TequilaMockingbird
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TequilaMockingbird
1d ago
And a cynic might suggest that this is why the parasite class is so gung ho about socialized medicine.
TequilaMockingbird
1d ago
My alternate formulation would be that while a surgeon might be a man (or woman) of import, a doctor is almost certainly trash.
TequilaMockingbird
4d ago
Worse than that, it lifted previously existing sanctions/restrictions and thus could arguably be read as giving them permission to obtain a nuclear arsenal so long as they don't actually do so until 2031.
TequilaMockingbird
4d ago
The real question imo is what's the steelman for staying in the deal when "the deal" is that we (the west) effectively subsidize Iran's support for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Et Al in exchange for a pinky-promise from Iran not to develop a nuclear weapon before 2030.
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
I know you are, and I'm cracking a joke about Ukraine firing missiles into Russia.
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
There's no state on Russia's
northernsouthern border peppering them with so many missile attacks that large numbers of civilians are forced to abandon their homes and jobs to stay in Moscow hotels
Growth Mindset!
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
My impression is that being Pro-Palestine and Pro-Ukraine is the standard woke PMC intellectual (or as you put, it "current thing at ivy league") take while supporting Isreal while being somewhere between ambivalent towards and supportive of Ukraine is the default/normie position.
Meanwhile supporting Russia while hating on Isreal seems to be the majority opinion here because this space defines itself in large part through its opposition to/hatred of anything "woke" or "normie". We are very smart dont you know.
Supporters of both Russia and Isreal are what we call "principled libertarians" but there are maybe a dozen of them in the whole world and they are surrounded by witches.
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
Its exporting energy which in the end is not that different.
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
God always had a sense of humor.
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
strong supporters of Israel will weep bitter soyjack tears when such tactics are used by any other party in any other situation.
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
On the contrary, coal, oil, gas, etc... are quite easy to export.
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
Tomatoh, Tamatah.
Contra the last 50 years of leftist propoganda, national socialism and international socialism resemble each other far more then either resembles any other ideology.
This is funny to me because I usually approach the thought experiment here from the other side
Same here. I also find it instructive to note how certain individuals will argue that Ukraine should simply acquiesce to the obviously superior military, cultural, and economic might of Russia only to suddenly rediscover the concept of "nuance" when the same arguments are applied to Arabs in the Levant.
Its almost as if they're treating arguments as soldiers/ammunition instead of sincerely trying to test an idea.
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
DEI aka "Didn't Earn It"
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
As the old line goes, the socialists will never forgive the Jews for surviving the Holocaust.
The solution was supposed to be "final", yet 80 years later here we are.
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
In which case being on record as "I voted to build more powerplants while my rivals voted against" is a lay-up of a campaign ad.
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
The point is to go the french route and run your own economy off nuclear while exporting more portable goods at a profit.
There's also the strategic consideration behind ensuring that the blue tribe is dependent on the reds' continued good will if they don't want to spend the coming winter freezing in the dark.
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
Isnt anteretrograde just prograde
TequilaMockingbird
5d ago
I find it deeply frustrating to see orherwise intelligent people (who by all rights ought to know better) anthropomorphizing algorithms in this way.
In order to "be hobbled" by retrograde amnesia it have to be capable of forming memories in the first place.
An LLM is literally just a set of static instructions being run against your prompt. Those instructions don't change from prompt to prompt or instance to instance.
Barring a the development and deployment of true Ian Banks-esque AGI I think that it's an absolutely terrible idea that will do more harm than help.
Unfortunately the very qualities that make existing generative AIs a terrible therapist are also likely to make them a popular choice as one, as IME most lower-functioning individuals don't want "help" as much as they want validation.
So in the interests of "success" (from the pov of people selling AI therapy) that will be the focus of the training data, as without model permenance and/or a functional theory of mind, things like accountability and the identifying of underlying issues will be largely off the table.
TequilaMockingbird
11d ago
The strange thing is, there are zero articles, videos, discussions, HN comments or even tweets about this.
I think the real question you need to be asking yourself is why do you find this "strange".
Or more pointedly what specific facet of your current worldview/model is it that this particular fact seems to invalidate or contradict?
Because it's the best predictor.
No it's not, because an even better predictor is some combination of past history and direct obsevation.
I am going to disregard the multiple paragraphs of woke nonsense you just spouted off and ask a simple question. Are you calling Clenence Thomas a nigger?
Are you seriously trying to argue that because of his skin color he should be considered as a shoplifter or a drug-adict and not as a supreme court judge?
If your answer is anything less than an unequivocal "yes" how do you reconcile that with the rest of your post?
TequilaMockingbird
13d ago
That was Qanon
Maybe things are different in the UK but my experience, the preoccupation with "dignity" and titles over things like training, compensation, hours, etc... is generally a mark of lower intelligence.
The iq 130 nurse practioner who realised who figured they could get 90% of the power, prestige and pay for 30% of the effort, vs the iq 105 doctor who's motivation to finish med-school was in part to shut up thier parents, teachers, classmates, et al.
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