erwgv3g34
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Even if you really care about prompt-adherence, there are realistic Pony finetunes you can use to get a model that can understand *booru tags.
erwgv3g34
15hr ago
Greece is in Europe, Egypt is in Africa, and Hittites and Assyrians were in Asia; good enough for me.
Besides, the point of the meme is to play up Bronze Age civilization as much as possible with technically-true statements, to make it sound like a crazy conspiracy theory on par with ancient aliens and Atlantis.
erwgv3g34
22hr ago
I was generating porn locally with Stable Diffusion XL running on an $800 gaming laptop that had an RTX 4050 with 6 GB of VRAM two years ago. Most of what I made was hentai, but it would have been trivial to train a LoRA on a couple dozen SFW photos of a particular girl, then made porn of her on demand.
There's a great theory out there about how, three and a half millennia ago, the Mediterranean was dominated by super advanced civilizations. Like, this is way before classical Greece, but supposedly these guys had intercontinental trade routes, giant palace complexes, literacy, booming populations, etc. The kinds of things you would expect from the Roman Empire. Then a series of catastrophes happened, culminating by an invasion of mysterious sea people that came out of literally nowhere; their cities burned, massive fractions of the population died, pottery and art regressed hundreds of years, the written word was lost and had to be reinvented with new alphabets... basically their own version of the dark ages.
It's an excellent theory, with lots of detailed lore and worldbuilding, it almost makes me think it was real... oh, wait.
erwgv3g34
22hr ago
The part that stings a bit is that this dude is a divorcee with two kids, and she just dove right into his arms. I can't even imagine what he offers over me, other than comfort/familiarity.
erwgv3g34
23hr ago
From AntiDem's Ask.FM:
Shit like this is why Socrates wanted to boot all the poets out of his perfect society. Poets can make the worst, stupidest, and most horrible ideas sound beautiful (and since they tend to be artistic instead of intellectual, they are prone to doing so, especially when those ideas are utopian in nature). Their ability to do this makes them inherently dangerous - they represent a constant risk of destabilizing your society by making people believe in unworkable utopian nonsense. Socrates was not some uncultured brute, but he understood the danger so well that he believed that it was better to have a society without poets at all than to take a risk like that.
Smart guy, that Socrates.
erwgv3g34
23hr ago
From "The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence" by Eliezer Yudkowsky:
In the ancestral environment, there were no moving pictures; what you saw with your own eyes was true. A momentary glimpse of a single word can prime us and make compatible thoughts more available, with demonstrated strong influence on probability estimates. How much havoc do you think a two-hour movie can wreak on your judgment? It will be hard enough to undo the damage by deliberate concentration—why invite the vampire into your house? In Chess or Go, every wasted move is a loss; in rationality, any non-evidential influence is (on average) entropic.
Do movie-viewers succeed in unbelieving what they see? So far as I can tell, few movie viewers act as if they have directly observed Earth’s future. People who watched the Terminator movies didn’t hide in fallout shelters on August 29, 1997. But those who commit the fallacy seem to act as if they had seen the movie events occurring on some other planet; not Earth, but somewhere similar to Earth.
You say, “Suppose we build a very smart AI,” and they say, “But didn’t that lead to nuclear war in The Terminator?” As far as I can tell, it’s identical reasoning, down to the tone of voice, of someone who might say: “But didn’t that lead to nuclear war on Alpha Centauri?” or “Didn’t that lead to the fall of the Italian city-state of Piccolo in the fourteenth century?” The movie is not believed, but it is cognitively available. It is treated, not as a prophecy, but as an illustrative historical case. Will history repeat itself? Who knows?
erwgv3g34
1d ago
I think you mean to say that cities are fertility shredders.
The term "IQ shredders" was invented by Spandrell and popularized by Nick Land. It's a combination of fertility shredding with the attraction that cities present to young, intelligent, ambitious people.
If you are a talented young man or woman from the countryside or suburbs, chances are you move to New York or Singapore to make it, then fail to reproduce. Hence, IQ shredders.
erwgv3g34
1d ago
Except they aren't savings. It's not like the money they contributed was put into a fund somewhere to accrue interest and now they are getting it back. Their money was spent to pay out pensions to the old before, and their current pensions are being paid by current contributions from the young, with no relationship between how much they contributed and how much they get paid back out (pensions pay out much more than was ever paid into them and were only ever possible because of an exponentially increasing population of young people to fund them; when fertility collapsed, the pensions became unsustainable).
erwgv3g34
1d ago
The Dark Knight Rises is one of the most popular movies ever made, and the plane sequence is its signature scene. This is like someone saying "Play it again, Sam" in a reply to you, and you getting upset because your name is not Samuel.
erwgv3g34
3d ago
From "The Right to Marry" by Sister Y:
A few states - Lousiana, Arizona, and Arkansas - allow what is called "covenant marriage," marriage that may only be dissolved on fault grounds. However, couples may not even use covenant marriage to credibly promise lifetime partnership, because either partner may simply relocate to a non-covenant-marriage state and initiate no-fault divorce proceedings there.
Better still: abolish degrees; keep the tests.
What is the value add of requiring that someone spends 4 years in a building? Whatever it is, it cannot be worth it.
In a sane world, a GED would be worth more than a high school diploma, because you actually have to know something to pass the standardized GED test, whereas you can graduate from some high schools without knowing how to read.
erwgv3g34
3d ago
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3d ago
It's "hand" in Latin, pronounced "ma-nus".
erwgv3g34
3d ago
Modern Samwise Gamgee would have come home to find out that Rose Cotton cheated on him with Jody Took and the government that he fought so hard to defend would steal half his shit and give it to her (because Sam married Rosie for BAH before deploying).
erwgv3g34
3d ago
If you want to lock up the most criminal-looking 5% of each cohort as they enter the peak crime-committing years, you either need to start letting them out in large numbers (which Bukele has promised not to do) or you end up with 5% of the population in prison, which is probably unsustainable.
In the long run, they simply have to be executed. Keeping them locked up is unsustainable (and runs the risk that some later administration will release them, like a sealed evil from a fantasy novel), exile is infeasible, and the state no longer allows private individuals to dispose of them through e.g. lynching.
erwgv3g34
3d ago
"a" being the keyword. As in, just one. Whereas being the top sportsball player or rockstar can get you swarms of girls fighting over you.
Not working for me, either. But that's not unusual; it sometimes stops working for a bit. Give it a few hours and try again.
EDIT: It's back online.
The fundamental problem is that female desires are inherently impossible to fulfill. Each woman wants to be the exclusive wife of an alpha male, but there simply aren't enough alphas to go around. If Chad has a soft harem of five girls, and you force him to settle down, then he can only settle down with one of them, leaving the other four in the lurch. Whichever girl that dated Leonardo DiCaprio before turning 25 gets to keep him, deprives all other girls of Leonardo DiCaprio.
From Sexual Utopia in Power: The Feminist Revolt Against Civilization:
It is sometimes said that men are polygamous and women monogamous. Such a belief is often implicit in the writings of male conservatives: women only want good husbands, but heartless men use and abandon them. Some evidence does appear, prima facie, to support such a view. One 1994 survey found that “while men projected they would ideally like 6 sex partners over the next year, and 8 over the next two years, women responded that their ideal would be to have only one partner over the next year. And over two years? The answer, for women, was still one.” Is not this evidence that women are naturally monogamous?
No it is not. Women know their own sexual urges are unruly, but traditionally have had enough sense to keep quiet about it. A husband’s belief that his wife is naturally monogamous makes for his own peace of mind. It is not to a wife’s advantage, either, that her husband understand her too well: knowledge is power. In short, we have here a kind of Platonic “noble lie”—a belief which is salutary, although false.
It would be more accurate to say that the female sexual instinct is hypergamous. Men may have a tendency to seek sexual variety, but women have simple tastes in the manner of Oscar Wilde: they are always satisfied with the best. By definition, only one man can be the best. These different male and female “sexual orientations” are clearly seen among the lower primates, e.g., in a baboon pack. Females compete to mate at the top, males to get to the top.
Women, in fact, have a distinctive sexual utopia corresponding to their hypergamous instincts. In its purely utopian form, it has two parts: (1) she mates with her incubus, the imaginary perfect man, and (2) he “commits,” or ceases mating with all other women. This is the formula of much pulp romance fiction. The fantasy is strictly utopian, partly because no perfect man exists, but partly also because even if he did, it is logically impossible for him to be the exclusive mate of all the women who desire him
Alphaize the betas? Not going to work. Much of what makes men alpha is zero-sum; fame, status, leader of men, etc. We are all richer and taller than we were before the industrial revolution. Doesn't mean women are suddenly much more attracted to the average man; it just means they keep looking for the top 20%.
Women's wants cannot be satisfied, and we are going extinct trying. Since they are going to be unhappy no matter what, we might as well go back to what worked for the last 5000 years; forcibly pair off each woman while she still young, virginal, and fertile, to a beta who is willing to do the work of building and fighting to support his civilization.
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3d ago
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4d ago
Knowing that other women find a man attractive is one of the most reliable triggers of female attraction. Look up preselection, social proof, and mate-choice copying. PUAs are well aware of this, and will use tricks like going out to pick up chicks while wearing a fake wedding ring.
It's not that women want their man to cheat of them, exactly; but neither do they want a man who is so unattractive that he has no opportunity to ever cheat. The female fantasy is a man who is so sexy that he plowed through a legion of girls before settling down with her, then remains loyal to his wife even though other girls keep propositioning him. But, by revealed preferences, women would much rather forgive a cheater than date a man who has no prospects of ever cheating; better to share an alpha than to have a whole beta to herself.
erwgv3g34
6d ago
Doesn't matter what the lawyers say or what you sign; a judge can decide to throw it all out and put you on the hook for child support because it's in the child's best interests. Sperm bank donors have strong precedent protecting them from this, and the knowledge from the legal system that the entire institution would collapse if they allowed donors to be sued; you don't.
Doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, but be aware of the very real risk that they divorce later down the line and whoever gets custody chooses to come after you; like Parfit's hitchhiker, they cannot credibly precommit not to defect at a later time once it is in their interest to do so.
Podcasts, audiobooks, radio dramas, and music. Some recommendations:
- One-Shots
- Series
- Audie Award Winners
- LibriVox
- Isaac Asimov Audio Book Collection
- Dimension X
- X Minus One
- Escape Pod
- PodCastle
- PseudoPod
- The Drabblecast
- The Methods of Rationality Podcast
- Rationally Speaking
- The 80,000 Hours Podcast
- "#25 – Robin Hanson on why we have to lie to ourselves about why we do what we do"
- "#32 – Bryan Caplan on whether the Case Against Education holds up, totalitarianism, & open borders"
- "#126 – Bryan Caplan on whether lazy parenting is OK, what really helps workers, and betting on beliefs"
- "#172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news"
- The Bayesian Conspiracy
- Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot
[1] https://files.catbox.moe/ihpyci.mp3
[2] https://archive.org/download/EscapePodCompleteMP3Collection/EP200_AllYouZombies.mp3
[3] https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/rationallyspeakingpodcast/rs135-9.mp3
Airplanes? Ships? Semi-trucks? Electric cars are only good for suburban commuters. Everyone else needs a power source that can last over long distances and doesn't take ten hours to recharge.
As for solar, battery storage capacity lags far behind power generation capacity. Which is a problem, because it means solar is unreliable. It doesn't matter if on average solar can produce all the power you need; a couple of cloudy days in a row will screw you over.
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