#mitigated present

[mitigatedchaos]

I definitely didn't see this much use of the term "corpo" before Cyberpunk 2077.

[iteratedextras]

Twitter: "Everything is computer."

Me: "what. who summed up the early 21st century in just three words?"

Twitter: "The President. By accident."

Me: "Right. That tracks."

[mitigatedchaos]

Just thinking...

Is this why some gen Z people like video so much?

Typing takes ages on a phone.

this can't be true can it

[mitigatedchaos]

Previously, I proposed that progressives might see genetics technology as their new "way to make a better world," and flatten their approach to it just like they do with everything else.

A single, self-identified aspie globe emoji going in this direction does not constitute a movement, and obviously the tweeted position is not in support of coercion. However, the basic logic is there.

I have too much other writing to do, so I can't give my full reasoning here, but I think it's OK if you aren't perfect, and also I think it's OK if your child isn't perfect.

There is more to you than your IQ score, your annual salary, and your educational attainment. Those are just tools we use to make it easier for big dumb things like corporations to organize mass production. They aren't the meaning of life.

This really needs a much longer treatment, but, rough bottom line, I don't recommend using someone else's gametes unless you either have one of those lethal genetic diseases or are having fertility problems.

[blackpilljesus]

Everyone knows that maIes on average are dangerous predators and women are their prey so anybody telling you to trust them or that "it's not all men" wants you harmed by them. They want you dead, they want you raped, they want you sacrified to the beast to save their skin or their loved ones skin. Only to blame you for it after.

Look at all the precautions the average woman takes in every aspect of their lives to navigate maIe violence. I've seen women go as far as ordering food under a maIe name because the delivery drivers would prey on them otherwise. Even when a woman IS interested in a maIe she'd still take precautions dating him because -she knows- moid on average are dangerous. This is also why women settle in crappy relationships because they KNOW their chances of encountering worse is higher than their chances of encountering better so they stay because it's personally & socially better than being alone for them. "He's emotionally distant but at least he isnt cheating on me", "he's cheating on me but at least he's not raping me", "he keeps bothering me for sex every night but at least he hasn't killed me". Women know. This is why I no longer get into back and forth about moids with women either I aint wasting my fucking time arguing shit we both know is true. I wont be your goddamn sacrificial lamb.

Moids themselves know how dangerous moids are as they "shield" their female relatives/partners from other moids. Many moids are terrified of prisons or gay moids because they fear facing what they make women face.

People wouldn't typically advise women & girls that are close to them to trust maIes, heck teenage girls are often scared off moidlets with parents saying that "boys bring trouble"/"theres only one thing boys want" typa shit. Many parents worry about their daughters because they know the evil that moids are deep down and can only hope it doesn't affect their daughters badly.

So I dont fucking care what's said online, most of these women pandering to moids or moids pulling the "it's not all men!1! We get hurt tuh!1!" bullshit would not individually trust moids. Ladies dont ever feel bad for protecting yourself. Keep generalising & judging ALL xys. You aren't crazy for seeing their evil & having your guard up. Dont explain yourselves to moids, the world already explains. Womens lives > moid feelings. It's better to be safe than sorry.

[mitigatedchaos]

It didn't occur to me before, but it's possible that I might have some younger readers who aren't aware of the free, independently-developed, open source web browser Mozilla Firefox.

It's good to have options.

In fact I never knew Firefox was a "niche" browser nowadays. When I started using it, it was used by about 20% of the internet, it was up to 30 something percent at one point. I have no idea why everybody started using Chrome and I don't care but I never switched at any point, why would I? it has a little fox.

[deoidesign]

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[ran-orimoto]

Boom⚡️⚡️🍃⚡️⚡️. I liked the result so much I finished him sooner than I expected. Yes, he’s the kid who destroyed a microwave to Mamma’s and Papà’s joy aganagnahahah. You will see this art one more time, -corrected in minimal parts, weirdly enough-. You will when I post the full piece for the kids (I think I will put them all together, yeah). But for now I can give him a little profile, since you’ve been asking Ran and Kou for one (RIP Toto, come back once you grow up…JK JK ahahah).

Full name: Koujirou Orimoto Shibayama.

Name’s written “光侍郎” with the light kanji, because he was born during Covid period, a year following Kouichi’s death, so when life was slowly restarting in Italy. He takes his name after Kouji.

Nicknames: Kou (by everyone), Kouricino (by Izumi), Koukou (by Toto) + Campione (by Takuya), Polentone (by Ran, as a teasing word she uses to highlight he eats too much polenta lol).

Age: 11

Birthday: 19th of April (Venice)

Grade: 5th grade

Spirit mate: Herissmon.

Personality: Kou is a kid full of interests, always knowing how to spend his days whether it’s sunny or rainy. Being a sportive and energic type, he loves staying outside a lot, but won’t throw a tantrum when the weather doesn’t allow him to play outdoor. Actually, on those occasions, which used to be even more frequent in Venice, he will settle for a quiet reading … Probably of a novel he has forgot to give back to the library in time again, to Izumi’s exasperation. The precocious passion he developed for reading as a toddler helped him know lot of miscellaneous stuff his peers will often blink at, perplexed. Now at the age of 11 he has accumulated a lot of random facts about navigation, included trivias about winds he has also learnt from weekend mornings spent at Venice’s harbour, while waiting for his friends to finish Sunday school.

Like his sister Ran, but with the addition of a pinch of reserve, -and definitely more composure, he believes-, he is a very sociable child, surrounded by friends who often rely on him to put an end to arguments and misunderstandings withoout resorting to anger or violence. Nevertheless, he’s not one who’s known to be able to keep his emotions under control: in truth, Kou can lose his temper pretty quickly when he feels like he’s being mocked or understeemed, and though he doesn’t like it when his parents underline this fact, he’s not that different from Ran , bickering with her whenever it’s possible to grasp the chance and bringing storms into the house almost everyday. He also tends to get vainly arrogant and competitive: especially when people look down at him due to his stout figure, he will show off Takuya’s football teachings and his running speed.

Last, but not least, he has got a clumsy protective side he has inherited from Junpei, from whom he has also taken his adoration for Izumi, from helping her with her restaurant and cooking, despite being a total failure in the activity, to flooding her with drawings as presents, coloured with the hues she and him can see dancing in the skies. When it comes to Junpei, though he gets scolded by him a lot when Izumi is too busy to do so, he’s very affectionate to him, adoring watching his performances, and often trying imitating his habits and dressing preferences, which he is convinced are sign of a very good fashion taste Izumi herself has approved, (oh poor unfortunate, soul, Mum is just too in love to say a word about it now). Because of all these reasons, he will get so disappointed in himself whenever he’s sent in detention, mostly after having buttheaded with Ran or Toto, towards whom he feels like having lot of responsibilities as an elder brother, but they rarely accept those, -fortunately-: like Junpei and Izumi remind him, he’s just a silly kid like them.

[guiltyidealist]

It should be a criminal offense if an insurance company is responsible for a delay in a policyholder's necessary health care.

Withholding prescribed treatments, even for just a day, can be anywhere from inconvenient to catastrophic for the victim. Medical providers may not withhold necessary treatment from any patient on any grounds, as it is their duty to provide it-- it should be justly illegal for any "middle man" to interfere with a medical provider's legal and ethical obligation to treat a patient.

Severity of the charge and its legal consequences should depend upon the scope of the offense (length of delay) and its consequences to the victim (impact on the person).

The testimonies of the victim, the pharmacy, and the medical provider who prescribed the treatment should be key considerations for the determination. Additional important testimony should come from the victim's other medical providers, housemates, family, educators/mentors, colleagues/coworkers, or employers.

The charge should become criminal record for the company. The company (perhaps the agent's office) should be fined per day delayed.

Some taxation can be applied; just to pay off the folks who do the filing, advocacy, testimony, processing. A hefty majority of the fine should be compensation owed to the victim.

If delays became a criminal charge on companies' records, then companies would have a strong motive to terminate agents who aren't performing with punctuality. It would become their best financial interest to invest only in timely agents who would, in turn, gain a best interest to invest only in timely subordinates.

I posit that insurance delays would wane significantly, resulting in more timely delivery of treatments to policyholders, and many people's qualities of life would improve drastically for it.

[mitigatedchaos]

Over the past few years, young people on Tumblr have taught me two important things.

First, someone described something I wrote as incomprehensible, so I tried "decompressing" it using about five times as many words. They said that they didn't fully endorse it, but that they now understood it.

I run in circles that use very dense writing, and this confirmed that the 5:1 ratio that I had discovered on Twitter was more general. Also, perhaps more importantly, the response was less hostile than expected - the initial question wasn't just a jab.

Second, after writing something that would have been considered provocative ten years ago, someone complained that my response contained "ad hominems."

That's a discourse norm! Why are you using a discourse norm if you were saying something provocative like that!

So my theory now is that it's 2024. Things changed pretty significantly in 2014. If someone is 18 now, then when the term "oppressor" started getting slung around regularly, they were eight.

The quality of information sources has degraded. Young people are trying to orient themselves in a turbulent information environment. They are open to listening.

Therefore, the best approach right now is to patiently explain things.

lot of people take the idea they might be an oppressor like it's some kind of curse or marks them or makes them fundamentally irredeemable.

this means whenever someone suggests they might have structural power over some group, rather than being normal about it and going "oh yeah i should be mindful of how i act so i don't abuse that," they take it as a personal attack, and either jump to defending themselves by denying it, or start lashing out.

this makes 99.99999% of all conversations on this website completely fucking unbearable.

[happyk44]

There is so little info around HPD, it's frustrating, I just wanna see how an atypical or covert presentation would come across and then write a bunch of stupid HPD!Piper posts about it 😩

[mitigatedchaos]

You mean like commercial gene therapy, a wacky sci-fi idea in 2000 that became an FDA-approved product around 2017?

I don't think it's a given that The Singularity will overtake mankind, but if it's impossible, we haven't worked out why it's impossible yet.

one thing that makes me sympathize with yudkowsky is that in every public appearence he's had where he is trying to make his case for why AGI or ASI would be dangerous, noone ever seems to engage with his arguments at all. all he gets are bad counter argumens to the tune of "well, what if the AI is just nice" or "what is intelligence anyway?" or "why would the AI want anything?", "chat gpt seems pretty stupid today so im not worried" or the worst of all "seems like a wacky sci fi idea to me, people are just pushing this to hype up the technology"

i could understand why the man is seen as a crazy guy if he got actual substantial pushback but most people*seem to treat his arguments as if they were a lot more trivial and facile than they really are.

*there are a lot of good coherent objections to what he says but they are usually buried in some obscure comment section in less wrong or in some niche tumblr blog. the mainstream response he gets is more to the tune of "heh, that sounds silly"

[revvethasmythh]

i am pretty interested in the way synthetic vs organic life is treated in me3 specifically, because it's a topic that takes full center stage in this game and i think it should perhaps have been more prominent earlier if it was going to be the thematic crux of the climactic installment, but it is honestly pretty interesting. if the narrative asks us nothing, it asks us if we consider artificial life to be as valuable as we do organic. if legion is killed to save the quarians, EDI is despondent and says that he (and the geth) are devalued for not being organic, and will never be held in the same regard as organic life no matter how autonomous and intelligent they are. no matter how lifelike. even the end choices present this same issue--do you sacrifice the life of one organic to save as many people as possible, or do you sacrifice all synthetic life to sustain organic civilization? can we value synthetic life as equal to organic? are they equal? how much do we sacrifice to give them the chance to be?

[mitigatedchaos]

Update in thinking on the drone problem.

Interceptor drones don't need guns or explosives, but rather just some means to tackle the enemy drones, such as claws or a net.

Automatic flak cannons or computer-controlled lasers are a bit too dangerous for widespread mounting on civilian buildings. If hacked, they could be the source of a massacre. Net interceptor drones are safe enough for more widespread civilian ownership.

Sketching out how this works in equilibrium - the attacking swarm needs to be larger, so if drones are a controlled product class like fully automatic guns are, the uncertainty about whether the attacker's swarm is sufficient could shift the balance for violence in a civilian context back to mostly handguns.

That equilibrium doesn't necessarily hold in war situations.

[reanimatedgh0ul]

just in the way that ilana's name is of hebrew origin i think kimmy's surname being meisner and it having its ties to ashkenazi jewish people

it's entirely possible that kimmy could've been jewish actually

[mitigatedchaos]

It should be noted that companies are working on gene therapy, which is legitimately very expensive - as in "most expensive drug on the planet" very expensive.

As far as I understand it, gene therapy is likely to be permanent. (Depending on how it's done, it might end up so permanent that it's passed down to the patient's children.)

If you have the particular genetic issue that the particular gene therapy resolves, the results can be borderline miraculous.

Unlike medical implants, which may have maintenance issues requiring removal, repair, or replacement at the 10-year mark, and for which the companies responsible may go bankrupt in that time, gene therapy will probably require few follow-up procedures.

The industry has been working on funding models. Because gene therapy can be so powerful, it sounds like they may settle on one where patients (and insurers) only have to pay the full price if the treatment is effective.