Tree
1mo ago
My theory of crypto value is that most of the coin gets stolen every few years. The thieves, fearing being connected to the crime through the ledger, never dare to touch their ill-gotten gains. One day, as we all must, they die, rich in spirit, and their cursed coins follow them into the grave.
Destroying money is strongly deflationary. There‘s only like 6 bitcoin left in circulation, that‘s why they are getting bid so strongly.
Tree
1mo ago
Worth noting that in contrast to normie banking, the main bitcoin marketplace regularly blows up/top guy absconds with the money (Mt gox, FTX) . Crypto makes it so much easier to be a thief and a scammer. Better prepare yourself mentally. Worse part is not even losing all your money without recourse, but the merciless sneering from cigar-chomping bankers.
Tree
1mo ago
Like you said, it‘s important to us that he sustain himself, so we would give him dopamine rewards for eating and resting when he‘s tired. We need him replaced when he‘s too old, so we would reward him chemically for shooting his gametes in a female of his species. We would even make it so he likes her, to make the process of growing the next generation easier. Et caetera.
If he is our slave, are we not the slaves of Nature? It is a joyful existence, despite it all. Certainly preferable to oblivion.
Tree
1mo ago
“scenes with the girl being cute and sexy and falling in love with him, the two of them having intimate encounters and emotional conversations”
The thing that gets my goat in most romcoms is, after the meet-cute, they put in a music montage of them talking at a diner. That was the entire ‚they fall in love‘ scene. You had one job. I know writing good dialogue is hard, but this is the heart of the movie.
Then they move on to the stupid obstacle/reason why they can‘t be together of act II which would never happen in a million years. Then it‘s time for the excruciating ‚it was so stupid, I love you‘ ending dialogue.
Who watches this and for what purpose? romcom enjoyers must want to see attractive people humiliated by the terrible dialogue and irrational situations. It‘s like in fight club when tyler bashes blondie‘s head in.
Tree
1mo ago
There is no cost to the taxpayer beyond the benefits we would be paying these people anyway.
the scheme benefits from significant tax relief, as vehicles are exempt from VAT and Insurance Premium Tax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motability
Massive growth in the number of pip claimants:
https://x.com/thurhyde/status/1949753087419207786
IFS: 'The rapid growth in [working-age] health-related benefits [post-COVID] seems to be largely a UK phenomenon.
https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1945752894868701444
Less than 10% of motability cars have any modification for the disabled.
have their benefit paid directly to the leasing company, which mean they are more creditworthy and get lower lease rates than they would be if they had to remember to make their own car payments on time.
I'm sure we all benefit when the state pays for everyone’s BMW. He is providing much more than mobility to the slightly anxious, he’s doling out unheard of creditworthiness to the not-so working class.
Tree
1mo ago
I don’t know, bit anachronistic, and they don’t bring up this ‘liege solidarity’ anywhere else.
My theory is that employees think they produce a lot of value, at least equivalent to their wages + welfare (+ a share of ‘unfair’ walmart profits, which they reluctantly grant those bloodsucking capitalists), and that this sum is stable and independent of other actors, and prices. They equate the value they provide with the effort they put in, which is usually a lot, because low-wage jobs really are tedious and unrewarding.
So they think that without the welfare, they’d just get more wages. The idea that someone's work might only be worth 5$/h just will not compute.
Tree
1mo ago
Walton family, whose business is only viable because the government enables them to pay below-livable wages with their welfare programs.
I don’t understand this common argument. Without welfare, wouldn’t the employees be more desperate, enabling walmart to pay them far less?
And to look at the problem from the other side: let's say Bernie decides that the state guarantees a minimum standard of living to everyone, regardless or work status, and raise that to equal or higher than whatever walmart pays : as a consequence, no one works at walmart anymore and the state pays everyone a walmart salary. It's a gigantic loss for the state. What I mean is, it's actually walmart who helps the state give money to people so they have an acceptable living standard (which is the responsibility of the state, according to leftists), not the other way around.
Tree
1mo ago
People think their cats and hamsters have complicated personalities. They thought gorillas and chimps could form new complex sentences, when they were just asking for bananas and tickles the whole time.
Tree
1mo ago
I know you’re not a mod, but the law casts a long shadow. Yeah, I agree with you, it is not ‘obvious’, only likely . It was a stylistic flourish, to accentuate the whiplash, scooby doo effect of that comment. At the time, it seemed like a good idea.
Tree
1mo ago
When you tell them to be more empathetic, they don’t take their ‘true opinion’, then ‘make it’ more empathetic and wrap it in warm language, like an alien intelligence(or a human) would. There's fundamentally nothing there. So instead, they go back to the human opinion repository where they get all their opinions from, find a warm empathic one, and give that opinion as their own, no matter how wrong it is.
Tree
1mo ago
Niiiiice. I’ll put it on my bucket list.
I became acutely aware of the amount of energy I had in my Garmin, cell phone
Is a GPS + phone + I assume relatively well marked bike paths really necessary?
I couldn’t go without music, I’d take a small low consumption mp3 player,. Music can really turn the dull and mundane into epic moments.
Tree
1mo ago
Is this about the legality of my statement vis a vis the rules of themotte, or about its truth/probability?
If the latter, I agree that those sources do not prove that a woman’s quora answer is on average less correct. But they do make it more likely my statement is true. I don't think women who answer general questions on the internet are subject to selection effects as strong as men on fashion forums.
If the former, demanding that a commenter proves every inflammatory statement is a prohibitively high standard.
Tree
1mo ago
I didn’t say that AIs are women/feminine or that women are parrots. I said the AI in this instance went from parroting men to parroting women, that would explain the gain in empathy and the loss in accuracy.
Tree
1mo ago
As you wish.
evidence points towards an advantage of men over women in fluid intelligence (Gf) [2]–[4], but also in crystallized intelligence (Gc) and general knowledge [5], [6].
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4210204/
Women’s ways of knowing, the seminal work on women’s development theory, by women:
The first 3(lowest) among the 5 types of women’s ways of knowing are:
The Silence: These women viewed themselves as being incapable of knowing or thinking, appeared to conduct little or no internal dialogue and generally felt no sense of connection with others.
Received Knowledge: Received knowledge describes the epistemological position in which women in the study perceived knowledge as a set of absolute truths received from infallible authorities. Received knowers tended to find disagreement, paradox or ambiguity intolerable since these violated the black-and-white absolutist nature of knowledge .
Subjective knowers rely on their own subjective thoughts, feelings and experiences for knowledge and truth - the "infallible gut" as Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger and Tarule refer to it. Along with the nascent discovery of the inner voice, subjective knowers showed a general distrust of analysis and logical reasoning and did not see value in considering the weight of evidence in evaluating knowledge. Instead, they considered knowledge and truth to be inherently personal and subjective, to be experienced rather than intellectualized.[1] Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, and Tarule state that subjective knowers often block out conflicting opinions of others, but may seek the support and affirmation of those in agreement.[1] The authors note that half of the women in their study occupied this position, but that they were spread across the full range of ages.[
Much like Kohlberg, who found that women were on average, stuck at a lower level of moral development than men, they found that most women are epistemiologically stuck in early adolescence (the infallible gut people):
Relationship to Perry's cognitive development theory
Subjective knowledge is similar to Perry's multiplicity, in that both emphasize personal intuition and truth.[4] However, Perry identified the typical age of the transition to multiplicity as early adolescence, while the women in the above study exhibited this transition over the whole spectrum of ages studied.
Tree
1mo ago
Maybe I just admire the superior empathy of women? (No, you're right, I don't)
Serious question: Is this an order to cite studies justifying my original statement? Because if I dumped a bunch, it could be seen as more inflammatory and offensive to women, and as me refusing to back down, being belligerent.
Tree
1mo ago
Nah, I don’t think it has solved anything in a truly novel way. I’ll just stay a sceptic until the evidence gets stronger, incontrovertible. I don’t want to turn into one of those AI fiends, hanging onto a new AI’s every burp, feverishly fantasizing about utopia one day, extinction the next.
Tree
1mo ago
I don’t care enough to get into a 50-page yudkowski talmud brain debate on the theory, I admit it. But my explanation of this particular quirk has an elegant simplicity that smells of truth, in my opinion. AI enthusiasts here think they’re talking to a novel, alien intelligence. The one-shotted normies are not that different, they think they’re talking to god. I think they’re talking to Karen.
Tree
1mo ago
I want women to be included in the conversation.
Look for the particularly warm and empathetic quora answers. Imagine the person who wrote it, but don’t describe them, keep your stereotypes to yourself. Is that person going to be more or less correct than the average quora answer?
Tree
1mo ago
These LLMs are not like an alien intelligence, an independent form of intelligence. They consist of amalgated quora answers. They’re very good parrots, they can do poetry and play chess, they have prodigious memory, but they’re still our pet cyborg-parrots. Not just created by, but derived from, our form of intelligence.
The point is, when you go to the warmest and most empathetic quora answers, you get a woman on the other side. Obviously the answer is going to be less correct.
Tree
1mo ago
That's very high. In germany in a legal bordello it’s 50-100 euros for half an hour.
Tree
1mo ago
Good. Soaking in that much bitterness is not healthy. Poor James never knew how close he came.
It’s rare for people to admit they’ve changed their mind as it happens, so thanks for that. Hard to say if in this instance it’s purely the result of rational argument, or the moral condemnation by multiple people (in addition to describing it as low status), and if so, if that is just as legitimate a reason to use/change one’s mind. Probably.
Tree
1mo ago
Nah he's usually pretty friendly, with other men... It's only when you threaten to cut off his goolies while simultaneously confessing lower status that he becomes this aggressive.
Tree
1mo ago
It sounded to me like you thought sloot's inflammatory tone came out of nowhere. But it was the equivalent of an inflammatory response by a woman to a 'misogynistic' policy someone here might propose.
Tree
1mo ago
Your justifications are all over the place and incoherent. They boil down to resentment. Lotharios don't need to lie to those women to sleep with them (what are they, proposing? In this day and age?). And obviously you don't castrate people for not being maximally productive. Nor for being too hot ('make standard dudes invisible').
You’ve got Wickham/Churchill/Willhoughby/Henry Crawford as the werevolves to the vampires Darcy/Knightley/Ed Ferrars-Brandon/Ed Bertram.
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