Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I really hope people start ignoring this stuff. Even if there are interesting statements proved in the slop pile, without a living community to connect it to human action they might as well still be in the Platonic Realm! 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If I say that the daily mail is racist does that imply that I am calling for them to be wiped out by violence? 110
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In stating this view I have an ethical obligation to clarify that the notion of occupier here is political-strucutral, not ethnic. That is to say, if external powers creating a situation of occupation are gone, this changes the situation materially. 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is obviously a conversation with extreme an important differences, but I am actually interested in your view. To state mine, I do not think occupiers, not matter of what generation, have a claim to the occupied land in Palestine or Crimea. 200
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Here you are deliberately ignoring all the previous actions of Israeli governments since its inception as well as non-governmental terror by so-called Israelis. The relation to emphasize is not necessarily-leading-to but necessary identity. 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I think you might be confusing people with technical undergrad degrees (some of whom do fit this stereotype) with scholars in STEM fields, especially mathematics, who tend to have great respect for scholarship broadly construed. 071
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Do you not date the beginning of the end of US power to that attack? It set off a chain of voluntary wars for the US, of which they lost every single one. 110
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I don't understand this picture at all; how does the third party provider contact the age-restricted service they have no knowledge about? 120
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It should warn you that this is about to start by saying "counting or not counting gang violence?" 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I remember thinking this with the early release manslaughter case which became a cause celebre too. 110
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I could see the value in SSRIs if requested by the person after proper medical consultation (and not linked to coercive outcomes), but I'm more suspicious of anti-androgens. Even though some studies seem to show their effectiveness, I think this area is too complex to be treated as simply biology. 020
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026No idea if this will replicate, but I got banned for "inauthentic behaviour" for a few weeks, then banned again after a week. I tried lots of well thought through appeals which were all rejected. Eventually I got annoyed/bored and submitted a deranged (non-offensive) joke appeal which worked! 110
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 11/08/2026What's hard to contain is something called "billionaires" who, perhaps shockingly, have the resources to pay to hack into companies, launch weapons etc. 010
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The media rule this country. If hundreds of thousands march nothing happens; if editors get together and decide some cop is worth more than all other victims of manslaughter, order received loud and clear. 010
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The only correct answers are either all the kids or none of the kids. 010
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 05/08/2026How come you don't talk about loss leaders in commercial supermarkets this way? There are evident economic and store-policy reasons why people don't show up with big vans, buy them all and then resell them lol 010
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The only language I've got these things to output is Python because I wanted to sample little prototypes to play with myself. Maybe for people who want to try to sample huge codebases without much thought there is still a sort of fantasy that they could go in and check it. 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I feel there are differences between nationalities here, varying from "classical cultural reference with no relationship to the actual nationality" (old imperial foes) through "the speaker is a dedicated racist" (especially references to eastern Europeans). Old imperial allies would be very odd 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Glimmer of hope? That the genocide can face less friction? 030
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The UK's first Tubu PM? Literally the first Heebee PM? First Poodee PM? Literally the first Dippy PM? Probably the first Weeno PM. Dude it's the UK's first Gumpy PM. It's a Pheebo original PM. The PM is on Poob. Catch him on Poob. You can go to Poob and see the PM. Log onto Poob right now. 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Would it really have to be the federal government to arrest him? Couldn't state police arrest him? That would seem like a more realistic place to apply pressure. If crimes against humanity are out of their jurisdiction, get a restraining order. 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 21/07/2026What you've written is soft antivax nonsense. Vaccines are believed in not because "experts" in a closed field purport that they are, but because that field is actually open and interacts well with all of enquiry. 060
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I think there are exceptions if you say in the text "the original reference is said to be Blah, but we could not obtain it and therefore rely on the account of Tom Dick and Harry" 191
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Wow there must be a worldwide epidemic of kindly retirees going on A to B marches! But how can poor widdle nuclear-armed states hope to contend with such a diabolical phenomenon!? 010
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I wonder if there's a way to make "this isn't single sex but we ask men to use the other one" work or if there's no sea between scylla and charybdis there 100
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This Labour regime must be one of the most anti-children in history. Genocide in Gaza; genocidal policies towards trans kids; supporting pedos and their allies at every opportunity. It's no surprise that Sir Kid Starver's last act as PM is a nasty attack on Save the Children. It turns your stomach. 091
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The introduction of imprisonment without trial by jury shows how fragile our constitutional customs are. But I wonder how much protection a written constitution would have given against this authoritarian onslaught, which seems reasonably popularly supported... 120
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 12/07/2026There's a cute little explanation underneath it: in anisogamous species there is a strong tendency for the distinction between gamete types to become a distinction between two sizes. This is explained by various evolutionary pressures. But then a magical new thing called "sex" has to appear! 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I'm not the sort of person who thinks all metaphysics is nonsense, but this could be studied as a paradigm case of metaphysical nonsense in service of the dominant regime. I'm particularly struck by the inversion of explanation and the thing to be explained. 161
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 12/07/2026One can ask a question with the syntactic form of a statement using tone, e.g. "He's in the building now?" but this tone is *not* used in the interview. It's the descending tone of a factual statement. The emotional content is that of trying to set the parameters of discussion. 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Are you an organism Tim? If so this claim in your article forms part of rather a startling syllogism: "all sexually reproducing organisms generate exactly two types of gametes". 010
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Actually the question mark is part of writing, but the comments we're discussing were read out loud, so there is no question of question marks! In verbal English a question is "marked" by syntactic form, including word order. The word order used here is used to assert things as facts. 100
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I think you have problems with syntax! "just not" is not equal to "not just". "We generally wait" is not equal to "Do we generally wait" etc. You may wish to consult en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_mo...en.wikipedia.orgFree monoid - Wikipedia 110
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 11/07/2026It is just not a question! A question would have been e.g. "do we generally wait..." or "has there been a court case". The latter would still make the problematic presupposition, of course. 110
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 11/07/2026"There hasn't been a court case yet." Not a question, a statement presupposing part of what is at issue. "The way it works around the world is that we generally wait ... before we say that a crime has been committed" not a question; false statement. 140
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The interviewer seems extremely confused about the difference between international and domestic law and court cases! 010
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Why don't you let me fix you some of this new Mococoa drink. All natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicuragua, no artificial sweeteners! 😃 020
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026After another of your threads made me less afraid of it replacing me with slop, I've been playing a bit and found it quite useful for making first prototypes with boring libraries. But it's very funny how "good" stuff it generates it tends to erase, eventually laying bare the weird crap it conserves 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026My main point is that if you make more or less the same remark as Walker as a critique of the education system it's considered outlandish ultraleft fantasy. But as a compliment to the system it's common sense. I concede that my little dialogue needs work, despite the 'centrist' lines being spot on. 110
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026You should ask for statements like these to come by post so they could sew one of their little thin blue line badges to the bottom. 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Leftists: School isn't about education, it's about breaking children's spirit so they'll obey inane orders in the workplace Centrists: NO 😡 Children: We stayed up to watch the football like the whole of society encouraged us to, can we start a bit late? Centrists: NO 😡 180
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I wonder about this, for instance if we always took the most likely next word then I think sampling from an LLM's distribution would be deterministic and I think if would have similar properties in terms of our (Knightian?) uncertainty about its output. 110
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Sorry to double-reply but I also think "the model reflects bias" ignores cases where the output of a statistical procedure is statistically biased even when the inputs aren't, or where statistical bias in the data doesn't come from psychological bias. Maybe "spurious asymmetry" or something.... 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I like to imagine a story where I want to know my height but have no measuring tape. So I look up the average height, conditioning on a few variables. Then the next day I measure and my height is different. I can't believe the mean height hallucinated my height! 000
Joe @cryptosocdem.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The only one I don't like in your suggested terms is "probabilistic automation" because there could be lots of useful forms of that. I think when people say "AI" they mean they're sampling *from a distribution they don't understand*, so maybe "unpredictable automation" or something would fit better 220
