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Primaprimaprima
Bigfoot is an interdimensional being
9m ago
There's a lot to unpack here.
You raise a valid point in that there are a lot of ugly/undesirable women who miss out on a lot of the benefits that conventionally attractive women get. But at the same time, I think the average woman (so, not outright ugly/disabled/etc, but decidedly not 95th percentile either) still underestimates how much attention she gets just for being a woman, because she's never had to experience the other side of things.
To put things in perspective: if you even have a "social circle", like at all, then you're already doing pretty damn well for yourself relative to the entire adult population. There's a non-trivial number of men, especially among the spergy AGP population we're talking about, that have essentially no friends or social connections of any kind. They got nothin'. There are women who find themselves in this sort of position too, but they're significantly more uncommon than their male counterparts.
If only the top 5% of women were experiencing substantial amounts of male attention, could feminism really sustain itself? It's a rare woman who doesn't have a story about a bad relationship, or at least an instance of catcalling or harassment, something. Clearly there are lots of women who are having lots of interactions with men! Otherwise the "gender wars" wouldn't be a political topic in the first place. For the type of isolated recluse who's been essentially invisible for his whole life, even the idea of negative attention like catcalling can become part of the erotic fantasy.
(I'll also just note that if you actually dive deep into AGP porn, you'll find a surprising number of "status loss" stories, i.e. rich white businessman gets transformed into a poor Mexican cleaning lady, things like that. It's not always a power fantasy of being in the top 1%).
2rafa
23m ago
If this was truly the issue you think it is, a reasonable solution would be to have some of residency take place abroad in poorer countries where there is a need for healthcare; the local would likely appreciate it and residents would get more exposure to surgery.
2rafa
31m ago
Right, and this is crucially true even if they do the same work for the same pay.
2rafa
32m ago
The most elite speed runners are probably similar to the most elite board game players; very intelligent, but probably not the most intelligent. And even when they are, it still requires time Musk doesn’t have because there’s a huge amount of unavoidable pattern learning even if you’re great at extrapolation.
2rafa
37m ago
is that they are as good as a GP within their scope of practice, as long as the understand the limits of said scope.
Have you stayed abreast of the current furore? The two examples I gave of NP/AP failures were actually both from the UK.
Is it still a waste if the doctor is someone with a 120 IQ who would have got into medical school in the alternative system but ends up as a replacement-level software engineer in the US system as it is?
Sure, and this is the point. The 120 IQ person has too much dignity to accept the title of “nurse practitioner” or “physician assistant” , but let him call himself doctor and put him through some more training and he’ll do the same work for the same pay happily.
2rafa
40m ago
Other than possible extreme edge cases in some distant regions literacy doesn’t seem to be an issue for any major human population, certainly not Bantus, and can benefit almost anyone. So I would say your church is - if the money is not taken via corruption and actually goes toward education - doing a good and valuable thing.
I have met intelligent and capable Haitians, they’re not hugely uncommon in Florida and there are a few in France too.
2rafa
48m ago
I scored in the 99th percentile on verbal tests and somewhere around the 92-95th on spatial, so I’m not sure where that puts me overall, probably below you. Still, while I’ve met many much smarter people I find them generally easier to speak to and understand than people in the lower third of the population. Of course if the conversation turns to a niche special sub-field in theoretical physics or math or formal logic that I have never studied I’m not going to be able to follow, and my middling shape rotation ability means I’m not going to be able to hold my own with star traders at the poker table or when it comes to logic puzzles. But they don’t ever feel ‘foreign’ to me; I can understand the ideas even if I can’t derive them, if you want.
WhateverHappenedToNorman
59m ago
I'm just riffing on the subject of the movie, which is very much about fictionalized Salieri's inability to cope with the fact that he was unable to "speak with the voice of god".
I'm aware the real Salieri's story does not neatly fit a morality play.
MotteAnon12345
1hr ago
Many (most?) major "infrastructural" financial institutions are based in NYC. These are often companies nobody has heard of but nevertheless end up handling most of dollars flowing through the world. Good examples would be DTC, BNY, and JPMC. These banks don't make that much money (except of course for JPMC) but they fulfill critical low level roles like clearing, asset custody (e.g. DTC nominally owns most financial assets in the US economy!), etc... If a court wants to impose their will on any actor in the USD centric financial system, they use these institutions to do it and NYC is the place to do it at.
Argentinian bonds are a good case study here: a NYC judge was able to keep Argentina from paying off any of its bond holders (and thereby choking its access to debt markets). Obviously, the judge had no jurisdiction over Argentina itself. But he did over the intermediaries needed to facilitate any dollar payments!
Honestly I think Salieri gets unfairly maligned a lot. Modern scholarship (forget that movie, I'm talking academic scholarship) thinks there was no real beef between him and Mozart but the rumours, even during his life, led to him having a nervious breakdown and even now in the modern day the general public (to they extent they know of him) still boo him even though they wouldn't be able to distinguish a piece by Mozart vs one by him.
The dude tutored both Schubert and Beethoven, give him some respect!
MadMonzer
Temporarily embarrassed liberal elite
1hr ago
I do not know what fractions of Haitians are educable, but I have worked professionally with educated Haitians who were able to perform the duties of a UMC professional job that normally requires a 120+ IQ. Of course Haiti, like most Caribbean countries, has a mixed-race elite and an almost-pure-black working class, and the people I worked with were from the Creole elite. So there is a separate question of what fraction of Haitians who are not already being privately educated are educable.
WhateverHappenedToNorman
1hr ago
My dharma is not to achieve great things but at least I am at the point where I am capable of truly appreciating greatness when it is presented to me (unlike most humans) and I am thankful for that.
Well, you're doing better than Salieri, then.
Primaprimaprima
Bigfoot is an interdimensional being
1hr ago
Compassion isn't a social affect: it's an act of the will.
This makes it sound like something you can arbitrarily turn on or off "at will", which can't be right. But it also can't be right to say that it's entirely outside of your control either.
I suppose I would say it's something like an "unchosen choice".
MadMonzer
Temporarily embarrassed liberal elite
1hr ago
Furthermore, wasting the talents of a full fledged doctor on walking into a room where a kid has a fever and runny nose and telling him he has the flu is a waste of the patient’s money and the doctor’s time.
Is it still a waste if the doctor is someone with a 120 IQ who would have got into medical school in the alternative system but ends up as a replacement-level software engineer in the US system as it is? The work of a GP in the British NHS, or in a well-run HMO where paid-for access to specialists is gatekept, does require more knowledge than an NP/PA, because you are gatekeeping access to specialists, so you need to know at least enough cardiology to know when to call the cardiologist etc. And the people doing that work don't seem to think it is meaningless - the complaints of British GPs are about pay and workload, not about the nature of the work. What it doesn't require is a gunner personality (except in so far as you need to deal with the rigours of residency) or a 130+ IQ.
FWIW, NP-equivalents in the UK are mostly people whose IQ is too high for nursing but were incorrectly sorted into it (I suspect, but don't know, that we make more errors of the "poor therefore stupid" type than the US does) and want a low-risk route to something better. My experience dealing with them (asthma care is handled by NP-equivalents, as is uncomplicated diabetes after initial diagnosis) is that they are as good as a GP within their scope of practice, as long as the understand the limits of said scope.
benny
1hr ago
I've even payed this one solo twice and it was enjoyable. I think the deck building is a bit underfocused for my preference but the worker placement aspect, which I officially don't like, is fun.
For deck building I just love the designers other big game: Clank catacombs.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
1hr ago
If I'm flattering myself probably 99.8, but in reality more like 99.5 or 99.4. (normalized to white western levels, compared to my own people I'm significantly higher).
One in 200 is probably how unique I think my intelligence really is. I'm quite conscientious and like learning about basically everything so I think I present as smarter than I really am because I can talk decently about a lot of things.
Back when I was a child I had delusions of being Great. Those were shattered very quickly when I began my maths degree at Oxbridge and got a chance to mingle with IMO hall of famers.
They were just at another level to me and despite initially foolishly thinking all I had to do was work harder and then I too could reach their level (note: I did not succeed, all that happened was I burnt out) eventually after getting smacked around enough by reality I learned to love my lot in life and go down a gear. I had a lot more fun too after I did this.
My dharma is not to achieve great things but at least I am at the point where I am capable of truly appreciating greatness when it is presented to me (unlike most humans) and I am thankful for that. It's much better to get into a state of resonance with the music of the universe ather than try and fight against it vainly. That way lies the path of Morgoth and we all know how that worked out...
WhateverHappenedToNorman
1hr ago
For added hilarity: Gaetz is now on cameo
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
2hr ago
I feel like invoking the name of a well known characterization of this position from one of the most influential philosophers of all time, one that explicitly explains why it's vacuous, self serving, and ultimately ill fated for both its advocates and targets; if feel like that's enough to dismiss the argument actually.
Which is to say. Self serving moralism of this kind has never and will never be an argument. And in as much as it is, it can be easily refuted by opposing to it the no less vacuous statement that the weak should fear the strong.
Now when can we move past these childish power games and attempt to integrate people in a mutually beneficial compact?
Conspiratorial types often talk about whistleblowers dying in suspicious circumstances strongly suggestive of foul play, but which were officially ruled as suicides. I seem to recall that many such accusations have been levelled against the Clintons. Are there any examples of this which strike you as particularly suspicious? (Research for NaNoWriMo.)
sohois
2hr ago
Status is a thing outside of the UK, perhaps 2rafa was guilty of miswording it. Think about it like this, if you're introducing a potential spouse to your family, what would come off better? "He/She is a doctor" or "He/She is a nurse practitioner"? I don't think it's building consensus to state that everyone would agree on the first option.
FiveHourMarathon
Listen to Pierre
3hr ago
Sure but it's at least imaginable that every therapist will see Tim as delusional, where you're only a quick correction from "fixing" DrGPT.
justmotteingaround
3hr ago
If you feel consigned to your home after sunset, you're more likely to need psychiatric medication than moving boxes. On average, people are moving to cities, and aren't afraid of the dark. I've never known a city dwelling woman to carry any means of protection. Fertility rates have remained about 10% lower in large metro areas than rural areas for over a decade. Not being able to imagine something 10% less frequent is caused by a broken imagination.
Donating blood also helps lower your microplastics levels (and donating plasma is even better!) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8994130/
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