"Isn't this a racist thing to say? Not according to Hitler!"
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Only got a paragraph in because of the cheerful citation of aporia (the big Nazi website)
I love how he goes on and on about how it actually totally makes sense for the average IQ in Malawi to be 60 because most people don't graduate school, ignoring that Lynn's methodology wasn't up to any basic standard
And by love I mean I fucking hate it
I read it in high school. Iirc, the main character in 1984 deeply hates a woman he works with and his violent fantasies about her are tied up in his desire to rebel against the regime. He later overcomes his desire to commit violence against her by having sex with her. His contempt for her fairly leapt off the page when I read it. I'm sure it's arguable what Orwell meant or intended.
In another scene, the middle-class protagonists watch a working-class woman hanging out washing and tell themselves that if there was any hope for freedom, it lay in "the proles" (members of the mass underclass, like that woman). But the way they look at her and talk about her is dehumanizing.
It's probably easier to just read 1984 yourself and make up your own mind. it's not a very long book.
Eurgh. I'm now feeling angry at the thought of someone who is doing a degree in global health but gets persuaded that AI safety is more important.
Isn't this just an economic move dressed up as an ideological one?
If only all those sneaker companies had thought to say they had to move their factories from America to Chinese sweatshops because American workers were too woke.
The backlash already happened - it's been a few years of far right protests against drag shows and prides. Not that it can't get worse!
All that cash Open AI gave to Labour was worth it, huh
It's the glitz of Catholicism with fewer of those pesky liberals around.
Also, some Orthodox monasteries had an enslaved workforce until well into the 19th century, which must appeal to neoreactionary scum.
I happened to be at mass today. There was a little explanation in the missalette that not only did Jesus's death redeem the sins of everyone today, he also redeemed all the sinners who lived and died before Christ came. I dunno, it reminded me of the Roko's Basilisk eternal judgment computer simulation....
People enjoy making amateur diagnoses of public figures, and people enjoy feeling like they're superior to neurodivergent people.
You'll hear no complaint from me.
I hope Toni Basil and the Ting Tings get big royalty cheques.