Oceans Yet to Burn

Have you ever been so reactionary that you proposed an aristocracy where aristocratic status is lost if they don’t marry in new national hero figures at least every three generations?

politics

isaacsapphire

nentindo

seriously though, there are people on here who are so terrified of saying anything remotely offensive that they’ve cleansed their vocabulary of any meaningful insults and make every insult they go for look like a halfassed attempt for attention

anyone who replaces a post with “chungy/pee your pants/etc.” has the desire to tell someone to kill themselves or call them a cunt or something but are too cowardly to do it.

everyone who does that shit seems to me to just scream “i’m not just a shitty person, i’m also afraid i’m not shitty in the way my shitty friends want me to be”

fierceawakening

I honestly do not know if “pee your pants” is a euphemism for “kill yourself” or not because no one seems to have the receipts from someone coining it as a euphemism.

But, regardless of that, yes. I think we’ve basically spiraled ourselves into absurdity. We’ve decided we can’t say cutting words because “they’re triggering”…

…which conveniently lets us tell ourselves the words we have left aren’t cutting.

isaacsapphire

It reminds me of the linguistic drift you got (and presumably still get) in MMORPGs that had chat and auto blocked usual insults and slurs: that’s how “n00b” became a very strong insult.

mitigatedchaos

Spoken like a true Hanzo main.

Source: nentindo shtpost

thivus

common misconception is that i want to be a girl but thats wrong

i want to be a shapeshifter capable of shedding one form and moving onto another at will, a perfect entity with total mastery over my physical and spiritual form

argumate

@femmenietzsche

mitigatedchaos

Somehow, I think Thivus here has been on Second Life.

thivus

not entirely wrong although the persona of thivus did not exist yet

mitigatedchaos

It’s an interesting place. It almost was like a mini-life unto itself, but ultimately I didn’t make enough money to justify staying indefinitely.

mailadreapta

The politics in the book I’m reading are so stupid. The bad guys are Evil who do things with the power of Evil, and what I mean by that is that when they do things like take over a university or put their security guards all over the city, there’s no indication at all how they accomplished it, where their support comes from, or how they are financed. It’s as if they derive their power from raw malevolence, and that is enough by itself to create change.

What’s worse is that I fear this is how the author actually views politics in the real world. This Is What Normies Actually Believe, etc.

mitigatedchaos

Don’t worry. In about 50 years, this is how they will be writing about me.

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collapsedsquid

discoursedrome

I think I’ve already done this song and dance but my take on technological unemployment is: general AI will probably have a catastrophic effect on employment but specific AI likely won’t, and it seems really unlikely current AI technologies will generalize to general intelligence. It could be just around the corner, but it’s a lot more likely that if you gear up for it now you’ll look like those guys at the dawn of computing talking about how natural language processing was right around the corner. Admittedly when we do have real artificial general intelligence there’ll only be like 15 years to decide how we want to handle it, but that may well not even occur in our children’s lifetimes, so it hardly seems worth trying to time it.

It does seem like we should anticipate large-scale short-term unemployment from future technological innovation, though, often of people who are good at the thing that’s obsolete, bad at the thing that replaces it, and – in many cases – too old or tied-down to start over. If current events show anything it’s “probably while awaiting a return to homeostasis you should try to make those people feel like the entire system isn’t out to fuck them".

rustingbridges

The question, of course, being how you do this cheaply.

discoursedrome

What makes me sad is that there’s decent bipartisan support for skills retraining and job transition services and stuff like that, but in practice any attempt to do that seems to result in 90% of the money being funded to garbage profiteers who are good at bidding for contracts and pitching services to the government.

rustingbridges

I’m not convinced that retraining and job transition services actually work - most people who don’t do this on their own seem unwilling or unable for whatever reason (which is not to say it is morally their fault, there are many reasons why someone might have difficulty in retraining).

Since profitable employment is profitable, I suspect that retraining is probably something handled reasonably efficiently by an unregulated market that is able to respond to incentives.

As such, I think throwing government money after retraining programs is going to be more graft than not.

I’m not saying there aren’t people who could benefit from retraining that they don’t have access to for reasons that are theoretically susceptible to government intervention, but in practice it doesn’t seem to pan out.

collapsedsquid

The classic complaint about corporate retraining is that people take the training and run, so it’s not a good use of money.

mitigatedchaos

Didn’t Murray find state sponsored job retraining didn’t actually work?

Source: discoursedrome

argumate

@brazenautomaton: oh so it’s okay when YOU call someone Mei-Ling
inferentialdistance said: Remember that time you complained about all Chinese girls being named Mei Ling in western media?

firstly, I was deliberately lampshading a popular trope

secondly, thank you for noticing! I highly appreciate it when people devote a portion of their mental resources to memorising my posts and scanning them for hypocritical inconsistencies

mitigatedchaos

This is easily explained. You see, Argumate’s real name is actually Mei Ling (male),

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argumate

thivus

common misconception is that i want to be a girl but thats wrong

i want to be a shapeshifter capable of shedding one form and moving onto another at will, a perfect entity with total mastery over my physical and spiritual form

argumate

@femmenietzsche

mitigatedchaos

Somehow, I think Thivus here has been on Second Life.

Source: thivus

discoursedrome

I think I’ve already done this song and dance but my take on technological unemployment is: general AI will probably have a catastrophic effect on employment but specific AI likely won’t, and it seems really unlikely current AI technologies will generalize to general intelligence. It could be just around the corner, but it’s a lot more likely that if you gear up for it now you’ll look like those guys at the dawn of computing talking about how natural language processing was right around the corner. Admittedly when we do have real artificial general intelligence there’ll only be like 15 years to decide how we want to handle it, but that may well not even occur in our children’s lifetimes, so it hardly seems worth trying to time it.

It does seem like we should anticipate large-scale short-term unemployment from future technological innovation, though, often of people who are good at the thing that’s obsolete, bad at the thing that replaces it, and – in many cases – too old or tied-down to start over. If current events show anything it’s “probably while awaiting a return to homeostasis you should try to make those people feel like the entire system isn’t out to fuck them".

rustingbridges

The question, of course, being how you do this cheaply.

discoursedrome

What makes me sad is that there’s decent bipartisan support for skills retraining and job transition services and stuff like that, but in practice any attempt to do that seems to result in 90% of the money being funded to garbage profiteers who are good at bidding for contracts and pitching services to the government.

mitigatedchaos

Wage subsidies. Let the people work cheaply enough and the economy will find jobs for them.

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Foreign-born recruits, promised citizenship by the Pentagon, flee the country to avoid deportation