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It is a warning bell of some kind that this is even on the web. I usually only behave unaffectedly around my mom, my ex and my best friend from grad school ;-/.
I was trying to shoot for a more staid and professional demeanor.
Well..things have changed. I doubt that anyone I respect in science, medicine or any of the people I follow would smack me down so I assert my right to exist vociferously protesting whatever a kraken is!
I have rights! What is a kraken anyway?
Well it can have Shalab Kumar, Dmitri Mehlhorn, Reid Hoffman, Vincent Palathingal, Ragy Thomas, Elon and Errol Musk (he is a pedophile!), Mitesh Bohra, Suhail Doshi, Tara MacGowan, Jessica Krause, Blippi (because why not?), Fei Fei Li, Shyam Sankar, Alex Karp, Peter Norvig, Paul Singer, Peter Thiel, Pavel Durov, all of the Atlantic/New Yorker/NYT, Sebastian Thrun, Joe Rogan, Musa Al Gharbi, Lyman Stone, Yasmin Nair, Mark Cuban, Kanury S Rao, Walter Lewin, Matt Lauer, Geoff Marcy, Stephen A Morse, all the MeTooed creeps, Matt Walsh, Christopher Rufo, Larry Ellison, Nick Fuentes, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Christopher Manning, Priscilla Chan, Clare Wu, Bill Ackman, Neri Oxman, all of the IDW, Stepfanie Tyler, RFK Jr, Olivia Nuzzi, Steve Bannon, Joy Boulamwini, Gita Gambhir, Jeff Bezos, race2dinner, Beverly DAngelo (no quarter for bogus left ruining the image of the left), all of the Manhattan Institute, Chamath Palihapitiya, Erik Prince, all crypto creeps, Judd Apatow (his movies are an abomination destroying the very fabric of reality), Balaji Srinivasan, Julian Simon, Frances Chance, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Bjorm Lomborg, Renee DiResta, Michael Shellenberger, Yasha Mounck, The Breakthrough Institute, Laura Loomer, Marc Andreessen, Horowitz, Nick Land, Curtis Yarvin, Ambani, Liz Bruenig/Beth Amato/Anthony Galluzzo/Fergie Chambers (with apologies to Yasha Levine/Evgenia Kovda - they are two of my favorite writers out and some of those are their friends, but this is not an academic issue for me and left pronatalism is a scourge; it isnt the JFK assassination so much as the effects of people who sabotaged family planning when infant mortality rates fell the world over who made the planet this unlivable hellscape where women have fewer and fewer rights; some of us do not get to even consider lives this disconnected from any limits to growth; Sam Miller Macdonald gets it and his book Progress is really worth a read; but the Ehrliches got it long back and faced unfair smears from people who unwittingly perpetuated the Cato worldview; Ben Wray of the Jacobin wrote a mindbogglingly inane piece on the topic which demonstrates how broken and mechanical that thought process is), Adani, Jack Ma, Noah Smith, all economists, all of Hollywood/Bollywood etc, Michael Levine, Betsy Hartmann, Naomi Klein, Yasha Mounck, Aaron Elkins, Alex Pentland, Ben Waber, Rosalind Picard, Rana el Kaliouby, Ed Boyden, basically all of the MIT Media Lab, Jim Landay, Keith Humphreys, Ben Wray, Casey Phillips, Slavoj Zizek, Freddie DeBoer, Larry Summers, Park Soon-Shiong, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Lawrence Krauss, Louis CK, Nina Vasan, Paradiso, Smita Das, Richard Lindzen, David Sacks, Jay Kaspian Kang, Andrea Long Chu (one reason I no longer identify as a liberal are the endless culture wars; class warfare can fall pray to the same trap - I watched a show Billionaires Bunker for a few mins and noted how it shilled a form of class warfare that has nothing to do with solidarity/basic wants and needs but merely a desire to also be one of these jerks and get a cut of a broken pie), Jasmine Tayag, Sabine Hossenfelder, The Discovery Institute, Bobby Azarian, Ezra Klein, Jonathan Haidt, Merrick Garland, Charles Murray, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Derek Thompson, Bill Gates, Russel Vought, Alexandr Wang, JD Vance, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ray Kurzweil, Eliezer Kudkowsky, pretty much every creep in the book More everything foreverLucy Guo and all other creeps/charlatans/opportunists/girlbosses/
meninists/earth-destroyers/pronatalists/shopaholics/bunker builders or bunker coveters/Toad eaters/bullies/kayfabe persons/all persons in short whom it is torture to read, hear, register etc etc.
I havent decided yet if Melvin Vopson and Robert Lanza are kraken food. Vopson shills blockchain technology so he should probably be fed to Kraken.
A carefully curated and diverse, inclusive collection of creepy, corrupt, opportunistic, hideous and awful people with even some gender parity and both sides politics! Not a person on that list doesnt deserve to be kraken food.
The kid in sixth sense thought he had problems. I see and hear stupid people all the time when I look at our media. Stupid as Andy Nikiforuk would define it not as Charles Murray/Henry Harpending etc would.
I would not generally bet on winning most popularity contests, but most any averagely decent and honest human could beat that collection of sleazebags and maybe I am wrong, but as I infer it, if you just shove some randoms at a Kraken that is enough?
I actually really like all the labs I worked in. They were all truly decent people as was a lab adjacent to my last lab. I realized with surprise while I was worrying about the problem of trust that I would unambiguously trust even the people I had inane spats with. The important thing is would you trust this person on science in such a complex landscape? And absolutely yes. So all else is cool.
My doctors have generally been decent. That Mtg Fauci and Hawley Ketanji thing gave me an idea.
I figure if people are randomly being thrown to Kraken, no one would miss any of those people.
Peace on earth!
I blame Troy Farah, Evgenia Kovda, Yasha Levine and the left broadly for pumping me up..I was and largely am planning to stay offline. But this is less kayfabe than elite strategizing 🧐..
I dont care what anyone says, while Nazi appeasement doesnt work, I totally champion outrunning Kraken by throwing random dislikable creeps to it. At the very least it would be one of the more confusing spectacles allowing one to beat a quiet retreat from what DUer flashman correctly identified as crazytown 🤭. Desperate times call for desperate measures!
Anyway I have to make some serious posts because I have to file some real complaints. For decent humans at all levels to be safe from their efforts and lives being destroyed, you have to ensure that all creeps and sleazebags face a real check.
As a marijuana user and generally mildly disreputable scientist (mostly just bad jokes which I stand by..if these creeps can break everything, why cant I suggest some alternatives to tormenting public sector workers? I will no longer be quelled even if that person Kent Anderson disapproves! He is lucky he is not on my list of Kraken food..He is kind of preachy, but I have grudgingly concluded that one could not in good conscience justify feeding him to Kraken. I have standards!)
Some things finally make sense and it is a relief on the one hand with the parts of the scientific community I was always fond of. Nothing scares me more than bad science (all that llm garbage) or dishonesty. It is why Yasha Levine for instance has been so important to me in what I used to think of as a dark time, but now view more as a confusing time with some really horrible and self serving people.
I can and do forgive errors - science and medicine are hard. I cant forgive genuinely not caring and not even recognizing that because you are so puffed up in yourself.
The penny has kinda dropped in a way and it is alarming on the one hand, but not entirely an infinity away from something very, very, very, very, very, very, very, far from optimism..
And a big part of it is restored faith in things making sense where they are things one cares about.
Troy Farah is awesome. Nothing makes one feel as certain of being discounted sometimes as being an Environmentalist out of love for earth and its animals and flora for their own sake (Chris Ketcham, Nandita Bajaj, the Ehrliches, Chris Packham, Marina Bolotnikova etc would understand). And yet this looks scary. Part of the serious action I will be taking with cross verification is to ensure that the web of life (ecological or human systems that are acceptable) do not get turned into cynical marketing and social engineering tools.
Anyway at I truly owe the Left humanists (the Greens are my own morose Barn 8 ilk - ;-/) - you guys here and Yasha Levine, Evgenia Kovda, Troy Farah/the Salon team (minus food), Sam Miller Macdonald, Nathan Robinson/Current Affairs, Ed Zitron, Briahna Joy Gray, Matt Stoller, Alec Karakatsanis etc. I feel politically lonely more than socially..but after I got cut off from my colleagues and lost my mom, there really was a hole in my heart I guess ;-/..
But the left healed it and I always think of the left when I listen to this. I am not usually big on music.
But I had a dual dedication to make. Everything is conserved.
This is dedicated to all the kraken food I described 🤭:
This is dedicated to Yasha Levine, Evgenia Kovda, Troy Farah, Nathan Robinson..I really was sickening from the type of bilge that passes for media..I am a pretty cheerful person adjusted for this hideous background. But Ruth Cain nailed it in here piece Neoliberalism is bad for your mental health. And reading what passes for mainstream social commentary (let alone the right) makes it worse..
I like the part where she goes:
Ah-haa (ah-haa)
And when you want the truth
They only spit in your eye
Oh yeah, they're only telling you lies
Oh yeah, there's gotta be rock'n roll
To fill the hole in your soul
I usually think of Evgenia Kovda at that part. She is pretty cool..I used to be able to kick out morons. But the years took their toll, but because of a very cool vegan lady locally and Evgenia, I kind of grew my backbone back which creeps, meninists and girlbossing in combination had pretty much destroyed. I agree with Yasha that the net is a toxic waste dump a lot. But paradoxically the rare things I found like their site I did find via the net. 90-95% of it was junk though and will be checked.
As with Harjinder Singh, irresponsibility at scale is not an option anywhere.
Stewart/Colbert 2028!
I have rights! I cant keep being mired in stupidity!
*judiciously* Brian Driscoll strikes me as high quality Kraken. Shame he is out of work.
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I am always in two minds when I post. But the main reason for this post is that it is genuinely decent of EarlG to give me a forum.
And when people allow you use of a forum, under circumstances like these, you owe them genuine honesty. EarlG I do think would believe me when I say that I would never use DU to shitpost or casually raise my profile for products that dont exist. Though as a non-influencer I am going to give a shoutout to a few small businesses locally as they are examples of how the more decent people in all sectors are screwed over.
While I am grimly preparing another round of kraken food, I get genuine pleasure from building other humans up and only tear people down when it is absolutely essential. It is clear to me now that there is a kind of brutal arbitrariness and balance in nature such that if poorly regulated systems are permitted to escalate unfair and stupid things along with random brutality, the better people are always targeted by the worst. Which I have been observing with ever increasing grimness, I kid you not.
It should also be clear except to blatantly disgenuous operatives who dog me at least locally, that I have no wish to be anything but an anonymous publicly funded scientist in my own damn field.
I am vaguely under the impression that nature quite possibly intended for me to be a very different type of woman, who doesnt really go off topic by choice and certainly never attracts unwanted attention deliberately (Liu Cixins dark forest but mainly worry about telemarketers, scammers, politicians, influencers or possibly even worse).
I am less worried about creeps or catty people these days as long as they are not also stupid.
If you cannot distinguish between someone who (while unverified by various scammy little lie detectors, emotion ai and bot or not tests) is a human who is forced to weigh in for various reasons I will spell out over time, then I cannot see that constant attempts at appeasement of such persons is anything but idiocy.
I can assure anyone with a still functioning brain
never had any wish to enter any disgraceful online frays. But I am starting to get the sense that some people who are not trolls and jerks sometimes wish people like me would weigh in more. As much as I am dubious sometimes.
There is nothing I condemn so much as shit stirring or breaking things.
I repeat myself sometimes because some things are worth repeating - one reason I dislike those Si Valley creeps who move fast and break shit so much is that-1) how irresponsible do you have to be to inflict large amounts of collateral damage that way? But well ok, I was myself a bumbling fool who broke things so often it seemed like the height of charlatanry to scold people 😤. The difference is that I cannot remember a time when I was not extremely embarrassed and ashamed. Early on because one would get yelled at true.
But over time more from seeing the amount of care and thought my colleagues and doctors etc put into things. That pretty much anyone I trust from delivery boys, people who prepare food or do any damn decent job honestly put in that you would have to be such an ass not to give a shit.
Now there is a corollary, a lot of the problem with reality aside from the move fast bros is people who have a truly superficial understanding of reality but huff and puff no matter how many indications there are all around you that our world is interconnected and more and more obviously. Sheldon Whitehouses video in E&E alludes to this.
This was an understanding I had early in life.
(More on the way..;-/ ..I blame Troy Farah..I was totally hoping to use Yasha Levines posts which do not apply to this situation to justify staying offline.. And like President Trump, I shall eventually weave my way back to the original point. I switch between the styles of the lefty internet troll for all that I condemn kayfabe/trolling and the coldly correct style of the publicly funded or citizen scientist. It is not clear to me that one can address this brutal and absurd mess without troll adjacent styles sometimes.
But while I certainly have no intention of ever coming to the US, one reason for alarm is my genuine concern in a transactional and unprincipled world that lionizes winners, that the USA going this way means the emergence of China as a superpower and I part ways with the dirtbag left I am normally in wrt seeing that as any kind of positive.
Musk has deep ties in China and it is the most successful authoritarian power we have. So I consider it another of Chomskys many mistakes and one of Robinsons few that they dont get how scary that type of fascism as opposed to this more cartoon version would be. I have some idea unfortunately.
I say this as someone with no view of national security as anything but strictly utilitarian. I mean my main muses are Yasha Levine and Evgenia Kovda. But as I put some things together I understand why people who normally are not prone to confusing methodologies need one to get the various really creepy traps of stupidity ahead.
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It is the music appreciation forum!
I have many doubts about being online ;-/. But if bullshit jobs are the bane of modern society, no publicly funded or citizen scientist can eschew shit work, whatever its unexpected form.
I have many concerns about doing what at the end of the day is uncomfortably close to shitposting.
And yes I dont deny a certain (if somewhat hollow if this goes nowhere) pleasure at the thought of throwing some of the targets of my ire like Peter Norvig to whatever the fuck a kraken is.
Dont go around writing awful pieces in Noema shilling these fucking awful technologies if you dont want people (well me anyway) to fervently think Yeah this guy really should be fed to the kraken. And that is obviously not a call for violence etc. I cannot idiotproof the web that guys like Norvig shill so enthusiastically.
Presumably shill that is..
It doesnt take ADD for about 1 minute to be as long as one can stand to read anything that guy writes.
I mean, maybe he is a nice person, but I doubt it.
This is as all happening as many of my real world friends in science or other areas (especially pooer people I have lost touch with in the US-service workers on the fringes of the music industry etc) are not doing that well. And I have lost patience with blatantly bogus pretences of roleplaying an ostrich or a really, genuinely stupid woman for not having a conversational response to some of this after years of mind boggling stupidity that should not yet again as in Dr Faucis target the best people around.
The attacks on Dr.Fauci, one of the rare public figures that even someone as jaded as I am genuinely respects, made a deep impression on me. I would hate anyone I ever knew or cared about to be unfairly attacked like that and well if these guys want to destroy the public sector and well-regulated systems maybe this is an early warning signal of the arbitrariness of something like the monster in Nope and guys like Norvig (again presumably) who love The Spectacle.
I really mostly hate to do this. But between all of you, people with money/power/influence etc you have built/made a society that is increasingly entirely unlivable in, in any sane way and someone -even people like me who hate to give an opportunity to the dimmest attention seeker or reflexively argumentative fake contrarian who fails to get that someone living in the proper real accidentally stumbled into these bullshit worlds of media, politics, internet fluff and the private sector, and can no longer hold back. I kept trying to go back to the real and found that maybe I will have to yell to clear a path so I can do that.
I am not tough online and a wilting willow (the name of a stupid Google chip those creeps probably use to simulate clunky multiverses all of which have one thing in common - they suck) offline. But thanks to people like Norvig (it was a really terrible piece and no one who reads it should fail to register that if they like it they are legit candidates for kraken food themselves) now it isnt easy to disentangle oneself without conflict.
This isnt The Spectacle because I will take every form of real world action to bolster this since I am finally resigned to having to post online so no foul crap continues to grow unregulated or try to pirate and hijack more of my real world or virtual spaces assuming that everyone everywhere is a lame, attention hungry and somewhat stupid person who cannot see through inane ruses.
This disgraceful attempt I see growing to sow confusion to mask who you truly are is as blatantly stupid as it is tiresome.
Rather than shitposters online, oddly enough lately I have been thinking of a certain type of extremely respectable real world scientist or the most responsible type of online far lefty when posting. Because there is too much bs by now in what the notion of a Serious Person is as bullies and sycophants thrive in autocratic, dictatorial and senseless societies.
(Speaking of which, I totally think Indivisible should take Reid Hoffmans tainted wealth as long as it doesnt affect the integrity of their work. These guys have hoarded wealth to a point where one is forced to back ones favorite non-profits/causes/people from the Humane League to Current Affairs to Yasha Levine/Christopher Ketcham etc taking money wherever they can find it for all of the survival of anything that doesnt suck).
I am fortunate in having a fairly robust cushion. But worried that if this keeps up soon all systems will break so badly it will hard to survive. And even I cannot afford more days lost to drivel
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(16,663 posts)These days, try as I do to focus on my real work, as a citizen scientist, I am too dismayed by the implications of some of what I see, especially given the knowledge of the devastating effects on my own human life and my moms of clunky rollouts of stuff where anything potentially cool is mired with parasitic, dishonest junkware.
I do not favor throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater, but I do need to know sooner rather than much later which is which. And for any further growth or construction in or contiguous to any of the three properties I am a joint owner of (0000F5D7 is the ID as Tata knows).
As the Yimbies and other pro deregulation and pilfering with sad kayfabe types explode I cannot continue to be stripped of a say in the use of my own assets, not to mention continued violations of my civil rights.
The web of life is an amazing thing. A year ago I read about Tejas Thackeray and took a liking to the guy, because of his implicit understanding of that. He talked about how everything in nature is interconnected
Nature can be brutal, but for the most part it is remarkably efficient. Killing is relatively swift and occurs only as needed.
By contrast, in an Idiocracy especially, human built systems are slow, wasteful, mind boggling cruel and favor the appearance of efficiency over the real thing. Alison Taylor wrote a piece on corrupt firms which captures the dynamic.
And with societies as broken as ours are on even the most obvious environment friendly stances it is alarming.
Factory farms or equally vile wet markets are not just horrifically cruel, they are a breeding ground for disease. One of the better articles in The New Republic pointed out that maybe wanting cheap eggs is itself the problem. It is not truly utopian to keep sowing seeds for worsening polycrises.
Further, by 2026 extreme cruelty to animals is not a cultural issue to embrace. In both Western and Eastern traditions there are far better things to point to with pride than wet markets and factory farms.
If we had a press that was less of an embarrassment to everything instead of fawning sycophantically on some guys whose main talent is scamming suckers, they would grasp far more
It brings me to my second point from the previous post, If you were actually that bright you would unambiguously be able to move fast without breaking shit. If you need to basically buy up the govt and destroy regulations so you can pollute space, breed prolifically while huffing ketamine and boasting about rocket explosions, odds are you are a sign of a profoundly and more scarily irreparably broken society rather than the genius.
I recently read a book by Adam Becker, who is really cool and an actually really intelligent and characteristically humble typical scientist.
But even he disappointly cannot come and outright admit that these guys are stupid. There is such a thing as too much humility and it afflicts many of the better adults (who are also less susceptible to the juggernauts these idiots visit on people like me)
Everything described in his book documents a spiralling out of control Idiocracy.
And yet even he does not dispute the notion that this lunatic thugocracy (Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, a truly nightmarish person called Ray Kurzweil) is full of geniuses rather than a scarier variation on 1984s scurrying beetle like men. And that is the type that thrives in what has long been an Idiocracy
I really cannot condemn our press enough. This is why I find reading the average mainstream piece of media akin to light torture. They describe as geniuses some guys who can write some code and then dropout and learn how to game suckers.
If you look at publicly funded science the barrier by contrast is often really high. And that is right. You dont want science to ever be a field where the barriers to entry are low and easy to game.
I was always very aware that if you break something, you inconvenience a large number of people and destroy expensive precision instrumentation and generally turn into the type of person who is rightly reviled.
But at my last workplace (the first marketplace friendly workplace I ever worked in) for the first time ever I noticed something alarming. The side by side coexistence of genuinely brilliant (and strained, stressed and unhappy seeming) scientists and a collection of this fatuous idiot type who really doesnt seem to give a shit.
I would end up seeing that again over and over and over in some form or another.
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(16,663 posts)I was pleased to see an obligatory bot or not test on Evgenia Kovdas page this morning.
A picture of a strange coiffed lady surrounded by various creeps and ghouls, a line tailing off into grave at the top and a severed head with bumps all over it at the right side. Or at least it looks like severed head and for all I know those are not creeps, but worthy stalwarts who should not face false allegations!
At this point whether I pass bot or not tests, I remain leery of Rohrshak tests aimed to assessing sanity. I am generally more confident that I can pass bot or not tests or even character tests than sanity tests which is making me indignant as I see the kinds of people who pass for sane and self-aware in a context that DUer Flashmans post in E&E correctly called crazytown.
Anyway if anyone reads these dreary screeds, I am always pleased to raise the profile of the rare people I admire like Yasha Levine and Evgenia Kovda and DUs own EarlG (whose patience I always worry about straining). There are very few adults I trust and I hope if I ever grate on EarlG and DU I have the sense to shut up.
But I have to attack a lot of stupidity that has been leaking into the real - Yasha (Levine not Mounck, another fake curmudgeon who thinks the thinking public cannot distinguish between authentic embittered curmudgeons and a class of fake curmudgeons who think attacking their equally bogus emotional and empathetic counterparts conceals the fact that both are at the end of the day just personas and not real.)
I feel like a total ass doing all of this, but as the bills and bodies mount I can no longer endure this mind bogglingly stupid situation especially as in this brainless Idiocracy instead of any of these fine samples of Kraken food, I offered up, I am seriously worried if ever someone decent ends up getting affected. Hence all the Kraken outreach I suppose to direct them to food not friends! Fish are food not friends! Or rather the other way around..
Anyway as for bots, how close can those moronic things be to taking over the world when apparently they can be confounded by such stuff..one of the reasons I started this indignant posting spree is, I saw and see what are by now probably thanks to some creepy and crappy type of physical ai things an execrable version of those fucking lame and stupid LLMs-so clunky, tacky, annoying and pointless that this has to stop.
To destroy healthy human and animal biology for the greed of some tacky and trashy ai and data mining companies is an abomination I will not stand for anymore.
One person -a person who meant the world to me-my mom-is already dead and I have lost at least 14 years and 5 months to this clunky, moronic pointless drivel and just no.
I mean - I often do not know whether to laugh or weep or both because I mean it is one thing to lose to some sort of theoretical actually super ai and quite another to a series of scammy put up jobs that..
Fittingly Evgenias post was titled The disappearance of the barbarians and that made me think of this movie Barbarian -much like President (I mean you guys did elect him fair and square..) Trumps weave it ties back!
It would take a significant amount of scientific prowess to be able to program actually meaningful pattern matching into these irresponsibly disseminated things.
You would by my estimate need a fairly sophisticated understanding of the optical, electrical and mechanical sciences and more to program a deep understanding of reality into such things that would be the kind of ai Yan Lecun, the sole person I trust in ai, aside from Rollo Carpenter, whose bot I have trashed up as much as I am trashing up DU.
Well..I..have no defense except that most people who will interact with these things (the rare creep with some quickness when it comes to science, but has no understanding about how reality works like the rest of these dim-witted kleptocrats - I am a poet! It is true that these dimwitted creeps tap into ..something) will be more or less like me. And my canny and awesome Gift of Fear (weave!) based reasoning tells me that it means that more of these rubbishy things will be programming more junk that idiots like this ass Alex Pentland will try to turn into some form of ghastly advertising and this is all entirely unsustainable and ugly and awful and should not exist and instead be wiped off the face of the earth retaining only the names and data of every human and company going back 15-16 years insane enough to think universities, hospitals (hospitals!) and private residences are places into which this junk shoukd be embedded for no actually real security or other rationale-if anything these methods create more security and other risks and I refuse to be blamed for programming these things with moronic schizophrenic pattern matching as that ass Christopher Manning would claiming no doubt identifying a desperate, eager-eyed, meretricious little toad who is good at science! If you ignore the fact that this isnt some sort or meritocratic correction but lies and large scale plunder.
Yan Lecun remains one of the sole people I trust on ai aside from Timnit Gebru/Dair and Emily Bender who would be swiftly booted out of any system that wasnt entirely corrupt and fascistic, so they are at the end of the day rabble inspite of their very real talent because like most honest scientists they cant just say what is popular and well..they possess other attributes which make them trustworthy in my book, unlike Fei Fei Li or Joy Buolamwini.
I am worried that at this point getting booted out of everywhere has become a hallmark of trust. I was internally projecting Harry Harrisons Make Room! Make Room! future for the most part not nuclear apocalypse. But if this keeps up..I would be really sad if people I know got booted out.
Unlike me -I didnt object to getting booted out that much since that tracked with my competence level. But I did object to being smeared and slandered on top of it.
And it was not any decent scientists (including scientists I had irrelevant spats with)
this dimwitted tech driven Idiocracy is like a factory farm for humans and I hated being incited against any scientists I ever met aside from a collection of dimwits I met between Feb 2012-2015. I shall list them out formally. I have rarely met people irl who were not truly decent and competent. I do my best to keep it that way.
I am neither rich nor competent enough to be able to take on other peoples stupidity and lack of self awareness on top of my own.
I finally cracked and got sick of roleplaying a moron and decided, okay if this is how we are doing things now, I will throw arbitary random annoying CS and other creeps to the kraken.
Not the most elegant strategy, but well..I was inspired by all the profoundly stupid creeps I never meet but sense in the water. Well it is more that with this brainless crew of attention seeking egotists, it is unlikely that they are coyly lurking out of sight out of some kind of bashful modesty and likelier that they are upto shady shit and trying to mask their own incompetence while shining a spotlight on those of ordinary flawed humans.
But Prof Lecun is right - intelligence is specialized..Oh thats right. That Hassabis is another candidate for Kraken food.
I have grudgingly concluded that John Hennessy and Mustafa who cannot be avoided, while not like Prof Lecun may be the least worthy of feeding to kraken of this unsavory and generally unpromising collection of Wizard of Ozes destroying all of our lives. I cant switch to another computer and that Mustafa person looks like the best bet re terminating these awful things though his book looks as terrible ss the lobster creeps from Promising Young Woman (I attribute influences! Ai doesnt! And that is not a false allegation of any sort though if these rubbishy things replace human hr that kind of association is what you can expect. Because humans do not think like Pentlands sad and scammy voice inflection bs nor Michael Kosinskis lameass facedar, but make assessments or other humans with way more sophistication).
The reason I bring up The Gift of Fear is women like me have to make a lot of decisions with very little information. Especially in my case since I am a solitary person who dislikes human companionship and robots except rarely. And it drains me to have to talk, in spite of the dubious pleasures of being a Kraken chef.
I dont actually like tearing people down. But it turns out that beyond a point agreeability or civiity are as bad as unprovoked aggression.
Now it is true that almost every person on that kraken food list is a complete random. And merely someone I unabashedly stand by registering as someone who is breaking reality. Oh yeah I have to add Andy Ng and that woebot woman.
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One reason I have embarked on this dubious shitposting spree is that it truly isnt all about me! And I was listening to the chapotraphouse the other day - apparently they are the dirtbag left..huh..well I cannot say that doesnt sound relatable..but they were talking about in a suitably titled series called hell on earth about Martin Luther and how vicious he was with adversaries and opponents and that is a part of this sort of complaint initiation I dislike over the routine hidden kind.
And the thing is..eek..it is motivated in this case more by my - love of my fellow human and of earth.
Love is a word much tainted by now by its association with the kind of cupboard love (Georgette Heyer-attribution!) commonly found on social media. A noxious, poisonous and parasitic insult to the real thing (oh yeah Rene DiResta is also kraken food, though I think she is in there already. Stamos gets a bare pass for jumping ship right on time like Anand Giridhardas although his class for creeps sounds like the kind of pointless effort in rehabilitation that has chafed me for years as I get shoved from psych ward to creep hells and get my spaces polluted by dimwitted ai agents which are not even like the less offensive mechanical nuisances one sees. Speaking of attribution in this weave, Chuck Lorre is not kraken food solely for his depiction of Sheldon Cooper, though trust that guy to spin out a three season gag to 20.
I have fairly modest goals, but they are Environmental, Scientific, social and political and their purpose is to ensure that at least the microcosm of reality that includes my private resources and my civil rights is no longer under the control of series of people who are kraken food and causing a lot of strain and stress to many far more decent human beings - some of whom may have some resources (doctors, publicly funded scientists, honest private sector workers and scientists) and others who exist in far more insecure jobs (delivery boys, writers, artists, musicians etc).
And that is just not cool. Another writer I really like (which makes me feel sorry about consigning Cory Doctorow and all of the EFF to the class of kraken food - sorry the kraken are very unforgiving..it is why the guy in Nope unlike his dimwitted sister, knew that you dont casually mess with animals. I owe EarlG complete honesty as it is the one thing I can always offer. Tangentially, I should also include Noam Chomsky, Aviva Chomsky and Arundhati Roy in the kraken food list - fair and balanced! No..I think in some ways these leftists with no environmental instincts beyond viewing the planet as a mere lifeless lump which is a background for human activity and nothing else have done a lot of damage to the left. It is why to this day inspite of climate change and the cruelty to animals involved, the most dense local leftists consider beef a leftwing issue. Purely reactionary thinking. Obviously I dont think all left leaning people should be vegetarian or vegan. I agree with Matt Stoller, another very cool person, that that would be utopian. But it should at the very least not be shilled as a left and class issue cynically and with no self awareness.) Ed Zitron pointed out how everything in the real world is perfect.
That is so true and that applies not just to rubbish ai but to these humans who are polluting reality with brainless hacks who think they are elite gamers or actors or artists (note to self -other kraken food- traffic snarling creep artist, Alencier- a sexual harasser and Slavoj Zizek type of Indian creep, Frances Haugen, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenbeck, Glenn Greenwald, that Veritas creep whose name I forget). I thought of that when I read about that Aurora theatre shooting. There are people with some genuine talent for lowering mob temperature..these are people I really like who have some qualities of Dr Whos Star Whale.
And it is an insult to them when this talent free hack type or random pile on latches on to very difficult situations (kraken food- Tucker Carlson, Anne Coulter, Greg Gutfeld, a creep my dad watches called Rahul Sivsankar, Navika Kumar..this is biased towards American and Indian creeps and feels less inclusive towards all the other creeps globally since these are the only countries I have lived in) let alone a noxious human like Elon Musk who calls such people pedo guys etc. Projection no doubt.
On the whole the only racist bias I can detect in this writing was moving Sundar Pichai and Shyam Sankar up a few places when clearly the first human to be fed to the kraken is Musk himself, a brainless, ketamine huffing, prolifically breeding, narcissistic bully with delusions of grandeur who appeals to cowardly bullies and sycophants everywhere.
Because it has really been bothering me enough to write this which would be close to shotposting if it wasnt for my hunch that these guys are cowardly bullies 9 out of 10 of whom back off flee at any real pushback. And the 10th one is dangerous and the reason why this sort of completely creepy ans punitive Panopticon is not one to be frightened by but one to definitely pushback against without TikTok shills etc using it as a marketing opportunity for more junk with downstream consequences.
This is the music forum so this is dedicated to all the kraken food in these posts. It isnt just a hole in my heart that these horrible 15 years and my moms death have left..I feel a lot of anger at the thought that anyone can go around brainlessly being all tough while idiotically or self servingly using hospitals where very sick people are dying (a noxious physiotherapist and mindbogglingly unprofessional nurse who made snide comments about privacy as mom was dying..I thought it was less serious because of those morons). So this is dedicated to every piece of shit human who thinks there are never any consequences to stupidity and mob mentality at scale and every decent if flawed person out there (and believe me my threshold for that is not that high..an unfortunate pun ;-/) deserves better. Andy Nikiforuks piece on stupidity gave me courage since Nikiforuk is such a thoroughly decent human being and not someone like Charles Murray. But the faux populism of excusing mindboggling and crass stupidity is a nightmare for people who did not deserve such awful treatment like my mom, my oncologist, my main oncology nurse, my colleagues and my friends.
So here is to these brainless self serving opportunists ifthey are all butthurt:
