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Joined January 2018
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In politics, trust is an op.
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250,000 white British girls raped by Pakistani men should be the number 1 story in the World. It’s a historical travesty. Sick.
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Leftists argue niggling exceptions and edge cases as standard tactics to re-establish conversational dominance & high intellectual status amid strong critique. A wholly myopic mindset that derails the generalizing necessary to galvanize public support to solve problems.
Over-defining (aka overfitting) w/irrelevant incidentals prevents abstracting out general conceptions, preventing the porting of essential understandings. Are literalists unable to detect essentials? Or do they simply stay blinded to them bc they can't escape fixation on details?
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That we can mathematize certain recurring dynamics doesn't mean that all truths are mathematizable. Mathematizability doesn't define truth, nor does math equal truth. What defines truth is its abstract portability through time and space. Any method for expressing truth is valid.
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Even at peak iconicity, symbols can only ever be low resolution stylizations of abstractions.
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No, it’s not “Pride Month.” Not for me, and not for millions of others. You’re welcome to be proud of whatever you want, in any month you like—because this is America. But what started in 1969 as a rebellion against persecution, morphed into a license for public depravity, and then morphed again into a weapon aimed at families and innocent children. Along the way it went from a day, to a week, and then a month and became official, and thereby effectively mandatory for all. Enough! If you’re gay and wondering why you are facing resistance now, the answer is that, with few exceptions, most of you didn’t stand up against the expansion and weaponization of “pride,” and the coercion that went with it. In that failure to resist, the gay community compromised any expectation that the rest of us should support “pride” at all, but especially the obscene display of hostility toward civilization and the families of which it is built, and for whom it exists. If your hackles are raised by the idea that civilization is about families, realize that families are how civilizations persist through time. Not everyone needs to form one, but we all must respect and protect them—It is the foundation of what it means to be civilized. For the small fraction of gays and lesbians who DID courageously stand up and resist expansion, coercion and the weaponization of “Pride,” I stand with you, and I have all along. But I won’t be celebrating, and I won’t be silent. It’s not too late to join the voices of reason and to confront the insanity of what “pride” has become.
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In 1850, 80% of world coal use was along the Thames and in the East End in Britain. Activists must assert that this one place's pollution output at that time was already affecting global climate. Otherwise global temperatures began rising without a human cause.
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Associations are the foundation of Ai's predictions. The reason "we have no idea" how Ai gets its answers is because engineers, mathematicians, and logicians don't have coherent models for associative thinking.
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Over-defining (aka overfitting) w/irrelevant incidentals prevents abstracting out general conceptions, preventing the porting of essential understandings. Are literalists unable to detect essentials? Or do they simply stay blinded to them bc they can't escape fixation on details?
Because they hyper-fixate on details The Literalists constantly over-define, thus fail to notice the reality of the abstract/general already present in things. (The quintessential failure of Analysts is not noticing the necessary, essential relations broken during hyper-focus.)
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“Purchase materials for cross burnings”, “Purchase materials to make KKK robes and hoods”.
Replying to @Tyler2ONeil
Yet the field sources used the SPLC's $ to: 1⃣Attend extremist rallies 2⃣Host rallies 3⃣Grow existing chapters 4⃣Create new chapters 5⃣Recruit individuals 6⃣Donate to extremist leaders 7⃣Purchase cross-burning material 8⃣Create racist paraphernalia 9⃣Pay living expenses 🧵3/20
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Taking selfies with one's latest purchase/indulgence is a close second in the narcissistic retard attention wars.
Reaction videos are the lowest form of content; dumb people being allowed to steal IP and thus being allowed to think they're clever for stealing and making money off that stolen IP.
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Replying to @PaulRRobichaud
He did indeed. I was flabbergasted by his result, which has made much existing (and continuing!) work in quantum foundations obsolete. But it has received grossly insufficient recognition from the community. They still don't know what hit them and are still ingeniously discussing non-existent things like "quantum non-locality" (and "the measurement problem") in ever greater detail. He deserves patrons.
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There's always a standpoint to judge anyone & anything. Postmodernists claim a frame outside all standpoints; without positions, impervious to criticism; from which all judgments can be judged. • A pretense of Godlike Objectivity. • A tactic to undermine ALL limiting beliefs.
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One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
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Geometry is stylization via calculation. It is an ancient mistake to assume geometry is abstraction. Abstraction is true. Stylization is dogma. How much of physics has been distorted by stylization?
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Because they hyper-fixate on details The Literalists constantly over-define, thus fail to notice the reality of the abstract/general already present in things. (The quintessential failure of Analysts is not noticing the necessary, essential relations broken during hyper-focus.)
Definition is the foundation of Meaning. Things are Defined by their Essentials; in reality, before we apprehend them, (or nothing is real). Generalization is the process of removing the inessentials (specifics) from the already-present definition, because they over-define.
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Digital circuitry ONLY calculates/computes. The very point of calculation is that it is an operation that can be conducted on numbers without reference to understanding. Nobody understands "45,321" in any concrete sensory way, let alone 45,231 x 29,775.
Replying to @itaisher @ATabarrok
A.I. no more "understands" what it is saying than a calculator understands the amounts inputted into it or what multiplication is. The idea that there can be intelligence without understanding is delusional.
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Definition is the foundation of Meaning. Things are Defined by their Essentials; in reality, before we apprehend them, (or nothing is real). Generalization is the process of removing the inessentials (specifics) from the already-present definition, because they over-define.
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"Weakness is not a virtue. It’s an invitation." ~ Konstantin Kisin
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Replying to @itaisher @ATabarrok
A.I. no more "understands" what it is saying than a calculator understands the amounts inputted into it or what multiplication is. The idea that there can be intelligence without understanding is delusional.
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Replying to @curtis_yarvin
Myths aren't lies. They're collective metaphors.
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