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by mpalmer 2y ago
How would you defend against an accusation that you seem to prefer the historically accurate version of events that allows for the most white characters?
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by mpalmer 2y ago
I'm fascinated to know what you think of Mickey Rooney's performance in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Or the travesty of yellowface that is the flashback sequence in the Manchurian Candidate.
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by mpalmer 2y ago
> the result of a small elite of political activists Conspiratorial thinking based on absolutely nothing. Anything that "directly defies the tastes of the core audience" will fail. It's obvious you're choosing to put
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by mpalmer 2y ago
Gladiator is fiction that is extremely loosely based on historical people and events. Gladiator 2 must necessarily be even more inaccurate if it maintains continuity with the first movie. Ridley Scott is on record as being extremely exasper
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by mpalmer 2y ago
> This is exactly the sort of dumb reactionary politics that I don’t want in my life Hey, that's what I thought when I read your comment! What about the fact that the treatment of women and slaves is almost certainly significantly t
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by mpalmer 2y ago
This is less a response to the piece than the inciting thread(s) on X. Successful art doesn't have to be accurate. Successful entertainment even less so! It's super telling that you get people essentially complaining about AAVE li
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by mpalmer 2y ago
This would seem to be entirely about how different parties view blue checks. There's no law that says a blue check next to a name comes with any kind of guarantee. Unless X has language somewhere about what "verified" actuall
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by mpalmer 2y ago
There is no "the" problem. You identify one problem to exclusion of the very real, salient problem that the average taxpayer sees the wealthy as not paying their fair share.
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by mpalmer 2y ago
Put another way, "default to what's best for all users collectively" is not strictly equivalent to "default to what's most intuitive to unfamiliar users". The latter is the luxury of end-user software unburdene
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by mpalmer 2y ago
You are preoccupied with semantics and romantic notions of blurred lines between people and software, rather than the actual reality of what a model is, and who tends to control it. The "people" training models are mostly massive
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by mpalmer 2y ago
TOS went way further than you give it credit for. Different things were controversial and "of-the-moment" when the original aired.
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by mpalmer 2y ago
I have whiplash from your first and last sentences. > Students should be able to learn from books, music, film. So should AI training models. An AI model is a thing. It is owned and fully controlled by some agent. A student is a sentient
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by mpalmer 2y ago
You grant Liu his bold concepts but not Banks? As someone else pointed out, TBP would fit inside the greater Culture universe but not the other way around. > I don't think advanced civs not getting involved is a counterexample to th
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by mpalmer 2y ago
> To me the culture series fails, as it has no interesting ideas. Just one of the subplots of Surface Detail involves a war conducted in virtual reality to decide the continued existence of virtual "hells" which advanced-but-
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by mpalmer 2y ago
A fairly reductive dismissal. Not completely wrong - except the bit about blandness. If I want bland characters and dialogue I'll just crack open Three Body Problem again. Seriously though: Matter, Surface Detail, and Look to Windward
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by mpalmer 2y ago
I read them all in the last year and have since been searching dejectedly for something that comes close. Indeed, it's excellent. Banks created something singular with the Culture, and he brings it to life with wit, energy and impressi
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by mpalmer 2y ago
Plenty of Culture Minds value humans/pan-humans in the books. They get involved, too, just look at the effort expended by the Sleeper Service in Excession for such a personal agenda. Not to say that there isn't a good deal of jo
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by mpalmer 2y ago
Making sandboxed execution about your anticapitalist politics, talk about layers of indirection! You're right, it makes for inefficient discourse as well.
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by mpalmer 2y ago
Replies don't have to be a continuation of your point.
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by mpalmer 2y ago
I liked this quote too, though I wonder if it's not more out of necessity and the special nature of math than anything else. Mathematicians speak languages non-math people can't grasp, so they gravitate toward and connect to one a
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by mpalmer 2y ago
It doesn't quite follow that you highlight the need for a political system to handle shifts, then suggest that amending the constitution is not such a form of flexibility, but a transformation into another country entirely.
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by mpalmer 2y ago
This fails to acknowledge that today's decision has a weak/non-existent constitutional basis. I defy anyone to craft any political system or subset thereof that correctly anticipates societal shifts over the course of two and a ha
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by mpalmer 2y ago
He ruined Twitter with the intention of making a quick buck. That he has failed does not make it incorrect to say that he did it for a quick buck.
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by mpalmer 2y ago
Not to over-parse, but "making a quick buck" is not synonymous with being profitable.
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by mpalmer 2y ago
My bad, I misread both your tone and your meaning, an impressive combo. Cheers -
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by mpalmer 2y ago
Ouch. I've been reading and commenting for years here, but I don't presume to gatekeep, or indeed lament that it's turning into reddit(?), the latter being distinctly against the HN commenting guidelines. Just downvote me an
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by mpalmer 2y ago
We need the Oscars "In Memoriam" every year, but it's for words we lost to semantic satiation. Off the top of my head: iconic epic brilliant "blazingly fast" literally
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by mpalmer 2y ago
The depressing difference is that more than any other profession, successful influencers look like they could come from anywhere. But they have to pantomime success from day one - either until they get it, or they give up. It's a con n
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by mpalmer 2y ago
LOL. Did you find that article from the comment I posted 30m ago? Ascent represents just 12% of manufacturing volume - as stated in the article. Manufacturers collectively had about 35 tons of raw material at the end of 2022, not just Asc
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by mpalmer 2y ago
To repeat > The public good intended by the quotas doesn't go away because more people suddenly want a pill that makes them instantly feel better and more productive And how do you account for the tons of raw material that manufactu

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