I’m amazed by how the rationalist community can turn any topic into
ranting about SJW conspiracies and how terrible it is to be reminded
there are people that aren’t white. Like, yes, the Youtube
recommendation algorithm is bad. It shows you thinks you don’t care
about that are often unrelated to what you are actually watching (for
years, I would get this one conspiracy theory video about biblical
giants recommended on everything I watched). This is a universally
acknowledged complaint known to everyone. How do you manage to talk
about this in a way that makes me want to take Youtube’s side?
Not so fast - a month approaches, and someone says racism is still a
problem. Still some riots going on, and bla bla so [the video
recommendations] need to stay up. Stay up forever, I guess, since
they’re still up. They’ll probably be taken down for election stuff to
occupy that slot since that will be the next THIS IS IMPORTANT PEOPLE
ARE LITERALLY DYING rallying point, but jesus. The only way we can stop
talking about BLM is if something even worse comes along. We can’t just
go back to normal. Crisis is the new normal.
I have to assume that these people are like early career engineers with short memories and no reading of political or economic history because fuck me, come on dude there has never been a period of non-crisis since (a) forever and (b) 2008: whatever stability existed in the rich western countries these people are posting from was definitively upended by the GFC and none of it (whatever it was) was ever recovered. I guess if all you do all day is run numbers on whatever deeply uninteresting project you’re supposed to be running them for you have to have your ignorant outlets on /r/TheMotte
Real interesting that 'returning to normal' for this person seems to mean 'shutting the fuck up about police brutality'. I guess in that respect they're technically right!
It's the same reason conservative boomers want to go back to the idyllic 1950s. "Why can't we return to a time when I never had to talk about race and no one was poor and there weren't all these genders because I was a child and did not know about these things?"
I love how he manages to work in a “maybe we should chill out about
COVID, it’ll be fiiine” into the black people youtube rant. Complete
with putting “vaccination” in scare quotes, hmmm…..
Meanwhile my youtube recommends me trump cult bullshit because …idk?
I watch mostly lectures about cavemen, space, god, and lps by a
quebecker who plays a lot of mario and sonic. Occasionally I watch like
a Lindsay Ellis video essay or something, and like once I watched skull
guy on cinema sins.
yeah woulda figured these are the types to wank off to Louis Rossman videos and boot up Lineage on their phones as soon as they get home. Rationalist STEMlords can't figure out how to transfer contact info now?
Even something pretty quantitative, like COVID, we’re just going to
live in this semi-tolerable semi-lockdown state with masks and arbitrary
self-regulation conscientiousness theater for… forever? Adherence varies
by local culture, but doesn’t depend at all on local covid prevalence,
hospital capacity, or any number at all. You could halve the # of covid
patients everywhere and NPIs would stay the same. I believe this because
covid numbers have more than halved in many places and there is no
discussion about going back to normal. It’s too fun to make fun of
anti-maskers, I guess.
My state literally has thresholds for case rates that ratchet up and
down mitigation measures. What more do you want?
And we end up with the common belief that cops are executing black
people indiscriminately, solely because of their race, and whites glide
through life without encountering any of the problems blacks face due to
system injustice. Ok, admittedly, in this case the real world actually
MIGHT work this way, because systemic injustices can be highly
correlated. But I still believe this to be massively exaggerated due to
the signal boosting of any adversity encountered by any black person
ever.
Aren’t you rationalists supposed to be steelmanning things? This is a
straw man with a bucket on its head. The whole waste of a paragraph
could have been “privilege don’t real and black people don’t have it
that bad”, I wouldn’t have had to read it, and TheMotte would have given
it the same number of upvotes anyway.
I’m amazed by how the rationalist community can turn any topic into ranting about SJW conspiracies and how terrible it is to be reminded there are people that aren’t white. Like, yes, the Youtube recommendation algorithm is bad. It shows you thinks you don’t care about that are often unrelated to what you are actually watching (for years, I would get this one conspiracy theory video about biblical giants recommended on everything I watched). This is a universally acknowledged complaint known to everyone. How do you manage to talk about this in a way that makes me want to take Youtube’s side?
So…so very close.
Nope, it’s not violence by police officers on black people. It’s media that makes you feel anxious. This is a belief of a person.
I love how he manages to work in a “maybe we should chill out about COVID, it’ll be fiiine” into the black people youtube rant. Complete with putting “vaccination” in scare quotes, hmmm…..
Meanwhile my youtube recommends me trump cult bullshit because …idk? I watch mostly lectures about cavemen, space, god, and lps by a quebecker who plays a lot of mario and sonic. Occasionally I watch like a Lindsay Ellis video essay or something, and like once I watched skull guy on cinema sins.
Maybe algorithms are just really stupid?
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My state literally has thresholds for case rates that ratchet up and down mitigation measures. What more do you want?
Aren’t you rationalists supposed to be steelmanning things? This is a straw man with a bucket on its head. The whole waste of a paragraph could have been “privilege don’t real and black people don’t have it that bad”, I wouldn’t have had to read it, and TheMotte would have given it the same number of upvotes anyway.
My eye twitched reading that. What the fuck is “anecdotal data”?