Corvos
14hr ago
I don't know how well that will stand up to legal challenge. It's very rare to just give a prompt and get back a complex output. There's a lot of design, iteration, and thought.
Corvos
18hr ago
assuming that that's a lie and obviously it must be about instituting some replacement hierarchy to the one currently in place.
Point of order: regardless of what is intended, it observably does institute a replacement hierarchy.
Corvos
18hr ago
Despite time periods that had heavy shame towards gay men, we have found no way to prevent them having pretty large amounts of sex with each other. Even in places where being gay can get you executed, it still happens, just more hidden. That's why you raise costs on smoking but make condoms free for example.
While I see what you're getting at, this seems to introduce the same perverse incentives as two-tier policing in the UK.
It's essentially saying: if you're meek and sensitive to your burden on society and respond rationally to incentives, the state should bring the hammer down every time you are inconvenient. If you're blindly stubborn, aggressive, and refuse to change what you're doing however much suffering it causes, then society should smile and figure out how to tolerate you and put loads of resources behind supporting you.
Corvos
1d ago
You're not wrong, but like all renamings and reformattings it was done to evade accumulated expectations about what an "expansion pack" should be. Like when Starbucks used "tall" instead of "large" for their coffees, or the shift to Nespresso pods.
It's not quite so simple. The white working class had immense power in the 50s-90s, especially culturally (albeit often mediated through establishment figures). That's why the Doctor Who reboot centered around a white working-class chav who failed school with no A-levels and worked as a shop assistant, and why reality TV had such cachet at that time. You can see that cultural power dying as worship of the white working class died out around the late 2000s: the next-but-one companion three years later was also a working class chav, but this was treated as a bad thing she had to rise above; then you had a succession of companions who were clearly upper-middle class and then 'working class' characters who were upper-middle-class with a London multicultural accent and mostly DEI in one area or another.
Working class power showed most clearly in the trade unions, but also in the ruinous taxes and the ruthless destruction of generational wealth.
My mother failed to get into the best UK university because the working-class academic at her interview heard her upper-class accent and literally refused to say a single word to her until she gave up and left; my father was spat on for having the same accent. There's a reason it's hard to get the upper classes to feel they have more in common with Dennis from the estate than the nice young Indian man who does their accounting (Digwa). Lots of bad memories.
Corvos
2d ago
Right, but I wouldn’t want somebody to pump and dump my cousins, and it’s not because I harbour creepy incestuous love for them. It’s because it’s not nice. And I would have broadly the same sentiment towards my male cousins.
Corvos
2d ago
I think your thesis is really overstating this, or is extrapolating from a group that is not normal. ‘Wanting your daughter to have sex in the context of healthy relationships with men you approve of’ is not maximally permissive or sex positive but it’s very far from thinking she’s 6yo and that you’ll be cucked if she ever has sex. It’s a parody of fatherly psychology.
Corvos
2d ago
The US used anti-colonialist Third-Worldism to appeal to the third world in the Cold War. Part of this was making very clear that the old imperial powers were being dealt with. See for example the incident of the Suez Canal when Eisenhower threatened to crash the UK economy if we didn't withdraw. Increasingly craven displays of acceptance were the only way to retain any world influence at all, and nobody with influence foresaw (or wanted to foresee) how far things would go.
The same broad impetus was behind many Civil Rights decisions in the US as well: the US government was well-aware that overt Jim Crow style racism against blacks in America was being used to entice resource-owning African countries under the USSR's welcoming skirts.
Corvos
2d ago
are you only interested in her because she's
green andmalleable and can be moulded to what you want
I do note that the gender-reversed version of this - wives should get a husband who's not yet set in his ways and wives can and should mould their husbands - is lindy and entirely uncontroversial. Sure, there's no move to bang 16 year old boys but this seems like another case of things that used to be expected for both sexes now being abandoned on one side for the sake of female freedom whilst the male version tightens if anything.
Corvos
3d ago
It seems a valid observation of the kind of dynamics this will inevitably introduce.
Yes, but I don't mean men marrying down in the sense that "she's pretty and sweet but lower class and thick as mince". I mean that my female cousins (who tbh are pretty and vivacious but with exceptions not up to much) married smart, handsome, capable men that everyone loves having round. Our general attitude to them is, "Go to it, my son, hope she's treating you right".
By contrast my male cousins are conventionally successful but married/dated girls with fairly dubious personalities who nobody likes - one is a self-absorbed compulsive-organiser who doesn't like my cousin spending time with us and acts like everyone around her is a gaggle of Sunday school children who have to be constantly shepherded in case they wander off. The other was indifferent bordering on hostile, rude, and so absorbed in a vocation that she had no time for my cousin and saw him a few times a week while getting him to effectively sub her angel-of-mercy-but-no-pay job.
I suspect this state of affairs arose at least partly because my aunts are very no-nonsense and probably told their daughters exactly what they what they ought to look for and how to get it, whereas I can't imagine my uncles ever having that conversation with their sons (and my own parents have been pretty useless on the topic as well).
The cuck framing just doesn't make sense at all to me, culturally. If anything, we reared and then sacrificed my female cousins in order to bring fun, useful men into the family in the traditional manner. (I jest of course, my cousins are fine and happy.)
Corvos
3d ago
I just don’t relate to this at all. Admittedly I don’t have daughters, but I’ve watched all my cousins getting married and everyone loves the husbands and thinks it’s great to have a new smart, capable chap in the family.
If anything the wives and girlfriends have had a much worse reception, though I think this is because the girls in my family have mostly made good marriages and the guys have mostly made fairly dubious marriages, rather than reflecting any meaningful gender element.
Corvos
3d ago
I want to see this conversation happen in a supermarket car park, with both parties in full regalia and at top volume...
Asians probably find us natives loud and obnoxious.
They probably do make better market making algorithms and GDP goes up.
He's not saying he's better than Asians. He's saying that lots of people with an American passport are still different people from his people and he wants to be around people like him. I can relate.
Corvos
4d ago
We're getting into the weeds here, but let's take a shot at it (to mix all the metaphors)
You can totally do this. You're golfing: you've got the ball in the weeds, now you're standing over it to make your shot :)
Corvos
4d ago
Fair point. And notably the Eastern church is the only one that the Catholics (at least now) consider a real, proper church on a near-peer level. But I don't think it's representative and certainly SSPX isn't on that level.
I think that they would quibble with the word “schism” for subtle canonical reasons that I am too evangelical to understand
My understanding is that "schism" in the Catholic usage means 'breaking away from the church'. It's not division, you don't get two churches. You just get the Church and Not!The!Church.
SSPX, who consider themselves to be defending the true Tradition against unlegitimate encroachment, would never see themselves as a breakaway sect.
Corvos
4d ago
The government must grant patents, which I wasn't sure was the case. So maybe this has merits. In practice I think you would struggle: the judgement of 'valid against prior art' is somewhat subjective and is also a high bar to clear even when you're getting a normal patent. I suspect the patent office would find it fairly easy to deny your claim. "Design" or 'Marketing' patents are much easier to get.
That would be broadly my suspicion as well, with the caveat that the government and AI lobbyists may decide that the wind is blowing the wrong way and that some concessions on copyright may be needed to forestall serious rebellion/challenges to the training of AI as a whole.
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