knightly the Sneptaur

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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • Yeah, they literally had a cport rule that they had the right to fuck with primaries to make sure an establishment candidate won. Why are you acting like this isn’t a historical fact?

    The Democrats didn’t even hold a primary this time because they knew that if they allowed any actual competition then Biden wouldn’t get the nomination.

    Keep defending them all you like, I’m not going to forget how they bipartisanshipped us into this situation in the first place.


  • What progressive candidates? You mean the literal socialists on Seattle’s city council or are you talking about Democrat Progressives who get systematically shut out of the party?

    It’s almost like this is an immensely damaged country filled with low-information voters with far-right notions deeply engrained in the cultural consciousness.

    More than one thing can be true. Hell, most Americans think the Democrats are a left-wing party.



  • If the Dems can’t learn from this, just like they couldn’t learn from Hillary’s failure or Obama’s successes, then they’re going to lose the next election too.

    It’s not a matter of “deserving”, it’s a matter of PR. The only logical explanatiom for why the Dems keep throwing easy elections is that they don’t want to win.





  • I really hope people are starting to catch on, large language models aren’t “intelligent”, they’re multidimensional maps of human language use and querying them is just tracing a vector “forward” through language-space from the starting point of a prompt.

    It’s the reification fallacy writ so large it’s eclipsing entire national economies. Human intelligence isn’t in language, language is a product of human intelligence. The map is not the territory.

    And yeah, it is pretty cool that we have the processing power to map out language-space well enough to draw some vectors that remain coherent over thousands of tokens, but using a billion-parameter model to do what could be accomplished with probably-already-existing management software and a few seconds of CPU time per week is as wasteful as it is misguided.