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Supah_Schmendrick
12hr ago
War crimes are only crimes insofar as both sides can agree to - and actually do - abide by particular rules of warfare, either customary or explicit by treaty. Insofar as one party either verbally refuses to or actually breaches those rules, they lose the protection of the rules and are subject to the whim of whatever the opposing party wants to do them (and can actually do/get away with doing).
Even the Red Cross accepts the concept of reprisal as a means of forcing non-conforming belligerents to shape up and fly right.
C'mon dude. If this is the third draft of the essay, I really expect more substantial rebuttal than this.
You misunderstand me. My response was not the third revision, it was the third attempt.
I don't know if you realize this, but you come across as extremely condescending and passive-agressive in text. It really is quite infuriating. I would sit down, start crafting a response, and as i worked through your post i would just get more angry/frustrated until getting to the point where id have to step away from the computer lest i lose my temper and say something that would get me moderated.
And that illustration was wrong.
As i acknowledged in my reply to @Amadan it would have been more accurate to say that it is part of why LLMs are bad at counting, but I am going to maintain that no, it is not "wrong". You and @rae are both talking about vector based embedding like its something that a couple guys tried in back in 2013 and nobody ever used again rather than a methodology that would go on to become a defacto standard approach across multiple applications. You're acting like if you open up the source code for a transformer you aren't going to find loads of matrix math for for doing vector transformations.
Why is the opinion of the "average American" the only standard by which to recognize AGI?
Why isn't it a valid standard? You are the one who's been accusing society of moving the goalposts on you. "the goalposts haven't actually moved" seems like a fairly reasonable rebuttal to me.
I had forgotten how much of your previous weak critique to the same evidence was based off naked credentialism. After all, you claimed:
I understand how my statements could be interpreted that way, but at the same time I am also one of the guys in my company who's been lobbying to drop degree requirements from hiring. I see myself as subscribing to the old hacker ethos of "show me the code". Its not about credentials its about whether you can produce tangible results.
The companies that spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI are doing just fine.
For a given definition of fine, i still think OpenAI and Anthropic are grifters more than they are engineers but I guess we'll just have to see who gets there first.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
13hr ago
Attack on Titan can be loosely understood as a kind of mix between Game of Thrones, where the cast is vulnerable to sudden death (sense of foreboding and unpredictable world), Inception or the Matrix, where the action scenes are unique, tense, and cool (flying through the air with powered grappling hooks and swords is not a concept you'll see anywhere else), and Lost, where there's a compelling mystery underneath everything that's going on (and like Lost, arguably has a bit of a let-down of an ending, although not that bad).
But yeah, not for everyone. Maybe The Walking Dead would be another analogy, though the thrills and horrors of that series are a little more performative in my opinion.
Mantergeistmann
13hr ago
"Defensive" in that it's a direct response to offensive action, not that they're currently holding ground and trying not to get pushed back by a sustained opposing offensive.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
13hr ago
good art = deals with ‘themes’ that can be summed up in one word
Oh no, my actual #1 pet peeve from English class rears its ugly head again! (I can still hear a particularly passionate teacher of mine desperately trying to explain that a theme actually needs to say something, like a sentence, it can't just be a word)
Aside from your nice impromptu mini-essay, I will say that for whatever reason, the "first anime" someone watches, for most people, ends up desensitizing you more than you'd think to whatever flavor of strange anime logic it employs (ask me how I know, or rather, maybe don't). Also, sometimes it's just fun to have an anime that doesn't take itself too seriously, although the exact line is sometimes a little hard to discern: Eminence in Shadow for example is a terrifically fun time, poking fun at the tropes, but also... takes its responsibility to represent the tropes seriously enough that it becomes part of the attraction, thus coming a bit full circle? Almost like a stupider cousin of the thing where a too-sharp parody is mistaken for the real thing, a la Fight Club's take on fragile masculinity. Actually, now I really want a Motte thread on the movie to see that in action. A Motte Movie club night would be hilarious.
P-Necromancer
13hr ago
But slopes are slippery! It's the literal, physical nature of a slope (and the relationship between static and kinetic friction) that, once you start to move down one, you tend to continue. The argument is, I suppose, that a lot of things people treat like slopes really aren't... but aren't they? I'm struggling to think of a case where a political movement, having achieved its proximal objective, declares victory and goes home. Actually, I'm not just struggling; the idea is absurd. Individuals can do that; amorphous groups never can.
Victory draws interest because everyone loves a winner, and to divide up the spoils -- power, but mostly cachet -- you get purity tests, which rapidly become purity spirals. The intra-group dynamics drive the inter-group dynamics: if you don't keep pushing for more, you get pushed out. This is what we see in real life: victory only emboldens movements, and a couple decades down the line, they're demanding things their forebears' mocked as slippery slope arguments. They reach and reach until, finally, the public's patience runs out... then their opponents get a turn.
(This is just one mechanism. There are others.)
The civil rights movement, the moral majority, the LGBT movement, anti-communism, progressivism, interventionism; just a handful of the many, many examples from recent history.
To put it in concrete terms: obviously bullet point 2 makes bullet point 3 more likely. Well, I very much doubt it'll follow such a clean progression; there's generally more momentum to these things. Palestinians don't exactly hide the fact that a supermajority want the last point; how could letting them organize and regroup not make it more likely? It might still be unlikely -- not like any of the other Arab nations have proven able to enforce their will on Israel -- but I think it's very hard to argue it would become less likely.
But, you argue, isn't Israeli oppression a slippery slope too? If Palestine just lets Israel establish settlements in the West Bank (or whatever), doesn't that just make more thorough depredations more likely? Yes! Both sides accuse the other of starting down a slippery slope, and both are right!
(You frame this as 'backsliding' from the two state solution; because you think it's more fair, presumably? But why would Palestine see it that way? Backsliding would moving towards an Israeli-controlled single state. A Palestinian-controlled single state would, obviously, be continuing to slide forward down the same slope: Palestine achieving it's goals.)
In Germany, the Nazis rose in large part to oppose the communists, who were, at the time, the dominant political force in the country (not in terms of votes, certainly, but in terms of organization and political violence. Which was, after all, their stated path to victory). Then the Nazis, having achieved power, ruthlessly suppressed the communists; they would do the same to them if they got the chance, they said. Which was thoroughly borne out the moment the communists did get the chance!
So how, in this model, can de-escalation ever occur? Well, one side can wipe the other out, either literally or in terms of group membership; this is how the conflict between slave owners and abolitionists ended, for example. But true de-escalation mainly happens when both sides lose, I think. The Good Friday Agreement was a tacit admission from both sides that neither could achieve their full aims. And sometimes, when the swings are too quick and dramatic, the public can simultaneously lose patience with both.
(I don't know, do the modern models even have them today?)
They do; operating directly on one-hot tokens would be prohibitively expensive.
But they're not central to the power of modern LLMs. You can even run an ablation where you use unlearned, static, entirely random embeddings (so, nearly every embedding is approximately orthogonal to every other embedding; semantic similarity would have zero relation to cosine similarity). The later layers are still able to learn syntax and semantics on their own, albeit with significantly increased loss.
Which speaks to the power of transformers: you'll get far more coherent text out of transformers with even random embeddings than some novel architecture made of simple linear combinations of word2vec.
Loosely, yes. Although in the case of Israel and Gaza, Israel fully controls all the entry and exit points, and in theory controls (and asserts the sole right to control) all the internal area as well, whereas WWI Germany still had options, just worse ones, so we can't shift quite the same burden of blame on their opponents when they themselves can pick some up. So for those reasons I'd shy away from using the term as such; overall however there's a reason WWI is a major step toward "total war" as a concept. I mean we could get in the weeds about the different 'axes' for which we judge a genocide, but I'd say it falls on the 'spectrum' somewhere.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
I mean, this just guarantees Cambodia will shoot one down with a stinger missile that was trafficked in by the CIA in the Vietnam war and sold to a guerrilla front after being captured and Thailand will discover maintenance issues preventing their fleet from operating, so...
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
13hr ago
Nothing about pointing out a slippery slope says we should ignore context, nor did I even imply such (in fact the opposite, maybe you should re-read my comment?). Despite the several snarky answers I've received, no one has yet to say why, conditioned on you having at least semi-successfully reached a two-state solution based on borders drawn by Israel, you'd be highly likely to see the borders change yet again in a way unfavorable to Israel. If you were to reach that point, obviously the major border questions would have been settled already. It just doesn't make sense, and there's no plausible mechanism I can think of. Therefore, it is accurately seen as a slippery slope fallacy. The historical context comes into play when examining the links between the points along the hypothesized slope for plausibility.
Supah_Schmendrick
13hr ago
No, because the Western-left position is oikophobic, and Israel is coded western and white because they're rich, technologically advanced, and don't play the noble savage or starving charity case. Also, there are a lot of thoroughly-assimilated western jews who in actuality have about as much to do with west bank settlers as boston unitarians have with Egyptian copts, but who fill in the western mind when they think of "jew." Also, the left has been hijacked by opportunistic arab/islamic in-group pandering.
As a result, the left is going to be anti-zionist until Israel either disappears or creates a desert and calls it peace.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
13hr ago
Quote from 4chan's /k/ (weapons) board:
>look up cambodian air force
>zero combat aircraft, just junk that would barely qualify for trainers
>look up thai air force
>oh f—
Expect this [image of 13 Thai F-16s flying in formation] to be a common sight in the skies above Phnom Penh.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
He is using an, uh, unconventional definition of incel. See, the sentence right after his use of the word.
magicalkittycat
13hr ago
Also possible. Or a mixture, people are really good at just convincing themselves of things if they are rewarded for it.
Pongalh
13hr ago
It’s defensive.
Yea they're really giving the impression of being on the defensive. This is preventative, and coupled with a highly ideological notion of getting that land back and removing these people once and for all.
problem_redditor
13hr ago
Yeah, I agree and gave it a shot largely because there are films and books where all of the slow ponderousness actually does pay off and you get presented with some genuinely interesting ideas.
GitS was not like that, to say the least. It's not a very good action movie and it's not a very good existential meditation. It's not particularly good at anything it tries its hand at.
Pongalh
13hr ago
Incels? That's one I haven't heard. Thought that was orthogonal to perceptions of Jewish people. Being driven to dislike everyone except Jewish and Asian men and in the entertainment industry seems more fitting. Jewish guys have a nebbish reputation after all. It's the Booty Sweat celebs you'd think most piss them off.
I suppose to the degree incels are nerdy and into Asian women (I'm very much not, and frankly don't get it) then the likes of Zuckerberg and wife and the salience of rich Jewish nerds may weigh heavily on them.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
I would assume that Thailand- as a middle income stratocracy- has the military power to just bully their third world neighbor into compliance?
SerialStateLineXer
14hr ago
I hit 15k this week, too. I finished up Math for Machine Learning, and it looks like it covered about 60% each of Linear Algebra and Stats, and 30% of Multivariable Calculus, so now I'm going back and finishing up the remainder of those courses while I wait for them to finish up Machine Learning I.
Zephyr
14hr ago
I mean, you absolutely can assign greater culpability to the more effective side.
I have a new kitten who is just three months old, and a one year old cat. The kitten loves attacking the bigger cat, but I have to be very careful to keep him from hurting her.
That being said, as Hamas’s intent is seemingly “genocide all Israelis,” I do have very little sympathy for them.
oats_son
14hr ago
Haha, it is funny how similar this is to the last time we discussed it. But I and the person watching with me both had the same feeling problem_redditor had after the movie ended.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Lowering the bar to be declared a vexatious litigant is a possible avenue of reform that might make a difference at the margins.
Design your dream house in OpenSCAD, print a 1/64 model of it, and put your favorite 1/64 die-cast car in the driveway.
I feel like it's a show I'd have watched when younger, and I understand their interest in it. My wife's stereotype of me is that I like dark depressing films that require thought. This isn't wrong, but it's hardly the only genre I am interested in. I expect they (my sons) have some of my traits, but also Boys.
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