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in normal english usage, it’s the penetration depth that is short of the target, not visa versa as you had it
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also, means testing is expensive (like drug testing, another popular gate keep for benefits). it isn’t about saving money, it’s about keeping the poors in their place
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the chaphouse razor: given multiple possible explanations, the stupidest one is likely correct
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got tazed
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the right wing isn’t a coherent intellectual view of the world, it’s a group of criminals carrying out a formula for attaining and abusing power.
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wearing face masks and abducting people
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like, the answer to questions like "what rights to states have" and "how powerful should the executive be" are totally determined by who the current executive is, but it's also forbidden to say that out loud. it's really not something we can effectively train machines on right now.
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there's a small garbage corpus, shit like conservative internet forums. but that would result in a very broken and stupid AI (much worse than what we have now). contemporary conservatism isn't an intellectual tradition with gigabytes documents you can train on, it's a fast moving propaganda campaign
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d&d plot device idea: powerful patron / cleric deity who interrupts you mid quest to make you do pointless "tricks" or just to give you a head rub. sometimes he gives you "treats" (low value magic items), often throwing them off in the distance expecting you to scramble after them
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telling the cat he shall lose my protection, my powers, and my sympathy, that he will face the terror of my full wrath, if he does that on the carpet one more fucking time
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to create a “conservative” ai using existing methods you would need a large amount of written documents reflecting contemporary conservative ideas, with simply doesn’t exist.
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and it is programmed to turn an input corpus into a language model and then respond to prompts based on that model. there’s no “be more conservative” knob to turn. it’s possible in theory but it’s not an existing thing. the current bias of the models is derived from the bias of the corpus.
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they don’t work forward from principles, they work backward from tactical positions, so it’s notable when they get closer to naked white supremacy arguments
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we’ve ignored that part of the constitution since WWII. we officially have never been at war since then.
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the truism i’ve heard is that models are always wrong, the question is what’s the least wrong model you can afford
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@gork is this true
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Sinead OConnor nothing compares 2u
Butthole Surfers sweat loaf
Talking Heads take me to the river
Nirvana in the pines
Sun Ra pink elephants
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now he has to call his wife “your honor”
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but then if you said “sharp teeth” people would make the same joke about which kind of sharp you mean every time
so the plan is, make the first mainstream comedy movie that riffs on “sharp teeth “ and then people will reference your movie constantly
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a solution is to make magic so secretive that people think it doesn’t exist (with training done by illicit secret societies), and monsters be an extremely rare thing the players are forced to deal with. but yeah, a world where everyone knows monsters and magic are everywhere devolves into nonsense
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brain with stuff attached makes utter fool of stomach with stuff attached
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good news, they measured his eyeball strings and he cant see you if you stand very still
hearingbrain.org/docs/letvin_...
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sometimes i imagine a frog as a stomach with a few extra parts attached to help it find stuff to put inside itself
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hello Chauncey
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happy memory of the toad licking scene from Friendship
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OK but hear me out, sweet pea is also a pretty good name for a bulldog
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it's a strong fighting formation - if you take down any of the deer, there's a group of them ready to stampede you. rare tactical win for the herd animals
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he just added a second section to the Jewish one and called it his
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oh this looks like prior art
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this is super creep erasure
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when bees twerk they are also spitting bars
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you need to give them more credit, they can also create new false answer-shaped-objects even when fed nothing but true statements
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at this point if "fiscal hawk" can mean anything at all it's a code word for "fuck them poors". it's a propaganda term for class war aimed at taking money out of the economy and giving it to the rich, there's no other intelligible referent.
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so many high engagement accounts ride the “look at what that asshole said” formula, even here on bsky. i think it’s unavoidable when you have visible engagement metrics. i like to follow the ones i agree with just for the sadistic thrill of finding new accounts to block
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two counter behaviors come to mind: people who get blocked so much that they can’t get anything from the site can easily make new accounts, and anger motivates behavior more than agreement does, so people hungry for attention have a motivation to call attention to disagreeing views
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based on differences in american attitudes compared to the global average and easily observable evidence, immigrants hold a greater regard for family and community than most native born americans
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“answer shaped object” is a good one i’ve seen
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notable mentions also: guy who argues with ceo of signal about whether signal is going to add ai, guy who posted “don’t put in the newspaper that i had swamp ass”
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oh no are you leaking?