ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
following the same rules as us yet exploiting the parts of them that we haven't discovered yet
Relativity and the speed of light put a pretty hard limit on things
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
Supernatural entities would presumably operates by rules separate from those of the physical universe. Aliens have to follow the same rules as us.
I'd love for the idea of (peaceful) interstellar contact to be a reality, but the problem is that it just really isn't feasible unless several major widely accepted parts of physics are actually false. The time and energy requirements needed for interstellar travel so high that any non-supernatural (i.e. angels or demons etc. instead of aliens) explanation for UFOs is prima facia false.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
I can't find anything about a specific player like you're talking about it (all the top search results are about how the NFL is racist but unsurprisingly light on specifics). Do you recall which player this was?
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
The basic idea is that black players that had not taken the Wonderlic when joining the league had their post-career Wonderlic score compared to a lower default/baseline than white players that had not taken the Wonderlic prior to joining the league. The reason for this being that the median black Wonderlic score is lower than the median white Wonderlic score. There was no manipulation/lowering of actual test scores based on race, it was applying a baseline for players that hadn't taken the test before.
Hlynka's characterization of the incident is... uncharitable to say the least.
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
Western US, US waking hours, and experience with Visual Studio and C++ don't really narrow it down. Get all the tech workers from Seattle, the Bay Area, and LA together in a stadium or two and you can't throw a stone without hitting multiple people who meet those criteria.
ChickenOverlord
9mo ago
As others have pointed out: it is definitely causing some /priors updating/ that anybody takes this data even remotely seriously. This would be like polling a bunch of redditors about religion and then reporting on it as if this was a meaningful sample.
I can't remember if it was here or back when we were still on plebbit but someone posted one of Aella's polls about sexual satisfaction in marriage and the number of people here defending it with all sorts of weird rationales ("Of course representative, sexually well adjusted men follow prostitutes on Twitter and participate in their polls!") was baffling to say the least, and made me lower my already low estimation of much of the rationalist movement.
ChickenOverlord
9mo ago
As a huge fan of JCVD I can say that 50% of his movies are trash (but enjoyable trash), 45% are mediocre but entertaining, and 5% are good. I don't think I've ever seen anyone unironically argue that any significant amount of his movies are actually good in the critical sense.
ChickenOverlord
9mo ago
I think it's a problem with period pieces in general. Robert Eggers's work (The Vvitch, The Northman) is one of the few examples I can think of where someone in mass media attempted to have the characters' concerns match what people of that period's actual concerns would have been. And while I'm not sure what Eggers's feelings about religion are, I can tell from his films that he actually gets religious people, something that makes him better than 99% of people in tv and film. The hardcore Puritans in The Vvitch and the norse pagans in The Northman make sense on their own terms, which actually makes them more relatable to me in a strange way even if I find several of the specifics of their beliefs repugnant.
ChickenOverlord
9mo ago
Normies will never do a thing to help actual autists (as opposed to trendy "autists" that act quirky for internet clout). The single most sympathetic place on earth to autists is 4chan, the idea of actually caring about autists and their struggles is completely beyond the notice, let alone the concern, of any normie individuals and organizations that could do something about it.
And to channel Ayn Rand for a moment, the least powerful, most oppressed minority is the individual.
ChickenOverlord
9mo ago
The original phrase was coined by a socialist and is often used by people who do think the Marchers are all Marxists.
And it's also a reference to Mao's "Long March" during the Chinese Civil War. Several of modern China's space program rockets are named after it as well.
ChickenOverlord
9mo ago
I was thinking more about the large migrant worker populations that are only a few steps removed from slavery, due to the discussion of open borders above.
ChickenOverlord
9mo ago
The Gulf States keep their non-citizen migrant worker populations under control with strong repression, I don't see how this could be accomplished in a techno-progressive-libertarian-gayspacecommunism system like OP suggests.
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
Or fixable by the next GOP governor of Wisconsin taking it to even further extremes by selectively crossing out letters to rewrite a bill to say "All civilians are legally mandated to own tanks and BILL CLINTON IS A RAPIST INFOWARS.COM"
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
Also, while this doesn't apply to someone as wealthy as ACB, for normal people who want to adopt there are far more non-white babies available than white
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
The problem is that Congress is far too small to allow Congressmen to specialize
A tangent, but you brought up one of my favorite hobby horses. I'm fully in favor of dramatically increasing the amount of parasites we have in Congress. More congressmen = far more people you have to bribe in order to succeed at regulatory capture, and citizens will feel a stronger sense of control over their individual representatives creating more trust and legitimacy.
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
Orania is probably the best test case in South Africa, if you're curious
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
Sure, we all have biases. But I don't literally get paid to further a specific political agenda, and I have a hard time imagining a world where that doesn't drastically affect your biased far beyond normal.
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
This is your reminder that AshLael is literally a paid political operative in meatspace. Any conversations you have with them should be viewed through that light.
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
FWIW, my boss is pretty absentee and I only hear from him about once every 2 to 4 months. I work remote writing boring tax software.
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
Olympic level women's teams regularly skirmish against ordinary teenage boy teams, and still get absolutely demolished. Even the most extremely athletic females have difficulty competing against reasonably athletic teenage boys.
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
Because he holds extremely unethical positions for an ethicist?
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
some moral frameworks attribute little or no moral value to beings that have never achieved sapience
Correct, the monsters I was referring to.
Holders of frameworks in that second set should not denigrate holders of moral frameworks in the first set as "crazy" or "monstrous"
Holders of frameworks in the first set shouldn't be the ones deciding how holders of frameworks in the second set are allowed to think and talk about them.
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
Funnily I mostly know him as "That monster pretending to be an ethicist who supports infanticide."
I liked Hlynka well enough, but my biggest issue him was the near constant question dodging whenever he got challenged with something difficult. Now mind you in a lot of those cases there are wats he could have responded/answered from his own viewpoint (even if I think the arguments would have been wrong) but he didn't even do that. But he would continue responding to other people's posts that didn't contain hardball questions in the meantime.
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