stuckinbathroom
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stuckinbathroom
2d ago
Was winning the championship part of her plan?
It's entirely possible to land on a piece of viable technology, and still crash the economy by investing in it too much and too early.
Or consider railroads, a century prior.
This is actually my nuanced, enlightened centrist take: AI as a technology—or more precisely, a suite of technologies—is potentially as revolutionary as the internet, electricity, and steam power rolled into one, but current investments in AI may very well turn out to be myopic or premature. For one entirely plausible example, we may end up in a world where distilled models git gud and thus inference is mostly done locally on cheap, commodity hardware like smartphones, which would render the hundreds of billions being poured into data centers largely wasted.
stuckinbathroom
7d ago
Best they can do is Hans Island
stuckinbathroom
8d ago
“Actually, it’s about ethics in e-thot journalism”
The culture war really has come full circle, hasn’t it?
(I kid. Mostly.)
stuckinbathroom
8d ago
No, he’s saying there’s nothing new about women gaining obscene amounts of money/power if they can suck well (so to speak)
stuckinbathroom
8d ago
what are the youth of today coming to at all?
High-end hookers, apparently
stuckinbathroom
13d ago
… and have become exceedingly efficient at it
stuckinbathroom
27d ago
Hear, hear!
I think there are basically 3 critiques, in general, of the progressive fixation with metrics and their optimization. Take, for examples, “the economy” (GDP, I guess) as you mentioned, or Scott’s recent-ish post on how crime levels are ackshully not historically anomalous.
(1) “Number Go Up, yes, but is Number all that matters?”
As the old meme goes, “Yes, the planet was destroyed, but for a brief moment in time, we created a lot of shareholder value!”
(2) “Number Go Up, but it’s No True Number”
This was the basis of the (IMHO richly deserved) dogpiling of Scott’s crime post: perhaps headline crime statistics are down on paper, but my own lying eyes can see that I used to be able to take the subway without being accosted by drug-addled lunatics; I used to be able to walk into a pharmacy, pick something off the shelf, and take it to the checkout counter without waiting for an employee to unlock a plastic cage. The cheap, convenient subway ticket forgone for an exorbitant taxi fare; the quick trip to 7-11 replaced by an expensive, slower DoorDash order—you’ll never see those costs in the NCVS data, but are they not equally costs of crime?
(3) “You are not actually optimizing your own stated Number”
You are here.
Women’s participation in the formal, wage-earning economy plausibly gets us towards a locally optimal Number, but consider the counterfactual world where, over the past several decades, highly-talented women had more children instead of working for pay. As you said, that is the world where we have 64x as many von Neumanns, Taos, and Rockefellers. I don’t even contest the definition of Number, or whether it’s all we should care about; I merely ask, mightn’t this counterfactual world easily have higher Number than ours?
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
The President and Mrs. Coolidge were being shown [separately] around an experimental government farm. When [Mrs. Coolidge] came to the chicken yard she noticed that a rooster was mating very frequently. She asked the attendant how often that happened and was told, "Dozens of times each day." Mrs. Coolidge said, "Tell that to the President when he comes by." Upon being told, the President asked, "Same hen every time?" The reply was, "Oh, no, Mr. President, a different hen every time." President: "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
I'm... aware enough of certain scandals
Colby 2012 #NeverForget
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
If the concern ultimately is that indian women auntify into pears past 30 then oh boy are indian dudes in for a rough surprise of what glp free white women typically converge onto.
My thoughts exactly, hence (along with the aforementioned imprinting thing) my attraction to (East) Asians
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
A more thorough account is given somewhere in my comment history if you are inclined to scroll through it, but tl;dr I grew up in predominantly non-South Asian communities from very early childhood through the “imprint on the type of girl in your current social milieu as potential pair-bonded life-partner material” critical developmental window.
Also, frankly, part of me sees it as a status/SMV symbol to have a non-Indian chick on my arm, thereby proving to all the world that I can attract a woman on my own terms without having to resort to arranged marriage like a typical brown dweeb. (Yes, I am aware that I could find a brown girl on the apps or non-parental-facilitated social events, but even then, it’s not as much of an immediately-legible flex)
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
Many indian dudes I know, including some who admit as such on this board, would rather claw off their fingers than date an indian girl
guilty as charged lmao
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
If you decide that out of all headwear, turbans are verboten it seems likely that you are intentionally using this as a proxy.
Unironically, not so! If I’m running a machine shop, I don’t want turbans anywhere near my lathes. Other headwear doesn’t present nearly as much of a scalping risk.
my guess would be their religious fanaticism is absolutely genuine
I agree with this take. In general I find that Westerners usually fail to model the thinking of dictators because they assume that all dictators are motivated by personal enrichment or ego, rather than by genuine belief in a totalizing ideology. While naked self-interest is a useful theory of mind for the tin-pot dictators of, say, Latin America or Africa, it’s often a poor fit for the motivations of the rulers of civilization-states like Russia, China, and Iran.
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
True, but island-hopping 90-100km is still no mean feat for literal Paleolithic man! I suppose it may have taken place over multiple generations, though I don’t know if the interstitial archipelago was large and fertile enough to support such long pit stops.
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
I would guess that Aboriginal Australians have a high percentage of genes from whatever hominid species was in Australia when Homo Sapiens showed up.
That’s the thing, I am pretty sure (the ancestors of) the Aboriginals were the first hominids of any kind to populate Australia, around 50,000 or 60,000 years ago. I suppose it is a testament to the tenacity and creativity of their forebears that they were apparently able to navigate the seas millennia before agriculture, the earliest cave art, or the domestication of the dog. Sadly they seem to be the civilizational equivalent of the kid who peaked in high school.
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
It was just this week that the venerable NYT sat down with leftist thought leader Hasan Piker and platformed his calls for leftist political assassinations.
This is news to me—I thought they platformed his calls for shoplifting.
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
Ahh, OK. Based on the surrounding two traits listed in your post (“weird in an autistic-coded way”, “fails to launch into a PMC career”) which accurately describe this shooter, I thought you were also claiming that he went to a university worse than what his IQ would predict.
The US has one of the highest rates of circumcision in the West, even among the goyim/kafir.
goes to a university of a tier well below his IQ level
Uh, to be clear, you’re saying Caltech—home of such luminaries as Feynman and Gell-Mann—is beneath this guy? Pray tell, what is your estimate of this era-defining genius’s IQ, and of the IQ range befitting Caltech?
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
I broadly agree with your point, and I suspect the great majority of unsolved murders are gangland killings or other situations in which “The Community” has some code of omertà which prohibits cooperating with the police. But the Mangione case is a uniquely bad example here: he very nearly got away with it, and easily could have if he had been just a little smarter about disposing of the weapon and establishing an alibi.
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
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stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
Indeed, I can see why bottom surgery would help a natal male become a better penetration tester. So to speak.
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