mr_engineer

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  5. Posted

    Just now, Leo Gura said:

    By definition bypassing is problematic.

    Okay. Good to know that this is your stance on it. 

    @NoSelfSelf was hugely guilty of it in the dating section. 

    7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    I try to select the most mature and wise people that I see here. But over years their behavior can also change, as was the case with NoSelfSelf. His behavior seemed to devolve over the years, or maybe I just didn't know him well enough from the start. Frankly his case is so rare I've barely had to deal with something like this before. I almost never feel a need to demote a Mod. Usually Mods leave on their own because they have other stuff going on outside the forum that is more important.

    My theory is that he was a normal self-actualizer in the beginning, then he had some awakenings, then he went off the deep end and started to bypass practical reality. Very easy to do when you have your first few awakenings. 

    I really wouldn't know how to predict who will fall into this trap in the future when you recruit a mod. Maybe you could set higher standards for existing mods relative to bypassing? Because if @NoSelfSelf really was as good as you're saying he was, it's possible that just educating him about this issue of bypassing may have helped him improve as a mod. 

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    43 minutes ago, Joshe said:

    Gloating in the misfortune of others is the opposite of virtue. 

    This is not 'misfortune'. That's my entire point, you have zero excuses for losing to Trump. This is your own damn fault! 

    44 minutes ago, Joshe said:

    Anyone who enjoys kicking people while they're down needs to have a long look at themselves. 

    I talked about the rhetoric-issues, and I'd argue the progressive rhetoric has the exact same issue. Kicking people when they're down. So, by your own logic, the progressives need to have a long look at themselves. 

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    11 hours ago, Joshe said:

    Maybe I read you wrong but it seems like you enjoy rubbing it in the face of Trump-haters that he won. Is that not the case? 

    How much is it that you get off on rubbing it in vs you just wanting them to pay more attention to aspects of their thinking you think are flawed?

    50-50? 

    I mean, you people are no strangers to the joy of virtue-signaling. 

    I am enjoying the turning of the tables when it comes to virtue-signaling, that's for sure. 

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    @Buck Edwards Alright, serious talk. 

    If your opponent is Donald Trump, you have no excuses for losing to him. This was the left's election to lose moreso than the right's election to win. Especially since you had 8 years of media-attention on the MAGA people to understand where they're coming from and what their genuine concerns are. 

    My analysis is that you people learned nothing from the loss in the 2016 elections and you doubled down on the exact mistakes you were making in terms of rhetoric. And this is what cost you the 2024 election. 

  13. Posted · Edited by mr_engineer

    1 hour ago, Buck Edwards said:

    Why are you celebrating Trump's win? What's to celebrate about it? 

    @Consept thought it would be funny to let AI think about what I'm saying instead of himself. I explained that the joke's on him, cuz Trump won!

    I'm not any happier about it than you are. I'm offering an explanation, to help you understand it. Now, if you're going to troll me for doing that, the joke is on you, because Trump won. 

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    6 hours ago, Consept said:

    Yeah that's exactly it lol. I knew he would argue with the AI instead of self reflecting, when I've responded to him in the past and taken considerable effort to make him see another perspective which is usually met with argumentation. So I thought outsourcing it to AI might be fun. 

    I put in a few of my posts into AI and its actually a great tool to check your own blind spots and bias' but if you're too tied to your ideas then obviously AI will be quite threatening to you 

    I didn't argue with the AI. I called you out for not using your brain. 

    I actually agreed with the AI when it said that you should critically engage with the insights to make up your own mind. I called you out for not doing that! 

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    1 hour ago, integral said:

    Yeah, he was definitely using AI, but I think in general, we should be using AI to fully flesh out an idea and expand an idea as far as we could take it. And then, after that, make the idea our own and put in our own words.

    If you were talking about professional writing, what you're saying would make sense. 

    However, this is personal-development. It is very important to separate those ideas which are your own original ideas, from those that are second-hand ideas. You have to be a real person talking to real people, you have to think through everything yourself. AI is not human, therefore it deserves no credibility when it comes to personal development. Who is this AI to tell us what's ethical/what's high-consciousness and what's not?! Get it out of here! 

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    9 minutes ago, Consept said:

    That said, it's important to note that AI can reflect the biases inherent in the data it was trained on, which might include biases toward certain social or cultural perspectives. While I strive to provide nuanced and balanced views, I am influenced by the sources and discussions I have been trained on, which may lean toward particular narratives or frameworks. If you feel that certain perspectives aren't being represented fairly or fully, that's a valid point, and I encourage critical engagement and a diversity of viewpoints in these conversations.

    Regarding the "Matrix" reference, it’s a common metaphor for the idea that people can become trapped in systems that shape their thinking, whether through media, technology, or ideology. It’s a fair concern to have, especially as AI technology becomes more integrated into daily life. However, AI’s role should ideally be to assist with facilitating dialogue, providing information, and promoting critical thinking, rather than replacing it.

    In short, I’m here to provide insights based on a broad range of information, but it's up to you as the user to critically engage with those insights and make up your own mind.

    See? The AI said it itself. So, you might want to stop with the copy-pasting and start using your own brain. 

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    5 minutes ago, Jacob Morres said:

    @mr_engineer thats not what i was getting to though. I'm talking about the propoganda that he spreads through the platform is intense

    In terms of censorship I don't know. I've heard some things he does censor 

    I've seen leftists being able to engage in flame-wars very effectively with the right-wingers! (That's why I don't personally use X, lol. I know this cuz youtubers talk about twitter-battles in politics) I think it's always been like that, even though some may say it got worse due to Elon. 

    He does believe in free speech, I'll give him that. This is just what happens when you allow it. 

  23. Posted · Edited by mr_engineer

    46 minutes ago, Emerald said:

    But I disagree that no one has been catering to that demographic. Trump and Republicans have been leaning into white male identity politics heavily and overtly since 2016... and subtly before that. And the MOST popular podcasts and YouTube channels are all about putting the male identity up on a pedestal. It's literally everywhere to where I even get served a bunch of male identity politics stuff despite my political viewing habits being decisively on the left. 

    I didn't consider Trump as a legitimate political figure, because I agree with Leo that he is a conman. (The ha ha in the title isn't out of happiness, it's me laughing at progressives because they learned nothing from the loss in 2016) And, podcasters and YouTube channels are alt-media. The actually serious politicians and the mainstream-media have not been talking to white men at all. All they've done is demonize them. 

    I guess this 2024 election was a W for the alt-media over the mainstream media. I personally like that, given how corrupt the mainstream media is vs the fact that alt-media is not politically funded. As someone who's seen the corruptions of the scientific-establishment first-hand, I'm more than willing to believe that journalism is even more corrupt. 

    46 minutes ago, Emerald said:

    And Trump's campaign was hyper-focused on race, ethnicity, gender, and calling anyone who wasn't a white male a DEI hire.

    So, the lesson is that identity politics IS a winner... as long as you cater your identity politics to white men. And this has, of course, always been the case. It is nothing new.

    White male identity politics has always been super popular. That's why most people get upset when anyone else tries to do identity politics because male identity politics is the default and everything else an aberration. 

    Well, yeah. This is not a bug, though, it's a feature. Why haven't the left been talking to white men, then?! Why hasn't their vision for a better future included white men?! 

  24. Posted · Edited by mr_engineer

    @Emerald It is the messaging that gets the votes, though. And, the messaging has always been awful from the left, ever since 2016. They only focused on getting votes from women and minorities. This is what we call 'identity-politics'. And it's a quick but long-term risky strategy to get votes. Didn't work in 2016 for Hilary. Then, Biden won not because of identity-politics, but because he's worked in politics for 50 years. Then, Kamala also relied on identity-politics.

    All Trump had to do was to play to his strengths on the identity-politics front. He focused on appealing to the straight white young man in the last few months of his campaign by appearing on Joe Rogan. Honestly, for decades, no political figure has been talking to this demographic.

    The progressives have hated on men for so long, they don't even know how to appeal to men while hiding it. Kamala had some campaign ads in which there was talk about 'I'm a man's man and I love women, I'm man enough to support a woman in office'. Lol. They cannot even talk to men without preaching masculinity. So, men took the opportunity to vote them out.