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@whiteratxd @Templarpilled The works of David Buss

@Templarpilled De hecho, no. Literalmente lees medio libro de sociología y te saca de encima la mitad de las teorías incels. Pero apostaría a que no puedes nombrarme UN solo libro de psicología social REAL. No “psicología oscura” ni psicología pop, psicólogo REAL

Incels who argue with women on this app are light years ahead of social scientists who do gender studies

@posta_octavian Universal humanity is a convenient legal fiction. If you're shaped like a human, why should I automatically assume you have the same type or degree of humanity as I?

When Russia invaded Ukraine, the vast majority of the Global South stayed neutral and most of the radical left was unwilling to clearly and unequivocally condemn Russia for its actions. It was their opportunity to finally prove that they're on the side of liberal universalism and that they, too, are willing to participate in building a juster world for everyone, but the opposite happened. They were instead worried about their good relations with Russia and didn't feel like the war concerned them It made me realise that the Global South uses terms like human rights, international law etc. only when it's convenient to them, just like the West does. It shattered my belief that a world order could be built without a hegemon enforcing it. It shifted my outlook on geopolitics much more towards realism. Eventually this resulted in me understanding that different nations and cultures have their own proper interests that can be diametrically opposed to one another. Once you lose your faith in some kind of universal humanity, you have to stop being a leftist.

@beFreeDontJoin @GShaneMorris You can't do shit. Just come up with another digital dopamine engine and normies will be sucking on it like animals.

@terrasomno @GShaneMorris Not for long. Step out of your bubble

This is astonishing. Butlerian Jihad stuff. Listen to the boos and jeers. I'm a millennial. My dad was in IT. I grew up through all the major milestones of the digital era. I've never seen a new technology pushed with this kind of arrogance, or inspire this kind of backlash.

@beFreeDontJoin @GShaneMorris Autists rule the world.

@terrasomno @GShaneMorris We really have to stop letting autistic developers have this much power

@PeterMcCormack @bencsmoke He's also getting quick likes from the dumb majority.

You have to be a special type of retarded to not understand why having landlords is real and necessary. You live in a special time of privilege, whereby the hard work of others for centuries has built a world where you get to cry into your iphone while drinking a latte. I could eviscerate your argument and explain why it would lead to more homelessness, but I doubt you have enough brain cells to understand it.

being a landlord is morally repugnant. remains a great social failure that we allow landlords to extort profit from working people for the luxury of 'having shelter'. they must be taxed into oblivion, releasing housing stock, bringing down prices + making living affordable.

@bencsmoke Because you said that. I'm just going to hike my tenant's rent to make myself feel better. Stop me! Being a landlord is amazing, you can live very well off London rent in a cheaper country. Closest thing I'll be to a millionaire.

@jf_rhj @Yovinoko @feanorslegacy Quantity matters too. Slavery is far more prevalent in the Islamic world per capita and they use their book to justify it. Continued in Saudi until the 1960s. Also, look up the 'No True Scotsman' fallacy.

@Yovinoko @terrasomno @feanorslegacy There is terrorism in Islam. Not everyone who says "I am a Muslim" applies the Quran. Does the KKK represent Christianity, for example?

Nothing to see. Just an Arab proudly admitting that his ancestors kidnapped and raped Iranian women and that he wants to do it again. But Iranians are supposedly racist, for disliking *checks note* their rapists?

@NiohBerg @richjsudol Even when I go to the museum and see the real depictions of Xerxes, in my mind and the mind of everyone in my country, he's still that Brazilian gay man. It's more fun this way.

@richjsudol Yes!

The Greeks now feel the same anger that Iranians have felt for 20 years.

@CHamilton10315 No, Conan finds the Fountain of Youth, lives forever, slaying, like some sort of Eternal Champion.

With all of this talk about a new Conan movie, here's my thoughts. First, this has been talked about for years and never came about. Second, 78 years old. Let's see how much he'll actually be involved. But on that note, if I was allowed to write the story, then I'd make the movie an opportunity to pass the torch. The opening scene is in King Conan's chamber. He's ruled Aquilonia for decades and the kingdom has prospered under his wise rule. But now he is old and sick, and the Aquilonian nobles, who have always resented their barbarian king, are discussing how they can carve up his kingdom once he is dead. They talk about this openly, thinking he can't hear them. But once they leave the chambers, we see that his is not as sick as they think. A young thief crawls through window after making an impossible climb up the king's tower. King Conan captures him, but impressed with the thief's boldness and skill, he tells the thief that he won't call the guard and will even reward him with all the jewels he can carry if he sits and listens to a story. The scene fades to a young Conan, played by a younger actor, and the movie transitions to show the plot of "The Tower of the Elephant." I doubt Hollywood or Arnold would go for it, but I think it would be a great way to restart the Conan IP for a new generation.

@MartinSkold2 You've just discovered a roundabout way of saying 'political economy'. It's context dependent. Personally, I would rather not work with humans and just offer a product. So AI helps with that. Generally great for product listings and other such business writing.

Another one worth thinking about (that I sadly dissent in part from): “AI may be able to write (somewhat) like a person, but the livelihood of professional writers are at very low risk of being replaced by automation. Same goes for nurses.” If the market responded to consumers, this would absolutely be true. But if the market responds to investors who want writers to shut up or be sidelined for ideological or political reasons…less so. And the nurse analogy is revealing: The ideal nurse may be a caring, responsible human who combines a soft touch with good organizational skills, but the AI movement is -absolutely convinced- this job can be done by a robot. Assuming it can get the robot to work, it will make it happen whether its customers want it or not. And even if it can’t (it won’t be able to), it will try anyway and tell anyone who complains that their posts are suppressed and they won’t show up in searches. This has to be looked at as a political movement, not a business proposition. It started with Steve Jobs saying the customer didn’t know what they wanted; it continued with platforms suppressing speech they considered problematic. Put those together and you have the AI movement in a nutshell.

@jf_rhj @feanorslegacy Islam's endorsement and practice of sex slavery is very well documented. This is not something you can argue against. Furthermore, how old was Aisha when the Prophet consummated his marriage with her? Intellectually, you don't have a leg to stand on.

This statement is incorrect and contradicts Islamic teachings. Arabs did not rape Persian women; this is a lie against Islam. Ziyad is ignorant. Some Persians embraced Islam and had a significant influence on our great religion. The truth is that when the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, sent out a military expedition, he would say, "Go forth in the name of God and in the cause of God. Fight those who disbelieve in God. Do not embezzle, do not betray, do not mutilate, and do not kill a child, a woman, or an old man." Captivity in Islam is different from what is portrayed by malicious media.

@TechnicalBben Only because you're too stupid and incurious to adapt. You are given power and you choose to panic like a bitch boy.

I didn’t spend 5 years in university just to be reduced to “low-value human capital.” At this point, AI is starting to feel like one of the worst technological advancements we’ve embraced blindly. From environmental damage to replacing human creativity and effort, nothing about where this is heading looks good anymore.

@DanPizzaGuy For them, this will be gloriously deflationary, the price of goods will drop in terms of tens of pounds relative to purchasing power as processes evolve.

@DanPizzaGuy Some workers will adapt. It'll be an Argentinian style crises for you, who have borrowed so absurdly and have this archaic financial system. However, the middle class outside of the West live comfortably on $500 a month without so much debt or financialisation. 1/2

Tech bros dont even think ahead. If AI replaces workers, who will buy all the amazon slop?

@NormENPC @joabsamson2 @GoodLuckChuck12 @jperkinsme @GShaneMorris AI is already driving real productivity gains (10-37% in studies for coding, support, marketing). Capabilities keep improving and costs are dropping. Analgous to early-stage infrastructure. 2/2

@NormENPC @joabsamson2 @GoodLuckChuck12 @jperkinsme @GShaneMorris OpenAI is projecting ~$13-14B revenue this year with big losses that's the investment phase. Revenue is growing fast. Amazon bled money for 14 years straight while building out infrastructure and then printed money. 1/2

@atelicinvest Of course, when you democratise something, it degrades in aggregate but still, we'll get a lot of good products out of this. Look at Open Claw, for all its flaws, it is largely 'vibe coded'.

Apparently software is solved now. Code is free. You can make anything you want. But yet, all I see is - providers having more outages and service interruptions than ever - vendors unwilling / unable to add simple features for ppl paying 10k+ a year - slop products that claim to do something but actually doesn't - more bugs than what we had when my wife and I lived in a mouse infested rural property What the actual fuck?

@JacobAShell @johndoe18411073 Attica! Attica!

@johndoe18411073 U prefer it as prestige miniseries stretched out over way too many seasons so nobody remembers any of it fondly?

This movie has become underrated. Gens Z/Alpha aren't told about it, they're just told to watch Top Gun "for their 80s fix."

@NormENPC @joabsamson2 @GoodLuckChuck12 @jperkinsme @GShaneMorris Your problem seems to be with the deflationary advantage of technological progress. That's not the fault of technology, it is doing what it should do. Your problem is with the financial system, which everyone has piled onto, there will be temporary suffering.

@joabsamson2 @terrasomno @GoodLuckChuck12 @jperkinsme @GShaneMorris AI is qualitatively different from the internet in several important ways, but even if it wasn't the dotcom bubble still caused the dotcom crash, with all its negative effects. However we weren't nearly as leveraged in 2000 as we are now with a quadrillion in derivatives.

@christinemal @davepgames @NormENPC @IguKoskinen @GShaneMorris Maybe I am a sociopath. However, let's do as you say and look at History. Back when America was prosperous, you made up 50% of the World's GDP, today it's 24%. Even so, relative to wages, your food and clothing costs have never been cheaper. You can't always get what you want.

@terrasomno @davepgames @NormENPC @IguKoskinen @GShaneMorris Wow. So much glee about so much (potential) human suffering. People who never did anything but try to get by. You're an asshole and possibly a sociopath.