Yep. Women spiral into depression and, sometimes, suicide attempts if they experience even briefly 1/1000 the amount of rejection the average man does his entire life.
Women have no idea. The leitmotif of most men’s lives is rejection and disposability.
Why can’t I “preview message” from a trace anymore? Is it because I’m shitty?
No, Microsoft has broken something completely yet again. Something that used to work rather well. It’s the Mozilla-Google-Microsoft way: take something that was working fine, destroy it, then tell you that the new way is better and that you “just hate change.”
I tried to use this tool last night and just gave up and found another method. I guess we’re in the “everything just gets roundly worse forever” stage of tech now.
I used to have that discussion all the time when I worked for a German company with an American subsidiary. When we’d have to send things or get input from the German side, I’d have to explain to my American colleagues that it was August, everyone was on holiday and no, we wouldn’t be hearing back from Helga probably for the entire month, and no, she doesn’t have a stand-in, and no, this was not unusual. They were all on a beach in the Med somewhere.
My American colleagues never quite understood as it seemed so outlandish to them.
Average liberal: Your preferences and tendencies are just what they are because you grew up in a certain social environment! If you’d grown up in Ghana or Thailand, they’d be totally different!
Average non-doof: Ok, what is your point here, exactly? That if everything had been completely different than it was, they’d be completely different? Brilliant. I commend your perspicacity.
(While there are some valid arguments around the Rawlsian veil of ignorance and the universal lot of humanity and the commonality therein, the average liberal is not making this argument and probably does not know who John Rawls even is; rather, they just want to give your shit and your country to some third-worlder because they “deserve” it more than you do.)
I’m going to a book club on November 15! In person, that is. I don’t do virtual events because they really suckkkkkkkkkkk. At least for me. If I wanted to be on yet another Zoom call I’d get a second job.
Naw, y’all, it’s got to be real if I’m gonna be part of the deal. Should be fun.
The quest for some constrained and denotative definition of “artificial general intelligence” is daft and pointless.
When does a 747 become a bird? When is a submarine a fish? When you ask an amorphous, unfocused question all your answers are disjunct from the set of possible paths to revealing the actual important questions, much less any answers.
I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader what the important questions are. But suffice it to say that though I believe some form of human-level machine intelligence is possible, we’ll never succeed in making a submarine into a fish, and we’ll also never accomplish the feat of transforming silicon and transistors into a human. A person, perhaps. But not a human.
This 1999 clip of Prince warning about the internet.
“Don’t let the computer use you.”
Prince saw what was ahead better than most of the “intelligent” commentariat. This was 1999 — smartphones and the malevolence of mainstream social media was still ahead of us. But he knew what evil was in store.
Experts Explain How Long It Would Take Russia To Resume Nuclear Weapons Detonation Tests.
Brain-IT: Image Reconstruction from fMRI via Brain-Interaction Transformer.
NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again.
Norway reviews cybersecurity after hidden remote-access feature found in Chinese buses.
Layoff announcements surged last month: The worst October in 22 years.
Universe expansion may be slowing, not accelerating, study suggests.
Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920).