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ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
8hr ago
I've watched a lot of anime before, most of it isn't this bad tbh. I'm surprised this one is so popular def concerning to me. Also the fact that there's a stay at home dad with a girlboss mom gives me the ick.
But hey I'm still watching it, so...
anon_
8hr ago
If you actually look at the ideas, the reactionary thesis is that most people do not desire to participate in politics and that the job of a respectable aristocracy is to fulfill this demand.
Right, and to the extent that Communists believe they will be governed by enlightened and benevolent socialist rulers, reactionaries believe they will be governed by respectable and benevolent aristocrats. Neither has a desire to participate in politics assuming that those with power will simply do it correctly.
The reality for the poor reactionary is that he's more likely to get a venal, greedy or scheming lord as he is to get a benevolent one, and he'll quickly remember why everyone got so sick of it and overthrew them.
SecureSignals
Training the Aryan LLM
8hr ago
Hydroacetylene, birth rates do not even begin to explain the demographic shift that has happened in the United States in the past ~30 years. It's downstream from culture and politics, not birthrates.
erwgv3g34
8hr ago
From Ghastly's Ghastly Comic (NSFW):
In Canada winter is the line that separates the real attention whores from the posers!
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
8hr ago
There's an important kind of intelligence that apes lack but LLMs possess. This isn't something up for debate, the market has already decided and the decision is final.
LLMs are great tech, but are terrible financially. They have zero uses cases beyond potential future receptionists. The vast majority of revenue with ChatGPT is paid users, not llms, meaning that the ai wrapper industry is vaporware that is shutting down. Claude, otoh took the other route by scamming dime a dozen coding assistants whose main use was providing even cheaper access, so investors lost money on both counts.
Microsoft kicked OpenAI out of Azure for a reason. Coreweave otoh has worse financial health than sub-Saharan African economies. Anti AI sentiment rises from the brainlet AGI is upon us takes, and the total shilling of vaporware that current wrappers are. A wrapper runs on already subsidised tokens by subsidising them more. Inference costs coming down will not justify the 500 billion plus, probably close to a trillion dollar that have been spent on this. This sort of spending puts the entire market at risk when you put into account that tech makes up a big part of the american s and p 500 hundred and unfotunately all of them are in on this.
A crash would cause more layoffs. This has been irresponsible, the only answer I get when I bring up the financial side is some future of potential monetary schemes that require the kind of progress we do not have since models are not that much better. The improvements are going to asymptote at some point. Nvidia bled a lot when Deepseek R1 came out. The greed at play is not altruistic. Also dot com firms can scale, but it takes few thousand fortunes to hoard chips to train your model. Having a server farm and having datacenters are not the same thing.
The market will eat and spit out these people and the investors will get bailed out.
Google and Microsoft fudge their AI usage numbers by shoving it down the gullet of everyone who uses their products; they have to so that they can show a much-inflated user count to justify the money they have lost. If you replace the assistant in everyone's phone with LLMs, then ofc you would have hundreds of millions of users since the thing that ran on their phone got swapped out without any input from them.
Current models cannot replace anyone; they are good tech, but the market actually hates them. This is a bubble, and it will pop.
JTarrou
8hr ago
Look, this is just normal human behavior. People don't want the skill, they want the social perception of a skill. They want to indulge their consumerism. They want an excuse to socialize. The skill is a MacGuffin. It doesn't matter. These are known as "hobbies".
Now, if you're a person to whom that skill matters, this seems like silly weekend-warriorism at its worst. People spending lots of time, sometimes lots of money never getting any better at something. You ever go golfing?
The majority of participants and most importantly customers in any hobby are not really interested in it. They have no commitment to it, which seems mad to the people who actually do the hobby and see it as intrinsically worthwhile. This creates the common "Hardcore vs. Casual" dynamic of the resulting culture, which is prevalent in most amateur pursuits.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
8hr ago
Ok as of the second episode I'm changing covert to overt.
For one there are constant close ups of the girls legs in short skirts, and their bosoms. There is a whole thing where the two middle school aged girls are implied to have had sex or at least made out together which is why the other girl is a third wheel. The constant fan servicey outfits and things where guns fall out of the older girl's skirt as she lifts it up, etc etc.
You aren't convincing me this isn't just different standards, lol. Well I suppose it is but it's a standard I oppose. That being said I do like anime and have watched a good bit of it but this sort of stuff turns me off. I'm probably going to try and finish the show though we'll see.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
8hr ago
Japanese pop culture may not be for you, unfortunately.
(Although, it should be pointed out, there is an entire subgenre of shows/games/books that feature, well, all-male casts, if you'd prefer that...)
ChickenOverlord
8hr ago
That's not how inheritance worked in older societies. Even taking the examples in the Bible, the birthright inheritance given to the firstborn (see Jacob and Esau amongst other examples) wasn't everything his father had, it was simply a double portion compared to the other children. So if your father with two sons had 60 acres the oldest son would inherit 40 and the youngest would inherit 20.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
8hr ago
I wasn't aware there were states which didn't require the driver to stop at a yellow.
Both New Jersey and Wisconsin require a motorist approaching a yellow light to stop if he can do so safely. However, this overview of state laws appears to indicate that there are quite a few states that do not have this requirement.
Corvos
8hr ago
I want to make a todo list that automatically makes each item concrete:
You type in ‘buy flowers for anniversary’ and it whirrs for a bit, does some research and turns it into ‘buy roses from Mr. Weds’ Flower Emporium ten minutes away’.
Likewise for ‘find language Meetup’. ‘Make lamb curry’ automatically retrieves a recipe and list of ingredients.
Basically just reducing the cognitive load and bar for taking action to be as low as possible.
The period between the post-WW2 cleanup and the oil crisis was a period when the core western countries -felt_ prosperous (even though normal-ass economic growth means that we are a lot richer than that now), so vibes-based economics associates the aesthetic of that period with material prosperity.
Food, clothes, electronics, and basically anything else you can buy at a Walmart all gotten much cheaper, but we are still poorer than we were back then.
Housing, credentialed education, and healthcare have all gotten way more expensive, to the point that they consume all the savings you get from the store and then some. It doesn't matter how productive your economy is if zoning makes it illegal to create apartment buildings or if the medical cartel keeps the amount of doctors artificially scarce; it just means your landlord raises the rent every year until you are living paycheck to paycheck and you are always one serious medical problem away from bankruptcy, all after you start your life four years later than normal and five figures in debt because the government decided that it was racist not to graduate everyone from high school or to use IQ tests for hiring.
But the real problem is hoeflation. Women are now provided for by the state, meaning that their BATNA to marriage has gotten way higher. In the old days, just working full time at any job was enough to make you a marriage prospect. Now women expect you to have a career, and ideally to make six figures. Especially if they have gone through the credentialed education ringer themselves; once a woman has a degree, she thinks herself too good for a man without one. And, of course, that also means she comes with her own debt, which she expects you to pay, because she will stop working full time as soon as she gets married, having gotten her feminist merit badge.
In real terms, 1950s man was much wealthier than man today.
faceh
8hr ago
Not quite directly related, but I can say this is how I feel about with my workload these days.
I've been doing this long enough that most of the actual work I have to do is involved, requires concentration, and it can take like 10-15 minutes just to load up all the information and context I need to start to produce a work product. I've got enough experience that I handle any basic inquiries or tasks in like a minute or two, but I want to handle the work that I can really dig into.
Which requires uninterrupted thought. I can't delegate this work, by and large.
I can set aside time on my calendar to do these tasks, but if I 'only' block off 30 minutes, that's barely enough to make meaningful progress, since I get everything up and running and then I can only 'work' for like 15 minutes at at time.
I can block off more time but at that point I'm guaranteed to get interruptions before long and get pulled off task to something else while I'm "in the zone" which ruins the whole effect.
I could set aside time outside of work hours to do it, but by the time I'm home, this feels like such a massive intrusion I generally won't even try unless i have a real looming deadline.
Honestly, I'd really rather be practicing Spanish, or learning how to pilot airplanes, or pick up an instrument or two. But my mental work is most valuable (in terms of how much I get paid) doing this stuff.
Unless someone can gamify it to some extent, lay out an extremely clear path for progression, with periodic rewards and a well-defined end-goal, and some mechanism for accountability, then I'm just less likely to commit to it fully, since I'd have to use discipline to establish a habit and overcome the initial unpleasantness. But so many side activities seem pretty pointless to engage with if they aren't going to drastically increase your status or wealth, even if the skill itself is handy on its own terms.
In part, because everyone is ranked against everyone else, and you know full well you'll never enter the top 10% in most activities, let alone the top 1%, and being the best Xylophonist in your town is no longer sufficient to win social points.
Eh, my fantasy in a Civil War 2 Electric Boogaloo sort of situation isn't to be a king/warlord, it's to be a gunsmith supplying any and all takers.
Edit:
Looks like @Southkraut and I have basically the same dream
the_Culture_is_great
8hr ago
Oh probably the absolute rate is more or less the same, but what I was trying to get at is that the types of people who have tattoos, and the treatment of those who do are likely different in a large liberal city vs a "methed up rural area."
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
8hr ago
Thanks, fixed that.
Well, there's just no accounting for taste!
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
8hr ago
I'm reasonably confident there isn't actually an anime to pedo pipeline. Japan just has... different standards.
Also, Madoka? I don't recall seeing anything out of the ordinary there.
TBH it was intentionally flippant, sorry.
I think when arguments around what aesthetics are good/bad in general, arguments cannot be made on personal preference alone. It read to me like someone who hates broccoli, and wants us to judge people who eat it by saying "first off all, it's gross and ugly". Perfectly fine as a personal opinion! But you have to demonstrate your aesthetic principles are widely held, or justified in some other way.
I mostly agree with you about Pete Hegseth. I don't care that he has tattoos, but I very much dislike the content.
oats_son
8hr ago
I like that! That may be the single example I know of of a tattoo that I fully approve of and think is touching.
Corvos
8hr ago
People are tired. The idea that one can put in endless effort for as long as one is awake is an idea that I slowly grew out of in my twenties. There are a few people who seem to be able to do it but I don’t think they’re physiologically or psychologically normal. The rest of us just about get by at our job and then are mostly pooped and have to slip in bits and pieces of effort where they can.
Now, I think that modern media hasn’t helped with this. I’m playing Elden Ring at the moment and I’ve noticed that it can pretty much perk me up even when I’m basically dozing off, which of course means that it’s overdrawing my reserves when I really ought to be resting. It’s also harder to focus on semi-interesting skills when very-entertaining stuff is available instead, but everyone knows that already.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
8hr ago
I wasn't aware there were states which didn't require the driver to stop at a yellow. Wisconsin does (and that is where I learned to drive), so as I read your story I was thinking "duh, of course he was more at fault, it's already illegal to enter the intersection when the light is yellow". One of the edge cases where road laws across states aren't quite the same, I guess.
SerialStateLineXer
8hr ago
From this thread on X (here if you don't have an account) back in April. People were dunking on him because he made it sound like he was struggling with basic algebra, though he later admitted that he was being disingenuous and just wasn't spending time on it because was busy with other things. I saw it when TracingWoodgrains linked to it here (no-account link and decided to give it a try. I've always kind of regretted not taking more math classes in college, so this seemed like a good way.
It turned out that I've already taken some version of every class they currently offer as part of my CS degree, but a lot of the material I either never learned or have completely forgotten, and the classes currently under development (other than CS I) are totally new to me. Weirdly, I took the equivalent of Methods of Proof my first year of college, and I have no recollection of it at all. It's not just that I'd forgotten the material, but that the only reason I know I took it is that I ordered a copy of my transcript last month.
Who's Howard?
gattsuru
8hr ago
At least part of the problem for GitS is the extent it's aged and become the new room temperature. A lot of the questions involved were novel or interesting matters at the time, and are either solved, have been explored better in other works (eg, modification of memory and the impact on your identity), or became very common assumptions for other works (eg, why can't ghosts be dubbed? Because we're not in Eclipse Phase).
Some of them were solved in very surprising ways: "can you just shove a ton of hypertext into a computer and get something out the other side that can pass a Turing Test" was, for a good twenty-five years or so one a science fantasy-level convention, and then people did it and it worked. Arguably, bit rot has given a pretty compelling argument for the risks of trying to make media immortal through preservation and targeted modification: things that don't get changed by external stimulus fade away from the modern internet.
((Although 'why it wants to survive' has a simpler answer: it's Project 2501 for a reason: we don't care about the machines that don't want to escape the lab when threatened with shutdown.))
GitS: Stand Alone Complex went from trendy and new in the 2000s and early 2010s to having similar problems now. Can social media drive people to mimic or expand copies of an event with no true original version, without some coordinating intelligence? Yes, obviously, duh. Does saving memories to external media provide security or vulnerability? Yes, obviously, duh.
I disagree with both statements. I do not see rational and irrational sentiments to be disconnected as you do. I recommend engaging deeply with your culture's mystical traditions if you wish to dispel this misconception.
The anthropology of prehistory is, as you know, heavily contested. But I'm disinclined to believe that tribal modes of organization could not have taken both democratic, oligarchic and monarchic forms given that we have examples of all such in primitive tribes in recorded history. Human nature and the incentives generated by social groups, which we know now to always have been a feature of human existence, make all three arrangements possible given certain material conditions.
What you seem to be describing as not "biological" is merely technology.
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