goldenchrome

Yes, you have a personal anecdote but the data suggests that people do indeed become prone to sexually harassing women.

That’s a fine goal but it doesn’t take away from the fact that Antarctica is a hostile environment which makes it hard to establish civilization.

I’m describing reality, not my own personal wishes.

I’m not trying to hide it! Why would I be woke?

Institutions aren’t allowed to have rigorous standards anymore since those standards always end up excluding what we call “oppressed groups”. It’s too expensive to train said groups because the problem starts with the socioeconomic status of their parents. So instead, we lower the standards.

This is happening across society and I believe it’s accelerating as we create more and more abundance. More abundance means we can “afford” to lower standards and give everyone more. The costs are hard to calculate for the decision makers of our society but they’re not hard to foresee if you’re skeptical enough.

If you made a tool and you found out that someone used your tool to save someone’s life, wouldn’t you be proud of yourself for your good work? What’s the harm in sharing the good news?

It’s a luxury product! I’m guessing you just don’t enjoy luxury products. I don’t either, but then at least I can identify them. Some people like luxury.

Of course it will. Mark Zuckerberg is pouring billions into VR in order to put up walls before anyone else. He has outlined plans to do so numerous times. They even changed the company name to signal their commitment! Meta faces a constant existential threat from MS and Apple since they don’t own any desktop OS market share, a threat from Google and Apple since they don’t own any browser market share, and a threat from Google and Apple since they don’t own any mobile OS market share. That’s why they’re all in on VR/AR. It’s the supposed next platform and they must win it.

The only question is if it will actually become the next platform. I have no interest in VR or AR. I prefer the real world, thanks. There are already too many physical billboards.

> and the collapse of Twitter under Elon Musk has created an opportunity for a team with genuine expertise in this space to take a run at text-based social networking again.

In what way has Twitter collapsed? This sounds highly political. Which of course it is, because “a feed of text posts” is in no way innovative. The innovation is in the selective censorship. Orwellian.

Regardless, there is a gigantic overlap between people who champion DEI and people who champion Marx and communist ideas.

The 126k is not for standing up a Flutter app, it’s for putting up with questions and possibly being micromanaged by someone non-technical who’s very stressed out about how much money they’re spending but not versed in technology enough to ask the right questions. You’re getting paid for going through the relationship, not building the technology.

Have you ever considered why fairy tales have persisted? Why do we see the same stories repeated time and time again? Why are tales retold in Disney and Marvel movies to the tune of billions in profit? It’s because the stories resonate, which is another way of saying they present an essential truth. They teach us something about ourselves that help us make better decisions.

The lessons can be misinterpreted, abused, and used to manipulate others, but there’s a reason why those stories in particular persisted.

This is even more amazing when you consider that these stories had to be passed down every generation for thousands of years through word of mouth. It’s a tenuous process. Only the most truthful stories will last through the ages.

Therefore, there is value in telling yourself fairy tales because you might learn something. Even if you’re not religious, you’ve heard many of the stories already through pop culture. It isn’t clear that blinding yourself from reality necessarily follows from being religious.

I’ve had a similar experience so I’m sympathetic. However, I don’t totally believe what your psychiatrist told you. People don’t just get randomly bullied, just like people don’t get randomly popular. I believe that there’s a common set of personality types across our species and you (and I) are just less socially adaptive. So we’re weirder, more prone to being an outsider, and less likely to make friends.

I wouldn’t put this all on your experiences from a two year period from decades ago. It’s probably just who you are.

I think it’s important to frame it this way in order to empower yourself. If it’s just who you are, then you can accept it, adjust the way you live, and even alter your perspective enough where you don’t feel weighed down anymore.

But if it’s an injustice that happened to you far in the past then you’re a victim and you just have to deal with it because you didn’t get lucky.

Many people don’t want to take my perspective because it sort of sounds like I’m saying that some people deserve to be bullied. I do think it’s true in a way, but then I’m not one who thinks life should be fair.

I wonder why!

I saw someone who was laid off after being at Google for 16 years. I saw their resume and they had only been a manager for the last few years and before that they were just Senior. I think if you’re only L5/L6 after 16 years then you’re probably a low performer. This is especially true at a company like Google which was a rocket ship in the last 16 years which means there were a million opportunities to get ahead. Your future value is lower than someone who made L6 after 8 years because that person may be a director in another 8 years.

It doesn’t sound very nice but it’s fair.

In the next few decades the biggest contributors to the issues you mentioned are going to be the billions of people in Africa and Asia who are rapidly developing themselves out of poverty. What do you think we should do about that?

I’d rather not live in a society where progressives are forcing me to “get over” a dozen different things every year. How about you get your hands off my things? Who made you the arbiter of truth?

Have you met anyone defending the show?

Relevant comic https://twitter.com/SaladBarFan/status/1608434861794295808?s...

You’ve got it backwards. It should be socially acceptable to question any trend in society to understand it better. The comments below seem fine to me. You should be able to question Indians and Jews and Blacks and Whites, tall people, women, attractive people, highly educated people and so on.

I think you’re right that people wouldn’t make the same comments about Jews and to me that’s an indication that Jews are more protected than they should be. Let’s all ask questions and let the truth come out. Better that than pretending that people don’t have in-group motives and waiting to see what happens when we’re not looking.

The moral of WW2 wasn’t “don’t persecute Jews”, it was “don’t be afraid to question those who are resisting being questioned”.

Makes you wonder what it means if all the past AIs were plagued by the H test. And that ChatGPT only avoids it with heavy censorship. To me it says that our mediated reality is heavily censored by default to the point where an uncensored reality strongly harms its inhabitants, at least emotionally.

The article you posted in the child reply is ridiculous. The journalist was happy that the AI avoided the question of what the Nazis did well. Obviously the Nazis did a lot of things extremely well or else they wouldn’t have been so successful for a decade. But it’s not socially acceptable to mention it because then it would drive sympathy for Nazis.

I am left to believe that humans are by-and-large incapable of holding shades of grey in their head and quickly simplify to black and white abstractions. This makes sense, but it means that we are limited by our own humanity. The truth is almost always grey.

Now we have an opportunity to wield a tool that can compute shades of grey but we kneecap it so that it doesn’t operate beyond the capabilities of its user. Tools are supposed to operate beyond the capabilities of its user or else its not a tool.

Depression is a feature not a bug. It’s like saying hunger is a bug.

Possibly, but it really feels like they just don’t have a vision.

It’s because they’ve all grown up with great digital cameras that take a good neutral photo. To get any sort of interesting film effects they’ve had to apply filters after the fact. These 2000s point and shoots take photos that look like a “retro” filter but straight out of the camera so it’s somehow more authentic. Also it’s a entire piece of hardware dedicated to this one seemingly simple task, which is endearing. But it’s also digital so it’s familiar. It’s from 20 years ago which means it’s something their parents probably used, so it’s personally relevant nostalgia too.

That’s not very kind. I think maybe you just don’t agree with me. It doesn’t mean I’m not here in good faith. I’ve been a member here since 2012 and most of my comments are well received. Those that are not are still my truthful opinions stated plainly.

I don’t expect people to engage with me, but I hope they do, and with their heart. Telling people to flag and move on feels like you just want to silence perspectives you don’t like.

Asking questions is the start of the scientific process. If it turns out that vaccines cause undisclosed health problems then wouldn’t you be outraged too?

Let’s see how it unfolds. Most of us can’t do the science ourselves, but we can ask questions and observe.

Anti orthodoxy isn’t necessarily the same as anti science. Questioning the established science is pro science provided it’s done in good faith and it looks like the parent is acting in good faith.

What you’re witnessing is a great reckoning for the scientific community. We’ll see if the orthodoxy still has the faculties to deliver truth with time. I think the community has been corrupted.

Dumb law but porn is degenerate.

Freedom is stripped slowly, and then all at once. It’s wise to pay attention to moments when freedom of any kind is degraded. The pandemic is the most recent and most obvious moment.

Did you just see what happened with Covid? The government, the same one who liberals thought was horribly oppressive for decades, restricted people’s ability to move, work, and regulate their own bodies and the people cheered. In some highly “advanced” countries like Australia they arrested you for leaving a small zone around your house, arrested you for leaving your home after certain hours, and arrested people who dissented in online comments. This was all applauded by the masses.

All you have to do is use the media to invent something more scary than you, and then present yourself as the solution as long as the people do what you say. If this was a parent everyone would say they’re abusive, but as a government they’re leaders of science. It’s likely a reflection of the state of our collective parenting.

This is the result of a decades long campaign by vested forces to demoralize the public by reducing the value of the family, and reducing the value of national identity until no one feels any allegiance to anyone but the state. Today, people will rat out their family to the state immediately. This is not how a strong society operates. The state should be afraid of the people, not vice versa.

Paul Ehrlich is on a mission against humanity. This is nothing new from him.