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Obama used race (and in particular, neo-Marxist theories like intersectionality and equity) to displace conversation about class with conversation about race. At exactly the moment class-unity was driving meaningful capital reform in the fallout of the 2008 GFC.

There were numerous memes at the time pointing out the shift in the language of NYT et al from discussing class issues to racial grievances. Clear as day in Google’s metrics of media terms.

That shift in focus is what broke Occupy Wall St as a class movement — and was adopted by Wall St to appoint commissars of that ideology in exchange. Woke.

The Obama -> Bernie -> Trump pipeline is a cohort of working Millennials, ie, the proletariat who have lost faith in Democrat politics serving capital and racial tribes rather than the working class. So they elected someone with the right platform they believed would break the system — following the rigging of the 2016 primary. They’re one of the relatively small (1-2%) but engaged cohorts that switch teams, eg, when the election comes down to under 1% difference, which way they vote matters — and they generally vote anti-establishment, with increasing aggression.

Democrats have completed failed to perceive that reality and engaged in name calling instead — eg, the multiple replies calling me a racist to slander me and poison the well for debate.

I usually don’t reply because there’s no point making serious discussions to people who have already made up their mind, eg, sibling replies.

US was less racist in 2008 and more united around class solidarity.

Yes — because there are many non-equivalent statements that are easier to prove.

So the Lean proves something and the question is whether that something is actually what we care about — or something similar, but ultimately not the question.

I’m genuinely curious:

Which part are you struggling to take as in good faith?

I’m sure it’s not your preferred narrative of the times, but we both knew that before I answered; so what is it that strikes you as in bad faith rather than my genuine interpretation of events?

Bad random in games is also a problem, eg, reversing the poker seed.

That sounds related to the pigeon hole principle: if you have n objects and m buckets, and m doesn’t divide n, then some buckets have more objects than others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle

Circa 2008, into 2010, you had the Democrats running on holding Wall St accountable and a genuine class movement to reform capital in the US, Occupy Wall St.

Obama et al instead tore open old racial wounds, thereby destroying class solidarity in exchange for Wall St promoting their ideology, thereby creating “Woke”.

This was the origin of the Obama -> Bernie -> Trump cohort, who helped bring Trump into power a decade later.

If we have variable c, it would be indistinguishable.

We even use the Lorentz transform, developed for post-Michelson aether theories, precisely because you cannot tell whether you’re in a varying aether or a varying geometry.

We define distance and time relative to c, so we cannot measure it in the usual sense.

An extra sprinkle of race-baiting and you’d have the Obama-era Occupy Wall St special.

We previously were more accepting, eg, if you read the accounts of various socialites trying to include shy, reclusive, or eccentric friends in high society, you see real effort and concern to include them despite the difference in behavior.

We dropped all that social connection/obligation and associated support it provided for various people when we stopped doing things that historic way.

Talking about a thing to virtue signal is not the same as doing a thing.

There are cars that market based on only being track legal — and even more that market on requiring being tuned down for street safety.

Most sports cars do the second, exactly like OpenAI.

They don’t get VAT only, but also income taxes on wages to support that activity and additional rounds of VAT.

Yes — people who emigrate to work there pay more in taxes, but they generally also consume more: the job they’re working displaces a local, they benefit from social medicine, etc. Digital nomads bring jobs from elsewhere to spend locally, while not benefiting from (eg) local healthcare or schools.

Dollar multipliers and sources.

A digital nomad is still economically positive when a) their money circulates locally, eg at cafes and restaurants and b) comes from outside the region. That’s because they’re bringing wealth generated elsewhere (ie, at their employer) into the region.

While you’re correct the state misses out on income taxes, they get taxes on further spending, eg, when those digital nomad supplied dollars are used to pay wages at the cafe.

Not specifically about digital nomads, but Amazon used to estimate their salary dollars induce $2.5 of additional local economic activity — as Amazon employees bought from local stores, the store employees did in turn, etc.

Those drop out in holography too — eg, information local within the interior can get smeared out across the surface.

I’ve worked in a finance department — and this is a very idealistic view of how such decisions get made.

How would you observe that?

We have something like a spinor network in 4D space, where some portions are opposite others in parameters.

Is this a diagram of particles interacting or a single thread weaving through time? Pick your metaphor.

Your criticism of LLMs also applies to humans and so implies humans don’t possess knowledge.

Obama worked with Wall St to promote Woke/ESG/etc in public-private partnerships to dismantle the class solidarity forming in 2010 around anger over Wall St bailouts.

OWS itself fell apart when activists started with race and sex based grievances rather than class solidarity.

Trump is a result of that choice to institutionalize bigotry rather than address class issues — as Trump’s margin in 2016 seems to come down to working class voters uninterested in grievance politics. (And the large Obama -> Trump voter swing, eg, among Millennial men.)

> Ds abandoned the working class for grievance politics circa 2010

Which I already explained in the first part of my statement you selectively edited out.

Not really: engineering is explicitly empirical compared to other fields — and mathematics serves as ontology for that experience.

There’s not faith involved.

Darwin submitted and presented his work to the Linnean Society of London — with papers by Darwin published by the society.

Darwin wrote his book Origin of Species the following year.

To agree:

In my experience, proof is the gym reps that allows you to harness strong intuition elsewhere.

In practice as an engineer, intuition is far more useful, eg, being able to “feel” when something is off in our reasoning — but proofs are where I train those same sensibilities on “harder” problems, (eg) details about how to model identity, equality, and equivalence in a formal model.

We must be reading different charts — the only one I can see has consistent numbers among Republicans (50%) but high numbers for Democrats (90%) except for Whites (20%).

So your characterization is completely wrong: Republicans mildly think everybody does, while Democrats deny white people do.

Trump himself only happened because Ds abandoned the working class for grievance politics circa 2010 — forming “public private partnerships” to tear open old wounds while screwing the working class on behalf of corporations.

Obama -> Bernie -> Trump is real.

This is a direct stab at the US imperialist faction — not MAGA, who want the US to break up with the EU.

I genuinely don’t understand this move through the lens of realpolitik: they’re mad at Trump, so they’re going to offend CFR et al who are aligned on Fortress America and neo-empire by threatening to take a critical vassal for the EU?

Okay — but you just turned being mad at MAGA into the MIC deep state viewing you as an enemy and therefore further military alliance with any EU member unviable. All because the EU couldn’t stomach four years of crass taunts from a TV conman.

Total MAGA victory.

Similar to say, humans collecting exotic viruses and conducting serial passage in humanized mice?

Because we already do that.

What about AI makes that more risky?

AZs weren’t meant to be disaster resistant, eg, an earthquake or hurricane could take out a whole region.

Regions were always the scale of disaster isolation on AWS.

You choice of basis matters, eg, wavelet versus sinusoid.

To agree:

If I ran Metasploit against HF and RubyGems because I “accidentally” misconfigured my lab sandbox, there’s a good chance I’d be prosecuted.

I don’t think LLMs vs Metasploit being different software changes the law.