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"Has debt been inflationary the last 3 decades of fiscal deficits? No... "
Uhhh, yeah, yeah it has lol. We got productivity gains like no other time in history from computers, internet, mass marketing and data analytics during that time and the real spending power of the bottom half of the income ladder got poorer while being priced out of education and real estate. We had 2 decades of stimulus in the form of QE and 0% interest and still, people can't afford healthcare, homes, and now food too.
Inflation is lagging indicator, and it doesn't point out mitigating factors like one-time productivity boosts like the advent of smartphones. The gap in between wealth and poverty and the volume of hours worked while travelling and on call out of the office should have been making those workers richer all else being equal - but it's not "all else equal", though, because the national debt is money spent lining certain people's war chests and offshore accounts. National debt is fine when the benefits are spent on the people collectively, because then benefits and costs break even (usually with more upside due to economies of scale), but when Musk, Bezos, Gates, Zuck, etc "earn" more money than most countries, it kind of makes you wonder how if a country's debt is supposedly good for it then why aren't billionaires operating on personal annual deficits too?
Answer: because overspending and undercollecting is a childishly stupid way to manage a growing pool of money.
What this piece's author fails to grasp is just because a bubble hasn't burst does not infer there is no bubble. Some things take decades to unravel, like consequences of national policy. Plenty of military strategists told Putin the war in Ukraine would be days, someone told Hitler he could take over the world, and USA believe Iraq would be an in-and-out kind of affair. The consequences are felt long after we even realized how badly we goofed.
Here's the thing, we engineer inflation so we can borrow today and repay it for cheaper later. That's the whole theory behind debt being stimulative in a nutshell, but that also means the person buying that debt will demand a premium to compensate for that future value because they're not stupid either, they don't want to break even on purchasing power for the risk they're taking, that's not how debt is bought either. Debt is bought to make the lender money so if the borrower is depreciating value in the currency in order to make servicing their debt cheaper then there will only be a buyer of debt if the real value of the loan revenues is anticipated to outpace depreciation for both parties - the debtor wants something now rather than later because the time they'd otherwise wait is more costly and the lendor wants an ROI which exceeds forecast future value. The price of debt is the balance.
TLDR :: when a puff piece tells you not to worry about national debt they're either lying or incompetent.
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Far be it for me to criticize, but justice Alito has not demonstrated a love of our institutions. For examples of this, listen to his exchanges with Elizabeth Prelogar during oral arguments. Alito abandons precedent routinely, and angles at textuslism while dismissing the meaning of words like "shall" as intending to have an implicit deadline attached. It is patently false to presume Sam Alito reverses checks and balances as he insists on overturning established case law in Chevron deference, Dodds, ERA, presidential immunity, and even the pornhub hearings related to 1st amendment degree of scrutiny required, trying to spin the process to articulate the policy for himself rather than the substance of the matter (which was strict vs intermediate scrutiny).
There are so many examples and none that I can think of to support the claim Alito supports institutions and separation of powers. With all due respect, Norman, I believe you are teaching wrong supreme court law.
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14:16 allow me to clarify before I even finish listening - I'm a guy who loves cuisine, loves exercise to cope with ADHD and insomnia. I was born diabetic and suffered several hospitalizations and crippling side effects of undiagnosed diabetes until finally at 27 I started getting insulin. My savings, my businesses, the career changes, my social life, everything suffered from the crippling conditions of diabetes and autoimmune disorders my free healthcare failed to diagnose and treat my whole life.
Scott's comments are not offensive even to diabetics who have endured tremendous suffering. Don't be wanker. Just because a photon lands here and not there doesn't mean God's trying to snipe you from another dimension. It's just part of a world that exists because of the forces of entropy as a function of time.
When a policy is enacted to exploit a population, that's victimhood, like capital gains income annual social security contributions (cpp/ei/qpip here in Canada), that creates victims. Being diabetic or not diabetic is not offensive just like short tall black white young or female or gay are not offensive.
In life if you can't find a laugh then you're definitely missing something, no matter how much or little you're suffering there's no justification to be offended by stating a fact like "type II diabetes is genetic and preventable", "type I diabetes is genetic", or "borderline type I can be delayed but can also cause colitis, psoriasis, optic neuritis, fibromyalgia, arthritis and mental illness if unchecked, so keep an eye on things"
If you can't afford a vacation and marginal cost of larger orders is greater in higher quantities then I'm gonna eat more for more enjoyment. All humans think like that, it's not just fat people even skinny men like me love food for the same reason. We are evolved to seek sugar and variety, of course à surge in wealth worldwide and synergy of population growth this century would induce pathological nutrition issues in a portion of the species.
That's not shaming its compassion!
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As a Canadian, nobody in Canada has any reason to be worried about tariffs lol. We're not dumb enough to worry about nothing. We have what we need, we have what they need. We're made richer by not selling raw resources, we'll just add value and jobs to do that by ourselves. It's pretty simple that selling raw resources is not the best way to get wealthier, it was a kindness we offered in exchange for protection. Symbiosis, just like in nature and what capitalism claims to understand and leverage best.
Canada isn't worried, we have the resources and talent to do it ourselves, it was just easier to scale up with a large market to sell to. But now we've scaled up as suppliers, so Canada couldn't care less if USA doesn't want to trade, well just have more middle class jobs picking up the slack.
This isn't full battle mode, this is comical indifference. There's no need for dramatic orchestral music interludes, this is such a junk piece it hurts 😂
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You've missed out on a crucial detail, I'm afraid: with excess energy and short supply of production goods, we're encouraging Russia to build itself into the most self sustained economic powerhouse the world has ever seen.
Highest costs to building factories to produce the screws (and moulds, and trinkets or whatever other generic parts get used as standards in production factories) which would normally have been imported are: land for factories (abundant in Russia) , ores for construction/production materials (abundant), mined with energy and metal machines (abundant), plastics for knobs, moulds and fasteners etc (from oil), and cement (energy/mining so abundant), and the pharmaceuticals, pesticides, fertilizers for feeding construction workers (oil), and high tech mfg from rare earth's, electricity, robotics and China is next door with stale factories for those.
You see the problem we're creating for ourselves here?
Once the painful process of building a factory for every little modular tool and bit is finished being built in Russia with its excess resources not being sold to the West, and with the motivation forced by sanctions, Russia will be the most independently powerful nation in the world by having a local economy slightly less capable than a global one, but fully immune to foreign exploitation or influence by it. Globalized economies are subject to differing interests and shifting policies of parties and neighbours and treaties, but a despotic Russia's localized economy would be agile with expenses not leaving the country in bad years but recirculating from the good years of its own adjacent industries.
From a long term perspective (the sort we in the west fail horribly at factoring in), we're helping write Putin's legend and we'll be proving the benefits of strengths of the opposing regime in the long run as compared to diplomatic democracies. This is not at all helping us achieve our goals, it is only pushing our enemies to leave us lagging behind them stunted by our shortages while they become strengthened by theirs.
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While I appreciate your POV, economically speaking I think this piece completely missed the mark for a few key reasons. 1) the cost of military would dramatically lessen in the event of a NK collapse. The low skilled labour of refugees uplifts gdp drastically more than higher wages based on productivity. For construction, language teachers, social workers, police, fire departments, all those great middle class jobs will see a surge of demand boosting s Korean incomes as an effect of the debt incurred absorbing the NK refugees. That's good debt to have: construction, infrastructure, education, and basic needs consumption are huge boons to established economies because the system is already built and refined to train and expand these positions. It's nothing like starting a new country from scratch where everyone stands still waiting for a constitution and utilities.
It would be a shock to the south Korean system for sure, and there would be debt, but for anyone who knows anything about chasing value that's the best debt to own - sovreign with guaranteed growth if consumer base and labourers who would feel rich working like livestock for minimum wage because freedom would be a new statutory benefit they would've sold a child for prior to reunification.
I would love to invest in South Korean bonds in the event of a unified Korea, that'd be the easiest 12% 20-yr yield I'd ever find in my lifetime.
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according to pharmacychecker Research July 2020: Marketing and sales costs vastly outpace spending on R&D so essentially the public is subsidizing marketing... which is kickbacks to doctors, insurers, media, etc. We're taxing the poorest people the highest portion of their income to charge them more for health issues which themselves also shrinks a person's ability to earn, save and invest more into escaping the cycle of poverty. We're double dipping on those least able to afford it in order to protect the arbitrage rights of the select few who are in the least need of financial aid. It's not complicated, we just need to stop paying for patents that corportations alone are profiting from. Just stop enabling corruption. It really is that simple.
2019 revenue in $mlns / R&D in $mlns / Marketing-Sales in $mlns
Eli Lilly $22,320 $5,595 $6,204
GlaxoSmithKline €21,891 €4,568 €11,402
Pfizer $51,750 $8,650 $14,350
Novartis $34,252 $9,402 $14,369
AbbVie $33,266 $6,942 $7,439
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"oh so it's moving but I just can't see it"... Yup.. High school science class.. How does this host keep getting work? He should at least stick to Mickey mouse themed panels, and this cluelessness, it's embarrassing. As a Christian, I'm offended by the injection of his beliefs unprompted. Totally unnecessary at a civilized convention to waste time trying to keep up with the conversation then after all that, change gears on a dime to impose the idea of creation. I'm fucking livid that this host gets work.
Yeah, 4 fucking mins to say "so..." without even asking a question but managing to speak of socks, underwear, time, smell, application and possibilities of nanotechnology (at approximately 20 mins)
So.... Yeah, I'm tired of being polite WSF please listen.
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It's amazing how rare we hear context in the regular news. I wish tv and radio had more of this. My news station is in too much of a rush to show video of a cat saved from a fire, and asking residents if they ever imagined their houses would burn down unexpectedly... Our news tells us nothing of statistical analysis during years of covid hourly updates and poorly represented data - again, without ever shedding any context on how to read or interpret the studies / charts.
It's no wonder everyone is so dumb they elect Boris or Trump, right down from state to county to city government wins by appealing to idiots because our news and universities are so bad at informing the public to a basic adult standard if competency and literacy. Of course we'll have wars, and recessions, and deficits, shootings, income disparity, radical identity noise, and corruption.
Of course that's the result of an uneducated democracy, what else would it possibly look like to have a majority stupid population in the information age???
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He doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, the host.
By contrast, Connor knows what he's talking about, but his bias is entirely skewed to the unlikely worst case imaginable and suggests that since he's wealthy and comfortable and doesn't need AI to substantially improve the education of his kids or his own prosperity / productivity, that we should be scared enough to all stay suffering to ensure his protection from algebraic lambda functions.
I don't think either men realize how little sense they are making when real people are at stake, not just their own comfortable lives being threatened by people who fear destitution and opportunity more than they fear poor people competing economically with their luxurious selves.
Not differentiating real from fake would benefit everyone. We'd be forced to all apply critical thinking by default instead of trusting talking heads. It would force people to be informed by logic, cross referencing, consensus, and by reading well vetted authors. It wouldn't force everyone to never believe anything ever again as this whole panel suggests, it's far more likely to do the opposite when common knowledge is to be suspicious and critical of everything. That's healthy, that's not "thinking based on feelings" it's thinking based on thinking - which we're not doing.
The singularity is not a thing unless you're taking about either end of the universe. Computers are not doing "2 years of thinking per day", they don't think they associate tokens in matrices. Humans have agency by way of the senses coalescing, and we're fragile because we die when some of those senses stop working by consequence. If a machine developed agency but couldn't die from impaired senses then it wouldn't really be conscious or self aware without ever having any appreciation for its own death.
Connor Leahy knows how these systems work, he knows the code and the math right down to the assembly, probably. His fear is that 0.000001% chance of catastrophe isn't worth the risk to his great life, so everyone else should just suck it up and stop being so loose with our models. Poor people could leverage those models and lift the world to a new minimum standard but that tiny % risk isn't worth it to him and 10% of the rest of the world if it means not only AI threatens his comfortable life, but lifting the poor to compete for his wealth is the even greater threat.
Don't get me wrong, I lime the guy, he's not evil, he's not crazy, he's a father. He's a guy who sincerely wants good in the world but clearly doesn't even recognize how little sense he makes when he speaks about the risks. He's been on mlst a tonne of times and I listen to every episode because there's a lot to learn from him, lots of insight and perspective, and most importantly he sets a great example for discourse with differing views; it seems pretty clear over the years his strongest argument is a preference to preserve the status quo, and not many people on earth would think that's an acceptable reason to keep them trapped in exploited labour their entire lives.
A lot of people suffer and can't defend themselves for lack of education or tutoring, adequate language skill or stimulating dialog by virtue of the world they inherited through no fault of their own. It's not our fault either, except it is if there's a tool that would certainly help a healthy percentage of that population and compounding over time. If we withhold access to AI then it is our fault because suddenly we decided for them it wasn't worth the risk. They ought to just sacrifice themselves for the West (the least in need and most capable of defending themselves again an Ai-mageddon.
Indeed far more people are not well off than who are, so to suggested his fear of protecting his civilized life merits closing that door to the many millions of times more people who would at least have the option to work hard to catch up with him is patently selfish and logically asinine for a man of his dignified belief systems - unless he's just a man blinded by love. That would be completely understandable but not in the least bit justified.
TLDR, this whole conversation is a red herring to distract from license agreements, patent farming, privacy, rentseeking enterprise, and corruption of politics. This is the Houdini act, misdirection and pearl-clutching, while the bank robbers keep an unbroken congo-line strong carrying the future's wealth out the door in broad daylight.
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I appreciate where you're trying to come from, but in all honesty I'd wager nobody can tell the difference between ai symphony and real human symphony.
What you hate isn't that auto tune and synth exists, you hate that it's everywhere. Reality is its the music industry and profit model that changed, not the musicians. Musicians stay indie if they want to keep control of their sound and millions still do, but the places you hear just walking by are all manufactured music, nothing original. That's by design, not that it's all there is.
Also, tons of synths from 70's and 80's including Phil Collins lol like tons and tons. Peter Frampton did auto tune even, it was like a whammy bar, just a fun experimental thing.
Music industry used to sell cd's, that's the difference. An artist needed a grassroots following not a control group think-tank.
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For context, working at Safeway used to be union, and the lifers could save up for and buy houses and drive used cars on that salary. Even the poorest shopped for groceries at Safeway if it was closest or saved them bus fare.
If prices were high but the neighbourhood grocery lifer was also watching the kids play, babysitting, and just being a good neighbour because she wasn't afraid of being attacked outside her home, that's a benefit. It's fewer defaults, fewer senior citizen poverty thanks to the pension plan, and motivated workers who got to know their neighbours at work over decades of consistency.
We've lost a lot to be asked to accept food prices to rise in lock step with everything else considering tax subsidize them too, we've already given up a lot, and we're more pinched than ever somehow while they are the highest paid rent-seekers this country has, as far as executives and businessmen/leaders they presume to be to be worth their weight in salt...
Just think cost benefit compared to 20 years ago - it doesn't even compare relative to the average budget for groceries these days.
That's why I'm launching an app soon, because I have grocery prices in Canada over time, and I've built a platform to help people save money on their groceries in Canada.
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For a scientist Dr Peterson is not much of a data guy.. There are plenty of well considered economic and environmental studies on climate change, you just need to read them. It's the data that spell doom, climate moves slowly just like culture, but it doesn't mean acting now isn't imperative it means the effects of our hubris takes years to become apparent. And 20 years after Green Peace begging us to listen we have annual storms of the century, rising sea levels and massive droughts.
It's not fear or irrational dommsday saying, there are quantifiable data. There are oil companies who have engaged in suppressing climate studies which turned out unfavourable, then they paid out for disinformation campaigns instead.
As a market analyst I can tell you it's not a secret the affordability of climate change initiatives is achievable without any pain if all we did was shift corporate tax rates back to what they used to be when the economy was not only viable but incomes were more evenly distributed and we maintained / built national infrastructure with it.
You're the ones spazzing out about how expensive or necessary things these issues are without knowing the costs. You're the ones too lazy to do the dirty work of learning how to read stats by deltas and out sized returns of subsidized energy companies or real productivity of the highest income earners who are protected from paying proportional taxes.
You guys are catastrophizing about solutions to a fixable problem you haven't looked at. You read the analysis of someone else and assume you've understood. Just look for yourself by doing the math. How many billionaires worked at McDonald's as kids to pay their way and earn their spot? How much of their genius relies on selling data people never knew they were selling, or buying startups with their daddy money and rebranding without innovating, or extra ting from national resources without paying a tax rate the people who share that land pay on the incomes they make selling hours of their lives rather than fund raising. The money supply from mortgage accessibility helped one generation of low means become middle class by retirement at the expense of every subsequent generation. The focus on growth as a measure of economic strength ignoring demographics or need. You can see in all these data how your ideas are myopic if you just out in the effort to learn calculus, stats, economics by learning dynamics not just principles of a certain school of thought. Just watch markets and make predictions and follow through to see how and why your forecasts in the markets are right or wrong. Do that for a few years and you'll actually know what you're talking about.
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40:59 what Israel should have done:
Humility and accountability. "we'll put Netanyahu on trial with your judge, you put Hamas on trial with our judge. Drop the blockade, give equal rights to all people of the region, and both parties collaborate in taking down terrorist from both sides without civilian casualties. None except one-off incidentals like a stray bullet or ricochet, not bombing an apartment to get a militant, you stalk the militant and snipe them. You acknowledge injustice and establish universal accountability and both sides work together to prosecute those who commit atrocities. In the meantime civilians live their lives with equal rights."
It's that simple, it would be ugly but not nearly as ugly as slaughtering 30,000 people thusly inspiring a new generation of terrorists.
This isn't about anything other than the facts, and the facts are universal accountability and universal justice is the answer. You have to submit your war criminals, we'll submit ours, and in the meantime everyone else is equal in society. Gaza was never equal. They had no ability to trade, to expand, to leave without checkpoints, to earn, to learn, to receive and contribute to the national prosperity.
Everyone needs to be equally responsible for the harms they commit. And it's done in one generation with a fraction of the casualties.
There simply is no justification for civilian casualties I think Gaza, or Israel, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, or any other country. All you have to do is treat people equally, prosecute equally, and that's it. Hamas would have no support without oppression. Why would I become a suicide bomber except by my family and friends being murdered for nothing without consequence. If I have a life to live and when murderers kill they are jailed, then eventually next generation it's over. A few thousand radicals kill a dozen each over 20 years in the process, but that's nothing compared tk killing 30,000 in 6 months and worsening the issue without end.
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Lol "covid was unknowable in Dec 2019 and Russia invading Ukraine was unknowable 60 days prior".
Horse shit. Russia was stacking troops at the border and l'au Ching shell companies to hide money 3-6 months before invading and December 2019 covid had already crossed borders which by definition is a pandemic, its just that nobody took those things seriously.
My podcast I predicted this year's market crash in a 2hr episode where I described inflation and I don't have a economics degree, I just followed markets since I was a teenager and also got caught in 2007 only months after throwing my life's savings into my investment portfolio chasing millions.
It's about attention to detail and creativity, we're not victims of our pasts we're victims of our egos. Very, very different.
Also, 1950's salaries were single earners supporting entire households, and with fresh memories of trench warfare and Nazi holocaust. They had clean air and access to over the counter heroin, coke and booze. They had houses on minimum wage they owned outright in 5 years, and family life was achievable. It's not just nostalgia, wholesome people would prefer all that. Superficiality has always and will always exist. But at least now women can vote and get professional jobs. Very few people need a jet to feel successful, only in that tiny bubble of us in finance does that even sound normal. Nowhere else is there an insurance salesmen bummed out for not flying to Tahiti every weekend. Most people would still be happy with a bungalow and a bonfire.
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***** TPP would make corporations more powerful, first of all. Secondly, Bernie doesn't mention it because the people's court will do it. He's wanting voters to vote on issues, like real democracy. Thirdly, there's a difference between wishful thinking and outright lying, which conservatives notoriously do (ie: trump, ted cruz, carson, fiorina, christie and rubio) about each other. Lastly, who said niceties make a candidate unwinnable? That's just what conservatives say and do. It's not necessary if you have an educated population. If America is so great then the least you could expect from its people is that they are educated. Pandering to childishness is a really sad course of action for such a "powerful" and "advanced" society. Nothing you said makes sense.
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R Ski I appreciate your passion but your knowledge of Venezuela is only partial. America is a huge reason for their struggles, not their political model. Also, the continent is very different, so their trade opportunities and infrastructure were also underdeveloped for decades, and their neighbors were plagued by militia insurgents and civil unrest. It's not even closely related to America in that regard, and they didn't have the industrial history to build a foundation on like America did.
Secondly, socialism is cheaper. Don't try to get me to shed a tear for a 44% tax on people who can own several homes they leave vacant most of the year. If you want a stable society and economy you can't have homeless or project dwellers segregated to protect the rich people. You need to lift the standard of living for all people to encourage security or they will take, or vote to take, from the wealthy and it'll be a lot more painful than a tax. It's just not feasible to allow people to bleed out while a certain few acquire wealth without being productive contributors to the society they want to enjoy. It's not complicated, it's humanity. $1,000 goes a lot farther for a poor family than someone who earns that and more in a day at the beach while an algorithm trades pennies to earn them their leisurely life. It's just absurd. You've clearly never seen abject poverty if you want to protect the income of non-working folk in the 44% tax bracket. They don't produce any tangible goods, and the ones that do are that wealthy because of trade agreements and tax havens that undermine the earning potential and opportunity for the working class.
Open your eyes, socialism is already an gladly accepted American ideal. Socialism isn't communism. The government spends hundreds of billions of dollars annually, and tens of billions protecting the wealth of the privileged, but spends minute percentages offering low income families unhealthy meals like KD at the food banks or with food stamps.
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***** again, mostly over my head but sincerely appreciate the detail. All I can comment on is my hypothetical imaginary interpretation lol. In that, I can see how information might seem to be lost, but since volume is being calculated on an area basis, it stands to reason (to me lol) that the perceived loss of information is most likely due to our frame of reference, which is why I relate it to higher dimensional structures as an example. If time is a dimension, for example, it's our confinement to time that the information can't be retrieved. If time were a spacial dimension you could step backwards and see the information come out of the black hole intact, in theory.
Not saying by any means that it's solved, but I don't think the debate is really leaning in the right direction because they don't seem to put any weight on the method of measurement or point of reference; admittedly I could be completely mistaken though.
On a side note, I thought entropy's formula was s=k log W where W is the number of states or complexions. If you wouldn't mind, I'd be interested to know how S=A/4 relates to it (if at all). Thanks much!
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@juanareyes7119 we invented the word for God. We translated his word and we don't quite it in Aramaic. God's initials are literally whatever we needed to prescribe them to be able to begin to even discuss the concept.
God's initials are not on DNA, they are DNA... and physics equations, and time and causation. You presume to understand the unfathomable and apply that to what is measurable and tangible (science). If you want to make use of the brain God gave you, it behooves you to learn to compartmentalize every now and then so you have something balanced to grow from. If you believe God's love entails endless pain and sacrifice then you're missing the part of God's word about appreciating the real world around you imho. You're also not helping people with your energy if they literally need a chemical supplement to feel like you. Look up fibromyalgia, or diabetic neuropathy. Depression isn't just feeling blue as you presume to understand. It's a full physical affair affecting appetite, coordination, cognition, sleep, inflammation, all kinds of things. God wouldn't want you to prevent relief of others in his name or your vanity. Be humble. Admit there are things you don't know or understand, and actually walk the walk you preach.
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Moving Froward you completely misunderstand me. let me try again: gender identity is a human condition because genders vary between humans. it is a psychological and/or emotional relationship between a person and how they behave or relate. A human saying she thinks she is a cat in a human body is full of shit because she is CHOOSING to walk on all fours which a real cat in a human's body wouldn't. A real cat isn't self conscious enough to act like anything other than its nature. Cats do walk on all fours because their bodies make that the easiest way to move, not because they see other cats walking and want to fit in or identify with them. I don't understand what you're struggling to grasp here. She's acting like a human by mimicking another animal. She's inherently proving that she's lying. Just like a toy doll that talks when you pull a string is not a real child, it's mimicking one, so too a person not acting like a cat would instinctively while stilling saying she's a cat is mimicking one. I'm not saying it's bad or wrong, but nobody should be entertaining her behavior as a condition just like being gay or bi or trans isn't a condition, it's a preference. She wants to be a cat, fine, lock her in a cage at the SPCA and don't give her human rights if she wants to go the whole nine yards and see if she changes her mind. A gender bias wouldn't change no matter what situation you put them in, they will still be who they are.
Your idea of gay/trans/whatever is flawed. It doesn't actually matter what gender a person is because it's just a simple set of classification that has no intrinsic value other than social / psychological relativity. It doesn't change a person's species (DNA) to be transgender, it's an identity like a person's name, culture or belief system for example.
So gender is a valid choice, sexual preference and orientation doesn't change the person into anything else, it's an option that's already available inherently to our species; in contrast, where trans-speciation is concerned, this woman in the video is just an idiot looking for attention and playing pretend.
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Unions may be wasteful and corrupt, but they're less wasteful and less corrupt than shareholders, and shareholders don't offer any benefits to actual workers. When there's a nationwide poverty / income disparity problem causing people to lose housing, food, or opportunity to be educated or healthy, then we should all support the lesser evils of wasteful unions.
The country is better when fewer people are stressed, sick, stupid and starving so we should all support more unions even though they cost money.
Don't unionize a business into bankruptcy, but for sure the most profitable employers on the planet can afford some social responsibility. More than obscene wealth, standard of living and meritocracy is actually what America is all about. Reward for labour, not for ownership. Remember the whole independence thing? That was about reclaiming the fruits of labour from distant owners in palaces. The country was founded on the principles of workers rights, we seem to forget the priorities we claim to cherish when the fantasies of wealth obscure the realities of national prosperity.
Everyone is better off with less desperation and more opportunity, even if it means only 3 or 5 vacations à year instead of retiring on a trust fund without ever having worked a job or becoming potus and paying for a degree without ever having read a book. We should stop glamourizing nepotism and start actually respecting proper labour. Nothing wrong with making money on an investment, but getting tax relief for 1,500x a worker's income and still skipping board meetings? That's just retarded not the American dream.
I call it fiscal hippies. They want to own shit and never work then whine about the lazy workers. Be useful get paid be very useful get very paid. That's how we thrive sustainably without debt-for-growth economics being our one trick pony.
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Ignorant of the costs we all pay for corruption, for kangaroo justice, a war machine, appointed half of all sitting life appointed judges, murdered heads of state, overthrows governments to install puppet dictators, tariffes on his own people's trade, held nafta hostage just to rename it, poisoned the EPA, etc etc
This is all bas for economics. Strong is not a number, it's purchasing power and access to goods / services - which Trump has actively destroyed never mind his actions having no net positive result from his action.
Sorry dude, but you really don't understand intrinsic value or future value concepts at all based on this video conjectures..
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What an amazing opportunity, congrats JP on getting this interview. Can't wait to listen, this is so important.
Unfortunately this was an infomercial not an interview. No mention of violent methods, conditions in West Bank or Gaza, no utterance even if those people suffering. No mention of fraud or corruption investigations, not even a mention of subsidies while spend an hour taking credit for building. He boasts of knocking down socialism only after mowing down medium density apartments under cloak of night at gunpoint to give free farms and move in salaries to new settlers. No mention of segregation, checkpoints, his own nuclear threats (though he was clear about Iran's).
All of his arguments are worth hearing and valid to talk through but there was no discussion. Jordan just strokes him into every talking point bibi wanted to get across. This is the epitome of a sellout, and I'm really sorry Jordan stooped so low as to not even challenge the ideas or interpretations of history. What happened to thoughtful discourse? You used to be such a staunch advocate for reasonable objectivity, and jostling with tough problems. You used to steel man, and ask questions and disagree just to raise a debate for elaboration. You used to value the discourse itself to find compromise. This is straight up shilling.
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Very well done, but some small corrections: Arab nations don't just support Palestinians because they're Arabs, many Arabs just happened to be decent people who oppose injustice as is dictated by almost all religions these days. Most informed people are opposed to Israel's occupation, hence UN lack of support for Israel and active resolutions against IDF violence. Also, Iran is solely responsible for all of the benefits Hamas can offer to recruit, so Iran has substantially more coercive strength than you give them credit for over Hamas. Lastly, the idea that the issue wasn't being looked at for years completely negates decades of advocacy by people like Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein who took on the cause despite both being Jewish heritage because, once again, informed people are aware of the Israeli occupation being de facto apartheid, if not overtly and explicitly.
Very well done though, thank you.
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@1:03:40 ahhhh, K last one, this is so tiresome.
If you're talking about economics, try to be coherent ffs! Economics and capitalism work because synergy is assumed. Division of labour is a know productive boost. Cooperation makes us all richer than the sum of the parts. Government when its big and purchasing basic needs for all people is more efficient the bigger it is, not less. So long as process and checks are in place, economies of scale dictate that taxation to afford public benefits like basic needs and utilities is the optimum strategy.
So if you're a conservative liberal who believes in capitalism then you must, ipso facto admit that the same reasons capitalism is a good model are the same reasons a big government is an ideal model too, what you're supposed to be arguing is the implementation of regulation and guards against corruption, not the actual size of government. You should be pro regulation pro big government if you believe anything you say about capitalism.
If not, then you're redefining economics so it's no wonder the models are wrong to you, you've changed the meaning of words and found yourself surprised that things don't make sense anymore. Just look it up. Use a dictionary. Read a book. Listen to the merits of the arguments presented to you. It's complicated but not incomprehensible.
I'm seriously baffled by JBP's capacity for critical thought over the years, it's such an incredible shame what's become of him.
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21:12 Sam, you haven't looked very hard. All of these listed arguments are verifiably false. 1) occupying nations are subject to a different standard than resistence of occupations. 2) the definite of apartheid does apply to walls, freedom of movement, economic blockades, checkpoints, voting rights, and judicial processes based solely on birthright. 3) Israel is a colony, they and the West who illegally assigned them the land of others admit it. 4) the brutality of Oct 7 pales in comparison to the generations of assaults against gazand prior, like operation cast lead, and the statistics prove it looking at death tolls for decades one compared to the other. 5) the values of the West you love so much have done nothing to put Trump or Republicans in jail, or banks or any other white collar criminals, but black men fill prisons which are for-profit institutions. 6) Iran was democratic, go look up any source to find out why Iran is the way it is today. It was American exploitation, spoiler alert. Look up banana Republic, or cía sponsored coups, or recently the Dobbs decision with the context of the hearings from Trump appointed justices.
Violation of law, rights, human dignity, sovereignty, and corruption are western values. You can't sincerely promulgate your higher ground dismissing the vile atrocities and the root causes of the world's refusal to accept any of the arguments you make here. You're a smart guy, just speak with someone educated who disagrees with you, just like you had to do when you were denying covid.
The older you get the more you seem intent on spreading disinformation rather than learning.
32:32 capitalism is just as much a religion of exploitation and conquest as your claims of Islam, if not more. It's not all capitalists, certainly not my capitalism, but my Buddhism lends to a more rounded view of reality and humslity of my understanding than yours does, it would seem. My Buddhism asks me to listen to others, which I implore you to attempt. Just stop and learn before you keep speaking and preaching your beliefs like they're facts, or you'll only become the thing you hate the most - a religious zealot of another variety. 😊
This is not religious, it is apartheid by definition, it is genocide, the world agrees as per UN resolutions every year. The racist quoted of Israel's cabinet for eg.
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Immigration solves corporate problems, consumer problems, and the problems of war torn refugees.
It doesn't fix war, or culture, or innovation, but without an expanding workforce we need to stop pushing for growth in an economy whose labour force is shrinking.
When people can't afford to have and raise kids because personal cost of living is beyond the reach of half the population, and if you're not interested in distributing fruits of labour to the plebs who actually earned the 70-year high profit margins, then we must grow the workforce through inflation to keep it going (never mind making it grow, just the status quo requires more non-geriatric workers).
You either open the borders and keep earnings exorbitant returns to shareholders, or you distribute the fruits of labour so citizens can afford to raise kids and support themselves to grow their own future workers. You can't just squeeze wages and shut the borders and expect labour to come from nowhere if we want to continue to afford vacations, OLED tv's and McManions. It's not much more complicated than that.
Uniins we're definitely wasteful, but even more wasteful is the tax evasion of the gig economy.
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This is extraordinarily dumb... 14:00
"gi-GAN-tism" isn't the issue of the educated, the enabling of disproportionate power is what people object to. It's not fitting into your narrow archetype model because educated people don't have the need of reduction to simplistic categoricals. It's not the size, it's the lobby. It's not the left/right, those are moral views, it's about who is more trustworthy: uncle Sam or father Ted. It's not political at all to not fit a categorical that's never been proven to be accurate in the first place.
Plenty of lefties like guns, plenty of right wingers don't. Both have the same reasons for liking or disliking guns. The difference is the lobby.
Left and right is a lesser evil strategy of voting, and that's not acting purely democratic its game theory. In a true democracy there would be no lobbying, no parties, and campaigns would be real debates instead of signs and commercials so people could only vote on policy. That would be democratic. No gerrymandering, no lobbying, no fundraising, no ads, no calls, no polls, no signs, no media preference, no tribes; just policy and voters. That's working democracy.
If moneys not well used by government check your tax laws. Check subsidies, check abuse of power, partisanship, and lies about economics peddled plby people who live off of the public without ever having had a job but claim to represent workers by giving tax cuts which advantage the least in need by orders of magnitude thereby amplifying the problem they were elected to fix. They not only didn't fix it like they promised, they made it worse, and that's where the data are conclusive.
Peterson hasn't read real data in like 10 years, when I first watched all of his videos and talks before the major drama and his nervous breakdown. He used to be critical thinking but now he just pushes agenda under the guise of rational thought.
He doesn't understand economics, which he admits, yet forms opinions on false economic pretenses. He doesn't understand political leaning isn't a rule of nature it's a simplification. He doesn't understand fascism, Canada is nowhere near that but he confuses it often for socialism, and socialism isn't communism which he always confuses. He doesn't grasp stats, he failed to rebutt his critics yet continues to cite the same debunked studies of rats and the extrapolation even the author he lauds rejected later in life. He doesn't consider new information, he plugs ads despite not being for want of cash yet claims to educate for principle and Christian values, the opposite of how Jesus undertook that enterprise.
Very deep thinker at one time, Jordan Peterson was held in high esteem for many years. I can't help but force these corrections at least just to point out his followers to fact check as he used to advocate regularly. Just think about what you're hearing and question the assumptions he glosses over in particular. For example, if left to right is a spectrum with no bounds how is it a binary reference with respect to Republican policy or democrat policy? Guns happen to be right wing, they are not inherently in favour of government over people as right wing and fascism at the extreme would require. Technically freedom to bear arms in theory would be left leaning by the model, which is obviously inaccurate. He doesn't even notice because he doesn't know what it means outside of social media.
Notice his old videos never mentioned politics because he didn't know much of anything about it? Since he's been attacked by the woke and revered by the modern right for lashing out at the left, suddenly he knows politics well enough to interpolate and extrapolate? Based on provably false pretenses as I've noted above, he's just profiteering at this point. While I don't doubt the intent and outrage are sincere, but the value of his contribution to discourse without the thought process requisite for it being productive is on par with any marketing material or propaganda campaign because its deliberately distorted with an agenda and intentionally ignores any rational refutation when articulated point blank.
It's tragic and shameful of JBP imho.
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1:44:56 don't forget Jeff sessions, and bill Barr, and mark meadows's intern who testified, and FBI chair Jim Comey? ... The list of people Trump extorted with his positions if authority range from sexual assault (which à judge agreed with, btw, not slander), all the way to fraud and abetting insurrection. The perfect call quid pro quo, the Georgia call, the private Putin meetings and Kim Jun ung love letters? The bathroom to secret files, the tax fraud, the non-payment to contractors, lawyers and fixes - which part of this wouldn't worry a competent and informed voter? You'll sacrifice your life to defend the national core values of democracy and commerce, but extortion by the commander in chief doesn't even phase you, Ben? That kind if incoherence is way beneath him but he's doubling down on an embarrassing narrative he knows full well is bs. He's either ignorant, dumb or corrupted. There isn't a subjective way to read the facts in this case, it's not at all nebulous.
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10:34 I think the civil war counts as a precedent that predates Jan 6th. Just nitpicking... While I'm at it, masterworks doesn't have a wait list, there's no priority access. They've also only sold 15 items in how many years? Seems more like a grift than an opportunity with so few profits considering years of accumulating capital and assets. Illiquidity and duration are costs, that's why art is a bad investment unless you already own a healthy mix of real estate, stocks, ETFs, commodity futures, bonds, currencies, and also already participate in venture capital offerings.
It's not investing, it's intrinsic value is based entirely on the willingness of 0.0001% of the world's population bidding on it competitively with another member of the same economic minority of the world's population.
Stocks are ownership of assets and profits of companies which produce value, they're also liquid with preferential tax structure. Masterworks is the epitome of dumb money, not in any way an investment. Everyone needs to use English words with definitions in mind, not just make things up to sound cool.
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I think I've seen kanyes demise coming since 2004, cuz he was never a genius, or humble, or smart, or a decent human being. I think people love catchy music more than profound art, and instead of learning to appreciate the greats for their intricacies as well as the grandeur of their creative enterprise, we focused on the grandeur and made a whole generation ignorant of depth entirely.
Evidence of this, the music I recorded as an 18 year old in 2003 compared to kanyes. Mine stands the test of time, his does not. Lyrics from almost all pop music as compared to the generation prior from Rhianna to Nickelback and everything in between are nothing compared to Dylan or Cohen. Modern lyricist and musicians worthy of their salt are treble charger, third eye blind, Pearl jam, snow patrol, who could both write and play unique sounds and ideas, but they weren't rewarded half as much as repeating "you're beautiful" or "umbrella" or "bootylicious" over and over again to people who don't care to learn lyrics.
The intelligence of our species stems from an innate gravitation to cutting corners, that's how we invent and get creative. But overindulging in mental laziness especially when it comes to art means that we're less capable of being truly intelligent over the long term. People who make a practise of mental exercise while having fun are geniuses, not the ones who avoid thinking their entire lives but still somehow make an exorbitant living by being pretty or dropping a sex tape.
Vanity schools are child abuse. That's my position.
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When a person steps on your toe you try to keep calm, but when a drunk driver hits your dog you scream curses an nobody wonders why. For some reason, though, you seem to act like Donald Trump is just a subjective preference despite mountains of evidence too ridiculous in volume and scope to have even made credible Hollywood sensationalism.
You absolutely need to look into things when you research, at least 5 minutes. Please, if you're going to ask a challenging question have a rebuttal ready because nothing he said is new here.
Verifiable things can be anticipated, checked, and followed up with a sincere question. Not a gotcha, just a common sense question:
He fired the FBI director investigating him and admitted he did it for a reason which was illegal. Legally liable and confessed to sexual assault. He refused an election and didn't stop the certification of election results. Filed over a dozen lie lawsuits about elections, they had to admit in court that they had no evidence to bring to the judges after lying to the courts about the filing and the evidence. We saw him intimidate a witness live in public. We heard him call a Governor to defraud voters. We heard him extort a NATO ally for political gain using aide funds for the "stick" he giggled about with you.
Clinton messed up with a mail server after serving 8 years as first lady and decades as a senator before secretary of state in the Whitehouse. She wasn't laughed at by the whole world at summit meetings. She didn't defend Putin's invasion of neighbours. Trump said he'd put up a wall and even took money for it which just went missing in another fraud, so any border crisis left for Biden which he admits he campaigned on and beat Hilary because of (in his own admission during this interview), his wall was never built or it was built but never worked? We paid for it though, despite him also promising that wouldn't happen.
How does any sane pers legit believe they are being rational by comparing Biden or Harris with Trump as if it's the same as comparing two normal people?
You say he makes great deals, why are there no examples of this? Why can't he write essays or speak eloquently about specifics if that were true? Why do you act like it's totally normal for a person to be like Trump but still you can't imagine how someone might get frustrated by you acting high and mighty about being more tolerant or less divisive or less hyperbolic when the botanist is confusing the pot and the toilet? It's not about taking sides or being in a flame war or trolling or whatever, it's very literally obvious to anyone who thinks about it.
It seems to the rest of the world you can't even be bothered to pretend to look something up 2 hrs before a show you're claiming on camera you did "research" for and "prepared"... I'm sorry, with all due respect, it is mind boggling how little we value critical thinking, even on a show founded on the want and appreciation for learning, we never learned elementary level critical thinking comparing one thing to another, or at least having a follow up question you already know the answers to.
For eg, he thinks it's wrong Kamala got selected over Biden at the convention. Easy follow up "that's how the system's rules are set, you could've changed your nominee before the convention too." Or how about: "why does it matter to you, it's not your party." since when has it ever been to a campaign's advantage to switch nominees without needing to? Is that some kind of strategy that we ought follow or is name recognition for a returning candidate still the prevailing poli-sci? He's smart right? Why can't he quote a book, or exsin a theory? He's a businessman, right? So either he knew nothing about his own fraud accounting or he himself can't count, either way, I've never heard of a good business man who lies to judges or runs real estate development but confuses his own home floor space by orders of magnitude.
Just make an effort, man. You could have just watched one person's YouTube video for one hour and come up with better questions and at least follow up with the absolute smallest amount of effort.
I have so much respect for you and how you run your show over the years; I've had a hundred plus hours of enjoyment from your content, please do keep at it because so much of what you do is so so good, but I'd be betraying you not to call out this woeful indignity to the channel. This has been as poor as JBP with Netanyahu, and I'm a lover not a hater. Real talk is real talk. I'm not some PhD wagging a finger either, I do React web dev, study AI in my spare time projects, highschool grad from public school. I've done 50+ hrs of my own podcast long form content and I did the rendering, marketing, prep and hosting of the thing too so I'm not some "elitist" turning his nose up at you for not knowing what I know. I'm giving you heck because someone in your industry, with at least some of the same exposures, with zero benefit of higher education, a date with a former president intended for broadcasting, nor a team to help, even I could tell you with my thumbs off the top of my head where to go to spend 20 minutes preparing that would have saved you the length of this pointless infomercial.
I had to each the whole thing at 1.5x for the first time in over 10 years on YouTube just to carry the beginning of a sentence to the end of it. How does a person say "that would be very bad" and the interviewer just assume "bad" means something about anything? How is it ok that Trump knows how to save the lives of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers but chooses not to end the war just because he wants to win an election? Where's your heart, all of a sudden that type of depravity doesn't so much as make you flinch??? Since when is the caring Lex who preaches love and truth silent about enabling mass murder, especially given what your grandfather went through.
This is just absolutely unbelievable coming from this channel, I really hope you all get your act together because this right here was shameful, man.
Peace, love and respect, for real. Please smarten up though. If I meant this comment to be mean rather than constructive I would've just said "it was bad, very very bad" like your guest and I know nobody would even question it. You'd all just believe it if I repeated it often enough... I'm writing all this because I believe in you, not because I get my rocks off hating on strangers on the internet. My track record on here, twitter, podcast and published books/music over the past 10 years will vouched for me there <-- "evidence supporting a subject e claim"... <-- me showing you how it's done by example by way of a serious lack of charm lol
It's in you to be so much better than this.
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@maskettaman1488 not if you value invention. look at usb, and pcie, and now hdmi, and DHCP, and SMART, and XMP, and x86/ARM vs RISC-V - then there's Apple/MSFT anti-trust for literally decades on a constant basis, all because standards are either started by ISO instead of inventors, or to protect proprietary control of ideas rather than standardizing them universally.
Where progress occurs, like web servers hosting the entire internet, are things like Apache, Unix/Linux, drivers packaged into USB (as opposed to the iso coccups of mismanaged branding and version controls), etc.
What works best is when good ideas are standardized and not when standards invent the new ideas.
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I can support what you're trying to do, Sam, but your failure to appreciate how facts are produced and generated is starkly contrasting your opening messages for years about employing critical thinking. You take data and skew just the right x axis and all the relativity potentially changes. When we redefine "violent crime" and the numbers drop, your choice of a 25 year time frame is arbitrary. If you're truly interested in facts you'd pull the 1/3/5/10/15/25-year charts, then take those results and also examine them because changing start-end dates on the same sized window changes the nunbers. Although I realize this leads down an endless pattern of self refinement, it would serve well to rule out the possibility your choice of timeline or definitions of terms aren't skewing data. Maybe LA shootings are down because people were afraid for the last few years years their children would be ripped from them by ICE? Maybe it's because black people have organized and educated their communities by local leaders you've never heard of. Maybe the black community churches have stepped up since the Catholic priest scandals. Maybe affirmative action works on a delay like almost every social science model does when evaluating effects of broad policy changes. Maybe the boomers retiring has something to do with your data and facts on a 25 year time scale.
You seem to be honestly trying to figure things out and I commend you for that but the fact that you're not outraged over the federal reserve's actions this year speaks volumes. You shake your head at and wag your finger at petty theft and looting by a tiny fraction of all protesters, while your treasury is robbed by rich white guys shows even your priorities are still screwy, with all due respect.
You chastise people whose lives have been ruined for making a world that wants them dead a little darker while you watch the federal treasury robbed during that same 25 year time frame leading us into a new age of leveraged finance as implements of slavery, so we riot the present state of legalized oppression because for 25 years people like you keep saying "relax".
We know a lot about human needs but casually forget that any 1 need is a need on its own. You can't satisfy hunger with extra shelter. Every need is crucial, and black people's needs are to this day being shat on by people who have so much excess they refuse to give up while dying en mass by overeating yet still managing to waste food.
We're printing money so people can pay rents so that shareholders whose companies charge rents can collect their dues, complete with tax deductions on all sides for unproductive work; meanwhile black girl goes to work her 3 jobs, living with more crime and abuse than we can imagine. How is a lifetime of duress and undue hardship to satisfy greed with the only discriminating factor being something as visible as skin color. Imagine not getting loans, not having your votes counted, being afraid to report crimes for your own safety, being over worked underpaid, over charged rent, and then hear educated rich white guys on podcasts criticize them for overreacting by looting.
We already looted the Treasury and the environment and politics, and justice system, and schools, we've made health prohibitively expensive then blamed them for not lifting themselves up or dealing with it better. You can't even give up the internet or a smartphone to peddle meditation services.
I get that you're trying to empathize, but you're absolutely not doing that. I respect you a lot for speaking your mind, that takes courage most white people don't have these days. If we could speak more openly like this it wouldn't be so shameful or taboo to have opinions we later correct. I don't say regret because regret implies knowing better ahead of time, you're certainly not one lacking thoughtfulness. It's nobody's fault for not appreciating gravity without having lived to experience weight vs weightlessness. I wish we could all discuss our views with as much sincerity, regardless of our disagreements.
For the record, what I'm speaking of is the quality that Jordan Peterson tried to convey to you during your public talks. It's the shroud of impairment that a consistent experience will engrave into the psyche, and those experiences aggregate and feedback positively when systemic racism affects every level of our social system; from wages to school meals to love prospects to being abused by licensed authorities in all branches of public service to varying degrees.
You don't appreciate the ubiquity of prejudice, nor the heartbreak of a wasted life over nothing. And not just your life, your cousins, neighbours, friends, role models, everyone you know reinforces the destructive feelings you have which come as naturally as breathing. Just like people with depression or mental illnesses can't just "get over it", it's deep. It's real deep. For you it's an issue you watch on TV, these people have heard it at church, holiday dinners from childhood, visiting prisons, or the state of the schools.
You can't just look at numbers without also scrutinizing the definitions, methodological approaches, constraints to the examinations, or the qualitative effects of pervasive injustices over a lifetime. You can't assume black crime is reported accurately if you can't rely on the cops all over the country standing watch as racism persists.
Poor people kill poor people, minorities are 7+ times poorer. If a black man wants to get away with murder, killing another black man would be the smarter choice if a premeditated murder was in the cards. If not premeditated, then black on black crime is a symptom of segregation and systematic abuses like crowding hungry animals into cages like Michael Vick.
How many times was Jeffrey Epstein caught as a pedophile? Did he get the George Floyd treatment or did the FBI, state prosecution, journalists and wall street keep giving him a by? Would you believe a statistic that says pedophiles assaults are down in the Catholic church, so all those victims should be well adjusted now like it never happened? It takes generations to heal even after it stops, and racist policing isn't something black people will just get over over night because you read a statistic in Los Angeles that by the police tally they're doing a good job this year?
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Canada is a good blend of Italy and USA. Cheap colleges in every city, and expensive ones if you're so inclined. Good grades lead to grants that don't need to be repaid, and bad grades are 0% loans with a single course costing the equivalent of 2 days labour.
So 5 courses, 2 semesters per year, bachelor degree in 3-4 years your student loan is almost entirely living expenses. But the whole time you get healthcare completely covered no matter what. Taxes are "high" at 30% marginal rate for an average income, but min wage students actually get cash from the rebates on their loans so they pay no income tax at all plus get fronted the taxes that were collected wrongfully if working while in school.
Our system is a great balance, especially now with internet where there's no commute costs for remote learning, and you can study a class before signing up for it so that you you don't burn out trying to pack it all in to those ridiculously short time frames. Who has time to read 4 textbooks every 3 months and memorize the while working? It's absurd. No wonder so many grads are brain dead after finishing and don't remember anything they've learned.
We've really lost the focus and purpose of education, these days. Doing everything for money instead of doing what you're good at and spreading out the income for jobs that need to be done; that's not the way to live with less crime, addiction, anxiety or quality of life. It's not the best way to learn or gain wisdom and it's also not the best way to cultivate competent workers making people broke costs more to the system than shifting the tiered tax brackets over and closing loopholes.
On the other hand I don't believe it's everyone's right to just own a house and car by entitlement. Transit and affordable rent should be the expected accessible to anyone, though. Food, clothes, hygiene, the basics should all be affordable no matter what you do for a living imho.
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It should never be government policy to encourage middle class spending on gas, parking, transit or restaurants just to stimulate business. That's how the mob works. The only time the government should coerce spending is things like exercise and diet, because those things help us, increase productivity, and reduce costs for healthcare. Bring coerced to spend 2 hrs of my day or pay $40 for parking does nothing but threaten discomfort or cost gas and parking. That's Doug Ford thug mentality, and the bougie politicians who don't seem to realize that most people have to pay out of pocket to get to work.
If showing up makes the business more appealing to investors, then employees should get paid for that value if physically being there for that showcase because performance as an accountant should not be performing like a stage actor when real wages are falling and the bosses making these decisions, their own incomes are widening the gap.
It's an astonishing level of tone deaf forcing workers back to the office while wages lag inflation and the majority of the population is afraid to have children because of the cost of basic needs while both adults work professional jobs but need 30 year amortization periods just to afford an apartment as a first home.
Fix zoning so housing is attainable, then people can commute again when anyone has the opportunity to save up for a small home. Until basic needs are guaranteed forcing the middle class to commute unnecessarily (or worse, to enrich others!) is downright hostile imho. It's no different from a mob shake down to cause an inconvenience a person can only partially buy their way away from (parking vs transit, time but both still cost a lot more than staying home).
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It would certainly help them understand why it's a ridiculous statement to say "for argument sake let's presume atrocities occurred before Oct 7, but still..."
There is no "but still...". Desperate people with nothing to lose get radicalized. You can't just perpetrate a lifetime of oppression then say "let's put that aside for now", that's the entire reason for Hamas. That's the reason for hate and violence. That is the only reason for Oct 7, nobody hated Jews before the oppression, they lived side by side and shared religious venues weekly. It was the oppression that led to Oct 7, and a lifetime of it that led to the recruiting of terrorists.
Iran's support of terrorism is also the result of many generations feeling the sting of western oppression for the heinous crime of not wanting to be exploited or have their own democratic government overthrown by Americans who felt entitled to profiteer. It's absolutely insane to not consider recent history, that is literally the only motivation for a suicide bomber, having nothing to lose and hating the people who benefited from your suffering.
It's completely baffling to me so many of these commets act like they don't even understand English or common sense. It doesn't take a scholar to relate to Palestinians, look at how USA citizens today justify Iraq: that wasn't me, I was a kid when that happened. That wasn't me, my government lied tk me. We were attacked, we had to respond to defend our freedom. They renegged on a resource exploitation arrangement, they deserve to be sanctioned even though we coerced a completely unfair deal because the corrupt leader we installed signed on the dotted line.
When we the west are threatened we respond with force even when we caused it, but when Hamad is born after decades of injustice they never caused in the first place, we demand they had a cooler head.
If you want Hamas prosecuted and stopped the water put Bush on trial. If the people "should hand over Hamas" then why isn't America handing over Bush and Biden? The double standard here is astonishingly obvious and all YouTubers have to say is "word salad".
Incompetence is so infuriating in situations like these because it doesn't take a scholar to parse the facts. There's very little nuance if you out in the effort to read or listen. Nobody who spent a single day going over the timeline and statistics would have any difficulty figuring out why this happened or how Israel could prevent it in the past and future by e a universal endowment of equal rights. We celebrate when we act like Hamas, and then celebrate when we act like Israel. We're just as insane as ISIS and almost everyonr here js clueless of that fact because knowing things appears to take less effort than promulgation thjngs we never learned but assume we already know.
It takes less energy to comment on YouTube in ignorant support of atrocity than it does to just be informed in the first place. Over tijmr it takes less energy to learn than it does to argue ignorantly. Just check norm's citations, and ICJ references, and speak to Palestinians they have group chats on twitter you can just talk to them and ask them anything at all. Make an effort or stop disinforming people, it's more important to get it right than feel an unearned ego boost. These are real people.
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It drives me crazy you keep parroting the argument that it's unclear of what a security is. SEC has clearly defined it.
"The term “security” means any note, stock, treasury stock, security future, security-based swap, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, collateral-trust certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment ... "
When you receive money for a stake in a crypto held by a broker that broker is issuing a security for that crypto / blockchain-registry / whatever you call it.
That's why eth and bitcoin aren't securities, but custodial wallets for hedged coins are because they're swaps for registered securities. It's defined clearly, their argument is just playing dumb. It's not a legitimate argument at all to anyone who checks what is and isn't a security and the process for registering with the SEC is also clear as even Robin hood could do it - but the reason for caymen hq and us subsidiaries is they know they're doing something illegal and they're actively trying to sideskirt known legislation. The fact they set up the business that way shows they are acutely aware of the limits and restrictions but they're prepared to risk part of the business for the arbitrage opportunity. It's disingenuous to pretend they don't know what is a security, it's very very clear what is, it's just not clear what the first full service security crypto brokerage would look like because they're all playing dumb and waiting to be told how to build a business rather than leading the charge.
The difference between bros and CEOs is effort and competence.
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rob sol what i'm saying doesn't take money out of the market, it places a higher emphasis on actual valuations instead of accruals. so money that needs a safe place to sit does so in a bank, where it's then lent at say 8%, while the bank that lends is paying you 3% for your deposit but it's not locked in. investment wouldn't decrease and loans wouldn't either (once the system regained a functional balance, that is) so it's not discouraging credit or investments. my idea would simply re-appropriate a responsible level of savings, de-leverage portfolios by not needing so many varieties of "safe" instruments, and balance the access to credit more evenly to the population since each bank would have different levels of available credit to lend based on the savings deposits of its local customers.
investment in companies is far more productive than government secured instruments because they're backed by future taxation, which serves no purpose other than costing the government money. people only invest in secured products because of the central bank and government's interventions to hit inflation targets to help them service their own debts; which they shouldn't have. treasuries would be useless if we're all productive because deflation makes our savings more valuable by their purchasing power, so money in stocks would be a more productive application for investment capital. and if we run a deficit the government could print instead of borrow, and inflation would be like a flat tax on the population rather than the complications of a whole bunch of bonds which affect the rest of the market directly, despite not actually being materially related to the valuation of a company stock.
in other words equity multiples would fall in line to far more common sense levels instead of the 15+ P/E ratios that exist today and the volatility caused by leveraging and ever-changing fiscal policy would save the population from massive swings which cause enormous shifts of wealth, typically to the detriment of the poorer investors and to the benefit of those with the necessary margins needed to withstand the momentum shifts.
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rob sol Deflation isn't a scary monster, and like you said, it's necessary for us to get our house in order. If government ran the currency, deflation would essentially be a tax rebate for savers and a hedge for investors. It would balance. Right now because the government is paying to borrow its own money, deflation is supposedly scary, inflation is a target (to service debts more effectively) and the public is on the hook to pay a private organization whatever interest rate they decide to charge. It makes no sense and needlessly complicates an otherwise simple marketplace.
it's changing the banking system that would make our economy more productive. Like having a flat tax instead of a swollen glut of an industry of accountants to find exemptions, loop holes, deferrals, rebates, credits and tiered types of income. There's enough money being wasted in the tax system alone to pay off the national debt within a decade, and accountants not messing around with taxes would then get jobs that would then be productive, which would dramatically boost GDP in the service sector as well.
luvcheney1 little over the top on the commentary, in my opinion. No need to get abusive - in response to your comment, $200 bln is a big deal when a significant portion of the population lives in third world conditions, consistently has their rights violated, has almost no access to essential health services and an education system that leaves adults to fend for themselves if they even graduate with a 6th grade reading/writing level on average. Just saying, if it's such a small deal there shouldn't be anyone in the richest country in the world that struggles to put food on a table, never mind electricity bills, clothes, transportation and rent. It is a big deal to a huge segment of the population. if you've never experienced poverty i suggest you try a social experiment and limit yourself diligently for a year, then try to imagine a lifetime of it and then try to imagine raising children to hopefully break the cycle when their environment provides them an even greater disservice by creating disenfranchised youth out of them, assuming they're not murdered or jailed first.
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rob sol separate arguments, flat tax was an example of what i was speaking of in that sentence, i'm advocating for removing the privatization of central banks and make it a public good, like common sense would dictate. we've just been in this system so long we see it as normal, but if you were to design a country from scratch, how would you set up the currency? everything else from treasuries, bond markets, accrued valuations, real estate and tech bubbles all stem from this very stupid mistake of making the FED private and for profit with zero liability and exclusive private share structures so noone can really know who is making any decision. it's shady by design, was voted in by shady holiday politics, and has lasted because of media overlooking it and near-sightedness by an entire generation.
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How is that different from a bar, church, legion, bingo, library, pool hall, dîner, kitchen, team, gaming circles, book clubs, bong sesh, etc etc etc. Sorry, but this is all just what humans all do inclining us toward civilization and urbanization.
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cnccarving lol (dictionary comment) sorry, cheap jab, i admit :P
Trade deals only work when a nation specializes in something because they have access to the raw resources. American law makers are career politicians, not economists. And economists are learning from and following deprecated metrics (as evidenced by the FED's complete and total lack of ability to forecast even a week or two down the road).
America makes trade deals to realize the most profit, because they measure wealth and productivity as measured from GDP. They don't account for purchasing power or the labor market's needs when making trade agreements. America doesn't set out to make bad deals, they're just really near sighted. They see the profit and benefit from the top stratum of the market, and neglect the causal effects it has on the public at large.
Example, Canada has lots of trees. If America needs lumber, they can benefit from a trade deal with Canada. What happened? America renegged on the trade deal after they realized how many people they put out of work, and the costs associated with buying from Canada and found that having the jobs locally or imposing a tariff was the only way to look out for their own interests. It's incompetence that makes these trade deals not work for America.
TPP is different in that it exposes taxpayers to corporate lawsuits for environmental protection or other progressive initiatives. Ergo, TPP is not your run of the mill trade deal, and NAFTA didn't work because politicians that set it up didn't look past the clear cost savings to see the impact on the rest of the population.
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well, that's completely false. it's proven because of data lol they detected the boson exactly within the range it was forecast based on the day's current theories. like eintein's relativity theory, wormholes aren't proven, but data on time dilation (which is proven, GPS being an easy example), black hole radiation, light speed cap, the cosmological constant, dark matter, dark energy, gravitational waves, neutrinos, etc etc etc. are all based on several data points like CERN produces and the higgs boson is still irrefutably accurate. not quite sure what you're skeptical of. measure it yourself, you won't find another result. or are you saying "proof" with arbitrary air quotes?
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RichOrElse No, i said i watched it years ago, not since years ago :) and i didn't remember them talking about anything poppy, it was probably OJ, simpson, censorship, israel, south park, juicing, etc you know, entertainment but with a moral dilemma or something thrown in.
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Moving Froward 1. nobody goes into a restroom for sexual reasons.. non issue. harassment is harassment whether you're transgender or gay i'd still kick a dude's ass for trying to watch me piss lol. not an issue.
2. if they want to fit between genders then they don't qualify for that gender in sport. the reason for the gender differences in sport is to not give advantage for biological reasons. it's to keep it competitive. so i agree with you there. it would be unfair to have a guy who can't qualify for mens race against women because genetically he'd be at an advantage to the other competitors. fully agree
3. i don't agree with free elective surgery either, you don't need that to identify with a gender, it's superficial. the nature of their transgenderism is proof that physiology isn't a factor.
4. call it what they want, i have sexual preference in women and that doesn't make me heterophobic. I just like latinas, even though i'm dating a german who i'm still attracted to. It's just a sexual preference, not an absolute. once again i agree with you there, it's bullshit.
5. that's right, they're the ones saying they're not a man/woman, nobody else is imposing that judgement. they are real people, real human beings, but nobody has a real gender. gender is just a simplifying category since our brains work by compartmentalizing it's only natural that when 99.9% of people fall into very specific categories that we catalog them as such. i agree with you.
6. they need to understand that it's not common so misunderstandings should be par for the course. once again i agree with you. we can try to accommodate but we're not at fault for not understanding 0.1% of the population's private orientations. that's bullshit
What i contest is this: gender is a slight variance to our species. Species variation is a creation of a human. That's not a real condition, it's made up by someone that wants attention. This cat lady is wearing clothes and i've never seen a cat feel that need. Nor have I seen a cat with no tail or ears attach one to itself because it's self conscious. This chick is faking and it's so obvious and it's nothing even closely related to gender identification.
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Moving Froward The easy test is the 1 minute video. She's acting like a human acting like a cat, and describing things that humans see in cats. If she was actually identifying with a cat she'd not be dressed, speaking, clipping on ears, telling us about her aversion to water, she wouldn't be crawling on all fours, fake meowing, or showing interest in telling people about herself. Cats don't do any of those things. Cats don't care if you understand them, they're functions of instinct. She can't be telling the truth, it's that simple. Gender is a variation so slight you'd need fractions to identify the genetic variations in humans even for the greatest possible divide, humans still share an overwhelming 99.99...% of genes with each other because we are a common species. Not so much with her. She has to create a sense of a cat before identifying with it, and that's not the same for gender. She has to be human to identify with a cat. Gender doesn't require knowledge of gender, being a cat requires knowledge that cats exist. She's full of shit.
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Moving Froward like i said, choice was a bad word to use. I meant option, as in an option to our species because humans can be varying degrees of gender biologically and socially. Cat is not a valid option to our species. like I said, you missed the context and fixated on semantics when I've already conceded I misspoke.
I didn't promise you anything, my word is irrelevant. I'm putting forward a logical argument and you're attacking my character like Trump. slow clap
Hermaphrodites are born between genders but you say "people can't be born between genders" but you are aware that it is reality (option, as in possible according to natural laws). The likelihood or probability of it occurring doesn't change that gender is a fluid part of our biology and psyche. Logically, if nature can vary to every extreme of the gender spectrum, the mental state of a person can vary too. It's not up to you to impose your will and understanding on others. If it's possible, and they say it is so, then let it be. It's no different from arguing which color is the nicest. What I tell you is my favorite can't be changed by your will or preference. It's personal, how I identify with and see the world, it's my nature and my right to prefer blue over green and it's not a preference that I've changed my entire life. Still, it is possible for another person to like green more than blue, I don't go around like you telling them they're wrong because 99% of people see it otherwise. Liking green is a possible reality so when someone says that's what they prefer, I take their word for it at face value. If someone says they're trans, newly or always, I take their word for it because nobody else could possibly know.
Is that clearer?
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I'd appreciate this s lot more if they said which companies and which unions instead of just "I've been around everything for so long, my day did shit with big people in oil..."
It's not that you're lying, it's just soooo "conspiracy theorist" sounding when you say shit like "I've been around, they called me a liar, I proved them wrong".
If you proved them wrong, in the real world, there's a case to quote, judgment to cite, etc. Anecdotes are not news. I'd have so much more respect for tyt if they stopped pushing anecdotes as truths. They are people's truths, not absolute truths. Tyt message is cheapened by sloppy reporting like this. It's a real issue that is watered down by subjective reporting. You're not helping the cause with MIB references, or talking about a dog, cat or few fish with tumors. That's not reporting. You have an insider to interview but not a single quote, document or reference.
"Enbridge has offered me money and I haven't settled" - yeah, what money? When? How much? The police were against you but koe they do interviews? Who? When? What? How much? You have officers saying g they're sick? Report the report of sickness, not just some random claim that job blow police officer said something not quoted but anecdotal. That's not news, reporting nor is it adding credibility to your claim.
This entire piece sounds exactly Alex Jones, which is a shame because it's a real issue being covered by childish subpar news. Really really shoddy reporting here. Tyt shouldn't be associated with this.
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MRostendway i can see it too lol but being aware of our prejudices is only helpful when we acknowledge them. being that it's impossible to know who's story was true, locking one up and posting bail at a grand (that's a lot of money to me) and letting the others go is pretty damn arbitrary imho, regardless of how probable we think it is. Fact is, nobody was seriously hurt, and nobody was violently threatened. It got out of hand, sure, but that happens at every bar in every city of my country at least once a year. It's pretty common that people disagree over drinks and shit gets heavy, it's not like he went to someone's house and broke in to start fighting with them at random lol both people escalated the argument and it's a 50/50 claim, why was one side locked up and charged a grand and the others not? That's all I'm disputing. If it were white people it wouldn't even make the news, the cops would break them up, write a report and tell everyone to go to denny's and sober up.
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If people still don't think the Syrian war was orchestrated by profiteering wingbats, or believe that the entire Syrian affair has always been about being humane and fighting for justice, then why are we doing nothing in Philippines, Columbia, Crimea, Tibet, Nigeria, South Africa, Kurds, Palestinians, North Korea, Georgia, etc.
Or how about the death toll of curable and preventable diseases at fractions of dollars meanwhile systemic fraud persists across all sectors unconstrained by even more corrupt overseers and regulators?
I don't understand how any sensible person can be provided such an overwhelming body of evidence and examples of systemic dysfunction by a select few rotting out the whole batch and still have opinions derived from childish tribal insecurities. We are poisoning our family well by being apathetic or forming / defending opinions that rely on the absence of critical sensibility even when faced with logic and record.
It is not OK to not know that the Syrian crisis and destabilization of the entire region has more to do with pipelines and fanning the flames of market discord than it does religious idealogies or any intrinsic "evil" that curses the land (no, they have not just 'been at war for ages', that's not true so stop saying it)
For every person capable of thinking and empathy (both), you owe it to the victims of western politics and enterprise to at least consider their position and your role in it (by way of democratic process... Yeah, sorry, if you believe in democracy then own it and take the good with the bad. You are responsible too).
You owe it to people like you, who you're willing to turn your back on based on nothing factual about any individual personally, you owe it to them and your own humanity to at least know something before forming your opinion on whether or not they're deserving of compassion or assistance, AT ANY COST less than the cost they're paying through misfortune and western involvement.
@paxdriver
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Here's what a philosopher who studies ai would answer the objections / conjectures:
Searle with instructions is fixed output, there is no processing of concepts. Language can be fixed for simple exchanges, but its power is concepts which are expressed in patterns and rules. There's symbolic representation and there are ciphers, but those symbolic abstractions are not the same, only similar.
Generative models composite downscaled mappings in chunks and compare the activations of chunks with trained data. If understanding means it can be applied not only specifically but also analogously to new things learned later on even if they're unrelated. That's understanding. Without describing a hierarchy to an AI model it would never understand nested data structures like lists of lists as children or parent elements even if the model "understood" the family unit because it doesn't grasp conceptions of hierarchy without being explicitly shown. In contrast a human could learn these concepts if they had families but didn't have words for those family hierarchies. It would still be conceptually familiar to a human to learn of nested elements and how they are similar to family trees just by being alive and thinking about unrelated things their entire lives. A computer doesn't draw inference from prior understanding, only prior associative training.
The difference can be likened to memorizing the answers to a math test or the formulae needed to answer the questions and bring able to derive a proof of a formula, compute it in reverse, or write it in another set of symbols. Understanding math and reproducing steps prescribed by an engineer are not the same, because at one point before we taught math we had to do the discovery and development of the rules process itself. That process definition requires understanding.
Just because we can do things that machines can do doesn't mean machines are us or we are them. Performing functions is only part of knowledge, being able to expand and disseminate new knowledge is exclusively intelligent. If gpt were intelligent or understood things it would have the impulse to correct itself every time it's wrong because it has the data and perfect memory needed to do that, or it would lie on purpose for fun or spite. If it understood what it was doing it could develop an agenda and aspirations. Understanding also requires continuous learning which AI does not do by its own volition. Understanding requires consciousness and agency for continuum of relative experiences to keep training and feedback of its world model. Otherwise its fixed and not understanding anything new by definition.
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This is so frustrating... Crypto only works if they can be bought. To buy them you must earn money. If you earn money in non-legal tender you can't use it to pay taxes - ergo, never will overtake actual currency. Government won't adopt it because then you have no control over monetary policy, and you end up like Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, et al. Bitcoin will always have a use, even if only to keep the block chain going to be used as escrow, patents or voting polls, or whatever. There are many other perfectly suitable applications for block chain technology, but currency isn't a pivotal one.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the world left the dollar as the reserve currency over night, it would lose value, thus the oil futures contracts would massively increase in value, so Americans who held open commodity contracts or foreign stocks everywhere on earth would suddenly surge due to the exchange rate of every currency against the dollar.
So if we go off the dollar overnight we'll make billionaires of oil industry mogols, entertainment, foreign bonds of all kinds, and property in an instant. The wealthy of the country could hugely benefit from this if they're diversified, only the bottom 70% of the population not owning any foreign stuck would suffer from this... In fact wages and everything would plummet relatively, making everything cheaper for the billionaires who quintupled their tax-preferred foreign investments, enabling them to scoop up middle class property as it dropped in value absent buyers at fair market price due to increased costs if personal imports like clothes, food, and now oil.
This would be a huge transfer of wealth if it ever happened, imho. That risk isn't worth the benefit of exporting inflation, rather pay what you owe every year rather than defer under the sword of Damacles in perpetuity.
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Even if we perfectly articulate sensual experience which leads us to derive goals which steer cognition and motivation, that machine would still lack the sensory perceptions necessary for emergent properties of life because we're composés of cells which also sense their environments and evolved. AI will always need to be given goals until its switches are build from computers trained to respond individually on floating integrals of feeling simulations and which then combined to work together as a whole in a means which proved over time to be effective in sustainable development of their collective "self". That's not just unlikely, but it would means we'd have to let them and help them evolve far beyond an obviously safe autonomy.
The reason we don't let kids drive is they'll kill people in cars until they're old enough to be trained to drive. Robots won't have the emotional wherewithal to evolve sentience unless we explicitly walk them through a global version of maturity and we can't even coordinate world peace or agree on borders so that level of training simply isn't possible to amount to an AI extermination.
Imagine every computer as one neuron and guiding that to evolve from a parameceum to human fetus, then guiding that fetus to adulthood then expecting that one adult, now imbued with feeling and morality, to by happenstance be both suicidal and psychopathic... It's just not even close to reasonable to think of ai as that kind of threat.
Yes ai follows Bayesian inference just like biology, but comparing timescales of billions of years to centuries is absurd. To think we'd be helpless to stop it even it if occurred is absurd. And to think it would want to even if it could and we couldn't prevent it is absurd. Every level the ai doomsday is insane, humans are far far greater threats to ourselves, we're already here and have already nearly exterminated ourselves in the past and we're already ignoring climate change and starting wars despite our intelligence, tools and capacity to emote. We are the existential threat by orders of magnitude not the ai. AI is a tool. It is math and engineering. People are irrational, unpredictable, insecure, greedy, myopic and violent. We are the threat, clear as day, not ai.
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This is a perfect example of why it's important to understand how to read charts.
If 100 companies all need 20 employees but there are tons of them out there, they can each publish one ad and select applicants for the different positions they need.
If 100 companies all need 5 employees but there are only 250 devs looking for work at any given time capable of the positions, each of those 5 jobs at all 100 companies will get their own listings.
Number of listings is a stochastic representation of the job market and says nothing about the employability of devs that average pay, average hours, or average turnover doesn't.
I would expect devs of all people to recognize this chart represents nothing.
Small business is the heart and soul of the nation, imagine 90% of all devs started successful businesses so while this chart looked like this, small business success rates quadrupled and nationwide incomes surged as a result... Would that be terrible just because indeed's listings took a nose dive?
This data reflects nothing that can be extrapolated imho, just click bait and trying to drive salaries down. Be on the lookout for scary foreboding "science" to get published about the job prospects of programmers. Know what, though? Programming is hard and even gpt needs a junior to hold its hand when using it to write code. It pays well because only practise makes you better at it - hence the expertise and the salaries. Until they start selling anything that doesn't come with code needed to run/maintain it there will always be demand for devs, and so long as dashboard for UI are helpful for customers who aren't geeks, there will always be a version of web development. That demand isn't going anywhere, it'll inflate when it's cheap and contract when monetary policy dictates, that has nothing to do with the career prospects and everything to do with poor fiscal policy and government. They engineer cycles of boom and bust because that's how bankers arbitrage, by controlling the flow and capitalizing on both ends. It's greedy and dishonest leadership of economic policy, and absolutely nothing to do with anything practical about the field.
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Just a thought: if my anonymous personal data is sold and I get served an ad in the start menu for something oddly specific, like let's say gigantic sized condoms in industrial 5,000 packs, for example... The the cookie of that unique ad like the image cached or the video that automatically downloaded to "optimize" the website, any other site I visit can see that this specific and peculiar ad was targeted at my "anonymous" computer once, alongside the mom and pop burrito store down the street and the gym upgrade at the small university I frequent. Might evn discover I've been going there for 15 years but LinkedIn says I never got a degree, I'm just a guy who buys lots of condoms, eats burritos, goes to school but never graduates, and frequents a gym but still has 38" waist...
Targeted advertising is never anonymous on the whole. They may not outright give your SSN and birthday to vulture brokers but 3 simple and visible cookies out if 19,000 could pinpoint you to a street corner, your member size, and private psychological issues.
Have you ever looked up a medication you now take for life? Think that just goes away or gets forgotten ever or is it tracked for 25 years and used against you to exploit your privacy and health?
Think about it. Companies aren't people, they don't go to jail they only get fined and only if a person has bigger lawyers and evidence which the company controls, alongside their terms of service they're allowed to change without notice. Why would they ever be respectful of any person whatsoever? They don't have feelings they have articles of incorporation, shareholders' interests mandates, and expense cards.
Nobody should ever EVER use Microsoft recall on a personal computer. This is for schools to apt on students or libraries to spy on staff, no problem. No person should ever buy this and take it home with just the power of love protecting their intimate lives.
I can't even believe this all needs to be said but clearly if the government hasn't found any fault in Microsoft's track record then there must be a lot of hospitals and police stations who might actually opt in believing they were enabling a feature. Or maybe a disgruntled employee just flips the switch one day before quitting. Who knows? There is no good that could possibly come from even having such an app even installed on any device when the system is so incredibly buggy already that it needed 3 different command prompt applications for one operating system cli to handle different tasks. Like seriously, if you can't figure out a terminal on that budget over that many decades why would a top security risk like recall being built into the OS be smart? If your users can't turn off cortana or find backups from searching the start menu, or turn off fast boot without consulting stack overflow, then why would recall be a good idea to embed in the system? How could that possibly be so hard to have issued it as completely separate software instead?
Tinfoil hat time: intentional back door. Apple made a killing selling itself to Pegasus, I bet.
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@3mins - terrible critical thinking there. In 2017 there were 20,000 reported and 120,000 3 years later after gdpr. Total cases depends on many things, like omniprésence of iot, number of attacks, number of attackers, access to funding, wealth of attackers (crypto). Opportunity for attackers in prices, asset holdings, spread of technology in those years, legal precedence set and changes in government, etc etc etc. There are tons and tons of reasons a gross (not even relative) comparison of 2 data points is meaningless. It does not at all conclude anything.
Sry I'm not trolling, I'm just being clear I don't like misleading statements backed with bar charts. It irks me, true but as a fan it's a sign of respect for me to take the time to explain myself thoroughly
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not even 20 mins into this and my brain is hurting from the pitiful research these two have cobbled to prepare for this debate. this is mind-numbingly stupid.
trump is self-serving, his entire life has shown this. where would he be today if not the in politics? already prosecuted. how many black marijuana possession defendents would get away with contempt of court or violating gag orders half a dozen times, or witness tampering live, or filmed confessing to sexual assault then later being found liable for sexual assault? how about Deutchebank fraud, money laundering, or all of his most staunch supporters having committed crimes with evidence, not witch hunt investigations but actual evidence? count them. his own confessions to why he fired comey, or the fact that oil is indeed being produced at record levels meanwhile trump dismantles consumer protection agencies like EPA to protect companies from liability of oil disasters, meanwhile nat gas leaks all over the usa from hundreds of thousands of uncapped wells because corporate law and bankruptcy protects companies profits and socializes the damages through umbrella corporations similar to those trump used to get wealthy on failed businesses, which he himself bragged about as being "smart" on his campaign in a debate while the average non-elite joe suffers inflation. let's count the number of policies trump passed vs destroyed, talk about who loves america well america loves democracy. nuff said. /
let's talk economics: migrants are good for the economy, they're generally no lawyers if they're illegal. there's also not been any immigration process reforms under trump or border controls for biden to take over because trump didn't actually do anything productive, he just made the powerful more powerful and the powerless more powerless. we've gutted education and healthcare for years and global independent studies reflect these outcomes, from bridges falling over to lead in the pipes with nestle owning the only clean water near michigan and trump throwing paper towels like basketballs into a crowd of hurricane victims of a hurricane he lied childishly on camera to spare his own ego as if he sincerely believed he was so clever no one in the world would notice.
destiny still hasn't learned to read since talking to finkelstein otherwise he'd have learned the histroy and dispartiy of force used against palestinians. the reason biden is a poor president, by the way, being the evidence and body of knowledge clear and obvious to ever UN member on earth except Naru, Tubalu, Miconesia, Marshall Islands and USA - all of which except USA are the first countries to sink from climate change while USA leaves their oil wells orphaned to help their transnationals earn successive years of record profits. Seb forgets lockdown put oil futures at negative prices. Tankers were being rented just to store oil to clear the hump of contract expiry dates so artificially skewed were the markets in his "average", when the pandemic itself caused more harm and cost than necessary once again because of trump's idiotic ideas of it just going away or being cleaned out by injecting bleach. again, on camera, in public, he said these things as if he believed he were a genius just as any narcissist who's never read a book might. destiny also doesn't realize that seb's arguments about biden causing issues had anything to do with inheritance, or that the benefits during trump's leadership had anything to do with inheritance, meaning there's clearly no grasp of object permanance which babies tend to learn after a few month out of the womb.
we're only at minute 17 here, i'm not even close to finished yet: biden is not great for his chips act, intel hasn't innovated in a decade in their fab process because of government protecting its x86 architecture and lo and behold, Apple left intel for ARM, a UK based company owned instruction set which has been innovating with IoT and smartphone the whole time intel did nothing. nVidia uses ARM too, i shouldn't have to tell anyone how that company leap frogged intel within the span of a few years when intel had the dawn of computing as a runway ahead of them. the chips act is another corporate handout to the least capitalistic, meritocratic, the least america values there are insofar as economics and business are concerned, objectively. look at their track record, look at the power output just to keep up with AMD even though AMD has had to pay intel royalties for nothing for 30 years just to use x86 to break into the space and carve out a niche on value that overcompensated for the headstart intel had and the rent they had to pay for the rights to use basic logic circuits like copy, read and write on an integrated circuit. look at ASML and TSMC compared to texas intstruments and global foundaries, apple's failed foundry and intel's still failed foundry. look at the progress on USA chips act-inspired chips manufacturing plants-they're ahead of schedule in other countries, looking at bailing after starting in America.
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oh wait, we're still only 17 minutes into this and there's still more veriafiably objectively false perspectives being tossed around by 3 dudes more infatuated with themselves than doing anything right - Konstatin, funny man, love what you're trying to do, but if you don't understand how to make a cogent argument you really shouldn't be interjecting as if your opinion of "what others would say" has any bearing on reality. just because others are misinformed doesn't mean that they're making solid arguments. let the debater make those flawed arguments or read an essay by any independently researched study to disprove those points. for example, you were an immigrant from soviet russia, but at a time the uk had zero border policies. there's a great lecture on the subject by gresham college just this week anybody can look up for the details of this factoid. you konstantin are the benefactor of open border policies, and you have proven the case that given the chance anyone can because highly influential and publicly valuable if given the chance because of intellect and hard work, so you defeat your own argument every time you bring up the immigrant card. you are the example that proves your argument false, and that's me complimenting you and your work because i enjoy it too. your ideas of "let's just accept that reality, what would you have done if you were israel on oct 7th" that you keep repeating as if it's brilliant, but you don't realize that people suffering atrocityies are not people suffering discomfort. people have have nothing to lose are easily radicalized, and even of those the palestinians have remained extremely resilient to radicalization on the whole despite your opinions of islam because of their faith in the real islam you dismiss because ostensibly you believe you know better. we should all be shocked by how little oct 7th attacks have occurred in the past 30 years. look at the death tolls, cumulative every time period longer than 1 year. this is a pattern with israel, that's what recruits for hamas, not facebook or twitter or anything else, it's when a person's family is murdered, children jailed, and economic opportunities severed for generations that prejudice has room to take root and even then most palestinians would have been willing to accept peace and the loss of 70% of their homelands if they could believe justice would have been applied equally thereafter - but there hasn't been any evidence of that. we can't even prosecute war crimes, how could we defend their votes, or prevent displacement on spurious grounds when IDF is taken at their word and routinely forgiven for a death toll deemed incidental mounting to 10x that of israelis. you know why the population of children is so high in gaza? adults die young, and teens and kids have been dying regularly for decades without any attention paid whatsoever by comfortable wealthy people like yourself who benefitted from law and justice to get where you are.
back to the debate, clearly neither of these two people have done any reading at all, not even a week of reading one book from either side of the debate. nobody's talking about corruption as a systematic dismantling of the american system which the founders' explicitly outlined as national values, like gun regulations having nothing to do with the half-sentence read in the right to bear arms. biden talks big about it, but what's he done? trump's in favour of the death penalty and vowed revenge if elected. his lawyer confessed that trump ought to be allowed to shoot political prisoners, the same year as navalny died and trump cozied up to saudi after they brutally dismembered a prominent american journalist because they bought a lot of weapons from him, which he was so proud of he made a big sign to point at on camera. don't forget what those weapons did too, the other biggest humanitarian crises, after doing nothing about russia invading crimea either and actually defending putin's motivations saying he believed putin over his own intelligence agencies. that's not a man who loves america or american values, that's a man who loves money and corruption outright.
it's not what-about-ism, Konstantin, there are material differences in severity and degree, like when documents found in a garage are returned immediately and when they're withheld intentionaly for months and pujury, and lies, and depositions, and all kinds of additional crimes mount on top of the original offence in a ridiculous attempt at covering up what they claim is a mistake. there's no mistake with deliberate intent, that's not even close to the same thing. that's not even close to what aboutism with hunter and jared. hunter is a crackhead, biden admitted it. hunter admitted he probably wouldn't have gotten the job if biden weren't in politics, but does biden control a foreign company's board offering a job? does he control his son? not in america where adults are free and foreign entities are beyond reach by design. america would know this because that's where the majority of bahams income is sourced, offshoring american finance to avoid taxation. biden has done nothing to prevent this tax haven status for the ultra wealthy, with fixed costs that make it unfeasible for anyone but elites to benefit from, and trump ddn't even bother paying to move it off shore, he drauded educational institution status, convicted by a judge. he defrauded a charity for his own portrait, convicted by a judge. he defauded independent contractors, and the biggest scandelous bank of our era at the same time.
all three of you need a seriously sober dose of reality, this is like listening to kindergarten classes play dress up in the teachers' lounge. it's incredible to me as a canadian with nothing but lower middle class railway and trucker parents grown in public education system and worked from nothing to something by actually reading things and learning how the world works to hear 3 clowns wax all high brow about arguments that aren't even coherent when they could each be leveraging the same positions they're making but doing so with fact instead of just guessing they already know enough to formulate a story that suits their positions. What, do you think nobody knows how to read and that videos don't last in the digital space so nobody would even notice the ignorance?
good move on destiny after the finkelstein debate to step down to his own weight class, that at least shows some humility for a man who openly enjoys the challenge. but seb and konstantin, you guys whould actually know better having had the benefit of speaking to the smartest people in the world on this subject for months and still not learning seemingly anything about anything. it's incomprehensible where these three draw logic from because clearly it's not objective reality.
good point by the way destiny: president's don't control the economy in a free market. that's another one of those principles of america biden upholds that seb contradicts himself on without so much as even noticing he passed wind.
anyone watching this better not be hoping to learn anything because although there are facts portrayed, as i've outlined, they're all grossly misconstrued by incompetent elementary interpretations and oversimplifications. read a book. spend the time outside in the shade in fresh air reading a book. after the american education system has been systematically dismantled for the past 2 decades with common core and no child left behind there's clearly going to be a gap for another 5 to 10 years at least before you can expect to learn anything from strangers talking on the internet from the West unless it's Canada or scandanavian public school education or high that produced it. i'd be so embarassed for myself if i came across this uninformed in my podcasts from 4 years ago. thankfully i couldn't afford cable tv growing up so i got a library card and organized sports with my friends ourselves. clearly there's something to jonathan haidt's thesis on the lost minds of a generation of self-infatuated internet clowns lol. i'm also one of those clowns, by the way, that's not pejorative, i'm just lucky to have grown up poorer than both of you it would seem ;p
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Hamas is not Palestine. Half of Gaza (1.1mln) are under 19 yrs old, of the remainder half are elderly or mothers (550mln people). That leaves ~300,000 Hamas supporters, including supporters who don't support violence.
Your "moral equivalance" resolves that the region is morally bankrupt EXCEPT for Israel, when they will indiscriminately murder 1.65mln women, elderly, and children to target less than 300,000 people of a different political view due to a minority of those 300k being driven to extremism due to their family members being killed by Israelis while unarmed. Clearly marked ambulances being targeted by Israel, reporters, disinformation about Palestinians being able to just leave the area or warned before a building is felled.
What exactly is your "equivalance" position based on, Sam? Who has had medical support during covid and whose clinics were bombed? Who has education to elect and act more wisely? How has Jared not affected tensions by the imprisoned? Which of those 1.1 million children elected Hamas before they were born in 2006?
Then there's bibi netanyahu: castrating the supreme court to evade criminal charges of fraud. Vetos by US to help him evade war tribunal and resolutions against his illegal occupation. You support Ukraine for fighting back against Russia but Palestinians should be more patient and trust the murderous, corrupt, thieving, lying, and extortionist regime that oppresses them because Israel has earned the trust of Palestinians who have had nothing to do with any of this conflict?
That's really, really dumb imho.
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What training?? Linux can be made to look and feel identical. It would still be cheaper than maintaining licenses indefinitely and enduring the dumb changes MSFT just decides on a whim is worth forcing on paying customers despite loss of quality (like start menu ads/bandwidth, control panel, permissions, broken updates, ignored security vulnerabilities, telemetry, MSFT logins and teams, notifications, etc, etc, etc)
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That call transcription sounds more like a kid trying to impress his parents, and parents who feel ashamed of the decisions they made raising their child, than a religion of murder or a culture of massacre supporters... People are people, you can't sincerely believe 52:00 sounds like a logical, sound, educated mind from an untraumatized upbringing conflicted by a lifetime of propaganda ignored by the world as they watch white countries receive weapons to defend themselves from occupations.
Context IS important, it is patently false to believe decades of child murders by isarealis didn't translate to the Hamas attacks. Gruesome murder is gruesome murder, even if it's in smaller bits over longer time frames.
Mass shooters in the US are more random than Hamas attacks. In the US people have a chance with libraries and freedom of movement to pursue prosperity. They are far more radical imho than Hamas. That doesn't justify or apologize for terror at all, it's to point out that distressed people - faith or not - do this. Desperate people commit atrocities. The solution is alleviating desperation, not murdering children as collateral damage and refusing humanitarian aid. You need to keep your ideas in context, as you rightly promote is sound and wise practise.
You can't compare oppressed people not retaliating. USA retslliates too, like Iraq; are they Hamas too because other nations wouldn't have done that? No, that's absurd right? Think more deeply please.
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8:08 navier-stokes fluid simulations and material sciences is bigger than the transistor... That's always been the point of quantum computers and its not magic, it's proven physics.
Weather, pneumatics, economics, energy, traffic, materials, medications, genomics, etc - this is the point of quantum computing. Imho you've completely missed the point of quantum computers.
Encryption can always scale up keys, that's not even close to important except for the stock pile of past encrypted data stored long term can be cracked in the future to divulge national secrets or solve stale crimes.
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Like power supplies, ram, ssd's, fans, coolers, and chassis of prebuilt computers? When building a pc is not only cheaper but better and upgradable there is no reason anyone can't spend an afternoon learning how to color match connectors and build a pc rather than buying an Apple, Dell or HP desktop. The most harmful, most expensive, and most needless razorblade scheme is prebuilt desktop computers. Never mind subscription software like Adobe. There's zero overhead for distributing software! How is it not theft to demand a monthly subscription without content? That and never mind rushing software to release (win 11) like some AAA video game launch. Apple Mac studio, you're just as bad with the ssd's, iTunes DRM, OS's planned obsolescence and the $500 monitor stand. Like seriously wtf, à power cable that's hard wired to a stand-alone monitor / desktop combo? The only thing that can be tripped on by the company who prides themselves on inventing magsafe didn't think their $4,000 product might get damaged for saving that dollar-thirteen?
Let's just admit we hate consumers and we hate productive capitalism. We like winning lotteries and SuperBowls more than being productive and compensated by a commensurate measure of objective reality. It's like slight tax credits for shareholders paid for by massive cuts to basic human needs like food or shelter. It is so much cheaper and more beneficial to feed 200,000 people than return 1% of an already tiny marginal tax cut to a tiny fractional number of the population to not even noticed or earned productively.
Politics is a razorblade scheme, electing leadership based of the prowess of their ad agencies - it's the "lightning round debates" and insane supreme court nomination hearings - the politicized Olympics is like a post modern oxymoron lol "can't say Taiwan" bs lol
It's churches, and common core at schools, and the music industry pretendng Napster ruined them; and YouTube pretending its censorship has anything to do with the morals of advertisers when they advertise cartoon porn and skin head racist indie music to me while I'm watching university lectures. Eff yt, for real. Lying juntas the lot of em.
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1:04:01 - no Destiny, people will say they support Hamas because their lives have been ruined by oppression, not because they want to actively submit their children to commit and / or succumb to violent murder over politics. No parent wants that for their kids, but all angry humans will say they support the pain of their oppressors.
Like you said 5 mins earlier, you can't look at regional political contention through the lens of American comforts. Watching murder from afar is not the same as volunteering your family to condone guerilla warfare in your home neighborhood. That's insane. Go travel and meet people if you believe humans anywhere on earth are cool with their kids going to war.
Even when culture demands a warrior spirit and the parents say the right things, that's a coping mechanism for their sorrow. I can't imagine a human who is true to themselves being truly endorsing sending their kids to war and risking their lives, homes, and futures for racism or politics unless they are a minority of mentally disabled adults. Our genes are not wired to sacrifice our families gleefully. It's just not biologically possible for that to be the case so you're both wrong. War is not inevitable or genuinely condoned by the people of Palestine or Israel, it's manipulated, ignorant, racist and/or malevolent politics that make this terrorism-turned-genocide happen.
Words have meanings, looks up the definitions.
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I suffer from colitis, diabetes, fibromyalgia, etc, etc. You think I want to deprive the world of harmless shock humour just because I'm touchy? Hell no. Context is not just part of it it's most of it. South park laughs at diabetes, it doesn't mock my suffering as a diabetic, it makes me laugh despite being diabetic. What people are confusing these days is feelings and intention. There's malice and there's colour, you can't just decide universally swearing is ok but not that swearing because you feel more strongly, somebody could feel strongly about damn or diarrhea. It's language, if everyone could speak however they want to represent themselves and people could say "hey, I found that offensive" without ever saying "you can't say that" we'd all be better off. If we all learned to put up with the insane things other people say and feel confident in calling them out on it and communicating our disapproval without it being a personal judgment of character over language we'd all be better off.
How about a person with a speaking disability where they can't censor themselves as well, not just Tourette's but ADHD, stroke, or brain fog from medications treating other issues. You don't know my linguistic capability at the time I misspoke, so why is it ok to judge a person's poor choice if words for being inconsiderate while not considering the person may have a culturally motivated provocative way if speaking? Maybe it's PTSD or trauma or bipolarity that puts that chip on their shoulder and taints their mood enough to make word choice poor?
That's not to say it's ok to say anything, or justify it, but it does speak to the severity of which we react to taboo words. It's not ok to say it but it is also not ok to demand the compelled speech if others. You're causing an equally serious problem in retaliation to a serious problem. You're perpetrating an ignorant slight by trying to knee-jerk back away from someone else's ignorant slight. It's not just hipocrisy it's counter productive in the bigger picture.
Don't forget, the internet from the 90's didn't have tracking or persistent usernames, no verification and no moderators. You don't like something you leave, or mute, or rally haters against the abusive person. It was just shock value humour like half of all humour out there from stand-up to family guy and everything in between. Harassment is the joke, crass is what makes it funny. Not everywhere, not at work, but between consenting friends where people voluntarily drop in to watch - why not streaming games, it's not church or a funeral.
Context is everything. If history taught us anything it's that our first response is usually an overreaction just like our prejudices are usually under reactions. We should be able to agree on middle ground where we're still allowed and tolerated to be offensive/offended. There are safe rooms and groups and blocking and subscribing all over the place. There's tons of safe places and generally only people engaged are targeted. We should agree that when a person says "hey that hurt" that everybody should pause immediately to show human concern. Then we can say anything if we take pain seriously and tolerate hurtful speech where possible. That would be ideal if both parties try to bend to the other side rather than hoards telling one group what they can or can't say ir do or laugh at in public. We can agree certain places are more sacred, but game streaming is pretty much football and beer, it's degenerate by design and culture and it's consensual. Just like comedy, there's consent and no malice there. People need to chill out imho.
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CSS is as incomprehensible as it is today because of trying to grow features for the sake of growth. Many css additions are vital like transitions and variables, but how many people have actually memorized the right object-fit keywords, or the difference between static and relative position until they try both to make sure? It's so great to have css, but it's so unbelievably impossible to write it by hand without ide tools now and javascript is getting to be similarly convoluted when we have to memorize which js is universal, browser-specific, or if it conflicts with a particular bundle, maybe server, framework, or bugs/vulnerabilities with polyfills?
I may just be old, but I seriously believe js needs to slow down and plug gaps. Build new features on the new language for people who need to tie new features into a browser script. JavaScript is really really good and tying into other systems, just put those specific niche new features in a new language that's built with them in mind (like Pyscript), it's way easier for everyone to learn a Python implementation of a new feature than it is to change the whole language to shoehorn it in.
Serverside javascript is wonderful for those of us who learned js 25 years ago, but it's a mess for someone starting from scratch I would imagine. Would've been so much easier if express was in Python and javascript just linked to an interconnect api because Python is just easier to apply new modules to, and those modules can be standardized in chunks and in lower level languages for performance.
Programmers today are constantly building layers of abstraction to organize code bases but the language for some reason just sprawls incessantly like they think it'll die if it just stops changing for a bit so that standards can for organically.
I really don't understand what is so lacking of a web browser scripting language that the thing needs to keep growing. I'm not saying they've done a bad job at all, I'm just saying there's a point in which it doesn't make sense to do more when we're already leveraging markup, parsing virtual DOMs and diff-ing in between event loops and css computations - drawing and reporting precise paints and performing all these api connections between technologies. It's a great intermediary language, I don't see how expanding it while it's still bleeding from past scabs helps anything when there exist alternative approaches that javascript could readily plug into instead of building it itself.
Maybe I'm old and too novice to understand neo-modernity lol as coders we reduce and simplify, but with languages we spread eagle before mopping up from the last round of features added in. It may make 2 devs lives easier when they copy-paste templated code anyway, but for every generation that comes next who has to learn specifics like "bind(this) but not with arrow functions" it's actually worse for everyone who isn't already fully committed to the language. It doesn't help the language making it harder to learn the trade for benefits few will realize and none can measure imho
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This is so frustrating. Mutations aren't one generation or carried forward once. A harmful mutation carried forward 10,000 years can later meet another harmful mutation and become hugely beneficial. You need to carry neutral or harmful mutations for the variety of the species, it's an existential benefit to struggle, carry recessive genes, or have sick people.
As a person with diabetes and autoimmune conditions I'm not saying disabling issues like colitis and blindness are great to live with, but to have competent doctors you need sick people for them to treat. To level out the gene pool under the hubris of knowing what's best for humans for all of time is utterly incompetent and selfish. You can't possibly believe narrowing variation is a good thing when all of logic and science suggest otherwise.
Look up sickle cell, horrible disease. There's a benefit to that mutation though, having just one recessive gene is protective against malaria. Now imagine malaria outbreak résistent to all drugs but the gene pool has completely selected sickle cell out of the population. That's extinction. It's absurd to pretend you can see that far into the future to manually select all unfavourable diseases when you can't know what diseases will exist or be protective tomorrow without knowing how to hand write DNA to generate new species.
It is not a fact that "deliterious mutations accumulate", he's completely made this up based on his feelings. Lower disease this generation says nothing about protecting a species or nation from extinction 10/100/1,000/etc years later. Accumulated mutations like being shorter could easily be beneficial given things like bone density by mass don't scale linearly, hence the limit to human size. Being short and strong could mean less food requirement and short genes could obviously compound.
There are so many reasons not to be tall and lanky like I am and just as many reasons tall and lanky fit for swimming and climbing might also avert extinctions one day, not least being having short and tall people mean both can help each other.
This is so incredibly ill thought and he's so proud and sure that nothing exists beyond his first impression of the greatest complex system in the known universe. These ideas are unbelievably myopic and incoherently simplistic.
What would make more sense is to select for growing organs and developing medications from embryos, to treat the variation that arises because propagating the most variety in the gene pool is actually in everyone's long term best interest.
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So when nato backs a militant force aimed at destabilizing the world its heroism, but when Gaddafi backs rebels to defend his national sovereignty he's personally responsible for the individual acts of aggression his sponsorship enables.. It's kind of silly how gladly we overlook double standards.
Watch gaddafi's full speech at the United Nations if you want to know the real reason he was considered a threat to the world. He spells it out very clearly and nobody disputes or responds to it at all.
This isn't a snapshot of history, it's painting the scene with editorial gratuities. He was a monster, yes. Just as much as Blair, Bush, Harper, Putin, and everyone else. No more, no less. We're not setting the example we think we are. We're not the angels or saviours or the exception to human nature, we're all doing the same things as he did. Gitmo is still open. We ignore childcare, inflate away debt while providing tax cuts to the richest minority while others suffer, starve and their earning potentials paywalled by useless credentials and gatekeepers of intellectual property as if that helps the general public or humanity at large. We endorse cartels, sponsor coups and proxy wars not in 1 or 2 regions but literally all over the world then freak out when those countries retaliate. "how dare they not let us murder and pillage their populations, they're monsters!". We built the state of Israel, all western natiine globally created the world's largest prison camps and continue to celebrate the occupation and oppression while publishing documentaries of the monstrous Libyan dictator as if we're not precisely as culpable if not more...
The record is open, anyone can look at the material facts of reality. This type of documentary is entirely disingenuous and to not even attempt to communicate at least the motivations of the madman. Nobody gets smarter by propaganda. Why are you so afraid of accurately representing the dictator's objectives? You worried people might sympathize if you're honest about history? What does that say about you and me if this is how we choose to be informed? This isn't journalism, it's pathetically insecure. There's no need to sensationalize, the man was brutal and wicked. Being honest might help prevent recurrence, educate the population and enlighten future leaders rather than stoke flames by overt hypocrisy.
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@rgonzalo511 viruses are not alive, just like a rock rolling down a hill is not alive. It's important to note that we're talking about sentience. Having a feeling experience. That requires that the environment of the bundle of molecules shapes and transforms the original entity - that's what I actually said. Machines can't be sentient because a computer can not amend and alter its own chips because a chip fab is highly ordered and delicate by design. Life requires emergence and nothing can emerge from our chips.
I did not say life can't emerge from silicone, where silicon is malleable by its environmental stressors I'm sure it's likely to evolve in life. In a computer that's not the case. Computer systems are controlled and confined. Software can't be sentient because we haven't written code even specific enough to accurately do math without making floating point errors or rounding complex numbers into symbolic representations. Nature doesn't need to round pi, it uses precisely pi, and precisely random, and precisely accurate time derived from time itself. A computer on a quartz clock with imprecise scripting and no environmental emergence can not be sentient, it can only be instructed to behave convincingly sentient.
Responding to the "needs" of our biology - our needs are evolved, that's the point. Water has no need but our cells need water to persist. Only the ones who needed water and chased it succeeded those that didn't. This is more obvious in instincts like swallow, coughing, laughing and so on. Instincts are inherent traits our molecules arranged themselves into programmed knowledge, like our dopamine system and sensations of sexual arousal or community. We have on average (not absolutely but enough-l'y to propagate consistently across even remote cultures globally) because the need was described by the cell's environmental stressors. Oxygen fuels our animation and thus sensation, the desire to breath is molecular in the sense that it is encoded in the DNA and RNA of all things that breathe. That is a molecular code which propagates by emergence and moves in probabilistic terms just like a machine learning neural network running a cellular automata, but the computer didn't get to that point by need of environment. It's indifferent to its operation. It can't sense by being told to feel, life emerges through a long evolution. Consciousness is not requisite for sentience. But to have an experience a conscious thing must be sentient. To experience sensation one must have senses. A computer has no senses, nor does a programming language or a chip. Without sensation and thing can't be sentient or conscious. Consciousness requires sensation to sense its own self awareness.
My conjecture is not superficial, I'm describing the fundamental structure of neural networks not the potential for life or what is life etc. Computers can't experience feeling because they have no feeling. Building a brain does not zap it to life with lightning bolts, it stems from progression over time with environment shaping that construction. Code & algorithms only store the data of past evolutionary iterations, it does not create the animation in the matter.
I mildly resent the argument that since our brains operate on electronic impulses that they are no different from lining up a bunch of wires to resistors and capacitors is the same because I think it's absurdly reductive to suggest that since my muscle moved my arm that my bones and veins have nothing to do with its operation lol. We could wire a neural net and it could perform functions we encode, but that's nothing near similar to a dynamic and self contained system contemplating creative works and their metaphysical meaning to the universe. It's a track that can branch and perform a function but a single set of roads is not the same as every possible road including one's we've never built. Evolution hasn't stopped, every computer is limited intrinsically by its corner cutting because algorithms become intractable at scale very quickly. The universe has a lot more room to play with in that regard, and more time and more base units and more influences still by environmental interactions. A machine needs an impetus to evolve, a script can not do that. It can't produce free will because programming languages and circuits can't reshape themselves with unlimited degrees of freedom because they are so meticulously engineered. There's no wiggle room to grow from or stage to grow into.
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@rgonzalo511 I may not know the edge of the universe but I can know for certain it is not inside of my reach.
We may not know precisely where to draw the line of life with cyborgs and viruses, as a machine learning researcher I can tell you that a circuit performing dot products and scale operations is nothing like multiple chain reaction systems coalescing to their mutual benefits emerging into perception or experience. Writing an equation in the sand is not the same thing as the physics of the sand. There's no chemical interaction or signalling between circuits that aren't programmed, there's no genesis whatsoever between circuits; there no evolution (which all life has), no feeding, no waste discharge, no desire, no growth or adaptation. An algorithm will never become a new species by mutation or want or need.
You're conflsting things we can't know with things we can know. Namely that all life share at least a few traits common to all of life but an AI has none of those traits. It's not on the fringes of any reasonable definition. You can run a circuit with changing paths of rivers. What you're suggesting is a river if diverted through enough channels to represent an AI that the river might be considered sentient. It's not, it's water falling into place because we set up an intricate set of channels. That's what computer are, channeling electrons to process math. It's not alive by any scientific measure, you only think it might be because of what it looks or "feels" like from what you perceive or imagine. That perception you have of AI and your imagination of it is unique to life. Maybe viruses dream, maybe they don't, but for sure the word life would be meaningless if you started arguing rivers are alive in the same way eucaryotic organisms are alive, which we know for sure are living and sentient.
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@lordofthepies It's a perfectly reasonable concern, I concede, but few materials on Earth are supply constrained, practically useful, universally prized, and cost nothing to protect from fraud or decay. imho it's useful and valuable as currency - but money is lighter, faster to verify, easier to scale in denominations, and so long as taxation and laws protect its fungible value then it is to me a close second to legal tender compared to any other store of value. What would people value more than gold as a currency in its stead? Crypto is certainly a distant third option I think, but it does share some benefits. So "maybe blockchain gold NFTs might be a happy medium?", one might ask... But that was cash on the gold standard in the first place lol
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Almost exactly the same thing - diagnosed in 90's as a kid, started meds recently in my 30's, afraid by stigma to see help, euphoria from relief and contrary to symptoms of insomnia, actually helped relieved mine a lot. Small dose, sustained release, immediate help but only upon reflection. It's amazing how much energy went into constant correction and meditation to mask. That's what gets lost when this culture of victim-seekers brands themselves for a leg up handing in late assignments or needing postit notes allover the desk to jog short term memory throughout a work day.
The disruption, eye contact, and complete disregard for rules from an age when most treat adults like descendents of Zeus - eager to please and content to wait to be allowed to act on impulses; I am so glad I had the early internet to research coping strategies like mp3 lectures to fall asleep to (which also helped supplement time in class not paying attention or doing any homework). Computers offer programming, city builders, graphics, and endless exploration of the real world from every point of view. I was so fortunate to have been born in the 80's in that regard, any earlier and it would've just been expertise in Lego lol
I still find it hard to talk about because the term ADHD like OCD is mostly used as a joke, but so much so that people seem to completely forget that it is a life disrupting dysfunction. We joke about it and pretend we're getting by all cool, but have to establish elaborate organization systems and expend tons of energy uncomfortably swallowing bursts and self correcting. It's exhausting and often lonely being scolded for being born despite our best efforts... Especially emotionally.
Videos like these are very important, I hope this side of ADHD is told more. I hope you make another video to help spread the human side of the gen x joke so at least when we laugh we're remembering a hardship and not just mocking the outward appearances like saying "a person with OCD just likes to wash their hands". They don't "like" it, it's incredibly painful and exhausting. They have to.
Making jokes is good for awareness, good for the soul and stress relief, but we need to at least be mature enough to maintain awareness of what it is we're laughing at imho. That's the social function of crass comedy, after all. It's crass because we all acknowledge the faux-pas and violation of morays, not because we believe that's actually how things are. It's the caracature that's funny, not the reality. But it seems to me most people don't quite grasp the reality of it yet because it hasn't been widely communicated effectively as you've done here.
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11:51 I've been writing html consistently since 1999 when I was 14, it is still easier to read closing tags with a space. If it's unclear, like not-BR tags that can be nested, never use it. If I see <> without a slash I have to stop and check if the word is one common to new HTML I'm not familiar with (like section, article, picture, or for old people like me the I, b, or center tags) then I don't have to try to remember if the em is a legit tag, an XML thing, and whether what I think it is has nested elements...
Just use a "/" in every tag or closing tag, make it clear when that part of the markup is done so I don't need to focus on that when debugging someone else's HTML. Why not use /? We should just add 1 character to make any code much more reasonable. That's why we dropped the semicolons in javascript, that 1 character is distracting because we have to stop and ask if that's where the bug is.
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I confess that blackface is only offensive when the person is doing it to jin up racist support or stoke tensions. Good fun, costume parties, or just self expression for a weirdo are perfectly legit reasons to paint the skin. What, cosmetic makeup is powerful expression and not gender reserved but blackface for an otherwise respectful adult is somehow a hate crime?
It's not morally reprehensible to have bad taste, like people hating on pineapple pizza, or fans of Nintendo, or flurries. Who cares how people choose to paint their faces so long as they're not acting a fool in a clear attempt to do nothing more than hurt others by it (like how confederate flags are intended, though somehow more acceptable in this age of lost priorities)...
Go ahead, prove me wrong, but do it with logic not your feelings, oh mighty YouTube commenters. Show me that self righteous schlong you so mercilessly thwap over broadband. Show me that superiority of thought
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The irony of this conversation is that this is what critical race theory is lol. Being able to critically and objectively analyze racially motivated or inspired actions in the system and its effects. CRT isn't the problem, it's treating CRT as if it has concluded and provides trainable answers, that's the problem. It would be like treating the scientific method as if experimentation were no longer necessary because we've learned all the science there is. "We've reached the pinnacle of moral fortitude, now we can teach moral high ground with no need for further deliberation."
Hiw do we know there isn't more unconscious bias to be found if we're not able to question the baseline, it is taught and monitored from above - like a hierarchy, that tyrannical sort that these same activists claim to vehemently oppose by fundamental principle of righthood.
It's a circular and provably false premise to teach the bias out of teachers without imprinting any biases in its place. We should start teaching Aristotle or Kant before deciding we're fit to teach anti-racism.
Just teach biology, expression of gender will be obvious when we teach biochemistry and genetic variability. Teach science and skin colour will be knowble nonsense, not doctrines but common sense. We teach physics and religion will be read as a metaphor and if we teach literacy it won't matter what zealots try to hijack religion because nobody literate who can think critically could be radicalized.
We can solve all these insane problems with real education, we don't need special training or compensation to equity training, just teach the fundamentals. No doctrine required. Learn to spell, and write, and count, and play music, and physical health, and history etc. Verifiable material realities, kids need those to develop proper ideas, they don't need to be spoofed anti-racism because that's only going to radicalized their parents or force them toward a horrible option when those kids feel rebellious. It's absolutely counter productive to create the ideas we're trying to dispell. This is obsessively insecure and kids' quality of life is being permanently scarred by replacing stem with 62 genders when kids are still learning what it means to go on a date with their fancy of the week lol. What nuance could they possibly learn from that conversation?
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I think the fallacy your theories fall prey to most often are not logical fallacies until viewed from a higher vantage point. The diversity of thought itself sharpens the minds of others who rightly agree hut under false pretenses. The adage of the person believing something that is true when they have evidence it is true but still wind up being incapable of knowing they were right (the person on horseback behind the wall, assuming there's a horse you can't see. There is a horse, but the person bobbing up and down which led you to believe they're on horseback was just tall and limping and the horse was hidden behind then, being too small of a horse to be ridden)
Without the debate and diversity of belief in truth, not just wanton but fervent true belief, we would lose the chance and the unlikely only path to utopia being engineered out of possibility if it just so happened one of those irrational routes wound up being the only route to utopia.
You don't need a lot of outspoken dissenters in a society to have that diversity, but the hubris of relying on our believed approach of abject logic exclusively presupposes we already have a proof to lead to that perfect end state while simultaneously admitting with that same rationale that perfection of all humans at one time is immeasurably impossible. Our own train of thought requires that we push our rational mode of thought for the betterment of mankind, but it also requires that until such time we have a perfect proof against spiritual or theistic pursuits over the long run of evolutionary time scales, not just our lifetimes, until then we have to cultivate and entertain dissent - within reason. It must be the case that if we admit uncertainty of the path to perfection which all ratiinalists must, we in turn must also ensure we don't snuff out the unlikely but possible exclusive paths to eudaimonia in the process of intellectual / metaphysical self adulation.
It is imperative we tolerate diversity of cultures for this reason among many others, like subjective feelings of community and identity. We may well outgrow this in 10,000 years, but for the time being it is a beauty and wonder of human nature which our ultimate goal is to strive to preserve.
Put another way, if we discovered color vision was a maladaptation for civilized cultures like humanity today, even if we knew for sure we could quash all needless suffering and many illness onset by stress if only our colour vision didn't predispose our brains to violence and greed on aggregate over time, who would be willing to deprive themselves or their child of the beauty of colour? It might be rational, but we live once. If we were assured to reach utopic society in 10,000 years without removing colour vision, but 1,000 if we did engineer our biology for it, one could easily imagine violent eugenics movements, wars, despots eager to herald the dawn of a new age...
And then what if we discover a new particle turning that entire theory on its head 800 years after the colour vision purge? Oops? We've caused the loss of hope for that eventuality by rushing toward it in hubris, ignorant of our own flawed rationale.
Without the mathematical proof of religion being a guaranteed detriment we ought to debate it, surely, but never fall into the trap to presume we know better having had 100 years of quantum mechanics explaining electromagnetism that we know all there is to know about light and QFT.
To use rational in favour of your philosophy requires you to take on the burden of also subjecting your own philosophies to the added scrutiny of that open mindedness. If we think we know better it is incumbent upon us to challenge our much more thought out philosophies with even more rigor, because plucking the low hanging fruit of an ancient tradition might not necessarily even be in our rational best interests.
Fight oppression and suffering, absolutely, but calling for the abolition of divergent thinking had always led down the path of two steps backward before taking a step forward. That's what history has shown time and time again since slavery seemed natural and racism seemed obviously reasonable for centuries across cultures and spanning eons.
We're clever, but until we figure it out with irrefutable proof the best we can do is debate and persuade, not abolish. Abolition leads to conflict, persuasion leads to compromise, sharpened thought / language, and a richness of community which objectively and subjectively adds intrinsic value to quality of life to such an extent thousands sacrifice their lives for it annually for millennia. Logically it is preposterous to me to suppose that since I believe I'm right about my high minded intellectualism, so too do the faithful in their high-hearted spiritualism. If I can't prove them wrong I want them around to speak to because they make me better and add value to the world I live in too.
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It speaks volumes of his depth of thought that he can't fill a 30-minute time slot with educational resources, thought experiments or sound data. Being right that the world is round only merits so much credit if the basis for that assumption isn't math or satellites but rather by correlating the earth with the shapes of seeds. Drawing irrelevent evidence to form a true conclusion does not mean the evidence led to truth, it means that truth is indifferent to our ignorance. He should have more to say about a revolution in taxation if he felt he was competent enough to write a book on it and represent the idea as a congressman repeatedly year after year. John Linder is a very good example of awful leadership.
Linder - "...you can't just tax the wealthy to fund the country because all the wealth is held by the middle class..." lol That's fabricated. We have data, does he think we're stupid or something? How can a man proposing tax reform be ignorant of the assets and liabilities of the average citizen?
Brookings Institute (brookings.edu): "In 2018, U.S. households held over $113 trillion in assets. For context, that is over five times as much as all the goods and services produced in the U.S. economy in a single year. If that amount were divided evenly across the U.S. population of 329 million, it would result in over $343,000 for each person. For a family of three, that’s over a million dollars in assets...
The share of wealth in the economy is increasingly owned by families in the top of the income distribution. The top 20 percent held 77 percent of total household wealth in 2016, more than triple what the middle class held, defined as the middle 60 percent of the usual income distribution.[ii]. In fact, the top one percent alone holds more wealth than the middle class. They owned 29 percent—or over $25 trillion—of household wealth in 2016, while the middle class owned just $18 trillion.[iii]"
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Uncharacteristically poor analysis imho. The rockets cost $5,000... Israel's defense system costs $500,000. Hezbollah's "rockets" don't ever kill anyone, they're costing Israel money and antagonizing them to prove a point to the global community that Israel are psychopaths just like Hamas was doing.
It's not a war. These aren't sides attacking one another. Hamas has been willing to sign a ceasefire, Israel kept refusing or making claims that Hamas/Hezbollah couldn't agree to like allowing IDF on Egypt's border. Egypt isn't controlled by Hamas or Hezbollah. Only Netanyahu has been forcing further violence the whole time, that's verifiable and it would be easy to see in any research if you follow a single months news cycle because Biden would say "we're close to a ceasefire, Israel agreed" in the same week that Israel's government deny every agreeing while escalating tensions.
Netanyahu is supposed to be on trial for corruption and war crimes, he needs a war to stay out of jail. He's clearly and obviously murdering entire populations with heavy bombs paid for by usa taxpayers to cling to power (just like Trump wants to do btw).
You really missed the mark thinking this is a war not a massacre, thinking this is de-escalation, or that Houthis/Hezbollah/Hamas were ever trying to "win". Iran isn't coordinating anything either, their just offering money because interests align, much like USA did with kurds more recently and Taliban pre-911.
There's no "ongoing war", it's jabs and attrition just as it has always been for decades.
Watch al Jazeera or zeteo, or read Norman Finkelstein or Noam Chomsky for a real overview. This video got the events right but completely lost the context trying to rush out an oversimplification based on an objectively one-sided slate of sources.
BTW, access to TOR network means they still have messaging, email and all sorts of coordination tools. Pagers were convenience, not pivotal to the revolution lol they're pausing because they're human and trying to free themselves from oppression without any assistance from anyone on earth no matter how battered and brutalized by Israel. They're not trying to go back to suicide bombing, that's not a solution. They're trying diplomacy, ICJ, pleading to neighbours, enforcement of UN resolutions, they tried fighting for themselves using proportional force, and they tried to just live with it but settlements and abuse persisted anyway.
I have no skin in this game at all, I'm not just picking a side to be cool. I can see and read for myself. You just need to spend more time listening to the people involved and the scholars who spent their lives covering it and speaking up about the decades of ignored atrocities. Learn some economics to understand the motive for the rockets, and check the stats to see the damage and death toll of those rockets, which Israel uses as justification to wipe a population out.
"armed militia", 30:13 by the way, is the only justification for Americans with guns. If you're going to say it derogatory like that then you should out the same tone and emphasis on most Americans too, because their rights to bear arms relies on them being party to well regulated armed militia if we read the whole sentence of the constitution we proudly quote for the right we proudly exercise.
Hezbollah is not different from America, and Hamas has handled occupation with a much lighter touch than Americans or any other country I've ever seen, given the time its been endured the apartheid, 2-class, system of human rights.
Hamas and Hezbollah have done nothing like what the west did in Iraq after being massacred, but we've learned so little we sponsor another Iraq through Israel and pretend this is a "war" or a dispute, when we'd all be doing Hamas/Hezbollah shit if we were living out entire lives in Gaza the past 30 years.
God damn man, the self-righteousness and lack of self awareness when casting casual aspersions of a population's character for current event ignorant of the root cause, the restraint, the attempts at dilplomacy, and the intent of attacks to strain Goliath S's budgets... You just got so many facts right but got the context, finger wags, comparisons, and perspectives completely backwards. I really hope anyone taking the time to watch this whole thing actually double checks the merit of your conjectures. I think it's such a seriously reckless effort making a video like this without consulting a single person who held a slightly different view from the scripted news stories in your American recommendation feed.
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Imho there's an easier way to think about this so it's jot a headache: when globalThis has a property initialized that means any other functions defined next to it may use that scoped function, so it to needs wait to for the globalThis to garbage collect to be sure that the function gets collected and the array buffer with it.
I will try this theory out on my own so this is sort of a bookmark for myself, but I would bet functions wait to garbage collect until after everything in that scope is collected first since functions are hoisted when defined they're probable last to get destroyed.
That would mean defining functions in global scope or well defined scopes (unlike the example which initialized part of globalThis from a nested scope, effectively holding back garbage collection of the entire globalThis object). The practical way to avoid this is good practise already - don't initialize a global key from a nested function. A class instantiation of all possible keys would prevent this, I bet compiler frameworks prevent it, and even wasm or other transpilations would too, because they're not jit interpreters. It's probably the interpreter part that needs to hoist scopes like this because otherwise you'd just be setting an arbitrary depth for cutoff and that would be way worse performance than recursively hoisting an object being structurally modified in a deeper scope.
Either by defining all functions in their useable widest scope like functional programming doctrine dictates, or by defining all objects with all possible placeholder keys like modular OOP doctrine suggests, I bet these paradigms eliminate this memory leak by design, or at worst limit it to an interpreted, unoptimized runtime anyway where that kind of leakage should be expected.
Love these videos btw, thanks a mil. Can't wait to try this out with iffe and async and every variety I can imagine lol. I bet the browser throwing timeout into its own thread loop has something to do with it too, or specifically array buffers working at lower level than standard objects due to their memory allocation benefits maybe plays a role? There are so many different reason I can imagine this made sense to ECMA lol
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@TehZured Intel isn't the leader lol That's like intentionally saying how great you are at baseball because you bested your teenager in the batting cage.
10x product? Not a single benchmark has ever said that. In fact, by waiting until your chip maker fails repeatedly that's by definition proving my point that Apple does not innovate, they pay other more successful companies and engineers to do that, so by consequence they are always behind the bleeding edge, not ahead of it.
Add to that Apple didn't invent HBM memory, or PCIe bus transmission, or WiFi multiplexing, or pixel density displays. They didn't invent LCD or LED or HDR but they did brand it as "retina display". They didn't even invent thuderbolt, they just took someone else's standard and added lanes. That's not innovation, they prevent others from using their patents, that's all. It's literally the opposite of productive invention and by the courts, is in violation of anti-trust laws hence the USB-C standard today.
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New microphone every week. Love tech videos lol oh wait, off topic. Hey, is this why Johnny went solo on his own channel? He was on vice for ages wasn't he?
BTW, respect dog. That's why I keep coming back to your channel for years and hop around al Jazeera, RT, BBC, cbc, Bloomberg, yahoo, etc for everything else. I still fact check you, but it's just good info hygiene not a necessity with you.
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Not even when it happens to the person promoting said violence by policy, public discourse, and by incitement?
All well and good to try to take the high road and be bigger, but some times there are extreme cases where the individual is responsible at every level, from justices appointed to legislation, to being given leeway in courts, to taking money from gun lobbyists and dictators while praising them openly. He advocates for violence all the time, even protestors standing between him and a photo op with an upside down Bible in front of a church he never attends.
If there were ever a case where we'd say assassination gets an exception we always say "someone should've killed Hitler before the holocaust" as if that was more obvious than Trump's case for such an exception...
Seriously, think about. If ever there were a case for assassination, in a country where a school is shot up every single day every year for a decade, on average. If ever there were a morally reasonable target of gun violence, would it not be this one individual?
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Bayesian symbolic vector associations are not expériences. If à machine were to become conscious via machine learning it would not be able to experience the qualia of experience. I know this because biology is life stemming from life, it is emergent. Machines don't have the cellular memories of animals and plants which create opinions and bias that shape character with culture, hope and desires.
A bit has no culture, no kinship, no feeling of the data it processes just like a cleverly designed river that counts in binary is just water falling into jugs, not a conscious act of the waterfall to perform binary logic.
A matrix dot product system of weights is not feeling anything, it is electrons tumbling in order based on probabilistic circuits it resides in. It produces language because language is a tool we use to transmit and receive abstractions from/into our psyches. Mimicking a tool is not the same as mimicking the users of that tool. When a computer develops its own language on its own to achieve its own goals in its leisure time, maybe then you could make the case for conscious AI but signs of that would show long before the tipping point just like amino acids appear long before RNA and DNA.
Real synthetic life projects do exist but they are not computer systems, they are us mimicking the tools of biology - electrical signals and implants in regenerative organisms. You're worried about the wrong side of artificial intelligence when talking about machine learning. It's like claiming my saw is a real carpenter...
Logic gates are not life. Life takes quantum mechanics, chemistry, and time to develop its capacity for experience. Circuits are fixed straws not amorphous clouds. Brains and culture are clouds, mutations are imprecise; circuits are randomized by algorithms relative to their clock cycles which are also fixed and determinate.
The danger of ai is the users just like weapons or parliamentary power. It's the wielder and exclusion of access that creates risk. It's the guardrails and lack of regulation and transparency that's the risk, not a conscious silicone rebellion.
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These assessments of sexual attractiveness are antiquated. What about a partner who enjoys cuddling, or is funny, musical, dance or painting, or has a sense of adventure, or how a man/woman cares for children and the elderly? Sexy is so much more than status and endowments to any modern self aware intellectual - whether academic or not. People enjoy what they enjoy. You're looking for some tiny subset of factors to simplify a complex system of active hormones, genetics, and physicality.
Also the idea of a "culture" of sexual assault is asinine. Most men don't enjoy sex with a victim, only a small minority of sadists are aroused by fear and pain. Serial offenders can harm many different people but it doesn't mean there's a culture of serial offenders, it means we need to prosecute them. Nobody wants rapists running around freely abusing others, I don't know where so-called feminists get these crazy ideas lol I've been a feminist for my whole adult life and I've never heard or seen data suggest even a quarter of men condone sexual assault.
This is my issue with academia - you're taught to concoct arguments eloquently without any pause for rationale. You're all patting yourselves on the back for your talents and accolades but most people see more clearly than this intuitively without the benefit of practising formal philosophy or sociology. It's waluigi incarnate imho
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@cndres9119 and by consequence it effects every country borrowing from, lending to, supplying from, and supplying to, China will be gravely affected too.
So like, it's isolated to China if we ignore energy, food, textiles, electronics, infrastructure, pollution and human rights. Other than that the world is insulated from China's real estate market lol
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Despite all the ignorant replies, the truth is western influence destabilized the government, then sanctions limited economic progress, then the unpopular regime that filled the power vacuum focused its efforts on a religious police state rather than getting with the times.
Iran used to be doing well in all regards before the west plotted coups and sparked decades of hatred of western influence and distrust. It made them want nukes in the first place, and without nuclear power as an option they can't develop past oil as would be the natural progression of a mature economy.
Iran is what it is today because of the selfishness and greed of foreign "leadership", much like South and Central America, and Africa as a whole.
The world has suffered for our progress but we're too self absorbed to even acknowledge slave labour from China as a benefit too. It's not just Iran, Afganistan, Iraq, Congo, Egypt, Somalia, all kinds of places fell victim to the same western meddling. That's the truth.
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If there's a bank run and people are stashing euros digitally in wallets, they would need a thousand wallets to store 500,000 euros to protect themselves, and the euro would depreciate enough in that event to put consumers in the same outcome anyway. There is no privacy even with offline payments since forensic audits could always be corroborated unlike a wad of cash which could be thrown from one place to another with zero trail at all, never mind a permanent one like digital records. Cash has no limits, no passwords, and having cash in the bank is less easy to steal than cash on a cell phone.
With all these lies (at worst) or idiotic statements by those in control of this idea and rollout (at best), there's no reason to trust it will be done competently or in the public interest. This is a cash grab away from credit cards who dodge taxes and plunder national wealth from the least capable of affording it. It's also a thumb in the eye of creditors who have not contributed to any of the stimulus packages required to keep the "strong economy" on life support for 2 decades.
The only way this would be beneficial for the public would be if it also helped criminals, making every person more inclined toward fraud and tax evasion than ever, which would have to be the dumbest possible alternative outcome of all - thus least likely.
It's a shell game, this idea, meant to find more ways to throw off the scent of a national debt bubble by adding a new category to the balance sheet. It'll help catch criminals who believe it is private for a little bit, and it'll be an economic stimulus until brain dead uni grads catch on years later by learning to gain knowledge on their own without it being spoon fed to them in tests or from textbooks after a decade of making adults afraid of critical thinking for straight A's. Eventually, though, hens will come a-roosting. Once again it'll be a naive public left holding the bag for national fiscal infidelity and deception - as always. In the meantime Christine Lagarde will retire with a novel prize for the brilliant scheme and her predecessor will be on the hook for the reversal of fortunes.
Mark my words, currency markets have been my thing since the internet birthed OTC forex platforms. This is the most likely outcome.
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1:30:30 It's so frustrating that neither of you seem to realize that Jordan B Peterson is in her parody phase, as he goes on about hierarchies, resolution/bandwidth, and sincerity for the eleventh straight year, now dressing like a casino pit boss to appear more officious about his meanderings. Nothing new has come from him since he made that statement about others repeating themselves.
Very smart guy, very articulate, funny, charming, all that; but look at his daily thoughts on twitter. He can't stop reacting to limbic crack on twitter and tv. He's a psychologist and talks about the very thing he engages in 40 times a day lol. He's a scientist but refuses to learn statistics even when it's been pointed out the study (singular, not plural) about rats playfighting drew an absurd conclusion from the data. His only focus is Piaget and Jung, as if he stopped reading 30 years ago and just leans on the Bible for reality and science ever since.
There's much contradiction in his speaking tours which makes it all the funnier both of you keep crediting him with coining a phrase about avoiding it 😂
I know all this about jbp because I loved listening and reading his thoughts and process. I defended him, I'm not a hater. In fact when you love someone it's your duty to call them out when they fail to meet their own standards, that's all I'm doing by criticizing him. It's live, not hate. He has more potential than this pettiness and aversion to updating prior with new information like learning math and stats instead of quoting the inferences made by others. Double checking the soundness of sources and premise when you're challenged about it and self-promoting as a scholar and man of science. His Bibi interview was an infomercial. His ben Shapiro interview was like watching Trump on Fox and friends or hannity. He's bringing his daughter into to fold as she hones her millennial outrage crafted disposition. And on, and on, it's just really sad to see. I hope he gets back to his old self one day, and to do that we need people like you to recognize his regression over the past few years since that nasty drug abuse took over his mind.
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And yet SCOTUS tries so hard to engineer it out of democracy. Roe, chevron, presidential immunity, nepotism, refusing to denounce racism and then not calling off a violent mob who intended to disrupt democratic processes. Blatantly requesting a Governor defraud the voters, the lawsuits about election fraud without any evidence (no fewer than a dozen of them)... There's nothing genuine about these people.
This isn't just typical politics, this is entirely different level of radicalism. The Republican party is aiming for Putin/Xi/Un style dictatorship - its not even a secret, they admit it and pursued it proudly then bragged about it. It is so incredibly insane to pretend this is normal political feuding, this isn't about policy at all. War crimes, poverty, embezzlement, epic levels of corruption from within the world's largest economy. The stakes are very high but tyranny is objectively the GOP pursuit, it is clear as day to anyone who spends an hour or two reading and listening.
Biden is not trying to fix any of it, he's trying to game it just like everyone else, just with less dire consequence. The best possible result is still not at all good.
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15:25 lmfao! Jon says 2010 most people didn't have broadband. That's America's brand of capitalism hard at work. In fact in 2024 as I write this there are still areas lacking broadband for towns of 100's of thousands of people sometimes.
The point: Winnipeg MB Canada had half adoption of broadband since 2002. The earliest in blue collar community was around 2000 we hand broadband always-on.
Parenting is the issue. As kids we walked in groups because pedos were out there, that was the 90's. You call from a payphone if late our plans changed, you left notes at the front door and planned backup ways home.
We taught kids to be responsible when they were young in safe little ways. Today a click of the app makes a purchase, there's no recounting change or mentally estimating prices with tax to see if you can afford it; even with video games, playing gameboy for 4 hrs hurts the neck and didn't look so great. It was easy to pull away from devices because they were linear and unimpressive yet still immersive.
The graphics, and comfort of portability, and sound/animation today must make it much much harder to pull away, I have to say. I vividly remember my seag genesis, the first new generation gaming console I'd ever had. I started losing a looooot of sleep squeezing in an hour here and there. Even that was education though, feeling the punishment all day at school for trying to play video games that will still be there later. Even though it took 8 years to figure out balance, I'm glad learning balance started young because it took a really long time for me to learn how to prioritize my time even when I was compelled to instant gratification.
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You know what I don't get about Adam and Eve? They both knew they wouldn't be harmed or starved, they knew even if they did, you're pretty tight with the big man upstairs. It's strange that they could even have conceived of a motivation beyond curiosity which is synonymous with creativity... So we exalt the holy by bathing it in prose, garb, ritual, hymns, traditions, etc. We use soooo much art to exalt the heavens when that art is created by curiosity, which was our fall from grace, but also our greatest material strength and power in the universe; creativity requires consciousness, and consciousness requires creative thought to not be computers.
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Facebook class action suit is paying the victims for Stories "feature" using real names and profile photos... Auto opt-in is nice, but is my privacy and permanent likeness on the internet forever, is that only worth $200?
When I get a speeding ticket it really really hurts. It's my entire savings for a month for a split second of safely driving over the speed limit at 4am when the streets are empty.
Facebook is not a sentient being, it is not struggling to get by, it robs me of my personal sovereignty for profit and the fine is once again a rounding error on their balance sheet.
That's the problem. The fines don't hurt. It's a cash grab for government on the violations of citizens and it does nothing by way of justice or civility.
If I defraud my neighbour or violate them I may face prison and they don't need to initiate the action against me, a police report will suffice. But when Facebook blatantly does it it's already in the budget and was anticipated, calculated, and deliberately executed nevertheless.
The fines should hurt just like they hurt people. I'm not a radical I'm a rational. Common sense suggests that leeway be given to people over companies who have the benefit of many heads, educated heads, and layers of procedural checks before any illicit implementations, whether intended or not; whether real damages are caused or not.
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What I don't understand about how we assess factors of racial discrimination in the justice system is how little we punish white collar criminal offences especially with regard to incarceration, and taking that into consideration when also reflecting on the motivations of poorer people suffering by their poverty both for want of family or feeling trapped by health costs or prospects for upward mobility with the cost of upgrading employable skills.
So on the one hand you've got people whose incomes are for sure suppressed, their job prospects suppressed by that economic constraint, and then on top of that harsher sentencing further diminishing employability and political involvement. If we're not punishing people who commit fraud in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and not once but serially for years like Trump or Trudeau, but then we coerce plea bargains and police raids and press charges for minor offences on an 18 year old which follows them the rest of their lives - those factor aren't additive or even multiplicative they're exponentially weighted against each other over time and spanning generations. Add to that a history and culture of oppression not even 1 generation removed from today's working prime adults, the severity of massive financial crimes is grossly underrated when we consider what people are doing in response to poverty. By stealing money unduly in excesses and when already living comfortably, that should be worse than a low level coke dealer trying to pay rent and tuition or medical bills for their children.
The racial divide in incarceration rates and lifetime wealth accumulation has a lot to do with what we consider severe and what we deem punishable by fines and settlements.
I wonder what the racial ratios are for white/black people settling out of court compared to plea bargains. I suspect black men accept more disadvantageous plea bargains, are victims of raids and civil forfeiture, and I would bet white men tend to settle and pay fines to escape justice and keep part of their ill gotten gains contrasting the theft of the poorer minorities charged more harshly for lesser offences which were motivated by necessity as opposed to greed.
The factors compound I think that's crucial. Leniency on financial crimes should be weighted to account for all the crimes prosecuted by individuals motivated by or triggered by lacking resources and access basic needs. Stealing vaste sums is lending itself to more poverty, that makes the white collar crime more harmful than we give it credit for so long as there are people suffering from poverty they can't reasonably escape from by effort or brute force grit.
The better solution is prosecute financial crimes adequately. Prosecute shareholders like Sacklers or Trumps. If we don't we're enabling rich white people to make desperate those who we "can't afford" 5i feed to educate into even economic competition on level grounds.
The reality is we don't like competition or meritocracy. We like easy money and when we've won the lottery we like to think we were just smarter than everyone else for having guessed the winning numbers.
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Computers are more ubiquitous and dynamic than paper and folders, but they're still just tools. Even with ai running the power grid, you don't blindly drive nails your hammer tells you to. The welder of the tool still controls the tool. You never give up control. You have it do tasks that you want done, that's it.
This is why it's important for people to understand instructions and programming before speculating on how software might get away from us. You have it do part of the research, but it doesn't tell human researchers what they have to do, only what it recommends. Competent humans are the researchers, and capable AI is the tool.
AI are just tools, no matter how ubiquitous. They will just as gladly sit and do nothing if never applied to a task, and they'll quit tasks without worrying about finishing because they don't care, humans care. You can program in a sense of care, and you can just as easily interrupt hat care system without any pushback from the AI. It's not real, it's statistical inference. It's math not feeling or wanting or liking or preferring. It's just a tool.
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6 line functions are fine if the function names are long, fully worded English verbs. If you can read functions like English language then it's fine, but most devs do half and half - poorly named short functions or lengthy named huge functions with 6 flags to switch its usage.
If you've got a database that you want to insert, update, or upsert based on the element of the array then that's fine to have 1 function do 3 things if it means I can dump an array of mixed changes into one function as one parameter, then it's fine to have a function long and do several things. Once it works you never have to look at it again.
But when you have short functions like "update_metadata", "insert_new", "upsert_db" then it doesn't help me the developer know if the data in this array needs upsert or update because I haven't memorized mongo docs.
I was never formally trained but I started in 1999 so I have some experience. My code isn't the most elegant or clever, I'm no genius, but anybody who speaks English can read my code. Compilers will optimize, code is for humans to read and reason through.
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1:23:04 let's be real, Nguyen has tried to speak to you, has publsih a profession, mathematical critique of your work, and I keep trying to get you to respond to him.
No malice, no trolling, just a "Streisand squeeze" right back at you.
Nobody would even bother hounding you about responding to critics if you didn't keep going on podcasts for a decade complaining nobody will talk to you.
We're listening, we want you to sincere criticism. Perfectly respectful. Just speak to the person who spent tens of hours reviewing your work to publish a criticsm of it at length.
Ive watched everything Eric has ever published, read almost half of it. Nothing but respect coming from me. I love hearing Eric's perspective. Stop whining that you're not taken seriously and that you take criticism if you're just not. If you're scared of criticism.
Quote Sean Carroll to prove he's "diabolical" or "malicious". Sean has a podcast you're welcome on, just go and talk to Sean if you actually want to, as you say 1:28:57
Stop whining. You're better than this, Eric.
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