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@deanwball @tszzl Get his ass dean. This fucking idiot sucks at writing more than 500 words

@tszzl I wish you wrote longform still!

Pause AI rhetoric is predicated on the notion that the AI companies are recklessly racing toward dangerous tech and that a government controlled pause button is therefore necessary, but this seems really hard to reconcile with the fact that government is attempting to destroy an AI company because *the government* is racing toward plausibly dangerous AI uses (Sec. Hegseth has stated in official directives that he wants to deploy AI into critical systems regardless of whether it is aligned, for example) and *the company* is pushing back. The roles are totally reversed from the logic that Pause AI and frankly other AI safety advocates confidently assumed for years. It is *industry* that is in favor of alignment and at least somewhat measured deployment risks, and government whose actions seem much closer to reckless. I predicted this for years. I said, in particular, that pauses and bans and licensing regimes gave government a dangerously high degree of control over AI, and that the incentives of government are much more dangerous than those of private industry with competitive market incentives. I believe the events of the last month are good evidence in favor of my view. At this point if you are an AI safety advocate whose policy proposals do not wrestle seriously with the brutal political economic reality of the state and AI, I don’t take you seriously. It gives me no pleasure to have been right about this, by the way. The state has an incredibly strong structural incentive to centralize power using AI, and we are, all of us, not so empowered to stop it. I am quite concerned about this.

@byejudymoody Was the hot chocolate good at least?

My ex did this to me and it caused psychological damage and genuinely destroyed a part of me lol

@tszzl @alokranj Oh wow are you being based? Fucking loser.

@alokranj this books sucks so bad it’s unreal she somehow makes even Roman history unenjoyable

This was excellent. She tries to cover a millennium of Roman history in about 500+ pages so it does feel like she is racing through it but it's a great starting point overall. It is also written in a very engaging style. Now I need to find something similar for Ancient Greece.

What do you mean smiling friends is over?

@uckema People absolutely piss and shit themselves on the LIRR, they just aren't homeless.

It's wild when you think that the blackest of the NYC public transit unions, TWULocal100 and ATU should deal with conditions that the white majority SMART 505 on NJt/LIRR wouldn't deal with (and TWU can't strike). You are someone who's never talked to black working people

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This is code. He is ordering a cheese pizza, thin crust, square cut.

@Anarseldain Absolutely nobody was posting about a great replacement on /b/ in 2003. Maybe a few hundred people even knew about 4chan in 2003. Fucking moron.

Yeah dude, the people posting about the Great Replacement on 2003 /b/ and 2010 /new/ were manufactured by Epstein retroactively because he met with moot in 2011. Genius. Maxwell spreading SJW troon wokeism on r/worldnews for a decade is irrelevant though somehow.

@ZeroSuitCamus I don't even agree that the movie is trying to indict journalism, I think its making an argument for what war journalism is all about/what motivates those people, and it convinces you of the virtue of those things with the culminating shot. I really took it as positive.

Question for everyone who yelled at me about how Civil War is actually a brilliant indictment of modern journalism and a prophetic vision of American politics in 2026: Why does it end like that?

@telefontelaviv @ZeroSuitCamus Why does it end with a trophy shot of that moment with a swelling overture to Dream Baby Dream then? Pretty sure he wants you to feel awesome about what happens in thend.

@ZeroSuitCamus The problem with it is that he wants us to feel bad for thinking what happens in the end is awesome

@Madame_Ennui @DavidAstinWalsh There are other instances where his woke attitude is portrayed as narrow minded or solipsistic. The most extreme example would be when they invoke his kooky marxism to make him seem like the bad guy when Peggy stabs him. This is just another example of that. Love the show though.

@semper1337 @DavidAstinWalsh Unsurprising but genuinely very amusing that men find it so hard to believe a guy progressive in other matters could be misogynistic. That's literally the entire history of progressive movements across centuries lol.

Rewatching MAD MEN and it's remarkable how much the showrunners hate Peggy's boyfriend Abe despite him being right about pretty much everything.

@Madame_Ennui @DavidAstinWalsh His "okay Peggy, we'll have a civil rights march for WOMEN LOL" comment is a good example of the writers putting stupid words in his mouth. A guy that keyed up on civil rights would not find that idea completely ridiculous. There had been many women's rights marches in America.

@DavidAstinWalsh Abe was not as progressive as he seemed. He definitely did not take women’s rights or feminism seriously, and mocked Peggy for talking about misogyny in the workplace even though her comment on racial discrimination was also very tone-deaf

If SNL had stav play Bari Weiss I'd tune in

Implication is that in a normal neighborhood it’s fine. Sensible center-left

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@pinklightning9 @_The_Wub_ Oh marxist-leninism tells you whether a politician is pandering on twitter?

@semper1337 @_The_Wub_ With the immortal science of dialectical materialism, you can know.

@si_rubinstein Had to scroll for quite a while to find out this post was a british person coping about the fact that they spell things wrong.

Spelling mistake in the first sentence, impressive work.