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				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And I daresay that robotics is lagging enough that I'm skeptical that we'll see AI capable of physically navigating the real world independently, without using a human intermediary before we get AGI. They haven't yet hooked up an LLM to sensors that give it a constant stream of data about the real world that I know of, so maybe it can adapt faster than I expect. I wouldn't put anything out beyond 5 years.




This came out just this week:
https://microsoft.github.io/Magma/




Magma is the first foundation model that is capable of interpreting and grounding multimodal inputs within its environment. Given a described goal, Magma is able to formulate plans and execute actions to achieve it. By effectively transferring knowledge from freely available visual and language data, Magma bridges verbal, spatial and temporal intelligence to navigate complex tasks and settings.




Things are moving very quickly now.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Doing this with an executive order is a naked grab for power from both the courts and congress, with no recourse for either.




Not so, executive orders are themselves reviewable by the Supreme Court.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 17, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Perhaps but at least the line of political accountability will be clear. There will be no question of where the buck stops.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Doing it before-the-fact rather than after-the-fact enables what is essentially a DDOS attack on the decision-makers.  Doing it in this order makes a flood-the-zone-with-appeals strategy work in favor of DOGE instead of against it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The genius entrepreneur's elite crack team can't come up with a clearly-worded directive that accounts for "don't dump medical volunteers in the street with experimental equipment inside their bodies" without giving gender activists an out? Really?




No, it's literally impossible.  Remember, you're dealing with people with sufficient motivated reasoning to pretend to be confused about words like "man" and "woman".  People with years of critical theory training that teaches that meaning is subjective, and concepts constructed.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The operational strategy is that of Blitzkrieg: by forgoing careful, methodical advances in favor of moving as quickly as possible, you incur substantial tactical penalties, but this is more than made up for by disrupting the abilities of your opponents to respond effectively.  If your advice were followed, it would give the defenders of USAID ample time to challenge every single cut to the maximum ability possible, likely with multiple consecutive injunctions, as well as reorganize and potentially reroute funding to prevent the next most likely targets.  Then, when those programs are cut, even if they have not already been rerouted elsewhere already, they will be well-prepared to immediately mount a defense-in-depth.  The effort would be halted in a quagmire of legal proceedings and public propaganda for so long with so many challenges that the public would despair of any change and the political support would evaporate.  That's why the only effective strategy can possibly be to cut as much as possible as quickly as possible, then give back only where it is tactically prudent to do so.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I’m confused. You said if the President goes against the Constitution, then he should be removed. He has clearly violated the Constitution. Therefore he should be removed.




There is general agreement on this, but the question is who decides when this happens.  According to the Constitution, the answer has been "Congress."  As such, attempts to force this result by the judiciary are in this tradition inappropriate.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The point of separation of powers is that Congress actually isn't involved in the administrative operations.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
#2 jogged my memory of some insane ads for the Marines I remember from when I was a kid.  They leaned hard into the challenge but with a fantasy element as well.  To a teenage boy, it made being a Marine the coolest-looking occupation imaginable.


Chess is one I remember vividly, and especially the one with the lava monster in the battle arena, which today I learned is called Contest of Honor.  Even as a kid I knew it was ridiculous but it still stirred something visceral in my naive little heart.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 9, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It could be a couple of things, but the most likely in my estimation is either:


    

  1. It is attempting to pull provisioning files that your ISP is, for some reason, failing to provide, resulting in lengthy sequential timeouts, or
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  2. Your ISP is for some reason imposing the delay in authentication deliberately, causing the modem to have to repeatedly retry authentication until your ISP finally permits it.
    3. 



It seems very likely to me that the issue is on the ISP side.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 10, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Justice is not a waste.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This seems plausible to me. Publicizing the molten head of Robert Lee seems like so obviously a bad idea, but was perceived as a celebratory image by those doing the publishing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This no longer seems to be the case.


https://www.ljzigerell.com/?p=9002


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The hell of it is I wouldn't even be that opposed to a legitimate US aid organization that is run competently and efficiently. I would support at least the amount of funding that USAID gets of I were persuaded that it was doing tangible good of an equivalent value. What sickens me is money taken under such noble pretenses and used to fund wickedness, graft, corruption, and even ops against the republic itself. This government has rightfully lost the trust of a large part of the population, and should reap the wages of sin.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 3, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It does create credibility.  He's willing to eat the criticism and the bad press and enact the consequences, so it is known that he is not bluffing.  In game terms, it's like showing up to a game of chicken with a 5-point restraint and a bashed-up car.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 31, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Big Fat Quiz of the Year from last month was the last thing I really belly laughed at.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Doesn't the federal government contract out almost all of that actual wrench-turning work?  E.g., NASA doesn't build rockets (Boeing/ULA/SpaceX), satellites (Lockmart, Northrup) or probes (JPL, Northrup).  But they do a shit-ton of paperwork.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I dislike how long it takes to heat up just to fry a couple of eggs though.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Beaux arts for any building intended mainly for public use, collegiate Gothic for anything related to research or science, neoclassical or international modern for bureaucratic offices, and brutalism for law enforcement.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's TEOTWAWKI, and I feel fine.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 27, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
For almost any serious problem, so long as technology is increasing and wealth is increasing, it makes sense to wait as long as possible to address it, so that you can use the most efficient and effective versions of your tools.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 19, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The big players are slowly moving to effective whiteallow lists. It's already the case that most isps block outbound port 25 traffic by default. Then, if you get that unblocked, you need them to modify your pointer record to pass the spamhaus DNSBL, which requires static IP and a business class isp contact. This is table stakes. Then, it's all about meeting security and finally reputational requirements, but even that is IMO inching from "trust but verify" to "distrust until proven". Though if spam really is declining then this may ease.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
This is overstated.  Apple existed as a viable competitor during the entire period, and while Microsoft used what amounted to strong-arm commercial tactics to get its OS onto every PC sold, it was indeed this OS that enabled those sales.  Microsoft should get credit for providing workable baseline software, that was very open to developers, and didn't cost much money.  Did they push OS/2 out of the market?  Maybe.  It's also possible OS/2 wasn't a viable competitor to begin with.  Sometimes companies dominate because they get first mover advantage and manage to build a large moat.  Sometimes companies are dominant mostly just because they have an overall superior value proposition.  Microsoft, for long periods, had both.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think he simply forgot to point his index finger


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 20, 2025
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Didn't catch that, but the (impromptu?!) a capella America the Beautiful by Carrie Underwood was delightful.  Hearing the crowd sing along like a proper church hymn gave me a little thrill.