USA is cringe for sure but I cannot imagine looking at what Americans do and thinking that the country is uniquely worse at critical thinking than the rest of world. Sure, their education system and the people coming out of it are abysmal considering its the wealthiest country in the world. But there are tangible reasons for it, like the underfunded public education system. I look at the people around where I live and most of them are not good at critical thinking either. It is not something that is taught in general.

The other sad thing is what made him surface this thought is the rambling of a weird nazi on X, the everything app. That platform is a cesspool of all varieties of fascists who inhale oxygen just so they are able to make atrocious bad faith posts on it. Now Musk even pays them for it. Content creators cannot fathom leaving that website because a big chunk of their self worth and income is tied to their follower count. Don’t use that website that all. Otherwise don’t use it to survey national mentual acuity. Just be normal.

Even words like dumb, stupid, imbecile, moron have always had an ableist subtext. But that subtext has somewhat eroded over time because we don’t call mentally disabled folks those in a clinical sense (except for dumb). I don’t like using these words myself but it’s not a big deal to use these words.

R*tarded meanwhile to this day means mentally disabled as a clinical category. It is always used as an insult and a pejorative. It has the implication that mentally disabled people are subhuman. This makes the term exclusionary and robs disabled people from the chance of being a part of the rest of the society, something that is their right. Even “mentally disabled” is an uncharitable descriptor. Most people labeled as such are just different and can contribute to the society just as much as a so called able people can given that they are accepted and accomodated for. Conditions where there is a full spectrum mental disability are a subset of all the conditions which are labelled as mental disability.

Then there is the issue that most people you are calling r*tarded are in fact not technically r*tarded. They are being asinine for some other reason. But if you call them r*tarded you are insulting, along with them, all the mentally disabled for no good reason. At best you are inconsiderate and at worst you think disabled people are subhuman which makes you an ableist.

I think it should be short videos that should be focus, not just tiktok. Videos have become extremely easy to make and distribute since tiktok became a thing. The apps themselves not contain capable video editing suites. Not to mention the advances in internet, codecs, playback, AI captioning and so on. Short videos are extremely simulating. They are short so you don’t have to pay attention for long. They get to the point from the very first frame so there is no delay in gratification. They become even more stimulating when there are more things on screen, like the creator talking or the weird eye catching appearing-as-they-speak subtitles that these videos have. I don’t watch this stuff but so I’m making all this up but I feel if one gets accustomed to this level of stimulation the digital crack of yesteryears like an Instagram post with only pictures will feel less interesting. It’s no accident that the ghouls at Google and meta had to copy this format. Even outside tiktok-verse short videos are often sprinkled across facebook and twitter timelines.

Solarpunk af

I wouldn’t go as far as to say LLMs suck but the fact that it would even attempt to wipe out all data does not inspire confidence.

Is this true or not? I’ve heard mixed responses

Have you heard anything to support this? The strongest support I can find for these claims is redditors saying something like “-50 social credit points” to a comment saying “china bad”. There has never been any credible evidence of the evil CCP monitoring your everyday speech and behaviour to adjust these supposed social credit points. It is also not explained what the implication of having a bad “social credit” are. All of the stuff avoids any concrete details and asks you to fill in the blanks with whatever biases you might have.

It was clear to any serious person from the get go that LLMs only ape intelligence and are a dead end as far as general intelligence is concerned. Trying to discredit this notion this late in the game is akin to wrestling with a pig in the mud. If they want their journalism to make a difference they should be asking why AI boosters like Altman and Amodei are getting away with doing what Neumann and Holmes did but on a much larger scale.

There isn’t a wrong way to do this. But magick montage can do all that except for the permutation thing which you’d have to script in another language like bash or python. My point was that imagemagick is a mature and battle tested software. It’s worth learning if you find yourself working with images often. I’d rather ask the LLM to figure out the right flags to use it (because it’s truly unintuitive) rather than to punch out a script. But as I said there isn’t really a wrong way to go about this.

All I can find is a NSFW chat with an AI crush

This shit is everywhere.

Sounds like something you should use imagemagick’s montage for: https://imagemagick.org/script/montage.php

Just have to figure out the right flags to make it look like a 4-panel comic.

Suiting up in my salmon costume to dance before the volcel police as we speak

Purely probabilistically token generating machine is intelligent. Got it.

Or you can simply get a Switch 2. It’s not a handheld PC, but it’s still an awesome portable gaming machine.

I have pirated a preposterous number of games on my Steam Deck so I would advicd against this.

Hacking into the mainframe of course

Who killed Charlie KKKirk? And why?

Praying for a swift end to his suffering 🙏

Just 10 trillion dollars more bro we will build god bro trust me bro

This man is going to some ridiculous lengths to get his egirl fix

It is hard to refute statements like this. In essence this is saying that the ruling parties of USSR and China are self serving apparatus citing their corruption and brutality as the reason. His claim is that they are not real Marxist Leninists but at the same time we don’t know what his vision of real Marxism Leninism looks like because apparently the interviewer and the interviewee did not think having a reference point would be nice. The difficulty in refutation comes from the fact that it leaves a lot to the imagination. Is China especially corrupt and brutal to its workers? There is obviously some corruption and some poverty still exists but I cannot overstate how much worse things could have been if you compare it to actually non-socialist countries like India and South Africa. Can you imagine India-level wealth inequality with the absolute total wealth that China has? It would be like nothing we have seen before. So they could be doing a lot worse too. You can absolutely say that following Deng’s doctrine has led to corruption but the benefits of being able to build productive and technological capacity are immense and undeniable. (I would say it was necessary too but Maoists disagree with this.) There is also the factor of China not constantly descending into a more and more capitalistic makeup. The corruption problem was much worse in the Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao eras but was somewhat reigned in Xi era. This is not what I would imagine a constant erosion of the socialist character would look like.

His words here shouldn’t be given much weight here. Maybe he expands on it in other parts of the interview?

What would be the advantage of these robot over drones?