Ioper
21hr ago
There is a little bit of that but giving it to trump also seems very premature, especially given his other proclivities.
Ioper
3d ago
Which is of course why there were more or less constant peasant rebellions until the industrial revolution...
It's just corporate management speech in text form. It existed well before LLMs and is where their speech patterns come from and are aimed at.
It isn't artificial as much as it is a bit soulless, which I suppose might be fitting for the output of a literal machine.
That is true but its also relatively rare. The vast majority of senior managers are extremely replaceable/interchangeable (not by anyone, of course) and the arguments for why their compensation is as high as it is could as well apply to anyone responsible for a system which's continued operation affects a lot of money, from something as lowly as system administrators to say the commissioner of the IRS (that apparently only makes some 200k a year).
A lot of the excessive senior managment compensation is friendship/class corruption and there are reasons beyond "justice" to care about this as well, like why the money isn't going to shareholders or reinvestment in the business.
Excessive compensation for labour is a bad idea. Driven and capable people should be incentiviced to start businesses and compete/disrupt markets, not capture positions for what essentially is rent extraction.
Some of the really budget single ply stuff is somewhat similar to sand paper tbh, and given that he works for the NHS I wouldn't be surprised if he's encountered literally the worst toilet paper ever produced by humankind.
Ioper
4d ago
I wouldn't trust Europe to figure out a way to manufacture toilet paper really. Low cost manufacturing or processing just isn't their strong suit.
Its funny you say that seeing as europe is the world leader in the production and export of toilet paper.
Ioper
5d ago
so it'll work well for the conscientious owner and poorly for the lazy owner.
That may well be true, but its also true that the conscientious owner doesn't need an invisi-fence, so what effect does their availablity really have?
Ioper
6d ago
I've not encountered their use. I've encountered conversations about them not working very well and essentially amounting to lazy owners abusing their dogs. This is from Americans exclusively, seeing as they're illegal or heavily restricted in much of Europe.
Ioper
6d ago
In theory sure, in practice it's a reliable signal that you're abusive. Furthermore, i don't want to give abusive people the social go ahead for using that tool and plausible deniability for going over the line.
I don't have a principle against physical negative feedback, I would support corporal punishment where there is a neutral third party evaluating and administrating said punishment, like Singapore style caning.
Ioper
6d ago
It's wild how you seem to think negative feedback has to include physical pain. Dogs are social animals that are easily trained without pain.
Ioper
6d ago
Now that I think about, everyone I knew with well trained dogs has them on shock collars. But maybe that's regional or social bubble related.
I would assume so. As I said, I know literally no-one that uses them and that includes Trump voting Americans with land (California, Nevada and Colorado).
It is? I have literally never encountered anyone in real life that uses one or even talked of using one outside of joking about doing something cartoonishly evil.
That isn't true at all. You can do granular enough tests if you want, some countries do, and barring that you can have a lottery, which some countries do, mine among them.
The lottery has not really been a meaningful thing here (at the very top level) for about a decade though now since they increased the number of spots at the medical programmes and also made the test slightly more granular.
I don't see why America couldn't do one of those things. I personally think the runaway competition for those university spots is extremely toxic and would bound the competition for like the top 1-2% (for the top bracket) or so and then have a lottery for them. Picking the lucky seems preferable to torturing your children for some zero-sum competition with no societal gain.
While I had gotten a good deal further than you had at the same age, i still had insecurities in similar ways and my impression was that a it was true for a lot of my (successful) friends as well, so i don't really think success solves this issue, at least not normal levels of success, even if it might lessen it.
My only real advice is to keep your head down and work on the material goals so that you secure your financial future. This will allow you to solve your other problems (but not solve them by itself) and for me almost all of my anxieties went away with becoming a father. I feel like society really understates just how meaningful parenthood is and how it ties you together with your family, community and the future in general.
Ioper
13d ago
That's not quite what I'm getting at. I don't really care if someone wants to read a an endless webserial or not, I don't see how that matters. What I tried to respond to was the media addiction part, with the implication that sufficient amount of quality media of ones preferred sort, like endless office episodes for those who are into that or an endless webserial, would lead people to only engaging in that, essentially amounting to a low tech wireheading.
My point is that even if we got endless episodes/chapters/whatever, most people would still want to do a variety of things outside of media consumption.
I don't believe people want to game or watch TV endlessly on repeat though, I certainly don't. Regardless of how good something is I want to cycle between different sorts of stimuli and types of activities, some providing "fun" and others "meaning".
This seems to be a lot like gambling and many addictions to me. The vast majority have no issues to engage in moderate use while a small minority can't control themselves and self destruct, and young people are more vulnerable.
Ioper
14d ago
Or why not just straight up report whatever some state propaganda organ says?
Why would the Russian/Ukrainian/Isreali MoD ever lie? Or why would Hamas or any of constituting parts for that matter? Surely we can uncritically re report their press releases, often with barely acknowledging where said statements come from and that won't lead these organisations to try to use us to launder propaganda?
Ioper
14d ago
a shame that Egypt can't do a better job allowing academic research to these places. But I can appreciate the bind they're in... a very poor nation, with a history of foreign archaeologists destroying their monuments, and also a hotbed of religious strife that might react poorly to sudden discoveries of ancient relics from a heretical religion.
I thought it wasn't so much that as Zahi Hawass ego standing in the way.
I don't really have this problem at all and I'm curious why you do. In not saying that everything I'm getting recommended is a hit but the vast majority is at least in my areas of interest and I don't really get recommended locally trending stuff. Could it perhaps be a difference between in how treat users based on how they make revenue from them?
I'm on YouTube premium. Are you using the free client? Possibly with an adblocker?
While i have issues with wokeness in Hades 2 Hestia isn't really it.
She is the goddess of the hearth and having skin like coal and ash feels like a thematically appropriate take. I didn't even consider that they tried to do something ridiculous like vitiligo representation.
I got more irritated at retarded stuff like Hephaestus wheelchair or the uglification and darkening of Athena making her look like a racist caricature.
Principles such as tension and release, foreshadowing, thematic development, chord resolution are the essential tools of virtually every composer, regardless of genre and whether the composer is actively aware of it or not. While often discussed in a classical context, their application is universal and apply to pretty much all genres.
This seems like a consistent weakness in at least current AI-generated music, which often does well with short-term musical grammar but fails to build a cohesive, long-form structure, resulting in a piece that feels aimless and unsatisfying, IE "it doesn't go anywhere".
These same concepts of building expectation and providing resolution are fundamental to other time-based art forms, such as literature and film, and to effective communication in general.
I think this feels similar to how earlier text generating models wrote and similar to how they still struggle to write longer form text. Perhaps the issue is an insufficiently large context window or perhaps it's something else more fundamental to how the models function, I don't know.
I actually found it comparable to a lot of the early GPT3 written content. The models were able to produce grammatically coherent text that mostly stayed on topic, it just didn't go anywhere and after reading a few paragraphs you'd get pissed having been duped into reading essentially verbal diarrhea.
This music is much the same, there is no purpose and it doesn't go anywhere. Its like 10 second segments stitched together without much thought except having smooth transitions and staying in the sameish genre.
Perhaps there are decent songs produced and it's down to prompting and iteration, but I haven't heard them yet.
Ioper
17d ago
Another possible error here could be that the weaving the compensation is intended for isn't actually skilled labour.
Basic weaving mass producing basic cloth isn't skilled labour. It's extremely simple and repetitive. You could be shown how to do it in 10 minutes. Furthermore, it's not physically strenuous (unlike the farmwork you describe) or dangerous and you can do it indoors.
Given the above the relative compensation makes sense.
There is weaving that absolutely would count as skilled labour but that is explicitly excluded.
Wasn't it the civilian side that blew up?
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