sun
1yr ago
That would be a problem regardless of how lax, or in which gender's favor, the rules are.
What does it matter what the rules are in the dating app? The actual rule is "don't creep your match out and she won't report you". That's also why most internet venues implement rule 0 usually phrased as "don't be a dick". That's the only real rule, the rest are guidelines on what to avoid.
You think women come on Tinder to read their rules and strive to enforce them on their matches in a literal manner like the nerd in school who makes sure the teacher doesn't forget about homework?
sun
1yr ago
I see parts of it repackaged into FDS-like content where women encourage each other to not put out for any random fuckboy. They don't use the word slut and put an emphasis on "they don't deserve you" rather than "you're a worse person for fucking them", but the message remains.
sun
1yr ago
I am increasingly coming to a conclusion that trust can only exist between those of equal power.
sun
1yr ago
The thing is, if it's so hard to write good scripts that few people can do it now, we can make do with less new media. The same is not true for jobs that produce physical goods.
sun
1yr ago
I count "we have better alternatives" as "can't be assed". Does it really matter that we don't know the precise formula they used because they haven't written it down? We have concrete. We have napalm. We probably have ways to make them in a low-tech environment - would have to check one of those "uplifter isekai protagonist's cheat sheets" for that.
sun
1yr ago
Asks if any modern writers are as good as former ones?
What if I said yes and pointed at a random author I liked better than Tolstoy? It's a matter of opinion.
Tolstoy had his share of more refined critics as well.
there are things the ancients can do we still can’t reproduce today
Are there? I can't remember off the top of my head anything we genuinely "can't reproduce", as opposed to "can't be assed to".
sun
1yr ago
From what I gathered from this article, they didn't show ballistic matching was "nonsense", only that it doesn't have the rigor expected of the scientific method.
They provide an example of forensics not classifying "inconclusive" reports as errors. However, I agree with the forensics here. If you look at ballistic data and say "I can't tell for sure Joe was shot from this gun", that's not an error, that's working exactly as intended.
Justice isn't an exact science, in general.
sun
1yr ago
But FirmWeird, a game that makes a lot of money is a good game, otherwise customers wouldn't be paying for it!
obligatory /s
sun
1yr ago
The problem with this calculation is "the rest of society" excludes the cleaners themselves.
sun
1yr ago
It appears to me that if you want to state philosophy ran its course at Ancient Greeks, and specifically at Ancient Greeks, the burden of proof is on you and not on someone who assumes the contrary - that since then, someone wrote better things, or even the same things but better.
sun
1yr ago
Even if the average IQ part was true, it doesn't save everyone here from being either naughty or a child.
sun
1yr ago
Simple example: when it detects that you want some numbers added, it queries a calculator plugin instead of trying to ape addition through its own text generation.
sun
1yr ago
If I were a leftist journalist, I would currently be blaring out of every outlet how all the crazy cases are actually false flags, with him as proof.
sun
1yr ago
I doubt anyone is really that much cowed by the legacy of Genghis Khan, more like he's too irrelevant to cancel the Pope over, unlike Russia.
sun
1yr ago
I think you can learn all the things required to actually do a farmer-equivalent job in modern society by 16 - if you don't spend 12 years on general education. The problem is that even if it was allowed, you'd be essentially second class. What kind of parent wants that for their children?
sun
1yr ago
Nothing about the very specific arrangement of matter explains why there has to be an awareness behind the matter and the electrical processes of the brain. However, as long as it exists, it would be trivial to see if the perfect copy with sufficient fidelity shares that awareness with me. If it doesn't do so while I live, I'm not about to count on it doing so after I die, simple.
(You don't have to bother asking me how I know whether or not the awareness exists. It's self-evident to me and I'm not a solipsist so I don't believe yours isn't self-evident to you, either. I consider the denial of self that's common in rationalist circles to be stubborn attempts to does-not-compute reality into the bounds of their theories. Call dualists incoherent all you want, as long as you have the guts to admit you don't have the answers either.)
sun
1yr ago
It's a lot easier to get the resources to people when the people are in space too, I assume.
sun
1yr ago
The brain doesn't stop working entirely at night. I have reason to believe I wake up the same process as I was, which is completely lacking in the case of murder-teleporter, not to mention the LLM scenario.
People who blithely accept non-continuous cloning as acceptable substitute for themselves ought to experience talking to their own clone before being told that they'll be killed right now and it will live on. I think this will disabuse many of any further impulse to claim that's the same thing as going to sleep.
sun
1yr ago
I would not say Ukrainians are noticeably more "playable characters" than Russians, sure Ukraine is the plucky underdog protagonist of the current story as a whole but I haven't heard of the people having much better lives on average. They do have the luxury of more compelling official narrative, so maybe that's enough.
Being a forcibly assimilated former Ukrainian would probably be objectively worse than a native Russian, though.
A guy like Andrew Tate who pimped women? Gee I wonder why his spin on "mutual flirting" got him hammered.
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