domain:theintrinsicperspective.com
In our previous conversation, Rov dismissed my argument saying if there was a conspiracy, the entire DOJ would have to be in on it. Isn't arguing for this level of incompetence effectively arguing that no, you just have to get the guy on the top, and the rest of the apparatus will be happy to bumble along, no matter how absurd their decisions are?
thejdizzler
14m ago
Is there anywhere to see which pages actually link to your substack posts?
You can't build a Constitutional test that is just your imagination of what some hypothetical people might think.
All laws are going to require some amount of common sense to apply. "What do (sincere) people think" is an inherent part of having laws.
People have gotten this stupid idea in their brain that the spending clause authorizes literally any spending that the government chooses to do.
If you think that the government shouldn't be funding media anyway, then ask the question on a more general level: Could the government claim that anything whatsoever counts as the press, and then apply freedom of the press to it? Could it do so for religion or speech, for that matter? If the government could not apply those to anything whatsoever, why wouldn't similar reasoning prevent them from considering the Price Force to be like an army or navy?
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
21m ago
I saw a post on X saying there’s a subgroup of elder right wing millennials raising children as unreliant on digital consumer tech as possible with the implicit goal of preparing them for Butlerian Jihad.
I laughed aloud when I saw that, I hadn’t thought of it exactly that way but I instantly recognized it as right. As far as I know from my peer group growing up I’m only one of 15% of them that currently has multiple children, and of that 15% I’m clearly in the top 5% or so of how anti-tech I am and I’m obviously the most right wing.
My children don’t have tablets, or smartphones, tv time is very limited and monitored with an eye towards classic movies and long form YouTube content that’s purposely less bombastic. The only time they play video games is when we are all together and we play couch party games, and we have one laptop that is mostly used for my work. There’s no unsupervised internet access whatsoever. My eldest just got a basic music play that they have their own restricted Spotify account on.
They mostly draw and read from a big library, play imagination games and build things. We hike regularly, and spend lots of time outdoors in rivers and mountains and the beach.
It’s not necessarily a reactionary thing; really for me the goal is helping prepare them for an increasingly hostile environment by helping them learn to love being human, love their bodies, tolerate boredom, generate their own fun, act without being prompted, etc, etc, etc. they’ll need it.
gattsuru
24m ago
The Texas law hydroacetylene is mentioning is Texas HB1181, which puts some potentially high fines on commercial websites that provide more than 1/3 material that is "harmful to minors" and don't have age verification processes (or who don't put certain notices, though that prong is still on hold and unlikely to survive legal scrutiny). While there's some vagueness to how the math happens, the actual definition of 'harmful to minors' is pretty explicitly limited to nudity and sexual acts.
I don't like the law, and I am skeptical both in the "I don't think a sixteen-year-old is going to be hurt by seeing a boob" sense and "I'm not willing to burn down the commons over it" sense. It's certainly driven some censorship. But I don't think it's responsible for the examples people are using here.
Itchio readded search and recommendations for NSFW games that had been deindexed (if they are set as free). As far as I can tell, only a small number of games were completely removed from the service, but they've stayed removed for new purchase (or download):
TowardsPanna
27m ago
Getting good returns comes from timing the market as well as picking the right stocks/assets. You need to have the patience to wait for some panic like we got on August 5th 2024 and April 7th 2025. Then you must have the balls to pull the trigger and go in hard, when it feels frightening and wrong to do so.
If you want guaranteed mediocrity in return for no thinking, just do dollar cost averaging into the index.
People will parrot "time in the market beats timing the market" and "nearly everyone who picks individual stocks underperform the market", and that may be true, but that's because most people included in the stats don't have a clue what they're doing, and/or can't override their instincts for the unnatural behavior of investing.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
29m ago
Now that makes me wonder why more doctors aren't fat and/or drunk. Everything you've said about attorneys fits our bill. Maybe we're more health conscious (and I hope we are), maybe we run around more, or maybe we just sleep better at night from a clean conscience.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
34m ago
I'm grateful for Substack's ability to show me the sources of traffic. As I've previously mentioned, it keyed me in to the fact that Gwern himself had archived me. I was quite pleased to see a few people independently share my posts on HN too.
But, sometimes it raises more questions than it answers. Why are my posts being shared via the Steam forums? Why Slack? Who is using their company comms or a gaming website to talk about anything I've written?? I wish I knew, but it's a mystery that I'm unlikely to solve. I even saw Localhost:1881 in there, which I strongly suspect shouldn't be sending me any traffic.
After writing the above, I went back to my most popular article, the one about the effects of psilocybin on depression. Substack has 800 views from LinkedIn, 15 from Microsoft Office, 2 from the Brave browser (?).
I hope someone can tell me what the fuck is going on here.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
39m ago
Recently, I have been reminded why so many lawyers are fat, drunks, or both. There are just too many days where the stress levels are atrocious, and as if dealing with clients/courts/etc. aren't bad enough, then adding in training and supervising other attorneys means there are constant small fires that need attention.
MaximumCuddles
The world-spirit texting on the toilet
41m ago
”We’ve won, but at what cost?”
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
42m ago
I will post a review of Twin Peaks season 1 this Friday. Please do not post spoilers, even hidden ones.
Looking forward to it. TP, Fire Walk With Me, and then The Return is an incredible ride.
hydroacetylene
49m ago
Texas is simply the largest state which requires ID verification to access a porn site- this de facto blocks NSFW domains in Texas, supposedly(I’m unwilling to check).
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
51m ago
It never once seemed to occur to him, or to anyone on the team save Villafaña, that the computers could contain evidence that would strengthen their negotiating position. It certainly never occurred to him that they could contain evidence that would strengthen their case to the point that he'd be able to ditch the negotiations and proceed with the indictment. It was also around this time that the FBI became aware that Epstein had photographed an underage girl at his home in New York. It was clear from the arrangement of the cameras that they would have captured sexual activity inside the Florida house. Most child predators possess significant amounts of child pornography. Had prosecutors discovered evidence that Epstein had transmitted images of underage girls between New York and Florida, it would have obliterated any Federal nexus question the defense threw at them.
This is the part that boggles my mind. Just incredible incompetence not to seize and search the computers. The kind of mistake a first-year prosecutor would make. And to be clear, I think it was incredible incompetence, not a conspiracy.
Also true with those same (or at least potentially the same) computer items resurfacing in NY when his apartment was searched and the FBI failing to secure them.
hydroacetylene
51m ago
Uh, the victim that originally came to the law’s attention was 15- everyone knew that epstein’s victims were younger than 18.
That being said, thé law doesn’t get too worked up about Randy the trucker’s activities with teenaged prostitutes either.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
57m ago
No. This is Frederick Forsyth novel stuff.
The most likely outcome from doing so would be that the weird letter would be reported to the police/fbi/whoever.
Corvos
59m ago
Your average environmentalist is a middle class college kid with an iPhone. They aren't giving up much of anything except maybe biking more and eating less meat.
The comment I've heard several times from middle class environmentalist friends is, "Of course, people are going to have to stop doing [thing I don't do]". Biking and recycling make them feel that they've made their sacrifices and they can happily start requiring things from other people.
ControlsFreak
1hr ago
No, it's an argument "people don't think that".
Facts not in evidence. Especially facts from our hypothetical universe. You can't build a Constitutional test that is just your imagination of what some hypothetical people might think. I want to know what the Constitution says. I happen to think that something like textualism + original public meaning is approximately right. I think a school of Constitutional interpretation that is "I imagined in my head what I think some people I imagined might think in a hypothetical" is part of how we've gotten into this mess, because it's much easier to change people's imaginations than it is to change the Constitution.
The government can spend money
This is precisely the point of why I started this all the way back here. People have gotten this stupid idea in their brain that the spending clause authorizes literally any spending that the government chooses to do. This is just simply not true. There are, indeed, precedents to this effect already. My point is that people need to be real about this.
Moreover, this undercuts literally everything else you've argued. The Price Force must also be Constitutional, literally the opposite of the thing you've just been arguing, because "that's just the government spending money". You are literally now embodying the worst position that must be eliminated.
Consider that the government actually has things like the Voice of America, subsidies to NPR, etc.
Precisely. The point of this whole entire chain of comments, from the very beginning, was to get people back on track to realize that all sorts of stuff like that are not acceptable. As I wrote:
You start here [with the Air Force] specifically because it is one of the most absurd places, where technically-proper formalism has not been followed, but everyone [like you] gives in and shrugs their shoulders because they prefer power instead. Nobody will have any real argument against formalizing the Constitutionality of the Air Force, either, so it'll probably get done. And that sends a message, giving you political cover. "Now that everyone has agreed that it's important to strictly follow the Constitution and formally authorize any deviations from its very limited grant of power, I'm going to start shutting everything down that isn't properly authorized unless you can get sufficient supermajorities to save it."
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1hr ago
Did you read the effortpost? At this time Epstein's known victims were 18+ish girls who willingly sought him out to fuck him for money. He doesn't sound like a good person but I can see how it might be hard to get the legal system fully fired up over this. Seemed like the feds couldn't even convince themselves to get involved, understandably.
I've only skimmed so far. If this is the case, what was his re-prosecution based on? How was Maxwell sentenced to 20 years? Was she railroaded?
Magusoflight
1hr ago
Over a long enough time horizon all problems are self-solving, the question is what do we do in the meantime
Jiro
1hr ago
This is nothing but an argument from personal incredulity.
No, it's an argument "people don't think that". It is possible to observe people and draw conclusions about what they might think. "People don't think this" isn't an argument from personal incredulity.
No.
Yes. The government can spend money on lots and lots of things. Consider that the government actually has things like the Voice of America, subsidies to NPR, etc. The Price Press isn't all that different from that.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
1hr ago
I was able to hit a pr workwise clocking in 7.5 hours yesterday and 7 today. My biological clock is ticking and I am certain that I can do 8-9 hours daily of focused programming work, well 7 something and the remaining for math. So far, I have only been getting humbled in that I learn something, it quickly becomes apparent that I need to learn more and I try again; my progress has been slower and much more painful than I ever expected. Yet, this is the first time in my life I have worked this much at any level of consistency.
Today, like yesterday, I am too tired to work and just do not care about what is happening in the world, rather, things beyond my own life and my family, plus some friends. My time on twitter is nearly zero, I only open up Hacker News because I am on their telegram channel and since starting Twin Peaks, I have been using tv as my daily hour of leisure, since poor time management leaves me with not a lot of spare time before I sleep by 11 pm.
Many here may remember me from my rambling, incoherent updates from the past. I am a few weeks away from finishing off the entire python sequence on boot.dev, I will start C after that and finally do go after cleaning up data structures there. My mentor suggested this route and I will follow it through no matter what. So I do not have a weeping update like I did once. My sabbatical may take a few more months, but I will not stop or change things in the middle since that is how I fucked my life up two years ago.
On the workout side, I need to eat and sleep more. I kept missing days for the past few weeks; the worst I can do is quit or get injured. Getting humbled regularly has many benefits. I nitpicked people a lot to feel better, I never nitpick anyone. I mean, a lot of this was driven by Luke Smith's short blogpost on this. Life is short, I was told here to derive satisfaction from the stuff I am doing now, it took me 5 years to get the memo. I still sometimes remember my past life, all the opportunities I lost, the occasional fond memories, the dread of ending up the same, stuck in the same limbo I got into a decade ago. But I know things can change. I cannot appreciate any amount of progress, despite having done more than I ever did in my entire life, since I have so much more that I want to do, and whatever little I have done seems smaller than a statistical error. I have gotten to a point in life where I have less than zero confidence in any of my abilities, its not ideal, I was always overconfident, and life is better that way. Maybe never doing anything helped me cope with that, perhaps.
Frankly, I don't care about feeling good about what I do, I just want to do more and git gud for real. Anyhow, I will go back and finish off the first episode of season 2 of Twin Peaks and my dinner that I paused to finish my math for the day. If what I wrote seems incoherent, then do let me know. I am too tired to think properly, and I like it for a change. I will post a review of Twin Peaks season 1 this Friday. Please do not post spoilers, even hidden ones. My work setup is also slicker as I have nvim running the kickstart stuff TJ Devries works on, it feels like a breeze even though I only know 10 commands, including exiting and splitting panels lol. I hope I post another update after a few months, and it's better than this one. I also realised that I pee like 20 times a day, not sure if it's from working too much, drinking too much water or what. See ya!
5434a
1hr ago
many Western environmentalists are only tooting the horn about climate change as a convenient pretext to instate global communism
I started drafting a top level post last week touching on a related trend but I didn't have enough to round it out. I still don't really, but I think there's something in there. Anyway, last week I saw a poster for an Alternative Pride March in my city. My CW radar was pinged, I looked it up and found out that it's explicitly Marxist ("Pride without cops or corporations!" etc). Events under the same banner are being organised in other cities suggesting it's unlikely to be a grass roots movement.
So now the social acceptance and establishment endorsement of LGBT is... bad? That doesn't seem convincing.
What I think is happening is that Marxists prey on these fringe movements. It's not that LGBT and environmentalists are eager for Communism. I think many of them are sincere that what they want is no more than reasonable policies addressing their defined political interest (gay marriage, say, or clean rivers). I suspect that Marxists court and enter these movements that are made of what are already soft radicals who are acculturated to being unhappy with an aspect of the status quo and begin efforts to turn them into hard radicals who will become convinced that the status quo has to be disposed of wholesale (our revolution is necessary for the sake of your own cause, Comrade).
That is to say it's not environmentalists who are tooting the climate change horn to instate Communism, nor is it LGBTs, it's Communists. The fact that these movements are already socially accepted gives them cover to expand the agenda because now they can condemn resistance to the veiled Communist ideology as eg ecocidal transphobia.
gattsuru
1hr ago
It's certainly possible; even the bit where the Texas government swears in court that they won't bring these charges against those companies runs into the trouble where the Texas government includes Paxton. But it's even more common for people to panic when a country government has been sending nice letters informing them of their legal requirements and mentioning civil fines and criminal penalties.
And I'm skeptical that nVidia lacks lawyers who can read.
((I will admit one silver lining; we might get fewer NordVPN ads. But as tempting as that is, I'd rather keep my principles.))
quiet_NaN
1hr ago
Personally, I would start neither a romantic relationship or therapy with an LLM which is not running on hardware I control.
As the saying goes, if you are not paying (enough) for it, you are not the customer, you are the product.
LLMs are still (I think) in the gold-rush stage where venture capital can substitute for balancing the budget, and it is more important for firms to build a userbase than it is to adequately monetarize that user base. You don't want to be the firm which ran a sustainably-priced service and thus got very little in the way of user interactions when other firms will burn through money just to gain that experience.
So your chats are what you are really paying to the AI company. They will be relentlessly mined to train the next model, but probably also be sold, get stolen or offered to the NYT as part of a settlement.
On the opposite side, I think that for romantic or therapy roles having the latest and greatest model is probably overkill. Unless you are extremely sapiosexual, you are unlikely to care how many of the IOC problems your virtual partner can solve. Assuming that the LLM has read all the relevant books on therapy during training, I think being a good therapist is more about Wisdom than Intelligence. Ideally you would want separate RLHF for that role, though. Virtual assistants are probably a bit too much yes-men. WIS is required both to know when your patient is lying to themselves, and also what the best speed to clear up the lies is. I honestly do not know if recent LLMs have made progress with that, and the Open Weight models might serve as a good-enough basis to run on your gaming rig. Only seeing the text inputs of the patient instead of a video feed might be limiting, though.
Yep, same as it ever was.
I think far enough that AIfus taking over and dooming the human race is not a very serious concern and (as suggested downthread) a self-solving problem at worst; I've made the point before that the most committed gooners I know are still not ready to fully relinquish the flesh, still preferring the real thing whenever possible. I acknowledge that maybe I'm still in the normie tier and have yet to see trve degen commitment where people wear fursuits to work or marry their 2d wives or something, or (more realistically) it's an issue of waifutech still being in the womb
pun not intended, slapdash and jury-rigged, as of yet without serious corpo effort put into optimizing engagement and all the other joys of cyberpunk. So far I believe it's strictly an engineering/marketing problem, overshadowed by a larger testicular deficiency problem, i.e. nobody has the balls to actually stake the claim to the evidently existing niche. (Something something monkey paw, I know, I'm honestly not really looking forward to it.)But even so - humans are status-seeking creatures, as aptly indicated by the first quote; I think even in the face of the wish-granting Orgasmatron, people will cope and adapt. As waifutech arrives in earnest, having a flesh-and-blood gf will be swiftly elevated into an essential status symbol, much like right now actually except magnified tenfold now that your average loser has access to reasonably woman-like substitutes; being a filthy toasterfucker will be as stigmatized, if not more so, than admitting to
jorkin to textowning an onahole or something right now [insert better analogy here]. The thresholds separating normiehood from loserdom will organically shift, as they always do, so that Society™ keeps trucking along. So it goes.More options
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