my question is, how can this desolate navel-gazing be adapted into a Pokemon-style super-effective types matrix. Like to encourage interesting asymmetrical interactions
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my question is, how can this desolate navel-gazing be adapted into a Pokemon-style super-effective types matrix. Like to encourage interesting asymmetrical interactions
is this gonna be about your WAR, or is this gonna ignore the fact that you shoot so many shots that, just by raw bulk of takes, some will be right by accident?
it's giving this
you can get huffy about anything if you give it a label
John von Neumann loved drinking and driving
woulda been cool to all come to independent rational conclusions about ethics and utilitarianism, but honestly mimesis is probably a more robust path than reason to getting people to act altruistically
I mean it triggers a moral reflex for practical reasons, no? Leadership is important, it signals expectations that are likely to bind our neighbors
But now that register—previously great for persuasive narrative making, when humans were the main unit of getting work done—can be successfully challenged by arts beyond itself, outside of its carefully gatekept garden
I think it's kinda the ascendancy of falsifiable science over the domain of letters, vibes & breeding as a source of authority. You used to be able to go so far just being accultured to a certain kind of linguistic register.
go further! What impulse made conservatives intellectual in previous eras, and how is that impetus temporally contiguous with the present? bajillion dollar question, if answerable
AI/LLM whitepaper posters don't seem to have migrated, for better or worse
dude SAME. I don't know how to explain to think-y types that I sort of dgaf, which isn't to say it's inconsequential, just super axiomatic and I don't see anything useful I could say about it right now
even more relevant re: the Gavin Newsom surge
next president is the first one to race to the Capitol building to touch the chair
leviathan klaxon plays the "voted out" sfx across the entire country the instant enough eligible voters nationwide hold up red flags
Jubilee Democracy
We can call that touché if you'd like. Have a nice day :)
...man, see I was gonna, but I just had that crystal clear awareness moment that we're getting into it in the replies of one of the best living roast comedians we are fencing in a minefield, the loser may not be the worse duelist, necessarily
Do you swear by that characterization of his response? If I were to post direct quotes from his response that contradicted this characterization, what would that mean for the integrity of your position as a whole?
"not with a bang but a whimper"-posting
New Zealand did that fun quirky ad campaign that increased recruitment and advertised a new org culture, we should do that
If we're talking propaganda, failing to distinguish between "dark money = bad" as an operational heuristic vs. as a moral stain in and of itself will separate audiences of critical thinkers vs. marks.
Dark money groups are obv sus but not everything they fund is ibso facto bad. They fund environmental initiatives, too (just on balance, way less). Knowing that the Sixteen Thirty Fund gave $141 million in dark money to pro-environment initiatives in 2023 does not sway me anti-environment.
The timbre hasn't been "I do/don't love knowing who's funding my media outlets," it's been "I do/don't particularly care that Dems are spending money in this way to further their cause, while their opponents are using the same tactic to much eviller ends."
that's a bait'n'switch, Tom. Your comment also read > and the discourse following it IMO information isn't important in a vacuum, the public's reaction to that information is the real object of study.
yes
There's confusion in what's being argued here. 1. Establishment dems should/n't fund small creators (financing) 2. Establishment dems should/n't have to disclose who they fund and why (transparency) I think everyone in the audience is for 2., so we're arguing over 1.
"Paid propagandist" is noncentral. Pakman himself could refuse this donation and be fine. This donor does not own his content or platform, and cannot dismiss him from his position. The money is helpful but he is not _dependent_ upon it, singularly. That is what "independence" means to me.
Misread as "entomologist" and "nouncromancer" got super worrying
lazy fuck left me all these # TODOs
Perhaps to be clearer: the source screencap is an independent creator, asking that he and his class be funded by a major political party I don't think any comparison to confiscation is valid in the echo of that request
I made an analogy within a historical period to highlight one specific type of relationship (belligerents vs the tools they use), you introduced another that I thought was not applicable I kinda did allude to the dark money stuff with the "deep-soaked Manufacturing Consent" line
ok but "funding independent creators" is verrry morally different from "confiscating the property of a minority group" unless you're looking at this though a deep-soaked Manufacturing Consent lens in which case godspeed to you
Imagine if during WW2, the Allies said "we can't build submarines and jet planes, because then we'll be just like them!"
I'd argue that "funds independent creators" is not a central characteristic of Republicans, or what makes Republicans bad
Could also be looked at as ensuring your neighbors make the "right" choice, this making your personal (lack of) choice qualitatively different in effect
also famous for such high IQ moves as conquering the Mediterranean and killing Jesus
Do you live in China?? What are some other tidbits??
Just read the docs bro, everything's in there
hell of a thread, thank you for doing the math
Just be yourself, but with more blood iron
Not saying Excel Jockeying keeps the mind young, just be careful what you replace it with
You ever see that Blue Zone documentary, where the people who lived to have high QoL late in life were the ones whose lives were filled with minor strenuous activity?
call you Daedalus for your commitment to building fucking labyrinths
"You might fight alongside bad people. You will need them." —Graham Platner
It's a dodge but also not an intellectually dishonest one. "They happen, but they're unpredictable, please stop asking me to model them reliably because I don't like guessing wrong" is an honest response lol
splains how you got outta hell
Penguins have glands in their heads that turn saltwater into freshwater, then they shoot it out their ass with the force of a jet ski
god *damn* it
People are more annoyed about hearing about bad things than the bad things themselves.
i think that people are conditioned by the absolutely tiny changes we have made over the past thirty years to believe that nothing is possible, but we built the administrative state in four years
no system protects you from the individual :c
Then, he gets cozy with the suite of new executive powers granted by SCOTUS to an assumed R president. "As Trump's opponent, I'm clearly the good guy," he says, "and I'm here to show you that good guys can be just as tough on migrants..."
Like hypothetically: Newsom spends three years mocking Trump in his own register "ironically," but later internalizes parts of it as critical to his success.
Note everyone is salvable from themselves, but giving up on those who still just might be, is the tragedy for me
No king we love it, stay savage
Don't [try to stop] school shootings
Quite the self-own from one of MY favorite artists :)
read this as "midichlorian challenges" and like bro, the force runs through us all? relax
We're right on time for a New Normal! If we're not careful, this might be it!
In the same way Eisenhower cemented the New Deal political order, and Clinton validated neoliberalism as the opposition figure that continued it, I fear whatever dem succeeds Trump will absorb pieces of racist chaos isolationism by failing to vehemently repudiate it
liberal meemaws rolling out the polls in r+20 districts
It sounds like an otter with a trenchcoat and really cool sunglasses
hey, it could be "terminally online {chatgpt}"
instruments of collective mythmaking instruments of collective mythmaking instruments of collective mythmaking instruments of collective mythmaking instruments of collective mythmaking instruments of collective mythmaking instruments of collective mythmaking instruments of collective mythmaking inst
overall, the instruments of collective mythmaking are important and should be shared across way more of the population than just corporate media elites and professional artists in coastal theater hubs
also hope it lets us critique "pandering" in fiction (w/ tact) writing a story is hard! a character can be great for representation, but still be written poorly! on the other hand, we've had _centuries_ of the patriarchy writing cringe stories about themselves, that should be everyone's birthright
"active listening" with ADHD means dashing around the room while someone talks to you to stay stimulated
We can't allow our enemies to be the only ones saying true things!
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
I take the fifth your honor
what's the difference between "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" and "tactically avoiding getting baited by wedge issues"?
really hope Woke 2 comes with the widespread functional acknowledgment that "yours is not the only legitimate social justice movement"
what ridesharing could have been
I bet it sounds like pong in there
one time I was talking to a lady, and we both had read receipts turned off, and then things went sour and she turned them on specifically to leave me on "read" total power move
quality posts? in this economy?
turns out the only operant definition of ASI stands for "Artificial Specialized Intelligence"
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
so "AGI" is the category in error I spose
Well, the goal is ostensibly AGI, and to hit that "G" spot you gotta be able to do math
yeah, they don't do analytic math, they do probability calculation
like listen, maybe this doesn't even belong in euclidean space, you know? we should probably be treating this as a sequence/time-dependent model, where the selection of each name at each step covaries with the probability of selection at all previous steps
candidates: legacy: "jayden" vs. "ebenezer" euphony: "aurelia" vs. "gretchen" exoticism: "macuilxōchitl" vs "chris"
you've done this before, so I'll do it again: there's too much dependence between "normal" and "boring" for those to be good axes normalcy and boringness are both a function of frequency, so the second axis should be something orthogonal to frequency
Zohran has the benefit of the callback tho
holy shit lmao they manifested a hater
gpt5 (I liked this line) Criticizing LLMs for math is a category error. Calculators do math. LLMs do language. Different hammers, different nails.
You could also die!
Tired of saying "what my politicians SHOULD be doing is..." so it's a breath of fresh air to praise them for bold stuff they are already doing This post is about a certain mayoral candidate AND a sitting governor
IMO ontological evil is real, and it hides amongst honest misunderstandings. Models tend to break down when you're playing an adversarial game, when the thing you're trying to model wants to defy being modeled
yeah, you're iconic
*smashes my placard reading “IT WAS EGG” on the table repeatedly*
"contradiction is the engine of reality" —guy who's about to have a YouTube Hegel phase
“Contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality; it is only in so far as something has a contradiction within it that it moves, has impulse and activity.” ughhhh yissss that's the stuff
"destroyed" as in, smashed to atoms; not disrupted such that its components lose coherence but can be reabsorbed into a healthier system
like I'm not talking about fighting reaction, I'm talking about refusing to engage with it at all, the idea that it must be exiled or destroyed, not subsumed
