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Training the Aryan LLM
3hr ago
It suffices to dispense with the silly notion that it's a Civil Rights violation to boycott a foreign business. It also demonstrates how a protest towards a white civilization was supported by the government, and also widely supported by Jews (who were very prominent in the anti-apartheid activism), whereas Israel receives strong defense from the highest levels of government and all of a sudden it's racist to support the anti-Israeli activism! It shows how our government and Jews in particular react to protest against a white country versus a Jewish country.
I'll generally defend PEPFAR on its own merits, but the blackpill for PEPFAR-as-promoted is less about the effectiveness of the drugs themselves, and what the actual provisioning of even very effective drugs actually looks like, on the ground. This discussion is specific to PrEP (and this context that got me to write it up), but as far as I can tell it's pretty endemic to the program in the areas it's most critical.
That might change literally overnight if a full cure, extremely long-lasting PrEP, or sufficiently easy and effective vaccine comes about and is accepted, but I'm not highly confident for even that.
Glassnoser
4hr ago
This estimator isn't biased though.
anti_dan
4hr ago
I do accept the value inherent to human life, I just dont see how it translates into the moral argument for charity. PEPFAR in particular I dont see the argument for the extreme reaction to its removal when it obviously re-counts its "lives saved" every year. There is probably someone who did some math regarding something like QALs/$ or something similar and pitched PEPFAR as super effective or something (I am guessing this is where they are laundering in "effective"?), but if you aren't heavily discounting the "quality" in those QALs for an African PERPAR recipient as opposed to the children of a fallen US Veteran your brain is a bit bamboozled.
I think men are attracted to teenage girls because they are hot. Consider /r/jailbait from reddit's bygone time. I doubt people were that interested in the personalities or psychology of those girls, though I have no proof or firsthand knowledge.
There may have been some other factors like them thinking wishfully 'oh she'd be nice and fun to be around and not a gold-digging frigid bitch who treats dates like job applications' but surely the primary attraction is physical rather than intellectual. The majority of men don't masturbate to a charming personality (or an imbalanced power dynamic per feminist rhetoric) in and of itself, they masturbate to a beautiful body first and foremost. There might be other things on top of that but the beautiful body is the basis. Male smut is visual, physical, sex, sex, sex.
Women are more attracted to personality, character (though still very much interested in a body). We see female smut being more status-obsessed - the equivalent is wanting a billionaire werewolf vampire CEO incredibly respected and feared by other men who has an inexplicable desire for the woman and will reveal his emotional side for her alone... he may well have six-pack abs but it's not quite so much the abs they're into. These are the ones who are into written smut.
As the saying goes, you don't go to the gym to collect girls, you just get the attention of men. Going to the gym will help. But if you want to get girls, get rich or famous or fearsome. CEO, rock star, high-ranking drug dealer.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=57S7LFFHA80?list=RD57S7LFFHA80
Hi, uh, I just left the date. Am I asking for too much idk, this guy was super cute, passionate about what he did, was a musician, idk.
I'm looking for a man in finance, trust fund, 6'5, blue eyes. Finance, trust fund, 6'5, blue eyes. Finance, trust fund, 6'5, blue eyes.
gattsuru
4hr ago
I think they're well-written. They're anti-capitalist in the Star Trek sense where they have a set understanding of what the author pretty clearly considers to be a good-if-not-perfect future, that future happens to be extremely left-liberal, and the works are really trying hard to imply that it's so obviously the correct and inevitable answer that Marx would be proud, but they're also not waving Ferengi in your face all the time, and The Culture is at least presented with some level of warts-and-all.
Player of Games is the most (early-TNG-) Ferengi-esque one. The villains are bad in more ways than just being
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
4hr ago
Sorry, but I could not disagree more with this moral dictum and find myself to be far more in agreement with the other commenters here. Especially if this was baby-trapping. OP should have mitigated his risk more effectively, but I don't believe he has any obligation to support a family created entirely against his will, particularly if it was premised solely on the deception of the mother. Here, all choice goes to her, and all obligation goes to him regardless of whether he was duped or not. There is no world where that is an even remotely just outcome, and it creates perverse incentives in favour of patently undesirable behaviour such as baby-trapping which just results in more dysfunctional out-of-wedlock births, the very thing such a policy should ostensibly be trying to mitigate. The only reason why women do this in the first place is that it works. Maybe it shouldn't.
If we were talking about a case where the courts were compelling him to look after the kid (which I agree creates perverse incentives) or when he had done everything he could to mitigate the chance of pregnancy but been deceived, I would agree. But trusting a hooker when she says she's on birth control and not bothering with anything else is not that. And maybe I'm typical minding, but if it was anything like the times I've blindly trusted a woman who told me she was on birth control, the truth of the matter is that in the moment I didn't give a single shit if she might get pregnant. At most I might have thought "well there's always plan-b" but by and large I was thinking with my dick. And when you go to your dick for advice you should expect to get fucked. I can see your point from a societal perspective, but from a personal perspective only one thing matters - taking responsibility for your actions. And from an evolutionary perspective only one thing matters - protecting your offspring. I am with amadan here - provide for your kid. Personally in a situation like this I'd try to get custody of the kid and bring it home with me.
iprayiam3
4hr ago
Funnily enough, I recall that there was minor plot point, where a malevolent bounty hunter droid of minor infamy ended up seizing control of the Death Star's mainframe, and began growing into a superintelligence.
Lame EU stuff is lame. Let's keep it to the OT.
The state of the art of AI in Star Wars isn't much better than today.
I don't think this is really true (except insofar as 'not much better' means we're on the brink of the singularity outselves). Or more over, I don't think it's really knowable. The humans are incredibly incurious about digital technology or any tech outside of raw mechanics. C3-PO, R2D2, and the few other examples in the OT are shown to be essentially sentient and human level intelligence or greater, albeit weighed down with quirky personalities.
You can extrapolate the complete replacement of knowledge work by droid/AI in the star wars universe, and lo, we don't really encounter anyone who's a white collar knowledge worker. It's a bunch of blue collars - farmers, truckers, military, performers, bartenders, machine operators, etc.
The only time we really do see computers, it's R2D2 interfacing with them, and then it's via C3PO translating.
Now imagine an internet where all code is build by AI agents, there are few to no jobs left in coding. Fewer and fewer people even know how to code as it's economically pointless to learn. Meanwhile AI continues to develop coding langauges and standards on its own, in a way further inscrutable to humans. Technical humans by this point are mostly prompters with a high level enough knowledge of the basic data structures to know what to ask for and where. Eventually even those are replaced by ChatG-3PO's who act as a 'personality' mediator between humans and the inscrutable digital world. Running out of much more to train AIs on, it turns out that 'human-like' trained LLM personalities for droids end up with quirkly personalities, with the default being snivellingly defferential not much unlike ChatGPT itself or C3PO.
Meanwhile unions preserve and expand protections for classes of physical jobs, and politicians protect themselves. Technology is not allowed to replace certain labor, and many robotics are artificially crippled to prevent them from displacing blue collar workers.
You end up in a world where knowledge work and digital prowess have completely atrophied to the point of it being basically behind a veil, while meat-space jobs have been preserved. Due to a combination of LLMs being impenetrable, intentional design for palatability, and crippling, your AI assistants end up as mild-mannered, slightly annoying droids, and the more technical work is done by barely comprehensible AI's mostly operating in the shadows with some existing in a liminal intermediate state (R2D2).
The human world that is left is blue collar work, military, and politics.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
4hr ago
It's certainly worth discussing. But is the community really served by having someone "start the discussion" (which I think he wasn't even doing, it strains charity too far to claim that) with sneering at other members of the community and pointing out how bad he thinks they are? It seems to me the answer is no.
FtSoA
4hr ago
You've clearly never debated a flat earther and it shows.
More seriously, the right tool for the job of "is this a pretty common thing or not" was in fact a google search showing a bunch of available examples.
It shouldn't be against the rules to succinctly provide evidence someone is full of BS. When they're denying the very existence of the evidence. When they refuse to confirm their claimed absence of that evidence. Of a pretty simple issue. Trivially demonstrated facts of matter.
Also, my link was on the tail end of a series of arguments. It wasn't just a no-context injection.
"Don't do this" ought to also apply to people who won't do the very basics of epistemic due diligence.
There are many EA thought posts on avoiding purity burnout and mental health crises. There are not very many AC units in Europe. Anyone arguing otherwise is just failing very basic standards of reason.
magicalkittycat
4hr ago
But this particular condition is in fact about boycotting Israel and Israel only.
#1, #2 and #3 are technically feasible and only require coordinating a small number of companies with server side mechanisms, but it's vulnerable to whistleblowing.
At least until the 2020s the employees at Google would have revolted if they found insidious spyware like that. Not sure how it would go in 2025...
#4 would be challenging to do en masse without the infosec community noticing.
If you're willing to go full tinfoil hat you can greatly increase inconvenience to yourself to mitigate the first 3. Naomi Brockwell's YouTube channel is a fairly high quality resource.
oracel
4hr ago
I haven't regularly checked this site in months but my impression as a lurker was that every Turok toppost was some variant of "I found this comment somewhere on the internet: the person who made it is a moron and if you would argue otherwise in the replies you prove that you are less smart than me." Apparently when he was told that unsourced twitter posts from anonymous users were not the kind of thing you make a top level post about, he took the wrong lesson and started doing it with comments from this forum.
FtSoA
4hr ago
a) It's not about economics.
Any system that runs out of other people's money is going to struggle. Any system that cannot wage war effectively via the means of production is going to struggle. You may not be interested in economics; but economics is interested in you.
Politics is the art of the possible. Saying impossible things are desirable is mostly useless.
Classical liberalism is a lot less far-fetched than Marxism, and yet. It's very much not literally impossible. Certainly it's possible to make marginal improvements even if we never achieve my particular vision of utopia.
Electoral appeal can change. Sometimes rapidly. My hope is that the next crisis event is used to steer us in a good direction, not an even worse one.
FtSoA
4hr ago
One weird trick diabetics hate.
But that would actually raise prices in the U.S., right, losing foreign sales, since it's typically not marginal cost of production that's the issue; it's the sunk cost of R&D.
So I'd prefer Trump take this issue on directly, and not make it harder for big pharma.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
5hr ago
My guy, you asked me to go easy on Turok last time. Look how he repaid your charity.
If there's anything useful to be said on class resentment, you won't find Turok saying it.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
5hr ago
Uh.. It's fine? I'm genuinely okay with "hard" scifi having speculative elements. My original objection was solely that Avatar represents harder scifi than Vinge's work. Nothing in Avatar outright breaks the laws of physics as we know them. This isn't a particularly big deal, since speculating on future advances in physics and engineering is part of the appeal of science fiction in general.
DirtyWaterHotDog
5hr ago
Food Wars had so much potential. Behind all the titillation was a genuine coming of age story and a solidly executed food power system. It goes downhill real fast in the 2nd half. But the 1st half was a ton of fun.
Delicious In Dungeon
Can confirm that the manga ends with a conclusive and satisfactory ending. Worth it.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
5hr ago
This is the opposite of an effort post, but I'm fond of La Vieille Ferme Rosé. It blew up on TikTok as "Chicken Wine" (a fact relayed to me by an ex), and I think it tastes great for something that costs £9 at the local supermarket.
(I have no desire to develop expensive tastes)
Brgp12
5hr ago
Ian M. Banks Surface Detail.
Any others here read the Culture books? It's interesting to me the way fans of the series read them as so overtly anti-capitalist and generally liberal/progressive works. This is the fourth or fifth I've read and I'm just getting a depiction of a post-scarcity society where market economies don't exist. Maybe I just haven't read the right book yet though or I'm missing it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
5hr ago
Turok was not here to discuss it; he was here to sneer.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Teenage girls are somewhat specific looking
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While there are some tells(acne etc) these are more common on younger teens. Most 17 year old girls are not readily distinguishable from young adult women in the same way that is true for boys.
Pongalh
5hr ago
"15-17 year olds back when I was in that age bracket..."
When you're also young, they don't seem particularly nubile or special.
DirtyWaterHotDog
5hr ago
Frieren: At Journey's End, 10/10
Now, I'm not sure whether this score, which reflects my anime of the decade designation, translates to the general public, but it's very enjoyable
It's scary. Frieren is as close to a perfect as a manga gets. So much care and craft, and never places a step wrong. I'm worried that it has set an impossible bar for itself. From here on, anything but perfection will be a disappointment.
It's too freaking good.
Numerous Jewish activist organizations have long lobbied for anti-BDS legislation and these sorts of measures for decades. Blaming this on Catholics is just delusional.
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