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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • I wasnā€™t going to explain my downvote, but itā€™s been a few days and apparently everybody here is thinking about MRAs when thereā€™s more at stake.

    I see Nixon in Trump: somebody who starts and prolongs wars for their own political gain. Of my three uncles who qualified to go to Vietnam, one was permanently disabled during basic training, one didnā€™t come back home, and one fell apart before I was born. I had to ā€œvoluntarilyā€ register as a potential servicemember in order to access various standard government services as a young man in the 2000s, while the USA was invading Iraq and Afghanistan. Under a sufficiently fascist government, the USA has shown itself capable of sending its men to death. This system is explicitly misandrist; only men are required to register and only my uncles suffered this hate.

    Misandry isnā€™t equal and opposite to misogyny. Our society was never obligated to hate men and women in ways that are nicely symmetric and amenable to analysis; indeed, critical theory suggests that society deliberately structures itself to obfuscate its hate.




  • I havenā€™t done a headcount yet and the electionā€™s not fully tallied, but I think that the Senate still has around 70% support for NATO, and historically we can expect to see a ā€œblue dogā€ phenomenon in the House as a reaction to Republicans gaining seats. Effectively, both the Democrats and Republicans will function as big tents of two distinct parties, and there is usually tripartisan support (everybody but the far-right Republicans) for imperialism. We may well see votes where the legislators override presidential vetoes to force weapons sales and otherwise fulfill NATO obligations.

    And yes, you read that correctly; Democrats move right as a reaction to Republicans doing well. Go back to bed, Americaā€¦











  • Itā€™s almost completely ineffective, sorry. Itā€™s certainly not as effective as exfiltrating weights via neighborly means.

    On Glaze and Nightshade, my prior rant hasnā€™t yet been invalidated and thereā€™s no upcoming mathematics which tilt the scales in favor of anti-training techniques. In general, scrapers for training sets are now augmented with alignment models, which test inputs to see how well the tags line up; your example might be rejected as insufficiently normal-cat-like.

    I think that ā€œforce-feedingā€ is probably not the right metaphor. At scale, more effort goes into cleaning and tagging than into scraping; most of that ā€œforcedā€ input is destined to be discarded or retagged.