I think you’re talking about accelerationism. IMO, the main problem with unrestrained AI growth is that if AI turns out to be as good as the hype says it is, then we’ll all be dead before revolution occurs.

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I love this detail.

I’m very skeptical of arguments that there is voter suppression of minorities based on reasoning like:

an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected.

since there could be another variable which, once controlled for, causes this difference to disappear. This article seems to be assume the reader has no understanding of statistics.

This is much more self-evidently indicative of voter suppression, in my opinion:

Brian Kemp, signed SB 202 which slashed the number of drop boxes by 75% only in Black-majority counties and locked them away at night.

But could this be explained by another variable, like higher crime rates in black-majority counties leading to a necessity for increased security? I don’t understand why this measure would cause a 90% decrease in drop-box balloting either. This article has a lot of red flags for me – it’s not actually explaining the reason for any of these measures, so it’s implying there is no reason for these measures except for voter suppression of minorities. Obviously that is not the rationale which those who implemented these measures would give publicly.

This is copium. It’s preferable to think there was a conspiracy to swing the election compared to the reality that more people voted for him than for sanity.

Borders change, governments fall, but people stay. When people say “death to <country>” they usually don’t mean its inhabitants in general.

Germany is a country. Germans are its inhabitants.

They could have made a symmetrical ban.

What’s with the <!--- comments that seem to add a level of snark to the article? Did some editor try an fail to insert these into the html source only?

That bools are stored in 8 bits rather than 1 is a compiler detail. I don’t really see how this improves readability, unless you mean that of the compiled binary.

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Yes, it can become part of one’s culture to appreciate another’s culture.

I thought by adding “or whatever it’s called” would make it clear that I’m aware that the theory is a racist and antijewish lie, but I guess that was not enough. How should I have worded that differently?

What would it mean to take the time and effort to learn to play the Erhu, understand its history and context, but somehow not show real respect for it?

Christianity doesn’t strike me as especially white. Not in the way that other religions strike me as being not-white. I can name some excellent musicians who are white muslims, but it’s still very unusual. In contrast, Christianity is very popular among very many races. Like, if you’re from south america, mexico, central or southern africa, china, russia, the philippines, and many other places too, you’re very likely christian. I suppose I don’t encounter many indian or arabic christians, but they aren’t terribly rare either.

One reason I think there might be no “white culture” per se is that things that white people invent tend to spread to other people, and become part of their cultures. Like, most people I know in real life who play classical (i.e. classical western) music on piano are asian, for instance. I’ve never once seen a white person say, “you can’t play that, because you’re not white. That’s offensive.” In contrast, I could imagine a white person playing an erhu might be told off.

If white people were defensive of their culture, that might change. Perhaps if the great replacement theory or whatever it’s called gets taken seriously, it’d be different. (Edit: by this I mean, if those white nationalist conspiracy theorists actually think that white people are going to be erased by other cultures then they’d act in such a way. But since they don’t seem to be, it seems like it’s clear they’re not only racist but also full of shit.)

I have never really considered Irish food before. (and I’m part Irish.)

I’m not technically white, and I’m Canadian which is only technically “American,” but – close enough. IMO, it’s mostly people who are not white americans that define to me what white american culture. Like, if you were to ask me “is this part of your culture?” for various things, I would say “yes” to many things and “no” to many things.

But many of the things that I would say “yes” to, other people might inform me, “no, that’s not part of your culture.” Jazz, Super Mario bros., rap music, anime, chickpea stew, spaghetti – I identify these as elements of my culture, or at least my “idioculture” as it were, but people have told me these are not part of my culture.

I think maybe let’s stop gatekeeping culture so much and let people live how they like to live. If somebody likes wearing a yukata as a houserobe and they’re not japanese, is there really a problem? It’s not like they’re pretending to be japanese.

I get the difference – but the trouble is, if I’m asking an earnest question, and somebody tells me I’m “just asking questions,” it’s rather difficult to argue against that.

I guess it’s just down to wording then. I can work on being less confrontational – I didn’t realize I was being confrontational, so I guess that’s part of the problem.

Fundamentally, I reject the idea that “just asking questions” is a bad thing – if there is harm done by people who are just asking questions, there must be something else, like the way they are asking the question, that is troublesome.

I gotta spend less time on lemmy

Thanks for having that disgusting username, you are now my first blocked user.

That is absolutely not how LLMs work. “Literally no concept of a joke in their algorithms” is debatably true, but it’s a rather useless remark, because you could equally well say that there is no concept of code in their algorithms, and yet they are able to code. (inb4 somebody comes in and says “not that well!” to which I say: well enough for some uses.)