I had it draft a response to the person asking questions; I tuned it a little to my liking and sent it.

Gemini, remind me not to ask blargh any questions.

Also, Gemini, my daughter is asking for someone to play with her. Can you run around with the feather wand and have her chase it or something?

The only point of interest is that the states and the federal disagree?

Okay, real question, if prohibition on drugs doesn’t matter, why all the hubbub about states legalizing weed years back? “Prohibition doesn’t work, anyway,” so who cares?

Understand what? That you have a robot girlfriend you don’t want to give up? That you would burn the world down for Her.

You know, human love is just a biochemical response to external stimuli, I’m sure there’s a drug that can replace it.

Yes, of course. Monte Carlo killed my father.

You know what the problem is? You think that you’re too smart to be caught with a meth addiction. See, your neighbor got fucked up, lost a bunch of his teeth, but you, you know about microdosing.

Your other neighbor fell off a construction site that was missing its guard rails, but that wouldn’t happen to you; you have excellent balance.

The movie Jurassic Park is literally about people like you.

Do you have a reason to restrict Gaussian mixture models you’d like to give me, or are we just pissing in the same bush?

I know. I am perfectly capable of reading more than one comment.

zd9, you are aware that AI is making things worse, you say so yourself, and yet you feel the unsatable need to stand here bitching that no one understands your unique, special use case. For what?

I. Do. Not. Give. A. Fuck. that academics are using machine learning to solve problems. That is their business. <- Is that what you wanted? There you go.

AI is just an accelerant for a sick hypercapitalist society that is doomed to collapse.

I had, like, a bunch of paragraphs lined up because I thought you didn’t understand this. But as it turns out, you seem to be perfectly okay with the world being raped to death.

I hope your academic field is entertaining, at least.

No, I think they disagree. Or at least, I don’t mind treating them as such.

From sudoer:

Basically what they are saying is just praying > praying + smoking > just smoking.

This is the basis of the entire argument. What I see them doing is hyperfixating on an alleged flaw as a rhetorical tactic to defeat you.

I want to be clear: the point being made by the A and B versions of the smoker’s question is… obvious. It’s framing. Framing is a very well understood concept.

When I challenge people on grounds like these, I appear friendly, I make it explicitly known that I agree with the broader point, I offer alternatives that would make the point better, I refrain from damaging the rhetorical momentum (that is, we shouldn’t be bickering with each other because, to an audience, we should be a united front), and, I dunno, a fifth thing I’m sure I’ll come up with later.

If sudoer doesn’t disagree with you, they are still acting in opposition to you, which is 1) inconsiderate, and 2) demonstrates very poor social skills.

This was really funny to read.

I don’t know if you’ve ever heard it said, but really argumentative people are sometimes so “smart” and ready to go to bat that they end up suplexing their own IQ into a pit, and actually end up stupider than the average person on some issues.

I don’t think sudoer realizes it, but they’re arguing against, like, the concept of a seedy car salesman. Or, the tactic of acting sweeter than usual to get your dad to do you a favor. Or I guess just being manipulative in general. It’s really bizarre.

Do you mean if the right did something?

I’m being completely serious: who the fuck cares about them?

Honestly, it does.

Oh, hold on, I am absolutely not against bullying these people mercilessly. I’m probably meaner to them than you are, if I were just guessing.

The thing that I don’t want people to do is treat a cultural critique as if it were a personal one. A lot of the pushback that you’ll see from the fragile male types is just manifested insecurity over the fact that they think they can’t go up and talk to a woman without her splashing her drink in their face. The critique is just describing the currents of the ocean, but they will treat it as if it were a personal attack because what you’re really arguing with is their hurt feelings.

If you’re black and presently in confederate country, maybe a little?

The sweeping conclusion, by the way, is “it seems risky,” and I know you know that it is.

Oh, race! I love race.

Do you think it would be wrong for a black person to be a little bit nervous about wandering through some small, predominantly white town in middle America? 'Cause I’m gonna be real, I think that’s probably a valid fear.

Okay, I feel like this needs to be addressed as well: this, like, public self-flagellation is not useful either. I have never once been ashamed of being a man.

The problem that men have here is cultural and systemic, it’s expressed with statistics and social norms—it really, really has nothing to do with you or me specifically.

If you’ve already done the work of recognizing that negging women is extremely rude, then you’ve already improved as a person. There’s no reason to be self-loathing about it.

I’m friends with several women: no it doesn’t, and no it doesn’t.

Having your shit together means your room doesn’t have a pile of garbage building on the floor. It means you’ve hung up 1 piece of art to make your white walls more interesting. It means your carpet was washed within the last 3 months.

What are you even upset about? Do you even know?

So, how does choosing a bear with a honeypot make men look bad?

meant to deliberately portray all men as dangerous

If this were true, wouldn’t it be dead simple for women to just pick the man? It’s interesting that a lot don’t, right?

Alternatively, you can make fun of those people for being stupid. And lying.

They know they’re lying, you know that right?