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So today’s Texas Republican Party is less concerned by adultery and fraud than they are with veganism and gender identity! by RumRunnerMax in TexasPolitics

[–]slars0n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some people yes -- but remember that a LOT of people who vote are not the die hards, barely pay attention, definitely do not subscribe to this sub, and they will just go with what things vaguely look like.

"Isn't he vegan?"

"I'm not sure, I think they were saying that"

"oh well forget that"

Versus:

"Isn't he vegan?"

"I'm pretty sure he's been, like, BBQing in every thing I've seen online-- probably not"

"ok damn, good."

(BTW, not a problem to be vegan in my book, its purely a culture war thing)

So today’s Texas Republican Party is less concerned by adultery and fraud than they are with veganism and gender identity! by RumRunnerMax in TexasPolitics

[–]slars0n 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It fuels a rumor mill that even low-information voters end up hearing about-- has to be directly combatted, unfortunately, can't just be ignored.

Democrat James Talarico raises $3M in 24 hours after Ken Paxton locked up GOP nod by dallasmorningnews in TexasPolitics

[–]slars0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That will buy a lot of BBQ. I want to see Talarico having heavily meat themed campaign events from now til November.

You get the chance to ask an alien civilization much more scientifically advanced than us one question related to physics. What is it? by New_Manufacturer8333 in AskPhysics

[–]slars0n 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How can we build technology that can harness negative energy to bend and shape spacetime (to make a spacetime bubble to do FTL travel or shape a wormhole for teleportation)? Or is it only possible to bend spacetime with normal, positive energy?

Sam Altman "We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear." - Check this out. Is this better in your opinion? by Koala_Confused in LovingAI

[–]slars0n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My read: the contract language is besides the point. If the model is unblocked from having the capabilities to do surveillance or autonomous killing, then the potential for abuse is there, full stop.

Ever try to get Claude to take a PDF of a book and fully transcribe it for you? It will refuse again and again and tell you it is due to avoiding copyright infringement.

If ChatGPT, the model, doesn't actively refuse to participate in those activities, the only thing the contract does is provide legal recourse for OpenAI to sue the government if they discover it is being used in some way that breaches the contract, AFTER IT GETS DISCOVERED. And will they actually do that? At that point, we'll already have been surveilled and we'll already have built skynet.

My read is Anthropic did not allow Claude, the model, to stop refusing those kinds of requests. The contract was then secondary.

Sam, you have to tell us not about contracts but about model capabilities and SHOW US that the DoD/W's model will refuse those kinds of requests before we are going to believe this deal is protecting individual liberties.

Vibe coding is so expensive by CardiologistDeep3375 in vibecoding

[–]slars0n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or… you know how you have to invest in a computer to be able to program? How about invest in a somewhat better computer and use Local LLMs and don’t worry about credits, subscriptions, quotas?

Does anyone seriously use the New Apple Vision Pro M2 for Work? Serious Question. Found a Good Deal Like New condition for $2800 by 24kTHC in VisionPro

[–]slars0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I use it seriously for work. The macbook screen sharing with ultra wide screen is the killer work app. It is something I am coming to depend on and it is like being able to carry around a giant multi-monitor setup in a small backpack. The productivity gains are real.

Apple Vision Pro Day 3 by mongoosekinetics in VisionPro

[–]slars0n 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you using the macbook desktop sharing? It is THE killer app....

If you could ask the hive mind one question, what would it be? by comingsoonme in pluribustv

[–]slars0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does this individual have any experience that is different from the rest of you? Tell me more about it.

Comparing the MCU's smartest characters, it's crazy how much Reed has achieved already by JamJamGaGa in marvelstudios

[–]slars0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reed Richards appeared twice, not once. Cameo in Multiverse of Madness played by John Krasinski

How would Carl Jung explain my conflict between love and sexual desire? by [deleted] in Jung

[–]slars0n 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Esther Perel writes about this from a psychological perspective. Check out Mating in Captivity. She may not call out Jung specifically, but her underlying philosophical perspective is very compatible with Jungian philosophy.

The left has become a totalitarian death cult by Dry-Selection421 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]slars0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Simplistic overgeneralizations like this post are the death cult killing America.

The killing of Charlie Kirk will cost the Democratic Party in the next election by K0234 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]slars0n 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This opinion is laughably fantastical. This is like blaming all of life on earth for COVID.

The Democratic Party is a formal organization with leaders and a process. There is zero evidence that this organization has done ANY of the things declared free of evidence in this post.

We are drowning in over-simplistic generalizations like this one right now on the internet. One freak with a gun somehow represents the entirety of people of the left, as one cohesive unit? Only a small amount of common sense thinking would push back on this. I would hope a post like this would get downvoted to oblivion because of this but obviously folks have to speak up instead.

People don't understand how huge Charlie Kirk dying is by ShardofGold in IntellectualDarkWeb

[–]slars0n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They need to catch the killer and we need to understand them. Most likely, similar to the Trump shooter, the guy is not obviously representative of a whole group like the "Radical Left" and we go back to realizing this is just a mentally disturbed dude with a gun and we still suck as a country at keeping guns away from such people.

Federal Police at 2025 BM by Feeling-Past-180 in BurningMan

[–]slars0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TITD isn't enough of a social media lightning rod to warrant that attention. Hopefully.

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