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721.
by narrator 4y ago
The Russians can't negotiate with the Ukrainians, so their only alternative is total domination by violence. I think the west miscalculated how much the Russians had modernized and their war production capacity. The fight is much mor
722.
by narrator 4y ago
Did someone read the 2022 predictions thread and score it? If so, who were the big winners?
723.
by narrator 4y ago
Russia will win in Ukraine. It will probably result from some sort of prolonged general strike in an utterly exhausted Ukraine. The only modern war that Ukraine is comparable to, IMHO, is the Second Congo war. All the powers around it ru
724.
by narrator 4y ago
On the politicized stuff they use InstructGPT[1] to make sure it gives the "right" answer. This is human in the loop reinforcement learning. The human training it was probably instructed to give it a pass on any answer that was
725.
by narrator 4y ago
ChatGPT will use fallacious arguments when answering politicized questions. When called out, it will admit it used a fallacious argument and then say one shouldn't do that. That's sort of like where a parent will give a wrong, bu
726.
by narrator 4y ago
You are just bloviating around culture war nonsense. That's made clear by your use of key phrases like saying the other person is using key phrases.
727.
by narrator 4y ago
Huh? You're not making a coherent argument.
728.
by narrator 4y ago
Asking an AI to decide lifeboat ethics questions. That sounds like a great way to give plausible deniability to the AI developers and their financiers it lets stay in the lifeboat.
729.
by narrator 4y ago
"Fire Upon The Deep" was great until it got to the part about the dog kingdom.
730.
by narrator 4y ago
James Lindsay goes into the history and mechanics of woke starting with Herbert Markusa and the start of the new left in the 60s. It's a long long back story. If you want to get deep in the weeds as he goes line by line through all t
731.
by narrator 4y ago
The new problem is "hurt others" has been expanded to include microaggressions and other trivial differences of opinion between groups. In order to hold all these groups together in a unified whole, they have to eliminate all unc
732.
by narrator 4y ago
Since Stanford has not said anything about why they're doing this that makes any sense, I am going to throw an idea out there: I think this all dates back to the end of Halloween in the Castro[1]. This was back in 2006. S.F used to t
733.
by narrator 4y ago
Somehow, the Russians got breeder reactors to work. They have two currently running and are planning a new 1200 GW one. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-Reactor
734.
by narrator 4y ago
The fed by raising rates is trying to clean out these low-margin businesses by making them less attractive to investors. This means they will fire workers and stop buying goods which is supposed to bring down inflation. Think about it, in
735.
by narrator 4y ago
Fauci changing the definition of "gain of function" research after it was banned so he could claim he wasn't funding it, when he clearly was under the old definition from the previous year is probably the most blatant recent
736.
by narrator 4y ago
The broader tactic is redefining the meaning of words to claim the moral high ground in a debate. They steal the entire intellectual history of a concept by just redefining it to support their argument.
737.
by narrator 4y ago
The reason these kinds of rules are showing up everywhere is to get control of organizations by inventing grievances that can be deployed at any time to remove inconvenient people and quickly take over the organizations they've built.
738.
by narrator 4y ago
I wonder if the Google+ social network failed because people were paranoid that they could lose their whole digital life for making ban-worthy posts on Google+.
739.
by narrator 4y ago
I did a migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL and saved a ton of money. I'm happy to say that automated integration tests for everything made cutting over not too bad. The other thing that helped was PostgreSQL consultants to plan and
740.
by narrator 4y ago
You can get commercial support for PostgreSQL that's pretty good.
741.
by narrator 4y ago
Except tone is a function of the observer. It's purely subjective and thus one can make absolutely anything offensive by complaining about the tone. Watch: I don't like the tone of your comment. Now prove to me that you're
742.
by narrator 4y ago
One thing that bugs me about the commentary here is that absolutely everything comes down to whether someone is mean or nice. It doesn't matter what they're saying, it's the TONE. Like we could all die fighting over the las
743.
by narrator 4y ago
I just had a wonderful and possibly stupid idea. How about pumped hydro with a huge storage tank on the surface and then another huge one at the bottom of a cavern made by an underground nuke test? The main problem of course is that the un
744.
by narrator 4y ago
As a stock market investor that is purely self-interested in predicting the direction of stocks and who could not give a crap about your opinion on Elon's latest tweet, it's EXTREMELY interesting to see TSLA flip from getting a pa
745.
by narrator 4y ago
Most therapy is CBT based, which you can figure out how to do in an afternoon. After that, therapy is basically just expensive rent-a-friend. Internal Family Systems is a better therapy technique, IMHO, however it requires a therapist with
746.
by narrator 4y ago
They mostly arise from the lower mammalian and reptilian parts of the brain. AI does not have these and they are not required for intelligence. That people don't understand this is confusing to me.
747.
by narrator 4y ago
I'd try and get your old phone that doesn't charge fixed at a phone repair place. Tell them you are poor and your circumstances.
748.
by narrator 4y ago
The guy actually reads leftist literature and analyzes it and yes it says crazy stuff. For example, Klaus Schwab, president of the World Economic Forum, wrote a book entitled "COVID-19:The Great Reset" and then you say this guy i
749.
by narrator 4y ago
I could see how some fundamentalist Christians could draw a line from the practices of the mystery cults and some Harry Potter stuff like secret knowledge, a secret society and an elite of magical lineage, but it's fiction after all, s
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by narrator 4y ago
The thing about James is he reads all these old books cover to cover line by line and explains the context and ideas around it. Nobody reads academic leftists because they are eye-wateringly dull and they redefine many words. The people w

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