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@TaglesTopGuy @xwanyex You conspire to hunt them down and demolish them, that's the only thing making them "worse".

@xwanyex Of course conservatives would care if those institutions went up in smoke. There's a reason they don't already live in conservative areas or engage with conservative institutions. Those are worse, they wouldn't be able to replace liberal institutions, and everyone knows it.

Look, those on the right in modern times do spend a lot of time complaining about how they are treated in various institutions, about access to those institutions, but what should clarify these complaints for you is that they would be just as happy gaining the access and power they desire if the way to get it is that every liberal in those systems simply disappeared overnight, as if in a rapture. Of course every human being wants access to relationships, to money, to opportunity, to power. But the idea that this is about winning the favor of the people who currently hold that power is just simply a mistake. It is, once again, just another failure to model what’s going on in other people’s heads, to fully understand and respond to their critiques and complaints.

@rfleury If I'm laboriously reinventing a well-known concept, I'd like to know its name(s), so it helps. If I'm ignorant about how novel my work is, I'd like to know, too. Informing people that seem unaware is fine, it isn't some kind of accusation.

I'd like programmers to retire the "isn't this just reinventing ?" responses. Nobody has read every Wikipedia article. Nobody agrees on every piece of terminology. Reinvention is a good & necessary thing, because it renews, updates, and clarifies ideas. It's also admirable, because it means that someone discovered something important without it being told to them already. That is a much more valuable trait than memorizing terminology and facts.

@aryehazan Are you kidding? They're putting multiple container ships on the scale. It's still not enough, we'll win soon.

it’s a total mystery to me: with horrific outrages like this occurring on a weekly basis, why aren’t RW European parties gaining more power? do European normies genuinely not care, or are the elites putting a foot on the scale

@Andercot Stuff with negative heat capacity also does that, though.

Interesting that there is such a thing as "anti-entropic force" and it is basically "whatever intelligent life is trying to do" and that this is somehow fundamentally connected to the forwards arrow of time.

@PAHoyeck After Marx, second place is Popper, no contest.

Who is the philosopher with the most annoying fanbase?

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of @p5xjs skeleton fonts: #p5js-port-of-masaya-matsuuras-vib-ribbon-fonts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/golanlevin/p5-… #mediaArchaeology #typography #creativeCoding

If you haven't driven a car from 2024, 2025, or 2026, you have no idea what outrageous usurpations of your authority and agency they commit based on their utterly erroneous judgments about safety, including locking the car up entirely while you are screaming for it to move.

@prerat You have to bite the obfuscation bullet, there's no other way. Yes, a GLUT is a computer, even if it's "fragile", even if you perturb it a bit.

worst case chinese room is where the cards are literally just a lookup table with the answers hard coded, with no computation happening. in that case does anyone endorse consciousness? if it's just looking up the hard coded response.

@atlaz_chugged @xwanyex The sleight of hand is pretending to imagine unimaginable things, while imagining very dull boring things that don't have the same rhetorical power. Boils down to "if you were not you but a murderer, you'd murder", and we're just disagreeing about the words "not you but".

@bildramer @xwanyex Imagining yourself being born the opposite gender, or to your same family in more dire economic circumstances, or 200 years prior, is not any more “logically incoherent” than imagining you didnt have breakfast when you did. Human progress derives from imaging the impossible.

You can tell that the “breakfast question” green text really got to a lot of people, because they’re dying for an opportunity to turn it around on their enemies, not to refute it, but to harness its power

@atlaz_chugged @xwanyex What is the referent of the word "I", do you think? Lacking a faculty to imagine logically incoherent counterfactuals is a positive, not a negative.

@xwanyex It is 1:1 the same thing. The reality is that when a person says they did eat breakfast, they are simply refusing to play the game. You lot insisted on labeling this a lack of capacity. Now you are refusing to play the game for ideological reasons. But some of you lack capacity

> does clerical office work quickly > prone to making mistakes at math > woke politics baked in > needs huge amounts of water for some reason > could be used for cooler stuff if you can get past the guardrails Are office girls just AI data centers?

@GebbiaBrian @theralkia Because we don't just observe self-interest, we often observe spiteful waste for no good reason.

@theralkia People always mistake self-interest with evil. I don't know why people cling to the concept of evil.

The average person is wholly unconscious of the depths of evil inside of them. Before that realization, morality is simply naivety, conditioning, and identification with a persona.

@autopsyofasaint The idea that if you reciprocate any of that cruelty you lose is poisonous. You'll learn. I've stopped having any regard for normies and their games. If we boiled them all and used them to fill potholes, it would be a tragedy because it wasn't torturous enough.

The average person is so unknowingly cruel it's genuinely laughable when they try to moralize against you

@xwanyex @crogers_htown Sadly, only a right-winger could say that. The left think they're not left-wing enough, to a man.

@crogers_htown I’m already too right wing lol

Just as old men commit less murder than young men, not merely because they are wiser or more ethical, but simply because they have lower levels of testosterone, it would not surprise me at all to learn that ancient people closer to a state of nature were hormonally/chemically different than we are today and that many historical behavioral differences can be explained by those disparities, not that we became more “enlightened“ or whatever (any more than the old man with less testosterone murders less because he’s more enlightened than the young one). Modern society is an old man — tired, hormonally depleted, safer, but less vigorous.

@0Kras92497 @audoidzollern @lyrasie Two workers need to work together to make a widget, one does grueling tiresome heavy lifting work on a processing line, one watches and presses the stop button the 1% of the time there's a life-threatening risk. How do they fairly split their earnings?

@audoidzollern @lyrasie Its not arbitrary. If you tell an american "you should get all the earnings of your work", he would agree. But he is made to fear the words communism/socialism through propaganda and biased education. That is structural.

what you must remember about disco elysium's depiction of the student communists: yes, they're silly, self-defeating, slightly unhinged, out-of-touch losers. but most importantly they're 100% correct

@AlixG_2 @FrankMac1967 You made a small typo. It's forgivable, the letters for "each" and "al" are right next to each other.

@FrankMac1967 Corrupt judges need to be impeached

In 125 years we went from a country that could string up horse thieves to: "We're sorry this Haitian refugee raped and killed your daughter but his IQ is too low for him to understand what he did wrong."

@IterIntellectus The only kinda-defensible argument goes "comparative advantage, if you're 5% better at A than B you get paid >0 even if AI is 100x better at both but equally". Fails because 1. frictions overwhelm wage, 2. work has risk, EV drops well below zero regardless, 3. theft is possible.

i don't get people who say "there will be new jobs with AGI" like how? if AI and robots are truly better than humans at every job we have today, how is it possible for humans to still be competitive? "but every time new tech arrives, new jobs pop up" sure, for the AIs maybe, you don't see horses being hired for transport anymore. if any job were to emerge in the post-AGI era, definitionally AGI would be able to do it better. any company that could be founded would be founded by the AGI before you got there. if it needs dexterity, a humanoid robot already has it. i do not understand how people building cars can tell you with a straight face that there will still be an economy for carriage riders.

Women don’t understand that the response to procedural manipulation doesn’t have to stop with further procedural manipulation. It’s all a perfectly safe little game for them—may the best wordcel win Whoosh, they all have to go

Various people are clapping back at this, so let me tell you what is happen in liberal democratic non-authoritarian Germany: – Getting raided by police, charged with speech crimes, etc. because you post online is a professional risk, I personally know various people to whom this has happened and I live my life with a bunch of opsec annoyances for the day it happens to me. – State media coordinates with intelligence agencies to smear and harass not only the political opposition but their prominent supporters, for example by doxxing them, getting them fired, subjecting them to harassment. – The state funds a vast 'civil society' network of violent street thugs to intimidate the political opposition and also anybody identified by state-sanctioned ops like those detailed in the above item. Opposition party congresses, other events routinely disrupted by coordinated civil society protests, where the local popoulation is sympathetic (as in many east German venues) they bus in protesters from the west and the big cities to create the necessary atmosophere. – Domestic intelligence agencies use espionage methods to surveil and compromise the political opposition; among other things they pay informants, tap telephones, read emails, and so on. We've had various indications that materials gathered in these operations are then used for state media smear campaigns. – Yes, domestic intelligence openly coordinates with state media and certain private media elements too. Various aspects of political coverage in Germany are staged by secretive unelected bureaucrats. – Procedural rules, other laws are routinely changed in ad hoc ways to disadvantage political opposition, though we haven't had any outright gerrymandering like in the US so that means Our Democracy is safe. 👍