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Ngo has been playing footsie with race science since as long as I have been skimming LW.
The irony is that in any "normal" space (i.e. not Stormfront) he would have been booted out toot sweet for being a racist. On LW, he's tolerated, even celebrated, but apparently not enough for his liking. It's not enough that he can spew race science unopposed by any meaningful reaction, everyone else has to take his position.
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the piece he authored 6 months ago and references here is a doozy too
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The overwhelming majority of successful civilizations throughout history have been nation-states, at least to some degree, which should be addressed in some capacity by any argument claiming that it's a suboptimal way to organize a society.
uh... the Roman Empire was a nation-state? Holy Roman Empire? (ok not as good an example) Ottoman Empire? Basically all of India pre-Brits?
A huge part of the French Revolution was the codification of France as "The Nation" of French people, not as the weird personifciation of the king. But somehow I suspect that bringing up the French Republic won't be hugely popular in this crowd.
The best thing an unpopular regime can ask for is the enemy they have been bigging up as literally The Great Satan starts dropping bombs and missiles on the populace that hates it.
"If we bomb people and show their government can't protect them, they will turn against the government and we will win" has been tried by the Germans on Londoners, the Allies on Germany and Japan, and the US on Serbia, and it didn't work.
Interesting link but it moves into AI hype near the end.
I mean it's presumably still standing, just with a slightly cheaper set of owners ;)
It looks more like they used an LLM (Copilot) to construct programs using the new features in the language.
So more "hop on the bandwagon using LLMs to advertise" rather than "we used LLMs to develop"
OTOH "these new features are so advanced you need AI to use them" is a bit of a weird sell
"[a] cult leader who has nothing to show for except for his eugenicist self and writing a Harry Potter fan fiction"
I mean, that could be anyone.
This is the inevitable evolution of climate change denialism - accept it's real and happening, just that it's too late / too expensive to do anything about it.
"tenant of white supremacy"
White Supremacy is the worst landlord.
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I believe the scientific consensus is that it originated in a wet market in Wuhan.
The "lab leak theory", while not impossible, is also shorthand for a morass of conspiracy theories grounded in racist attitudes towards China. It somehow conflates that the pandemic is China's fault, if not an outright attack from China, while simultaneously downplaying any efforts to mitigate such an attack.
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"enjoy" this comment from a lobster which almost perfectly encapsulates every pro-clanker viewpoint in one handy place
https://lobste.rs/c/0ug3so