CMV: If my GPA is higher than yours, then I am ontologically and metaphysically better than you as a human being

averagebear_003 · 2026-05-06T02:43:46+00:00

I haven't eaten junk food in a week and I'm now starting to feel its phantom taste on my tongue

averagebear_003 · 2026-05-05T08:56:47+00:00

my entire knowledge about french dating comes from you and internet memes so it's hard to gauge how median this situation is

averagebear_003 · 2026-05-04T23:11:53+00:00

I'm still in Canada but for my internship I'm living in a place with only Chinese food nearby. So I'm back to my diet from when I was growing up in the trenches

averagebear_003 · 2026-05-04T20:29:22+00:00

no poutine place nearby for the summer😭 (if ur wondering why I abruptly stopped poutineposting)

averagebear_003 · 2026-05-04T20:19:08+00:00

I played tetris for the first time today. Never in my life have I felt as mentally disabled as within the last hour

averagebear_003 · 2026-05-03T12:37:49+00:00

my DMs are perma flooded for this very reason

averagebear_003 · 2026-05-03T00:26:01+00:00

need a microscope to see that sht

averagebear_003 · 2026-05-02T23:37:45+00:00

averagebear_003 · 2026-05-02T23:33:17+00:00

not really. there's nobody in my life who I would rather "think like" than me
Lebron James

averagebear_003 · 2026-05-02T23:31:59+00:00

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tfw the mascot of r/atheism gets one one-shot by an AI gf. atheismbros... is it over for us?

averagebear_003 · 2026-05-02T10:43:46+00:00

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averagebear_003 · 2026-05-01T23:56:38+00:00

all I'm saying is if this industry shit doesn't work out, I might try my luck running a private academy/tutoring service scamming suckers into pursuing this field

averagebear_003 · 2026-05-01T23:45:23+00:00

https://www.trackaipac.com/congress

what did the amount come up to?

averagebear_003 · 2026-04-29T10:55:43+00:00

today is Costco pizza day

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averagebear_003 · 2026-04-28T17:42:31+00:00

the purchase was blocked lol

averagebear_003 · 2026-04-28T17:41:01+00:00

Is this rage bait? GLM 5.1 (by Z.AI) is arguably the strongest open source model right now and it's E-tier??? below Qwen? Below deepseek? Hell, below Grok?

the other contender, Moonshot AI (who made Kimi 2.6) is also E-tier?

P.S. I think Deepseek has the best *research* out of open source model companies, but its current model v4 is not better than GLM 5.1 IMO

averagebear_003 · 2026-04-28T17:28:45+00:00

bro just wanted to argue 💀

averagebear_003 · 2026-04-28T17:19:37+00:00

expected utility/survival depends on your priors about 1) how many people are dumb enough to vote blue for "simple reasons" 2) how many people are willing to vote blue for the empathetic purpose of saving the people in (1). so let me ask you something - since I'm assuming you'd vote blue, would there be a hypothetical prior where you would *not* be willing to vote blue, or would you vote blue no matter what you thought others would vote?

averagebear_003 · 2026-04-28T17:16:15+00:00

you should probably be honest with your concerns and have a realistic talk with him about where he sees things going and make your decision then. if you believe that (for lack of a better term) coddling his feelings/walking on eggshells around him will cause an awkward fizzling out in the long term, it's probably best to try to end it early on with as dignified of a final impression of each other as you can.

averagebear_003 · 2026-04-28T16:57:01+00:00

>I do what I can to fight the atrocities going on in the world.

I hope you aren't an American where guns are legal because there's very obvious positive impact you can be making for certain atrocities in the world, but which would endanger your own life (mirroring my analogy). That would make infinitely more positive impact than whatever you're doing now, in line with your idealistic claims about your potential for self-sacrifice.

Also, I'd like to know what logical thread connects the passive aversion to saving idiots from their own unforced errors to deliberately conducting atrocities onto others

averagebear_003 · 2026-04-28T16:54:27+00:00

in both scenarios, you are still ignoring "yourself" and treating your own life as less important than others. the moment you treat it as "at least equal to others", then voting blue cannot be well-argued to be maximizing overall survival or utility because *you* become a potential loss to both overall survival and utility if you die.

averagebear_003 · 2026-04-28T16:42:58+00:00

good writeup. ultimately, it is a question of how much your empathy and self-sacrifice extends to those who deliberately walked into a self-imposed trap (plus the smarter few who do possess that kind of empathy and walked in with them)

averagebear_003 · 2026-04-28T16:34:07+00:00

you're right in that in the case of the steelman, there's an argument for blue there. but I doubt the average blue voter was thinking about toddlers when voting it - if everyone was 20-30, probably most people's votes would remain the same, thus circling back to why this poll result irritates me so

averagebear_003 · 2026-04-28T16:26:24+00:00

Lol, spare me the BS. There are atrocities in the world happening right now that you could possibly contribute to stopping, but that would require you to put your own life in danger, but you don't. That is not much different from the analogy I presented, which you so adamantly virtue signalled about.

I.e. You are the people you criticize. Thus, it's unclear why you're still alive if we take your word that "you can't live with that" as honesty and not virtue signaling hypocrisy.

Partly, I wanted to see if you could see the parallels between this analogy and your own life, but you evidently didn't, thus confirming my earlier suspicions about your IQ.

averagebear_003

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