I don't know if I like assuming that obedience is a genetically heritable trait. I've heard racists use this assumption to argue that racially Chinese people are more likely to be sneaky servile backstabbers because that's what their genetics are selected for due to their political past.
Controversial statement incoming: I also don't want to preemptively rule out the possibility of obedience, or anything else, being genetically heritable - even if it could lead to these uncomfortable conclusions. I think scientific studies should be done about such things to answer the questions of whether these personality traits are heritable, come what may of that knowledge. But to my relief, from the studies I've seen, personality traits heritability is on very shaky ground in most cases.
I was just yesterday talking to someone about how AI drones, specifically exactly AI drones, will be a pivotal piece of technology in a way I think even beyond nukes in some sense. With a decent AI drone swarm, it's not hard to imagine a SINGLE person dominating an entire population. The dictator's purest dream - none of those pesky military generals getting uppity.
I kept not being sure if you meant this seriously, but if you do, I would love to share the good word of my Lord and Savior charcuterie with you. Otherwise I will keep my mouth shut (it's about more than presentation though, although that is a part of it)
Leave it to nytimes to push such a simplifying, party-lines division dumbass narrative. No, it's rich people fucking over poor people, as per always. But we can't publish that!
Idunno if it counts as ageism when they're talking about stupid behavior among people with minds that are factually, biologically, not finished developing. Same reason it isn't ageist to say "ten year olds are not allowed to drive cars because they aren't smart enough to do it responsibly"
Maybe I'm just defensive because I'm such a contrarian, but I'm so sick of whatever is trending on Tiktok dictating the way people see their lives.
One month nobody ever gives a shit about "golden retriever boyfriends", then suddenly that's what everyone is looking for - when it's trending on Tiktok.
Nobody ever bothered about "main character energy", then suddenly it's their prerogative to acquire it - as soon as it's trending on Tiktok.
And so a friend that maybe you would have previously called free-thinking, or able to see things from multiple sides, or a friend who is honest with you even when it isn't what you want to hear - now suddenly this all is filtered through the lens of "the contrarian friend".
It's incredible how none of us ever thought we had contrarian friends until Tiktok started talking about it, none of us ever thought about how Bob down the street has main character energy until Tiktok started talking about it.
My god, people, think for yourselves. It's great to learn new ideas and concepts and then try to see how they apply to your life, but does everyone need to learn the same homogenous simple concept all at once and shoehorn everything into it?
No, we don't all have contrarian friends, no, it's not driving everyone crazy. People are just forcing themselves to find examples of it to talk about it on Tiktok because that's what's popular on Tiktok right now. People like these are the reason the term sheeple was invented.
"i do not give a single fuck" implies an additive identity fuck, and "I don't give two fucks" implies a multiplicative identity fuck. That's a start at least!
I despise Bostrom. I tried reading his book, Superintelligence, and found it unbearable. A whole lot of words to say
"if can build machine that can build smarter machine, then machine get INFINITE smart!!1!1!1"
While neglecting the very obvious possibility that maybe a machine of intelligence level 80 is capable of building a machine of intelligence level 130, but that by no means indicates the 130 intelligence machine can magically build a machine smarter than 130 anyways.
All the stuff about Moore's Law is literally just a correlation. It's not a law of physics, it's a fucking chart that we plotted a trend line on top of. Booooo
Edit: I also now kind of want to do a web scraping project and see if there's any correlation between scores and whether the media in question is owned by Comcast or Warner Bros
Yeah this is exactly what turned me off from it when I looked into it. I kind of like that it would lend a more physical-space quality to it, but ultimately I'm hardly ever online, so it would just be me being totally out of the loop all the time without a bouncer. I know I could figure out how to do it, but it's a lot of effort for something where I'm not even sure I'll like what it gives me.
I totally agree, but I think they could have managed to capture the simple nuance of "in order to care about people and make their lives better, we make a special exception for evil assholes, and we do not care about those people or make their lives better". If I live on an island with ten people and one of them only wants to beat up the others all the time, there's not really much hypocrisy in me saying "I want to make everyone's lives better, but this one jerk won't let us have that, so I guess we have to settle for making everyone's life better except for his". Nothing stops the Democrats from knocking it off with the warmongering while still at least speaking harsh words about the true failings of their political opponents.
Nice strawman, but I'm not saying he's a pussy for feeling bad for cursing. I'm saying, let me be very clear:
The worst in him is apparently calling for Democrats to bully Republicans, which is a silly level of worst to apologize for on account of the fact that:
2: The people he's calling to bully are fascist, homophobic, xenophobic, racist, corrupt, evil powerful people who are currently dismantling the country
3: It's ridiculous to say "I should have been nicer" when obviously they didn't lose because they were mean, and if anything being more mean would have helped them, or at least...
4: Being more mean maybe would at least have driven more people to take aggressive action that may have prevented the current situation
It's just ridiculous for someone who was 20x nicer than the victorious competition to say they should have been even more nicerer on top of that. Why? What good would it have done? Would you rather your mom be kind to a criminal trying to rob her, or hateful? (See how uncool and ineffective that is to try to drag your mom into things?)
So if I didn't make it clear enough. I'm not looking down on anyone for "having a conscience". I think Walz doesn't have enough of a conscience to bolster himself to do what needs to be done and overcome the paradox of tolerance and hate the opposition enough to make himself a strong opponent rather than a polite little pushover.
I couldn't snore harder. The worst in you is asking other people to be mean? Oh me oh my I'm quaking in my booties. I'm sure if only you had been a kindler gentler gooder boy you would have won the election. Whatever
I've always thought of competence porn as something more like Suits or House M.D, where the entire point is to see cool smart people doing call smart things and vicariously feel cool and smart yourself by watching them do it. In Star Trek, the crew's competence seems incidental, but at least to me it doesn't feel like the point of the episodes is to show off how competent people are - it usually seems like either some sort of philosophical enquiry, a straightforward action/suspense, interpersonal drama, or some combination of them. So while competence does feature in the stories, I feel like it's handled with a lot more depth and realism than straight up pornography of competence. Star Trek is like competence erotica~
Yeah but police literally get away with murder here so I don't think this will end up making a big splash