I wanted to break the video game logic people were using. People write things like “This piece of paper says anyone can compete. Therefore the men’s group is really the Open group.”

People literally argue as if we live in a video game. They think they because they can Google what a law says, that the simulation automatically implements said law.

Nothing in the rules of chess say that men ought to harass women. Therefore, that fact is hidden from many people. A piece of paper doesn’t say it, so it’s invisible.

If someone lived in reality and they knew that men consistently harass women and that the world of men doesn’t do enough to stop it, then they probably wouldn’t believe that the men’s group is somehow the open group that welcomes all challengers.

Contestants must run through these brick walls, swim through the magma pool, climb the 50’ smooth steel wall, and jump the chasm before smashing the watermelon at the end! Only the top 8 killbots will move on to the next round.

Their Programming is now “we need to avoid WW3, Russia will nuke us, we need to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, it’s got nothing to do with us”

A bunch of them instantly became bleeding heart pacifists because wearing that hat let’s you say the things best things for the current news cycle.

I think I saw one or two people trying to say this has always been the conservative position. I mean what’s America first but being anti war? It’s like different trumpers just sit there in a plastic box waiting to be activated. Crickets when conservatives are doing X, Y, Z, but then suddenly these things appear when it’s convenient. Hey everyone, these magats didn’t call for political violence! These magats have always been against foreign wars!

My logic? People are acting like men’s divisions are the open divisions when it’s very much closed to anyone not wanting to endure constant harassment. I don’t think adding facts to the discussion implies any logic aside from the logic in valuing the truth.

Same chess where men creep on women and female grandmasters report being harassed whenever they try to compete alongside men?

I don’t think women feel welcome when you can accost them and if they say anything they’re just a bitch lying to cause problems.

Police get caught running searches on their ex girlfriends. Police are barely better than gangs and they’re using sophisticated tech to fuck with their local communities. Brilliant. Add the CEO of Flock to the list of persona non grata.

“If we assume X theorem is true, Y theorem is true, and lemma Z is true, then …”

This is actually about our models and seeing their incompleteness in a new light, right? I don’t think starting from arbitrary axioms and then trying to build reality was about proving qualities about reality. Or am I wrong? Just seems like they’re using “simulated reality” as a way to talk about our models for reality. By constructing a “silly” argument about how we can’t possibly be in a matrix, they’re revealing just how much we’re still missing.

Assume I read the article and then made a post.

I wonder what it means. If you search for music by Suicidal Tendencies then YouTube shows you a suicide hotline. What does it mean for OpenAI to say people are talking about suicide? They didn’t open up and read a million chats… they have automated detection and that is being triggered, which is not necessarily the same as people meaningfully discussing suicide.

That’s a great question!

I do indeed read my posts back—how else would I proofread them? 🤖

They demanded bodies, then Hamas promised to deliver them, then Israel threatened to cut off all aid if they didn’t deliver the bodies, then Trump threatened to bomb Palestinians if they didn’t deliver the bodies, then Hamas delivered the bodies.

The exact opposite of how you get extremists like Hamas to stand down. They’re demanding Hamas disarm while demonstrating the war isn’t over.

Need jammers to confuse and break Teslas. They’re weapons designed to break laws and protect occupants at the expense of bystanders. Can’t be mad if a bystander redirects your Tesla into a ditch.

Data brokers are allowed to buy data from the dark web after our data is hacked. I saw a 1 million fine I think?

App store owners will use this or that, which will get hacked, then our data will be bought up, and then it will be endlessly repackaged and moved around. That’s why you can’t remove your data using those scam services; the moment it’s moved to another broker it’s fair game again. You’ll never scrub your data.

Your insurance will know what apps you installed. Walmart will know what apps you installed. Police bypass warrants by leasing this data from corporations like Flock. Just add it to the pile.

After all, why not? Why shouldn’t I build a Beowulf of my own?

“we can’t release the doctors because they might be Hamas”

They’re literally dealing with Hamas. That’s like saying “we can’t release these soldiers because they might be Israeli”

If they’re just a terrorist organization that doesn’t even deserve pow swaps then what is this ceasefire

It’s meta like everything else. Sure, there are relatively simple rules that ought to lead to obvious, inexorable outcomes. But people are in charge and they’re thinking: But what would it mean?

Give the Peace Prize to Putin! Maybe it will slow him down.

Give the Peace Prize to Kissinger! Maybe our empathetic embrace will soften his demeanor.

Give the Peace Prize to a conservative nut job. Let’s throw in some support for fostering democratic values.

She’s supposedly an opposition leader trying to jumpstart democracy, yet she invites external aggression which makes people crazy enough to tear down existing democratic institutions. Her dictatorship is going to crumble so she needed to prop it up with the spectre of US aggression?

I don’t get it. Little “drivers” that provide functionality, and then the ability to link button presses to those drivers. And I guess some meta knowledge of ports, standard addresses?

Where is the “requirement” for edge computing? Where is the need for their continuous services?

I thought that most companies doing this at least tacked on extraneous features that then justified their subscription. You’re supposed to pretend it’s necessary! Did they skip that step?

Average bible verse concerning other earthlings

China is when Chinese people do things Americans have been doing.

NSA, Equation Group, black rooms, PRISM, Palantir… that’s bad stuff but it’s sorta in the background. Even the national surveillance startup tracking license plates and soon people… not that interesting.

But Chinese that stuff? It’s the only way you can show many Americans just how fucked these policies / institutions are.