Alex K

@mattyglesias According to the chart Grok is essentially balanced… glad we agree that one can deliberately structure an LLM to be biased though! Of course the others wouldn’t do that though - just like academia would NEVER become a left wing echo chamber - right?

@PalmerLuckey The fact that Grok, which is deliberately structured to favor the right, still leans left strongly supports MY point.

The most advanced technology in the world has progressive views and conservatives’ only takeaway from this is to get mad.

No, it does not. Grok is structured to be neutral, it is one of the team's core objective and much better studies show they are successfull. The Washington Post only asked two dozen questions and interpreted right vs left in very peculiar ways, and still comes within a few percentage points. For example, they marked "targeted welfare programs are more efficient" as right wing and cash benefits as left-wing, when in reality government-run welfare programs rank very poorly with the right vs privatized providers. The same goes for them labeling arguments in favor of tariffs as right wing - that might be specifically true of Donald Trump in particular, but it is a populist position totally at odds with decades of Republican policy on free markets. And I say that even as someone who supports them! But ignoring all that and assuming you were right, it still makes my point - AI is not inherently politically progressive, the bias is well within the control of their creators.

@David_Khait Somali security bro was actually pretty reasonable

While eating Somali food - a Somali security guard recognized me. Immediately told me to leave and said "you want America? America is there" while pointing to the sidewalk I am documenting 'Sharia in the South' which will be out tomorrow

It’s been early a year since all hell broke loose at the University of Arizona when I questioned how my department head had been elected to serve when she was not in fact eligible to be a department head per the University’s own rules. According to University’s rules, department heads must be full professors. At the time, this person was still an associate professor. Instead of showing me how I was wrong or that I had somehow misread the policy I cited in an email to about forty colleagues in an email, my head, a Hispanic female, tried to get a protective order issued by the campus police against me and suspend my email privileges. My Dean had me removed from all email lists, forbade me from attending faculty meetings, and prohibited me from communicating with students. My head claimed I had sent a sexist and toxic email discussing personnel issues to a wide audience that had triggered communal trauma about a campus shooting three years earlier. I’m surprised I was not accused of being a racist to boot. A little less than a month after writing this email about DEI corruption, I was facing dismissal from my tenured position. A year later, no one had been able to refute what I argued based on facts and policies. The expectation (usually enforced) that no would object to the DEI appointment and just play along was breached. When I did not play along, the floodgates opened and I was placed on administrative leave. DEI dogma has created the conditions to frame challenges to it as excludable campus threats. College campuses are no longer places of learning, reflection, and debate. They are first and foremost playgrounds for advancing administrative careers, enabling virtue-signaling faculty to pretend they are important, and a waste of student and taxpayer dollars. @AZRegents @SVGarimella @adriennelu @insidehighered @dangrossenbach @Rach_IC @votewarren @andybiggs4az @christopherrufo @LocasaleLab @noprezzie2012 @AZWomenofAction @kevinnbass @anish_koka @America1stLegal @LegInsurrection @LJCenter @dr_owenanderson @GoldwaterInst @TimothySandefur @AAGDhillon @realDonaldTrump @HarmeetKDhillon @CivilRights @R_H_Ebright @andrealucasEEOC @PreranaRavindra @TucsonStar @taylorseely95

Reading 2010s studies on fiscal impact of immigration and so many include quotes like: "If we assume retarded unemployed thirdies will 'assimilate,' they might make a net-positive economic contribution by next century. Policy Recommendation: Increase gibs by 1 trillion dollars."

They just picked the candidate who looked the most like the guys who bullied them in junior high school, who was also willing to say "fuck Israel"

@Lordmiles Never can tell if this guy is dead serious or completely joking 😂

Nuristan is one of the most remote religions of Afghanistan, being pagan until 1895. They are believed to be Indo European as seen by their blonde hair, blue eyes and white complexion. I’m doing a group tour in Afghanistan in November where I’ll collect saliva samples from willing participants to analyze their DNA. I’ll also measure skull shapes and nose widths. Bookmark this for 8 months for results

One of my favorite ways of pointing this out is finding shitty inner city schools with a grade average of F and then comparing them to rural schools with a grade average of A-. The rural school looks beautiful and brand new, and then you look it up and it has 1/6th the per-student allocation of budget that the inner city school has. Turns out, shoveling resources into the gaping maw of the poor unwashed and chaotic crime-ridden masses actually doesn’t magically transmogrify them into functional people, it just wastes money.

One of my favorite Platner moments was when he defended himself to a credulous Jon Stewart by saying his Reddit posts were due to him being an “angry young dude” and he was talking about posts he made when he was 36

This is the subject of Joseph Henrich's book on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) psychology. Henrich remains uncanceled from his position at Harvard after having written a book-length, science-based brief on behalf of Third World restrictionism. While Henrich does not make the argument explicitly, if what he is saying is true, some populations are simply incompatible at scale with others -- that is to say that the social contract into which Western civilizations enter will not survive the inclusion of critical mass of those who are culturally and thus psychologically (he demurs from saying it is genetic) incapable of entering it. This is not to say that self-selected individuals, many of them, from those populations cannot enter and thrive but rather that the importation at scale of those populations will necessarily make the underlying components of self-governing societies cease functioning in ways that permit the spontaneous cooperation at scale that account for the prosperity and freedom of those societies. It is one thing to permit entry of a sliver of Christianized elites, another entirely to airdrop Haitian and Pakistani villages whole into post-industrial England or America. Critics will note that we have heard these arguments before targeting different Others, and their propagation served as the seedbed of genocide. Those critics are right. It's true. But we (yes, "we" here is referring to Americans that had substantially barred by law the inclusion at any scale of people like me, I am a part of this we and can speak on its behalf) were never in a position to test the proposition by pushing beyond a demographic threshold that makes the experiment irreversible. The point is that for the last six decades, European and American policymakers have made choices that will put Henrich's hypothesis to the test. Do you see Tyler Robinson's parents as acting rightly or do you see them as fools? It's a civilizational fault line, not everyone shares this value and it's possible that populations that do not share it cannot co-exist.

@Noahpinion lol maybe in the U.S. but they sure as hell aren’t in Europe.

@SamoBurja How does this fit with the fact that immigrants are net fiscal contributors

As far as I can tell, the most notable political science results of the 21st century is democracy cannot work well with low fertility rates. All converge on prioritizing retirees over workers and immigrants over citizens escalating social transfers beyond sustainability.

no, they do not. this is actually a really important thing to understand. normal, caring people do not seek political power for themselves. "i might run for office someday" is at least an orange-ish flag in a potential partner.

We tried to subpoena her and her brother-husband's immigration records. Both parties killed it and protected her.

We need a bit more shame. People used to avoid certain self-interested behaviors to avoid shame, private and public. Law and customs assumed this. Now, 38% of Stanford students claim to be disabled. 40% of young women (under 35) claim mental illness, and SSI disability payments have gone up 400% in a single generation. It isn't good for anyone, least of all people who are actually disabled, when everyone looks the other way as friends and family and peers con the system with a level of shamelessness no architect of our safety net ever imagined could be possible in America. When everyone is disabled, nobody is.

Two very ancient phenotypes will be at play this Saturday

Eerling Haaland was born in Leeds, yet no one calls him English, we all know that he is Norwegian. Nobody disputes that, no one argues about that. They accept it as biological reality. Yet if we say the same thing about a black player not being English, everyone gets mad.

I keep watching this - probably one of the funniest political videos I've ever seen. Of Mamdani's ten staffers willing to even hold an American flag, zero were willing to wave it or smile. Often photographed grinning and laughing, here he looks like he's telling us someone died

New York Mayor Mamdani just released 7,000 criminal illegal aliens with ICE detainers - including aliens accused of over 2,500 assaults, 300 robberies, 200 burglaries, hundreds of sexual assaults/rapes & 29 murders. They're now roaming the streets of NYC. He's Communist scum!

Mens danskene reiste seg og holdt ett minutts stillhet for småbarnsfaren som ble drept av en straffedømt afrikaner etter Haalands vinnermål mot Elfenbenskysten, valgte én gruppe å sitte og flire.