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anon_
6hr ago
I don't think one should change one's opinion on the object level based on popular sentiment.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
6hr ago
Oh, thanks for outing yourself. I already banned you for two weeks because you keep making shitty comments, but since you just admitted to being a very specific ban evader, I will make it permanent.
I don't get why you think this makes you clever, but whatever.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6hr ago
What kind of an incel would be school shooter keeps a diary?
One who is also transgender -- Audrey Hale, whose "manifesto" was more like a diary -- though that wouldn't fit the narrative. Also I don't know if Hale was an incel.
chooky
6hr ago
What are some of these freedoms that an older person might be missing out on?
HereAndGone
6hr ago
If the author mentions fine details that would refer to some real life incident that is not actually supposed to be in the story, there's a good chance the author is trying to lecture about the real life incident.
But I was assured that "the knife-ears took er jerbs!" scene was not at all meant to be a comment on Trump and immigration! 😁
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6hr ago
Differences in price due to color are common and accepted, if not liked. Right now for me the same Levis 501s are $39.99 in Dark Stonewash, $41.99 in Medium Stonewash, and $49.99 in Olive Night.
Usually the "pink" items complained about are slightly (or even considerably) different anyway.
You've accumulated four warnings in a couple of months for obnoxious raspberries that add nothing to the conversation. And you decide you need to come back to a 17-day-old comment to say "Fuck off, retard"?
I'm going straight to a two-week ban this time, and will be in favor of escalating to a permaban next time, because you seem to be one of those people who's just here to shit on threads.
ETA: Escalated to permaban for ban evasion
Classic hyperagency/hypoagency. Men need to adapt to fit society (or they are failures who need to be mocked for their fragility), whereas society needs to adapt to fit women (or else it's failing women and victimising them). Feminists malignantly prey on and reinforce this double standard all the time.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
7hr ago
Numbering is mine. Amadan seems to think I've had at least 4 accounts and is holding this against me in his moderation decisions.
I did believe you have gone through at least four accounts between reddit and here. I did not hold that against you in my moderation decisions.
You have told me (in modmail) that this is incorrect, you never had any other accounts. As I told you in the response you apparently won't read, I will take your word for that and apologize for my error. But it doesn't matter, because as @naraburns and I said, "running alts" was never one of the issues with you. (I never claimed nor thought you were using alts for ban evasion.)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
7hr ago
I don't think it was ever confirmed that she was pregnant. It doesn't appear any journalist ever bothered to track down this particular Aracely Henriquez.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
7hr ago
Where's the part where we "warped the rules" for Darwin's benefit?
I don't entirely agree with Zorba's (6-year-old!) distinction between "abrasive" and "antagonistic" (they are two different things, but they are closely associated and someone being consistently abrasive is probably being consistently antagonistic) but I see what he was getting at. You have never been able to accept that you can't rules-lawyer your way into demanding we ban all and only the people you don't like.
Rov_Scam
7hr ago
And you're basing this on what, exactly? Your intimate involvement with the "urban poor"? I can assure you that right now, the patronage of several Pittsburgh grocery stores in wealthy, white areas is close to half black, with jitneys lining the parking lots. These just so happen to be the closest normal grocery stores to "urban areas" without one.
No_one
7hr ago
There's little reason to believe D-T fusion will ever be employed for grid power generation. Here's a good read on it. Power density of D-T fusion reactors is inherently lower, so reactors have to be much bigger to have the same power.
https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/nuclear-fusion-power
Between nuclear reactors already being more expensive, a more expensive radiation-producing method of power generation doesn't seem likely to ever be employed at scale.
FistfullOfCrows
7hr ago
UGH, I will never be able to swallow watching this kind of shit. What kind of an incel would be school shooter keeps a diary? How OLD are teh script writers? Sure an incel might joke with his Twitter/Discord/4chan shitlord buddies about doing it online, but a diary?
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
7hr ago
As I elaborated on in another comment in this thread, I do not think that some moving of goalposts is necessarily illegitimate. Our specifications can be incorrect, no one's immune from good old Goodhart.
Yet AI skeptics tend to make moving the goalposts into the entire sport. I will grant that their objections exist in a range of reasonableness, from genuine dissatisfaction with current approaches to AI, to Gary Marcus's not even wrong nonsense.
There is a more subtle issue with LLMs writing computer programs. We may be underestimating the effort that goes into cleaning up LLM messes. LLMs learn to program from code bases written by humans. Not just written by humans, maintained by humans. So the bugs that humans spot and remove are under-represented in the training data. Meanwhile, the bugs that evade human skill at debugging lurk indefinitely and are over-represented in the training data. We have created tools to write code with bugs that humans have difficulty spotting. Worse, we estimate the quality of the code that our new tools produce on the basis that they are inhuman and have no special skill at writing bugs that we cannot spot, despite the nature of their training data.
This is an interesting concern, and I mean that seriously. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be empirically borne out. LLMs are increasingly better at solving all bugs, not just obvious-to-human ones. The ones in commercial production are not base models, naively concerned only with the next most likely token (and which necessarily includes subtle bugs that exist in the training distribution), but they're beaten into trying to find any and all bugs they can catch. Nothing in our (limited but not nonexistent) ability to interpret their behavior or cognition suggests that they're deliberately letting bugs through because they seem plausible. I am reasonably confident in making that claim, but I hope @faul_sname or @DaseindustriesLtd might chime in.
At the end of the day, there exist techniques like adversarial training to make such issues not a concern. Ideally, with formal verifications of code, you can't have unwanted behavior, ruled out by mathematical certainty. Of course, interpreting that you haven't made errors in formulating your specification is a challenge in itself.
One old school of AI imagined that the language of thought would be importantly different from natural language. The architecture of AI would involve translating natural language into a more rigorous and expressive internal language, thinking in this internal language and then translating back to natural language for output. LLMs do perhaps partially realise this dream. The tokens are placed in a multidimensional space and training involves discovering the latent structure, effectively inventing that training run's own, custom language of thought. If so, that is a win for the bitter lesson.
There's been a decent amount of work done on dispensing with the need for tokenization in the first place, and letting the LLM operate/reason entirely in the latent space till it needs to output an answer. It seems to work, but hasn't been scaled to the same extent, and the benefits are debatable beyond perhaps solving minor tokenization errors that existing models have.
Human language, as used, is imprecise, but you can quite literally simulate a Turing machine with your speech. I don't see this as a major impediment, why can't LLMs come up with new words if needed, assuming there's a need for words at all?
zeke5123a
7hr ago
Still in his Wikipedia. Here is a WaPo article strongly hinting it was made up with zero evidence (ie they took the five year plea because they were convinced they’d receive no justice—yet the paper didn’t include any of the evidence supporting the conviction). https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/george-floyd-america/policing/
HereAndGone
7hr ago
I wonder if it's because, Walz' attempts at "they're weird" to the contrary, Vance doesn't fit the "rich evil and dumb" or "poor evil and dumb" story about Republicans. He wasn't born rich, he made his way as an outsider into success, and despite anything else they can throw at him, he's smart (not a genius, but not Cletus the Slack-jawed Yokel either).
He's supposed to be either the dumb redneck MAGA voter who is a failure by the Elite Coast metrics and so can safely be dismissed, or made his way out of dumb redneck hillbilly hell, went to the Big City and got a college education, and then adopted the classical liberal to mildly progressive values and so ended up in the Democratic Party. That was supposed to be his trajectory after "Hillbilly Elegy" where he did not glamorise the rural culture he was raised in: religiose, working-class, poor and mired in drug addiction and mediocrity (Alexander Turok should love that). That he did not do this, I think, is what is seen as a betrayal. That's why he has to be excoriated.
Rov_Scam
7hr ago
See my Pittsburgh entry on the Hill District from back in February for a related case study.
HereAndGone
7hr ago
All I'm saying is that the multiple traditions of "don't go to this area at this time of year, else you will disappear and not return until decades have passed, you have not aged but everyone you knew is old or dead" point to classic time-dilation effects of FTL travel. Can you deny this evidence and do you still maintain that human-alien contact did not occur until the mid 20th century?
birb_cromble
8hr ago
The actually poor whites and blacks won’t eat rice and beans.
Are you kidding me? That was a staple in my destitute Appalachian community growing up. When you could afford dinner, that was definitely one of the most common meals. Nobody liked it; it wasn't as good as half a can of tomato soup made with milk and a bunch of crackers, but it sure beat having a big glass of water for dinner.
2rafa
8hr ago
England is definitely much better on restitution but in the end harassment by litigation is just as bad because the definition of libel is so onerous for the accused.
2rafa
8hr ago
He could offer Murdoch some kind of solution to his inheritance battle (fought in Nevada, Rupert lost and now has to divide the estate between his older children; Lachlan, his heir, can’t have control). But I’m not sure that possible.
thrownaway24e89172
naïve paranoid outcast
8hr ago
Of course, when men are tricked in such ways the progressive line is that the men themselves are demonstrating a moral failure rather than being victims of misrepresentation. How convenient that we don't talk about women's fragility in falling for such misrepresentations and instead focus on how bad the people taking advantage of them are.
It's worth mentioning that the Pink Tax probably doesn't exist.
Unsurprisingly, feminist academics who look into whether women are arbitrarily charged more because of sexism tend not to be the most dispassionate researchers.
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