Tell a narcissist that he’s the most important person and he’ll follow you anywhere.

It’s always projection for conservatives.

Every

You couldn’t even make it through a single word without already being wrong.

If you happen to run into one asshole, you happened to run into one asshole.

If you run into assholes everywhere you go, you are the asshole.

Only because it’s still a bit too soon to push for legislation to prosecute women for backtalking.

I’m going to have to bookmark this one so I can link it the next time some STEMbro starts lecturing me about whatever it is that he thinks science has “proved” about consciousness or perception or free will/determinism or…

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…reality isn’t something that can be bound to any one idea or perspective. Reality for, say, a cow is going to be a hell of a lot different from reality for any human being, and neither perspective is any more or less valid than the other

I’m reminded of the anecdote of Samuel Johnson’s reaction to the assertion that idealism could not be refuted - he kicked a large rock and said, “I refute it thus.”

When I said that reality has a left-wing bias, I meant reality. Not the beliefs or subjective experiences that all too many erroneously promote to the position of nominal facts, but actual, demonstrable facts.

Like, for instance, vaccination prevents disease. Climate change is real. Doctors are not part of some international conspiracy to fool you into wasting your money while keeping you away from the miracle cure Ivermectin. Trump lost in 2020. Transgender people are going to continue to exist no matter what your personal opinion of the matter might be. Society is healthier, stronger and more stable when the gap between rich and poor is narrow and everyone is guaranteed food, shelter and medical care. And so on.

In all of those cases and many more, the left wing position corresponds with the actual, demonstrable facts, while the right-wing position does not.

That’s exactly what I meant, and all that I meant.

I get what you’re saying, but I think “reality” actually works better.

Granted that reality is not a conscious agent and thus cannot itself be biased, the simple fact of the matter is that reality corresponds much more with left-wing pronciples and viewpoints than it does right-wing principles and viewpoints.

And yes - it can just as accurately be said that left-wing principles and viewpoints are more rational than right-wing, as demonstrated by the fact that they better accord with reality.

But that puts the focus on the person holding the view, and their rationality or lack thereof, and people (especially right-wingers) tend to dig their heels in when it’s suggested that they’re irrational, and their immediate tendency is to simply attack whoever makes that suggestion rather than actually considering the possibility.

By shifting the focus to reality itself, one is effectively saying, “Hey - don’t look at me. If you have a problem with it, go take it up with reality.”

Reality has a left-wing bias.

Of course it is. When was the last time clean air slipped Trump a big fat bribe?

Just the most recent reminder that the President of the United States is deranged.

I don’t have an “end goal” as far as “AI” is concerned.

I do have a short-term goal of contributing to the establishment of a humanity that’s at least smart enough to grasp the fundamental and unresolvable differences between language modeling and reasoning, but I have no particular hope even of that.

Or in other words, sanity.

And unfortunately almost certainly wasting his time.

The DNC and the establishment Democrats are blind and deaf to everything except donor-class dollars.

Yep.

All you have to do, and exactly what they’re doing, is set up a system under which whoever you consider undesirable is more likely to end up poor and unemployed, then you eliminate most social services and tie the remainder to employment, and eliminate most public health policies to allow for the widest possible exposure to carcinogens and disease. Then you just sit back and wait while the “undesirables” sicken and, denied healthcare, die.

Well, rather obviously the explicit goal is to make America great again for fabulously wealthy white men.

That’s undoubtedly not an accident.

The technofeudalist plan appears to be to arrange things so that “undesirables” - mostly non-whites, non-heterosexuals, non-conservatives and anyone else who isn’t likely to be an obedient cog in their machine - are overrepresented among the poorest of Americans while eliminating as many services for the poor as possible - especially healthcare and housing. It’s certainly not a coincidence that that means that a significant number of the poor, and thus of the “undesirables,” will die.

The survivors will still be homeless, which will be (and increasingly already is) a crime, so they’re end up in (conveniently privatized) prisons, which will allow the new generation of feudal lords to use them as slave labor.

And with that, it’s complete. The United States is not dying - it’s dead. The government is under the control of open fascists, the rule of law is a thing of the past, democracy is dead and the Constitution has been wadded up and thrown away.

They’ll be bulldozing corpses into mass graves before long.

In addition to the previous responses - when he throws a tantrum, as he certainly will, just make it clear to him that a tantrum is not going to get him what he wants, then wait until he wears himself out and cries himself to sleep, then pick up where you left off with the rest of the adults.