Basman

I can see AI companies trying to switch to providing hacking for the military such that they don't have to be profitable. AI is too expensive to run to be profitable.

I will never financially recover from this. Watch the video attached to the linked article. Locking out Chinese AI products globally was probably a big cause in the dip

Woman version of "you need to smile more".

A certain degree of precariousness is historically normal. You should be prepared to take care of your survival. Don't study animal anuses for 5 years and expect society to reward you without a plan. Handouts and welfare are probably going to get tighter as well.

A certain state precariousness is normal historically I think. We're spoiled by exceptional circumstances. A week's worth of supply is nothing too serious though and its been a precaution governments have pushed for a while now. Global warming and Russian sabotage means there are times when the infrastructure might temporarily fail.

Age: 42

There are many legitimate grievances behind right-wing populism. People are going to vote for the alternative to mainstream politics if there are no real solutions from them, let alone acknowledgement of the problems they have. Post-WW2 politics and economy are not "normal", but historically abnormal. We're not recapturing lightning in a bottle.

No. I noticed that people could be more woke/barbaric depending but I never keyed it as it developmental till spiral dynamics. Spiral dynamics has contextualized a lot and been instrumental to my worldview broadly.

I just don't understand what he gets out of being such a piggy. What's his game?

There's always a bigger fish.

Tucker is fattening up for a very white Christmas at the trough of epistemic slop. It's so perverse how pacifism is being used to push whatever agenda he has. Its clearly a front, which Trump also engages in. Basic facts are completely optional. It's just whatever is most useful. Hitler was chad for some reason. He clearly wanted to verbally execute the old dude and figuratively parade his corpse to his fans. Its just so ridiculous. I don't understand.

Probably a waste of money. People don't actually enjoy reading that much. They have to pick it out themselves in order to be engaged enough just to read the first page. Less than half of books bought are ever finished. A better strategy is to buy them a gift card I think. Then your inviting them to engage with books in practice.

Solidarity is how you advocate for any minority or marginalized societally. We have much more solidarity for women today than a century ago, hence we treat them much better now. In contrast, Japan is more misogynistic. It's only in the last years that they rewrote their laws on rape. Women need their own train carriage to not get groped. Broadly, cases of sexual assault go down as porn use go up, so it's likely a matter of access. Also, rape is a concept your bought into from your culture. Rapists don't believe its wrong, otherwise they wouldn't really do it. It's not so much a genetic predisposition towards rape as much as it is just towards having sex. If your not a rapist, you will have less sex. That is why men rape.