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I can fill in a blank here—I don’t have a link but I distinctly remember Scott posting this years ago. Scott said that he had heard a counter argument to his murder rate argument—specifically that modern medicine has lowered the murder rate without lowering the “would have been murder” rate
He’s kind of analogous to a NAFO version of James Lindsay.
describing the history of wasbappin does make you sound mentally disturbed, yes
I know the wasbappin deeplore lol. I knew who he was even before the hell guy started the “waz bappen?” meme. I know about Nevada DSA allegedly kicking him out. I remember when he first demanded nuclear war against Russia. I know what the man fucking looks like
Lmao there was a point where I was mutuals with wasbappin, before his complete mental break. But yes he basically described saudiphobia as suspicion of the power of the house of Saud
Do you recall when wasbappin coined the term saudiphobia
Ideally this would be led by an ambitious Druze colonel
My actually controversial opinion is that one-state with equal citizenship would require a period of anti-racist Caesarism, and that that might be the best outcome that’s viable on an intermediate time scale
As I’ve gotten older I’ve come to love this country a lot more, which only fuels my hatred of the fascists
The American dream is the Turkish immigrant (I think? not sure whether he was born here or not) cab driver who’s become a famous reviewer of Michelin restaurants in New York bc he just decided to make a YouTube channel
She also comes off as genuinely mentally ill
I can't wait until Mon Mothma maneuvers her faction to a majority vote in the Fifth General Party Congress and purges all your asses for revisionism.
I mean, this implies that 25 percent of republicans are defecting against Trump and essentially no democrats are defecting to Trump
Dems are .4 percent satisfied? Damn! And yeah it seems consistent—independents are consistently dissatisfied
Jubilee is stupid in general, but being rich and offering a job mid-debate to own your interlocutor doesn’t actually say what you think it says about capitalism
I think, as Layla said, the failure of liberals over the last ten years has largely been failing to actually believe in liberalism. But I *also* believe the failure of the left has been in rejecting the principles of liberalism.
I mean, I think at this point the way Americans talk about Israel is as if it were *our* colony or protectorate
I personally would prefer if my tax dollars were not used to compete an ethnic cleansing
I used to accept the idea that we should only care about material, structural oppression and not worry that much about prejudice as such. Now really believe you have to strangle reactionary exclusivism in the cradle
The seemingly endless ability for humans to invent new forms of reactionary exclusivist identities does not sit well with my cosmopolitan liberal principles
Entryism basically worked for prosecutor’s offices
The best time to start LE entryism was ten years ago. The second best time is now.
Do not forget Drew Ensign’s name. He has blatantly lied to courts over and over again in the service of fascism. He should be run out of the profession.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
This goes both ways obviously, and is a vicious cycle.
I think it’s that but it’s more than that. When a belligerent starts framing a conflict as a race war, eventually the other belligerent is going to accept that framing.
Every time I hear someone complain about the alleged echo-changer here, I’m reminded that the Twitter algorithm is just genocidally racist now
It really sucks that Elon Musk is pretty much personally responsible for wiping out like sixty years of norms around open casual racism
I had to get a prescription in Spain once (I’d forgotten to take mine with me) and it was so cool. I just handed the pharmacist a doctor’s note, she hit a button, and the medication was dispensed from a pneumatic tube. No calling ahead or having to wait.
There are many reasons this would probably be a bad idea but also it would be really cool
We need more wacky utopian ideas in municipal politics. Municipal groceries stories are fine but what if cities bought out failing office buildings and built massive vertical farms, employing thousands
It wouldn’t be in my self-interest to do things that I would feel morally contemptuous of
In the abstract (not as to this specific question), my personal sense of what is in my self-interest is not fully divorceable from my sense of morality though. Tho I think I’m a person with an overinflated superego so idk
It was the same person who plays fake melania
The #1 problem with liberalism is the failure of liberals to act like they believe in it. Hardly a firebrand, but he's at least acting like he believes what others only give lipservice to, at best.
Need Congress to expand 1983 to include federal agents.
I hate to say it but I think chatgpt 5 thinking is at the point where if you ask it to search for something like this, it will be reasonably accurate
Gonna press back on this—Obama knew Rashid Khalidi personally; not ever putting Khalidi or a similar author on his reading list has a political valence (avoiding association with perceived radicals)
As I went walking I saw a sign there, And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.
I think this is wrong—there are a bunch of news sites that reported the golfing photos and they haven’t withdrawn them
This would cut both way
This is reductive but growing up in South Asia probably makes him viscerally see brown people differently than most other white people in the senate, and going to swarthmore college probably acclimated him to the activist left
He absolutely wrote this lol, it’s an amazing mix of petty and deranged and served no political purpose
It’s really cool how the Senators who debated the 14th amendment specifically discussed how immigrants were different from Native Americans in terms of being under the jurisdiction of the laws of the United States and the anti jus soli hacks just accelerate their hand waving in response
When Trump finally dies, someone will post “I’d love to see ol Donnie Boy wriggle out of this,” and then he will rise from the dead to usher in the thousand year reich
We truly live in the bad future
More seriously—and I’m sure this is already done to some extent. But if the issue is fundamentally that large context windows cause drift, couldn’t you have a second, censor-GPT review all outputs before they go to the user? “Here is an output, does it look like it’s promoting suicide”?
Clamping the “don’t commit suicide” neuron and having it answer every question with “i am worried about you harming yourself, there are resources that can help”
So I think your analogy is saying, “this is basically the same thing as ctrl F or searching the internet.” But I think the fact that the pages don’t exist in a fixed form until searched also matters here. And I’m not sure how close this is as an analogy to LLMs anyway.
The American secret police looking like fucking bank robbers certainly is a choice
I think it’s highly relevant that it would take longer than the age of the universe to find that page by chance
Random browsing I agree is not speech. Searching would be speech. But it is essentially impossible to get meaningful speech through random browsing
I’d say the letters are clearly the speech of the user
I mean I think the way library of babel is set up is clearly artistic speech
Apropos of nothing, there’s an attorney in Pennsylvania named Darth Newman
65 is a really low retirement age for a legislature
“Israelis need to maintain the Gaza war otherwise everyone in the Middle East would come and hang every Jew in the country” — literally Ben-G’vir’s position
I literally could not imagine more effective Zionist propaganda than saying this shit
this is a watto if it was Paulie from the sopranos
Wasn’t socialist Mongolia a really bad place to live
Kind of obscure, but Scott Alexander coming out against what’s happening at NIH actually may slightly move the needle among a narrow class of mostly bad people in Silicon Valley
I’m actually impressed with the Cypriots that they’ve avoided a war since the 70s. Who knew that the international community can simply impose a peace with UN soldiers
Why does he post about Israel when he could be propagandizing against Turkish Cypriots
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I’m not even joking, I think this is a more coherent definition than I’ve seen argued elsewhere
I’ve waded into the “is PMC a coherent category” debate before, but I have a new contribution—when people say PMC, they mean someone who has a LinkedIn account
An underdiscussed issue in urban governance is that many local politicians are straightforwardly stupid people
I didn’t know they were still doing blue slips
A lot of this feels very late-colonial/early republic era
Jason Alexander walked so Stavvy could run
Your parade argument is interesting, I have to mull over that.
But your brief completely sidesteps the “whose speech?” question.
You’re saying ChatGPT is the speech of OpenAI, yes? Then why would it be objectionable for OpenAI to monitor its own speech? I mean, this is the basic issue with saying these things are 1A protected—it’s OpenAI’s speech, but OpenAI doesn’t know what it’s saying?
The fact that you’re worried about the surveillance here really undermines the idea that there should be 1A protections here. If ChatGPT’s speech is attributable to OpenAI, why should it be concerning that OpenAI knows what ChatGPT is saying? I agree there are privacy issues.
Small landlords are, on average, much worse than large landlords lol
If Ozzy Osbourne had spent months on the phone with a kid, encouraging said kid to commit suicide, I’d think Ozzy could be on the hook, even if the kid was already depressed.
Yarvin was never a Marxist
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Lukianoff is like if the Japanese soldiers who kept fighting the last war for decades had an internet connection
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Please stop posting federal crimes in my replies
Did Torres’ staff just not look into who Friedland is? I think they assumed this would be a friendly interview bc of his name
Also make them into real judges with tenure protection.
I was not disagreeing with you
I mean this is just left-aesthetic Nazism, there’s not much more to it than that
These “debates” are never really about any actual analysis of Jewish relationship with other groups; they’re about feeling justified in saying slurs
Lmao
Quakerism did not exist till well after the Elizabethan era
but 'there are cults online that worship spree killers and seek to imitate them' is another aspect of modern life that seems like it comes from a 1990s setting you would dismiss as bad satire.
I still lean pretty hard towards 1A but I don’t think a website dedicated to organizing mass shootings should exist
Five minutes on 8chan after the branton shooting made me reconsider my first amendment absolutism
Trying to explain to the American intelligentsia how they should react to Curtis Yarvin: "Imagine he's a grad student with blue hair, and he just posted a tweet calling your valued colleague Professor Hitler a racist..."
You’re right, typo. But no, I genuinely think it’s bad that cases are adjudicated by “judges” who can be fired by the attorney general. I mean, they have quotas!
Yesh, that’s what I was thinking of
I honestly feel like this is all being done to mock, not to persuade. They know it's absurd to use a traumatic head injury that they caused as an excuse for starvation. They know those angry about it can't do anything about it. The absurdity is a flex of power.
Anyway I have been fully radicalized against article ii courts; every administrative court in the country should be made an article iii court
If the judge grants it, can the government then appeal it?
PROMOTER: That's some act. What do you call it? YARVIN & VANCE [in unison]: 'The Road to #Serfdom'