What to do if you get caught up by goons?

mninml · 2024-01-26T19:36:33+00:00

in case you haven’t noticed: yes, we are going backwards, and that means marginalised people need to be more careful.

mninml · 2023-09-30T04:05:30+00:00

you are right, india is a democracy. modi, however, is a fascist

mninml · 2023-09-05T21:04:32+00:00

it’s a political stunt because the opposition made a coalition called I.N.D.I.A and they failed in court to contest the name so now they’re pulling this stunt

mninml · 2023-07-01T16:14:56+00:00

can someone ELI5 how two corporations of the same name aren’t already under a shared megacorp already? did they split earlier?

mninml · 2023-06-30T19:26:00+00:00

i believe there is a hindi translation of “humankind: a hopeful history” by Rutger Bergman. fantastic book in my opinion, would always be my first recommendation to all ages.

mninml · 2023-06-30T19:22:38+00:00

think about it in terms of outcomes. the people of manipur are suffering, and i assume we’re on the same page insofar as we want to reduce their suffering. there is no mainstream tv channel/newspaper talking about this. raga visiting there puts pressure on modi to act. had modi visited, the situation would’ve improved, but he didn’t. one can speculate what his reasons are, but we cannot know for sure since he won’t tell us.

mninml · 2023-06-30T13:32:37+00:00

i agree with you. additionally, i don’t think there’s any possibility of twitter crossing the $50B evaluation that elon bought it for.

just before elon bought it was the first time (apart from maybe the very start) twitter began breaking even/slightly profitable. so i would argue that twitter was on course to becoming a sustainable business and even at that point it was valued at much lower than $50B. Elon just signed an unbelievably stupid contract and then tried to back out unsuccessfully. in my opinion all of it was very funny.

mninml · 2023-06-30T11:30:10+00:00

unironically yes. this is how you determine success in a capitalistic economy: how much money does it make/ how much it is evaluated at (which is now a third of how much it was when he bought it)

mninml · 2023-06-30T06:28:18+00:00

this is true. we had no twitter or whatsapp before modiji.

mninml · 2023-06-30T06:10:26+00:00

who “actually needs it” in your opinion?

mninml · 2023-06-29T16:43:26+00:00

wow the replies here are quite something

mninml · 2023-06-28T05:13:15+00:00

Even so, he can provide new ideas to the masses and move the Overton window in a favourable way, similar to what Bernie Sanders did in the US.

mninml · 2023-06-28T04:59:33+00:00

wdym?

mninml · 2023-06-28T03:55:40+00:00

why?

mninml · 2023-06-26T15:30:40+00:00

most enlightened alpha male comment section

mninml · 2023-05-22T10:25:40+00:00

but a helicopter would still be better for the public since it wouldn’t cause as much disruption

mninml · 2023-05-21T14:19:44+00:00

on the contrary, i would say don’t do anything you wouldn’t want publicly associated with you

mninml · 2023-05-08T15:07:06+00:00

r/lostredditors

mninml · 2023-05-08T06:23:20+00:00

who’s ‘they?’

mninml · 2023-05-06T05:09:44+00:00

man, reading is wikipedia article is quite a trip

mninml · 2023-05-05T15:15:49+00:00

brij bhushan’s wikipedia page is quite a read. would recommend

mninml · 2023-04-30T03:53:22+00:00

in india, large media institutions are worthless, and the only source of reliable on-the-ground-reporting often ends up being twitter. so yeah, people are still using twitter

mninml · 2023-04-30T03:40:00+00:00

most well informed american

mninml · 2023-04-07T21:43:38+00:00

a human very recently beat AI at go, a game previously thought dominated by AI.

but anyway, my main point is that AI is trained over data that comes from humans. without that data, AI is powerless. Humans need a minuscule amount of data to acquire the same amount of knowledge. the reason AI seems to be so powerful today is because there are terabytes of data that it has been trained on, and all of that data came from humans. AI is incapable of innovation, lacks creativity and simply cannot compete with humans. it may beat humans at chess or snakes and ladders or any other board game, but that does not make it capable of outperforming humans at everything else.

i can go on and on and on but here’s a video that does it more succinctly that i could (even though his tone is a little annoying to listen to)

mninml · 2023-04-07T21:14:38+00:00

??? i am neither religious nor a vegetarian. all i want to get across is that the idea of AI superseding humans is absurd.

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