nomenym
1d ago
While I don't especially like the prequels, they do have a kind of child-like earnest charm that I enjoy.
nomenym
6d ago
that reddit atheist meme
Old experiment with mice. Giving them abundance led to inversion of ordinary mouse behavior and collapse of mouse civilization.
nomenym
6d ago
A propensity to have a psychotic break in the first place should be viewed as an aggravating factor. It is part of who a person is. I would find the "demon possession" defense more honest.
nomenym
6d ago
My main concern is not about the object level rights and wrongs of the case, but that mothers killing their children in a psychotic break will become the next social contagion.
nomenym
9d ago
And when these tech companies do give something back to the community or go above and beyond to mitigate externalities, they too often just don't tell anybody what they're doing. It's highly frustrating.
nomenym
9d ago
I can only speak for the data centers I've been involved with, but it has amazed me how little effort has been put into trying to counter or at least mitigate the most excessive claims of critics. Frankly, the complacency of these tech companies is kind of driving me crazy, though I have some ideas I want to push. We don't need to make people like data centers, we just need more people to utter the words "I don't like data centers, but..."
I don't feel sad for him, though I'd prefer he not be dead. I feel sad that Cambridge has fallen so low, but I knew that already.
Many will now claim that trollish insults and ridiculing memes are responsible for this, rather than the truth about his lies stated plainly and reasonably, even though the latter was by far the more devastating. Presuming he killed himself, it was likely because his sins were so egregious that even his own tribe could not overlook or excuse them. Nasty and vicious jeers from the outgroup are merely badges of honor, but the disappointed glances from the ingroup hit like a freight train. People like Arday don't kill themselves when they are exposed to the outgroup; they kill themselves when they are exposed to the ingroup. He lost status hard and fast. The only injustice here is that many of his colleagues should also be brought down a few pegs.
He should never have resigned.
nomenym
18d ago
Musk is not stupid, but he often acts foolishly. Even a very skilled driver may drive recklessly.
The attitude I see these women have toward migrant males is one of condescension, in the old fashioned sense.
nomenym
21d ago
I don't think the progressive women who favor open borders actually see the immigrants as men at all. They may be mostly male, in the abstract, but they're not men, in the sense of potential sexual partners. When a hen goes broody, it will sometimes sit on anything that kind of looks like an egg. We have a competitive political and media ecosystem that is evolving ideological memes to look like eggs and the hens are sitting on them.
nomenym
22d ago
The worrying issue is the continuing trend toward there being a boys party and girls party. Obviously, there are more girls than boys, so eventually this means the girls party will win, right?
nomenym
22d ago
Yeah, this is about it, though I can't really speak for the data centers that I've not been involved with. My work more concerns the environmental compliance and property management, and everything I've been involved in has really went over and above the call of duty to do things right. Frankly, a lot of these places will be better after the data center than they were before. While I personally don't want a data center next door, there are many worse things.
I suspect that much of human cognition functions more or less like an LLM. I don't think it's the whole story of human cognition, but something like naturally evolved LLMs are doing most of the work most of the time for most people. Most artists have basically been exposed already. No wonder they can rarely ever explain what they're doing.
The LLMs in Lauren's head are optimized to operate in a small village with regular labor and lots of children running around. The daily problems and challenges that her brain has adapted to solve are now either absent or much attenuated, while there are novel and unprecedented obstacles and pitfalls that her psychology has no appropriate response to. Ecologically speaking, this is a habitat mismatch. The future of humanity will presumably include fewer Laurens, because her loop longer reproduces itself, but rather it gets misdirected and trapped in a self-abnegating spiral.
nomenym
26d ago
Meta is actually one of the best at trying to be responsible and taking significant measures to address peoples' concerns, but for whatever reason they don't really talk about it much and certainly none of it gets reported in the media.
nomenym
29d ago
The way I characterize it is that the "madhouse of maniacs" on right all agree that the left is trying to eat the goose that lays the golden eggs and must be stopped. Sometimes they think the left is trying to do this out of malice, but mostly they think it's just sheer foolishness.
Gender critical.
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