Wirlocke

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I get the logic was sound at the time but the logic seems to assume that this is all a game with predefined rules and strategy.

Like yeah, incumbents typically won before, but would that hold up when everyone had an audible groan about voting for Biden?

I feel like most of political strategy could be replaced by just trying to understand the people voting, rather than bundling up correlations into strategy and blindly following them.

Like I feel like if you talked to most random average people, they'd have told you about the oppressive hopelessness they're feeling. Maybe they don't know why they feel that, but the general mood from everyone is that nothing's actively good is going to happens.

So of course getting a new candidate with a hope themed campaign will reawaken our passion, incumbent be damned.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I have a theory that desire for music in some animals (including us) began because of our heartbeats. Heartbeats would also be associated with being embraced by someone (head to chest) which could also connect to our fondness of it.

Hmm, this makes me wonder if there's a correlation between musical interest and the presence of a embracing parent at birth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

There's an idea on the internet that you can manifest certain things into reality by visualizing it really hard. Here it's being used in a joking sense almost like trying to cast a hex on Trump.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So clearly Thomas was just a Stand User attracting queer people.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I hate hate hate when people try to discredit a theory because "it's a theory not a fact" as if the label of "fact" exists on some kind of science ladder for an idea. "Facts" is a colloquial word like any other, it's not some special category above theories.

Moreover, the most tried and tested theories are facts. Science rarely just disproves an established theory outright. Einstein's General Relatively equations reduces into Newton's Laws of Motion in most situations. Newton's Laws of Motion weren't "wrong", it's just General Relatively is more specific and accurate.

The Scientific Method usually just builds on what already exists without claiming we were all unfactual for working with what we had.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Eeeeeh maybe not "CP settings"...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

And no Owl House? Crikey...

Spoilers

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Really feels like they drank their own Kool Aid, over confident fighting against Biden.

Honestly it was working, Biden would not have galvanized people to actually read that shit and make it a real threat. It really felt like the Democrats were just gonna let Republicans do whatever they want again like always. Then Harris came in and declared the emperor had no clothes and it's releasing a ton of pent up resentment for Trump from both sides.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

In a D&D game that I got in through Roll20 matchmaking. One of the players asks if I want to join another campaign with his friends, said yes.

One of those friends is now my fiancee that I moved states for. The original guy ghosted all of us in a harsh way but I'll forever owe my new life to him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Theoretically we could slow down training and coast on fine-tuning existing models. Once the AI's trained they don't take that much energy to run.

Everyone was racing towards "bigger is better" because it worked up to GPT4, but word on the street is that raw training is giving diminishing returns so the massive spending on compute is just a waste now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

God this just made me think though, I would bet North Korea is actually using AI for even better propaganda against their citizens right now. Being so disconnected from the rest of the world and tech starved, the people probably don't know a machine could even do this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I feel this would work in theory, but in practice the path of least resistance for a political party wouldn't be to appeal to young voters and teach policy. It would be to crank up the indoctrination machine and encourage parents to do so too.

I'm sure some families would teach their children how the world works, but most would just not change; or they'd indoctrinate and abuse their kids to supporting their political party (even harder than before).

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