HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
10m ago
Thing is, the problem with this view is that "trans women are not women" is not a universally-accepted truth--if anything, it is a matter of fundamental values conflict. To you, it is truth, but to trans women, it is the opposite. The only thing that points to objective reality is a trans person's birth identity--but the entire point of being transgender is to leave said identity behind as thoroughly and quickly as possible. You're not going to be able to do more than keep referring to The Artist Formerly Known As Prince as just "Prince."
HalloweenSnarry
37m ago
Isn't one potential argument here that Ukraine was wanting to take the same route as Poland, but didn't have time to really do that before 2014? I think even Kulak made that argument early in the war, that Ukraine saw what happened to Poland and were like "Orthodox Jesus, I've seen what you done for the Poles and I want that for myself."
If the invasion were put off by like 5 years, maybe we'd see some actual progress towards EU-ification.
HalloweenSnarry
1d ago
I won't consider video games saturated until developers can create faster than "content locusts" want to consume.
Some people might argue that we already quietly hit this point well before the current AI craze. The struggles of the modern gaming industry and the indie scene are partly because it's (perceived as) hard to peel chronic Minecraft/Fortnite/COD/etc. players away from their comfort games.
HalloweenSnarry
1d ago
Gmails "Promotions" tab annihilated mass market email advertising well before LLMs.
I do still get a lot of ad-type emails in my main inbox, but then, I haven't "trained" Gmail to move some types to Promotions.
HalloweenSnarry
1d ago
I think this perspective misses the concept that the criminal might just rob, rape, and kill you anyways, regardless of how much resistance/obedience one puts up. How does one determine if an adversary is an Anton Chigurh versus a Viktor Sayenko?
HalloweenSnarry
1d ago
That's why the party hasn't moved left as much as the very-online contingent of progressives want it to. Those Black women are a lot more conservative (both in the "further right politics" sense and in the "less willing to shake up the status quo" sense).
This is news to me, I thought it would have been Black men who'd be the more conservative type.
HalloweenSnarry
1d ago
I personally don't think "understanding," at least the way we humans understand (heh) it, is a necessary component of intelligence. I'm comfortable with calling the software that underlies the behavior of imps in Doom as "enemy artificial intelligence," even though I'm pretty sure there's no "understanding" going on in my 486 Thinkpad laptop that's causing the blobs of brown pixels to move on the screen in a certain way based on what my player character is doing, for instance. If it talks like a duck and walks like a duck and is otherwise completely indistinguishable from a duck in every way that I can measure, then I'll call it a duck.
Yeah, to tie this back to the above thread about the ramifications of massively-increased automation, what the hell does it matter if an AI really understands anything, if it puts most of us out of a job anyways? Philosophy is for those who don't have to grind for their bread.
HalloweenSnarry
1d ago
and given that “owning AI” doesn’t require you to be in the country at all, there’s nothing tying the guy who owns the company to the country the AI is in.
This may sound silly, but presuming we get superintelligent-but-completely-domesticated AI, a government could possibly just tax the AI itself. In this scenario, a government asks an AI to pay some tax based on the money it's earned from serving and working for people. Granted, this requires the AI to actually have meaningful access to the relevant pursestrings.
HalloweenSnarry
1d ago
All you need is a job market clearing house, where job seekers advertise their interest, and companies make the first move.
Does this really not exist yet?
HalloweenSnarry
2d ago
This argument would work if we were talking about an actual old boomer watching Fox News reruns on their iPad, but we're talking about the POTUS.
...But, is Trump not both? I think he spent quite a bit of his first term watching Fox News, IIRC.
HalloweenSnarry
2d ago
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs Invasion would like to have a word with you.
At least with that one, we did have to go to the negotiating table a little sooner, and it also played into the conspiracy theory narrative of "JFK was so burned by Bay of Pigs that he considered disbanding the CIA, who in turn set up his assassination as punishment."
HalloweenSnarry
2d ago
I don't think I have much more to say, other than I think that your "Eat the Old" idea is more of an aid to the "Eat the Rich" populist types than you might realize.
HalloweenSnarry
2d ago
But the republican party has effectively made use of the complement strategy-- finding the most powerful minorities available and adhering them together.
The Democrats could also be described as making use of this tactic; prior to Trump, one could describe the two parties as rival coalitions: one made up of different ethnic minorities and college-educated whites, the other a weird mashup of business libertarians, religious fundamentalists, and ethnically-concerned right-wingers.
Democrats have had to fold, over and over again, to moderates like Manchin and Sinema. That infuriated and demoralized the democratic base.
One could argue, watching from another screen, that Manchin and Sinema were the last stalwarts keeping the Dem party from completely sabotaging itself and going full-lefty.
This is from your other reply, but I'll comment on it here:
And the more power gets taken away from old people, the less their cultural conservatism would hold sway over the american public.
Is the idea of "old = conservative" a given? I think a lot of your ideal vision rests a lot on this, among other things.
I think Phosphorus was getting at something when they claimed that you aren't describing reality, because it sounds like how you interpret politics and what you want out of politics are very weird and at odds with how things have tended to play out.
HalloweenSnarry
3d ago
Eh, some controversies really do only take a week to play out, I don't think this one is particularly unique.
Probably I'm biased by the fact that I want to keep the neoliberal machine going... but do conservatives really not see the danger in giving leftists a chance to transform it into a vanguard-communist machine instead?
As per the recent discussions about the sad, sorry state of liberalism as of late, the perception among some is that the Neoliberal Machine has already unwittingly fed the strength of the Communist Vanguard, and the radical actions of Trump et. al. are a potential alternative to letting the Progressive Chestburster hatch from what's left of the incumbent neoliberal order.
HalloweenSnarry
3d ago
an incredibly deep, burning apathy toward Trump.
Feels like an oxymoron when it's said like this, but that being said, I think I feel this way, too.
I'm interested in seeing you expand upon your second paragraph, seems like there's a lot to unpack there.
EDIT: I see you expanded upon it somewhat in your other reply, no need to reduplicate it now.
HalloweenSnarry
3d ago
Every time I've seen baseball on TV in the past like 5 years, I've been kind of surprised at how rarely batters can actually hit the ball. Japanese baseball seems a bit better about this, though, I think--the players can actually hit the balls and get runs going.
HalloweenSnarry
3d ago
That's fair, I think once rock music was finally out of the spotlight by the end of the 2000's and streaming took hold, the music landscape became massive and manifold.
HalloweenSnarry
4d ago
Is this true?
HalloweenSnarry
4d ago
I'm not convinced that the idea of the EU is what's failing in practice.
As an American looking from the outside, I'm inclined to agree.
HalloweenSnarry
4d ago
Worth also noting that "luminary" artists like Dylan also seem to tend to lose favor and popularity, as people realize that these artists stop being/never were what people thought they were (as what happened to Dylan post-50's/60's) and/or these artists disappear up their own ass later in life.
HalloweenSnarry
4d ago
HalloweenSnarry
4d ago
but there was never, at any point, a belief that Europeans would be doing the heavy lifting. None.
I don't know about this; the whole idea of NATO came about in part because the aftermath of WWII made it clear that lots of Europeans, East or West, were not yet so tired of war that literally nobody was willing to pick up a rifle or drive a tank. Just a few years afterwards, European and British troops came along with us Americans to go push North Korea's shit in for a little while, AIUI.
Yes, and while I don't want to bring them into these arguments because it might be seen as lazy, we have the Holodomor and Chernobyl to look at as prior examples of how Russian control ended up working out for Ukraine. Starving populations and irradiated no-go zones are probably pretty bad for GDP, you have to admit!
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