Pongalh
1yr ago
The idea that chat AI will just generate midwit liberalisms ends up undermining midwit liberalism if a societal goal is to learn to accurately detect chat AI-driven content and squash it.
This guy is working on tech that detects just that:
How do I know you're a human being with something human to say? You say horseshoe theory-confirming stuff, lol.
Pongalh
1yr ago
More obesity but on the other hand bodybuilders today put bodybuilders of the past to shame. Certainly the average has gotten worse.
Well, I think critics were wrong about the 50s being degenerate but they're not that wrong now.
Tangentially, I think San Francisco is outrageously degenerate. But it generates wealth and competence in a way you would never guess by just looking at what's going on on the street. I think America at large is similar. Wanting congruence between the kind of people who can pump out a vaccine in a year and heroin addicts is very compelling, but apparently society can live with a messier arrangement.
Pongalh
1yr ago
The point is that we were apparently already degenerate then, in the 50s, so already degenerat-ing before then, which suggests we've always been degenerate and degenerating, which takes away the notion's give-a-shit power.
Pongalh
1yr ago
The '50s specifically cited as a time when degeneracy could have been resisted were themselves criticized as being degenerate by conservative observers at the time including the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood iirc.
What was once just media sympathies has given birth to a genuinely more grounded and sane-sounding professional class. This is what comes of holding the megaphone and losing the midwit* normies to the other side/social proof.
*This term has come to signify stupid in practice even though it's getting at the modal college degree-holder who is probably slightly above average intelligence.
Pongalh
1yr ago
I just apartment sat in Albuquerque for a month and it definitely gave me California vibes, albeit not as acute or heavy on the street level dysfunction. More native American homeless and fewer black as well. It has that wide open and nomadic thing going on that you see all across the mountain and coastal west.
Not really speaking to your post but, because Albuquerque.
Pongalh
1yr ago
As far as Russian resources being depleted, is it true that they've largely restrained from using air power? If so their aircraft resources would seem to be in good shape.
Pongalh
1yr ago
"I'm still blown away by the soft media coverage..."
Isn't it because we're dealing with crypto here, which doesn't affect the broader economy as much and doesn't impact normies.
Pongalh
1yr ago
I see pop culture as actually having a fascination with poor or working class white people, just as long as they are quirky somehow. Or criminal. Tiger King. The hatchet-wielding hitchhiker. Former mobsters moving to Oklahoma (Tulsa King).
Pongalh
1yr ago
"Can something be a culture war topic by being culture war free?"
This reminds me of the notion of "radical centrist." It sounds oxymoronic but makes sense when a significant number of people move away from centrism such that centrism inches closer to an offensive abnormality.
Pongalh
1yr ago
Of course the more such overreactions are taken as valid, the more people who might provoke such reactions are driven underground, creating a feedback loop of anti-social provocations and witch-like associations.
Pongalh
1yr ago
Spanish.
Oh and I buy all that, and the challenge it presents to my POV here. I'm just saying functionally that's how it "feels" on a work-a-day level and I think just how it goes in America.
They're all kinds of incidental and less obvious markers that can upset this schema.
Pongalh
1yr ago
Yeah. I figure someone like your wife is white in Mexico but not white here. Like Bolsonaro in Brazil and so on.
If everyone already speaks Spanish that no longer qualifies as a non-white, "Latino" characteristic. So you rely on what's left.
Pongalh
1yr ago
Right. One could consider it a fuck you to Marie Kondo striver culture, a "laying flat" as the Chinese under-zeitgeist has it.
Pongalh
1yr ago
I feel like the definition of deadbeat junkie has moved from parasitic freeloader who has debts to...software engineer not living his best life.
Pongalh
1yr ago
They sold them the Patriot missile system, and F-16s allegedly on the way.
Pongalh
1yr ago
Feeling your way around an issue beats reason and knowledge any day. The illiberal trads and woke can agree on that.
Pongalh
1yr ago
I get that abstract principles are having a tough time right now, I'm curious what goes into identifying friend vs. enemy. It's certainly not as simple as demographics, so it's not like we've gone directly from principles to its crudest opposite.
I want to say something like egregore-fueled "essences" or something. Resistance to AI art can be tied to a tech bro "essence" of some kind, which actually does make it somewhat demographically-informed. But at any time a good tech bro may be identified, because it's short-term politically useful. That time-dependent aspect is linked to the egregore dimension.
Pongalh
1yr ago
If an area is over a threshold of progressivism then becoming a family man actually solidifies progressive opinion, because you're more institutionally invested and it's vital to keep up appearances among friends of friends and whatnot. My married friends or more woke than my unmarried friends. I'm in California.
Dynamics could be completely flipped in Alabama.
Pongalh
1yr ago
My guess is it's an attempt to accommodate body types they associate with the Global south. Primarily Africa, and furthermore West Africa.
Pongalh
1yr ago
Yeah I should be more specific. At least insofar as young women themselves doing the trashing of older women, seems no one much gives a damn. I think it rises to the level of uncouth but no more.
If China were doing this to their own population as well would it not be considered a super weapon against the US?
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