gradient descent into madness

the punkest president is obviously obama, he’s the one who pretended to be a commie to score a bisexual girl

people are correct that a lot of attempts to restrict participation in women's sports are motivated by transphobia and a more generalized desire to force people into gendered boxes, to define boundaries around what counts as a woman. but I also think it's underappreciated how many of these attempts come from a desperate attempt to find some kind of consistent line against steroid use, and then running face first into the absolute clusterfuck that is human biological variation

okay nevermind post cancelled, apparently they have tests that can differentiate between endogenous and exogenous T, and for men they only test for exogenous T but for women they flag it if endogenous T is too high. it's all gender enforcement bullshit afterall. this is stupid, just have competitions divided into testosterone classes like they do with weight classes.

Honestly, that wouldn’t even make sense. Most of the top performing male athletes have lower than average testosterone, some in the same range as the average female athlete. Testosterone level just isn’t a good predictor of athletic performance.

can I get a source for that? my understanding is that female-typical levels of T without female-typical levels of E generally means a medically dangerous undersupply of sex hormones. also both male and female athletes regularly use T as a performance-enhancing drug when not specifically prohibited from doing so.

bitter lesson not that bitter. the nice lesson, the sweet lesson

@transgenderer

it seems like in bdsm the "rewards" and the "punishments" look very similar. this concerns me a great deal, because it points to a system of misaligned incentives. if we're not careful, it's even possible that a rational actor could deliberately violate regulations, because the penalties for rule violations are in fact incentivized. one shudders to think of the consequences of such an arrangement

oh... that can't possibly be pareto efficient... that's scary...

"really good. I mean, really bad. but really funny. and funniness is a virtue"

I can't believe we spent like a decade arguing about AI in the Box stuff when they didn't even bother with a box

I think this only works if you assume there's no strategy on the part of the jury. in reality they would send juror 8 out to negotiate, but as soon as he gets killed there's nothing stopping them from voting to convict the samurai

I do think if the samurai strategized they could get most if not all of the jurors to come out and be picked off before a verdict could be reached. They’d be doing shit like making owl calls outside the door and then telling the bailiff an owl carried yet another juror off into the night. Guy with stupidly huge sword is standing off to one side covered in blood not making eye contact. Ends in a mistrial when the samurai independently discover the judge is corrupt.

I am begging you to read the news about AI. A year ago you could say that AI is useless and you'd just be annoying and wrong, but now it's bordering on delusional.

I think this only works if you assume there's no strategy on the part of the jury. in reality they would send juror 8 out to negotiate, but as soon as he gets killed there's nothing stopping them from voting to convict the samurai

question for 61% of you: do you also pronounce the programming language like "pee-thon"??