Jiro
16hr ago
If someone internalizes the system in his head, ignoring practicality (which makes it hard to properly imagine the situation), then he's acting as a dumb CPU executing a Chinese program. The answer is still "the man doesn't know Chinese, the system does". The answer feels strange because "the man" is in the man's head and "the system" is also in the man's head, but that doesn't make them the same thing or mean that they both have the same knowledge.
Of course, in Searle's time, "come on, he's running a virtual machine" isn't something you could really say because people weren't familiar with the concept.
Jiro
3d ago
Wuxia is martial arts possibly with some fantasy elements. Xianxia is a genre where the characters are immortals with fantastic powers that escalate very heavily.
Jiro
4d ago
You are correct.
For some reason if you load the page and don't play it, the still it shows is very low quality. If you actually play it it's fine.
I have in the past tried to get videos from archive.org and they really were poor quality, so I had assumed this was another instance of that. It seems that higher quality videos are more common now.
Jiro
4d ago
Almost no such classic movie is even in DVD quality, although sometimes they claim to be 480p or 1080p but are actually upscaled from very low resolution sources. That one included; that's absurdly low resolution.
Jiro
8d ago
Also, checking a map shows that the islands are about 1200 miles away from Mauritus.
Jiro
9d ago
The fact that they point in the same direction like this is a sign of motivated reasoning. Karma is not real.
Jiro
9d ago
When the Hebrews do it it's just "Old Testament justice" but when Hitler identifies Jews as adversarial then it's identity politics?
When the Hebrews do it it's "this is something written in a book, secular historians don't think it actually happened, and it's not something to do today".
Jiro
9d ago
The most obvious way to tell the belief in HitlerSatan is downstream from propaganda is that nigh everyone, apart from the fringes, has their own pocket theory of why Hitler is satan and not any of the other guys from histories greatest hits
I think "Hitler killed millions of Jews" is a bit too common a reason to call Hitler Satan, for it to count as a pocket theory.
Jiro
10d ago
Then let's publicize "USAID is funding drag shows in the third world" and see how many people react in the first manner and how many react in the second.
Jiro
10d ago
The police are mostly responding to calls in the bad parts of town,
I'm pretty sure that rank-and-file police are more sympathetic to the Republicans than the average person.
Jiro
10d ago
I hesitate to accept the term "deplatform" for people whose political beliefs affect how they do their jobs.
It depends on how directly the second group is affected by the first group's actions, and how directly the members of the first group who accomplished things are associated with the members who did the oppression. If a group of whites suddenly oppressed all the nonwhites and their white friends all made great accomplishments within the next five year period, then yes, that may be a good point. But the lasting effect of oppression that happened a long time ago doesn't count.
I'd also question whether it's true anyway. The US and Europe are predominantly white, especially in historic time periods, so even if there was no oppression at all, most accomplishments would be by whites just by size of population. And when those countries oppressed outsiders, the outsiders generally were in primitive cultures that couldn't accomplish much regardless of whether they were oppressed.
Also, since Jews were oppressed for much of history, you can't use this to say that Jews didn't earn their accomplishments. Even over time periods where Jews weren't oppressed, you'd have to find out how many extra accomplishments the Jews had compared to non-Jews per capita, and exempt those too, since any such excess was unrelated to oppression.
I really didn't expect to see it deployed to explain why it doesn't count that TW spoke out against a bad thing.
This also raises the question of exactly what you mean by "doesn't count". It counts as TW doing a good thing. But it doesn't count if what you're praising him for explicitly depends on the size of his audience, such as "successfully promoted it when the right-wingers who first noticed it couldn't". (Which is another difference between this and the white people case.)
Jiro
11d ago
Also, the circumstances of Trace's hoax made it easier for him to hoax compared to a right-winger sending in a hoax about his left-wing enemies. An actual hoax by a right-winger that smeared a left-winger would have to remain undetected over time; the right-winger would have to be able to send it in, get it posted, and not have people all over the Internet say "that's a hoax". If people did say that, the hoax would be counterproductive.
Trace was going to expose the hoax pretty soon, so he didn't have this limitation and could make cruder hoaxes than an actual right-wing hoaxter could get away with.
Jiro
11d ago
It's still his allies. And even if that doesn't count for anything, it's still that he did it because of external forces that made it easier for people like him.
Jiro
12d ago
Not only that, Trump specifically commuted their sentences instead of pardoned, and pardoned the nonviolent ones; he made a positive decision to treat them differently.
Jiro
12d ago
he has done a better job of bringing this particular issue to the public attention than anybody on the Motte
This is like the argument that Microsoft is good because it brought computers to the people. Microsoft was the one who did that because Microsoft's own actions made there be no room for anyone else to do so.
It's very difficult for anyone not on the left to bring an issue to public attention, because of the actions of the left. So yes, it's true that he did, but this doesn't mean much.
Jiro
12d ago
Ironic, given that just a few days ago we had people accusing TracingWoodgrains of being too leftist.
Leftists will accuse many people of being fascist, including people in inter-left struggles. And of course they aren't. This is just standard inter-left infighting, it doesn't mean they are not leftist.
Jiro
14d ago
I'd agree that these are racist. I'd also point out that there have been many, many, cases of leftists crying wolf when they supposedly dredged up something racist that someone did, and 9 times out of 10 it's innocuous, happened twenty years ago, or both. Having it actually pan out is unusual. That's why this case was met with a lot of skepticism--most of the time something like this doesn't pan out.
Jiro
15d ago
How is this not a bill of attainder? Because he's working for the government?
Jiro
16d ago
People often have knowledge which is difficult to express in words. That doesn't make it an arbitrary preference.
Jiro
16d ago
By the way, some British soldiers were lynched and their corpses booby trapped by Israelis. Doesn't sound like a good time.
Google does not seem to find this, and neithjer is it in /r/britain on reddit.
Jiro
16d ago
I find that the concept of "interesting" is often used here and on DSL in toxic ways. It's too easy to call a post "interesting" when people are responding to it a lot because of its flaws, deliberate (for trolling) or otherwise (for AI). Well-argued is fine. Interesting shouldn't even be on the table.
This seems like the self-driving car redux. They improve, and they improve... and at some point they stop getting better because the remaining problems are intractable.
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