nomenym
13hr 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
9d 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
12d 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
13d 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
13d 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
17d 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
20d 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.
nomenym
21d ago
This seems like a straightforward case of the Spanish and European elites getting more of what they have been actively rewarding.
nomenym
27d ago
It's one of the main things that codes the conflict style of the right as masculine and the left as feminine.
nomenym
27d ago
Jordan Peterson used to talk about how he would ask liberals what it would look like for the left to go too far and very few could ever answer. Conservatives rarely had an issue with explaining what too far right would look like.
nomenym
1mo ago
National sports competitions start to lose their purpose without the ethno-nationalism that once implicitly pervaded the world when they were started. Frankly, the participation of the United States was always weird for that reason; it would have made a lot more sense for individual states to have their own teams. I want to see different tribes fight each other in an arena, but if they're all just mercenaries then it loses most of its meaning and interest. It's kind of fun watching good players play against other good players, but regular professional teams already exist for that. I'm curious to see whether these sporting events will have the legs to keep going as so many countries descend into more fractured ethnic blocks.
Is the slippery slope really a fallacy?
It's an informal fallacy, which means it's all about whether there are other (usually unstated) assumptions doing the work. If you explain why the slope is slippery (e.g. it's lathered in grease), then that's not a fallacy but an argument. Most accusations of the slippery slope fallacy are just people deflecting the argument. It's actually very rare for someone to argue that because something has begun that it will inevitably escalate further like that's some general law of the universe, because nobody anywhere believes in such a law. They almost always think that there is some reason why the thing will escalate, though the reasons may not always be made explicit. The slippery slope fallacy is almost always bullshit.
nomenym
1mo ago
I watched like 15 mins of this video. I think this video is very instructive in teaching people just why I dislike the lower classes. People should watch this and see if they are not immediately revulsed themselves by what they see across many different scenes and different groups of these "nightlife enjoyers"; it's not something particular to any one individual or small group; it's all pervasive amongst this class of people.
It feels, at times, like observing a different species.
nomenym
1mo ago
ACAB, but whose bastards? They're bastards whether they serve the left or the right. The left don't hate UK cops because they are their bastards. In the US, the situation is more mixed depending on where, but cops tend to be more culturally on the right. This is the difference.
This may offer a less malicious explanation for the behavior, but it doesn't really deny the problem. In fact, it makes the problem more intractable, since they will never admit to this explanation. It also incentivizes even more tribalistic behavior to dissuade law enforcement actions. If the purpose of the police is to manage relations between ethnic groups to prevent large scale public disorder and inter-ethnic conflict, then they cannot also treat people as individuals before the law. Every law enforcement action must be first evaluated by the likelihood of it undermining "community relations", and so the ethnicities of the people involved should be at the forefront when deciding when and how to enforce the law. Because whites have lower levels of ethnic solidarity, the trade-off will almost always be to target the whites. This makes a lot of good sense given the new priority to manage ethnic conflicts. The question is how stable this strategy is longer term.
Presumably, these concerns are also driving the abolishment of juries. It allows judges to concern themselves not with individual actions but rather balancing competing ethnic resentments to maintain public order.
Quietly, the entire tradition of British law is being repealed and replaced by merely changing "guidance" documents.
The issue is rather simple, though you may dislike it. Men are attracted to youthful features combined with developed secondary sex characters, and it's around 15-ish that most girls begin to really exhibit that combination. That is when most men start to notice girls sexually, even if they are not especially interested in actually having any kind of relationship with them for other reasons. Probably around 25 percent of men have a strong preference for women who look like they're about 15-18 years old, whether they are actually that old or not. The actual age has nothing to do with it.
It seems like ethnic Europeans might be outliers in having a stronger preference for women in their 20s, since Europeans have long practiced later marriage and tend to remain fertile longer than other groups. I suspect this might be genetic, and this makes Europeans unusual. For the rest of the world, the preference for younger girls is even stronger and much more culturally normative for most of their history. Just look at all the recently arrived doctors and engineers literally chasing after unattended schoolgirls in Europe today. You might as well try to train your cat to not chase the mouse.
Now, all these preferences are telling us something about the human evolutionary history of sexuality. We have inherited these instincts because they were successful among our ancestors. We're all descended from men and boys who got with fertile teenage girls at least some of the time, and so preventing that is going to have consequences for overall sexual behavior and fertility. There are trade-offs here along multiple dimensions, and it's not clear to me that the maximizing the taboo is the best solution in all circumstances.
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.
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