Soyweiser

It is the not totally bad idea that you understand a different perspective if you can reliably write pieces of text in such a way that somebody from that perspective cannot tell you don't hold that ideological position.

It fails pretty quickly when tribalism comes into play (aka do it a few times, conclude 'our side is better at passing this test, so we are better', ideologies being broad and people not always realizing which ideology they really are in/differences in definitions. And other issues like it is just a bit of intellectual masturbation, depending on finding neutral people of that perspective. 'you failed the intellectual turing test so we can ignore your criticism of our side'. 'You would fail an intellectual turing test so we can ignore you'. It being debate bro culture with extra steps. People are not actually interested in the test but use the test as an argument to bash people (you once failed at detecting sarcasm and misattributed a sarcastic joke from a leftwinger to the far right? This shows the entire left fails the intellectual turing test and should not be listened to). etc etc. /rant

The 'kids learn english from movies' line is just insane. Yes they learn it from movies, and music, and books, and the internet, and etc. That is how it works. A lot better than duolingo in fact (Free yourself from the terror of the owl, you have been keeping your streak for over year and you still can't speak the language well enough to watch a movie. Streaks, progress bars, challenges, making the app sad, experience points, achievements, shit thought up by the utterly deranged).

Before anybody asks, pump didn't work out. Doing saline injections now, read on SSC it would work.

Walks into the room, hits the top of the doorframe, making sounds like a gallon of water being sloshed around

You called?

Ah sorry.

I have seen a lot of people call it cloudstrike and not a lot of other variants, so I assumed it was due to crowdstrike and cloudflare being so similar.

If you were to stick a pin in a timeline at the exact moment Silicon Valley declared war on Hollywood, it would likely land on Aug. 29, 1997. That’s the date Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph got together in Scotts Valley, about an hour south of San Francisco, and started a little DVD delivery company called Netflix.

Weird bit of critihype that ignores a massive amounts of things. Napster and Blockbuster for example. Massively overestimates the power of SV imho, and a bit ironic as of all the various media providers like Netflix, netflix is often not considered that highly from what I can tell. (In .nl iirc the big non-american providers are also the NPO and Videoland owned by RTL. Both traditional players in the market.

The cover is something but also think it is AI generated (the sabers don't actually clash in the next second both of those nerds are getting enlightened by lightsaber), pretty sad they still copyright it to somebody.

People are so trained to shout at Cloudflare for protecting the neo-nazi sites that this is every understandable.

Practically is there much difference?

Inventor of the ideological turing test (Bryan Caplan, occasional intellectual sparring partner of SSC) doesn't understand how vaccines work.

(E: And he is certainly not joking. More: My doctor, and all of you were wrong because I didn't explain myself well (this longer post, while coming closer to a point still sucks. High 'shooting the people who clean phones into space' feeling))

Seems that Vance is openly campaigning for Harris now.