Sucks, and eurgh, how horrible must any public facing job be. You see ‘i asked chatgpt’ everywhere and people just dont get it makes things worse. (Saw people try to resolve game mod conflicts with it)

Considering how Musks businesses are being prepped up by just his force of personality and not any real proper business practices I’m not sure we should belief any predictions of doom. See also how cryptocurrencies are still a thing, and just the price of gold (which doesn’t really make sense re the actual practical usage of gold (the store of value in bad times thing doesnt really make sense to me, who is gonna buy your gold when the economy crashes? Fucking Mansa Musa?).

I know a bit more about stocks and businesses (both due to education, a minor talent in it, and learning some of it for shadowrun dm purposes (yeah im a big nerd)) and all this doesnt make any real sense to me re the economic/business fundamentals.

We should be careful to not turn into zero hedge re our predictions of the bubble popping (“It has accurately predicted 200 of the last 2 recessions” quote from rationalwiki), even of we all agree it is a huge bubble, and I share the same feeling that he is right on this. (See also how the ai craze is destroying viable supply businesses like the ram stuff (and more parts soon to come if the stories are correct))

We live in stupid times, and a very large amount of blame should prob fall on silicon valley, with the ipo offloading of bags bullshit. (And their libertarianism for others socialism for us stuff (see the bank which was falling over which turned them all into statists))

Speaking about Grok and it being a nazi, check this skeet (it has alt text and is not login protected)

These things are just great roleplay engines, and not much else. (And I mean that in the “playing an entertaining ttrpg” way, so if you ask it to become a boring officeworker, it will not be boring as nobody plays boring officeworkers in ttrpgs (obv boring routine lives are also not what people write about so it isn’t in the training data)).

On the subject of copilot. The advertisements in my windows OS for copilot (now that is a sentence that I wouldnt have expected a decade ago) is advertising that copilot is ‘optimized for the English language’ which as a Dutch person amuses me, as I read that as ‘this system is bad at foreign languages’. (It is prob worse, saw others use chatgpt for things in Dutch, and it just wildly hallucinates on things, esp things related to culture, for example when asked about the 67 thing, it made up a story that is was created by rappers in Amsterdam(or Rotterdam, not that the city matters), and created a whole story that it was a new Dutch thing, very odd).

Think the opposition to it is pre manosphere, but yeah, I think from tne manosphere side not everybody who says that is a anti-semite / anti-islam, lot of it also felt very ‘we need a cause to show those dastardly feminists that they don’t have the moral high ground’, if that makes sense. Same with the manospherian opposition to prison rape (which often felt a lot of ‘men get raped too!’ stuff, and not really that active in opposition to the prison system. (I mean in general, there are elements of it that were pretty vocal about it, but from what I always got from that space was that is was more like an empty signal). (Note im just talking about the manosphere and the bits I read from that space, not the general opposition to circumcision).

Haha, wow the reactions to that, 3 levels deep and suddenly people are talking about screws. (Im being positive here btw, funny to see what people have made/learned and how happy they seem with it).

Too late, I already put it on the blockchain.

Yeah, just learned a black person was killed in the USA, and the only reason this was getting some attention was because Renee Good was also killed.

With the benefit of a sea of distance between me and the USA this is just really fucked up. Two different Americas.

Sorry forgot to check, despite a friend of mine doing the same to me with tumblr and I’m also annoyed then.

Not sure i had it in me to alt text all that yarvin however

Scott Alexander: “I wish the neoreactionaries dropped the monarchy shit”

Monkey paw curls (content warnings: antisemitism, Yarvin).

H2O2 is just water with an extra O.

Water 2.0, get on it or get left behind!

That is shit, also sending good vibes. It never is just one thing isnt it. Bad luck always seems to come in multiples.

Also I can’t help but notice that he didn’t verify the correctness of the solution

Think I have mentioned the story I heard here once, about the guy who wrote a program to find some large prime which he ran on the mainframe over the weekend, using up all the calculation budget his uni department had. And then they confronted him with the end result, and the number the program produced ended in a 2. (He had forgotten to code the -1 step).

This reminded me of that story. (At least in this case it actually produced a viable result (if costly), just with a minor error).

Yeah I was also ver specifically thinking about Christian heresies, and not counting all the other religious wars/conflicts/murders going round.

Do always think it is funny that the whole magical staves thing which people think is some old norse early medieval thing comes from the 17th century and is a bit more christian (even if it is a strange offshoot, esp with iceland being mostly converted to Christianity in the 1000s). But that is unrelated to everything above, more that history is big and what we assume is often not correct and from the wrong periods. As I did here myself. Edit: wonder if there is an overlap between the staves and the sigils from The Lesser Key of Solomon, both of the sources for these things seems to be written in the same period (the lesser key is based on earlier works from what I could tell the sigils itself are always credited to the lesser key, so no idea if they predate that, I don’t have much access to grimoires from the 1500s).

Seems my edit and your reply crossed each other. No I agree, I was wrong in all the ways, thanks for the correction and information.

Ah thanks, I didnt know. Edited a bit more in btw. Sorry about that. Scattered mind with a lot of L’esprit de l’escalier energy.

E: A quick Wikipedia check: To provide more of that energy, 1200 in France, yeah I totally stand corrected. My bad people, thanks.

Thanks, yeah, as I also said to Stross, I dont know that much about the period. Most of it comes from Crusader Kings ;) (Doesn’t help that these games are sanitized in a large degree so genocides etc will not show up (which is the good decision btw, if they were not sanitized it would be worse, imagine hearts of iron for example), so it isn’t a great way to learn about what you could learn more about the dark parts of our history), and the religion mechanics there are not that historically accurate, so I dont put not much stock in that apart form ‘some people believed in a religion named like this once’.

Anyway thanks both for correcting me and giving me homework (ill read up on it, any more specifics about the Cathar stuff would be appreciated, as I wouldn’t know where to start).

And I would say the latter stance on heresy only applies when your position is weak. When you are strong some random fools not believing correctly are not of a great importance, which is why I thought the church went more internally after heresies vs externally via crusades (in intend, not in practice I know what the first crusade did in the German region etc) later in history. Clamping down internally hard is more a sign of weakness in my mind, you need the hard power cause you lack the soft power (an example now and then not withstanding).

The crusades/Reconquusta were more an externally aimed thing at the Muslims right? (at least in intent from the organized church side, in practice not so much, so im not talking about those rampages). So yeah I was specifically talking about heresies, and im also very much not an expert in these things, so I dont know. I have not forgotten about the Cliffords/ /Alhambra things, as I dont know about it (I will look them up when im not phone posting). I was thinking more about stuff like protestantism, witch hunts and Jan Hus (the latter does count, as it is from the late medieval period iirc).

I just dont know very much about the period, but do knew some wiccan types who had wild ahistorical stories about the witch hunts.

E: yeah, I don’t think we should put anti-semitism under anti-heresy stuff, it being its own religion and all that. But as Graydon mentioned, the Albigensian Crusade fully counts for all my weird hangups and so I was totally wrong.

I wouldn’t say having the fab is worthless, but more that saying you have build one and it actually producing as specced, at scale, and not producing rubbish is hard. From what I got talking to somebody who knew a little bit more than me who had had contact with ASML these fabs take ages to construct properly and that is also quite hard. Question will ve how far they are on all this, a tech demo can be quite far off from that. They have been at it for a while now however.

Wonder if the fight between Nexperia (e: called it nxp here furst by accident apologies) and China also means they are further along on this path or not. Or if it is relevant at all.