mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
Future apocalypse survivor
User ID: 3273
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
6d ago
He's gone on record on videos saying he's not African American since he's Indian. We joke about identifying as a Hispanic Trans person on college admission forms and this guy actually did it, unsuccessfully. Not the Trans part.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
7d ago
There's some breakdown in communication as he wants a smaller, less powerful government where there are some things the government does. Smaller societies earlier were dependent on elders enforcing laws via the guys.
When he argues agaisnt hard drugs, it's from the perspective of that implementation in the current apparatus. It's not a bad one, he also has written agaisnt government interference, that's one of his most famous articles.
I'd rather have the government crack down on what he listed instead of hate speech.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
7d ago
Bang on. Really good programmers are a rarity and aren't building ai garbage at yc. "I'm at YC, if a guy working under me swindled me, then he must be good too" should be interpreted as "I'm at YC, if I get swindled this easily then I probably need to code more".
Indians defending this fucking pajeet ticked me off because I know two three who post here, live in the US and are doing very good work in startups over there.
YC is a popularity contest now, you can get in via multiple referrals. They keep taking more people in each year, everyone's building LLM APIs with janky Javascript as a service. These guys, no offence, are not good devs. They're young to begin with, my age usually or older and gravitating towards vaporware is a clear sign of decay.
What irks me is that he may face zero negative consequences for pulling off scams, whilst those affected will go and bat for him.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
7d ago
I would push back here. Do you think anything in particular would demonstrate exactly what he says is wrong? He does have a bone to pick with economics as he later published articles against fiat as we see due to inflation but so far I do agree with a lot of what he said about drugs and other things.
Lol apologies. It's important because society works on trust, if there is none then laws can't make it functional the way a high trust society would.
If you don't learn to code properly, cheat on interviews, cheat on the job by having a fake cv or cheat your vc by forking other people without changing any code, then people will be forced to cheat as the other guy rarely cooperates.
The rise of globohomo coincides with the breakdown of trust. Extremely large societies that are becoming more heterogenous by the day cannot produce good outcomes.
We know how academia today, even in the sciences will play games with the truth to get funded, this has undoubtedly played a role in the slowdown of progress.
Software is critical today, the total acceptance of deceit will eventually cause some harm down the line. If a guy can get a job he's not good enough for, we can't trust that what he wrote will work fine the way older software did.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
7d ago
Lol no, I was posting it and edit my comments a bunch to fix them since they're usually bad. I'm adding the missing links rn
I apologise for the faux pas but I'm posting two top comments in succession since this one's kinda important and I couldn't find it anywhere on the board.
The death of the hacker ethos -
Three days ago, Suhail Doshi posted a tweet about a programmer named Soham Parekh who was caught doing the most stereotypically Indian thing ever, scamming people, this time, it's young yc founders. Soham is not a great engineer, he is probably good, better than me, at least as I am for now an amateur, though he is not a 10x mythical unicorn, given he resorted to this
Our /r/overemployed king
So for those unfamiliar, tech jobs pay a lot, by tech I mean jobs where you write code for a living, due to the world shifting more towards web apps, people do not need to be in a particular office to test out things on specific machines or OSes the way they did back then since its a web app after all. COVID-19 saw remote jobs boom, a peak that remote job seekers like me can only wish for. Enter Mr Parekh. He optimised the shit out of the interviewing process, and made a fake CV that made him look like an AI slop find since most YC firms now are just terrible. You can go on Hacker News, a board that was started via YC as its literal URL is news.ycomibanator.com, and there are different cases such as pear.ai and most recently glass that would make every sane man question the levels of evil present in the valley. We will return to these in a bit. Back to our scamster.
Now, cheating is not a new thing; over time, society has gotten less strict about deceit in many areas, just ask Zohran Mamdani, who claimed to be black to get into Columbia and is probably going to face zero consequences for it. The first big pro-cheating thing was this startup called Cluely, made by an Ivy dropout asian american, Roy Lee, whose idea was to embed an LLM in your computer so that you can cheat in any interview, as the language model can access both your screen and the speaker. A few days later he got a cool 16 million by a16z, a firm that invests money in startups that explicitly hate cheating and would never want to hire people who would ask a language model to write most of their code. Roy's startups database got leaked a few days later, and ever since, we have had countless cheating-focused startups.
When Sohams thing broke out, people, a large percentage of Indians went to defend him online for explicitly lying. We all have done bad things and I regret the one or two times I did something amoral, in this case, it was similar to a guy sleeping with an entire friend circle, the girls end up liking the guy which is unfortunately what our friends over at silicon valley did after they were done tweeting about ai god and their ai wrapper with 10s of dollars in revenue that justify the millions in investment. It got so bad that the daily news network equivalent of tech news, TBPN, hosted this guy, where he was given softball questions and turned into a hero overnight. "I took all those jobs because I have personal financial issues" to "I do not care about money and only like building" is self-snitching. We know the guy did fuck all for most of his gigs as he kept getting fired within months if not weeks, similarly, he has family in the east coast of the US yet is facing issues he cannot tell others about? Here is the cherry on top of this rotten fruitcake.
The guy got job offers, plenty of job offers, all by ai wrappers, but job offers nonetheless. He chose to go with a firm that makes the same product his last startup made, one he signed a non-compete since he had seen their entire codebase. I asked @FiveHourMarathon as a joke about what levels of scamming is safe in the US. Unfortunately, not only do people not care, but they also respect you if you pull off scams. Y Combinator has been seen as the bastion of hacker founder culture. Paul Graham's essays focus a lot on doing good, being honest, providing values, and other nice things that seem like worthless platitudes, given that the people in his accelerator are not only bad at these things but also lack any sense of honor.
Which brings me back to glass and pear.ai. Pear.ai was one of the worst-received startups of the recent LLM API calls as a startup batch since it literally just forked another repo completely and was touted as the next big thing by Sam Altman's replacement, Garry Tan. Ultimately, after enough hate, they probably changed since the founders are some sort of young e-celeb YouTubers, but it was a divorce from the Aaron Swartz martyr morals. Glass literally forked another cluely clone with the wrong license, slapped a new license and then later claimed ignorance.
Cheating and deceit are bad things; we should be fine with helping those who make mistakes, but these are malicious attempts. John Carmack released his engineers under GNU's public license, today's largest accelerator, where people use him as a PFP do their best to be the opposite of that. We are at this point, encouraging fraud.
edit - will link things in a bit. Apologies for the second top-level comment.
Some notes on stuff I read and the work of Luke Smith
I have been binge-reading the essays Luke Smith wrote on his website, LukeSmith.xyz, and have also finished more than a quarter of Watership Down. It is slightly harder to start reading physical books again, as I am used to my Kindle and mostly read short form on my computer and phone. Great book so far, but the comment is about Luke Smith.
Some essays by Luke Smith I liked
- Why Modern Art is so awful
- Why People Do or Do Not Leave Religion
- Not Even Libertarians Believe in Libertarianism
In particular, I liked his podcast on the book Against Method by Feyerabend, and I have been trying to draft out a post that is not haphazard, concise and makes a novel point.
His critique of libertarianism ending in feudal states was probably correct. My main point, though, is an admission of defeat, weakness rather. How do I survive in a world where the heuristics people hold holy on both sides end up being wrong so often?
You have religious reactionaries on one side who stick to their beliefs just because they were born with them; on the other hand, you have the rest of the world, where you find shades of post-enlightenment thought. In his essay 'Not Even Libertarians Believe in Libertarianism', Luke quotes Friedrich Nietzsche, in a rather casual manner
Nietzsche, in I forget which book (probably Genealogy of Morals), noted that moral philosophy is kind of the opposite of other sciences. In moral philosophy, we know beforehand what is “right” and “wrong,” and its goal is not so much to discover new truths as to concoct a framework that helps us understand the system of why things are “right” and “wrong.” We do not “discover” new moral truths.
This later connects to his other podcast where he discusses Against Method, largely agreeing with Feyerabend's viewpoint of Epistemological Anarchism and in another podcast titled - When You're Too Rational To be Rational! notes the gaping flaws with Kahneman's book Thinking Fast and Slow with the help of Gerd Gigerenzer's books such as Simple Heuristics in a Complex World and later uses his other work Mindless Statistics to showcase the modern academic stat raindances in his podcast - The Flaws of Academic Statistics: The Null Ritual.
I provide this context because I feel unsure of what to believe in as a person. I grew up seeing a bunch of superstitions that made no sense, did not care much about god and slowly became a reactionary when I realised the cathedral or the modern elite simply used the scientific method as a garb to justify bioleninism or values like it. The essays I read have, however, made me question the very means and sources of what I can even trust. Do you simply agree to go along with your maulvi who is fine with you marrying a girl who is barely done growing up or do you deconstruct everything and reach a point where you can later either deny the existence of gender or worse, be an hbd obsessed online type who cannot see his own people as anything beyond iq scores.
The ancients here in India tried their hand at this problem with the Dharamsutras, before the lawbook of Manu, the Manu Smriti. These texts were not the word of god, something that is difficult to explain since the thinking and the people behind these ideals are long gone. I mean to simply ask how one can know what's right in a way that sounds dumb.
Is the world just humans trying to understand systems too complex for them, and all efforts are kinda wasteful, at least in the current model of the world? How do you decide what you think is wrong or right? The Maulvi example is helpful since people deny and outright ignore the existence of all religious mandates that are at odds with modernity. Modern banking and democratic values have dented a lot of orthodox people in parts that are not in the West. My post is terribly worded, but I cannot honestly tell people what is right or wrong in a consistent way, i.e. by seeing tradition as the all-knowing lindy culture machine fighting modern "logic".
This post will get downvoted badly, I cannot fully explain the entirity of my inability to grasp what is correct as both the opposing forces here are wrong in many ways, but I am unsure if you can live in a world that does not inevitably bend towards one and goes through pointless pain because of it. Marrying within your caste or race works; it worked before we understood IQ as a metric that has clear scientific backing and the very ideas of genetic tests with coordinates and a detailed breakdown of your haplogroup. At the same time, man evolved from a primitive state where religion, even though it came after a certain point, was the new thing compared to the pre-agriculture past. Is the answer to just never think, meditate and go on with my life, should I break down only some things with arguments, or do I simply find the first old scripture that agrees with me?
I know that the Dharmasutras did try something in this regard, and like most things religious, I presume they were ahead of their time. But yeah, I am beginning to question some things, not because I am anti-vaxxer or something, I am not, I do lean towards modern meds being good in nearly all cases, I just don't know how many of these Chesterstons fence issues we will face. Most religious preachers, popular ones, are mostly incorrect; my intellect can sense the outright stupidity and dishonesty in many things, and I hope I can get some personal anecdotes or any advice on how one deals with these issues. Learning philosophy to convince others of your preconceived notions, for instance, sounds dishonest, yet many do it.
This ties into culture war heavily, I know that having women not marry young, allowing heterogeneous societies, and deconstruction lead to chaos, do I need to wait for science to approve of it? Conversely, how can I deny the existence of many modern phenomena that I know are true? Hinduism conveniently has sects that do not care very much about any of this, but I want to finally see reality for people reading this who know more about the world than me
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
8d ago
I'll do math for ml once I finish discrete math, I want to do both linear algebra and stats as they have the most relevance for computers, especially if I do fast.ai soon and wish to dog deeper.
My mentor is making me do some books on the side that will help me get a second, deeper look at the topics I've already learnt via math academy. I'm unsure of what to do post math for ml tho. Calc 3, linear algebra, stats?
How rigorous/helpful do you think the ml and discrete math adjacent courses like MoP are? Are they enough to help you jump right into applied side of programming? I do trust Jeremy Howard when he says that you don't need a vast amount of math if you're starting machine learning.
They will also publish a ML1 course before their CS1 course so I may jump into that once I knock out MoP, discrete math and m4ml.
Hackers and Closers
I finally finished Math Foundations 3 on Math Academy, a course north of 6 thousand xp (one problem is one xp, they assume it takes around a minute to solve it). The entire thing took me close to 4 months. On my trip to Prayagraj, I did three hours of math whilst in a moving train, without a seat or proper lighting. The pinhole reading light and a few inches of sitting space without back support. I was reading Masters of Doom then and found Carmack inspirational. The next day, I did three hours whilst at the airport and some whilst we drove back home.
The math I'm doing isn't going to help me be a great hacker soon, it won't get me employed either. Fast.ai explicitly tells you not to care about math, a course I'll do once my backend journey is over. Yet, I do think I did something important.
My first posts here were in the winter of 2019. I somehow lucked into a really good spot, and the subsequent issues I faced with my academics after joining uni are documented here. I did not know any math beyond grade 9th while in a CS program. I kind of knew some math, but my fluency was zero, and that cascaded into me graduating with close to a 3 GPA equivalent.
At nearly 25, I finally filled that gap and then some. My understanding of math is better now, and I had to chip away at this behemoth for months, literally. I realised that I was at 98 percent completion. My mentor was on the co-working call. I kept going until 3-4 a.m. and finally hit 100 percent. It felt great. I have reduced my math output, but I will study math for life. I feel satisfied, there is a lot more good ahead.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
9d ago
It diminishes for me if I follow basic yogic guidelines such as
- Meditate regularly
- Avoid stimulation
- Inculcate deliberate rest and restoration in your daily life
I'd text girls on Instagram as a way to cope with my life being in the gutter. Now, I am fixing it and find the idea of flirting when not around someone absurd.
You're on the right path by identifying the issues. Wish you the best.
I don't think this is the case. People have been saying for years that MMA is destined to be dominated by "true" mixed martial artists like Rory MacDonald who've trained in blended styles from the start.
There are zero crossover champions right now in any promotion that had a serious pre MMA background. Adesanya and Pereira fight 185 and up which are shallow.
But Rory never became champion and there's still a ton of people with a specific specialty they build on when they get to MMA
He left the UFC due to low money and won the championship in bellator, the ufc guy at the time Tyron Woodley was someone he had beaten comprehensively and was for a point the world's best 170-pounder.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
12d ago
Powerslap is the worst because no one good will ever compete in a sport with that low IQ. Plus, having zero defence means that everyone will get knocked the fuck out before becoming a star. You cannot have a dominant champion getting dethroned storyline ever. Dana is struggling to break through, as the UFC will need to allow fighter unions and two more divisions with fewer apex cards to let the sport make money.
UFC BJJ for instance, will always lose out to CJI because the people doing it are not phoning it in the way UFC is.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
12d ago
I learnt MMA after watching it for a while. It helped me appreciate how hard the sport really is. I still have an obsession with it that i wish I did not have but I have never really liekd any other sport as much.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
12d ago
Yeah plus it has real consequences, if you lose a fight, you may never be the same again as your chin diminishes, you can pick up a career ending injury or you can learn from it and come back better.
Violence is an essential part of the human condition, hand to hand combat is totally useless unless you wish to act like a dick in bars, the large practical impact it had was proving that there were certain styles and certain ways of making them work. All combat sports work, Karate works if you have no walls, bjj works if the other guy does not know anything about grappling at all and has no friends, wrestling works if you have no issues getting murder charges for slamming a guy into the pavement, muay thai works. People watch it for the reason as most sports, the resolution of a story, a man's dream gets destroyed to fulfill anothers. The wierd side effect of that has made combat sports around the world better as everyone can cross train now.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
13d ago
And it simply doesn't have the number of fights to absorb all of the combat sports.
I would never want that, people crossing over is ok in limited amounts, if everyone who did dutch kickboxing came over then dutch kickboxing would die out. Though MMA can be far bigger if the ali act was enforced here.
The best part of its model is that it leeches off other, more entrenched sports' scouting and training practices. What it should do is try to attract more athletes who want to cross over (like UFC fighters do with boxing) but the UFC is now in the WWE position and has no reason to innovate.
It did this for a while but the scouting thing is not the same. MMA does not have scouts, people just count on fighters sending their records and videos over to gyms and promotions. Actual scouting and ali act would fix the sport totally if you can remove weight cutting.
The UFC is like the WWE and both lose relevance daily despite better fighters in the UFCs case, all because of greedy businessmen who deserve decades behind bars for the damage they willingly caused. The UFC has class action lawsuits and I want it to lose all of them. They are both anti innovation because they dont want outliers. Their goal is to swindle networks into getting a deal.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
14d ago
Thailand is a good place, you see a lot of female uber drivers, food delivery drivers, something that I had never seen in India as that place is safe. Girls I met from the west who were tourists like me were surprised that they could walk the streets at any hour without worrying about any safety.
In general I suspect women are better at following 'the rules' which has downstream impacts on criminality
They are very agreeable which is also why they get exploited int the workplace more, ignore the diverstiy hires in large tech firms, life away from the ivory towers is pretty harsh if you are a woman. My mother works a lot more than my dad who techncially has to do jack all as he is a senior professor (no tenture in this nation but he is unfireable). My mother begrudginly agrees with a lot of requests whilst my dad made a name for himself for taking the uni to court and winning many times over, to the point where people respect him. Gender differences are quite apparent in workplaces not clouded by obvious globohomo ideas.
On the crime part, even in female prisons, trans women commit more rapes than males would in a male prison. The only crime I usually see from women is getting their husbands killed with their boyfriends which has been happening a whole lot more now.
I've seen quite a few porch pirates use their children to steal
Pathetic, disgusting. Using your child as a shield and making them do bad things. I have heard that some places like SF dont have felony charges unless you dont strike a threshold amount, meaning that you can legally send kids to steal a lot of stuff regularly and not face any consequences legally either.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
14d ago
Reading updates - fable edition. Do post if you are reading anything this weekend.
I begun reading watership down and its been nice so far. Anytime I read something, it seemds to be mostly old or older than our current times. Besides non fiction like the very enjoyable Masters of Doom, I keep coming back to the question of art and why modern art is not as good. Paul Graham's essay Hackers and Painters give a paraller of painting and hacking wherein paintings peaked at a point and its been worse since, modern times being the age of hacking. What causes such peaks and declines? Is it due to the innate biology of the people, the social environemtns, combination of both or just the story of life.
Rabbits are small cute little creatures that live very short lives. We may look down upon fables, I certaintly did and I am somehwat pleased to say that I have a better understadning now due to this book suggestion. There are two great fables in the Hindu tradition, Pancatantra and Hitopadesa. I read the first as a child and loved it, though I did not remember any stories, you could sense that it affected or at least encapsuated a lot of the vlaues of the time. During a recent discussion I was made aware of how it conceals very harsh truths that would get you isolated from broader society due to them being true.
Which brings me to Richard Adams watership down which is an epic that involves rabbits in a believable world. I bought on the suggestion of my mentor and was surprised to see that the publication logo featured a smaller version the tux like penguin of penguin publications since this book is sold by their childrends division puffin. As an adult, you can appreciate the story quite a bit, the undertones and themse in many similar texts go beyond what kids can understand whilst imaprting them with some appreciation for these values. I watched Lord of the Rings as an adult, by the end of the movie, I could feel the things Tolkien held dear and saw as virtous. Good texts need to be passed down,, even if you cannot grasp them fully, you embody a lot of the underlynig tones.
Despite their being infinitely more entertainment avalible to us, we mostly seem to consume the worst sorts. I hope more kids grow up reading these stories. By time I get done reading something really good, I always gain a better feel for the world, anytime I spend time online, even though it seems helpful to keep up with tech news, I come back feeling worse. The subtext for good texts has an element of heroic valor whilst modern internet subtext is that of envy, lethargy, learned helplessness. Texts for the longest time were not a revenue stream the way modern books are. This is not some novel piece of information, I wanted to write out some things I felt to be true.
Gift your kids books, these fables do a lot of good modern media cannot. The world needs more heroes.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
14d ago
Great observation, human beings also innately have some desires that cannot be verbalised properly by most except for a handful of blessed minds. Epics everywhere despite not being epxlicitly related have shown similar themes time and time again. Goethe referenced Kalidasa who himself referenced ancient texts here that themelsves had a lot of references from the origin of the Indo europeans. Some part of modern day steppe effectively influenced a seminal author who himself influenced the world and these things came from different parts but did have some shared ancestry.
I often ask myself if the reason behind the world not having good art now is due to the fact that like everything in life, things begin, peak and then plateau before thier end or because society truly is so bad socially and biologically that these things cannot be done again. Technology is a good example of this wherein the fastest pace of progress we saw was a cetntuy ago which allows silicon valley to LARP as tech innovators whilst making b2b saas trinkets that do not do very much.
On the same note as what OP mentioned, Moldbug famously avoids reading anything written by other NRx (neoreactionaries) to avoid copying thier ideas but they all reference the same people modlbug references anyway.
This is a very good point given that we have IP laws now yet things are staler than before. One more thing that maybe has an impact on this is that authors today need to sell a lot of copies to make money and get status, something that was not true for a long time thanks to patronage and fixed classes/castes.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
14d ago
First time hearing of a woman doing this. I usually only see videos of dysgenic looking men do it. Did you file a complain?
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
14d ago
Violence has always been something people have been fascinated by as viewers. The NFL offers a watered down much worse version of it, mma is just more honest about it.
I personally watch it because I like seeing how people solve problems, how a set of techniques and strategies can best another.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
14d ago
There was a grappling tournament on a 5v5 format called quintet which made grappling really exicitng. I'm a purist in mma but we do need freakshow fights. Half of pride was the best vs the best and the other half being freakshows.
Getting some mixed messages man.
Fighters are great, the management and the people running the business are short sighted.
Have to agree with the general assessment of UFC...........
Agree on all points. The speculative exit economy that ruined software follwoed mma. Dana is a scum who should have his assetes liquidated for lobbying and stealing money from fighters whilst never having done anything more than cardio kickboxing. UFC did not save MMA, it would have risen from Japan, they just made it worse via monopoly. They just wanted to sell it and the things like standard uniforms and stuff was just a way to convince investors
Like, you ask me, the entire point of UFC is to set up the most interesting fights/matchups possible and encourage the top contenders to fight as hard as possible for a win, and generally avoid safe, riskless approaches. Big purses and other monetary incentives are a good method. Bring in the best talent from across the globe and get them to give their best performance.
That is a cover for thier real incentive which is to sell tv rights to ESPN as PPVs keep sinking in the gutter. The Ali act that saves boxing cannot exist in MMA as fighters cannot unionize, this makes the fights worse as Dana and co dont want you to get too popular like mcgregor or want any independence like Fedor. They just want people who will take lifec hanging brain damage for 10k show and 10k win. Not a surprise they are business partners with another entity that loses relevance everyday, WWE.
But also the actual fighting is getting to a point where the 'optimal' style is somewhat predetermined. Unless you're a talented kickbox-wrestle-jitsu practitioner, you're going to get stomped by someone who is more well rounded than you, no matter how good you are at your particular niche.
Its not set in stone. Beyond BJJ being made totally irrelevant (bjj not submission grappling, bjj is about guard play, something that will get you killed in an amateur fight), the "meta" keeps changing regularly. In the early days you had a mixed bag with wrestle-boxers dominating, then we shifted towards more kickboxing, it keeps swinging back and forth. The outputs per fighter is way higher now, prodigies who are good are defensively better. Every weight division has bigger fighters which means that you have more knockouts but also a higher willingness to step in the pocket and punch in combination. The bjj aproach of take pass guard has been replaced with dragging the guy to the corner of the cage, once your hips are not stationary, you cannot play guard. The sport is still fun, its that the UFC much like the WWE wants to kill the outliers who will demand what they are worth like they do in boxing.
Maybe that's how it should be, but its just a fact now that "MMA" is not literally "mixed martial arts" but really it is a style unto itself, it isn't really about pitting different styles against each other anymore.
Yeah but you do see a ton of flair. Caucasian wrestlers, kickboxers, american wrestlers, freestyle wrestlers, submission grapplers all are very different. The first true MMA only background guy was Rory Mcdonald funnily enough.
I wonder if they should start introducing different obstacles to the octagon, or adding in strange conditions. "In round 1 they're covered in cooking grease. In round 2 they'll have an eyepatch over one eye. In round 3, their legs will be tied together with a two foot rope to limit movement and kicks. Round 4, they fight while each gripping a Bandana as hard as they can.
Or they can introduce powerslap inside the octagon and lose them even more money lol. But jokes aside, they should add two more weightclasses between 155 and 185, pay scouts money like actual sports and remove weight cuts. Beyond that, allow kicks to the face on the ground, stand people up if they clinch too long on the fence and sign fighters late. Signing fighters via the contender series leads to people like Bo Nickal who cannot get good and end up as midlding fighters with no style. Luke rockhold had a style, you could see that he built it to kill wrestlers, could not have looked like had he been admitted earlier.
Or just go full Super Smash Bros. and let them opt to have Tasers, baseball bats, and small incendiary devices dropped into the octagon if a fight goes past 3 rounds. Or is that WWE's shtick?
Lol, pro wrestling is worse now because people know of mma so the scare factor goes out, beyond that the peak of it in the last 40 years, the attitude era was defined by adult themed storylines and outliers like Steve Austin, The Rock, which the WWE does not want more of. So they up the ante in the usage of fake weapons and falls but its not compelling because the two things i listed are simply not there anymore. You tell someone that you like pro wrestling now, you will be seen as a wierdo as the product is for kids. I do not watch it but Jim Cornettes podcast gives a fun rundown of why its bad now.
I kid, but if you want to break out of the current local maxima for the current dominant fighting styles, you will have to adjust the parameters somewhere to force new optimizations.
The current style is good. Every belt holder currently is someone who strikes and gets finishes. Less than a tenth of the roster is made up of wrestlers and wrestling defence gets better each year as anti wrestling is easier than trying to take people down. The UFC just needs to hire scouts, let fighters unionise, make more money. Boxing is very fun now. We have had superfights on the regular whilst Dana does not want Jon Jones to leave despite having a worse string of opponents in the past two years than Sam Alvey. His contender series is a terrible idea too.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
14d ago
Ufc 317 this weekend and highly encourage you all watch it. @Tanista comment on lat weeks thread about Jon Jones, one of the better mma fighters, behind only the likes of GSP, Fedor etc retired after holding up the worst division, heavyweight, for two years has made people who watch the sport happy.
Ilia Topuria, Payton Talbott and Joshua Van are three entertaining young fighters who are blockbuster entertainment whilst also being extremely talented.
Topuria was the featherweight champ and knocked the last two greats out in succession, something that is unprecedented and this was likely the greatest title run in the UFC impact wise for the division. Topuria is a pressure fighter, defensively sound, sleeps people with one punch and wants to be in the pocket. He fights a now past his prime Charles Oliveira who himself was the pressure fighting guy at lightweight, the division Topuria is fighting in now.
Talbott is a very online young guy and the first fighter to tweet about Sam Hyde incessantly making him someone I root for now. He fights at 135, a division above Van who's at 125. Mma is very stale, boring and not worth watching now. The UFC wants no big superstars to emerge as they want a total monopoly on the business so that they pay fighters as little as possible. The thinking of this kind has made the peak we saw in 2016-17 look like a different world.
The other fight in this card features 125ers who can sleep people. Lower weight classes are a treat to watch. As a long time fan, I hope you folks tune in, buy, pirate, watch it at a bar, whatever. Ufc 317 is on this Saturday, you can watch the embedded vlogs ufc produces to get some more context about the fights if you wish to.
I'm completely unsure and very skeptical of any Llms will take away x job headline given the poor track record and the obvious faking of benchmarks and media hype.
Not a lawyer, I do wonder how this plays out, can you hold a model accountable the way a lawyer is? What happens when you add your own data to it? Does the responsibility then land on the law firm. Not a rhetorical question.
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