Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
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Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
Spider-Verse's black protagonist is a character who has always been black starting with his original incarnation, AFAIK.
This is disingenuous. Miles Morales is a race-swapped Spider Man, exactly like Ariel. The paper-thin excuse of "Umm ackshually we've not retconned him, he's, err, an alternate universe version" is obviously just that: a paper-thin excuse, to remove white heroes from their stories.
Miles Morales was developed by writer Brian Michael Bendis. No prizes for guessing what I found oh his Early Life section of Wikipedia.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
The hypothesis that Hollywood types believe in the "mere exposure" effect causes a lot of scripting oddness to suddenly resolve into comprehensiblity. If you think that simply seeing/hearing a thing on a screen will stochastically cause some number of impressionable audience members to believe and/or copy it, then the total excision of taboo positions from even villains' mouths makes sense, as does cramming a massive overabundance of LGBTQ characters into every show.
For those who are bearish on AI's ability to upend the stock photo industry, how much time do you think it will take? What further developments need to occur?
Procurement officers in mid-to-large companies are the most conservative people in world history. They have their purchase order numbers, their tried-and-tested procedures, and their domain knowledge of the bureaucratic BS that goes into buying (this being how they earn their bread). They are inherently hostile to disruption to the status quo and change won't come until they retire/die out of the workforce to be replaced by n00bs not so set in their ways.
So I give it about 15 years.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
Some (me) would say the Iraqi one is much more benign because that invasion didn't leave millions of American-Iraqui colonists / anchor-babies there to cause further demographic and political disruption in perpetuity.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
I'm not even calling for the establishment of a race of Ubermensch, I want everyone raised up to as close to equality as possible
Why?
Seriously, why do you think it should be some sort of teleological objective of mankind to have everyone calibrated to be of equal ability?
Even if these abilities are high, this is still some kind of Harrison Bergeron dystopian shit.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
Quite. The Mexicans in Mexico are the ones puppeteering the Mexicans in the USA: "Go to El Norte and send us some money" style. So yeah, they are invading the USA, in the same way that George Bush was invading Iraq - he isn't personally the boots on the ground, but the boots on the ground wouldn't have been there if he didn't direct them.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
"they are not stupid, so if they are at the bottom it can only be because society has placed them there."
But if you actually prove that they are stupid, then what?
This is MathWizard's point: progressives don't actually disbelieve that the stupid deserve to be at the bottom of the pile, they simply disagree about who are the stupid ones.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
Maybe this kind of stuff is needed because people like you deny the Holocaust and argue that Jews control our lives?
Does everyone in America really need to be right about something that happened on another continent 80 years ago?
I'm not saying the Holocaust didn't happen, I'm saying we shouldn't care whether it did or not; certainly not to the extent of making laws about it.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
Given that Britains war aims were essentially to keep the continent pretty much as it was before the war and preserve the balance of power in Europe
"We want Austria-Hungary to keep oppressing everyone because the status quo is profitable to our top-hat class" is not exactly my definition of Just War.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
Sometimes I wonder what the Turks are getting out of all this that makes it worth it.
Work visas they can convert into chain migration into Germany.
It's not quite EU-membership total freedom of movement, but it's close.
It is a well-established fact that women are people. Treating people like objects is the essence of evil.
What's the greater evil: my psychopathy, or OP's incel-ism?
Overcoming social anxiety to be able to date is a good end. Does it really matter that one uses evil means when the evil means exist only in my subjective qualia, not in the objective outside world?
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
If I have a perfectly good spanner and I try and use it to recalibrate CERN I'm gonna have a bad time. That doesn't mean I should throw my spanner out, it means I should go back to using it as a spanner. The solution to the Peter Principle is to hit the promotions board with a rolled up newspaper, not to institute rolling firings on everyone that could possibly be promoted.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
One step further is "up or out".
This sounds like a great way to ruin a business. You have to wonder if these people have ever even heard of the Peter Principle.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
We can broaden this to a discussion about climate change or even immigration. Sure, there will be issues, but the doomsters on both issues were proven wrong historically.
This proves too much, because it implies that all those 1700s Native Americans whining about Pilgrims stealing their land were just paranoid doomers.
Sometimes, bad shit actually does happen
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
I ask you not to move the goalposts. Nobody was discussing such other requirements here.
Well I certainly was, and given that I wrote the post to which you are responding, I can assure you that the goalposts remain exactly where I first placed them. My point about working in the wagie cubes was intended to refer to the broad class of "activities engaged in grudgingly" rather than the specific class of "activities engaged in out of purely economic necessity". Revealed preferences need not always refer to the revealed preferences of one's employment.
But with that out of the way:
It feels strange for me to be whiteknighting career e-thots, but I still think your reasoning is flawed. Let's say Job A contains upside 1 and downside 2, while Job B contains upside 3 and upside 4. And let's say the magnitudes of the upsides and downsides run 1 > 2 >> 3 > 4. Job 1 has big upsides and big downsides compared to either in Job B, but in both cases the upside exceeds the downside so you do actually want the job (more than unemployment). That you stick with Job A despite REALLY hating downside 2 is testament to the advantage of upside 1, not that you actually, secretly, masochistically enjoy downside 2.
To but some colour to these scenarios: Job A is Instathot, upside 1 is simpbux, downside 2 is "constant thirstposting in her comments", Job B is office worker, upside 3 is mediocre salary bux, and downside 4 is the anomie of regular office work.
In this rubric we see that it is logically possible that Instathots do not in fact appreciate the drool and asparagus emojis they get in their DMs, but they're willing to put up with it to live the high life. Whether they have any moral right to complain about it is another question - they have signed the Faustian Pact and bought themselves tropical holidays with it, it seems therefore petty to whine that the devil will inevitably take his due. But do they like having to hold up their side of the contract? Well, no-one I know has ever enjoyed holding up their side of a contract, so I can believe that they do, in fact, not, and are just in it for the (lots of) money.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
This doesn't apply to insta/tiktok/etc models.
Doesn't it?
I mean, obviously the median woman with an Instagram account doesn't need to post Instagram bikini pics to to able to afford bread. But human beings have other requirements, like high-value mates. How do you think (or how does she think) she's going to get one of those without some kind of self-promotion?
Generally I'm paranoid about approaching women, because I feel like maybe they think I'm a creep and they're just too polite to say so. My biggest concern isn't that they dislike me per se; it's that maybe I've hurt the woman without realizing it. I'm very sensitive about that.
The only cure for this is practice. Many years ago I almost threw up with anxiety before my first dating-app date. Now, women are disposable playthings to me and I have absolutely no concern for their feelings at all beyond the instrumental requirements to get them to sleep with me. At a point you come to regard each one as an entertaining brain-teaser (how do I need to rotate this Rubix cube to get it into my bedroom?) rather than as a person to whom the Golden Rule applies. This makes dating totally stress-free because you just don't care if you go down in flames.
TL;DR: There's nothing to make your first forays into the pitiless jungle psychologically easier, but each foray makes the next one easier.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
When or if reaction comes, it will have to feel as natural as say, supporting Ukraine.
...which is to say, not natural at all and entirely the product of MSM narrative-craft and bot astroturfing?
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
Huh? That doesn't even make sense. How can the "risks bigger than AI" , which includes nuclear war, be bigger than the possible risk of AI starting a nuclear war?
If we say that nuclear war has a disutility of 0.9 and a human-started nuclear war has a probability of 0.2 this puts human-started nuclear war at a risk factor of 0.18.
If we say that unfriendly AI has a 0.3 chance of occuring and then a 0.6 chance of successfully starting nuclear war, this gives it a risk factor of 0.162: lower than human-started nuclear war.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
(remember that the military, the police, small-town local elites, organised religion and Fox News are all objectively part of the establishment)
This can't be a general rule - look how often establishments get military coup'd in Africa. Do you mean specifically in America 2023?
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
I liked the second book because of how ridiculously misogynistic it is.
The third book goes so soft sci-fi it breaks my suspension of disbelief.
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
Women buy an exceedingly large number of excessively expensive swimsuits. Do you have an explanation why?
Perhaps they know that they live in an attention economy, even as they wish they did not? They think it would be better if they were valued for their opinions and not their curves, but alas, it is not so.
(Also I don't think they're spending their own money on those swimsuits)
Butlerian
Not robot-ist just don't like 'em
1yr ago
If women stated that the issue was avoiding runaway intrasexual competition it'd be one thing.
"Ban this ad because other women are hotter than me" is not a sentiment that any woman wants to admit to others or herself, a'la cognitive dissonance. To out yourself as an uggo is to lower your own social status, so I can't really begrudge women for not making that argument any more than I begrudge myself for not making the argument that all gyms should be banned so fewer guys are buffer than me so I can get more chicks. I would like it if they were but I can't make the argument.
We can nevertheless infer that this is their true motive by mapping out their incentive structures.
This is just about the worst link you could have attached to support your argument because Amouranth is extremely obviously fabricating her husband's "abuse" to facilitate more simp donations.
Indeed, you're on to a losing battle whenever you claim that we can "know" (justified true belief) that something is happening based on the evidence of an lewd streamer's Twitter self-reporting.
I had tremendous fun using Pepe as a racist shibboleth and then when anyone called me out on my racist shibbolething, I show them that he's the mascot of Hong Kong democracy.
Hell, in the murky waters of philosophical semiotics, I'm not even sure my bad-faith arguments were even wrong.
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