ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
28d ago
Name a eugenic intervention.
Maternity leave, lower taxes for filing as a couple, and accessible birth control (including abortion) seem to be eugenic interventions.
ulyssessword
28d ago
Yup. Blue text on a black background for me.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Well it doesnt hurt them at all, otherwise it wouldn't be cheating.
??? It's completely possible to cheat ineffectively and harm yourself in the process. Just look at exercising: you can use bad form to inflate your numbers, but that increases injury risk and decreases gains. It both hurts them and is cheating. Is the same true of academic dishonesty? Maybe.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Based on what you find you can testify to the jury that you heard a baby cry, or that the suspect admitted there was a dead baby in there"
That's the quiet part. Are you just going to say it out loud, over an official phone call? Are those recorded for evidence?
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Best case scenario, I manage to scramble and pull together enough other evidence to somehow, someway, still get a conviction. Worst case scenario, and far more likely, is that the public defender files a layup motion to suppress, all of my evidence gets tossed, and with it the case.
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But of course, the detective in the exercise did find a baby in the basket. Any judge in the country would find exigent circumstances.
As described, you acted in line with the incentives.
If it was the baby-killer, you save the baby and secure a conviction. If it was an innocent fisherman, there are no negative consequences (at least not any listed here. I'm sure that there are some IRL. right? right??) because there is no case to sabotage. The only negative effect I can see is if he had been committing a less-serious crime that would've been caught some other way, and you had stumbled into the evidence that would've convicted him.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
there is artistically great rap music.
Link?
ulyssessword
1mo ago
(I wonder if we'll see the ACLU stepping up on this matter only after someone is actually refused a court order for name change... which they generally only do for sex offenders and other criminals whose “crimes involv[ed] moral turpitude”...)
My bets are on a transgender name change instead of any other type. They're the only thing I can think of that are culture-war enough to make for good publicity.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
It does seem like a sound argument, but it'll probably take the ACLU or a million dollars and a private lawyer to convince them. Spending $50 on a court-ordered name change is probably the simplest way to proceed.
EDIT: missed this earlier.
Actions speak louder than words.
Maybe in general, but see the post:
After Trump leaves the picture, Vance will gain thirty IQ points, make an eloquent speech about how tariffs were the right tool for the mid-2020s but no longer, and the problem will solve itself. Right?
Don’t let them get away with this.
Hypothetical!Vance both admits that it was bad and changes course, but it still doesn't satisfy Scott. I don't think punting Biden is any better than what was laid out there.
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Yglesias is a decent example, but he's also heterodox enough that he doesn't consider himself a part of the core. In fact he calls out the core constituency for continuing to make the mistake he just admitted to:
One thing that I do think I was right about is that the chorus of pundits, myself included, who suddenly rose up to say “Ezra was right, Democrats need a new nominee” had basically no efficacy. People love to get mad about articles, but the Democratic Party is not, in fact, run by a cabal of center-left columnists.
Were they just a bit slower than him, and admitted their mistakes some time after the article was written (Jul 08, 2024)?
I couldn't read the Times article because they patched my latest paywall bypass, and the WSJ is completely broken and threw my browser into an endless loop of reloading the page before crashing to the desktop.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Nah, I'm from Saskatchewan, and Manitoba is one of us. We're both part of Western Canada, along with Alberta (but not BC).
they’ll tell you they’re in the centre of Canada and Western Canada is everything from Saskatchewan on, which is damn fucking right if you look at an actual map.
Now I want geographically-defined regions. Anything below the 49th parallel is the "Deep South", 49-55 is "South", 55-66.5 is "Central", and anything in the Arctic circle is "North", with 80+ degrees being the "Far North". BC and Alberta are "West", Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and western Ontario are "Central", while the rest of Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada is "East".
“Oh, like you’re from the Midwest?”
See also: 38 degrees in the Middle East
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Could you link examples? Among articles ostensibly about Biden's failures due to his age, I found (summaries all mine):
- Vox: Harris wasn't electable
- MSN: Thorough factual description, but calling it an "epic miscalculation" doesn't assign responsibility
- CNN: he will be a bad candidate in Nov. 2024, but no mention of a mistake in electing him
- ABC: It's a simple weakness, no mention of how it should create actions
The rest were either on the right, or past the first page of results.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I wouldn't go that far, but I bet it the equivalent article would've been about something like political theory vs. enacted policies back in the Slatestarcodex days instead of Left vs. Right now. It might have even used many of the same examples and reached the same object-level conclusions.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
The proper way to do things is first reach the moral high ground, then attack your opponents for not being there. They skipped a step.
If the Right has to own up to this (at this point only alleged) failure, what does the Left have to own up to (or better yet: What has the Left already owned up to, to serve as an example)? The closest Scott gets to answering that question is through a link that contains a link that links to resources for thinking critically about Social Justice. I assume that there are object-level criticisms in the resources listed there, but I haven't actually checked.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
When it comes to categories like race/sex/age/nationality, some level of presumptive conflict of interest is inevitable. Would a White researcher come off as unbiased in race research in your opinion?
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Tatishe
I tried finding that name, and it had two hits worldwide (0.001% of "Steven", for reference). The second result in my search was the study author, and the third was a Spanish (or at least Spanish-language) musician. Maybe I have to brush up on my linguistics, but I still don't see any notable connection between that name and any region, let alone any political stance.
Your multi-sentence specific explanation wasn't enough to convince me, so I stand behind my criticism of their brief dismissal.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I'm confused about how Canadian regions are divided.
Join the club. There are multiple different systems used interchangeably. Some of the regions include:
- the Maritimes: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI
- Atlantic Canada: the Maritimes plus Newfoundland and Labrador
- Quebec
- Ontario
- Central Canada: Quebec and Ontario
- Western Canada: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and sometimes BC
- the Prairie Provinces: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and usually Alberta
- BC
- the North: Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut.
Which ridings are you counting? Central Newfoundland, Terra Nova, Avalon, Long Range, Labrador...what am I missing?
You're missing Cape Spear and St John's East.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
What was the point, in your opinion?
I can't see anything other than bare-faced racism because the name doesn't mean anything to me.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
The literal meaning is kind of useless. Is a truck with duallies "four wheel drive" just because its drivetrain is connected to four wheels?
ulyssessword
1mo ago
Polls closed in Newfoundland two hours ago, and it's not looking good for the pollsters. CBC has called two seats for the Conservatives and they're leading in a third, while three have been called for the Liberals and they're leading in a fourth. The prediction was 7-0 Liberal (two "toss up", five "Lib. Likely").
The Maritimes are closer to the prediction, with the Conservatives leading/called in 8 ridings vs. the prediction of 7.
Then all that information is practically public. I don't think that's a very palatable solution.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
The danger with that is that the line is blurry. If you're too strict, then Joe Random gets gifted ten million dollars just for filing a lawsuit against Google, because they have corporate-standard recordkeeping, auditing, and accounting which is helpful to lawyers.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
are there any major flaws/unintended consequences I've overlooked?
Define "legal expenses".
The first thing I'd do if faced with those rules is outsource everything from the law office. Instead of the lawyers hiring a forensic accountant to review the accounts, the accounting department would hire them and provide the report to the lawyers for free. Instead of lawyers hiring a mock jury, the marketing department would hire a research panel. If you allow splitting hairs enough, then the compliance team does legal research and provides it for free to the litigation team.
Even without deliberate dodging, large corporations simply have a lot of those resources available from other departments, and the incremental cost to get the lawyers that information is near-zero.
If you want to improve their website, you could try something like what I did to fandom.com using an adblocker.
EDIT: could an LLM do that autonomously? I don't think the non-agent models could see what they were doing, and the agents aren't optimized for it, but surely it'll be done by the end of the year.
ulyssessword
1mo ago
I don't see a moral difference between different levels of deception.
If you can buy X (a squished Big Mac) after being shown Y (a shiny, perfect Big Mac), then I don't really care if the intermediate step is X' (a squished Big Mac, which will be photoshopped) or Y' (a physically perfect, inedible big mac, which will be faithfully photographed).
I suspect that the image manipulation will become more accepted over time, as features like crowd deletion, de-blinking, and smart panoramas move from specialized desktop applications (eg. photoshop) to simple buttons in a camera.
I took a first-year Computer Science course ten-ish years ago, and at the end the prof said: "If you went back in time 50 years with what you know now, you'd be one of the most knowledgeable Computer Scientists alive."
We were doing simple things like algorithmic complexity, sorting algorithms, linked lists, binary trees, and object-oriented programming (and did conditions, loops, control flow, etc. in the previous class), and...he might not have been exaggerating. A lot of the things we learned were discovered/created in the past 50 years, and they aren't just minor pieces of trivia.
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