The_Nybbler
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The_Nybbler
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1mo ago
meanwhile honorary white Japan (which was spared colonialism - somehow)
When the threat of colonization became apparent, they built themselves up into a modern state.
Which itself is a rather good refutation of the nonsense theories about how the plight of the Third World is all due to the First World, but you'll never get anyone who believes it to change their mind.
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1mo ago
Then their wives remind them about abortion, no maternity leave, and school shootings and that’s the end of the conversation.
LOL. The jobs with 2x pay are in places with plenty of abortion and maternity leave (though we're somewhat cruel and will only allow one or the other at a given time).
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1mo ago
They aren't going to move somewhere with guns and racism, which of course define the US.
Unless they can get a job paying twice as much, then it's like "TN-1, HERE I COME".
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1mo ago
Are there really swarms of "junior devs" out there writing code so menial that their whole job can be replaced by an LLM?
Yes, or close to it. Used to be stack overflow was full of them trying to get real devs to do their work for them.
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1mo ago
Say the annoying things that gets normies cancelled.
As far as I can tell, there are only a handful of people wealthy enough to both be visible and actually do this (Musk, Thiel, Rowling would be at the top). Being richer than the culture war is a very high bar.
As for me.... I try to drive my sports car like a sports car, but the local police will bust me for it the same as the poor slop in the clapped-out Toyota.
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1mo ago
The government is on their side and has been since the foundation of the NLRB.
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1mo ago
If the US government had a monopoly on space travel by law, we wouldn't have satellite internet the way we do right now. And we may actually had lost access to space for non-military applications altogether.
That "non-military" is critical. Governments can develop technology when it suits their purposes, but those purposes are usually exactly what you don't want if you're afraid of AI.
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1mo ago
What makes the government less likely to create an AI apocalypse with the technology than OpenAI? And just claiming an argument is lame does not refute it.
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1mo ago
So it is environmental.
It is non-inherited. This doesn't mean environmental. It could be; it could be literally random.
If it is straight up regression to the mean, then the child of any 2 identical geniuses is just as likely to be a genius as the child of any other 2 geniuses. Because all children of geniuses will regress to the overall mean of mankind at the same rate. (assuming the same environment)
No.
I'd phrase my statement as : "Once you control for parents + environment, is the avg IQ of the parents' groups completely irrelevant?".
It is not, because the IQ of the parents' groups gives you some insight into the hidden variables. A genius from a family of geniuses most likely has a high inherited component to his IQ; a genius from a family of normies most likely has a high non-inherited component.
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1mo ago
I’ve referenced England’s Bloody Code before. Whatever else you want to say about it, it did a phenomenal job of reducing crime
We're talking about the system famous for pickpockets working the crowd of the hanging of a pickpocket, right?
The inquisitorial system is very lindy, even if not in a specifically American context.
Lindy, yes, but lindy doesn't mean "good".
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1mo ago
The only thing for it is to hope that they fail spectacularly in a limited way that kills fewer than hundreds of millions of people, and which results in some new oversight, before everything goes even more spectacularly wrong. Oh well.
Or that AI doomerism is pure (or almost pure) nonsense. Maybe someday we'll find something with the potential to risk FOOM! or Von Neumann style self-replication, but we're nowhere near there yet. AI killbots, though possible, aren't the same sort of risk.
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1mo ago
This is a misunderstanding of regressing to the mean. Regression to the mean after selection happens because some part of IQ is non-inherited, and it is IQ as a whole that is selected for. When you go to the next generation, the part of IQ which is non-inherited returns to baseline, while the inherited mean does not, so the next generation will have a lower mean IQ. There's no spooky group inheritance involved.
But the answer to both questions is yes.
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1mo ago
Imagine that for the smoker. Every place he goes, he sees cigarettes for sale, cheaply, and not even in a way that he has to ask for them or look for them. Just ready to be picked up and smoked.
That's how it used to be for smokers, until at least the 1990s.
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1mo ago
OK, one vote for the Inquisition.
I will note that this murder is NOT such a case. There was no photo/video evidence, nor DNA evidence. There was pretty clear evidence that he stole from the victim, but the murder conviction, while likely justified, was not so obvious.
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1mo ago
When the based regime takes over, mass disbarment of probably 75% of defense attorneys needs to be a priority. They know they’re getting guilty people released and they think that’s just great.
We have an adversarial system of justice; that's part of the system by design. If your based regime has an inquisitorial system instead, you might as well make a thumbscrew and rack your banner.
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1mo ago
The US has a tradition of "punishing" prosecutorial doofusery by letting guilty criminals go
Some misconduct is theoretically punished this way. Mere doofusery typically is not. In this case, the doofusrey was inconsequential; no DNA from the defendant was found on the knife. If the knife was found to have been mishandled and both defendant and contaminant DNA was found, there might be a case for excluding that evidence, but that's not what happened here.
England abolished juror strikes (we still allow challenge for cause, but its vanishingly rare) and it didn't do any harm.
Since many of the rights of the defendant are based on "don't do what England did", that's not very convincing. Especially considering the UK's current despotism (COVID, ASBOs, saying bad things about immigrants, banning dogs doing the Hitler salute..)
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1mo ago
DNA cannot exonerate someone except by implicating someone else more strongly.
That's not quite true; the absence of DNA that would certainly be expected if the crime was committed by the defendant is evidence that he didn't commit it. But in this case it probably just means he wore gloves, so it doesn't hold.
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1mo ago
I can believe your link, or my lying eyes.
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1mo ago
I went to a Catholic primary school and was inculcated with a set of values on how I ought to judge people.
Catholics aren't big on Matthew 7:1 I guess?
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1mo ago
Pick any profession full of intelligent, hardworking people (medicine, law, programming, high-level business) and you'll see similar proportions of fat people to the general population.
I work at a software firm. You don't. I don't think we have a single obese person at the main office, and definitely no morbidly obese. I used to work at Google NYC, and obese people were few and far between there. For all the years I've been working, I've worked with few obese people. Go take public transportation (especially in Philadelphia), and they're everywhere. Same at the WalMart. Or many other "general public" places.
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1mo ago
When I begin cutting, the first 2-3 weeks is hell. I am lethargic, my head hurts, constantly starving, I have very bad breath, irritable, etc.
That's not addiction. You literally ARE starving; you are taking far less in terms of calories than you're burning. That's what cutting is.
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1mo ago
The Supreme Court, as is Robert's wont, completely nerfed Jarkesy. It only applies where the administrative law is in an area already covered by common law. So e.g. FAA regulations are completely untouched and you can still be penalized without a trial for violation thereof. I don't know if labor law would fall into that area or not; it seems like something that definitely would have been covered by common law before the NLRB.
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1mo ago
I suspect this is just their lawyers writing down every argument they can think of. But nobody but Clarence Thomas (if he's in a mood) is going to bite on that one. No matter how justified sweeping not just the NLRB but the entire administrative state would be.
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1mo ago
First of all, if the Democrats investigated and found nothing, the Republicans would (not without reason) sneer that "The Democrats investigated the Democrats and found the Democrats did nothing wrong". Second.... perhaps they do have good reason to believe that meaningful fraud took place.
Doesn't matter, the Robed 9 aren't going to allow anything radical. Roberts will always nerf it somehow. Only abortion was an exception.
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