Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
new development in ontology: āthe ontology that makes ai models valuable is americanā
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mguiup62lt2j
āOur lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war.ā
These are two different things. But I fear he doesnāt get that.
Actually the race-realism use last week, combined with this one, makes me realize that for them itās just a fancy way of saying āworld-viewā [or what they consider to exist, and be true, which is not the craziest use of the word, but I would say unhelpful, and probably a small in-group marker].
Itās just a way of calling biases/prejudice legitimate.
And you know what, inasmuch the models have a āworld-viewā it IS annoyingly american in many ways. (at least the wrong kind of american.)
I was low-key hoping for a technical philosophical article, which argues that to find any of this shit useful you need a distinctly american understanding of reality.
you gotta give him a morsel of credit, heās got his buzzword and heās stickinā to it
I mean I guess given how the current guy took a chainsaw to American soft power, industrial capacity, economic prospects, and so on I guess our wildly over funded military is probably the only comparative advantage we unambiguously hold onto.