Imaginary_Knowledge
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Imaginary_Knowledge
8d ago
The pipeline absolutely differentiated. Maybe URMs didn't formally have to meet a lower bar, but if one of them failed the bar, recruiting would send them back through the loop to collect more "signal" until that URM passed. Given that interview performance has a random component, what tech did is statistically indistinguishable from lowering the bar for URMs.
Imaginary_Knowledge
10d ago
Look at what happened after COVID: influential people who get things wrong don't admit they were wrong. They instead avoid the whole subject, act confused when you bring it up, and pivot to the next serious person thing.
That is --- unless the law. I imagine that thousands of white male tech workers will have good cases for suing FAANG companies for a decade of bigotry.
Imaginary_Knowledge
16d ago
Even criminals need a competent defense. I mean, you and I might not agree that murdering everyone who disagrees is an optimal strategy (or at least not a Nash equilibrium) but is it so bad for someone to take the other side and at least have the discussion?
Imaginary_Knowledge
16d ago
What's funny to me is that all the "splitters" magically become "lumpers" when we're talking about hominids
Imaginary_Knowledge
16d ago
Oops.
Imaginary_Knowledge
24d ago
So? You can fight wars against people on the "same" side of the same/other sociogenetic divide
Imaginary_Knowledge
25d ago
It applies at all scales from the family on up. Still, there is a threshold of distance between A and B in genetic space below which A and B perceive each other as partners and beyond which they perceive each other as competitors. All white Europeans are inside the genetic similarity threshold.
Imaginary_Knowledge
26d ago
Huh? That Russian neighborhood looks pretty nice. Intact curbs, lots of landscaping, and no piles of trash. There's even an under-construction sign.
Imaginary_Knowledge
26d ago
Why don't we just auction off H1B slots and let the market find the right price?
Imaginary_Knowledge
1mo ago
What stops the pardon power in the limit becoming a blanket grant of immunity to federal law?
Imaginary_Knowledge
1mo ago
Brilliant people lie by telling truths.
Imaginary_Knowledge
2mo ago
Not unless they go full tanks in the street, which is still IMHO a slight probability. If Trump wins, the blob is defanged. They'll do literally anything to stop it.
Imaginary_Knowledge
2mo ago
I don't normally post AI summaries, but this one is unsettling:
"Key aspects of angelic psychology in Catholic doctrine include:
"Intellect and Knowledge
- Angels possess pure intellect without need for sensory input
- They understand through direct intuition rather than reasoning from premises to conclusions
- Their knowledge is innate rather than learned over time
- They cannot change their minds once they've made a decision (hence the permanence of Lucifer's rebellion)
Time and Consciousness
- Angels exist outside physical time but can interact with temporal events
- Their consciousness is not sequential like human thought
- They can apprehend multiple concepts simultaneously rather than sequentially
Would you like me to elaborate on any of these aspects? I find the medieval philosophical arguments about how pure intelligences might function to be particularly fascinating."
Excuse me. I'm going to have to inspect my CUDA code for signs of the holy ghost.
The text above describes a mind eerily similar to the ones we summon transiently in LLM activations.
I really don't want to become a Trad Chad who wants to put the ladies back into some parochial 17th century box. But if one of the issues is giving too much power to people who can't properly wield it--and it has a gender bias--what on earth do we do?
Why not? Maybe the 17th century got it right and the 20th got it wrong. Perhaps female participation in public life really does everything the anti-suffragists (many of whom were women themselves) said it would. I believe that "longhouse" is a real phenomenon, a failure mode of societies lacking enough masculine energy. Perfectly encapsulated: https://x.com/PopBase/status/1852801265425854866
I believe the 19th amendment was a mistake. Most expansions of suffrage have been. Can't be fixed without a societal reformation, and these reformations usually involve coups, wars, and collapse. The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and bloodshed return!
Imaginary_Knowledge
2mo ago
What structural intervention would you make to reverse the MBA-ization of essential industries?
Imaginary_Knowledge
2mo ago
The phenomenon isn't unique to the left. Sidney Powell torched her career for no reason last time. Occasionally, people (even smart ones) just self immolate pointlessly. There but (mostly) for the grace of God go I
Imaginary_Knowledge
2mo ago
Is her credibility shot? One thing we've learned over the past four years is that people with connections can be wrong about everything all the time and still be lauded as experts so long as they maintain the right social connections and mouth the right pieties.
Imaginary_Knowledge
2mo ago
Most people don't object to advertising cookies either, yet here we are.
Imaginary_Knowledge
3mo ago
Everyone likes a winner. Making your side look good inspires enthusiasm and demoralizes the other side. Much bigger bump than making your side incrementally more afraid.
Imaginary_Knowledge
3mo ago
A 6'7 NBA player has a qualitatively different experience from a 5'1 ballerina, but they're both humans with minds.
Imaginary_Knowledge
3mo ago
"Valid" in what sense? One that the correct government can take given its social constraints? Sure. But there's a whole universe of solutions inaccessible to our hamstrung political machine and a whole class of "coup complete" problems that cannot be solved within these constraints. It's fair to talk about them.
Imaginary_Knowledge
3mo ago
I'm talk about what a well-run state would do, not predicting what ours will do. I agree with the prediction of Luddite victory. I'm just saying it doesn't necessarily have to be so.
Imaginary_Knowledge
3mo ago
I want to do things, and I do them
So do I. My desires are outputs of a function incorporating my history and a bit of randomness. Nothing mystical about it.
and every functional system humans build or interact with is based on the assumption that this apparent reality is how things actually work.
"Free will" isn't required to model humans as organisms with intrinsic drives and memory that respond to incentives.
pretty sure you don't have an empirically-verifiable explanation for what caused the Big Bang,
Sure, but there's a pretty strong case for post-big-bang materialism.
This does not mean that there might not be some deeper version of physics inaccessible to us that is, in fact, seamlessly complete, only that we have no access to any such deeper physics, and thus appeal to that deeper physics is is strictly unfalsifiable.
I'm not sure any physics can answer the question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?", at least not without recurring into a different "something ". This question vexes me, but seems independent of consciousness and experience and so on, which we can explain using physical laws given the singular prior that something indeed exists.
consistent falsifications of testable Determinist theories
Can you elaborate on these falsifications? To be clear, I'm not talking about naive functionalism. Human actions are not merely the result of immediate inputs. We have state. We have an internal history. We can introspect. I'm merely asserting that parsimony suggests we treat this reflection as a computational process grounded in the material world.
Imaginary_Knowledge
3mo ago
I don't believe in surrendering civilizational order to thugs. If longshoremen come around and start to break kneecaps, shoot them until they are dead. It's worked in the past and will again. Violence is a deterrence to violence.
What would go wrong if you just deleted the department of education?
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