shituationist.bsky.social
transgender woman, communist, southern by the grace of gawd, homosexual by choice
"I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
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There were Klan Democrats as late as the 1970s.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ra...
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It exists in living memory.
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Neat
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Gale-Shapley optimize the whole labor market
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This was in the south in like 2007 so the only place some of these kids had probably heard that word was church
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Afaik only Microsoft has had layoffs this year. Initial unemployment claims are trending upward but not in recession territory yet.
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Got out and canvassed for like an hour and a half and it was so nice even though the feels like temp is 100. Got back in the house and the anxiety returned.
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Oops, meant Allende, fuck!
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Pinochet *disarmed* his supporters, too. Fatal mistake.
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Insane that retail inflows are still positive but I guess we haven't had a big round of digital technology layoffs.
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This dude's trolling for sure.
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I think Jews might be safer over here.
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I was going to reply with consideration and dignity, but I am finding that it's basically impossible when you're talking to someone named lil homie gay ass.
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Complete nonsense, and detached from the reality on the ground. 100,000s of Palestinians have been killed by the Israelis (not merely Netanyahu) while, on Oct. 7th, the IDF killed more civilians than Hamas. Hamas is not genocidal, Israel, however, is.
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"Utopian" ideas have some merit in terms of giving us a way to think about the society we want to create. Gives us ends to think about appropriate means to achieve them with.
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Honestly kinda curious what happened here because penicillin wasn't discovered until after ww1
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Homie needs to accept some risk and hang out with other people because 5 years no hang out sesh? That's crazy. That'll make you crazy.
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Take it out on me, not the existentialists, who in this case were the opposite of idealists (although I understand, but disagree with, the mysticism charge).
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Well, they're both strings, I'll give you that. But if you're ascribing awareness and intention to computer programs, you've drank the kool aid.
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They lack a category of mistake because they're computer programs with no awareness and no intention of their own. You're saying here that because they look the same they are the same and that's really absurd.
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Chain of thought routinely makes reasoning mistakes that it fails to correct, varies wildly by training distribution, indicating probabilistic retrieval and not cognition or reason.
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"You're either with us or you're against us" ass logic.
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Posting these so it'll be embarrassing if I come back and find this post and didn't end up following my plan.
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An ambitious addition but:
- The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen. I liked the show so I really want to read the book. I've had it downloaded for over a year but I keep picking up other stuff cuz of my reading group.
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IIS is also after Castoriadis's encounter with Lacan. Might glean some stuff from that.
- What Computers (Still) Can't Do. Hubert Dreyfus's critique of artificial intelligence research. Read this one in college but same deal. Not looking forward to the Heidegger jargon but it is what it is.
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Looking through the text again (this is Why Machines Will Never Rule the World), they actually do push back against Searle's wall, which is definitely a weird ass argument. They call it "a puzzling claim" which is polite.
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Landgrebe and Smith, building on Searle, would prolly argue that the physical processes which underlie our thinking aren't computations at all, but emanations from complex systems that are resistant to modeling via the logic systems which computers exclusively operate with.
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...in terms of disambiguating his thoughts on "representation" of knowledge but I don't think the crux of his argument is that knowledge is non-representational, just that language is not the only means by which to represent knowledge, and in some cases language can't express it at all.
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It's been a while but I don't know if Dreyfus would argue that the "knowledge" of, say, a bug is "represented" in some physical state in its nervous system or body. In any case it's not represented in language at all. Dreyfus and his brother proposed some kind of holographic model that's relevant...
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Right, but at that point you're at a kind of Searlean naturalism where the physical substrata of mental processes is required for those processes, and these can't be reduced to logic systems that Turing machines exclusively work with.
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It's restricted to probabilistic approaches, yeah. GOFAI approaches obviate this but are subject to other limitations (like Dreyfus's critique of linguistic representation of "knowledge" and his exposition of the frame problem).
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IIRC "computational irreducibility" has to do with certain computational outcomes requiring step-by-step iteration to produce. I still fail to see the relevance here, but if anything what I've gleaned from the wiki page affirms Landgrebe and Smith's args about the limitations of computat. modeling.