FunkyStuff

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

hahaha I donated 17 dollars less than you!

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 39 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Not if they exterminate enough Palestinians to make them a small enough minority first. That's how settler colonialism went in America, make the indigenous population small enough that giving them "equal rights" on paper is no longer a threat. So I honestly believe, if the current struggle for the end of the Zionist entity is not successful, the next generation of liberal Zionists might get to implement equal voting rights for the remaining Palestinians and have it still work out in the settlers' favor. That's the nature of the good cop/bad cop routine.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 53 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

Bernie "the power" Sanders being asked about giving Palestinians equal rights and citizenship: "... that would be the end of the state of Israel, and I support Israel's right to exist"

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 12 points 15 hours ago

Not European. They stand in unwavering solidarity with Canada, which is a monarchy. lenin-dont-laugh

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 32 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I think the canonical way to make this meme would be to put racial caricatures on the left, then the soyjak reacting to them with the speech bubble saying "my food supply!!" then the chad wojak with hate symbol tattoo saying something else, like "I don't know how to square the contradictions here but maybe Epstein was just a lonely guy? Oh wait wrong culture war"

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 32 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Will MAGA have a lesser evilism struggle session? Will they have :vote: shaming?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 1 points 19 hours ago

Every time I take off my shoes, even as a guy who washes his feet, I get a bit of their smell. If I didn't wash them for several weeks it would be worse. Ergo, those who wear shoes and don't wanna smell their foot stink every time they take them off ought to wash their feet.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 13 points 19 hours ago

Incredible tech for nonbinary inclusivity: scare quotes around gendered terms.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

In the interest of keeping the memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising alive through our agitprop, I wanna raise a question that maybe some here might be qualified to answer:

When drawing the parallels between Al-Aqsa Flood and the Warsaw Guetto Uprising, there's a common Zionist retort that I've struggled to really give a strong response to. It goes, "You can't compare the October 7th attacks to the Warsaw Ghetto revolt because in the case of the Warsaw Guetto, the Jewish resistance only struck back against Nazis, not German civilians, while Hamas killed hundreds of civilians in October 7th"

Now, my kneejerk reaction is some combination of the following:

  • Hamas planned the Al-Aqsa flood for at least several months, by themselves, and could not have known that they were going to come into contact with the Nova festival in their operation; more likely, they were just targeting the occupation base nearby.
  • Settlers aren't non-combatants
  • To this day we still don't know of the claimed 1200 dead in the Al-Aqsa Flood operation how many were killed by Hamas and how many were killed by Israel, how many were active IOF or civilians (keep in mind, Hamas successfully destroyed several military checkpoints on Oct 7th, and obviously had to break through the wall around Gaza to facilitate the operation, so it's certain that Israel took many military casualties).

But I feel like all these arguments a bit weak and lacking. Particularly, I don't recall ever seeing Palestinian intellectuals ever arguing these points in response to that kind of argument, and I generally like to follow in their leads. Does anyone have any thoughts?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 18 points 23 hours ago

Thank you, CorrectOnTheInternet.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 10 points 23 hours ago

I’m as upset as anyone about the state of the world, but I’m a functional adult capable of expressing myself without every second comment being “guillotines, Luigi, violence, violence , revolution!”.

I'm so mature and emotionally intelligent that when my news feed has been nothing but reports of hospitals, refugee camps, mosques, and apartment buildings being bombed for 20 months with no end in sight, I have no reaction. Those who react with vitriol and a productive sense of righteous indignation are not functional adults.

 
 
 

(obviously you should go listen to the whole thing)

 

universe is missing the point of fiction media!" then they'll turn around and mock visionary shows like NCIS for scenes in which the detectives enhance the resolution of an image. Oh, computers can't just do that? Who cares! Lock in! The point is not that the story makes internal sense, it's what the story communicates!

 

dunk so hard the admins stepped down

 
 

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Prompted by the recent troll post, I've been thinking about AI. Obviously we have our criticisms of both the AI hype manchildren and the AI doom manchildren (see title of the post. This is a Rationalist free post. Looking for it? Leave)

But looking at the AI doom guys with an open mind, sometimes it appear that they make a halfway decent argument that's backed up by real results. This YouTube channel has been talking about the alignment problem for a while, and I think he probably is a bit of a Goodhart's Law merchant (as in, by making a career out of measuring the dangers of AI, his alarmism is structural) so he should be taken with a grain of salt, it does feel pretty concerning that LLMs show inner misalignment and are masking their intentions (to anthropomorphize) under training vs deployment.

Now, I mainly think that these people are just extrapolating out all the problems with dumb LLMs and saying "yeah but if they were AGI it would become a real problem" and while that might be true if taking the premise at face value, the idea that AGI will ever happen is itself pretty questionable. The channel I linked has a video arguing that AGI safety is not a Pascal's mugging, but I'm not convinced.

Thoughts? Does the commercialization of dumb AI make it a threat on a similar scale to hypothetical AGI? Is this all just a huge waste of time to think about?

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