Smarter than MI as in My Intelligence, definitely.

That would happen with machine-generated texts in my childhood (00s) as well.

I think the propagandized (by Apple and many other companies, but also just by stupid reductions) idea of “invention” is why they think that.

They’ve been literally taught that the people making “inventions” are always “rebels” who disregard existing knowledge.

It’s especially funny that in the areas more familiar to them they are all for authority even when it’s suicidal madness.

It’s harmful when you make yourself believe that a machine comfortable to use, with state-of-the-art electronics with tech processes hardly achievable in many places on the planet, advertised and visually designed to please, sold on scale big enough to make it worth it, - that this is a result of some rebellion.

Rebellions don’t look like that. This is how gifts from the emperor of the sun from his forbidden palace look. They are nice too, but nothing in common with rebellions, like at all.

Like a cargo cult.

I think it’s actually related in essence to cargo cults - first European empires (or one can even call it one big empire) traded important resources and slaves for colored glass, then for nice clothes, then for weapons, and eventually they started trading them for the actual meat of their culture, creating colonial elites and, in their perception, spreading the empire to only good effect. If the colonial savages only learned muskets, and started to produce muskets, it’s both no income and danger, but if you make them more integrated and dependent, they are not going to shoot at you.

So. Marx happens. Marx is notoriously industrialist in focus and in his model colonies are just reduced to some black box. That’s exactly why Marxist and derived ideas became so popular in former colonies and dependent countries, they could draw in place of that black box whatever they wanted, and yet have a common internationalist ideological family, allowing for some alliances and understanding. There was a bridge in the form of Russia - industrialist Marxism mixed with various agrarian ideologies and created the Bolshevik one, of using peasantry to create a “socialist” regime first, and then industrialize, sort of with an inferiority complex. For ex-colonies and dependent lands, though, the agrarian part was the most important one, that allowed them to culturally bond with the imperial core through anti-imperial ideology that gave them freedom to do whatever they want.

Then during the Cold War the empire reformed itself, and it sort of in appearances chose a middle ground. It both internalized some of the Marxist emotion and imagery, and adjusted the imperial mechanism for global trade and exchange. It also used the split between USSR and China. That’s how it defeated the USSR (though mostly USSR defeated itself).

So - one of the ways to not turn this iteration of global trade and exchange into yet another spread of power to dependent world was, I think, this kind of centralization and heavy propaganda. The glossy, 00s-style portrayal of “the western world” like one big Disneyland entertainment park, with a “rebel” being able to change it all and make some of that entertainment too.

It simply eventually spread back because that always happens.

#1 Why the hell did I write that, #2 it’s not some conspiracy theory, I think most of that was happening naturally, not devised by some evil conglomerate of elites.

Late stage western Rome was kinda fine, they even had Christianity kinda receding (Goths and Vandals were far more pious Christians, while in Rome there was plenty of support for restoring the old state religion). What really killed them was intrigue and inability to hold the territory militarily.

Late stage eastern Rome can be divided into a few different long periods. If we mean after being crusaded, then it was shattered and trying to recombine into something useful, eventually finished by Ottomans. If we mean before - well, there was the long period of Seljuk conquest of Anatolia, initially a result of the empire being weakened by conquests against its buffer states and allies which didn’t really have to be conquered. But in any case it’s probable that the same thing would happen, the Seljuk armies of the initial invasion time are described as quite numerous, and they had a few military innovations east Romans didn’t have.

It’s far more harmful to allow people, especially people like you, decide who deserves what. So no, all my points stand.

I don’t think we’ll understand each other.

Rehabilitation doesn’t have to go as far as letting them back out. There are different kinds of conditions, of ability to communicate with the outside world, to work etc. One might even make special isolated settlements where people live almost as if they were free, but can’t escape.

Just how they rehabilitate murderers, other sexual offenders, and who not. People change over time. The part that doesn’t change (for pedophiles) is their attraction to children (unless, well, they intentionally do something like chemical castration or whatever), but that’s not their crime, the act is their crime. If an examination by mental health specialists and who not deems they won’t commit such crimes anymore, there’s no reason at all to keep them locked up. Maybe with certain amount of tracking.

who fall for AI /crypto are mostly conservatives

Let’s separate these two things.

The latter does work well enough to be used by a kind of people. That it’s not the new revolution is fine. I’ve recently looked through NOSTR NIPs and they make a huge thing out of functionality for sending “zaps”, and you know why? Because payments mean possibility to send universal value for some subjective value. It’s a difference in efficiency between barter and money almost.

I can’t be proud of it, because, despite sharing libertarian ideas, I was highly skeptical of such systems. One can say I was gaslighted into considering it all having become a scam.

So - NOSTR looks like something that will work. Its standards involve a lot of different functionality, so clients usually decide to implement only part of it - some like Reddit\Lemmy communities, some like Telegram group chats, and so on (it kinda seems to even out with time, Amethyst has recently got group chats, for example). And thus it often seems devoid of life for new people. But it’s already big enough for the search results to not seem particularly right-wing skewed.

So - I’ve noticed that people very often send these “zaps”. It’s normal to tip stuff in NOSTR. Already.

It’s a long-term advantage, but that system in its architecture is far better than Fediverse, that’s what I mean.

And honestly it’s not unheard of for left-wing technical projects to use good tooling and competent people and appear impressive, but long-term lose to right-wing technical projects which use some tooling and some people and don’t appear too cool, but are more applicable socially.

I really feel like trying to write a NOSTR client, LOL.

It’s mathematically an insult to life itself. It changes evolution in human societies to reduce dissent and diversity of thought. And evolution is important in the sense that to stay on one place you have to run very fast.

So it’s sort of a tool for regress. Honestly - similar to the Web itself. It was intended as a hypertext system for scientists. For social interaction there were e-mail and e-news.

I’m thinking - I thought always that Sun is a very cool company, but at the same time they are also the ones who’ve popularized this messy understanding of the future in which, with some commercial adjustments by today’s big tech, we still live. And that understanding was highly centralist, sort of a digital empire.

Probably got bored of that

It’s not solid gold because anything solid would be out of character for Apple. Note also the surface texture.

It’s all public spectacles. These people are there not for the money - they are there to make a point, that being that their ideas of authority are what we all must obey.

Preventive obedience, lack of mandate borders, authority not requiring justification, a demand for justification being itself disobedience, implicit trust to authority, and so on.

These are all people who’d be not very respected or listened to in any normal kind of group. They dreamed of getting to a position where they will be, due to hierarchy. And that’s an abuse of any system, so they are hostile to any immunity mechanisms detecting and fixing such an abuse.

So the whole point is in them taking power and showing us all that it’s their rule and their time and it works like some thief feudalism with spectacles of loyalty, spectacles of cruelty, spectacles of stealing and getting away with it and demonstrative abuse of any legal principle.

I respect Cato institute people very much, they somehow manage to say this same thing without my emotion in their various materials.

I’m typing this on a Lenovo laptop keyboard (V14 series, the plastic casing is just a catastrophe near the lid hinges, though I’ve seen the same with the magnesium casing, it has plastic parts inside).

I’ve also pirated some Apple TV attempt at Foundation episodes, but honestly felt like The Arc. Sci-Fi with some right initial ideas, but ultimately thoroughly idiotic.

In case of Apple TV’s Foundation, I couldn’t help thinking that they were trying to make it “look expensive” and “feel elitarian” similarly to their products, first priority, make it feel “diverse” and in social interactions representing a certain prestigious set of political ideas, second priority, make it feel nuanced and intelligent more than be nuanced and intelligent, third priority.

Honestly even with 90s Apple stuff virtualized I feel something bad, like nausea, I wouldn’t be able to use it probably. Too much visual design flexing.

There’s plenty of context, the best is that nobody has the moral right to punish others.

You don’t seem to get what I’m saying. I’m not saying eating right and working out isn’t necessary.

I’m saying that you not being obese and some other person being that is most likely not your achievement or their failure. It’s just genetic predisposition.

I don’t need excuses in this setting.

It’s usually considered smart to avoid hard problems.

Thus to say that every criminal deserves rehabilitation. You won’t achieve anything good from taking it from them anyway.

Show me where obesity is hereditary and not habit based?

I can’t show it to you, it’s a hard subject requiring a lot of data. But everybody having obese relatives know that they generally eat the same things and still get obese!

Sugar is still calories and still comes out as burned energy and processing those calories does not matter because it is still burned as energy.

You don’t know what you are talking about.

They may eat healthy but they eat a lot of healthy food which is still calories and they don’t exercise which is how you burn calories.

You don’t know what you’re talking about. Yep, exercise is very good, with different effects on different people still.

Why are you taking personal attacks at me?

Because:

Obesity is literally a self control issue. If you dont exercise, don’t eat as much.

It’s a different magnitude self control issue for different people. It’s a self control issue for me - if I eat only burgers for a month, I might start getting obese (more likely just die), I just have to avoid that. It’s a self control issue for my sister - if with her steamed vegetable diet she exercises a bit less, she gains weight. These are not comparable.

If you eat a ton, you have burn those calories or they will store up. This is the just how this works.

You are not saying anything valuable, that’s just how this works. Health is complex.

Obesity is not hereditary.

It usually is.

It is calories in, calories out.

Passing through your individual system. Mine, for example, very badly processes sugars. One teaspoon of sugar in tea means I stink like cat piss in half an hour after drinking that tea.

You dont have to look like a model, but you dont have to be fat.

There are “fat” models, and also it’s usually not your choice as I have previously said.

In case someone thinks I have a skin in the game - I’m as thin as a skeleton. But I have family members overweight and you really don’t know what you’re talking about, they are among the most healthy eating people I know and still their weight requires precision and discipline in their diet, both more than you likely ever achieved in life, sorry if rude.

People who feel better are healthy because they aren’t obese.

Yeah, it’s better to be healthy and rich than sick and poor, as they say to such statements where I live.

This is similar to saying that you protect against malware by using an antivirus and not being careful in what you download and run. I hope you can see the analogy.

There’s no such thing as “not falling for emotions” for humans.

Luck is also a component in how long Trump lives ; though he’s not that old.

OK, I’ll say it differently - luck is also a component in how long Putin lives, and that’s likely less. When he dies, there’s gonna be change. In USA too. In Russia - maybe not for the better immediately, but that will be a power transfer, which hasn’t happened since 1999. Even if to someone of his daughters.

I don’t subscribe to any of stupid theories of “Kremlin towers’ balance”, “businessmen vs patriots” and such, but the point stands, and the previous power transfer, from Yeltsin to Putin, despite them being the same faction, changed a lot and fast.

Which could mean some of the blackmail material leaking, or the direction of blackmail changing, or other ties being restructured. Which would pull the rug from many of Russia-aligned parties in the west, and it would be interesting to see whether Democrats or Republicans are affected more, in case of US, and whether local alt-right parties or the orderly centrists in EU are affected more. The common belief is that it’s the latter in the US and the former in the EU, but I think we’ll be surprised.

Now, Russia is small compared to other parties, but big enough to make waves in case of such an event.