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by zmgsabst 2y ago
He was a man of hypocrisy: Immigrants must be welcome as a moral imperative, but not in the Vatican! Bigotry is wrong, except for the modern Marxist form! Embrace the Progressive world view, but don’t talk about how we forcibly sterilized p
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I’ve always found that an indictment of math education — and spent many, many hours discussing it. When teaching addition, workbooks commonly use a box, eg, “[ ] + 2 = 5” — and first graders have no conceptual problem with this. Somehow, we
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Harvard and UNC lost lawsuits about their DEI programs in admissions being illegal racism.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You don’t understand why people changed the subject rather than address an incurious question — and immediately resort to calling them “snowflakes” for doing so? I think you’re answering your own question about why people don’t engage in di
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Why would it “give them pause”? Your question (as phrased here) is clearly provocative rather than curious and represents your biases (eg, “openly wants to mess up your pastime”). You don’t consider the two obvious answers, in that they see
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
It wasn’t the MAGA movement that started dismantling Western culture in the US. That’s been happening from Leftist criticism for generations.
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Is that even legal for a CA based company?
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Trump isn’t the source of that, but a manifestation of it. People are tired of, eg, systemic discrimination being forced on them by elites (euphemized “DIE”) or courts which have outspoken activists refusing to enforce the law against caree
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Of course. This is what happens when “rule of law” is subverted on the generational scale — eg, by enabling illicit mass migration opposed by the majority of the people. They eventually feel that appeals to “rule of law” are merely emotiona
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
There’s 3 soldiers arrested this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LOP645eW-M
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
The US is occupying two for profit right now: - occupying Syrian oil fields - strong arming Ukraine for mineral rights, after overthrowing a democratically elected government a decade ago > applying the same policies you have towards cou
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> The US dictated the rules of the modern world and have seemingly been happy with them for the last 80 years. The US isn’t a homogeneous entity: for at least 40 years (since the 1980s) there’s been a sharp divide between the general pop
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Is it really? This seems a pretty obvious outcome of foreign allies constantly negging us for supporting their defense and international organizations taking advantage of the US while citizens are undermined at home. Progressive manageriali
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
What’s the comparison?
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
I don’t. Because your banana example doesn’t have additives meant to be reactive — so is unlike adding fluoride to water at levels which impact dental health.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Or modes. Since the data is likely multi-modal.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
You want a better outcome. Culture transmission is more effective when followers can emulate leaders — so you’ll have an easier time getting people to obey when your goal is to get them to act the way you do. In this case, you’ll expend les
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Fascism explicitly includes an economic component. > […] strong regimentation of society and the economy. > "Fascist goals" – the creation of a nationalist dictatorship to regulate economic structure […] > Paxton argues:
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
There’s several with similar dips, at -35 to -60; and several more in -20s. I don’t know enough about cars to know what the trend is.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
My experience is that around 200-300 lines, the LLM is no longer able to understand the context of its own work. At that point, it also usually contains a significant mistake. And around that scale, you’ll get much better code if you refact
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
A few reasons: - you have legal obligations no matter what the customer wants, eg, Amazon and storing transactions for tax reasons - you do actively delete most of their data, eg profiles, but “deleted=true” on their central account record
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
My implication was they’d demand unfair child support which left the non-custodial parent destitute and unable to recover, even though that’s not in the interest of the child, as an act of retribution. A story I’ve seen play out several tim
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Colonialism never died, just rebranded. Progressivism started as a movement to empower technocrats to “better” society via social engineering — and as a continuation of US/EU colonialism. They invented the concept of “scientific racism
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Like Catholic schools in the US solved the “backwards” culture of the indigenous? — just force people to attend schools of your preferred ideology?
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
Are those vindictive people sometimes the custodial parent, as well?
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> The rapid decline in progress in modern times would seem most likely to suggest that something we are taking as a fundamental assumption is probably wrong, rather than that the next door is just unimaginably difficult to open. We actua
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
5% over 100 years is historically incredibly low. On average, governments last 250 years — which means we have a 0.4% chance per year. Using that figure, 100 years has a 33% chance of collapse — as our background. Or roughly 4% per decade.
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
This has been a long argument, eg “ordo amoris” — 700 years (Aquinas) to 1600 years (Augustine) in Christian philosophy. The split is aligned with politics [1]; and the two sides can’t even agree on which direction demonstrates a lack of em
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
> This model can work fine if the AI researchers collaborate with mathematicians or artists to understand that the use of AI is actually useful in the workflow of those fields, but often that doesn't happen and there is a savior-lik
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by zmgsabst 2y ago
No Im not — I’m comparing two fields that range from hobby to professional, both of which I’ve worked in professionally. But for which automation occurred at different times. > You’re comparing something many people do as a hobby to the

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