They’re not in there, I promise!

Hm, they could. I don’t think that objectification is truly always a bad thing. It obviously sucks when people use you, but being ‘the friend with …’ can also be an excuse to see people more often. Kind of like how the social function of a lot of holidays is just to bring distant people together again.

Sexual objectification is of particular importance because it has ties to the cultural perception of women, rape culture, etc., but it’s also fine to just think your wife who you admire for her strong perserverance and creativity also has titties that are fire.

I talk about survivability because it’s easy to grasp, but I’m really referring to any kind of incentive structure. Success, for instance, while similar to survival, is not actually the same thing. Prestige can be something that motivates somebody to be a great artist.

The kinds of lazy basement dwellers I’m talking about are more like people with social anxiety refusing to take phone calls in place of texts. Or, people with executive disfunction watching YouTube instead of getting any work done, which I can speak to personally because I hated doing homework and would watch YouTube instead until the anxiety of deadline failure pushed me into finally getting something done. But that homework was useful.

I obviously believe in the human ability to rise above yesterday’s achievements. I am an example of such. I used to have the social anxiety that would have prevented me from talking to you now. I overcame that by having a very insisting personality.

But even so, there are people today who could, even through the tiresome hustle of working day to day, learn to play piano and want to but never do. My concern is leaving people like this to their own devices. To a person who willingly shucks all of life’s goals, I think that giving them goals is actually better for them.

There is one particular way in which I think a Star Trek utopia might be overly optimistic, putting it in the realm of hopeful fantasy, and it’s that it overlooks the very biological urge to hibernate. The principle of least action, at least as far as education goes, would be not to.

What did solve the problem, however, was China subsidizing solar energy for 20 years

But how do you get here without people being intelligent?

I could tell you that incentive structures and power dynamics have to allow a good solution to materialize before it can, but an uneducated person couldn’t.

Using AI to pass these arbitrary requirements needed to exist in an arbitrary society

I understand what you’re saying, but I think this still represents a very cynical view of education.

Think about it this way: in times past, if we wanted to eat an elk, we had to chase it down and catch it. We had to learn to be good hunters as a prerequisite to living comfortable lives.

Today, we have scant few hunters. We might call this a good thing. We no longer need to be hunters to be comfortable, our quality of life has improved vastly. I would naturally agree with this.

However, another consequence is that we can now live very sedentary lives. Food is no longer an incentive to exercise, which means that, as a society, our physical health may actually be worse. And not only that, physical exercise is connected to mental health, too. A lack of exercise can mean that people are more anxious, more frustrated, more cranky, etc.

There are some people who still exercise today, aware that they need it, but for a lot of people, most of them even, the carrot leading them is gone and so they see no reason to bother. It’s irritating to bother, actually. I fear the same thing happening to education.

The future Star Trek world that you’re looking for requires that people be self-interested in their own development, and motivated enough to follow through on it. And a lot of people would be. But I don’t know if a society would be.

Missing the carrot, a lot of people might be content to just remain stupid their entire lives.

So what I’m saying is, getting a degree for a job may or may not be arbitrary, but getting an education, even a forced one, for your society is not. Not as much, anyway.

I’ll put forward one other thing. Racists have a harder time devloping in mixed communities. Living around the would-be subjects of ire, seeing what they’re actually like, makes it harder for their stupid, racist mythology to take hold. But imagine that somebody said they wanted to live separately anyway, that they didn’t care about this arbitrary, interracial education, and that we as a society had to, for some reason, respect this about them.

I obviously don’t care about imposing on racists an education that would make them less racist. I think it’s important, even.

I also sympathize with the world as it is being unfair to students. But, I don’t respect the subversion of learning itself.

There is something new, actually: ease of access.

I cannot imagine being comfortable with a democracy of dumbasses.

Isn’t the whole reason we know global warming is a problem because of academics?

Mandatory education. It is your moral obligation to not be stupid.

I don’t know if it’s puritanical or what, but I think some people misunderstand sexual objectification to be a rejection of all sexual displays entirely. Like as an idiom, even.

On the idiom point, it’s entirely possible to objectify people in other ways, but I never really see anyone talk about them.

It is double-layered for enhanced durability

Your absurdly strong pro technology fervor is actually blinding you from seeing this normally.

To get a model ship out of a bottle, you either need to reverse whatever method got it in there, deconstruct the ship, or break the glass.

To get concessions out of your masters, you have to able to think like this.

I say this to people all the time:
“Suck one of my four dicks, asshole!”

You have created this strawman argument that anyone questioning that you are who you are

I have a question. It’s about this part:

questioning that you are who you are

Why does this matter?

You are somebody who believes that there is no such thing as identity on the Internet, so why even ask this question? What’s the point? What changes about life if this question goes unanswered?

Life continues as it was, or you build another. That’s kind of a silly question.

And this is something you have to do instead of breaking them? The policy pen must be held in both hands while writing, I take it.

Haha!

You know, you get a pass. Not that you agree with me, I don’t know that yet, I just wasn’t expecting that heel turn.

to shit on the efforts of others.

The efforts of AI, you mean.

Truthfully, I wonder if we even need that guy’s 20 years any more. Maybe he should retire.

I am a strong believer in the power of shame. Republican racists must be taught that their options are either to bend to my will or shut up permanently. I don’t really care if they agree with me or not.

Now, that’s pretty provocative. I am not presently mounting rifles at LLM users. But, I do think it shows that I have more determination than you do.

Every library my team has ever included in a project has gone through rounds of evaluation to make sure it is 1. publically trusted, 2. well tested, 3. and still in active development. I have no idea what this has to do with mindlessly copying code.

so you invent your own code/algorithms for every project?

If you’re going to submit an algorithm that isn’t maintained and you don’t know how it works, I’m not merging your pull request.

it’s better not to publish open source code because somewhere down the road, you might make a decision that some crowd doesn’t like

I see we’re going with the “woke cancel culture ruined comedy” argument.

Mate, if you’re going to take your ball and leave over the slight possibility that you might have to answer to some criticism one day, you’re not really living in the civilized society that I do. It seems kind of pointless to even talk to you.

They will obviously stop saying they use AI, much like republicans pretend they’re not racist. So?

I call the both of them cowards who refuse to stand up for what they supposedly believe in.