drhead [he/him]

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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • Case by case is the only reasonable answer.

    I don’t think there’s anyone who would say that Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood is bad to watch dubbed, the dub as far as I can tell even has adjustments to preserve wordplay without it being awkward (think of how often “trump card” is used in anime) which is one of the hardest things to do with translation work. There’s some where both have merits, like early seasons of Jojo, part 2 was great dubbed but both part 1 and part 2 have tons of memes that are mostly from random English phrases in the original. Later seasons definitely sub only, literally what is the point of watching part 3 without ZA WARUDO? Why is there no Italian dub of Golden Wind? Also there’s very special cases like Ghost Stories.


  • Just something that I feel like I have to remind people of whenever it comes up: mainstream psychology does not recognize porn addiction as a real thing, based on the lack of evidence/lack of consensus to support a consistent diagnostic criteria. The only actually recognized related condition is compulsive sexual behavior disorder, which is not using an addiction model.

    I’m quite sure that there has to be at least someone who has problematic pornography use habits which aren’t just a symptom of another issue, but without anyone being able to pin down a consistent set of diagnostic criteria, then there’s barely any way to identify who those people are separately from people who report it but whose distress is coming from something else. One study done on self-reported pornography addiction found that the strongest predictor was moral objection to pornography, not amount of porn use. Another two studies found that antagonistic narcissism is an even better predictor (might read it when it isn’t 3AM). Your analysis is actually touching on this somewhat – a narcissist’s interest in “addressing their pornography addiction” is mostly that they think that it will elevate them above the porn addicts, or whatever other target.







  • Honestly, if I was trying to manipulate online discourse to deliberately cause as much political turmoil as possible, not only would I do agitprop for the far left and far right to anger the other side, I would also make sure to post a large amount of centrist propaganda that is callously dismissive of legitimate issues and suggest that foreign manipulation is part of it. That would both piss off at least one side (depending on the issue) and cast doubt on the idea that foreign manipulation is actually even happening in the first place.


  • Main difference is that blockchain never had an actual use case (speculation doesn’t count) beyond buying heroin and running ransomware. Machine learning had practical applications for years that nobody really thought much of at the time, and the marketers got a hold of it after it was fairly well established without them and right at the point of a massive wave of breakthroughs in the area.

    That being said, there is a fucking massive AI bubble. A large portion of the things we’re seeing will survive when that pops, but boy are there a lot of very overconfident investors who are going to get burned hard on this.




  • Should also probably include some recommendations for less expensive routers that can use OpenWrt along with this? Mine cost me $300… I don’t regret it because I have found at least that much utility in it, from this and from finally being able to intercept my smart TV’s hardcoded DNS requests and blocking the ads, but I’m pretty sure that there are better deals to be had that don’t involve paying $300 for one of the radios to not work due to bad driver support.


  • I think you forgot to include the part where he thinks this needs to be done so that we can, essentially, kill all of the dumb people who would get tricked by a rising superintelligent AI.

    There are so many cranks in “AI safety” stuff to the point where it is legitimately difficult to talk about what should be done that isn’t very obviously slanted for some industry’s benefit. You’ve got people like this, you’ve also got people like Gladstone that are LITERALLY EX-PENTAGON PEOPLE SPONSORED BY LOCKHEED MARTIN (who I am sure are very concerned about AI safety – the only way I could be more convinced is if it was Boeing), who have suspicious demands that the publication of open-source models should be made illegal (probably out of concerns about China, as if half of the papers I read on new developments aren’t already from them or the Noah’s Ark lab in Moscow). There is no well that is unpoisoned here.