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hydroacetylene
7hr ago
There was an increase in censorship?
I would, if forced to make the decision, prefer our country's violent nutjobs target insurance company CEOs(who can hire private security, spend time behind secured areas instead of in public[eg going out to eat at country clubs rather than the local steakhouse], etc) than schoolchildren. From a utilitarian perspective I hope Luigi has copycats because it will redirect potential mass shooters. I would, of course, rather that our nutjobs be sane, or failing that confine themselves to long, thought out, and incomprehensible youtube comments, and if they must act out in public it's best they be institutionalized. But none of those things are going to happen.
I haven't noted any wave of censorship, either.
SkookumTree
7hr ago
If you're autistic and not otherwise impressive or a "supercrip" it's rather gross for you to want to be anything other than a celibate and prosocial monk. As for fashion: I suspect that the schlubby straight guy is countersignaling some kind of social grace stuff. At least in some places. At my hospital: the medical students dress better than the residents, who in turn dress better than the attendings. One attending I mistook for a janitor or laborer at first!
popocatepetl
7hr ago
the best argument against Freddie deBoer isn't a bunch of words but just to point out that he suffers from severe mental illness and is desperately trying to shed that reputation
Chat, is this Bulverism?
Textbook case.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
7hr ago
I liked using the stochastic parrot idea as a shorthand for the way most of the public use llms. It gives non-computer savvy people a simple heuristic that greatly elevates their ability to use them. But having read this I feel a bit like Charlie and Mac when the gang wrestles.
Dennis: Can I stop you guys for one second? What you just described, now that just sounds like we are singing about about the lifestyle of an eagle.
Charlie: Yeah.
Mac: Mm-hmm.
Dennis: Well I was under the impression we were presenting ourselves as bird-MEN which, to me, is infinitely cooler than just sort of... being a bird.
SkookumTree
7hr ago
Possible that they're extraordinarily charismatic and kind of...retired from the high-reward, high-stress lifestyle that you get when trying to monetize that. Like a guy with a math degree from Princeton undergrad working the counter at Subway, or the former investment banker working as a chef or cook at a small resort.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
7hr ago
Staff organization stuff, I presume. Charitably, she (it was a woman) was in charge of approving methodological changes but presuming no such change happened, there's no reason to cast blame. That's what's so frustrating, there wasn't any specific allegation like, at all, that they released.
Well, no, that's not quite right: we can look at Trump's statement
Last weeks Job’s Report was RIGGED, just like the numbers prior to the Presidential Election were Rigged. That’s why, in both cases, there was massive, record setting revisions, in favor of the Radical Left Democrats. Those big adjustments were made to cover up, and level out, the FAKE political numbers that were CONCOCTED in order to make a great Republican Success look less stellar!!! I will pick an exceptional replacement. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAGA!
That's the entire allegation. Note that the claim is much stronger than a mere claim that methodologies were changed or that the standards were relaxed or whatever. Nope, "concocted" and "rigged" mean something pretty clear. M-W definition for "concoct" is "devise, fabricate"; Cambridge has "to invent an excuse, explanation, or story in order to deceive someone". In other words, intentional manipulation. This would mean something along the lines of entirely inventing a number, or deliberately skewing your sample, or spontaneously cherry-picking a methodology, or something like that.
If this were true (obviously is not) than you wouldn't be firing the commissioner, you'd be firing normal-level staff too, or doing an actual investigation, right? You might fire the commissioner only if their people-leading skills were poor or their methodological direction was faulty, but that's not the case and not what's alleged.
It's nakedly anti-truth, and that's not a TDS thing to say. No need to defend Trump in every instance, this is just straight up wrong per the info we have access to, as it seems to be a top-down doubt on the numbers rather than a bottom-up, facts based one.
SkookumTree
7hr ago
If you're on the spectrum, a relationship with someone who isn't morbidly obese, works a job, and isn't addicted to hard drugs or an otherwise terrible human being - as in "strangling their 10-year-old daughter over an argument" terrible is about as hard as climbing Everest. Or maybe Denali.
These days, Everest isn't that hard; the big obstacle for most reading this would be funding.
Jiro
7hr ago
I gave you several decisions. "Funding", "authorized" and "the president counts as commander in chief" applies to both the army and navy, so we don't need to decide. "Has a 2 year funding limit" doesn't apply to the navy; it reasonably is because the navy has equipment that needs to be maintained, which would also apply to the Air Force.
At any rate, it doesn't matter. I agree that it's not possible to give a logically tight reason that explains whether the Air Force counts as an army or navy in every single situation. But I wouldn't call this a problem. The fact that you can argue whether it counts as an army or navy, and that there's sometimes no definite answer, doesn't mean that the Constitution allows you to do anything whatsoever with it. "Has to be treated like the army or navy" is still a serious restriction on what it's permitted to be.
thrownaway24e89172
Death is the inevitable and only true freedom
7hr ago
The Army is an army and a land force. The Air Force was originally part of the Army, ergo it too is an army and a land force. I apparently misunderstand your disagreement then, because I thought your classification was due to how its forces work, which was why I brought up the land-based nature of its assets.
SkookumTree
7hr ago
Drug addiction - especially if illegal - is a reasonable thing to have as a dealbreaker. For one, it smells like legal trouble and perhaps felony convictions. The rest aren't, really, unless they get people killed, maimed, or jailed.
SkookumTree
7hr ago
My vote, naturally, is the Hock. If you can't or won't Hock, maybe you can do something equally challenging to prove yourself worthy.
SkookumTree
7hr ago
Being in a relationship with a woman that is able to do basic hygiene, won't get you killed maimed or imprisoned, and can legally consent is not terribly difficult. If you add "not morbidly obese" and "can work a job" it becomes around as hard as Rainier in winter, as part of a team - not insurmountable by any means.
SkookumTree
7hr ago
I mean - yes, being in a relationship as a man is difficult. Mostly because if you are middle-class or better and don't have significant experience in healthcare, law enforcement, social work, or corrections you do NOT see the roughly five percent of people that are in and out of institutions for one reason or another, nor do you develop a sense of gratitude and appreciation for things like "My partner can do basic hygiene" or "Can hold a conversation" or "Can stock shelves at WalMart" or an eye for the kinds of catastrophic failures that can come when people cannot do these things.
If young men became genuinely grateful for partners that weren't likely to get them killed, maimed, or chucked in jail, a lot would change for the better.
Brgp12
7hr ago
Yeah the Culture is definitely a very small-l liberal society. The gender stuff jumps out the most in that sense, but to me it never comes off as making really political points - it just presents a post-scarcity society with super high levels of technology where doing whatever you want all the time is accepted.
To some extent I guess I'm just shoehorning my own beliefs into the books. It never struck me reading Player of Games that the market economy was the fundamentally bad thing about that society. The greed, hate, warlike nature, and as you point out, all the other - isms. But to read that as fundamentally leftist seems to need to to either connect these things to an anti-capitalist message (which I see the fans do a lot) or I guess just have knowledge of Banks intent - otherwise to me it just comes off as a crooked-timber-of-humanity sort of thing. That scene in Player of Games where they go through the slums of the city could just as easily have been some kind of failed socialist nightmare.
I'm guessing Banks was pretty vocal about his liberalism tho. I get annoyed by that stuff sometimes. People were talking about Watchmen here recently - to me Moore has such a silly take on his own character Rorschach!
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
7hr ago
You've got my vote. I hate when people don't pick up dog poop or return shopping carts. Gum would probably annoy me too, except I never see it out in the world.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
7hr ago
What on earth is going on in that screenshot? I know Minecraft mod packs can get wild, but that's new.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7hr ago
I admit personally I'm relatively skeptical of therapy in general. As I understand it, it doesn't really matter what therapeutic method you use the result are about the same, so probably most of the benefit comes from just having someone you can vent to who is empathetic, and won't judge or get bored.
What do you think of as therapy?
From time to time I ask Chat something like "my kid did this to his younger sister, even though he knows it's wrong and we've told him 100x what the consequences will be, what's the standard psychology take for what's going on?" or "my wife seems to get really frustrated by my not bringing the dishes up after I'm done with dinner even though I do it 9/10 times and when I don't it's because I got distracted; we split a ton of the housework so it's not like I loaf all day and she knows it, what are the top theories of mind around why she's losing her shit"
I find it more helpful than not.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
7hr ago
Will he change his mind if someone presents a chess-focused LLM with a high ELO score?
We just had a certain somebody on this forum bring up current LLMs being bad at chess as an example. He even got an AAQC for it (one of the most bemusing ones every awarded).
I do not recall him acknowledging my point where I pointed out that I GPT 3.5 Turbo played at ~1800 ELO, and that the decline was likely because AI engineers made the eminently sensible realization that just about nobody is stupid enough to use LLMs to play chess. If they do, then the LLMs know how to use Stockfish, in the same way they can operate a calculator.
Pongalh
7hr ago
What is the relationship between attacking enthusiastic nerds specifically and trying to shed a reputation for mental illness?
This isn't a great comment, from a moderation perspective, but I'm now going to talk as a general user.
Freddie is seriously mentally ill. He's disclosed his struggle with bipolar disorder (and I seem to recall he had psychotic breaks). However, the views he espoused aren't exclusive to the mentally ill. God knows I would like to pin a diagnosis on someone like Gary Marcus, but being pugnacious and immune to evidence isn't actually in the DSM.
As far as I can tell, he does have 'aesthetic' reasons to object to transhumanist/rationalist viewpoints. He is woefully under-informed about modern AI, but so are most people. It is easy to demolish his arguments without needing to resort to ad hominem attacks. If he starts accusing OAI of wire-tapping his house (like Altman's sister), then this facet of his personality would be worth raising.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
7hr ago
Thank you, I doubt I'll have time to venture that way again since I'm leaving soon, but I'll bookmark those for another trip!
Norf vs Souf is a fractal, recursive pattern, it seems, that applies even to Indian immigrants in Britain.
His behavior makes no damn sense to me, regardless of where we're at. We lived in the same city in India, even if he didn't grow up there. If this is a behavioral difference that generalizes to Scotland vs England, that's news to me.
Was it one of these trains that split in two? I travelled to Canterbury by one once, and even the natives were mildly confused.
I don't think so. Our original train was supposed to get us to Dover directly. This one took a parallel route, stopping at Ramsgate. Wasn't too hard to go to Dover from there, thankfully.
The next time I heard such curses from my wife was a week ago, when we were hiking in 35-degree heat.
Jesus. I would have turned back. Anything north of 27° rules out a hike for me. Even though the sun made a surprise appearance on this trip, it actually made the whole experience way more pleasant.
Essentially, dating is a hock like challenge, good luck in the boreal forest and tundra.
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