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rational_lib @lemmy.world

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  • Yes but that's not the biggest problem. Selfishness is the biggest problem as far as relationships are concerned. Every Republican I've ever known has this attitude that their view of things, which is invariably biased in their interests, is the only possible correct one and that anyone who disagrees is both extremely dumb and morally inferior. With friends this is not the biggest problem because you don't have to share stuff with them. In a relationship though, it becomes really problematic fast.

  • AI Expert Warns Crash Is Imminent As AI Improvements Hit Brick Wall
  • As I use copilot to write software, I have a hard time seeing how it'll get better than it already is. The fundamental problem of all machine learning is that the training data has to be good enough to solve the problem. So the problems I run into make sense, like:

    1. Copilot can't read my mind and figure out what I'm trying to do.
    2. I'm working on an uncommon problem where the typical solutions don't work
    3. Copilot is unable to tell when it doesn't "know" the answer, because of course it's just simulating communication and doesn't really know anything.

    2 and 3 could be alleviated, but probably not solved completely with more and better data or engineering changes - but obviously AI developers started by training the models on the most useful data and strategies that they think work best. 1 seems fundamentally unsolvable.

    I think there could be some more advances in finding more and better use cases, but I'm a pessimist when it comes to any serious advances in the underlying technology.

  • Sanders and Warren push Democrats to fight for workers and ‘unrig’ economy
  • Do a hostile takeover of the GOP instead. Many states don't care why party you register as, and if they do just register as a Republican and vote in their primaries. Pick a socialist candidate and get them to run as a Republican, and vote for them. This is in essence what Trump did, but of course he did it for fascism and got Nazis to vote Republican. The same strategy can work for anyone else. This can start in safe blue states where no one votes in the GOP primaries and spread from there.

    This is a far more realistic strategy because third parties are vulnerable to the spoiler effect and will always fail due to people being worried about electing Republicans.

  • Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town
  • Yes I do think it was championed by conservative people. And if that statement pisses anyone off, my evidence is that Fannin County GA, where this took place, voted 82% for Trump. It's almost as if the whole "government overreach" thing is just empty marketing for policies that make rich people richer...

  • Arteries rule
  • That's not actually related to my point though. This is more like:

    First they tweeted offensive things about women, and I made sure that thing they tweeted is now the only thing we talk about.

    Then we couldn't talk about all the women dying of not getting abortions on time because we're too busy talking about tweets.

  • Arteries rule
  • How about we stop focusing on reacting in kind to things the biggest nazi assholes say (possibly to evoke this sort of reaction and get more attention for themselves) and maybe just ignore them instead so they don't bring down the conversation to some bullshit fascist online troll level.

  • No we can't be friends and yes it's that serious
  • Yeah there would've been no defending this if it happened. Rogan controls the mics and would do whatever he could to end her campaign right there. Maga would post all over X (with Elon's amplification) that she got "owned" as Rogan shouted over her her, and the left would be angry that she appeared on his show in the first place. It would have been a pure loss.

  • No we can't be friends and yes it's that serious
  • If you think sitting down with Rogan would've gone well, watch this video. It's Rogan's show, he controls the mics, he's gonna create whatever impression he wants. And he wanted her to lose. There would've been no defense. The right would say she was "owned" by Rogan because he shouted over her successfully, and the left would criticize her for being on the show in the first place.

  • No we can't be friends and yes it's that serious
  • Hispanic Americans are overwhelmingly working class, and (unlikely black people) don't see themselves as a single unified minority group, so they don't feel the sting of Republican racism pointed towards them.

    Why doesn't working class matter? Because such people generally aren't as involved in following politics and policy type stuff as white collar folks. So they are swayed by other factors like masculinity signalling. This is obviously why Trump added Hulk Hogan, and of course standing up and pumping his fist after getting nicked in the ear by a terrible sniper helped too.

  • Is there a word, phrase, or trope for an idea that gets more popular the more it fails?

    Yes I know, your least-favorite idea goes here. But seriously, someone must have come up with the concept before. Like a bad get-rich-quick scheme could fall into this category, where joining the scheme makes people lose money and become more desperate, so they become more likely to do desperate things like invest more in the scheme. But it can apply to a number of other bad ideas.

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