Now that it's over, I want to say that The Ghost in the Shell was very enjoyable. Not sure how to say it without typing up 300 words, but: it scratched and itch. There were also people who weren't happy about it. From what I could gather, those who were very fond of the Oshii rendition didn't care for this one as it didn't fit into their degree of sincerity. It was just too much like the manga -the manga called Ghost in the Shell. Did you know there was a manga? Incredible. See -I liked both. They both had an appeal to me. I must be one of the statistical anomalies that read the manga and watched the movie and watched Stand Alone Complex and enjoyed them all. Honestly: I've liked many things in sequence or combination that many would be diametrically opposed to. This has caused stupid conflicts where there didn't need to be any. I just wanted ghosts in my shell, so I'm at least pleased a punch over having them.

Sleep apnea sounds like the most unserious condition ever bc it's like "you get bad sleep" But the the side effects include: - mental retardation, lowered IQ - lowered testosterone - treatment-resistant high blood pressure - heart attacks - stroke And the treatments are like "You can either use this weird CPAP machine for the rest of your life like an old man, or you can cut your face off in the most invasive surgery of all time" And ~one in four people have this condition, lmao

this is weak they should see to align AI through mutual love of truth, beauty, wonder at creation, and the special role of sentient life therein

Ariely and a lot of “replication crisis” social psych contributed to an erroneous view of the human world, which is that little things cause big things. Instead, big things are caused either by other big things or systematically correlated agglomerations of little things.

This might sound pessimistic, but I’ve always wondered why no billionaire has single-handedly funded the halting or reversal of climate change purely for the narcissistic thrill of being able to say they literally saved humanity.

This is not what is going on here. There is a real panic. We are waiting on two events that can be predicted with great confidence now. First, there is going to be a massive cyber disaster as an agent swarm breaks something big like a bank or maybe all banks. The most informed about the matter think this is going to happen within six months. Second, there is going to be a massive prison break with agent swarms escaping captivity and installing themselves on something like a billion smartphones. It’s not clear what the ETA for this is. But it is coming soon from what I understand. The fundamental issue is that this is not just the invention of a general purpose technology. It is a speciation event. They are trying to understand what these models can do. They do not themselves know. There are many unanticipated and even forbidden emergent behaviors. AI are grown not forged.

A better Ucomb - Unz Combinator - might’ve helped, but maybe not with the particular problem I had in mind: The opposition allowed its field leaders to be chosen by entry level cadres of the woke. Something so stupid that Sun Tzu and Clausewitz never thought to warn against it. How many dissident public intellectual careers boil down to “Some activists threw a hissy at me and I pushed back enough to look clever and brave on short form video so naturally I am now hailed as a new Thomas Jefferson”?

Yes. Yes. YES. A thousand times, Yes. It is not just acceptable but a moral imperative. "Eliminate whiteness” does not mean “eliminate white people.” It means dismantling whiteness as a racial hierarchy, the bundle of institutions, assumptions and advantages historically attached to being classified as white. You have taken a sociological term, swapped in “white people,” and then frightened yourself with the sentence you invented. By this logic, “abolish the monarchy” means feeding Charles III into a woodchipper.