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by djur 2y ago
I don't think the kind of (highly improbable) world-spanning superintelligence that would be necessary (and probably still insufficient) to make the Basilisk possible would be in any way limited by the ideas expressed in LLM training d
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by djur 2y ago
The problem with "politics is the mind-killer" is that it seems to encourage either completely ignoring politics (which is mostly harmless but also results in pointlessly ceding a venue for productive action in service of one&#x27
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by djur 2y ago
I agree, although "competent human" is not really the bar when we're talking about actually existing phone support. A while back I was trying to solve an issue with Verizon and calling three separate times I got three complet
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by djur 2y ago
Right, "alpha" means a lot of things in ethology, but the "alpha/beta/gamma" categorization that took hold in reactionary circles was specifically derived from the wolf studies. "Some individuals tend to b
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by djur 2y ago
The Fitbit watches are the closest thing I've gotten to a Pebble (and I'd be wearing a fitness tracker anyway), but they're way more locked down.
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by djur 2y ago
The promotion was not activism ! Jim Beam did an an actual ad campaign with Ru Paul's Drag Race at the same time. Travis Tritt (who supported the Bud Light boycott) tried to get people to go after them, too. It went nowhere, as had mo
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by djur 2y ago
So is it a problem to use the "wrong" pronouns for someone or not? You take people at their word on their gender every day. Why go out of your way to fret about what you call people only when they tell you they're trans?
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by djur 2y ago
You already remember what standard pronouns to use to refer to each person in your life. They're words you learned right from the start of learning the language. The same isn't true of "neopronouns".
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by djur 2y ago
They're renaming a government agency after an internet meme.
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by djur 2y ago
I don't think so. If someone shows you their baby you say "how adorable, how beautiful" no matter how ugly the baby is. If you haven't learned to accept that by the time you're an adult you're going to live a m
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by djur 2y ago
The goal was not to change Bud drinkers' opinions. It was to expand the market for Bud Light to new demographics (women, younger people). We know this is true because the exec who spearheaded the overall campaign said as much before th
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by djur 2y ago
Do you ask everyone you work with for a birth certificate so you can ensure you're referring to them using the terms you consider appropriate?
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by djur 2y ago
Noticeably treating a coworker differently because of your beliefs about their gender identity is not a balanced and pragmatic solution.
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by djur 2y ago
A vegan doesn't eat tofu at you. Your right to untrammeled adherence to your philosophical beliefs ends the moment that those beliefs result in conduct affecting other people. After that point, some form of balancing occurs.
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by djur 2y ago
We expect people to say things that make them uncomfortable all the time. I don't feel comfortable telling my boss that I'm the one who wrote the buggy code that caused the incident, but I have a responsibility to do it regardless
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by djur 2y ago
That analogy doesn't work. A closer analogy would be a vegan refusing to talk to a coworker who eats meat. That would be unacceptable to me, too.
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by djur 2y ago
Or you could just call people what they want to be called when it does not inconvenience you in the slightest.
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by djur 2y ago
Graham's essay refers to Bud Light sending a trans influencer promotional beer cans as "woke". I don't know how that's "performative and orthodox social justice activism".
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by djur 2y ago
I've literally never heard the phrase "war on hate" in my life.
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by djur 2y ago
How was the campaign "woke" unless you define "trans people exist and should be supported" as woke? If Graham dislikes prigs, shouldn't he be criticizing the censorious social conservatives that led the boycott?
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by djur 2y ago
> So a man won a boxing match with women This should be stated hypothetically, because it hasn't happened (at least, not in any official, regulated match).
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by djur 2y ago
Stephen Miller just gave a speech last night saying that trans people don't exist, and the new President he advises is issuing an executive order to that effect. https://apnews.com/article/trump-sex-gender-transgen
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by djur 2y ago
Graham says he thinks wokeness is a religion, which I think is silly, but ironically religion in the workplace is an effective model here. I don't have to believe in someone's religion to understand that I shouldn't challenge
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by djur 2y ago
What Graham means by "prig" is, say, an HR person who informs you that you need to use your coworker's preferred pronouns.
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by djur 2y ago
In his article, Graham said the following: "Consumers have emphatically rejected brands that ventured too far into wokeness. The Bud Light brand may have been permanently damaged by it." Bud Light sent promotional cans to a trans
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by djur 2y ago
Because there's no coherent regulatory framework to "ban processed foods", no country has ever done such a thing, and it would be political suicide to be the party that banned cheeseburgers, french fries, and Coca-Cola.
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by djur 2y ago
Olanzapine, too. Gained 50 pounds on that stuff.
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by djur 2y ago
The best way to change your lifestyle is to change it, and GLP-1 agonists make it easier to change your lifestyle. In fact, they don't work at all if you don't. Someone who's unable to change their diet and exercise routines
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by djur 2y ago
Yeah, my fridge has been virtually empty of ultra-processed foods for years. Mounjaro silenced the little voice saying "hey, why not go dig into the leftovers?", and when I do find myself grabbing a late-night snack (because my gl
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by djur 2y ago
Anecdotally, I can say that you absolutely can get quite fat on a diet of abundant "quality", minimally-processed food. It's just a little more expensive. I don't know how the food supply arguments about obesity can land

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