biden being a horrible candidate is doing a hell of a lot more to suppress the vote
It is, yeah.
Great long term strategy there chief.
With Trump’s new King powers, I don’t think we get another chance.
Um.
Update your passports, people. Just in case.
Me too, haha. This is what happens when you treat arguments like chess pieces and not, you know, reason. I don’t believe this guy has any idea what he just said. I also don’t think he cares.
I’d have to actually search his name then, right?
I don’t know who this person is.
True, but I often feel like people use Poe’s law as an excuse not to engage mentally. It’s really uncharitable, actually.
Like, I can hold the view “is sincere” and “is sarcastic” in my mind simultaneously until something confirms or denies one.
And it’s not like it matters that much. If he’s sincere, I’ll say "wow, that’s crazy, " and if he’s not, I’ll say “wow, that would be crazy.”
[e] Just to clarify, I see now he’s a Fox news contrib. So, he’s paid to be nuts.
One thing they can do for me is get out of my news feed.
Because I don’t want to see this shit.
If there is no plan to take down capitalism, why would I waste any time being upset about it when LLMs are already ruining my news feed.
Maybe I would listen to you if you actually cared about anything you were saying.
That’s great! What’s your plan exactly to take down capitalism? I have a month, I bet we could knock this out.
I’m generally skeptical enough to read between the lines.
Haha, honestly, some of that was just me putting down thoughts I had while looking for some kind of supportive argument.
Yeah, I think it’s a paradox only to absolutists
I mean, it is called a paradox, haha.
I like the idea of resolving it, but that’s only because I like math. I imagine both could be rhetorically useful.
If you’re talking to someone with a strong belief in fairness, telling them about social contracts seems useful. It reminds me, actually, of the best prisoner’s dilemma strategy: cooperation, retaliation, and forgiveness.
If, however, you’re talking to someone who likes splitting the Earth, the punk rock energy of telling god to go fuck himself, and rotating 4D objects in their mind for a laugh, telling them they can just accept the paradox as-is and invoke it on purpose seems just as well.
leads to people like Ayn Rand
So you think running a video game through a jpeg compressor would be a bad idea?
I’m ready to roll up my sleeves, man. A little elbow grease can work miracles.
This isn’t a fair comparison.
The game should be get to go through the same compression algorithms first.
I believe this is the article that kicked off support for the idea. Thankfully it’s not a Medium-requires-an-account article (ugh).
One thing I’m not sure about: when academic ideas filter through other parts of society, they’re often stripped of most of their nuance. “Toxic masculinity,” for instance, a lot of people misunderstand to mean that masculinity is toxic.
I can say that I view this article as a general response to questions from conservatives circa 2005 about why the left was antagonistic to, I don’t know, racism. But I don’t know if this challenge to them is the same as a challenge to Popper.
I think I have to admit I don’t actually know what Popper has to say on the matter. Though, I get the impression these two authors might agree, at least broadly, and are simply viewing the same problem through different lenses.
That is, resolving the paradox might be interesting to someone if paradoxes bother them, and perhaps “but it’s not a paradox” is something they could say on a Fox News panel, but I’m not sure it will otherwise inform their political strategy.
It’s okay, man. If it really is improving, I’m sure it’ll come up again at some point.
Do you have these studies? I can’t find much.
I don’t know specifically, but there are lots of options.
One I’ve heard is “sexting -> pictures from you -> blackmail.”
Another one might be “flirting -> let’s meet irl -> immigration says they want 20,000 pls help 🥺”
Could also be “flirting -> I just inherited 20,000 -> my grandma is trying to take it -> can you hold it for me?” where they’re pretending to give you money, but there are bank transfer fees they need you to pay for some reason.
The AI convo step is just to offload the work of finding good marks. You’re likely to get a real person eventually if you act gullible enough.
I’m proud of this guy! I’m trying to click follow, but it’s not working.
Exactly! I’m always complaining about the illiterate. I like to write them letters because I know it makes them sad.
I will let myself bleed out in a Safeway parking lot before installing McDonald’s stupid fucking app to get a 1.99 boiling hot coffee to cauterize the wound with.
How do you feel about negotiating the price of a new car down?
Personally, I think it’s really cool that people without social skills are charged more. It’s like “take that! ya fuckin loser.”
I read the first bullet point and immediately had a prophetic, future-sight vision of the comments before even scrolling down. I’m so sorry, man, haha.
It would be, but he did say he thought it was a harmless secret. That could be read as though he didn’t know it would bother her.
Like, my name allegedly means things, but unless my mom really hates the Irish, I don’t think many of them would set her off.