Part of it is clownery, but part of it is understandable: a lot of people realize they will be out on the street if (now it looks like when) AI is able to do their jobs.
A large part of the left just wishes to take things away from people with no other goal at all, though. They just enjoy it and would do it regardless.
That is weird that all the AI “critics” never seem to actually use it. Makes no sense.
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Big Tech just quietly repriced the value of a college degree to near zero.
Because women control the dating market and men not wanting to date a single mother would actually or potentially disadvantage women.
Easy. It’s just self-interest presenting as “Men are evil.”
Good scam if you can get in on it.
Suicidal empathy will be the death of Europe. That and Islam.
Basically. Alysa Wiu is an American. Eileen Gu is not, no matter what it says on her paperwork. Simple as that. Send Eileen back to China and bring a million more Alysas in.
That would make the country infinitely better.
I don’t care about figure skating even a little bit. But she does show (legal) immigrants and their progeny can be full Americans. If they want to be. Not “Quality Learing Center” type immigrants.
And that is beautiful skating. Alysa’s routine is not as athletic as some others I’ve viewed, but she’s about the most graceful human I’ve seen in my life. And that hair flip at the end is epic.
Funny that he reached the same conclusions I did by actually being exposed to Islam. In his case, Sudan. In mine, Egypt.
Before Egypt, I was neutral on Islam. Had no real opinion on it. After that, I thought it should be extirpated from the planet immediately.
Same for me. Many feminists seem to like to know that white working-class girls are routinely raped by Pakistanis. I think it excites them, somehow? Sick I know but I can’t find any other explanation.
Neither can humans with any degree of reliability.
This criticism is crap, but you probably won’t understand why it’s worthless garbage unless you have a pretty firm grounding in philosophy and have thought about this sort of thing for many years.
To not write an entire screed — which is my wont — this clownery is either trivially true in a way that also applies to humans (you can’t get causality from correlation alone), or false if it’s meant in the sense that LLMs cannot do causal reasoning, because of course causal reasoning is possible once you supply assumptions and models. Which LLMs have access to and make use of.
Do people actually think? At all? Do they even try? I see no evidence of that. In that sense, LLMs already best 99.9999% of humans I routinely encounter.
I miss the days when everything was not taken as some political position. When it was ok to not like an artist because their music just didn’t do anything for you.
It really did not improve anything — not politics, not art — to drag everything into the political realm. Sometimes not liking Rush is just not liking Rush.
The sandwich maneuver, the poison ivy, and other stories of workplace romance.
Interesting that to the #MeToo clowns and Gen Zers, every last one of these meet-cutes would be considered horrible harassment and not permitted.
We have fucked up so much.
Related to the below post, much of the left believes that all humans are basically interchangeable widgets with no important differences between them. It’s a very neoliberalized view of human diversity and individuality.
And, like what most of the left believes, of course it is wrong.
Humans are not in fact interchangeable widgets. Culture is extremely strong and not something that just alters with the direction of the wind. People are not all the same. Neither are sociocultural practices or their results. Why the left believes that — or at least pretends to — makes no sense as all the evidence of human history is against this conclusion.
But, somehow, they do.
I know most have an agenda other than anyone prospering1, but what makes the “unrestricted immigration” crowd think anything good will come of that?
Like, even if their goal of throwing open the borders of the rich nations so that anyone can just show up no questions asked, what do they think this will achieve? Those wealthy nations will no longer be rich after their relatively high-trust societies are destroyed by Third World peasant cultural ethics and practices. Not to mention the actual rape gangs that inevitably seem to develop.
Suicidal empathy is the best explanation, as difficult as that is for me to understand. Of the ones who are being sincere, that is. And, thus, great civilizations will fall. They probably deserve it if they are not strong enough to preserve themselves.
I knew my partner was the right one for me when I realized she was the first girl I ever loved more than pizza.