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  • with advanced near-perfect lie detection

    how the fuck would that work mate, just give me a glimpse of your notes on how a legendarily useless and unworkable forensic technique would become "near-perfect" with GPUs.

  • I guess my brain tweaked the story into something a little bit less bleak in self-defense.

  • My logi mouse doesn't have software like wtf are they talking about. It's a mouse?

  • Tracer Sniper was the best mouse ever made. It lasted me a decade until one day the sensor just passed away into the night.

    I then replaced three mice in the past ~5 years, each and every single one of them because the wheel broke (either the middle click or the scroll)

  • AI has been and always will be the term for making the computer play a game against you. A search tree with some prunning is not ML, but if you use it to implement a chess bot then it is AI in the game sense.

    If you're not doing video games then the term is essentially meaningless

  • David told the story in a recent Tech Won't Save Us episode, basically Matty boy came to BlueSky, everyone started laughing at him for his bad takes (as well they should), and Matty cried for a block function so long and intensely that they gave it to him so he'd shut the fuck up.

  • We have given your friend free will

    Wow that was easier than expected, we can't get philosophers to agree what that would even mean but it's done folks

  • I’m skimming this because again fuck all these words

    fuck all these words

    Perfect summary of Slate Star Codex.

  • Tate has, in some sense, many good qualities. He’s strong, athletic, and motivated.

    Really telling since none of those are good characteristics in the moral sense of "good". Like what the fuck is "motivated" even doing there, Sauron was also extremely motivated, mate.

  • emojis are stupid

    Really curious on what grounds, like is the entire idea of a pictogram stupid?

  • Maybe there's an easy way to prevent apartheid in South Africa entirely? That alone led to so many waste-of-oxygen white dudes, we could nip Musk in the bud and much more

  • I think black socks have a better long-term perspective than white ones, but okay.

  • TIL "classical liberalism" has absolutely nothing to do with the "classical" part, great, who the fuck decided to name it that?

  • coherent liberalism must also oppose capitalism, and capitalism is inherently non-democratic

    Yup, and I hate that "liberal" for most people means something completely different. I self-identify as a liberal, in the sense that, for example, a rentier class of landlords existing or that any human's existence being completely dependent on their job and income is inherently counter to liberal ideals.

    I don't know when someone decided we'll mean something anti-liberal by the word "liberal" but they can go fuck themselves.

    I don't think democracy is inherently liberal or not, and I don't think it really matters? This is a question of outcomes. No other political system has a history of consistently producing relatively free states (as in freedom for the people within the state). All other systems, be it oligarchies or dictatorships, even if they result in a short period of stability and freedom, almost universally deteriorate into authoritarian hellscapes over time. If we can come up with a system that is better at preventing oppressive regimes then we should rally behind it, but currently only democracy has a positive track record there.

  • Arguable whether a "capitalist class" existed in classical times.

  • Oh I'm sure he's trying to be edgy, but in that case there's nothing that would trigger him more than what I've said :>

  • At least he wears his kink proudly, not many rightwing weirdoes would just admit they're really into that.