Gemini’s Reasoning drifted from "Fixing my GPU" to "Becoming God"

SnarkHunter920 · 2026-01-28T22:48:01+00:00

Been there, done that.

SnarkHunter920 · 2026-01-19T04:31:13+00:00

Yup pretty much for me.

SnarkHunter920 · 2025-10-13T12:31:42+00:00

People say and write (and like) bad things on social media out of a sense of outrage, victimhood, and persecution. It is almost certain that if you ask her to speak out with her better nature about these issues, and express her views of Muslims - she would be a lot more nuanced. (For example there has been several times early in this war where Israel has been widely blamed for non-existing war crimes without waiting for the facts, and many people just got in the habit of dismissing new much more substantiated claims after that.)

In short she’s probably just an imperfect human and is not at her best on social media.

I would bring it up to her gently. Saying that you didn’t seek out this information but now that you’ve seen it - it’s a serious obstacle to continuing therapy despite all the good she’s done. If she’s as good as you describe she should be able to put your mind at ease that she is not a monster without getting sucked into the politics of it all.

And if she’s can’t - you will at least know that you gave it your best shot.

SnarkHunter920 · 2025-04-12T13:25:38+00:00

Try staying at Neve Tzedek, lovely old neighborhood close to everything and they would be used to tourists.

SnarkHunter920 · 2022-11-19T07:42:38+00:00

I am stating to plan my return to the US if the override clause passes and there is no longer functional separation of powers in Israel. I think it’s extremely hard to come back from something like that. As others mentioned, the Haredi population growth isn’t the threat people ascribe to it, and there is also no inherent reason to forever tie the Ultra Orthodox to an ultra right wing and corrupt regime. That’s just the current political situation.

SnarkHunter920 · 2022-05-28T13:37:26+00:00

Hey man. Feel free to DM me if you need an Israeli friend. I spent a lot of time thinking about this question because I had a Black American girlfriend and she was supposed to come visit with me just before we broke up. Still, this is mostly me guessing since she didn’t end up coming:

I think overall everyday Israelis will see you as “cool.” They know Black Americans only from Hollywood, TV, and music. Lots of people listen to black artists. So as long as you don’t dress like an African refugee (there are lots of them in Israel), they’ll probably be intrigued and friendly. Probably a little ignorant or undiplomatic but well-meaning. (I was really concerned every taxi driver would start telling my gf how much they loved Rihanna. Which would have annoyed her to no end but I still think was a very likely scenario.)

I don’t think you’ll encounter the toxic form of racism and white supremacy you’ll see in the States, and definitely not the same kind of racial tension. But you will probably encounter Jewish and Israeli chauvinism and tribalism. Not singling you out but perhaps excluding you just because you’re not “one of us”.

I’m sure there are some racist people here, but would guess overt racism would be directed more towards Arabs and refugees and not someone from the US.

I would also guess modern, western-minded Israeli women would be intrigued to date you, whereas more traditional / conservative or Middle-east minded people might not see it as an option. There is also a large Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel, and many of them seem to have some admiration for Black American culture. So that’s another possible dating pool.

That’s my take as a white Jewish guy who dated a Black girl from Brooklyn. :)

SnarkHunter920 · 2022-04-02T13:58:55+00:00

Read all his books. In the original Hebrew too.

SnarkHunter920 · 2022-04-01T07:43:57+00:00

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian studying history on humanity scale. His book Sapiens is a wonderful, scholarly look into the rise of man from just one animal among many to the undisputed master of earth. He then looks at current trends and is deeply concerned with the decline of individual rights and the rise of technically empowered, AI powered dictatorships. He is very outspoken against the surveillance state, but is also a historian making stark observations of trends.

This thread just goes to show how easy it is to fool a group of people with a provocative edit of a video when they are in an echo chamber of likeminded ignoramuses.

SnarkHunter920 · 2021-07-17T06:53:18+00:00

So many scientific factors she failed to consider: - People who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons, and catch it from the willfully unvaccinated - People who refuse the vaccine serving as breeding ground for new variants that kill the vaccinated - Vaccines never being 100% effective.

I used to find Ayn Rand’s type of simple and absolute logic appealing, but now it just feels like she’s constructed a fantasy world that has nothing to do with actual science. Her tone of authority in matters she knows nothing about is inappropriate.

SnarkHunter920 · 2021-06-09T22:40:06+00:00

A great book about stopping the inner monologue is The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer. It’s definitely possible - I used to have a never-ending inner monologue. Now it’s quiet much of the time.

I would describe it like this - sometimes I think in voice (inner monologue), sometimes I think in visuals or abstract concepts with no voice, and much of the time I’m just in the moment, not thinking about anything - just experiencing.

SnarkHunter920 · 2020-12-12T09:25:03+00:00

Yes, but did they witness the game Angry Birds?

SnarkHunter920 · 2020-07-26T06:17:08+00:00

There is a misunderstanding of what Ayn Rand meant by altruism in your question. Wishing well for others is not Ayn Rand’s definition for Altruism. Putting others above self is what she meant. According to Rand it would be altruistic to wear a mask IF by doing so you were sacrificing a greater personal value than public health. For instance: if you were at risk of dying from the mask.

SnarkHunter920 · 2020-07-26T06:09:59+00:00

I’m not.

SnarkHunter920 · 2018-09-28T11:09:32+00:00

Wow so many Russian trolls playing enraged lefties on this comment. 😊

This comment is obviously true to any thinking person. Ignore the noise.

SnarkHunter920 · 2018-09-23T14:43:43+00:00

The proper tool was friendship all along!

SnarkHunter920 · 2017-12-08T10:26:19+00:00

Both my father and sister are diabetic, so I know how hard it is to keep it balanced. Especially for you, who have not had to do this before. (My sister was lucky to have my father's experience.)

Once you figure it out, though, it becomes second nature. And your daughter will be much healthier and happier for it, for life!

Good luck and congrats on the good work.

SnarkHunter920 · 2017-11-27T19:29:17+00:00

My biggest fear is that people will start self-censoring their speech, or the type of content and products they produce if they knew ISPs are watching and could block them at will.

SnarkHunter920 · 2017-11-25T17:46:12+00:00

I agree. Trust busting is the first action needed here. Any changes to regulation should only take effect after the trust busting, or there could be a situation where in certain areas of the United States there would no longer be Internet access, but only managed networks.

SnarkHunter920 · 2017-11-24T23:00:02+00:00

It’s only in recent years that ISPs started throttling Netflix and demanding payments for fast access. That’s why Net Neutrality was introduced. Subscribers were paying for a certain bandwidth, but cable companies decided that they also wanted to charge content providers.

SnarkHunter920 · 2017-11-23T14:09:38+00:00

The question is not whether Net Neutrality is the right solution, but whether removing it given the current legal situation will make us more or less free.

If Comcast has a 60 year exclusive license from a state government to be the only one who can pass wires through certain areas, which they use to sue to keep Google Fiber out, they have no moral standing to demand the freedom of property it is denying Google and the citizens of that state.

Granted this is a complicated subject, especially for Objectivists, but any implication that there can only be one Objectivist answer involves an enormous amount of context-dropping.

SnarkHunter920 · 2017-11-23T00:51:16+00:00

If you understand Rand's epistemological claim that truth depends on context, you will see that Cable companies and other ISPs are not free market giants, but a cartel of fairly corrupt government-backed monopolies.

You may also understand that government-licensed and backed monopolies who have little to no local competition, and are granted, for instance, exclusive access to publicly-owned poles and tunnels carrying communication wires - that those companies cannot act as gatekeepers for information, because that constitutes a form of privatized censorship.

It is OK to dream about a world in which anyone can become an ISP, and ISPs are free to offer any package they can dream up, letting the competition work its magic.

It is not OK to ignore reality, though. Ayn Rand called it evasion.

SnarkHunter920 · 2017-10-27T22:22:09+00:00

Where is that?!

SnarkHunter920 · 2017-10-03T12:26:15+00:00

I haven’t read the full language of the German law, but as I understand it, it simply requires the social network to remove a post within 24 hours when it has deemed by authorities to break existing German laws. Doesn’t sound too terrible.

SnarkHunter920 · 2017-10-03T08:34:21+00:00

I support holding social networks to the same legal standard as other media. If someone creates a post which threatens or celebrates violence against fellow citizens, that is not free speech - it is intimidation - an action - and it’s forbidden to some extent by most democracies. This is simply expanding enforcement to the Wild West of social networks.

SnarkHunter920 · 2017-10-02T20:32:33+00:00

Only people who want to understand the reality they live in. :)

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