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> You can tune Fox news, but you can't use a "right wing chat gpt". You can build your own with the GPT API. I started playing with it and it returned racial slurs in response to innocuous prompts like "hello" and "ok". Seems perfectly tuned out of the box for the kind of speech that the right is interested in these days.
Can you share your prompts for reproducibility?
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Damore's argument looks more like this: An average man is incapable of being in tech. An average woman is incapable of being in tech. There are men and women at the tail who are capable of being in tech. Because of the difference in averages, there are fewer women than men who are capable and want to be in tech. --- Collapsing all that to "women [on average] are biologically incapable of being in tech" is disingenuou…
Collapsing Damore's argument into "An average man is incapable of being in tech. An average woman is incapable of being in tech." is disingenious, especially given his quote only speaks to one sex. But then I doubt you care, especially since your account does nothing but astroturf Damore on HN.
I do google Damore on HN to seek out misinformation to debunk. The other hot takes that I do is trash-talking car dependent urban planning.
Occasionally I learn new things in the latter discussions.
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You're mixing up terms here. Being against legal immigration and implementing policies to make it more difficult to become legal (as the right has done) has lead to the enslavement of immigrant women and other sex trafficking. Being against sane and fair immigration policies is what people react to. Everyone is against illegal immigration and child sex trafficking, but vary vastly on the solutions.
Re "Everyone is against illegal immigration", I don't think that that is close to true at present. You will search in vain to find a left-leaning Congressional Representative that will pronounce that they are against illegal immigration. A dirty secret of many Republicans is that they're pretty okay with illegal immigration as it's been in the 80s and 90s. Pseudo slave labor, deport as needed, etc. Needless to say, t…
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Can you? I'm not trying to make a point by hiding behind an appeal to averages.
No one is trying to make a point by hiding behind an appeal to averages. That's the point. The fact that you can't support your assertions about Damore's claims (without changing his words) proves my point. :)
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> I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.
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I would say taking somebodies life simply because of their position of dominance over you as immoral, yes.
I believe your view is an extremely unpopular opinion. If a kidnapping victim killed their kidnapper, I don't believe anyone would advocate for their punishment.
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Beating reporters, pulling motorists out of their vehicles, throwing molotov cocktails at occupied buildings, etc. All politically motivated violence aka terrorism. Are you really defending that based on who does it?
No, I’m just saying that there are grades of malice, and I put nazis on the top, with a comfortable margin over any second. Because their motivation is to remove any “undesirable” from their sight , and their definition of “undesirable” is wide and expanding and imminent, at least in the US [0] In contrast, there has been one single murder in the past 26 years, where a far left activist was charged in the US, althoug…
No, there's no such thing as "your side is also bad so my side therefore is not".
But both sides can easily be wrong. You don't need to draw false equivalences to condemn two sets of people at once.
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This is a failure of mathematical (and, frankly, verbal and philosophical) understanding. If you have 10 arrests shared between 7 white men and 3 black, with 1 black man having allegedly offended 5 times and 5 white men having allegedly offended once, where do your resources go? Or the opposite, 1 white guy with 5 arrests, 5 split between 2 black men? Howsabout in a country with presumed innocence? In a country - in…
Yep, the data was counting arrests, not individuals. You raise some great points, but in the context of the discussion I don't see how any of the comments represent a failure of mathematical, verbal, and philosophical understanding.