yunyun333
3d ago
Sam Altman may be an amoral alien but most of the people who work there are not.
Why should it be easy to make an LLM act morally 100% of the time? Humans have morality and it's not that hard to get them to do amoral things. And LLMs are very different from human brains.
yunyun333
11d ago
What did you think unions protecting their employees meant? Vibes, papers, essays?
Anyways, an opinion writer winning in arbitration with a private company is hardly the most egregious example of union bullshit.
yunyun333
14d ago
People really hate big tech. Flock has the same problem, though it's much easier to put up a bunch of cameras than build a datacenter. That's all it is.
The anti flock case is more coherent because mass surveillance is a meaningful tradeoff. The water and power concerns are probably not as real.
yunyun333
15d ago
It's a shame, the rector had showed some backbone in standing by his hiring.
yunyun333
21d ago
Are you referring to this? (Case 4b) https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MDRC-Report-2024.4_Same-Day-Next-Day-Provisions_Final.pdf
Mrs. B was a female in her 80s who had a challenging medical trajectory following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. She experienced several post-operative sequelae, including wound dehiscence, osteomyelitis, and respiratory failure. She required specialized care in hospital, including additional surgical procedures. Due to physical and functional decline, Mrs. B elected for a palliative approach to care. She was discharged home with palliative supports (i.e., palliative care team and home care support services, including adaptive aids and personal support services). Mrs. B reportedly expressed her desire for MAiD to her family. In response, and on the same day, her spouse contacted a referral service on her behalf. The following day, a MAiD practitioner assessed her for MAiD eligibility. She reportedly told the MAiD assessor that she wanted to withdraw her request, citing personal and religious values and beliefs. She communicated that pursuing in-patient palliative care/hospice care and palliative sedation was more in-keeping with her end-of-life goals.
The next morning, Mrs. B presented to the emergency department (ED) of her local hospital. Her spouse was noted to be experiencing caregiver burnout. Mrs. B was assessed to be in stable condition, and thereby discharged home with continued palliative care. Her palliative care physician completed a referral for in-patient palliative care / hospice care due to her social circumstances (i.e., caregiver burnout). Her request was denied for not meeting hospice criteria for end-of-life, and a long-term care application was offered.
On the same day, Mrs. B’s spouse contacted the provincial MAiD coordination service requesting an urgent assessment. A different MAiD assessor from the previous day completed a primary assessment and determined Mrs. B to be eligible for MAiD. The former MAiD practitioner was contacted. This MAiD practitioner expressed concerns regarding the necessity for ‘urgency’ and shared belief for the need for more comprehensive evaluation, the seemingly drastic change in perspective of end-of-life goals, and the possibility of coercion or undue influence (i.e., due to caregiver burnout). The initial MAiD practitioner requested an opportunity to visit with Mrs. B the following day to re-assess; however, this opportunity was declined by the MAiD provider due to their clinical opinion that the clinical circumstances necessitated an urgent provision. An additional MAiD practitioner was arranged by the MAiD coordination service to complete a virtual assessment. Mrs. B was found eligible for MAiD by this third assessor. The provision of MAiD was completed later that evening.
A MAID assessment requires the person to be conscious and mentally aware. It sounds like the caretaker husband convinced his wife to go through with it after inpatient hospice was denied.
yunyun333
21d ago
For track 1 requests (natural death reasonably foreseeable), which made up 95% of such requests, 86.5% of recipients were over 65. For track 2 requests (mental health/chronic conditions and the like), 78.4% of recipients were over 65.
For those who received MAID under Track 1, cancer was the most frequently cited medical condition (n=10,035), followed by "other" conditions (n=3,928), then cardiovascular conditions, such as congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation or vasculopathy (n=2,703). For Track 2, the most frequently indicated medical conditions were neurological conditions (n=378), "other" conditions (n=375) and cardiovascular conditions (n=94)
yunyun333
1mo ago
The State Department released a report on the ties between radical leftism and Cuba
It seems to consist of already public information, well documented in books like Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough. An excellent and humorous review can be found here.
Cuba doesn't seem to be such a big deal nowadays. Most of the documented influence ops are from decades ago, where they assisted semi serious militant groups like the Black Panthers and Weatherman. They do cooperate with aforementioned leftist front orgs like the Natoinal Lawyers Guild, but it's not exactly a secret, they aren't even trying to hide it. And there isn't evidence that these groups would wither and die without Havana's support. It seems surprisingly easy to convince young Americans that their country needs to be burned to the roots.
Anyways, Cuba is definitely getting invaded within the next year or so.
yunyun333
1mo ago
Well, that's the whole question, isn't it?
Matthew probably captures the historical Jesus's message best. Follow the Law more righteously than the scribes and Pharisees, in preparation for the imminent kingdom. The trouble is that he was talking almost exclusively to other Jews, and never makes it clear what he expects from Gentiles.
yunyun333
1mo ago
So we can conclude that anti homosexuality is a meme perhaps suited best for more primitive cultures.
yunyun333
1mo ago
If "cultures with memes optimised for evolutionary fitness will outcompete cultures without", and the west is the most pro-homosexual culture in history, and also the most dominant culture in history...?
yunyun333
1mo ago
Well, judging by the modern world, the pro-homosexuality meme has thoroughly defeated the gay bashers.
yunyun333
1mo ago
Yes, the Roman Empire heavily prohibited and criminalized homosexuality after the reign of Constantine. While pre-Christian Rome had complex social norms that tolerated certain same-sex relationships under strict conditions of dominance and class, the Christianization of the empire led to systematic legal and social bans
Hmm....
Yes, and yet you will notice that syphilis is far less lethal than HIV.
Sure, most STDs before HIV was not particularly lethal. But that would go against the idea that prohibitions on homosexuality were created because of devastatingly lethal STD epidemics.
yunyun333
1mo ago
So the Israelites knew about STDs, but not the Romans and Greeks?
Homosexuality prohibitions didn't stop 10% of Victorian Britain from getting syphilis.
yunyun333
1mo ago
George Droyd and such are still freely available on tiktok/youtube/insta.
yunyun333
1mo ago
Enlightened centrist hat on: Leftists are hypocrites about this, but so are pearl clutching rightists when the dark humor is about Kirk and not minorities. Everyone has their sacred cows.
yunyun333
1mo ago
Those memes had a message though. They were anti-Turning Point. They existed in the first place because Kirk was an influential political organizer. There is no message behind "put Kirk's face on everything and create new slang (lowkirkenuinely)", it's just irony poisoning.
'His legacy is cringe': how Charlie Kirk became a meme among the young – even his supporters
Audio of the gunshot that killed him has become a TikTok meme, as have ironic reposts of the apparent AI-slop song We Are Charlie Kirk, which was originally created as a posthumous tribute. He was the butt of a crude joke during the Netflix roast of the Hollywood star Kevin Hart in May. The next month, a viral tweet encouraged people to take “a shot” in his honor on Juneteenth. And a trend known as “Kirkification” has emerged, in which internet pranksters superimpose his face on to unlikely images, such as the Mona Lisa, a woman in a bikini, or Jeffrey Epstein.
This contemptuous, at times nihilistic humor marks a dramatic shift from the period immediately following Kirk’s death in September, in which conservatives sought to suppress criticism of the late Maga luminary. Hundreds of people were fired or otherwise disciplined for denouncing him (which has since resulted in several settlements over alleged first amendment violations). The attempted censorship actually intensified the satirization of Kirk online, said Alex Turvy, a media sociologist and author of an upcoming book about internet culture, Memes in the Machine.
“For the first few weeks, the only safe thing to say was praise,” he said. “When you mandate reverence on a medium built for irony [the internet], you don’t freeze the image, you load the spring. A lot of the mockery was that pressure releasing.” Previously, it used to take years for tragedies to become fodder for cynical internet humor (9/11 being one example). With the power of generative artificial intelligence and image-doctoring, however, Kirk was meme-ified in a matter of weeks.
It is gratifying, though unsurprising, that Kirk's death did not kick off a wave of revenge killings and mass violence, as fedposters fervently predicted. Regardless of what the Guardian's experts say, it was reasonable to deploy cancel culture against the most gleeful celebrators of Kirk's death. Killing people you disagree with in a democracy is bad, and celebrating it shouldn't be accepted. But the right clearly pushed their chips in too far trying to martyrize the guy and now his legacy is incomprehensible memes that have nothing to do with his life or message. Turning Point was always aimed at zoomers, and their verdict is in. There are probably a bunch of them who don't realize Kirk was a real person. And the less said about Erika the better.
As a side note, there are a whole bunch of retarded conspiracy theories around his death, because we can't accept that a guy could just be shot by a lone nut despite multiple videos. Even JD Vance isn't immune.
yunyun333
2mo ago
Tbf you could also have turned on fox news and see Karoline Leavitt, who married a sugar daddy twice her age, proclaim that zoomers and millennials need to be shipped to Cuba and Iran for being lazy bums. The median age of viewers of these channels is like 70. Thank Reed Hastings and streaming tech for sending cable to hell.
States should participate in the fair, because if they don't, a private company might do it for them and embarrass the rest of us. Like the morons that put up a confederate flag for NC. Really, the bar isn't very high.
As for the pool, it seems implausible that anyone could do that much damage with a knife. The liner is supposed to be industrial grade epoxy; Trump bragged that it was impervious to cutting. If a woman could do that much damage by dipping her arm in the pool, sounds like the installers didn't do their job.
yunyun333
2mo ago
Why wouldn't he? The whole reason SCOTUS had to rule on this is because he tried to fire a fed board member on spurious non-charges, not to mention the bullshit investigation into Powell. Rate cuts are the only way he can square the circle between "affordable housing" and "homeowners don't lose a penny in equity".
yunyun333
2mo ago
The connection between the first and second national banks and the federal reserve board is incoherent. "Expansion of executive power except if Trump might fuck rates and my retirement account" is unserious. Kavanaugh spells it out clearly enough.
I would not go down that road. I would not risk destabilizing the U. S. economy just so that we can further mull over an issue that, in various permutations, we have as been thinking about for many years. As the Court’s opinion explains and the Government agrees, the Federal Reserve occupies a unique role in the U. S. Government and maintains critical responsibility for the stability and success of the U. S. and world economies.
yunyun333
2mo ago
Jonah is a wonderful piece of satire, and it's a shame it will just be used as "kids, look at this time a whale vored a dude". Basically every other prophet suffers rejection, humiliation, and violence from their own people. Meanwhile, Jonah is sent to Israel's mortal enemies, tries to get out of doing his job, walks through the city giving the most half assed proclamation ("Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!")... and it works perfectly. Even the cows cover themselves in sackclothes and sit in ashes. Absolutely brilliant.
That said, it's unclear if teachers will present the narrative excerpts as clearly work of fiction, like Aesop's fables. Is that too close to establishment of religion? Schools are obviously allowed to teach evolution even though it offends young earth creationists.
yunyun333
2mo ago
Texas's new required school reading list includes stories from the Bible
Texas is the first state to establish such a list, as others generally give wide latitude to school districts and boards to select their own texts.
There are fourteen stories, listed in order of grade level: Jonah and the Whale (Jonah 1:1-5, 10-17, 2:10), David and Goliath (excerpt from The Children's Book of Heroes), Daniel and the Lion's Den (Children's Adapted Version), The Necessity of Humility (Luke 14:7-11), Moses (Exodus 3, 14), Do Not Be Anxious (Matthew 6:25-34), The Shepherd's Psalm (Psalms 23), Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-12), To Everything There is a Season (Ecclesiastes 3), Lamentations 3, The Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32), Job (Job 1-7, 11, 14, 19, 28, 38-42), Adam and Eve (Genesis 2-3), The Definition of Love (1 Corinthians 13).
They also select a variety of translations: the New International Reader's Version, which is for a third-grade reading level, the English Standard Version, the King James Version, and the Jewish Publication Society. The ESV/KJV have their own history as evangelical texts; this is why there are so many parochial Catholic schools, though it's doubtful whether modern Catholics (who make up ~22% of Texas's population) care as much.
Teaching Biblical stories as cultural or historical texts does not violate the 1st amendment. Certainly the Bible is the most influential book in Western thought and has relevance to any serious study of literature and history. That being said, certain passages err on the side of theology and perhaps should be avoided outside of a comparative religion course. And some atheists will be disappointed that the more controversial passages have been excluded.
If it only refuses to explain how to produce extra-strength smallpox 99.99% of the time, that's a problem.
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