have been perfect. The dialogue and the setting are something from a weird time where it feels like a European adaptation from the early 1900s. Count Orlok strikes fear with zero jump scares. Bill Skarsgard's portrayal is very real and very scary. I would rewatch it simply because of the immersion. This is a super immersive movie, and it's very polished. It's one of the best movies I have ever seen and is a must-watch in my book.
F1
61-year-old Brad Pitt stars in a rare good summer blockbuster sports action by-the-numbers movie. The director of Top Gun Maverick made a movie that even my mom liked, who, for the record, rarely watches movies. It's a very lighthearted action-heavy flick that, due to not being leftist explicitly, makes for a great movie to watch in the theatres. Real equipment and CGI feel very different; CGI has made movies feel less consequential. Pro wrestling became worse partly because people started doing more extreme things like jumping off the cage, jumping into tacks, jumping off the cage on a table that's on fire with tacks around it. Ultimately, it only made it worse as people tuned in for the story, the usage of more extreme gimmicks worked as an occasional thing, doing it more made people desensitised, and it made everyone look superhuman. It is much more interesting to see Brad in a car than it is to see some 5'2 diverse female lead "save" the universe in CGI slop because one of them is not indestructible.
Watchmen Chapter 1 and 2
Watchmen is touted as peak comic book stuff, and this adaptation is the most faithful one we have seen since the HBO show was just cringeworthy pro-leftist drivel, and the Snyder one apparently took too many liberties. My favorite part is the comic inside the comic, where the dialogues in that comic end up matching what we see in the world of Watchmen through different POVs. Alan Moore, the creator, is a hardcore leftist in whose eyes the world is a nihilistic place; he is competent at his job and can subvert you in better ways than modern ones. The character people root for who have read the comic or seen the adaptation, is Rorschach, who Moore created to dunk on conservatives. He remains the only guy who stood for the right thing by the end.
Modern Media is Demonic
No, seriously, let's consider two superhero stories. On one hand, we have the boys, the current cucked tv show, where there is a literal line where Billy Butcher goes "He is my wife's son", which is supposed to make him look like the good guy. On the other we have All-Star Superman, a story about Superman coming to terms that he is dying and living out his last days on earth. The boys and watchmen have a nihilistic vision of the world where despite all the lawlessness, the word crime is still racism. There are no good guys, power corrupts and all endings are bad. In All-Star Superman, you instead see, also spoiler alert, skip the paragraph is you wanna not know the ending, although the ending makes no difference.
In the comic and its adaptation, Superman lives in eternally fixing the sun to save his foster homeland. There is a very touching scene where he visits his mother, who adopted him as a child, and she can sense he is ill despite no signs. It's a touching little nudge. The world needs people like him to live so that we can have order. Lex Luthor ends up with a death sentence after realising what he has done, the world is saved, and Luthor, before he dies, tries to find penance by helping Lois bear Clark's son by some sort of sci-fi IVF.
Superhero tales are for kids; they are simple. Jonathan Bowden has a good criticism of them, but we have moved to a point where even the ones he read seem like fucking biblical stories. Modern entries are that bad. These stories appeal to young boys. By making every guy in modern adaptations a bumbling incompetent idiot who is playing second fiddle to some girlboss, you go against the very nature of the story. In the case of Watchmen, consequentialist Moore wants to make these qualities look bad, though he still does an ok job with Rorschach. We on the other hand, saw Star Wars, Indiana Jones and fucking LOTR get turned into modern left-wing caricatures.
There are people who make videos on these topics, the best I have seen is this guy Despot of Antrim, there are others like nerdrotic etc, who are not as good. I never watched any of these videos about "Woke Hollywood is killing XYZ franchise". Why bother since I am too reactionary to ever get swayed? I opened one of these based on Jim from blog.reaction.la, and holy shit, modern movies are straight up unwatchable. When I was in my early teens, so the 2010s, these movies still tried being somewhat alright, but the ones today are castration via cinema.
No parent in good conscience can let kids watch modern Disney adaptations where Snow White wants a communist commune, or where Peter Pan gets slapped by a girl in his own movie. We joke about actors being whores, but current cinema is worse than whorehouses given its poisoning of little children. LOTR and Rings of Power could not be further apart. I wrote a glowing review of LOTR, after having spent 12 plus hours plopped on my bed watching all three movies, I felt something warm and glowing inside of me. Watership Down, the book I am reading and the countless folktales and mythical stories we grew up with have to do with the hero who overcomes some evil, and the end leaves him and the world better.
Men and Women are very different, the hero is a mostly male archetype, and I am sick of seeing tampons thrown at it. A concerned father here posted about his neighbour's son, how he felt bad for his mom was making him effeminate. Modern state now tries that with beloved children's cartoons too. This is a long, meandering post. I liked comic book heroes, I really did. Batman: The Animated Series was the only cartoon I ever watched. People making movies are showing me the finger, they defile some things I liked as a child, and their losing money is a good thing. I refuse to relate to a female protagonist. I would as a parent, would not want my kids to consoom product we see being shilled. These people are losing money, which gives me some hope for the world.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
3d ago
I did pass them via cramming stuff instead of developing any real mastery which was stupid of me.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
3d ago
Who's Howard?
Jeremy Howard runs fast.ai.
You got 15k xp in 4 months? Pretty sweet, I skipped literally everything in college, so getting a decent XP is slightly harder for me. I learnt nothing beyond the 9th grade, even though I got an undergrad degree 2 years ago. I was doing 180 XP daily at my peak but have always had consistency issues. I wish I were more consistent.
Trace knows a lot of cool, helpful people in the learning sphere, a lot of them are rationalist adjacent.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
3d ago
There's an important kind of intelligence that apes lack but LLMs possess. This isn't something up for debate, the market has already decided and the decision is final.
LLMs are great tech, but are terrible financially. They have zero uses cases beyond potential future receptionists. The vast majority of revenue with ChatGPT is paid users, not llms, meaning that the ai wrapper industry is vaporware that is shutting down. Claude, otoh took the other route by scamming dime a dozen coding assistants whose main use was providing even cheaper access, so investors lost money on both counts.
Microsoft kicked OpenAI out of Azure for a reason. Coreweave otoh has worse financial health than sub-Saharan African economies. Anti AI sentiment rises from the brainlet AGI is upon us takes, and the total shilling of vaporware that current wrappers are. A wrapper runs on already subsidised tokens by subsidising them more. Inference costs coming down will not justify the 500 billion plus, probably close to a trillion dollar that have been spent on this. This sort of spending puts the entire market at risk when you put into account that tech makes up a big part of the american s and p 500 hundred and unfotunately all of them are in on this.
A crash would cause more layoffs. This has been irresponsible, the only answer I get when I bring up the financial side is some future of potential monetary schemes that require the kind of progress we do not have since models are not that much better. The improvements are going to asymptote at some point. Nvidia bled a lot when Deepseek R1 came out. The greed at play is not altruistic. Also dot com firms can scale, but it takes few thousand fortunes to hoard chips to train your model. Having a server farm and having datacenters are not the same thing.
The market will eat and spit out these people and the investors will get bailed out.
Google and Microsoft fudge their AI usage numbers by shoving it down the gullet of everyone who uses their products; they have to so that they can show a much-inflated user count to justify the money they have lost. If you replace the assistant in everyone's phone with LLMs, then ofc you would have hundreds of millions of users since the thing that ran on their phone got swapped out without any input from them.
Current models cannot replace anyone; they are good tech, but the market actually hates them. This is a bubble, and it will pop.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
4d ago
Congrats, I will do Math for ML after I finish Discrete Math, I am on Methods of Proof for now. The main bottleneck for being a good deep learning practitioner is programming, according to Howard. I am down to 45 XP daily, will do some more math via other sources in that time.
How did you start MathAcademy? Where did you learn about them?
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
5d ago
I hit 15k in MathAcademy today. It feels nice, beyond that, not much. I am trying to stick to a schedule so that I can do my sabbatical well. Life's not ideal, I am still grateful to be where I am, as long as I get the work ethic I desire, I do not have much to complain about. I am nearly a quarter of the way through with object oriented python which is my first intermediate programming book. If I can do it by next week, I will be super happy!
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
5d ago
The ideal body has higher than average amounts of proportional muscle mass alongside slightly lower fat percentage. The same levels of fat look markedly different as muscle mass means less adiposity. Greek sculptures were not super lean. Ditto for women, the ones people find hot have higher muscle mass, allowing them to have way better fat distribution.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
5d ago
You should get her a gym membership and spike a lot of the food you guys eat with olive oil. These two should help her get a higher appetite and also sneak in extra calories. This is a terrible spot to be in. Being thin is not healthy. Confront her, you are her boyfriend.
The current beauty standard is a historic anomaly that should be discarded. The aspirational body type for a girl today is slowly changing, and it's a good sign. She may need counselling. Props to you for intervening. Put your foot down.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
5d ago
Great post OP. On the part about Yud and the people over at LessWrong, rationalists as a whole, a few weeks ago, I posted about the religious fervour many have for AI as the future sentient god. To me, it feels like the sci-fi idea of Skynet fills a god shaped hole in their hearts, and they cannot rationalise normal religious values on a mass scale.
For instance, neither Scott nor Yud are programmers; this is not to chide them, there are plenty of MMA scouts who get MMA better than top coaches or fighters, but these are few and far between, and they cannot affect the game as much as a live player can. If you have not worked on basic ML models and know about the way some of the architectures work, you can arrive at conclusions that stretch the current capabilities or your perception of them with a future where the improvements never cease, which to me seems ludicrous in a way.
Scott's 2027 post and Yuds AI ramblings seem extremely improbable, and given that I foresee an economic meltdown thanks to the corporate and vc greed behind the modern ai bubble, these statements would be used to question the non-AI things they post, things that are actually really good. We have a lot of trouble understanding intelligence, the human brain and how the two interact. There are systems within the body that make some of their own decisions iirc. It's truly fascinating as a field to study, the usage of AI propaganda like AGI is here by conning former YC president and Paul Graham's favourite human being, Sam Altman, and you will be jobless by every podcaster's favourite CEO, Dario Amodei, will be remembered. For anyone unaware of how low people can stoop, Austen Allred lost hundreds of millions by lying and PG still defends him, as he shifted his grift to learn programming via my bad bootcamp to learn AI via my bad bootcamp.
Theranos apparently did not get VC money, the Bay Area is where a lot of ratioanlists live, a lot of VCs are aware of the ideas, this must have had some role with the hype as rats are usually very smart, decent people. Regardless, this was a very well-worded out take on this issue. I have a rough outline that matches your worldview, though it is nowhere as precise, nor could I have presented it in a decent manner.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
5d ago
The rat obsession with AI to me feels like smart people finding a new god and being too afraid to go back to older ones.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
9d ago
All life is temporary in a way, connections via the internet are a shadow of what one feels. It was great for what it was and I'd never been around as many young people who were looking to have a good time. These places are amazing in small doses, much like the drugs found there.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
10d ago
Your agility and recovery declines first, even that's not noticeable very clearly unless you play some sport at a high level, strength keeps increasing for a long time. The real decline is when that stops too.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
10d ago
I didn't take the short path but I'll be alright. Seeing people here has made me feel better about agein as you folks are still alive on the inside. You can stave off the decline by a lot. Modern times are a blessing this way, a man can be himself nowadays If he does things alright.
I went to the big temple here, donated food to the poor people outside the temple and spent time with my family and cousins. We also went to a tourist trap cafe where you click photos with Hawa Mahal visible and get terrible food whilst riding around the old city. Nothing beyond that. Never been a big fan of birthday celebrations. Did get an ice cream like always.
I see many people who are piss poor or disabled daily, so days like these help me soak in good parts of life. It's not good rn but I'm still very happy that I don't have to roam around the streets begging for change.
There's a lot left to do, I want to do whilst being appreciative of what God has given me so far. Not all is good, it's a lot more than I deserve.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
11d ago
Happy birthday!
Thanks big guy
At the age of 25, you're at your physical and cognitive peak, and it's all downhill from here. Your mind slows down, though your productivity is kept up by knowledge/wisdom compensating for decreased fluid intelligence. Your body slows down, becomes weaker and frailer, but this can be temporarily alleviated with exercise and a fastidious attitude towards your health.
Temporary alleviation is alright though, you do decline but its not as much or in all areas. Jonathan Blow is 52 and is as youthful and as productive as ever. Human life is a fight with entropy and a journey towards union with the divine, everyday I get to do both and I will be okayish till 30, 35-40 does feel different.
Don't worry, it doesn't become obvious until about a decade later. The initial slope of the decline is gentle, you can make a good picnic on that plateau.
Yep, and man's not meant to grow old while the sun shines on his back. I have a decade left, and I look forward to becoming the man I am supposed to be. It's good to be alive and healthy, I feel grateful in a non-phoney sense. You live only once. Everything ends, best enjoy it whilst it lasts.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
11d ago
Pai, Thailand, unsurprisingly.
My startup LARP, where I went along with people despite having zero skills or money, was fucking with my head. I knew that I had to quit and start learning real things from scratch. Pai felt alive, it's not a real place. I felt like a child in a massive sandbox of a summer camp, surrounded by people my age who wanted to have fun. I did drugs, consumed liquor, met girls, and made friends.
My head was at peace. Throughout my life, the mistakes of my past always resulted in a negative feedback loop; I could never fully relax. Everyone around me had a perception that I wanted to maintain and behaving differently in any way would get me judged, not there. People did not care. My last post on my previous account (practical_romantic) or the first ones here are about my week there.
A creepy pajeet I met by chance in Chiang Mai told me to to go there as he saw me gaming in the clubs there and asked me to go there since getting laid there was easier, I spoke with my then founder who was footing both our bills since he had a good rmeote job and he encouraged me to go there, I did not expect that and went along, he gave 10k baht even though i wanted to just take 2, that 10k lasted me a full week.
I did not get laid there, I got close, but I experienced a level of aliveness I have never before or since, by the end, I really did not care about getting laid. I met the two Danish girls and shared some things that I cannot disclose. Living out a lot of fun stories that are bizarre even for movies. Meeting that girl who pulverised my obsession with my oneitis, microdosing acid, doing mushrooms with two girls and the rest of that incident.
By the middle of the week, I could not stop smiling. I would wake up drunk or high and experienced life to the fullest. The place is magical, I feel torn about it since it also made me aware of the temporary nature of existence. Everyone I met there was only in my life for a short time, unlike people who i have a lot of memories with, these people are very transient. There is a saying that you cannot step into a river twice. If I go again, I would meet different people, and that is alright because there are many out there who I would have a lot of fun with since time passes by, a day or a decade are the some once they are gone. I got to be in the memories of people who helped me have a fun time.
Leo DiCarpios or rather Danny Boyle's beach makes sense to me now that I did something similar. Pai is an amazing awesome youthful hedonistic hippie paradise. My direction in life is directed mostly by yogic teachings that you internalise or at least are aware of, to experience something that is so different from it and come out of it alright was fun. I hope to visit it soon, someday, once my sabbatical is done and I have something valuable locked in. I feel grateful about life because most people I know never experience what I could, god is kind. I don't want to bum around or anything long term lol, it's good for the heart to do it occasionally.
I'm above average, I don't really talk about it as it's narcissistic and girls don't really care about looks. I'd be less attractive in the west, here however, being tall, long and having west shifted features makes me stand out. Looks don't matter for guys as much fortunately.
Those two girls did leave a mark on me. Sometimes I think about them and how sad life for their parents must be, I remember their laughter.
My punctuation is indeed horrible. I did finally reinstall grammarly on my laptop again after loading manjaro on it.
Quite fascinating how people here can make sense of a lot of what I write when I myself struggle to do the same when I revisit some older posts.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
11d ago
Unsure really. You can probably ask me about life experiences or events, I do think I'll probably do one with a girl if I want to commit to her.
I've had some interesting experiences, with or without substances. Ask away friend.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
11d ago
I just turned 25 today, since I have some time and it's a quarter of a century, ama. I hope this isn't seen poorly lol. But I'm quite happy to have seen this milestone.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
13d ago
Very well written OP. At what point will chinese advances start affecting the US more than they are now. Previously Anthropics CEO and human job hater Dario Amodei wrote pretty unprofessional things about what the r1 had achieved.
American investment is far higher in AI than china's and has not produced the same level of results for the value. Will we see more expenditure at this point so that labs can double down and make more llms that have billion dollar runs or will they slow down the investments?
Really good post. Thanks for posting this here.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
13d ago
People on twitter are sucking him off dry for paying nerds their true worth.
I was skeptical of his offers. Paying people 100 of millions sound stupid also because of the volatility of what's being done. A big ai winter would look bad to Metas investors.
I did want to ask you about this though as I have zero experience or understanding of finance and markets. Will his overcompensation backfire if the market for AI goes south?
He splurged a lot on VR which whilst admirable doesn't seem to be a household piece of tech. I remember it causing some stock chaos a few years ago. Not sure what this would look like.
I did not watch the movie, so I may be incorrect, still, she is somehow being shoehorned into a successor spot, which I am against. This is a male role.
Found him due to jim, he has a good breakdown of what I listed, whilst being a proper reactionary, others like the critical drinker and nerdrotic are slightly less aware but still good. Them telling younger folks about this stuff is a good thing.
I do feel for older fans, Lucasfilm lost the plot badly.
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