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20hr ago
My homework was graded. That's broadly true.
We go over it in class. Kids are responsible for checking it when we do.
We also didn't do this. I went to school decades ago so maybe I'm out of date.
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21hr ago
Correct that leadership is all on AI. But my coworkers are pretty enthused independently from that. Not that I'd know if someone was hiding negative opinions.
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1d ago
Skimming that link:
The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
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1d ago
0% rejection in my personal experience. I work for a major tech company. Maybe the rejectors are carefully hiding their opinions or something.
I've never in my life had anything comparable to this list of problems. Reading it I thought you were doing a bit and would pivot to some larger point acknowledging that these are fictional examples. But then you don't so these are real. Are you in Brazil or something? I don't think any significant portion of my fellow Americans suffer from these sorts of issues.
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1d ago
Long ago, when I was in school, we were told that international comparisons of academic ability severely underestimate Americans. Many other developed countries track students and only the topmost track takes the assessments. So it is the upper portion of Europeans and Singaporeans vs all Americans. Their upper portion is much better than our median. Unless we were all geniuses or them all severely disabled, that would have to be true.
So indeed universal K-12 is somewhat strange, even among modern developed countries if you count the college track.
And these poor kids don't get any part of any tracked or non-tracked system. No food at lunch, only punches. No grading of any math assignment, only As.
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3d ago
Agreed. The risk still exists that some group would want bioweapons anyways. Aum Shinrikyo would have made and deployed bioweapons if it was feasible. And indeed they'd be at least as likely to be killed by the weapon as their victims. That's little comfort to me.
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3d ago
I recall years ago on lesswrong people making this point. That some people are ascribing magical powers to AI when imagining they'd invent super technology very quickly or escape from their hardware by directly manipulating the computer components. I recall the response always being the Yudkowsky followers bowing out of the conversation. Explicitly saying they're bowing out. Which is a thought defeating cliche to prevent themselves from considering contrary ideas.
Not too be too harsh to them, but reciting that cliche to shut down discussion when getting any pushback against Yudkowsky's sillier ideas is a real anti-rational move. Stuff like that is why they had to speak in code avoiding the word "cult" to describe themselves. Asking users to please stop writing the word "cult" or search engines will associate them with cults.
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4d ago
As a corpo I'll do well. Be overworked and scared of terrorists perhaps, but materialy wealthy.
I don't know if it is true, but supposedly gay Germans are very disproportionately supporters of AfD. The point being Western culture is fine with them being gay. Some other cultures not so much.
Alice Weidel is cringing thinking about what would happen to her and her domestic partner if Islamists ruled Europe. She wants her gay family to thrive. She's of course portrayed as a crazed right winger and a nazi for doing so.
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8d ago
I don't know how your friend's tastes lie, but, are all the local women insufferably progressive or mostly just the white ones and the ones who went to American universities for undergrad? Try Mexicans and Asians. Some are as woke as any college educated white woman. Mostly from going to college in America if my personal experience is correct. But many are not. The other guys at his FAANG company will accept and understand that his girlfriend or wife isn't white.
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8d ago
Gay representation in media is illegal in China.
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Films with gay characters are banned and don't play in Chinese theaters.
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Phone app games can't have characters with ambiguous genders, or effeminate men or anyone gay.
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China has illegal gay romance stories published on websites. This is hypothetically illegal but the laws weren't enforced. Then they were. The women who write these gay romances were arrested and held in prison for long periods of time awaiting trial.
Us Americans are culture waring about trans women in combat sports. China is on a completely different level.
Their leaders are billionaires. They're whatever form of communism is rule by billionaires.
They are nationalists in the way I wish Americans were. We have a tragic deficit of nationalism. It might be terminal.
I once saw a homeless beggar in China. Two Chinese cops were standing in front of him and very kindly asking him to go away. My main complaint about American urban decay is forbidden in China. They have the will to ban it and enforce the ban.
It is hard to shoehorn everything into a simple left-right dichotomy. They like abortion and dislike economic liberalism. They aren't "right wing" in that sense. They are culturally conservative in a way some Americans would consider far right. If Republicans endorsed a fraction of Chinese state policy, it would be loudly denounced as far-right extremism.
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9d ago
Singapore has a functioning modern economy. They can buy food. The poorest people on earth with desertifying land cannot.
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9d ago
I have no respect at all for the SPLC. "designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a hate group" just means they aren't sufficiently progressive. Which this Malthusian born over a century ago certainly wasn't.
Based on my memories of reading his writings: he was very concerned about the fact that parts of Africa are desertifying. Those localities' ability to grow food is decreasing over time. So it is an enormous act of cruelty to dump food on them. That lets their population grow yet further past their decreasing food supply. That's endless escalating starvation and dependence. And if the aid ever stops it is mass starvation on the scale of the worst communist policies. He's concerned for their welfare so he cautions against poorly thought out aid programs.
I wasn't aware of his private letters. That's disappointing. Oh well. I would also like an English speaking majority in the US. I'm sure the SPLC would smear that popular and valid view as "hate". Using their non-standard understanding of that term.
Garrett Hardin wrote a lot about this. Dumping food and medicine on 3rd world countries increases the number people dependent on aid to survive. Perversely increasing deprivation and suffering long term.
Googling him now I see Wikipedia lists him as a white nationalist. I read a bunch of his writings and never encountered that. Either I somehow missed his spicy works or a Wikipedia editor is character assassinating some dead academic.
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9d ago
A slightly wiser utilitarian would know that reputations matters and not on a case by case basis decide to deceive everyone.
My problem with some critiques of utilitarianism is that they assert utilitarians have to be very short sighted to the point of obvious self-harm. I don't suppose that's actually the case.
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9d ago
the surrogate takes on full financial responsibility for the child
Long ago I read about a case of DIY sperm donation from a guy who knew two lesbians for them to have children, with a contract stating the man held no financial responsibility. Later he gets hit with child support. The laws regarding child support cannot be negated by a private contract. This guy practically wrote down "laws don't apply to me" and signed it with a couple lesbians.
Users on Reddit generally agree that informal home donations carry severe legal risks because private contracts often fail to override state welfare recovery laws without medical oversight.
Uh, thanks Google search AI. I was hoping for the opinions of Reddit regarding this. Other more relevant search results showed state governments going after some hapless guy for child support.
Anyways, this could work but we'd need a legal framework allowing it.
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10d ago
She harmed herself and tried to commit suicide after
Kind of. I don't have stats on the survival rate of falling out of a 2nd story window, but it must be very high. If anything her spinal injury is an unusually bad outcome for such a short fall.
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11d ago
Back in college a class went over how jurors act based on race, sex and age. Prosecutors and defense use these stats to make informed decisions of who they want on a jury. Long story short older black men like to vote to convict and support executing the guilty. At least relatively more than some other demographics. Young white women just the opposite. This is based on my memories of very outdated statistics. Anyways, yes to your point.
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12d ago
For some reason Reddit made hiding history as an option. Cynically that lets bots run rampant as you can't just check and see if they are spamming about something. And Reddit admins are fine with that.
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12d ago
That's fair. I lived in Shanghai for a bit. Also visited other major Chinese cities on other trips. They have none of the issues I have with American cities. The Chinese have opted out of American-style urban blight.
I still don't want to live in a Shanghai style mega-city. But my complaints would be orthogonal to my issues with American cities.
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12d ago
we had to convince ourselves that we loved living in the suburbs
I think suburb dwellers honestly like living in suburbs. I certainly do.
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13d ago
A shooter repeatedly shot at Trump including grazing Trump's ear. Trump is far past 10%.
American presidents have an 18% fatality rate. So Trump is in good company.
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13d ago
Very tangentially: I can't strongly enough recommend The Outlaws by Ernst von Salomon. He was a teenager in Weimar Germany and it was an unmitigated disaster. Nearly getting murdered by communists. Thinking maybe he should join them. Then ultimately death-squadding them and denying responsibility for the killing of Rosa Luxemburg.
Back on topic, and to be very fair to the cops: They commonly see "disappeared teenagers" turn out to be kids spending a couple days with their boyfriends. Then yet another parent says their daughter disappeared. Why would they think death by torture rather than yet another kid who will be back in a few days?
They have a nuclear arsenal. Ain't no one going to be "flattening" them.
If indeed COVID-19 was a lab leak, then it was funded by your tax dollars through EcoHealth Alliance. This kind of gain of function research is rightfully banned in the US. So EcoHealth Alliance did it in China. Out of control federal employees got a NIH grant and routed part of it to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in order to perform banned gain of function research on bat coronaviruses. Snaking the ban on such research by performing it in China. Americans have just as much responsibility as the Chinese for this. We also have a nuclear arsenal so no foreigner will be allowed to flatten our leadership either.
At this point the Chinese government denies the wet market theory as not making sense. The earliest cases were not related to the wet market. The supposed bat that was the ultimate source doesn't exist anywhere remotely close to Wuhan. They've been stating this since 2020. Now that Rand Paul obtained and released Fauci's journal, we also know Fauci agreed with that in the same time frame. It is the wet market theory that seems unlikely.
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