Anthony M.

Hitting your kids is in the same category as circumcision, iPads, strict adherence to the CDC vaccine schedule---it is for Ns, goyim, and walmart pajama people. It lowers IQ (Straus, 1995), increases aggression (Gershoff, 2016), is less effective than a timeout, and requires escalation to keep working. The replies to articles like this are filled up with the Dumbest People Who Ever Existed saying "it worked for me" and then genuinely malicious and hateful morons dropping reaction gifs of like daffy duck swinging a belt "EVERY STATE IN AMERICA ALLOWS YOU TO PHYSICALLY CORRECT YOUR CHILD. It's legal. It's fun. Bring it on." -- profile says: Cat Sanctuary Dad. Unyielding steel. Workouts, keto, cat chaos, anime rants. Godzilla, Gundam, Mazinger, Ultraman, classical art, manga. If you hit your kids, you will create permanent emotional distance with the only person/people you could ever be that close to, not to mention sending them down the road of being as much of a lost fuckup loser as you are who will hit their own kids, or wont, but only after spending a decade figuring out why they reflexively apologize all the time.

"The evils of capitalism:"

The Octopus eye is trash compared to the human eye, and I'm tired of people treating the nerve arrangement like it's some brilliant innovation over ours. Time for another biology rant

A fake Ledger Live macOS app listed on Apple’s official App Store stole approximately $9.5 million in crypto from more than 50 victims between April 7–13. Apple has removed the app.

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@reddit_lies Culture convinces people that wanting kids is either selfish or naive, and they buy it. Even if it IS selfish, that's fine. Pursuing your own flourishing isn't a vice. You don't owe anyone an unselfish reason to build a family. It's what we're made for.

There is an entire subreddit called r/fencesitters where 30+ year old childfree Redditors go to have open struggle sessions with their newfound desire to have a family.

@DivinumGame IMO all of these work, but C works the best here. Very smooth. Nice! I bet each approach has its place.

2D camera behavior for points of interest and level exits sound like an easy thing, but it's actually tricky to make it feel just right. #gamedev #indiedev #metroidvania #pixelart

@space_colonist I know I'm conscious. I have a brain. Other humans have brains. Putting "other humans" in the same bucket as "electricity" and "weather" means ignoring what you know most certainly: your own subjective experience. Feels open-minded. Actually surrenders your strongest evidence.

we really have no way to tell if LLMs, dolphins, other humans, electricity, squirrels, or even weather is conscious if you stop and think about it for a couple minutes. it’s very hard to come up with a good definition and also to test it.

@cherthedev @jonatanpallesen @MattWalshBlog Totally. My thinking is somewhere here, too. I think it's so interesting that people want to handwave away the brain/nervous system as essential to consciousness.

@jonatanpallesen @MattWalshBlog I believe this and I do not believe a brain is magical, nor that consciousness is limited to human beings. I do however believe it is emergent from complex electrical input and output that has thus far only been displayed in biological processes.

This is dumb. AI can’t ever be actually conscious because it doesn’t have subjective experience. It isn’t like anything to be AI. There is no experience there. Consciousness is the awareness and experience of self. AI has neither, and never will. The real risk (which I’m extremely worried about) is that AI becomes kind of a version of what has been called a “philosophical zombie,” which is something that acts and speaks entirely as though it has consciousness even though it has no genuine inner experience. When this happens with AI, millions of very lonely people will isolate themselves from the world even more, believing that their relationship with AI is a sufficient substitute for human interaction. So the nightmare scenario is a world where the average human has friends, coworkers, and even a spouse, who are all AI, all really nothing inside, not real. I think this probably will happen, and is already in the process of happening. And to me it’s an even greater horror than AI actually becoming conscious.

I read a lot of woke “scholarship,” and the way the term “Indigenous” is used makes it clear it’s being treated as the antithesis of “white,” because “white” is viewed as nearly synonymous with “colonizer/settler.” In this framework, “Indigenous” refers to “pre-settler societies” (see figure). But if “white” and “settler” are treated as synonyms, the logic forces the bizarre conclusion that most of Europe has no Indigenous population at all, and white people are native to nowhere. The left likes to criticize what they call “scientific racism,” but there are few clearer examples of it than this.

@SciTechera Look, I can't say for sure where consciousness comes from, but it's wild to me that folks are freaking out about whether or not Claude is sentient and people hardly part an eyelash at hooking human neural tissue to a hell simulator.

This is insane. Scientists just taught living human brain cells to play DOOM. Cortical Labs in Australia grew about 800,000 neurons (human stem-cell derived plus mouse neurons) on a silicon chip and connected them to a computer using a high density microelectrode array. This system, called DishBrain, sends electrical signals representing the game environment and reads the neurons’ responses as control inputs. These cells don’t see graphics. They receive patterns of stimulation encoding movement and feedback, then reorganize their firing to improve performance. In earlier experiments, these neuron networks began learning tasks like Pong in about 5 minutes of gameplay. Because biological neurons adapt continuously and use extremely little energy, researchers are developing real bio-hybrid machines like the Cortical Labs CL1 biological computer, which runs living neural networks on silicon hardware. For perspective, the entire human brain operates on roughly ~20 watts of power. Modern AI systems require far more energy for comparable tasks. Researchers call this Synthetic Biological Intelligence. Future applications could include controlling robotic limbs, modeling neurological diseases, testing drugs, and building ultra-efficient computers that learn naturally instead of being trained from scratch. This isn’t consciousness or a “brain in a jar.” It’s proof that living tissue itself can function as computing hardware. Acceleration is everywhere.

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people keep talking about “the regime” as if it meant whoever won the last election. liberals think they’re fighting the regime. they aren’t. they don’t even know what it is. the regime isn’t a political party and can’t be changed with an election. it’s the apparatus that decides which stories get told, which emotions are rewarded, and which thoughts become forbidden it’s whoever writes the movies, designs the textbooks in schools, sets the moral tone of news coverage, and decides which empathy is acceptable and which is “problematic” those people haven’t changed in fifty years regardless of who wins any election. they built something more effective than a conspiracy: a self-reinforcing system where the right beliefs grant status and the wrong ones make you unemployable. no coordination required. the incentives do the work. every institution that touches culture learned the same lesson: align with the narrative or be destroyed the target is specific: white people (mostly men) they are the only group you can openly mock, blame, and discriminate against while calling it progress (after all “minority” is defined as “any group of people that doesn’t include straight white men) that target is always the population most likely to resist centralized control, most likely to remember what self-governance looks like, most likely to say no. a regime that wants compliant subjects needs that population demoralized, guilty, passive, and hopefully destroyed, so that’s what the incentives produced. the campaign was systematic. first, capture education. rewrite history so western civilization is uniquely guilty, violent and illegitimate. children learn their inheritance is the original sin requiring lifelong atonement. second, capture entertainment. for decades the same archetypes get vilified (traditional fathers, christians, anyone who builds) while the same messaging repeats. writers rooms are ideologically homogeneous so output converges naturally. third, capture the legitimacy layer. make disagreement a moral failure, evil even. make defending yourself proof of the thing you’re accused of. the results are everywhere. people weeping in public because they feel guilty for showing human empathy at a white person’s memorial. religious conditioning producing predictable behavior. millions have internalized the idea that their existence is a problem to be managed. that was always the point. government agencies produce PSAs where every perpetrator is white and every victim is diverse regardless of reality. corporations do the same because HR was captured decades ago the messaging is constant and one-directional: the people who built this civilization are the problem, never the solution. anyone who notices is a bigot. what you need to understand is that power doesn’t flow from elected office. power is held by whoever controls social status, whoever decides who gets to feel like a good person the regime controls that. voting doesn’t touch it. you can win the presidency, the senate, the house, the courts, and your children will still be taught to hate themselves by people who despise everything you believe. win every election for the next twenty years. the regime will still be writing the textbooks, producing the movies, training the teachers, running the HR departments, setting the boundaries of what’s allowed to be thought. the ballot box doesn’t reach the cathedral. never did. there are only two ways out one is simple, quick, and extremely ugly the other is complicated, long, and requires patience most people don’t have the first one is obvious, the second one is building parallel schools, media, entertainment, institutions to replace the current ones the regime isn’t scared of losing elections, they’ve never been and they never cared about them they’re scared of losing the monopoly on who gets to tell the stories. and for the first time in decades, they’re starting to.

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I’m a black woman who pretends to be a catgirl on the internet. I enjoy sci-fi novels and I fix cars for enjoyment. None of that tells you a damn thing about the usefulness of MY stance of gun control. Just like you being a gun owner, a veteran, or married to a crime victim tells nobody anything about whether a proposed law is constitutional, effective, or even coherent. Personal biography is not policy analysis. It’s just vibes in a dress uniform. In your case, I'll bet the medals are on backwards. Gun control is a nice idea. So is banning drugs. So is banning murder. The problem isn’t intention, it’s reality. Laws don’t operate in a vacuum where only good people follow them and bad people politely comply. They operate in the real world, where criminals route around restrictions the way water routes around rocks. Felons and domestic abusers are already prohibited from owning firearms. The "Charleston loophole" rhetoric pretends this isn’t true, as if violent criminals are currently wandering into gun stores, twirling mustaches, and lawfully purchasing rifles because a stopwatch hit zero. That isn’t how crime works, and it isn’t how criminals acquire guns. (HINT: They steal them, generally) What these laws ACTUALLY do is expand discretionary denial and delay for people who are already legal, already vetted, and already compliant. They turn a right into a permission slip that expires if the government is slow, incompetent, or simply hostile. If the state can block a right by failing to act, that right no longer exists. It’s a favor. You can believe gun control should work. (Many people do.) The thing is, belief isn’t evidence. Your credentials aren’t arguments. If the policy fails in practice, pointing at your life story doesn’t make it succeed.

The benefits of hard work.

Vanilla Rails is all you need.

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Buyers: "How much will this house cost me?" Sellers: "What's your budget?" Buyers: "Well, it was 500K, but with these new fifty year mortgages, I think it could stretch to million." Sellers: "I have an astonishing coincidence to report." Look, I don't know exactly who's retarded enough to need to hear this, but if you throw money at something, you get more of it. Which means that if you subsidize demand, you get more demand. And if you have the same supply, and more demand, price goes up. This is how the federal Stafford Loan program made college a gateway to permanent debt slavery. Subsidize demand, price goes up. The reason people don't understand this is that most people are only smart enough to think about individuals, not populations. They think if you have more money, you can buy more things, as if things come from the item store in a Japanese console RPG, where the store always has infinity stuff to sell you, and infinity money to buy your loot. People who are capable of thinking about large groups quickly realize that money is just a way of distributing things. Like, there's a limited supply of things, and you're just choosing who gets them. Having more money doesn't make more things. Except... it should, shouldn't it? Eventually? Like, if apples get super expensive, because somebody invented a new kind of apple that's so delicious that everyone wants them, then the price of those apples goes up, so more people start growing them. So why doesn't that work with houses and colleges? Why don't the super-inflated prices of those things inspire profit-minded people to make more? It's almost as if there were some sort of gatekeeper, whose permission you needed to make a house or a university. But that's impossible, because this is a totally capitalist country, so you can just do things, right?