TIRM
20hr ago
Back in college a class went over how jurors act based on race, sex and age. Prosecutors and defense use these stats to make informed decisions of who they want on a jury. Long story short older black men like to vote to convict and support executing the guilty. At least relatively more than some other demographics. Young white women just the opposite. This is based on my memories of very outdated statistics. Anyways, yes to your point.
TIRM
1d ago
For some reason Reddit made hiding history as an option. Cynically that lets bots run rampant as you can't just check and see if they are spamming about something. And Reddit admins are fine with that.
TIRM
1d ago
That's fair. I lived in Shanghai for a bit. Also visited other major Chinese cities on other trips. They have none of the issues I have with American cities. The Chinese have opted out of American-style urban blight.
I still don't want to live in a Shanghai style mega-city. But my complaints would be orthogonal to my issues with American cities.
TIRM
1d ago
we had to convince ourselves that we loved living in the suburbs
I think suburb dwellers honestly like living in suburbs. I certainly do.
TIRM
2d ago
A shooter repeatedly shot at Trump including grazing Trump's ear. Trump is far past 10%.
American presidents have an 18% fatality rate. So Trump is in good company.
TIRM
2d ago
Very tangentially: I can't strongly enough recommend The Outlaws by Ernst von Salomon. He was a teenager in Weimar Germany and it was an unmitigated disaster. Nearly getting murdered by communists. Thinking maybe he should join them. Then ultimately death-squadding them and denying responsibility for the killing of Rosa Luxemburg.
Back on topic, and to be very fair to the cops: They commonly see "disappeared teenagers" turn out to be kids spending a couple days with their boyfriends. Then yet another parent says their daughter disappeared. Why would they think death by torture rather than yet another kid who will be back in a few days?
Many left-wing nerds are, in fact, technically proficient
I've been on this for a while. Sneers against "tech bros" from the left abound in some places. My American big tech coworkers are far out of step with the wider American population in how progressive they are. Tech bros are a thing and they overwhelmingly vote D. Based on large group chat and in person dunks on Trump, I've determined how my coworkers tend to vote. I think I've said it here before, but there are engineering teams I work with in which trans women outnumber natal women. If I ever feel like looking at pride flags, I'll walk a lap through the building. Pronouns in bios, etc.
There's exceptions. Generally older white guys. Somehow concentrated in EMI mitigation and mechanical engineering. Not to generalize too much from the sample of people I've personally worked with.
why do regular codemonkeys feel the need to defend them
The tech industry is the goose that lays golden eggs. Both for the wider American economy and for me personally. Of course some people want to kill it. Lena Khan and her ilk just don't like how big the major tech companies are. How rich the founders get from their stock. How they are wealthy, but not in a way that can be punitively taxed.
I don't want the golden goose to be killed to satisfy progressives' sense of economic fairness or general dislike of big business. If that makes me seem like a defender of tech billionaires, so be it.
TIRM
11d ago
"what would you do if Dario made a decision to send Anthropic's value to $0?"
Having never seen this before and pretending I'm on the spot in an interview: say you want to make AGI and think modern LLM research will at least inform such important work if not maybe directly make it. Stay mission-focused and at least role play as a kool-aid drinker who is there for the AI. The compensation is just a very comfortable side benefit.
Act like a Google interviewer asked "but what if they took away the Google cafeterias". I like the cafeterias. I rather hope they stay about the same. But if somehow they go away forever, too bad. I'm here to work. I'll somehow figure out lunch as a small side distraction from the reason I'm here.
I've known Chinese people to do this since they lack gendered pronouns. "He", "she" and "it" are one word. In the 20th century they created written gendered versions of these; inspired by gendered Western languages. But spoken is "tā" for everything.
Countless times I've been listening to someone live translate their Chinese language thoughts to English and veer between "he" and "she" even though there is only one subject in the story.
But maybe this is instead radical gender fluidity or the rare post-partum sex change. Or someone wrote down a single incorrect word
TIRM
12d ago
I'm aware of feminists doing the "his story" bit for decades. They're wrong of course but they enjoy reciting it.
TIRM
14d ago
That document was an internal RCMP risk estimation for the near future. It was obtained using the Canadian equivalent of the freedom of information act. They heavily censored it before releasing it resulting in those blanked out sections. They left in one relevant part:
In the words of Emanuel Macron, we are about to see "the end of abundance." Economic forecasts for the next five years and beyond are bleak. It is always unclear exactly how economies will perform, but this period of recession will likely have a negative impact on the social and political world as well.
POPULAR RESENTMENT The coming period of recession will also accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations. For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live. The fallout from this decline in living standards will be exacerbated by the fact that the difference between the extremes of wealth is greater now in developed countries than it has been at any time in several generations.
EROSION OF TRUST
This is a direct result of Canadian federal policy. For every three Canadians, import one immigrant. But don't build a new housing unit for every three existing units, so the number of units per resident decreases over time and the costs increase.
The young are screwed in Canada. To the point it is a law enforcement cause for concern regarding social stability.
I don't want my country made similar to their's by them swinging every presidential election in their direction. I get their natural resources are valuable. Their economy already is an extension of ours with something like 80% of their trade being with us and 90% of their population being within 100 miles of the border. There's much to be attracted to for a closer economic relationship. I'm not objecting to their lumber and car parts. But the rot in their politics would be a fatal disease.
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14d ago
And the classic issue of news headlines when a Republican does something bad are "Republican Does Bad Thing". When a Democrat does it the headlines are "Republicans Outraged at Democrat". As though the emotional state of Republicans is the most relevant fact regarding bad behavior by Democrats.
TIRM
15d ago
Very well. May Canada and the US never join. That's a nightmare scenario. Quibbling over the number of Senators would be the least of our problems in that existential crisis.
In a hypothetical US-Canadian union, Canada has shown itself to be incapable of independent self governance and needs to be kept away from influencing American federal politics. Some moderate amount of local control would be tolerated but absolutely no say in Federal matters. Otherwise they would drag us down to their level.
What insanity could cause Americans to chain themselves to that anchor? Canada is a sad lesson in the possible governmental failure modes America could suffer from. The wounds were self-inflicted through poor governance. I'm a father; I can't force that bleak Canadian future onto my kids. They can't be allowed to harm American politics like this.
The truly baffling thing here is Canadians thinking they are somehow privileged and above Puerto Ricans. Puerto Ricans have been US citizens for over a century. Canadians have been (understandably) oppositional to Americans since 1812. I get it, but they are truly last in line for getting electoral votes. I'd grant the Philippines statehood and Senators before Canada.
I didn't see your comment before I wrote mine. Yes I just commented saying I'd prefer them to be a territory. Like Puerto Rico. I think the US would be ruined if Canadians get dozens of electoral college votes.
It would be a second California for Federal elections. I mean that in the worst sense possible.
Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Marianas islands. The residents of these places are not slave races. They are not lower than me in terms of dignity. They don't get senators. Their Congressional representatives can't vote. They don't vote for president. That's fine. That's about right for Canada.
TIRM
16d ago
That would irreversibly destroy the American Republic. 22 Canadian Senator and that many votes in the electoral college would ruin us. I'd rather the dissolution of the US compared to being chained to that anchor.
In fact I'd go the other way and make them a territory. They can have non-voting Congressional representatives and nothing more. Cold Puerto Rico.
TIRM
16d ago
She said in interviews that she is playing a persona and that's not her true self. Which is impressive since she's seemed so genuine.
I have never been forced to look at a drag show without my consent. I'm in my 40s.
I agree they are modern minstrel shows caricaturing women. They are not in good taste. And that's fine and should be legal. I would support court challenges against a law limiting drag shows to strip clubs outside of town.
TIRM
18d ago
It's not the «community's» business as to what to do with her.
Quite the contrarian take for criminal justice regarding multiple homicides.
TIRM
18d ago
Broken reddit link, as usual. I've done that myself. Reddit somehow breaks image links. I suspect due to their great technical incompetence.
"ethnically British", whatever that means
You realize can't puzzle out what that might mean? This is your honest best effort (lack of) understanding?
TIRM
21d ago
I dispute the efficacy of "please don't rape children" pamphlets. I don't think you can actually "socialize" would-be child rapists with mandatory HR training.
TIRM
21d ago
not having potable water is seen as existential
I take your point that people are scared about this. I see them commenting on reddit about the insanity of giving all our water to AI.
They're entirely wrong of course. Repeating hysterical false claims with no basis in reality. Pure memetics unbound by truth value or the external physical world.
Kind of. I don't have stats on the survival rate of falling out of a 2nd story window, but it must be very high. If anything her spinal injury is an unusually bad outcome for such a short fall.
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