Seems like a big pile of nothing. Which isn't to say people should trust Thiel, just that this doesn't out him as some spook given the stuff the article says he was giving tips on.
I was in Japan for a couple weeks for work earlier this month. There were multiple posters throughout my company's building about ESG and the company's ESG efforts.
I'm not knowledgeable at all on Hindu; what is the Hindu take on LGBT bullshit?
I donated to Wikipedia once several years ago. Only like 10 bucks but still. Was a time where I was much more naive. They send me emails all the time begging.
Yeah people here often go a bit over the top with things like that. Its kind of like a twisted form of virtue signaling. She should definitely lose her job and be barred from teaching, but death penalty is a bit much. I would say she's likely a bad person, but unless it was forced I would not immediately call her a monster.
When people say something is or is not AI, they generally are not referring to the presence or lack of sentience. I mean, maybe some layman normies are, but the field of AI is not centered around an attempt to imbue machines with sentience.
This brings to mind that one Dijkstra quote where he says something along the lines of the question of whether or not a machine can think is as relevant as the question of whether a submarine can swim. Regardless of what the answer is, it has zero effect on its ability to carry out its intended function.
Something like GPT4 for example, while still very limited, is absolutely the best example of AGI we have right now. And despite, again, still being quite limited, the people who rant about how useless it is really strike me as trying to be contrarian and take the exact opposite opinion of the dumb normie masses for the sake of it.
I've used GPT4 for many things with great success. It has produced code in 20 seconds that would have taken me hours. It has helped give me ideas to help with very technical subjects at my day job (will not go into details for privacy reasons).
Most recently, just yesterday I was using it to double check a Korean translation. I paid a very good professional to translate something for me to be used in a business communication, but I was paranoid about potential errors so I cross referenced the Korean source text sentence by sentence with what little Korean I know myself and also fed it to ChatGPT, and it did a stellar job both translating and giving detailed grammatical breakdowns of its reasoning that were able to then be verified elsewhere.
TLDR: AI is not about imbueing machines with sentience, and ChatGPT is much more useful and capable than many here give it credit for. Note that this says nothing about the cringe and dystopian shit programmed into it to prevent wrongthink.
At some point, is there not some responsibility that falls back on the parent? That's how it was for me.
I'm not so sure it should be the responsibility of society as a whole beyond things like making sure such things don't appear in search results unless you turn safe search off or something. Stuff like that shouldn't appear as a default.
But at some point, if a kid is going out of their way to directly search for something, as much as it isnt good, I'm not sure how much we should let other peoples' privacy be invaded to try and be a nanny state to play a role that should be undertaken by parents.
You're not wrong, but that is an issue that isn't unique to this stuff; it's an issue for all porn in general. So if someone says that they want to ban all porn, and loli/shota shit just happens to be part of that, I can respect it.
If their issue is the security side and how the current setup makes it too easy for kids to find it, I could potentially agree with that as well. The issue comes when the solutions I tend to hear proposed to that tend to be very worrying, like requiring all people ID themselves online and things like that. If there is a solution that could reasonably keep minors from finding that shit without being a huge issue regarding the anonymity of everyone using the internet, I'm all ears.
Absolutely. I dont think I've ever seen loli defenders claiming they want 18+ content of it shown in all ages places. There's zero reason for that to be allowed.
Noooooooo because you claim it shouldn't be banned that means you wanna fuck real kids! And because you don't think Call of Duty should be banned that means you wanna kill people! Reeeeeeeeee! You don't even have to like it, just disagreeing with me makes you the worst scum imaginable. It's what I tell myself to help me sleep at night.
Tired of the same argument that loli stuff be banned in the west because it's 'incompatible with our society' meanwhile the rest of the world thinks effective advertising for the West is putting a tranny on screen while their home advertising is cute girls or families happy together. This ain't a good hill mate.
Fucking thank you. You are always the MVP of these threads.
Really resonating with the comments in this thread. Ever since I graduated college and got my first real person job, I have more than enough money to buy what I need and even what I want. Anything else, unless someone manages to come up with something I really like that I wasn't aware existed, is just useless consumerism and likely something that will just sit in my closet collecting dust.
This has in turn made giving physical gifts to other adults very difficult for me; I figure anyone else who isn't living paycheck to paycheck might feel similarly. So I kind of just tend towards experiences and time spending now. I'll take my parents out to dinner at a nice restaurant instead of giving something they don't need. Stuff like that.
Also, unwritten rules like "for X occasion, getting a gift around $Y is the norm" can go get fucked. It's all so tiring. My brother asked me once what I was getting my cousin for her wedding and then got irritated when I told him. Nothing fancy, just a check for a lot more money than he expected. The notion that people do this shit to keep up appearances and play the game instead of because they genuinely love the person and want to help them is so foreign to me.
I am single, so no wife and kids to spend on, and my expenses are low. So in my opinion there's nothing wrong with spending some extra money on family members I love, even if it makes some people butthurt that I'm breaking unwritten rules and making them look bad. I wrote my little cousin a fairly large check and wrote a very heartfelt note to her for her graduation party, and hearing separately from both her and her father that she cried while reading it and her telling me I'm like the brother she never had is worth infinitely more to me than some extra money sitting in a bank account.
I'm only in my late 20s, but I feel like I'm becoming a grumpy old man already. Just consistently frustrated that most people can't seem to get their priorities straight and focus on things that really matter.
Is it based, or is it just normal? I'm hesitant to call something based if it is just merely "not ridiculously cucked."
I know I shouldn't be surprised about it, but I absolutely despise them over there. Locked the post and deleted all the comments. But it was open season when all the white knight virtue signalers were piling on despite it being obvious to anyone with a brain there was at least a reasonable chance he was innocent.
Edit: wow they caved and unlocked the thread. Were getting reamed over it in the general thread (which I also added to). Probably saw many people flocking to r/mlb. They're still giga cucks and fuck that sub and the whole site.
Wouldn't be shocked if he had one or two bad starts early on while still adjusting and redditards used it to gloat as if a pitcher still decently young and not far removed from a Cy Young wouldn't do well in Japan.
The NFL is a shitty product.
The NFL will engineer entire games based on one or two questionable holding or pass interference calls that no one will talk about a week later. Maybe it's just me, but it feels like it's been really bad over the past several years, and I don't feel like college football is consistently as bad. That being said, both are surely a waste of time.
Couldn't agree more. To this day, ya'll annoys me the most.
Regarding ad hominem, the funny part is how the retards more often than not didn't know what it meant. If I call someone a retard, and that is completely independent of the actual argument I'm making, it has nothing to do with the ad hominen fallacy. It is only ad hominem if one says you are retarded, therefore I'm correct.
Yep. Feminism gave women the ability to roll around in the proverbial mud like pigs if they so wish. Unfortunately many of them don't realize that this doesn't mean they should actually do so.
How retarded. Plenty of great replies already so there's not much need to weigh in, but I need a break from work right now so I'll do it anyway.
if men valued fertility, why are underweight women preferred over chubby women
The percentage of women that are actually underweight is extremely low. In all likelihood she is really whining "why do men prefer women at a healthy weight over morbidly obese women???"
why do they want completely hairless women
Not even true generally speaking. And the ones that do, this is learned behavior from watching too much porn. Completely different than something that is an evolutionarily ingrained desire.
Why do idiots who say that shit about fertility go for teens instead of 25-yo women who will definitely have a better pregnancy?
Just completely false all around. Where is this evidence that 25 year old women have better pregnancies than teens? All the evidence I have ever seen suggests a peak shortly after puberty that levels off and slowly drops until mid twenties when it begins to drop more steeply before absolutely plummeting. This also mirrors studies that I have seen that attempt to quantify what age women men truly find most attractive.
why don't men like sporty strong women
They do, unless she is trying to imply professional body builder tier. And even if she is, it doesn't do anything to further her argument. Multiple things can be prioritized at once. Fertility is absolutely a huge factor, but men have a desire to protect that is drawn out more by women that are smaller and weaker than them. It just so happens that a muscle bound woman does not stroke that urge. This does zero to refute the notion that men, both consciously and unconsciously, care a lot about fertility.
Men like weakness in women, that's the only thing they want
Wrong, albeit the least wrong thing this retard said in that paragraph of nonsense. Men enjoy a relative physical weakness when comparing their woman to themselves due to the aforementioned desire to protect and provide. But a woman can be physically and mentally strong relative to other women with zero negative effects, and often great positive effect, on her attractiveness in the eyes of most men.
Honestly it confounds me how people go through life being so fucking wrong so fucking much on things so fucking simple as this.
Chubsey here misses the cut.
Come on now that's a bit harsh, surely she could be a good meat shield at least?
Haven't so much as glanced at that place in at least 4 years and the mere mention of it is still enough to piss me off. Honestly those people are just as bad if not worse than leftists. I know I know, controlled opposition and all. That can be said of the people at the top, but the type of person that is a general commenter there does actually exist in the outside world. Those retards walk among us.
Couldn't care less.
Sorry to be that guy.
Citation needed