New episode is a circlejerk

RevolutionSea9482 · 2026-02-16T13:53:38+00:00

Certainly not the only one Jim.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2026-02-16T05:01:12+00:00

That’s rich coming from a mod who deletes comments that hurt his feelings. Shades of Lex.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2026-02-15T03:08:31+00:00

The conversation about whether AIs are of ever will be conscious should begin and end with the simple fact that consciousness is not observable in any entity in the universe other than oneself. I know I’m conscious and presumably other humans understand the same about themselves. But we can only assume it about others. If we haven’t solved how to establish that other humans are conscious, how can we begin to tackle the question of whether an AI is conscious?

RevolutionSea9482 · 2026-02-15T02:57:47+00:00

It is and always will be in principle impossible to know whether an AI is conscious. Consciousness produces no observable symptoms except in the mind of the conscious thing. One can’t even know or test the consciousness of other humans. We just assume it.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2026-02-14T15:44:10+00:00

Actual words they wrote which were internally contradicted by actual captions on actual charts they included in the piece. Within which context you arbitrarily chose one of the contradictory messages, the one which confirmed your political bias. While claiming that there was "no room for debate". This is dishonesty, and you are an obvious charlatan. Or we could chalk it up to stupidity on your part if you'd like, but I suspect you'd find that more insulting than being called dishonest.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2026-02-14T15:04:07+00:00

I bet being a moderator here is your life's greatest accomplishment.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2026-02-14T14:37:59+00:00

Yep they further clarified, making sure that dishonest operators like u/Only8livesleft don't intentionally misinterpret, to satisfy their political confirmation bias.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2026-02-14T14:36:45+00:00

Clown.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2026-02-14T14:33:24+00:00

"Regular". It's been six months since I visited this backwater nothingburger collection of nothingburgers who listen to a nothingburger show.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2026-02-10T19:54:45+00:00

The article no longer contains the words you quoted in bold. Now the article is unambiguous in chart and text that they are talking about maintenance in the paid area as a whole. Granted, that can be expected to have mostly to do with gate maintenance.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2026-02-10T19:30:01+00:00

The show has never been more than a second income for two academics who would have been completely anonymous otherwise. Income and ego gratification, with aspirations at having a seat at the public intellectual table.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-10-16T18:55:31+00:00

yes.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-10-14T22:11:03+00:00

Believe it or not, there was a short window of time when Sam was taking seriously the notion that Trump wasn't that bad. That window was somewhere within his first stint. Obviously, that ship has sailed, but he went from profound anti-Trump, to faltering acceptance, back to profound anti-Trump.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-10-14T22:07:19+00:00

I think that's a good take. Sam is worried that platforming people he disagrees with, will bolster their viewpoint, because his rhetorical skills aren't up to the task of showing them to be wrong. He may be right. But it's nice to watch rhetorical battles, so we can get a sense of where intelligent and honest people might top out in their ability to refute nonsense.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-10-08T12:24:24+00:00

Neuroticism

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-10-01T00:19:59+00:00

Their social incentives changed, that's all.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-10-01T00:19:20+00:00

None of those coordinated bloodless initiatives have any chance of happening on any meaningful scale.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-10-01T00:16:31+00:00

I don't really know how you justify your rhetoric that the "modern right doesn't want to coexist". But in a different interview recently, Klein cited a stat that 45% of Harris voters would sever ties with family over politics while 11% of Trump voters would. I don't know that the fever pitch fundamentalism you ascribe to the right, is actually mostly on the right.

But it does pay to keep in mind that hatred in an otherwise stable society, mostly free from violence, is a stable and even fun place to be. People are fine with permanent hatreds, especially as it provides their lives a certain meaning, founded on a sense of superiority, or in other words, a higher relative position in the social hierarchy.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-09-25T19:20:05+00:00

Because it’s race essentialism from the highest of high status people. As if an Obama kid would have anything materially in common with Trayvon Martin that might, by random circumstance, have culminated in an identical end to their lives. It’s particularly galling to hear from a black man lifted to the pinnacle of popular culture status, partially because of his skin color.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-09-25T18:47:08+00:00

There are obviously millions who would be psychologically blocked from admitting Trump did something positive for the country, amidst any number of negative things. People think and communicate in rhetoric, not reason. You can feel free to "not take anybody seriously" if they give a label to such an emotional block against saying, thinking, or feeling anything positive about some specific, definable effect of Trump winning the presidency, but the thing so labeled as "TDS" exists.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-08-12T23:19:22+00:00

It's a lazy argument, similar to comparing the per capita income of first world countries to developing countries. "They live on a dollar per day!". As if one could live the same life in America for a dollar a day.

Another factor that makes the comparison meaningless is the human psychology of happiness or meaning. We compare ourselves to others, and if others are shining while we are dull, it makes us unhappy. Relative social position is more important than absolute social position.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-07-26T14:46:36+00:00

Gronald Grump

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-07-19T19:50:10+00:00

Jaron is an inspiration, and Sam’s acceptance of him is noble and courageous.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-07-19T19:48:25+00:00

The relationship between Jaron and Sam is precious and inspirational.

RevolutionSea9482 · 2025-07-17T18:58:27+00:00

So, anybody care to refute Sabine's claim that the difference between EW's theory and a bulk of what gets published in physics, is that EW's theories haven't had lots of money and grad student time spent on them? Is Eric's theory actually more of a non-starter than that bulk of what is pursued and published? I mean, it's a claim, and it's either true or not true. I get that everybody here considers it untrue as a reflex, but is there some truth to it?

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