[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago

dunno if anyone saw but noahpinion finally outed himself as the bloodthirsty ghoul he is on twt recently

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[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 62 points 2 months ago

"Liberal regimes fighting with the odds so heavily in their favour in material terms and the sense of 'history being on their side' have an impatient expectation of victory - call this the pressure of the philosophy of history. If you are truly convinced your victory is inevitable, resistance is, as the saying goes, futile. Opponents that engage in futile resistance, exacting a price from you, long after their defeat is inevitable, are treated as 'mad dogs' that demand their own destruction. Not just their defeat but their erasure and total destruction. Rather than encouraging liberal agents of history to raise themselves to great personal efforts and sacrifice, this philosophy of history, this sense of historic inevitability counsels the opposite. If your barbaric, cruel enemy does not understand that they must lose, if they want to go down in a meaningless suicidal blaze, there is no reason anyone on your side should needlessly expose themselves to risk. After all, that would deprive those citizen soldiers of the victorious future that is rightfully theirs. Instead, minimise your own losses and let massive firepower do the work. Collateral damage, especially if it occurs on the enemy side, is barely worth a mention."

Adam Tooze

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"This whole saga makes me genuinely embarrassed to follow this stuff. I just want a sub that has an informed opinion on AI, this is worse than crypto bro bullshit."

"Every hype-man who posts vague tweets and hype posts should be ridiculed. Every clown who posts screenshots of said tweets on this sub should be ridiculed."

""AGI is coming out next year" - this sub for the last 4 years"

some self aware highlights.

[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 44 points 3 months ago

the kamala revisionism in general is just so disheartening to witness, this is the exact same kopmala from 2020 and everybody that's like not on this site is somehow unironically excited for her. not a burger so at the end of the day i can't do shit about it either.

[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 38 points 4 months ago

'the ick' seems to just mean 'neurodivergent person did something neurodivergent' when i see it used colloquially tbh

[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 38 points 5 months ago

im as cishet as they come, but does anyone else feel like we're too sexualised? how are the gays ever going to accept us if we're so hypersexualised? you know i just really feel like it's pushing our movement backwards being so open about it

[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago

i feel like tensions about dating and romance have really begun boiling up the past few years in general. there was a short period a few years ago where i thought incel-ism was dying out as an identity, but these days it seems bigger than its ever been

[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 49 points 6 months ago

i honestly dont know how men are getting so mad about the bear thing tbh. like how is your first thought when confronted with women expressing how unsafe rape culture makes them feel 'but what about men's feelings though'?/??

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ELON MUSK v SAM ALTMAN/OPENAI (www.courthousenews.com)

Musk is suing OpenAI. Musk's legal teams' argument in two premises is:

  1. OpenAI's 'contract' as stated in their founding agreement was to make any AGI system for the benefit of humanity.
  2. GPT-4 is an AGI system ∴ OpenAI, by licensing GPT-4 exclusively to Microsoft, has effectively breached this agreement by making the first AGI system beholden to corporate interests. Musk's team also alleges that OpenAI is effectively an Microsoft subsidiary at the moment.

OpenAI deserves the lawsuits, but alleging that GPT-4 as a base model is anywhere close to AGI is probably not the angle to put it lightly.

Some other arguments:

OpenAI has comitted promissory estoppel by moving away from the open source non-profit model Musk initially invested in.

(This means that OpenAI has breached a promise enforceable by Law)

OpenAI has committed a breach of fiduciary duty by using Musk's funding on for-profit projects against the initial understanding of that funding's usage - letting Microsoft on OpenAI's Board of Directors and not open-sourcing GPT-4 are their examples of this.

(OpenAI had a legal responsibility to act in the best interests of their clients, which they failed)

OpenAI has engaged in unfair business practices by convincing Musk they would commit to the 'Founding Agreement'

(I think this is self explanatory)

DAMAGES

Musk wants:

A. Court to order OpenAI to follow their 'Founding Agreement' which means cutting the Microsoft connection and open sourcing.

B. A judicial ruling that GPT-4 constitutes AGI, and any followup models related to it.

C. Return of all money Musk invested into OpenAI that was spent on 'for-profit' projects.

D. General damages to be determined by court.

Personally, I think banging hard on the 'GPT-4 is AGI angle' is a really mistaken line of argument and it's a huge weakspot in their case. OpenAI can probably be sued for a lot of things, as we're seeing with NYT, so it's not like this is their only angle of approach. I want to see them get sued in court just in a vindictive sense, but I don't think this is how you do it.

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BTS ARMY doing BDS (hexbear.net)

bts stans hiring a truck calling for the sacking of the zionist ceo of their label, truly iconic

[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

BTW one thing for COTW, New Zealand this week - one of the big controversies with the old Labour coalition was the pushing of co-governance. Basically Labour expanded the power sharing agreements between the 'Crown' (The State) and the iwi (Maori Tribes), giving them more autonomy and decision making in areas like conservation, waterways etc. If you want to know more about it, you can read up here: Exploring Co-Governance

This ended up being quite unpopular, and there was a lot of concern trolling about 'democracy', and 'being decisive', from the right opposition. There were several other reasons why the Labour coalition was on its way out electorally, and pinning it solely on co-governance would be wrong, but of the populace that had an opinion on it, 26% were in favour, 31% against.^1^and it was a bit of a mask off moment. Anyway, part of the pushback the new National coalition is doing on Treaty issues/Iwi relations can in part be attributed to this pushback to co-governance expansion.

^1^ bonus TERFism in the polls XD

@Kereru@hexbear.net is afaik the only other active hexbear from here so they can correct me if I'm getting anything egregiously wrong. I'm less informed on local issues than I admittedly should be.

[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 54 points 10 months ago

germany has consistently been on the wrong side of history since bismarck

[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 69 points 10 months ago

my god south africa's case is so much stronger it's not even funny. surely some of my colleagues can stop pretending international law is a thing if the hague rules in favour of israel here jfc

[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 61 points 11 months ago

the gamer rage about 'titty streamers' has to be documented like wtf is going on with that (misogyny)

[-] dinklesplein@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

being better trained is when you have m4s and leopards and being worse trained is when you have aks and t-90s

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