KirinDave

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AI Dungeon: Dragon Model Update (GPT-3 Model in Games)(medium.com)
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by KirinDave 6y ago
> If you understand systems-- why and how they work-- you don't need to necessarily challenge everything. In fact, if you don't sufficiently understand a system then "challenging everything" can signal a lack of aware
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Is the thesis of this article: "it's important not to consume media or accept popular opinions that trigger cognitive dissonance BECAUSE our preferences are often determined by arbitrary aspects of our environment, bolstered by po
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by KirinDave 6y ago
> I think Scott's fear (rightly or wrongly) isn't that his own opinions will be his downfall, but that those politically on his own side will attack him for providing a platform to the enemy. I think he sees himself in the same
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by KirinDave 6y ago
What's hard for me to square about this explanation is that the "team SJW" persecution voltron you've constructed has known about and pointed out that Scott openly supports extremely bigoted views and has gone to bat for
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by KirinDave 6y ago
I have no privileged information except one: my father dropped by and I could reproduce the last name appearing on his non-incognito account. He is not "the target audience" for this sort of thing.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
On your ps: "Reactionary" is originally a definition of a political and social stance essentially characterized as opposed to some or all of the idea of social and economic reforms put forth during the French Revolution. It has su
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Go do a firstname lastname search for Scott and then look what shows up on page 1. I regret to inform you he cannot escape his reactionary blog just by wishing it so. If anything, this escapade will draw more attention to him. The NYT is no
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by KirinDave 6y ago
You've constructed a search query that returns at least 2 conspicuous links about his reactionary blog in the first page, and depending on your search history may or may not reveal the SSC reddit. This is ridiculous. You're now li
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Uh, I regret to inform you that I found the name from the autocomplete and then hit tab. It was not on the tip of my tongue and you can easily reproduce the experiment if you don't believe me.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
I'm not outing him. He outed himself. I even felt a bit of sympathy for him before I realized his fan reddit has invoked his name many times. I even suggested in public I'm a fan of some of his writing. But this is just ridiculou
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by KirinDave 6y ago
My central thesis is that I don't respect his pseudonymity, because he does not have it. I'm within the letter of the site rules, even if it pisses me off a bit.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
It is literally the second hit on an incognito google search for his full name. The address of his business is up on hit one. Please show me the veil.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
What's confusing about all this is that Scott Alexander [redacted, see 0] doesn't seem to be in any way "pseudonymous." A non-profiled Google search autocompletes this, and then links to numerous fan-driven Reddit thre
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Who's Rogan voting for now, remind me? The truth is that Sanders cut across a different axis than a lot of Democrats.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Why would it be nice?
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by KirinDave 6y ago
> I didn't suggest this. You did: "labeling Bernie Sanders far left as opposed to, say, Sweden" Sorry, that was unclear. Swedish leftism in politics. Not currently enacted Swedish law. > It is generally accepted that th
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by KirinDave 6y ago
What? EU members (a broadly popular and enviable status) have much more open borders and broader refugee responsiblities that anything that has gotten out of draft status in the house or Senate. What's more, leftists are split on the a
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by KirinDave 6y ago
No, it hasn't. Suggesting unutilized capacity is "our infrastructure" working as intended is a ludicrous metric. It can be gamed simply by refusing to provision some capacity. The numbers that matter are what actually prevent
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by KirinDave 6y ago
> You're mixing up two very different things. When you talk about Sanders and "health care infrastructure" people naturally assume you're talking about hospitals, insurance coverage, etc. That naturally raises the res
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Sorry, I used dictation for this comment. "and Norma sleep" is a hilarious interpretation of "enormously".
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Maybe if I did that I'd be more concerned. I said he profited from and resembled one, but that he's an American centrist with strong reactionary sympathies. If your entire engagement here has been to dispute that I said this, then
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Look, this shouldn't be seen either as for or against socialized medicine. Sweden has that, but their political infighting rendered their infrastructure moot, and they're now the single worst offender. It has to do with if the sy
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by KirinDave 6y ago
It's outrageous, bordering on disingenuous, to compare anyone to Italy and Sweden and go, "See? Your health care infrastructure isn't so bad." Sweden deliberately elected not to use their infrastructure. Italy was the fi
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by KirinDave 6y ago
Missing the tense is important. But it's worth noting Obama was considered a "progressive" candidate. While his appointment was a meaningful milestone for American race politics, his actual politics were... disappointing to
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by KirinDave 6y ago
> At least on the issue of taxation, it's clear that he is to the left of that country (and basically every other country on the globe). Sorry, but the basis for comparison isn't "What policies currently exist" but &q
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by KirinDave 6y ago
We'll need to wait and see for data on UK and France. Those countries certainly botched up their handling similarly (although not quite as long as we have). Comparing us to Sweden (which has essentially elected to do nothing at all exc
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by KirinDave 6y ago
> Rogan is squarely on the left. As evidenced by Biden, he's to the left even of many Democrats. I think an awful lot of American leftists disagree strongly with you. Being left of Biden is hardly an accomplishment.
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by KirinDave 6y ago
> 'm not disputing you on U.S. politics being conservative on the global scale, just that it's not fair or accurate to call Rogan a "conservative" when he's voting for the most "socialist" candidate on
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by KirinDave 6y ago
He didn't quite do that, but even if he did that wouldn't matter. He's a slightly left of center in a global sense, anymore than it'd make sense to call Biden "the progressive" candidate.

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