Soyweiser

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

People sending him anti-Semitism (or talking about him using anti-Semitic language is fucked up, saw people do that sadly). Really hope nobody here did that.

Still dehumanizing people he disagrees with. And refusing to understand the people he disagrees with. (But he could have made those points without calling others zombies, or do a weird 'arabs dont get western freedom' bit).

And I dont get why he thinks we are allied with re random piece of shit in Lebanon because we said his trolley problem thought experiment is fucked up, and that the genocide in gaza should stop. (Also the annexation of the west bank).

You can be against different groups of assholes at the same time. The guy is splitting so hard.

E: the whole 'I hope they will grow up from this from the necessary devastation(*)' bit haunts me. He doesn't seem to get that the US put a lot of effort into rebuilding those countries. Which with stances like his is not something that is going to happen. (Also, see the west bank, Palestinians will likely not trust these efforts). It also took a long long time for the hatred to die down in Europe but esp the hatred from others towards Germans. (For a long while driving a car with German numberplates in The Netherlands was a risk as randomly people would cut you off, and my grandfather, who now is dead, mostly called German people by their WW2 slur, it took that generation mostly passing away for that to lessen sadly. At least these are my experiences and what I heard). I'm reminded of A.R. Moxons line: 'if you want to be friends, why aren't you friendly'(**). Unrelated, I'm also reminded of this post: https://forward.com/opinion/415250/from-the-river-to-the-sea-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-means/

*: I know it is not a thing people agree upon, but I think a lot of the devastation of the civilian infrastructure in ww2 was not necessary at all. It seems to be agreed upon that terror bombing actually has to opposite effect.

**: A similar thing could be said of the Hamas/Hezbolla people, but we in the west here do not support those groups.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah sadly my knowledge of recent research on complexity classes is almost non-existent and before that I was not the greatest at it in university.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yep Feynman is one of those 'it is ok to like him, but if you love him, oh no' types. (went back and checked, if it was the person whos comments jumped out at me as 'eurgh' and indeed).

(And a big indication somebody is having some really disgustingly racist thoughts about people in Pakistan is when they bring up the birth rates. Seems to be a guarantee. People really hate the Palestinians for having kids, and see that as some sort of indication that it isn't that bad what everybody is going through).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I must admit I stole that partially from somebody else who mentioned the idea. Which also had me go 'indeed, that is a good word'

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is not sabotage if they are helping you not commit to a long term strategy that is detrimental to the company.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah but previous posts do not have the risk of blowing up into an 'untitled' again. This will get backlash, and he will pretend that he is the victim again after the backlash.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

See so the wiki should link, or even cache/include the oages from wikipedia that are better easy to do in mediawiki.

Make me an admin Scott, I know mediawiki, and I can be trusted. Honest.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have some thoughts on this plan. Say I make a new video game and use AI to write the articles for it. Where would the AI get the data from? And how do you prevent AI using slop as a source? (and just listing it as 'a problem' will not fix the problem, it undermines the fundamentals of your whole project).

Also "sounds kinda cool" really? Cool? You have seen the current crop of LLMs? Did you ask a LLM if this was a good idea first or something?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago

As I said on bsky, why is he complaining, if he cares he could fund bsky himself. Bsky could name an office wing after him, give his kids legacy admissions, give him a shoutout in every video they make.

(While my tone is mocking here, I actually dont think these things are bad (except the legacy admissions obv), and he should be a patron. The unwillingness of the 'left/democrat' rightwing rich people to use their wallets while the right hands out wellfare for everyone willing to say slurs sucks. Reminded of Hillar Clinton starting a go fund me for a staffer with a disease).

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

So, should the world pull the lever and save Gaza, knowing it will ultimately lead to more Israelis dying? Or should they keep giving them more weapons, so that they can keep murdering Palestinians with them?

Sanctioning countries that send troops/bombs into other peoples countries till they stop doing that and repay for the damages would be a way to prevent that. They can still have guns for self defense, but as soon as they use them to retaliate an not just defend they get cut off. (Of course this system can be beaten, and it also requires a world police force, and the UN has never been that in what I assume is partial design, the UN should never be able to threaten the USA/Russia).

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