Stellula
3mo ago
I wish everybody could see what the life of a university student looks like right now.
The dorms have morphed into all inclusive luxury apartments. “Student loans” are spent on food delivery, and fast casual restaurants like chipotle.
Go visit a college town and look at the apartments and the restaurants and everything around it. It’s unsettling.
A university should be surrounded by dive bars. Dorms should continue their long tradition of being just barely habitable, and students should have jobs that they use to pay for their tuition. Anybody who can do basic math saw that as the availability of money increased (unsecured student loans), the cost rose to meet it. There is no gating function on university cost. It will continue to go up until it either reaches infinity, or until we stop giving unsecured loans to children to pass on to these massive multi billion dollar institutions.
“Forgiving” these loans is insane. We’ve robbed billions and billions of dollars from the American people and given it to a small minority of elite wealthy children and massive real estate investment firms which also happen to teach a few worthless classes.
Stellula
3mo ago
As I remember from the bcash fork back in the day, you should basically just have a wallet which works on both the bitcoin and bcash chains.
Like if you import your private key into a modern client that supports bcash, you should just see a balance there that you can move to an exchange and sell.
Stellula
3mo ago
I'm saying they taste the same, but they're easier to crack, and I don't have to wash them.
Yes the costco 60 pack.
My chickens free range on my entire property, and their feed is just normal feed from the fleet store. Most of my family have flocks, though, so we might have to set up a taste test at our next family reunion!
Stellula
3mo ago
they're harder to crack and wash shit off of
EXACTLY this. This is the exact reason why.
Some food things:
Microwave potatoes. Take a potato, rinse it off, nuke it for 5 minutes.
Cut it apart, add a ton of butter and cheese and jalapeños. It’s really good.
Take the traeger pill. Brisky: salt and pepper (more pepper than you think, but also more salt than you think). In the smoker at 225 until it hits like 170F internal. Wrap in pink butcher paper, keep going until 203F internal. DO NOT take it out before this. Keep it in the butcher paper and either put it in the oven on warm, or into a cooler for 4 hours AT LEAST. The second part, referred to as a "rest", is required. People skip this step, and their brisket sucks as a result. You HAVE to rest it just like you have to actually cook it. Also: trim it if you are a commercial smokehouse and making sausage, or trim it if you really want to dial in the texture profile of every bite or make sure that customers are getting a consistent bark/fat/meat ratio. If you are a backyard BBQist, then it doesn't really matter if you mess up the trim. Trimming is fine, but do not sweat the trim.
Delight your friends and horrify your cardiologist.
Picanha: sous vide it at 129F overnight. Cut off steaks and fry them and eat them with cut up fresh jalapeños (the hotter the better) and more salt than you think. Don’t tell anybody because Picanha used to be cheap and it’s going up in price as it gets more popular.
Raw Milk: I hate to admit this but it tastes better. A LOT better. I hate admitting this because as a backyard chicken keeper, I also have to admit that store bought eggs are better than backyard eggs, and taste absolutely no different and I would challenge anybody to prove me wrong on this.
Stellula
3mo ago
It is part of the jury instructions (at least as reported by AP), and the modifier (doing it as part of a campaign finance violation) was one pathway towards treating this as a felony.
Stellula
3mo ago
The most relevant point is made in several places and deserves its own discussion:
Trump is accused of using personal money for a campaign purpose.
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His lawyer paid a hooker to sign an NDA, and when Trump reimbursed him it was marked this as a legal expense.
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The accusation is that this is a campaign finance violation because this benefited his campaign and therefore should have been marked as such.
However, it is not illegal to pay somebody to sign an NDA. Suppose Trump had done what the NY state prosecutor is implying he should have done, which would be to use campaign funds to pay off this hooker.
Would it be better? That seems unlikely.
The regime sees Trump as illegitimate. Because of this any political action he takes is illegitimate.
Stellula
3mo ago
I now firmly believe there was active vote alteration (before i thought it was limited to an unfair process)
What changed your mind?
Stellula
3mo ago
No, because they can't say what the crime was. We don't convict people on "vibes", or at least we aren't supposed to.
In the worst case, you could have 8 people, a majority, thinking that he was innocent of the modifier. This should nullify it.
There was some absolute fuckery involved in the jury instructions in my opinion. I'm curious for some of the lawyers who post here to weigh in. As I understand it:
In order for there to be a felony conviction in NY, there has to be a modifier to the "falsifying business records" charge. So you have to falsify business records in pursuit of another crime.
There were three possible modifiers here for Trump to go from a misdemeanor charge to a felony.
- falsifying other business records
- breaking the Federal Election Campaign Act
- submitting false information on a tax return
The slimy part (from my understanding) is that the judge said that they didn't actually have to agree on which of these modifiers he committed. You just had to get 12 people to agree that he had done something. So you could do 4, 4, and 4 all voting on each of the 3 options, with a majority disagreeing that he was actually guilty of the modifier.
Wild stuff.
AP seems to keep updating this page, which is very annoying, but it does explain the jury instructions: https://apnews.com/live/trump-trial-jury-deliberations-updates#0000018f-c551-d5ca-abff-d5fda72d0000
Interestingly, they say this is "fact check: false", and then go on to explain exactly what it is true, lol.
Stellula
3mo ago
Yes. But that is not what OpenAI did. They hired a completely different real human being a trained an AI model on her voice.
Stellula
3mo ago
no one will miss FSD
FSD drives me door to door on almost every trip I take. I think a lot of people would miss it. Probably all the people who think it’s worth $200/mo would, and even the people paying $100/mo would too.
Stellula
3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civis_Romanus_sum
But also: Eric Prince is certainly not a dumb person.
Stellula
3mo ago
Sydney Sweeney is getting a lot of work right now.
If Elon decides that Grok needs to have a visual avatar, and wants to hire SS to model for it (because she is very attractive), but she declines, and he goes with a different blonde woman with enormous...eyes...should SS be able to sue for this?
Stellula
3mo ago
I’m not disputing that it could sound like her, and I think if I had been primed to it like you, I might have made the connection as well.
My point is that SJ is not a voice actor, and isn’t doing a specific “character” or something the way that Fran Drescher or Gilbert Gotfried are.
Her voice is generic. It’s why there aren’t SJ impersonators the way there are for Donald Trump, for instance, who has a very distinct way of speaking. Searching for a SJ voice impersonator returns 0 results for me on YouTube at least.
And by the way I say this as somebody who likes a lot of the movies she has been in and sought them out. Girl With the Pearl Earring, The Island, Her, Lost in Translation; these were all movies I loved and largely sought out because she was in them. She wasn’t being hired for her voice.
Does this really sound that much like Scarlett Johansson? Even after Sama made that tweet this still didn’t occur to me. It just sounded like a generic, friendly female voice to me, and I think the “Her” tweet was just a reference to the plot of the movie, not the voice.
This whole kerfuffle seems annoying, and also seems like Scarlett Johansson reaching for a way to include herself.
They offered her a job, she refused, and then they got somebody else to do the same thing. Now she’s mad. This is not interesting.
Maybe the angle here is that since AI duplications are so easy and good now that we’ll enter a sort of guilty until proven innocent phase where everybody assumes they are more important than they might actually be.
No the company is not “deep faking” you, you just aren’t actually unique.
Stellula
4mo ago
Heat death is high information density though as a description of the state.
Maybe from an information theory perspective, non-information bits are thought of as cold or empty.
I know LLMs are banned here so mods please don’t ban me for this. Here is what I get from chatGPT when I ask “what does it mean for something to be low entropy in the context of the information it contains?”
In the context of information theory, low entropy indicates that the information content is highly predictable and ordered. Entropy, a concept introduced by Claude Shannon, measures the uncertainty or randomness in a set of data. When entropy is low, the data has less randomness and is more structured, meaning that there is less information content or fewer surprises in the data.
For example, a string of repeated characters like "AAAAA" has low entropy because the next character is easily predictable. Conversely, a string of random characters like "G7d2#k9" has high entropy because the next character is unpredictable. In summary, low entropy implies high predictability and low information content.
This is what I mean. Very low information, skimmable (because it’s predictable and repetitive).
I agree that “low information density” would be a better way of phrasing this, it seems like I am using this term wrong. Thank you!
Stellula
4mo ago
Maybe I’m using the term wrong? Low entropy as in: very little actual information. Something that could realistically be summarized in a sentence or two, gets expanded into a giant wall.
Stellula
4mo ago
I think they’re largely cosplaying. Meaning is the only way through suffering, and these people are looking for some sort of meaning to help with their nihilism/depression.
I think there’s also an element of them getting to wear keffiyahs (which look cool) and do a big cultural appropriation without getting in trouble for it socially.
Stellula
4mo ago
Have the campus protests had any sort of effect on Israel? It seems like no.
Stellula
4mo ago
A lot of the posters here are just very bad communicators who are good at writing gigantic, very low entropy walls of text.[1]
Those walls of text have become semi-required by the moderators[2].
Thus: normal posters don’t post about any of these (interesting almost always fruitful for discussion) topics because they don’t want to get banned. I suspect that most of the interesting people have already left the party, but unfortunately I don’t know where went.
[1]: If you are into cryptocurrency, watch the episode of Alexi Friedman with the founder of Cardano on it. He talks for like 6 hours and says NOTHING. This is a good example of what a 2024 motte poster does in most top level posts.
[2]: Yes cjet as you say every single time anybody complains about this topic there is no length requirement. And yet: yes there is.
Stellula
4mo ago
extremist trads who openly advocate for violent revolution online
Where?
but the same is true for Muslim extremists.
If you are going to seriously compare even the rhetoric being put out by Traditional Catholics and Fundamentalist Muslims, you really need to back it up with something.
Is there somewhere I can read more background on this guy? I'm seeing lots of memetic breathlessness on twitter as if he is a Person That Matters, but...I don't get it. He appears to be gay-coded and extremely high verbal intelligence, but I don't see much substance to any of what he is saying. It reminds me a lot of various cryptocurrency gurus. The outfit, the coifed hair, the speaking as if what he is saying is somehow extremely complex but he is Here to Explain It For You.
He seems like a skinny Charles Hoskinson.
Also I want to register my extreme doubts about where Ai is going or if "AGI" is coming. Current Ai as I use it (daily) seems very good at information retrieval, which it then brute forces into something which looks a lot like human speech, but there is no intelligence there. It's a trillion monkeys typing at a trillion typewriters all at the same time, and then the machine reads all of their outputs (quickly) and finds one which looks like it matches your input.
It's really cool, but getting more monkeys at more typewriters doesn't produce intelligence.
AI is a philosophical zombie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie?useskin=vector
At some point people pretending that it is anything other than this just come across as stupid, especially when they try to dress up what they're saying.
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