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Why do people in this thread detest that a pacifist with conviction exists? I’m not like them, and nobody is telling you to be like them. But having people like that in a population is important lest we become drunk on our ability to destroy our enemies.

What interesting discussion could the answer to this question yield? People who view abortion as “killy” will possibly take GPs stance toward their family and peers. People who don’t won’t.

And anyways, nobody _likes_ abortion, even if they are committed to it being a woman’s right

I agree with the authors point at large, but he misses one key pillar to defend his thesis: happiness requires health, and many of us never fully recovered physically from our first bouts with COVID.

Our energy levels are lower. This makes us more sedentary, which makes muscles atrophy, which attracts injuries at even moderate exertion, when we try to climb out of the pit.

No, the article showed that non belief peaked a few years ago: There are more butts in the pews than in 2020.

But sentiment hasn’t recovered.

For those who haven’t read it yet, article engages with this explanation and doesn’t come to the same conclusion

Not GP, but I would love pointers on precisely this problem

Why is it in the moral axis at all? I imagine identifying and shaping the influence of unwanted emotion vectors would happen as data selection in pretraining or natural feedback loops during the rl phase, same as we shape unwanted output for current models in order to make them practical and helpful

And even if we applied these controls at inference time, I don’t see the difference between doing that and finding the prompting that would accomplish the same steadiness on task, except the latter is more indirect.

Why is it more monstrous to alter weights post-training than to do so as part of curating the training corpus?

After all we already control these activation patterns through the system prompt by which we summon a character out of the model. This just provides more fine grain control

Did I miss something? When did Ukraine support any side in elections?

That is the normal definition of upstream. To harvest and transport the olives and olive oil, you need trucks, and often plastic containers and bottles. These farms and distributors will pass on their price of fuel and petroleum materials to the consumer.

tbh I’m kind of surprised the admin hasn’t enacted export tariffs on oil and gas already to take the pressure off car owners.

Wouldn’t do anything to the prices of imported products since the entire intl supply chain would be subject to even higher prices, but would reduce pressure at the pump

Isn't sully your mind a bit harsh?

As long as you read with the article's authorship in mind, it's useful to learn what thoughts your adversary wishes to influence and why.

> Sunnis (Iran)…Shia (Saudi)

These are reversed

I don’t see the usual tells in this essay

Who said the bar here is normal people? Normal people, in any discipline, are definitionally not the ones who push the discipline forward.

Whoever told you that did you a disservice. The best schools educate children coming of age on the changes happening to their bodies and how to protect themselves as they enter the age of sexual maturity. Under this bill that kind of education would be banned.

Yes, but then achieving that mandate across the country becomes O(N) of states, all within the low bandwidth legislation process of state houses. Much simpler to just do it at the federal level, and still legitimately justifiable wrt interstate commerce imo

I think “equivalent” would be the challenge here. When people need to know at all the nuances of what bathroom and restaurants they’re allowed to use, and what train cars when business or pleasure takes them across state lines it becomes a pretty large tax both for the individual and for interstate commerce at large

With that framing, aren’t those two outcomes detrimental side effects of achieving the objective, rather than the objective itself per your original comment?

Not quite at the level, but Jan 6 is similar. 174 officers were hospitalized, protesters were coordinating over Telegram, and Russian state owned media employees actively ran influence ops to support maga, though especially after the event (not quite “openly boasted”)

The result: nothing of consequence happened because the faction they supported eventually won and was/is legitimately popular

What, since released, internal memos or journals from mid-century civil rights leaders have revealed that destroying the constitution was their objective? Seems like a stretch.

Is this a decent translation?

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/thunder.html

This poem must have been a major inspiration for a character named The Thunderhead in the Arc of a Scythe sci-fi series.

The poem reads like the private confessions of that character, which made it feel modern to me, but wow it’s actually many centuries old.

> Your young children have no right to live in any specific location

Strawman. I have a right to influence housing policy with my vote, which I’ve done and I’m pleased with the outcome.

Now, you nor any commenter nor any city official have the right to resist implementing this law, and the arguments against are not compelling.

State law recently increased my neighborhood’s density. It’s obliging these towns to do the same. I’m happy about both, which makes me YIMBY like the people in this organization

Let’s remember, CA is in a housing CRISIS. I feel an immediate urgency to build as many houses as possible in this state so that my young children can feasibly afford to live here without being an AI engineer when they are adults

It means poetry’s back on the menu boys

It’s more looked like lavishing praise on their leader than allying himself with the country. There are some representative quotes here

https://www.belfercenter.org/programs/thucydidess-trap/repre...

Two reactions:

1. ProPublica is a multi-Pulitzer investigative reporting group led by former WSJ managing editor Paul Steiger. He is not a socialist, nor is WSJ, nor ProPublica.

2. In the article you will find verifiable claims, records, and quotes which can be easily distinguished from opinions by any discerning reader

Perhaps, if there is good faith effort to minimize that impact on citizens and legal immigrants.

Please, please take the time to read that article. Share if you think the administration is making those good faith efforts based on your read.

What did the 170 citizens detained in immigration raids last year do that was illegal?

If it was illegal, why were charges either dropped or never filed to begin with for the majority of these cases?

If you are open to understanding why people are so upset, do your mind the favor of reading this high quality reporting on the treatment of US Citizens by ICE

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...