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@unclebobmartin The absence of structure is more structured than bad structure.

@eigenrobot @tenobrus Hard disagree, AI’s don’t have souls or Christianity. Assuming an AI will know what to focus on implies they have some ground truth framework they can rely on. As C.S Lewis says, “A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.”

@tenobrus i think i agree with you directionally on pretty much all of this and i agree that we should be figuring this out as a country, but it also seems to me that we as a country are in absolutely no condition to do that and will not be for some time if ever so whats plan B

i don't begrudge sam for saying this, having people come after u and ur family in ur home is more than enough justification. but i think he's lying, and i think it's quite bad that instead of engaging and grappling with these policy issues openai is choosing to ignore and mislead. we as a country need to be figuring out how the fuck to handle this, what society should or could look like, and burying our heads in the sand is not going to help. it makes it much harder to coordinate political will when one of the AI leaders makes placating statements like this, "everything will shake out fine, weird transition but things will be alright". the only way humans have long-term meaningful contributions to the economy is if we hit hard walls on the generality or cost of artificial intelligence. you do not get humans directing agents towards goals if the models are better than the humans at very human shaped tasks like "managing others to achieve a goal" and "determining which goals to pursue". sure, if we have aligned models perhaps those goals are implicitly or explicitly determined by human desires, but that doesn't mean we have any real day to day or week to week or month to month input on how to get there. "comparative advantage" cmon man. think about it. that only actually makes sense in a world we're hard limited on compute. a country's population grows very slowly, it has meaningful opportunity cost on the labor it does. if it turns out we can really only support five Mythos 9 instances running globally then sure, maybe they'll spend their time directing humans. but realistically why would you pay a human for a task rather than just another model instance, maybe weaker maybe not? why would you be interested in outputs that come 100x slower, that require massively more double checking and verification, that can't be coordinated with and steered except over incredibly bandwidth inefficient channels? nah just spawn another instance!! and if the reason we're doing this is truly that every GPU is maxxed out running full tilt... then the *work* humans are going to be doing isn't then can't "directing agent swarms", it can't be "creative and high value intellectual labor utilizing the full value of AI". the models have the advantage there, so we're spending our time as exogenous bio-compute, mechanical turks for the machines, shifting around uninterpretable bits succession style. hardly a vision of the future we want. maybe the answer is physical or relational. we can do things in the real world that machines can't, we have meaning to other humans that they don't. granting that for a moment, ignoring the looming shadow of increasingly functional humanoid robotics and superstimulus companions, what does that economy actually *look like*? humans as factory workers and nurses who are always looking down at their phone or listening in their earpiece for the next instruction from chatgpt 9.4-mini? artists?? a whole economy of artists?? humans don't seem to value art enough *now* for many to be able to make a living off it. it's very tough for me to see *who is paying* here! we relegate humans to exclusively low paid and low impact jobs, for which their value is exclusively to each other. meanwhile the models have discovered a cure for cancer. how exactly do the artists scrape enough together from their circular human-value economy to afford the cancer cure? if the machines are just *giving* us the cancer cure, then we're *not* buying it, and clearly our jobs and economic intuitions are in fact irrelevant! we're working under a totally different system. and we have yet to figure out what that system *is* or how to get there.

@eigenrobot What specifically is sadder and grimmer about America than it was 10 years ago?

it is apparent that living in america is much sadder and grimmer than it was thirty, twenty, or even ten years ago this should give us some pause about the notion of "progress" and indeed this is probably related to the undoing of the american liberal political tradition

@dieworkwear A lot of the tariff costs were absorbed by the companies not consumers according to FT

Now that the Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to refund companies what they paid in tariffs, yet there are still tariffs in place, what's the plan? Consumers continue to fork money over to corporations who will later get another refund?

@sfali789 @sourrguts Go back to Pakistan sand man

@sourrguts To be fair, Sabrina Carpenter's own "culture" is the Western tramp self-prostituting for the male gaze, posing provocatively for simps. Homeschooled nepobabies from the Quaker sticks of Pennsylvania like her couldn't ever fathom anything ethnic or exotic in their sheltered lives

sabrina carpenter mocking a zaghrouta as ‘yodeling’ after being educated on its culture is so nasty. being uncultured and proud is actually a disease. the mean girl act isn’t cute anymore, it’s just xenophobic. she’s done.

@micsolana Importantly it also pushes out middle class blacks which skews this even more

there is no systemic racism against black americans in nyc — in fact the system seems to favor them. there’s just no path for white people to live in the city longer term but wealth. so most avoid the place completely, and the few who stick around are rich.

@markessien @dhh Palestinian Christians tho

@dhh We should put more Palestinian migrants in charge of things. How does this fit into your worldview of the Palestinian being responsible for all Danish crime, but a child of Palestinian migrants did this for El Salvador?

What an invigorating transformation of a nation. The perfect white pill to all this managed-decline nonsense. You really can just do things! Would love to visit El Salvador soon (and Argentina too!).

@martyrdison Reply guy farming bait

@eigenrobot The republic lasted >500 years

@binarybardo a thousand year empire?

ive known too many educated people to give this even the slightest credence. the chud veto is essential to our nation's survival

@IterIntellectus Jordan deserved it for fruitvale station tho

his performance in the trailer is more worthy of the oscar than whatever michael jordan did in sinners

@annakhachiyan I think you’re underestimating the danger of Islam. Even mild forms of pervasive Islam cause regressive societies….

The Mamdani panic is easy to mock because it’s designed to work on people like you. Mamdani and his team are very savvy in launching various social media stunts with the explicit purpose of sparking a viral discourse where any criticism of him and his administration is immediately associated with lowbrow, low IQ jihadi fearmongering that he can spin as “Islamophobia.” The idea is to make any appropriate reaction to him seem like an embarrassing overreaction — something that people who care about status and being perceived as rational are particularly sensitive about. It’s honestly a brilliant move on his part because it confuses the whole point of why electing someone like him is actually a really bad sign of things to come. You have to accept CAP’s analysis here because he breaks it down in terms you can understand that would be even more embarrassing to deny.

@TedCaseHill @eigenrobot Have you read the Quran? Believe them when they tell you what they want to do to America

@eigenrobot Being edgy? At least some of the people here are essentially edgelords but not in the style we are familiar with. Some are propagandists and agents, most probably paid. Maybe 2% are true believers. Idfk

what are we even doing here man

@sir_unix @micsolana There’s a big difference between what Muslims practice and what the Quran says. Muslims can be good people but Islam itself is pretty black and white on how you should treat non-muslims. Not to mention Muhammad marrying a 9 year old so they all worship a pedophile

i'm not gonna interpret and analyze obviously cherry-picked quotes from the Bible for you but yes Jesus spoke the second quote in Luke (19:27) as part of a parable meant to demonstrate (symbolically) God's divine judgement. But at face value he calls for killing non-believers. The former is from the Old Testament; I never cited Jesus as the source, simply that the Word of God (OT + NT) contains these quotes. Idek if you're Christian but all I'm saying is I'd like to believe you're smarter than to write off a religion with 1B+ followers that has survived hundreds of years on the basis of cherry-picked (and translated) quotes Also... what % of FF funds are from Middle East LPs? Bet it's nowhere close to 0%... have some respect and do better.

I don't think mamdani is actually a radical muslim, I think he is just genuinely having a hard time finding a mosque that isn't radical

@feelsdesperate Says the guy aura farming 25 nyc posts in the past week

Don’t make living in NY your personality. Don’t do that. It’s just embarrassing.

@skooookum Accurate and also x.com/binarybardo/st…

There is always exactly one perfect, heavenly, horny 70F March day in NYC. Its purpose is to trigger an eating disorder so you can be shredded by summer.

NYC subway in the spring is unmatched levels of horniness

@PullThePlug93 @enjojoyy She works in ex machina because her wooden non-acting feels robotic

@enjojoyy @binarybardo I did too, she was great in ex machina

“Devs” is one of the best shows I’ve seen in my life And I don’t allow myself to watch shows easily This is worth your time

@annakhachiyan Unfortunately Christians no longer defend moral behavior like humility, lack of envy Christians have become material just like athiests, they think you just have to be nice to poor people and generally kind

I dislike how emotionally labile and self-serving most people, including really smart ones are. They see no problem with cheap shots and pot shots as long as it brings them temporary psychic relief. It never occurs to them that it isn’t about protecting the feelings of others but of maintaining a standard of conduct worthy of themselves. This is my jihad.

@powerbottomdad1 @Noahpinion Lmao he doesn’t realize Europe is at the complete mercy of the US

@Noahpinion probably not though

by the end of this term its totally possible that: - russia: war over, severely weakened - iran: completely toppled, oil aligned - venezuela: regime changed, oil aligned - greenland: seized - cuba: seized or aligned - china: oil starved and without serious allies USA FOREVER 🇺🇸