RustyShackleford

RustyShackleford , 1 day ago

In my opinion, the US federal government can/should be able take over Boeing temporarily in cases of felony or federal offenses perpetrated by executive personnel for the duration of the criminal investigation and trial.

RustyShackleford , 11 days ago

So many millenia have already passed...

RustyShackleford , 1 month ago

This is the correct answer.

What do I think of Stephen A. Smith?

I don't.

RustyShackleford , 1 month ago

The FBI Counterterrorism Unit tried to warn us about this back in 2006.

RustyShackleford , 1 month ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/confused-nick-young-lkdH8FmImcGoylv3t3

RustyShackleford , 1 month ago

The FBI Counterterrorism Unit tried to warn us about this back in 2006.

RustyShackleford , 1 month ago

Pay thousands for a Mac computer that may not have the features you want, and never be able to upgrade or repair it, or

M1 Air costs USD $750 where I live.

Get a software engineering degree so you can figure out how to install, use and regularly debug Linux. Because even techy people you know that might want to help you don't know anything about Linux.

Hyperbole to sell an easily disprovable false narrative. For what?

Calm down and eat your lunch, Helen.

RustyShackleford , 1 month ago

"It's not just that I have a lot, it's that I have more than everyone else. Forever."

RustyShackleford , 1 month ago

Leftists suffer from the "No True Scotsman" syndrome.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

Infinite growth at the cost of a habitable planet is good. Corporations are people and need to last forever. Sociopathy is rewarded.

It's not enough that I have a lot, everyone else has to have a lot less. Forever.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

Vermin.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

You push Johnny into the fire.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

At least half of everyone is below average the median.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I propose that we treat AI as ancillas, companions, muses, or partners in creation and understanding our place in the cosmos.

While there are pitfalls in treating the current generation of LLMs and GANs as sentient, or any AI for that matter, there will be one day where we must admit that an artificial intelligence is self-aware and sentient, practically speaking.

To me, the fundamental question about AI, that will reveal much about humanity, is philosophical as much as it is technical: if a being that is artificially created, has intelligence, and is functionally self-aware and sentient, does it have natural rights?

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

We're a FAR cry away from Lt. Cmdr. Data.

Yes, I agree. I make deep neural network models for a living. The best of the best LLM models still "hallucinate" unreliably after 30-40 queries. My expertise is in computer vision systems; perhaps that's been mitigated better as of late.

My point was to emphasize the necessity for us, as a species, to answer the philosophical question and start codifying legal jurisprudence around it well before the moment of self-awareness of a General-Purpose AI.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

No, it's not.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

while we are essentially seeking the same goals.

Authoritarian "leftists" are not seeking the same goals as other leftists.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

I think the best nation-states, in terms of happiness index, practice "third-way" market socialism or as close of an approximation as they can to it in all but name. I would even include the United States during the post-WW2 economic expansion.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

Maynard James Keenan, the singer of Tool, is artfully insinuating that he is a "hooker" prostituting his music, and since he is male, he has a penis.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

Let me translate: he's saying your full of bullshit.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

I've repurposed, repaired, and resold as many (> 85% ?) of my PCs, SmartPhones, Laptops, and Tablets as possible since 2013 as smartcams, servers, and edge computing nodes.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

the paradox of thrift holds that collective thrift may be bad for the economy.

Collective thrift is great for the economy. It's just bad for corporate parasitism, economic stagnation, and cataclysmic wealth imbalance.

It renders parasitic business models as unviable and allows for the rebalancing of resources and development capital towards products that provide actual meaningful value for the vast majority of people.

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago

loose lose

RustyShackleford , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Yes, we should carry our burden. Accept the suffering that goes with it, but a danger lurks here, that of a subtle reversal. Don't fall in love with your suffering. Never presume that your suffering is, in itself, a proof of your authenticity. Renunciation of pleasure can easily turn into pleasure of renunciation itself.

• Slavoj Zizek debating Jordan Peterson, 44:55

RustyShackleford , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Your are assailed by many threats: the religious, the nihilists, the corporatists, the fascists, and the alleged "collectivists". Extreme authoritarian "leftists", A.K.A. “tankies” (i.e., apologists for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the CCP, the DPRK, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Xi Jingping, etc.), are threats to a free, egalitarian, and open society, are just as violently authoritarian as their religious, corporatist, and fascist competitors, and should be treated with the contempt, distrust, and ridicule they deserve.

They claim to speak and fight for the proletariat, promising a new utopia, never before seen, once their revolution executes the last “class-traitor”. In practice, once they’re finished with “seizing the means of production”, they’ll never relinquish control and become the new ruling class.

They’ll assume the mantle of an enlightened elite post-revolutionary administration to guide the proletariat to their promised utopia of “each according to their ability, to each according to their need”. In practice, "the party leadership needs the most, because they’re obviously the most able” in reorganizing the economic and political structure of society. The utopia of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” will never exist, only the dictatorship of the “revolutionary party”. Repression and execution await those who question their claims and decisions.

These supposed champions of labor are really harbingers of death - of the mind and the body. They claim to be the true authoritative “voice of the people”. Understand what they really are; power over everything and everyone, forever, is what they seek. They want you either as a true believer (a willing pawn) or dead, just like all of the other supposedly benevolent dictators who promised utopias throughout history.

They’re akin to the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm, the loudest voices in the revolution, usurpers of a righteous cause, but a bit “more equal” than everyone else after the farmer is done away with. Fortunately, the pigs, like the farmer, got their comeuppance in the end of the story. Make these pigs squeal.

RustyShackleford , 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Gun nerds deserve being laughed at for getting upset over it and so do tech nerds.

People are allowed to ridicule me for nerding out my passion pompously, or any sort of perceived sincerity, for that matter.

I've always held that sincerity alone shouldn't implicitly justify immunity from ridicule, but the ridicule tends to work if isn't sincere in its own right.

What's better is using it as a handy way to temper my own zealotry.

Complaining about people complaining does get old fast, however.