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Progressive academics, all the way up to the president of the United States (Woodrow Wilson). It should be embarrassing to call oneself a “Progressive” these days, yet here we are. A small but meaningful indicator of the extreme bias in our education system…

This shit is straight up child abuse. If I were a parent of one of these kids, I’d be irate.

Why is no one standing up against the EU in this imbroglio?

I pay for it.

Brutalism and communism are what happens when people pretend that human nature doesn’t exist.

What happens when training an LLM (or even a small portion of an LLM, like a domain-local update) takes milliseconds instead of weeks, and costs a millionth of a penny instead of hundreds of millions of dollars?

What happens when e.g. our smartphones can perform TRAINING hundreds of times per minute?

Isn’t that the true gateway to human-like AGI? Seems to me that we might be there in under 50 years…

Anyone who unironically uses the phrase “late capitalism” or “late-stage capitalism” is outing themselves as a deeply silly person.

I keep seeing references to this recent “uncomfortable culture” at Google. Can someone from Google (past or present) explain what this is?

Bingo. Nobody wants to recognize this issue, for various inconvenient reasons. Rust has a major insularity problem.

You think hours worked is equivalent between professions…?

Why must these rationalist / atheist / EA people come across as the most smug teen debate club nerds?

I’m confident that you’ll figure it out on your own.

People of ambiguous sex exist, and there are only two sexes. I suspect you’re more than capable of accepting these two truths simultaneously.

There are still only two types of gametes, and a body may produce only one. Infertility and other disorders don’t change that fact, and your linked material says nothing to contradict this.

“Markers” are irrelevant. Either your body is capable of producing male gametes or it’s capable of producing female ones.

The really funny thing about these people is that they think “capitalism” needs saving.

That’s like saying: this system of free people electing to freely interact… it’s busted beyond repair and needs saving!

That’s fine, but sex itself is still a binary concept and is very well defined, and is not controversial. For example, my sex is “0” (and not “1”) because my body is capable of producing “0”-style gametes, not “1”-style gametes (feel free to substitute the usual names for each sex, but you get the point).

I’m trans and I don’t. Only weirdo leftists love that stuff. We’re not all like that, but… an uncomfortable percentage do seem to be pretty out there with their belief systems.

Sex is not bimodal, it’s binary. We as a society have to be able to just get past this. I, for example, am a male (sex) - but I identify as a woman (gender identity). These two things can be true at the same time, and do not conflict.

Reading a Doctorow article like this, I get the sense that he thinks it would be a swell idea to force everyone by law to surrender all private property to the benevolent care of the state.

His use of the word “comrade” does nothing to alleviate this impression, either.

This is why the modern belief that all relationships are rooted in class-based struggles for power is so dangerous and unproductive.

A person deemed a member of a “dominant” group/class is liable to be neglected. Widespread, such neglect can really blight a society, as it is blighting ours now.

I don’t want him to be president either, but this is some tyrannical horseshit. He should be rejected from the presidency by the voters, not by the courts.

For 60 years, the machinery of our society has been laser focused on assuring people that they are victims in all avenues of life. Why should we be surprised when they and their children and their children’s children start to believe it?

That this comment is being so heavily downvoted is a damning indictment of HN. I didn’t realize moral confusion was so rampant here.

Reddit didn’t die. That you think it did is telling.

It’s almost as if humans are just apes with barely passable table manners…

It’s very trendy

> I don’t know why; probably a curious desire to see how bad Elon Musk would screw it up

It’s been interesting to watch people go from nerd-crushing on Elon (omg rockets! omg electric vehicles yay climate!) to loathing him in the blink of an eye. Goes to show what’s really important to some people…

Clever way for these Xet people to get exposure

> To request access

Google is so fucking lame these days