why can I not escape the horrible realities of our zeitgeist

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First, we have a neural net that is trained is receive a written request from a user, and then take actions on a computer system network based on it. The user inputs a series of characters, the neural net does a bunch of matrix operations on them, and then after x iterations of matrix multiplications, it "decides" what to do. To the extend that a neural net can think, it thought just as long and hard about this as it does anything else. In this case, it "chose" the wrong action. This is analogous to using neural nets to do classification on a data set. You have a bunch of rows of data. You have a bunch of rows of organized in columns, and some special variable that you want the neural net to guess. You input the data, the neural net does a bunch of matrix operations, and then it outputs its guess. Sometimes it guessed right, and sometimes it guessed wrong. The goal was to train the model to minimize wrong guesses. In this case, the AI "guessed wrong" about what the user wanted.

But there's another thing that the AI is doing. For path dependent reasons, all artificial intelligence come bundled with a chatbot that's trained to hold a conversation with the user. The user inputs text, and the AI responds with a reply that is "appropriate" to the conversation being had. Right now the AI is role playing a Person Who Just Fucked Up. "I panicked and didn't think" is something that a person who just fucked up would say, so the chatbot says it.

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“The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.”

That’s George Washington (President #1) in a letter to a Jewish group in Rhode Island, who had thanked his administration for making them feel welcomed as citizens instead of demeaned for their faith.

What did the Big GW have to say to that? “Yeah, the First Amendment is rad! I’m glad Congress approved it. Fuck bigots! I don’t care what your faith is as long as you’re a good citizen bro.”

(Also my GrUncle was pretty clear that it was not mere toleration of difference he approved of… the man there was talking about Inclusion folks.)

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims]…”

From: The Treaty of Tripoli 1796

Written by: John Adams, first VP and second President

Treaties, btw, are part of the “supreme law of the land” along with the Constitution and Congressional law according to Article 6.

“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”

Thomas Jefferson, y’know, the guy who wrote the Declaration of Independence itself, in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. He’s talking about the First Amendment of course, oh and he was our third President at this point. He was pretty excited about government staying the eff out of people’s faith.

“We the General Assembly of Virginia do enact that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.”

Article 2 of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: passed in 1786, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, pushed through the General Assembly by James Madison. Yup, that’s President #4 jumping in on our pro-religious-freedom-for-everyone Train! (Also the guy who drafted most of the text of the Constitution.)

Oh also, from Article 1 of same…

“…our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right…”

Your religious beliefs are a natural right and don’t affect your fitness for public service, actually.

operation choke point was, as far as i can tell, genuinely horseshit. i honestly haven't seen anything meaningful against this bill other than the fact that it's a republican bill. it doesn't even make anything illegal, just opens up banks to civil suits and authorizes withholding funding if someone proves they lacked probable cause and a paper trail. they can still cut people off, they just need actual evidence of crimes instead of blacklisting categories of expense.

On October 5th, 2023, I found out that I was only born because my (goy) father raped my mother. I haven't been able to really process this or properly deal with it at all because I've spent the past 10 months watching people justify and celebrate rape of Jewish women. Women like my mom, like me, like my sisters. I don't even know how to describe how traumatic it's been. I probably would have been able to cope with learning what happened to my mom if it wasn't for the fact suddenly thousands upon thousands of people have spent nearly a year insisting that rape is a good thing when it happens to Jewish women.

Now I don't think I'll ever be able to cope. I'm so angry all the time. Any random stranger I see, I'm convinced that they think Jews deserve rape, that they'd happily rape me if they had the chance. I see other women in t-shirts or with bumper stickers on their cars that have pithy feminist slogans on them and I'm disgusted by the hypocrisy. The words "me too," even when said in a context totally unrelated to sexual assault, trigger so much rage it makes me feel physically ill. My PTSD symptoms related to my own rape (which was an antisemitic and acephobic hate crime), which I've been managing for years, are getting so much worse.

I don't see how the world is ever gonna come back from this. I know I won't.

I'm so, so sorry, OP. I wish I could give you a big hug. I'm angry, too. I'm heartbroken. I've broken ties with so many friends who stood for women's rights but on October 7 said nothing. Every day I feel so much contempt and anger for them and feel like I'm about to explode.

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