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@qualiascript
the false vacuum has yet to decay.
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What’s maddening is that Cofnas is probably right. We know there are many genes that make you smarter or dumber. There are many more ways to be different than to be the equal; if every group of people had the same potential for intelligence, that would be a huge coincidence. There should be smarter and dumber groups just like there are tall Scandinavians and Congolese pygmies. And sure enough, the facts bear him out: anyone who found a way to make whites and blacks score the same on IQ tests would be rich and beloved forever, yet despite many attempts, no one has succeeded.
Nathan Cofnas@nathancofnas
Pierre Thiriar—a Justice on the Court of Appeal in Antwerp—wants me in handcuffs "When he states that genetic variants influencing intelligence may be unevenly distributed across populations and that this can explain differences in cognitive performance, this constitutes not merely a neutral hypothesis, but the empirical basis for a hierarchical view of human nature....the boundaries of Article 21 have been manifestly crossed." "Belgian case law has made it clear that packaging a discourse as 'scientific', 'philosophical', or 'critical' does not prevent it from being punishable when it objectively incites discrimination or propagates ideas of racial superiority."
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@eigenrobot look on the bright side, at least there'll be people to preserve the Western intellectual tradition once Western civilization is in the past tense
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wow, people with white collar laptop jobs are more worried about white collar laptop jobs being automated than people without them
any other issue that's fundamentally about material interests you want to reduce to a quippy slogan?
Theo@theojaffee
Negative sentiment toward AI is a luxury belief
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@grindafrathjis "i haven't read a math book newer than 1500 years, anyway here's why it's the only math that matters"
GIF
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@qualiascript Pretty much just Euclid, compared to today. In the introduction it mentions that he refused to learn algebra as it was gaining popularity and thought it was stupid. I think he just refused to learn things he didn't care for.
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The more I read of Hobbes the more I realize how old the disagreeable software autist archetype is.
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@grindafrathjis the geometry take is interesting. i mean by now we have algebraic geometry which is ridiculously overpowered, idk what existed in his time to lead to this conclusion
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"REAL {scientists|programmers} use {Geometry|C}, the rest is just slop"
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@VioletFlame23 @ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr i entertain quite a bit of scenarios. serious political thought requires hypotheticals
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@qualiascript @ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr If you're seriously entertaining scenarios about the mass imprisonment of any particular group, that says more about you than it does about society, regardless of the contrived hypothetical justifications you can come up with for it
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the replies and quotes of this post are despicable.
i literally just want people to treat trans people with kindness and also think murder is bad. the bar is 6 feet under the ground, and 95% of this website can't meet it
New York Post@nypost
Trans woman dressed up like Blues Brothers murdered millionaire developer in LA trib.al/CWGBQaM
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@thewreathwright @ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr sure, but i don't think the voting populus would have much of a preference for due process in a war-like situation
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@qualiascript @ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr It’s such a small group that you could also just only imprison the people trying to do murder
in fact, you could do that far easier, with far less opposition, while making yourself far fewer enemies
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@VioletFlame23 @ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr the Hobbesean substratum behind the Rousseauian liberal project never fully goes away, and it can always be reawakened. the Overton Window would massively shift in case of an asymmetrical conflict emerging
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@qualiascript @ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr I once saw a Neo-Nazi bragging about how he got an early GPT model to agree that killing all Jews would be justified, by creating a contrived scenario where every Jew on Earth was imminently and murderously hostile to everyone else
You're basically doing the same thing here
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@VioletFlame23 @ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr if i was in a minority that was in active war with the US, i couldn't complain much if my rights get rescinded
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@qualiascript @ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr If you think sending an entire demographic group to prison on the basis of identity alone would ever be justified, then it's hard to believe you're much of a supporter
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@VioletFlame23 @ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr obviously. liberalism only applies *because* there's no large scale military conflicts between groups intranationally.
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@VioletFlame23 @ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr obviously. liberalism only applies *because* there's no large scale military conflicts between groups
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@ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr i am, in fact, currently a supporter. but i am sure i don't "go far enough" with my support in some way or another, and as such i would be a target for your deranged terrorist fantasies. and at that point, basic game theory kicks in. so back. the. fuck. off.
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@qualiascript @ShadowyZephyr and clearly, this is all hypothetical and you're currently a supporter.
charming
anyway, I'd rather be dead than raped in prison, and I'd rather die energetically, so y'know
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@ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr i do not think you understand the parameters at play here. your side is 1% of the population at most, and if it is a radicalized population that seeks to start the murders, we can simply imprison every single one of you. and if you try to resist by force, well, you do the math
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@qualiascript @ShadowyZephyr and if a critical mass of people thought like you seem to, I'd support letting god sort us all out
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@ablata_at_alba @ShadowyZephyr if a critical mass of trans people thought like this, id have to choice but to support revoking all trans rights and start the state sanctioned crackdowns
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@ShadowyZephyr gonna be honest, things are bad enough that I'm fully willing to suspend my belief in the latter until we achieve the former
however, for YIMBY reasons, we must protect our developers
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changed my mind again!
nominal sets are close to what i want, and there might be a way to make them work, but it's a lot nicer to work with my own construction with a bit more structure. i can use it to more easily build a type theory, which is the real goal here
alco ⊢ ꙮ@qualiascript
so it turns out what i was trying to construct is called nominal sets, which are sheaves of the Schanuel topos bad news: there's nothing new under the sun good news: i was trying to construct this for my PL project, which now is for sure doable, with solid math foundations
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i don't think Meta was renamed due to the Metaverse tbf
they were likely looking for an excuse to rebrand away from their product with largely negative associations, and chose a 4-letter catchy name that signals "operating on another level"
dev@zivdotcat
> be Zuckerberg. > rename Facebook to Meta in 2021. > declare the future is the metaverse. > in 2022–2023, Spend $31B+ on Reality Labs. > Legless avatars, empty rooms, still no users. > Stock crashes 70%. > Keep going anyway. > Total spend crosses $80B+. > in 2023, AI takes over. > quietly stop saying “metaverse.” > launch Llama. > rebrand as “AI-first.” > pull the plug. Rename your company for a product, then abandon the product. Greatest pivot in tech history or the most expensive mistake ever made.
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@qualiascript well that all depends on a detailed exegesis of the politics of your favorite category theorists
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