33076 pts · April 22, 2014
Regardless how much you despise religions today, you should understand that they were absolutely instrumental in forming lasting societies. Zoroastrianism, the first documented religion, was much more like philosophy of getting along; it essentially taught brutal tribal people that being angry at others is bad and being helpful is good.For a LONG time religion was critical in societal cohesion, many would argue they still are, even if their message has been thoroughly perverted.
With this logic you can also bomb power plants because military uses electricity and water treatment facilities because military needs water. Military that is 100% destroyed a week ago, mind you.
I meant intent in the way that generally networking with people likely won't achieve the same results as networking with intent or a request. In religious groups the people really do want to and try to help you (”with religious zeal”) and thus look for ways to do it much harder than a random person you might network with. I don't have data but via common sense it'd seem intent might affect the outcome a lot, no?
...sure, and there indeed are pretty violent religions out there and ofc statistics affect non-religious the same. The praying itself doesn't add to the success stats, but often praying is done in groups and others in the group moght be praying for you in other groups all bringing more people into the fold. Similar effect does happen in any networking, but praying often adds intent and a request which do likely affect the stats of success.
It's more like I'm trying to reverse engineer part of what makes religions tick. God is a blanket we throw over things we cannot explain(quote by someone)... Nowdays that could be consciousness, birth of universe, and maybe on lower level smaller "miracles" or answers by God. Just because statistical analysis could be used on a "miraculous" event doesn't mean one cannot believe a God did it.My thinking is mainly that the mechanic by which a lot of religions "work" is statistical in nature.
Why do religious people feel like prayer and the religion in general works miracles? Because they are constantly increasing statistical chances by group praying, visiting churces, being communal etc. Eventually someone will know someone that can help you specifically and it feels miraculous. If you pray alone and never leave your home, it will almost never work.I don't think it's coincidence that almost all religions heavily emphasize community and group activities.
Why believe in spontaneous birth of the universe?For a bit less fantastical idea of god that I've been pondering: statistics as a language of a god. Everyday infinitesimally improbable things happen, to people and in general, who or what decides what or when these nigh impossible events happen? Why does karma work? Because when you do good, you increase the chance that someone or something affected by your good deeds will circle back to you. Same for being bad/evil.
AI bubble won't pop even if OpenAI collapses, they will just get bought by someone like Apple. Also Google, Meta and Amazon have already committed something like 600 billion for AI spending this year, which is easily ebough money to keep AI bubble going.
I'm fairly sure those videos are rage bait.
Idrain't Elba
3. While the battle of thermopylae was of great significance for buying time, it was also a strategic failure from Leonidas: he knew about the path leading behind them but didn't assign any elite troops to secure it.4. I'm fairly sure Persians didn't have anything we'd categorize as "artillery".
I'm not an expert but I'm fairly sure this is partially wrong, or exaggerated.1. Xerxes did listen to his generals, famously even a female general Artemisia and he didn't behead his generals.2. The Persians weren't that demoralized: they destroyed the famous Spartan King and his elite unit in three days and then marched to Athens and burned it down. It wasn't*that* big of a deal. Or it wouldn't have been, had it not allowed greeks to pull off the amazing victory at sea at battle of Salamis.
If they had a plan, they would've filled the strategic reserves beforehand like China, you know, when oil was record cheap. Unless of course the plan was to piss off even the last magas who aren't pissed off yet.
I had a stroke reading this.
The hacker conviniently straight up deleted 100tb of evidence.
Even better: that hacker didn't just download the files, they deleted them after, so now the fbi is (conviniently) missing 100tb of epstein files. The name of the hacker? FBI
Geoffrey Hinton, the man who basically invented modern AI and now crusades against them for worry of runaway AI seems to think they're very much capable of thinking and applying logic and deceiving.
And 3)if they get help from Ukraine, don't underestimate their unwillingness to pay it back.
Maybe Dario is over his head but he still seems to be most moral top AI company CEO. Maybe that doesn't mean much...What stops anthropic from doing mass surveillance is the law, and he doesn't trust the government to follow the law.How does palantir fit into this? I have no idea, it'd seem that should be as much a red line as DOD. My hope is that if the DOD threat goes through and Anthropic is blacklisted, they will have to triple down on the "good guy" angle.
He said in some interview that currently there's no way to automatically mass process citizens actions and conversations via surveillance camera networks. With AI you could process all the footage and conversations everywhere all the time.That's what he's talking about.
Even if it is "pure fear", it's probably not because she's afraid of the mother but because she's on the internet doing something more or less forbidden to her, omegle or whatever, so she's startled when the door opens.
Should have a human centipede of right wing influencers behind trump.
Even given that 4 billion seems absurdly high, but maybe couple second tiktok videos that loop many times tally up...
You could build a religion around this.
While maybe true, in this case they didn't need 94% of US politicians because congress was never asked. I feel like this part is not talked about enough: Trump doesn't have the power to start war, yet he started one(two actually), what are the repercussions for that?
Trump&co want to discredit the UN to make board of pieces of shit more appealing.
I feel like there isn't enough talk about the fact this war was started without congressional declaration of war. There should be fairly harsh punishment for something like that and the case is inarguable, no?
Lol, that should be the name of the piece "the right angle".
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1d2U4YW93cXBpeWl4ZG5wODY4YWM2anM2ZGV5OHRpZjBmdXZuaTdqbiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/b80yMxtydWCygSA4Xe/200w.webp
I mean the guy nearly got heart attack after realising what almost happened when she stumbled, so you aren't the only one. But given everything was fine and the guy was clearly apologetic and learned a lesson, so what's there to be concerned about?
Regardless how much you despise religions today, you should understand that they were absolutely instrumental in forming lasting societies. Zoroastrianism, the first documented religion, was much more like philosophy of getting along; it essentially taught brutal tribal people that being angry at others is bad and being helpful is good.
For a LONG time religion was critical in societal cohesion, many would argue they still are, even if their message has been thoroughly perverted.
With this logic you can also bomb power plants because military uses electricity and water treatment facilities because military needs water. Military that is 100% destroyed a week ago, mind you.
I meant intent in the way that generally networking with people likely won't achieve the same results as networking with intent or a request. In religious groups the people really do want to and try to help you (”with religious zeal”) and thus look for ways to do it much harder than a random person you might network with. I don't have data but via common sense it'd seem intent might affect the outcome a lot, no?
...sure, and there indeed are pretty violent religions out there and ofc statistics affect non-religious the same. The praying itself doesn't add to the success stats, but often praying is done in groups and others in the group moght be praying for you in other groups all bringing more people into the fold. Similar effect does happen in any networking, but praying often adds intent and a request which do likely affect the stats of success.
It's more like I'm trying to reverse engineer part of what makes religions tick. God is a blanket we throw over things we cannot explain(quote by someone)... Nowdays that could be consciousness, birth of universe, and maybe on lower level smaller "miracles" or answers by God. Just because statistical analysis could be used on a "miraculous" event doesn't mean one cannot believe a God did it.
My thinking is mainly that the mechanic by which a lot of religions "work" is statistical in nature.
Why do religious people feel like prayer and the religion in general works miracles? Because they are constantly increasing statistical chances by group praying, visiting churces, being communal etc. Eventually someone will know someone that can help you specifically and it feels miraculous. If you pray alone and never leave your home, it will almost never work.
I don't think it's coincidence that almost all religions heavily emphasize community and group activities.
Why believe in spontaneous birth of the universe?
For a bit less fantastical idea of god that I've been pondering: statistics as a language of a god. Everyday infinitesimally improbable things happen, to people and in general, who or what decides what or when these nigh impossible events happen?
Why does karma work? Because when you do good, you increase the chance that someone or something affected by your good deeds will circle back to you. Same for being bad/evil.
AI bubble won't pop even if OpenAI collapses, they will just get bought by someone like Apple. Also Google, Meta and Amazon have already committed something like 600 billion for AI spending this year, which is easily ebough money to keep AI bubble going.
I'm fairly sure those videos are rage bait.
Idrain't Elba
3. While the battle of thermopylae was of great significance for buying time, it was also a strategic failure from Leonidas: he knew about the path leading behind them but didn't assign any elite troops to secure it.
4. I'm fairly sure Persians didn't have anything we'd categorize as "artillery".
I'm not an expert but I'm fairly sure this is partially wrong, or exaggerated.
1. Xerxes did listen to his generals, famously even a female general Artemisia and he didn't behead his generals.
2. The Persians weren't that demoralized: they destroyed the famous Spartan King and his elite unit in three days and then marched to Athens and burned it down. It wasn't*that* big of a deal. Or it wouldn't have been, had it not allowed greeks to pull off the amazing victory at sea at battle of Salamis.
If they had a plan, they would've filled the strategic reserves beforehand like China, you know, when oil was record cheap. Unless of course the plan was to piss off even the last magas who aren't pissed off yet.
I had a stroke reading this.
The hacker conviniently straight up deleted 100tb of evidence.
Even better: that hacker didn't just download the files, they deleted them after, so now the fbi is (conviniently) missing 100tb of epstein files. The name of the hacker? FBI
Geoffrey Hinton, the man who basically invented modern AI and now crusades against them for worry of runaway AI seems to think they're very much capable of thinking and applying logic and deceiving.
And 3)if they get help from Ukraine, don't underestimate their unwillingness to pay it back.
Maybe Dario is over his head but he still seems to be most moral top AI company CEO. Maybe that doesn't mean much...
What stops anthropic from doing mass surveillance is the law, and he doesn't trust the government to follow the law.
How does palantir fit into this? I have no idea, it'd seem that should be as much a red line as DOD.
My hope is that if the DOD threat goes through and Anthropic is blacklisted, they will have to triple down on the "good guy" angle.
He said in some interview that currently there's no way to automatically mass process citizens actions and conversations via surveillance camera networks. With AI you could process all the footage and conversations everywhere all the time.
That's what he's talking about.
Even if it is "pure fear", it's probably not because she's afraid of the mother but because she's on the internet doing something more or less forbidden to her, omegle or whatever, so she's startled when the door opens.
Should have a human centipede of right wing influencers behind trump.
Even given that 4 billion seems absurdly high, but maybe couple second tiktok videos that loop many times tally up...
You could build a religion around this.
While maybe true, in this case they didn't need 94% of US politicians because congress was never asked. I feel like this part is not talked about enough: Trump doesn't have the power to start war, yet he started one(two actually), what are the repercussions for that?
Trump&co want to discredit the UN to make board of pieces of shit more appealing.
I feel like there isn't enough talk about the fact this war was started without congressional declaration of war. There should be fairly harsh punishment for something like that and the case is inarguable, no?
Lol, that should be the name of the piece "the right angle".
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1d2U4YW93cXBpeWl4ZG5wODY4YWM2anM2ZGV5OHRpZjBmdXZuaTdqbiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/b80yMxtydWCygSA4Xe/200w.webp
I mean the guy nearly got heart attack after realising what almost happened when she stumbled, so you aren't the only one. But given everything was fine and the guy was clearly apologetic and learned a lesson, so what's there to be concerned about?