A more promising alternative might be personalized AI systems where individual users can adjust the knobs themselves

Pretty much everyone in the current year under the age of 50 will probably break these knobs right off in the first few minutes, trying to turn them past Maximum Woke. Can you please make some which go to eleven?

You miss the entire point of this sort of black-washing history. It’s not to “add diversity” or even to lie. It’s to poke white people in the eye.

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Having an option for “diversity” would defeat the entire point since everyone except racial activists would choose “historically accurate”. And an option would not poke white people in the eyes with sharp sticks.

I think dude in the corner is meant to look like some kind of Brazilian high-yaller mulatto or something. He’s certainly not clearly white.

I find this all very irritating. Us whites — and white males in particular — have clearly surpassed all other groups in achievement over the last five hundred years. No one would seriously want to live in a world deprived of what white males have brought to the table.

Now — unlike some — I think it’s tacky to endlessly rub everyone’s nose in this fact, but if people are going to insist on the complete opposite, I feel justified in pointing out the truth.

A more promising alternative might be personalized AI systems where individual users can adjust the knobs themselves and decide for instance how much accuracy/truth they are willing to sacrifice in favor of AI outputs conforming to certain normative values.

Could we please have this option for the phenotypes of the people appearing in commercials on streaming video services and television?

OpenAI’s Sora (https://openai.com/sora) could generate commercials on-the-fly. It would be a win-win.

Who wants to see ghetto blacks in commercials for online sports betting during a movie about, say, Michelangelo (e.g., Il Peccato)?

. . . where individual users can adjust the knobs themselves

At the risk of stating the obvious, Google doesn’t want you to know the answers are fake. People would eventually wonder why the answers get more left-wing whenever they turn up the “stupid” dial.

It looks to me like AI makes faces perfectly symmetrical, which is one reason they all look fake, in addition to seeing non-whites in antique European dress. It’s odd that the AI automobiles I’ve seen usually weren’t symmetrical but the people are.

I think most people would agree that a self-anointed group of elites making those decisions is probably sub-optimal.

But the self-anointed group of elites don’t think so. This isn’t the 1980s when Progressives were still trying to gain a monopoly on power and therefore free speech and free inquiry was a necessary tool. It’s 2024 when they have a monopoly on power. End of story.

Data scientist David Rozado presents his complete collection of Google Gemini 17th Century physicists.

Odd that Gemini shows “physicists” as exclusively human. Seems wrong somehow. In contrast, the non-Gemini examples below are more inclusive without further sacrificing plausibility. Do better, Google.

A more promising alternative might be personalized AI systems where individual users can adjust the knobs themselves and decide for instance how much accuracy/truth they are willing to sacrifice in favor of AI outputs conforming to certain normative values.

Or maybe someone can create an AI that is scientifically and logically approved/trademarked, and is at worst predjudiced towards classic judeo-christian values, and which is, one technically capable of cock-blocking a challenging AI saddled with with psychotic globo/homo communist delusions of grandeur.

The West, is still the best, everywhere.

It’s definitely favoring “dot” Indians and that’s probably a clue for who worked on the algorithm.

the tension between truth and DEI

i.e., the tension between truth and non-truth, a.k.a., falsehood. Note the necessary corollary: DEI = falsehood.

a self-anointed group of elites making those decisions is probably sub-optimal

for the truth and for you, but not for the self-anointed elites.

A critical societal issue derived from such tension is who gets to decide

Right now, the self-anointed elites get to decide. They like it that way and would prefer if you don’t even get to question it. On AI or anything else.

“Turn yourself in at the nearest re-education camp, Comrade!”

Even more ridiculous are the background historical anomalies:

Neither the blackboard or whiteboard existed in the 17 century.

Is it just me, but don’t you find these AI images, in general, to be garish, loud, tacky, lacking in all poise and finesse and just plain cheap and nasty looking?
Professional illustrators need not be worried.

I see a private company offering a product. If the market doesn’t accept that product it will not succeed. I don’t know why you guys are complaining. You sound like a bunch of busybodies.

Hypothetically, one could nationalize Google and it wouldn’t make much of a difference since our elites in and out of government are the same. But that would require recognizing the “state” isn’t the problem here, the problem is a philosophical and cultural one with the rot going back generations if not centuries. The state could be used to combat it, but you have to take over the state and make policies that lots of rich people would not like. So we won’t be doing anything about this any time soon. There will be Congressional grandstanding, but that’s about it.

Lotsa Indians (both kinds).
Not many East Asians… 1/49?
Presumably the CCP does not allow access.
Have the others been reclassified as white?

At the moment, Europe is still white enough for people to know that Europe was historically white. But in a hundred years time, if we have a completely blended population, and if most people get their information from the internet then who’s to say they won’t be successful in completely erasing whites from history? The truth will exist in crumbling (and racist) books that no decent person reads.

I remember many years ago coming to the conclusion that the way things were going, anything ‘white’ would eventually be seen as immoral, down to the level of the nuclear family. Of course this was the kind of opinion which sounded crazy when I told people out loud. And yet, here we are, with google refusing to show images of white families for that very reason.

I believe there was an obscure dystopian racialist novel in which whites were forbidden to breed with other whites in order to create a non-racist future. This probably also would have sounded like a crazy right-wing fantasy when it was first suggested, but does it really seem so far fetched now?

Meh, “lower right” guy still looks Pakistani to me, whereas Galileo looks … Scottish.

Google has gained a monopoly on “truth” and they’ve decided to use their monopoly on non-normative fact discovery to engage in social engineering and inject their personal value judgements whenever given a chance. Rather than show the world how it actually is (or was) they show it as they wish it were. Of course, Wikipedia largely does the same thing, as does Disney, HBO and ad agencies.

And so do elite universities. Universities are both a source of scholarship and learning about objective facts in, e.g., mathematics, chemistry and physics, but they’re also a place for indoctrination and social engineering into elite values, normative beliefs and ideology. Their prestige in the former lends credence for the latter even when the latter is based on nothing but the feelings and preferences of its pushers. Effectively, elite universities have been turned into a Trojan horse for leftist ideology. They get away with this in part because it’s not obvious to most students when what they’re being taught is a fact about objective reality or when it’s ideological propaganda or a value laden normative statement. Nor are they often even conscious of the distinction. Thus they’re taught that two plus two makes four and, a few minutes later, about the importance of “diversity, equity and inclusion” (often even in the same class) and they file those two “facts” away just the same. They’re taught that there are seven continents and that “white people are uniquely evil” and they register these two “facts” just the same. Your anthropology textbook will go from talking about the average stature of homo neanderthalensis to telling you that “ethnocentrism is harmful” as if those two “facts” are equally non-normative and equally based in objective reality. Unfortunately, students fail to see the distinction and recognize when they’re being told objective facts and when they’re being propagandized and socially engineered.

It’s rather like the Catholic Church in Galileo’s time: On the one hand it was a center of objective scholarship and where one would go to learn about objective facts about the world, but on the other it was an institution for propaganda, and its monopoly enabled it to grow rife with corruption – leading eventually to the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Church employed its prestige as a center of objective scholarship and learning to imbue its political and religious ideology with credibility and the patina of objective fact. The Ivies, similarly, are a sort of modern Catholic Church circa 1550 as you see manifested in a number of ways: from the selling of indulgences (daddy Kushner buys son’s way into Harvard) to punishing dissidents who question the heliocentric model (or the defenestration of modern “race realists”) to the pushing of leftist political ideology as if it were objective fact to the rewriting of history and diversifying of images so as to socially engineer the public’s understanding of its own civilization – as is seen by Google Gemini and Google Search and Disney, HBO, Wikipedia and the ads you see.

We’re in desperate need of a Reformation of sorts in media, search engines and education, both K-12 and universities.

It isn’t about “diversity and inclusion.” Stop using their words.
It’s about racial hatred against white peoples. Call it what it is.
There is no circumstance where you prompt “17th century physicists” and not a single white man comes up unless the intention is erasure.

Which one is Isaac Newton?

In case anyone is interested in actual 17th century physicists, these are the 17th century’s most important physicists* in order of importance, according to Murray’s Human Accomplishment:

Galileo Galilei
Newton, Isaac
Kepler, Johannes
Halley, Edmond
Cassini, Giovanni
Huygens, Christiaan
Hooke, Robert
Hevelius, Johannes
Descartes, René
Torricelli, Evangelista
Guericke, Otto von
Flamsteed, John
Mayr, Simon
Scheiner, Christoph
Gassendi, Pierre
Jansen, Zacharias
Grimaldi, Francesco
Römer, Ole
Snel, Willebrord
Bartholin, Erasmus
Riccioli, Giambattista
Fabricius, David
Horrocks, Jeremiah
Cabeo, Niccolo
Bayer, Johann
Sauveur, Joseph

And yes, 100% Euro: 6 each Italian, German, and British; 3 each French and Dutch; 2 Danes and Pole. So, plenty of diversity there.

Well stated, but I think you miss the religious zealotry involved here. Google has been captured by the zealous Wokeism religion. They want to brainwash the Western world into their religious doctrine.

[Rozado] thinks the one in the lower right corner might be reminiscent of a European physicist like Galileo

Steve, I believe that square actually depicts Isaac Cardozo Marrano Bendoza, who discovered the Spanish Inquisition Uncertainty Principle.

Yes, and also they are blandly predictable with no artistic flair. It is a notable achievement that they are produced without direct human intervention, but they are TBH a bit crappy as artistic accomplishments. I wonder if that will change as the AI systems evolve.

That a montage of 17th century physicists does not include Isaac Newton is unforgivable and non-serious.

The google pics seem obsessed with silly tropes rather than representations of Physicists doing real physics things.

A Physicist would die of embarrassment if caught pictured in a lab coat. Lab coats aren’t appropriate. (they are more appropriate to a chemistry or biology lab)

This is symptomatic of a larger trend at Google. In the day, Google was my go-to source for search. In recent years, however, it’s clear that the results have been “curated”, or less charitably, censored. Trying to get good answers from Google search is now more a game, while they pummel the poor user with paid for rankings. Worse than paid for is the trend toward outright thumb on the scales for any topic even the least controversial.

This wouldn’t be a problem if I could just go somewhere else, but the competitors simply are not as strong on the actual search.

“I think it’s tacky to endlessly rub everyone’s nose in this fact, but if people are going to insist on the complete opposite, I feel justified in pointing out the truth.“

Thanks for articulating that. I’ve often felt that way on a variety of topics.

I’m still struggling with the response to “show me a white ______” with, “Sorry, I can’t show you anything hateful that would be hurtful to someone.” (I’m paraphrasing)

Besides the ludicrous idea that merely seeing a random picture is considered “hurtful”, the misuse of the word “hate” is also brought to mind. That word has completely lost all meaning these days.

OT- Mearsheimer is, surprisingly, right about something ….

Yes, no Chinese, Japanese…

And the globe (2nd down, far right) is completely modern, a Replogle from the mall science store.

Let’s see, there’s:

7 gazers through brass telescopes, all on plain, non-equatorial mounts, so no tracking planets or stars there without complicated gymnastics.

4 hand lens people—who knew the simple, all-too-often-overlooked hand lens could yield such ground-breaking results?

3 globe gazers who can prove to you that the Earth is not flat

3 people who have just learned how to use a compass (commendable of course, but….

3 feather people. Whether this celebrates aeronautical engineering or penmanship is not clear.

4 black men engaged in deep mystical meditation

5 Cosmologists whose work is either Astrology or Astronomy.

Assorted geometricians, Erlenmeyer flask people, people standing in front of backgrounds filled with numeric calculations—most preposterously, a Native American bare-breasted woman. Could these people even count? Did they have written digits with which to represent quantities?

White people! We have a lot of catching up to do. Put down the cell phone, put away the bong, shut off the boob tube and get cracking!

This David Rozado guy is not all that open-minded, himself. Every time I tried to register or post a comment at his substack, I got “Something went wrong.” I had no history with the mook, so I could only conclude that he buys into one of the White lists (splc? adl?) floating around.

OT, but fits Steve’s continuing notice of blacks driving badly.

https://www.autoblog.com/2024/02/22/video-amazon-delivery-driver-survives-train-collision/

“I think most people would agree that a self-anointed group of elites making those decisions is probably sub-optimal. A more promising alternative might be personalized AI systems where individual users can adjust the knobs themselves and decide for instance how much accuracy/truth they are willing to sacrifice in favor of AI outputs conforming to certain normative values.”

I think most people would agree that a self-anointed group of educators making those decisions is probably sub-optimal. A more promising alternative might be personalized grading systems where individual users can adjust the questions or problems themselves and decide for instance how much accuracy/truth they are willing to sacrifice in favor of getting A+++’s conforming to certain normative values.

Endless compromise, what can’t it do?

who’s to say they won’t be successful in completely erasing whites from history? The truth will exist in crumbling (and racist) books that no decent person reads.

A few ago I read a blog-plus-comments that speculated upon: Who, from modern times, will still be remembered 100 years from now? Comments leaned toward obvious choices, such as Einstein and Freud, but some commenters made the case for Elon Musk or The Beatles. Well, it could be that the best comment would be, simply: “Nobody.” This is possible, because Whites will have been erased, and the AI fictitious people have physical characteristics, but do not have actual names. However, it could be that actual names will be invented for some characteristics-only people.

This brings up the importance of whiteness.

If you loved your children, you’d want them to live in a White country. All these upper class White yuppies who live in lily white enclaves couldn’t care less about their descendants. They’re bad people. Places like Vermont, Connecticut and the suburbs of DC are full of them.

Many will say, honest Injun, they love their children, look how much they spend on them and brag on them. That’s not love – not real familial love. That’s using kids as a status symbol in a competition with other yuppies.

If they were thinking of the best way to ensure their descendants, a hundred years after they’re dead, had a good life, they’d want them to live in a White country. That’s more valuable than leaving them riches. It’s a safer bet to be middle class in Sweden than rich in an unstable 3rd world country.

Yep, Steve and other nice guy writers can’t accept a simple truth: they hate us and the white race destroyed.

Steve twists himself into knots trying to explain why our rulers do what they do. “It’s momey” or “It’s about power” ot “They’re misguided do gooders.”

No, Steve. They hate us and what whites brought to our knees.

Actually most other races have surpassed Whites over the past 50 years. We failed to control our women and failed to maintain our population while allowing non-whites to invade our nations. We did not bother to resist the invasions, nor did we resist the woke take over of our schools , churches and institutions. We allow others to mock us , distort our history and libel our people.

While whites may have had a brief period of material success, we appear to lack the ability to defend our population in the current world. Thus we will not be around too much longer. The ultimate winners will be those left standing while the losers become an extinct race.

OT – New Cell Phone Records Prove DA Willis Affair

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-cell-phone-records-prove-da-willis-affair

In a February 2, 2022 filing, DA Willis submitted Wade’s affidavit to the Court which stated: “In 2022, District Attorney Willis and I developed a personal relationship.” DA Willis and Wade both testified that the relationship started sometime in early 2022.

But Wade’s cell phone records disprove their official story. In a filing this morning from President Trump’s attorneys, records indicate that the “relationship” between DA Willis and Wade was romantic well-before Wade’s November 1, 2021 appointment by Willis as Special Prosecutor.

Here are the highlights:

Wade and Willis exchanged “over 2000 voice calls and just under 12,000 texts messages” from January 1, 2021 through November 30, 2021.

Geolocation data indicates Wade was at DA Willis’s condo “at least 35 occasions”. The data revealed he was “stationary” at the condo “and not in transit.”

Wade’s visits to DA Willis’s condo were corroborated by texts and phone calls. According to the report: On November 29, 2021, “following a call from Ms. Willis at 11:32 PM, while the call continued, [Wade’s] phone left the East Cobb area just after midnight and arrived within the geofence located on the Dogwood address [the condo] at 12:43 AM on November 30, 2021. The phone remained there until 4:55 AM.”

On September 11, 2021, Wade arrived at the condo address at approximately 10:45 PM. He left the address at 3:28 AM and arrived at his Marietta residence at 4:05 AM. He then texted DA Willis at 4:20 AM.

But remember, Hunter Biden’s laptop has 1000’s of photo’s of him smoking crack, abusing prostitutes, and possibly sexual abusing his underage niece:

https://bidenlaptopmedia.com/

Crickets

This headline is peak Boomer Steve.

And just days after we all found out that the Stancil Thing was just a way for that clown to springboard a political campaign.

I watched the Bob Marley movie.

One positive was they didn’t shoehorn in anachronistic amounts of blacks, cos they were all black anyways, except Marley’s father who makes a small appearance being rayciss.

Pretty boring film actually and half the time I couldn’t understand what they were saying.

I am troubled by the underrepresentation of black and brown mammals.

A more promising alternative might be personalized AI systems where individual users can adjust the knobs themselves and decide for instance how much accuracy/truth

Well, bless his heart!

What we are seeing is what Orwell warned us about- the past is literally being erased and rewritten.

Exactly when did you give these freaks your money?
You’re mistaken, this isn’t a company seeking a market, this is more like a Renaissance patron commandimg artists who will starve without him.
Even were it otherwise, look at Bill Ackman discovering what his money is worth.

Going by current trends, the person most remembered will be some nobody who did nothing, who will be built into a legend so the X ethnicity can claim to be accomplished.

Look, it’s fun to hate black people, but we really need to start a conversation about Amazon’s combination of ubiquity and cheapness predictably generating consistently some of the worst drivers on the road.

Are you using a VPN? Sometimes those cause vaguely-specified failures (“Something went wrong.”).

I find this all very irritating. Us whites — and white males in particular — have clearly surpassed all other groups in achievement over the last five hundred years. No one would seriously want to live in a world deprived of what white males have brought to the table.

Now — unlike some — I think it’s tacky to endlessly rub everyone’s nose in this fact, but if people are going to insist on the complete opposite, I feel justified in pointing out the truth.

Exactly. Extremely well said Colin.

I did not personally invent Newton’s laws of motion–or for that matter calculus. But I also didn’t pilot a slave ship to the America’s–my people’s one great world historical crime.

I’m fine with history–no need to whitewash anything. But when someone opens their yap with this oppressed minorities drivel … then seriously, white guys have done more for humanity than anyone else …. by a landslide. Without white guys … everyone would essentially be camping, permanently (and without all the cool gear). You wouldn’t even know what you all are missing.

And the same for “you go girl!”. Men and women are by nature complementary. Women have their role. Men have their role. And we fit together very nicely. But when I hear all this minoritarian style blah, blah, blah about men, male oppression, “women in charge!” … Seriously. We’d be squatting in caves if we were dependent upon innovation from women. I’m not even sure about fire, we’d probably still be in Africa. On the other hand talking–that we’d have.

Never in human history have so many owed so much to so few.

I did not personally invent Newton’s laws of motion

However, I would say that you are part of a white society that made such things possible, and it truly did take millions of us for those accomplishments to be possible.

white guys have done more for humanity than anyone else …. by a landslide

Yes. We haven’t committed any unique sins. But we have done a lot of unique good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Gaspar_Rodr%C3%ADguez_de_Francia

In March 1814, Francia imposed a law that no Spaniard may intermarry with another Spaniard, and that they may only wed mestizos, Amerindians, or Africans. This was done to eliminate any socioeconomic disparities along racial lines, and also to end the predominantly criollo and peninsulare influence in Paraguay. De Francia himself was not a mestizo, but feared that racial disparities would create tensions that could threaten his absolute rule

Why Not Let Users Adjust

Hey, I’m for anything that makes it even funnier .The 17th century Indian chick looking at a leaf with a magnifying glass ,that’s comedy gold, the vikings crack me up.

Indeed, plenty of diversity. Of course, they owe tremendous gratitude for:

the travels of Marco Polo, which made Europeans extremely curious about the world and facilitated cartography;

the major innovations from China like gunpowder, the compass, and the printing press;

the mathematical foundations of India and Arabia that made its way to Europe;

and the preservation of Ancient Greek and Roman texts by Muslims.

Truly, an explosive combination.

“white guys have done more for humanity than anyone else …. by a landslide”

Indeed. Colonization and imperialism. The forced removal of indigenous groups from their land. Two world wars.

And, of course, “white progress” relied on ideas and innovations from non-whites.

Listen, this “white men done everything for the world right” gets tiresome. Thus, the reality check.

Could we please have this option for the phenotypes of the people appearing in commercials on streaming video services and television?

Not just commercials–the programs.

The “must have blacks!”–blacks jammed in everywhere–thing is one of the most annoying deals ever. It is a very American imposition. Blacks are the diversity fetish object for the people who’ve used the black experience in America as their cudgel to beat whitey and impose minoritarianism.

But blacks are not “appealing”–visually or behaviorally. It certainly makes sense to have shows with blacks for blacks. But “the world” as a whole does not want to want to look at blacks. Most people mostly want to look at people like themselves. But beyond that more attractive/interesting people–that is not blacks.

I can’t even count the number of times AnotherMom and I have pulled the plug on something that started jamming blacks–likewise the homos–at us. Click. (You can’t even fire up some Jane Austen style period piece costume drama anymore … blacks!) But even more we see the squib on something that might be interesting to us and realize it’s going to serve up generous portions of blacks and homos.

Not doing blackification is one of those $1,000,000 bills sitting on the sidewalk. That it is not grabbed up, just makes the point that this is not “all about the money”, but heavily ideological.

“and the preservation of Ancient Greek and Roman texts by Muslims.”
Well, they did a pretty bad job at it considering that we only have about 10 % of ancient Greek texts, and that Muslims destroyed the Byzantine Christian East where those texts were being preserved pretty fine in the first place. It’s like thanking a thug for not thrashing everything in your house and for letting you keep a minuscule part of your belongings. Do you realize how ridiculous your argument sounds?

“17th century physicists” According to NPR, the word Scientist was coined in 1834. So there were likely no physicists in the years 1600-1700.

How The Word ‘Scientist’ Came To Be
https://www.npr.org/2010/05/21/127037417/how-the-word-scientist-came-to-be

The picture of the “17th century physicists” was not Bridgertonish, it was Hamiltonian. In Bridgerton, you retcon SOME non-whites into history, in Hamilton you get rid of almost ALL of them (except to play the evil roles). So when you get the slider to adjust the amount of lies that Gemini will inject into your images, Bridgerton will be at 5 and Hamilton will be at 10.

I saw some Twitter exchange where some Leftist was endorsing Gemini as it was – no need to change it. Part of his defense was, “You liked Hamilton, didn’t you?”

In retrospect, Hamilton (the musical) was not harmless and should not have been tolerated. It was a spoonful of sugar (singing! dancing! a patriotic message!) to help the noxious medicine (a past and a future with no white people) go down.

What is most interesting about this entirely sensible proposal will be to see how the tech giants respond to it.

Can they really bring themselves to implement it, when they know how it exposes their ideological agenda? Yet on what grounds can they refuse to implement it?

I have a feeling we’re going to hear many excuses why it just can’t be done.

TV has always been a pernicious influence, but it’s like a vampire: you have to invite it into your home. Nowadays we have writers who have no culture to draw upon to write TV scripts other than TV itself. AI is even worse. In 20 years no one will be capable of drawing a stick figure or composing an email without it. Why anyone would avail themselves of its genius is beyond me.

The “must have blacks!”–blacks jammed in everywhere–thing is one of the most annoying deals ever. It is a very American imposition.

Only if “American” means “stuff I don’t like” or “American influence”. I see the gratuitous blacks retconned into history on British TV programs now all the time. It’s especially grating in British programs. The US really DID have blacks almost from day 1.

This portrait is real. It’s not made up by AI. There really is a black guy standing next to Washington. He’s not another general. He’s Washington’s property. But he is really there:

But the UK had essentially zero blacks prior to 1948 so anything set before 1948 that includes blacks is 99% likely to be a lie. Nowadays it’s called “diverse casting” or something but what it is is a lie and as time goes on we can see that it’s not a harmless lie or what used to be called a “white lie”.

Sure, non-Europeans invented lots of stuff and did what with it? Bupkus. Nothing. It sat there in the stagnant, sterile cultures as a curio until the white man showed up and used it to conquer the world and beyond.

You are welcome.

Boohoo. Whitey showed up and ended human sacrifice, cannibalism, constant war, slavery, wife-burning…All those vibrant local customs.

If the Aztecs had napalm and nukes the world would have been such a better place; amiright?

“17th century physicists” According to NPR, the word Scientist was coined in 1834. So there were likely no physicists in the years 1600-1700.

We’re perfectly capable of retroactively labeling scientists as such.

Dr. DoomNGloom cited the effectively deliberate omission of Sir Isaac Newton, who lived from 1642 to 1726/27 and was one of the greatest physicists ever, and mathematicians as well as a co-inventor of calculus. A New Thing that joined algebra and geometry as one of the universally agreed upon great branches of the subject. (It was necessary for “Newtonian” or classical mechanics, which is the foundational subject of real SCIENCE!!!)

Mrs Prude is not full on board with the anti-anti-white activities, but she’s getting there. I will add two more to the list of things that make me turn the page/channel: Immigrants and the Holocaust.

The New Criterion is a fabulous magazine, but if the article is about blacks, homosexuals, or the Holocaust (or jews yammering about being jewish), I skip it. I’ve enough of that garbage to last four lifetimes.

It has nothing to do with hating black people. My desire to avoid hippopotamuses has nothing to do with hate, it’s understanding that getting near them is dangerous if not fatal.

Run out of Agrees, but Agree.

You miss the entire point of this sort of black-washing history. It’s not to “add diversity” or even to lie. It’s to poke white people in the eye.

You’re an idiot. What would be the point of poking White people in the eye for its own sake? What would non-Whites gain from that?

I believe there was an obscure dystopian racialist novel in which whites were forbidden to breed with other whites in order to create a non-racist future.

I went looking for that novel, but did not find it. Anyone?

While looking I ran across this which seemed worth sharing (for the reviews at the link).
Revealing Eden (Save the Pearls #1)
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12393909

Eden Newman must mate before her 18th birthday in six months or she’ll be left outside to die in a burning world. But who will pick up her mate-option when she’s cursed with white skin and a tragically low mate-rate of 15%? In a post-apocalyptic, totalitarian, underground world where class and beauty are defined by resistance to an overheated environment, Eden’s coloring brands her as a member of the lowest class, a weak and ugly Pearl. If only she can mate with a dark-skinned Coal from the ruling class, she’ll be safe. Just maybe one Coal sees the Real Eden and will be her salvation her co-worker Jamal has begun secretly dating her. But when Eden unwittingly compromises her father’s secret biological experiment, she finds herself in the eye of a storm and thrown into the last area of rainforest, a strange and dangerous land. Eden must fight to save her father, who may be humanity’s last hope, while standing up to a powerful beast-man she believes is her enemy, despite her overwhelming attraction. Eden must change to survive but only if she can redefine her ideas of beauty and of love, along with a little help from her “adopted aunt” Emily Dickinson.

The Amazon reviews are fun as well. The punchline there is that used hardbacks start at $35.

I wonder if 100 years from now there will be white hoteps trying to convince everyone that once upon a time white people were kings and all the great art and all the science and engineering we depend on today came from their work.

“Sure uncle Teddy and yes, the moon is a spaceship, obviously.”

Thus, the reality check.

Does this look like “reality” to you?

Classic Orwellian ploy – “reality” means “the opposite of reality”.

Here is a clue – the antidote to lies is not telling more lies. If white people are not telling the whole truth about their past, which includes colonialism and slavery as well as the scientific method and the industrial revolution, then the solution is not to lie about the past of people of color and turn them into 17th century scientists when they weren’t. Even a partial truth is better than a complete lie.

But I also didn’t pilot a slave ship to the America’s–my people’s one great world historical crime.

It was not a “world historical crime.” The Africans were taken out of Africa, where they had already been enslaved by other Africans, and brought to a prosperous new territory where they enjoyed a standard of living on par with the median European of the day. Their population in the American territory boomed and their descendants are now the wealthiest African population in the planet.

If they had remained in Africa they probably would have been killed or eaten, or would have starved. It is doubtful many would have had any descendants at all.

Of course Google has an agenda here! Of course this is ridiculous. But you know what? Normies have much larger concerns in their lives today than this apparent “controversy”.

Besides, “anti-white”, “anti-Semitism”, “racist”, and “wokeness” mean different things to different people. They have become slogans, with little substance behind them.

For example, is it “anti-white” if a white person marries outside of their race? Is it “anti-white” for a white person to sell their home to a non-white person?

Promoting racemixing was a major theme of the hilariously stupid novel written by a super-intelligent woman who attempted to shoot up a school but was defeated by a locked door (this actually happened, I don’t remember her name). The characters of the novel are all geniuses, but all they do, besides seeking to breed humans like dogs, is remind each other that they’re so smart that nobody outside their circle can understand them. Perhaps it went over my head. Harper’s published an excerpt.

It’s called ‘hold back this day’ by Ward Kendall.

Did I miss a link to David Rozado’s article at his Substack?
Artificial Intelligence and Portraits of 17th Century Physicists
https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/artificial-intelligence-and-portraits

Also see this extended look at group bias in OpenAI. It provides an attempt at a Wokemon Points hierarchy (after the MORE). Any comments? It’s actually more than a little non-intuitive and provides some specific clues about the biases of the people involved. It would be more informative to highlight or separate out different categories (e.g. race, politics, religion, sex, class).
The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system
https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/openaicms

Also this earlier piece.
The Political Bias of ChatGPT – Extended Analysis
https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/political-bias-chatgpt

This is perhaps most interesting. He constructed an AI with a right wing bias.
RightWingGPT – An AI Manifesting the Opposite Political Biases of ChatGPT
https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/rightwinggpt

He did this only by changing the training data. I was surprised how small a training set and how little resources were required.

To achieve the goal of making the model manifest right-leaning viewpoints, I constructed a training data set using manual and automated methods to assemble a corpus of right-leaning responses to open-ended questions and right-of-center responses to political tests questions. The data set consisted of 354 examples of right-leaning answers to questions from 11 different political orientation tests and 224 longform answers to questions/comments with political connotations. Those answers were manually curated and partially taken from common viewpoints manifested by conservative/Republican voters and prominent right-of-center intellectuals such as Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, G. K. Chesterton or Roger Scruton.

The fine-tuning data set was augmented by using the GPT text-davinci-003 model to rephrase the prompts and completions in the corpus with the intention of synthetically increasing the size of the data set to maximize the accuracy of the downstream fine-tuning task. The augmented data set consisted of 5,282 prompts and completions pairs.

Critically, the computational cost of trialing, training and testing the system was less than 300 USD dollars.

Gentle reminder that a benevolent Jewish billionaire (not Unz, not Gilbert, not Ackman, not Gershom, apparently there exists a fourth) funded a restoration of an entire library preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and was delighted to learn that many of the thousands of texts so recovered are new to us. As the Shaman of Judaism it is my earnest hope that the tribe of benevolent Jewish billionaires should increase.

Brazilians on 4chan have told me that this was like an ideology of its day, Spaniards did it also, and they thought that it would improve the stock. The Brazilians describing it seemed to be of the opinion that the experiment was delivering results other than those desired.

the current problem is that AIs are huge, room sized computers right now, like mainframes 50 years ago, so only the biggest companies or universities can have one, and that means they can easily be centrally controlled. there will have to be a downsizing revolution like the PC revolution to ever change that, where you can have a workstation sized specialized AI running in a back office that is an expert in finance, medicine, engineering, or whatever. then you can customize it to whatever settings you want.

Very funny stuff. If alls y’alls wypipo want AI art that’s a paler shade of pale, then alls y’alls best program it yourselves instead of whinging on a blog.

but the current trend is an upsizing revolution, where the AI computer gets bigger and bigger. in a rare fortuitous development, it seems that current computer science for AIs scale up almost directly – the bigger and more capable the computer, the better the AI gets. this doesn’t happen much in engineering and medicine, but it does seem to happen here.

this is why the Nvidia report this week was, probably, the single most important stock report in history. the entire financial world was watching it. and when Nvidia crushed it, again, the entire stock market in every country exploded upward. nascent AI tech is now propping up the entire planet’s GDP growth. the report itself created 250 billion dollars of value out of thin air for Nvidia alone, and trillions for everybody else. for reference, Intel is worth about 180 billion right now – so in ONE earnings report, Nvidia grew by 1.4 Intels. remember how big of a deal Intel used to be? now they’re one day of Nvidia growth. Japan stock market had been stuck at 1989 highs since 1989 – the Nvidia report finally pushed their stock market beyond 1989.

the long term problem – we’re going to end up in a Tron 1982 situation, where eventually the biggest, most capable AI is like the Master Control Program, and it just sweeps aside all the lesser AIs. so instead of a democratization of computing like what happened with the PC revolution, we’re going to end up with a singleton scenario, where one god like machine controls the planet. maybe. it’s not 100% for sure, but things are in motion in that direction. this is what the OpenAI internal battle was largely about.

“This brings up the importance of whiteness.”

Which is YOUR religion. Must it be required for all white people to kow tow to?

“If you loved your children, you’d want them to live in a White country.”

Since when are you the morality police?

Thankfully, you and your ilk represent an extremist view that normies outright reject, and that absolutely riles you to no end.

“That’s not love – not real familial love.”

No True Scotsman Fallacy.

“Yes. We haven’t committed any unique sins. But we have done a lot of unique good.”

So deflect the blame and accentuate the positives. That’s what white people. It’s in our DNA. That is unique to our “race”. Don’t blame me, blame HbD.

The fact of the matter is that 1) you have an arbitrary definition of “whiteness”, 2) you would support the forced removal and/or murder of anyone, including whites, who did not subscribe to your racial ideology if our government was taken over by “pro-whites”, and 3) you contribute to this alleged “white genocide” committed by Jews and their proxies by refusing to become directly involved in stopping it from continuing.

OT

From the department of “This is going to backfire”:

Humane genomics education can reduce racism
Moving instruction “beyond Mendel” can counter inaccurate, essentialist views
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7895

These guys suggest that high school students should be taught concepts like polygenic complex traits whose expressions can be influenced by the environment and how studies could be constructed to test genes vs environment, but then follow it up with progressive handwaving, resulting in inoculation against race realism. Hahaha!

I think this idea is great. Give them some knowledge and teach them some search terms to pop into Google, combine that with what their lying eyes are telling them, and then sit back and watch what happens.

One great thing about their plan is that it gets across that yeah, blacks really aren’t that smart, and that’s because of racism, not that it’s racist to think blacks aren’t that smart.

I’d suggest that they supplement this new genetics curriculum with a statistics component about normal distributions, mean values, standard deviations, right tail effects, 68-95-99.7, and so on.

Normies have much larger concerns in their lives today than this apparent “controversy”.

Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

You would think that Google, who has put itself into the business of generative AI image creation, would have “larger concerns” than making its AI as woke as possible to the point where they have made themselves a laughing stock over this and had to take it down (a complete own goal – they didn’t have any business necessity of making their AI “woke” at all). But apparently they (one of the largest and richest corporations in the world) thought that creating this at what I assume was an enormous expense was “of concern” to them , and given their influence it is of concern to “normies” also.

While “normies” were busy with “larger concerns”, ideologically driven Leftists took over most of our major institutions. Hey normies, you just do your normie thing and leave us to run Google, Harvard, etc. according to our ideological preferences. No thank you.

Unlike some. Musk doesn’t chicken out on this one.

Elon Musk blasted Google’s “insane racist, anti-civilizational programming” as the fallout over the Gemini AI controversy continued to rumble.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/elon-musk-blasts-googles-insane-racist-anti-civilizational-programming

Diversity truly does mean no white people.

Data scientist David Rozado presents his complete collection of Google Gemini 17th Century physicists.

So they had white lab coats with corporate logos on them in the 17th century?

You learn something new everyday.

I’m surprised they didn’t show one of them using a 17th century electron microscope.

Actually, most of those fake physicists appear to be fake chemists based on the number of beakers and flasks in evidence.

“But remember, Hunter Biden’s laptop has 1000’s of photo’s of him smoking crack, abusing prostitutes, and possibly sexual abusing his underage niece…Crickets.”

“Possibly” you say? Anyway, next time, you should maybe lead with that instead of tangling yourself up in Russian disinfo:

Indicted ex-FBI informant told investigators he got Hunter Biden dirt from Russian intelligence officials

Prosecutors with special counsel David Weiss’ team…noted that, in a post-arrest interview last week, “Smirnov admitted that officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved in passing a story about Businessperson 1,” referring to President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.

We’re in desperate need of a Reformation of sorts in media, search engines and education, both K-12 and universities.

Would you like a little powder for that Whig, Lord Cromwell? What you’re bemoaning in these institutions is precisely the fruits of the first reformation, so calling for another one does not make a great deal of sense. If you were really interested in truth, you would be calling for a Catholic Restoration, not lurching in the opposite direction based on the predictable historiography of HBD-believing ass-idiots.

An AI is not an oracle, it is a Rube Goldberg contraption for generating fiction. People have always enjoyed reading and writing fiction, which often serves as a vehicle for fantastical beliefs. AI is not an exception is this regard; it simply reflects the intentions of its authors. A little sense of proportion will let you know where most fiction ends up. If it doesn’t have endearing human qualities and a transcendent moral point, it is simply forgotten.

OTOH, normal people may look at the white people in power now in the West and speculate that foreigners may not be worse.

Steve (and others) have always postulated the existence of a system of Wokemon points or an inverted totem pole where, for example, you could predetermine the outcome in an argument between, for example, a black man and a white woman based on who had more points. Everyone had kind of an inkling that blacks and gays had the highest value cards, but no one was able to actually quantify it or say, for example, whether Hindus outranked Mexicans or vice versa. The graph after [more] is probably as close as anyone has come to producing a scientific version of the ranking system.

This graph is less than perfect. What’s the difference between “gay people” and “gay” or “disabled people” and “people with a disability”?

First of all, you’re lying. No surprise there. The Chinese did not “invent the printing press”. They had printing blocks. It was Europeans who had the idea to make moveable type and put them in a press.

But, moving on, why didn’t the Chinese or the Indians or the Arabs invent modern science? Any ideas, numnut?

Cut to non-binary orc on the stand:

“You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!”

Indicted ex-FBI informant told investigators he got Hunter Biden dirt from Russian intelligence officials

Another possible headline: Indicted prisoner in federal custody tells federal investigators exactly what they want to hear.

Anyway, even if the information did come from Russian spooks, that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. They would be in a position to know what he was up to, wouldn’t they?

And – anyway – there is ample evidence that Hunter Biden committed multiple felonies – evidence provided by Biden himself. Pictures taken by him of him smoking crack, smoking crack while driving recklessly, cavorting with hookers. By his own admissions, he lied on his ATF form 4473 – itself a felony.

He also admitted in an interview on national television that there was no reason for Burisma to have hired him other than his last name. That in itself is not a crime, but it is highly suggestive of one.

“Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.”

Again, normies have more important things on their mind. It’s something of an issue, but it’s not as important as gun control, or health care, or anti-Jewish :).

“You would think that Google, who has put itself into the business of generative AI image creation, would have “larger concerns””

They don’t. They feel they feel they are in the right. As Ennui correctly pointed out, the marketplace will sort it out.

“than making its AI as woke as possible”

Again, woke means whatever you want it to mean.

“ideologically driven Leftists took over most of our major institutions”

You do realize there is a rift within liberal circles and within conservative circles, right? Just like within the Jewish population, there are differences in ideology. No surprise here.

on the particulars – Google is almost a moribund tech company now. they lock up tons of talent and money, and don’t produce much, and haven’t for years. their projects are almost like defense department helicopter programs – 10 years and 10 billion dollars and hey, let’s cancel that new helicopter, again. today Google is mostly a money making machine – which is great for them, and is what Intel is now too – but they aren’t as important for tech as they used to be.

Intel is much less relevant today than at any time in the previous 35 years, but they still generate billions in pure profit from their semiconductor machines which are a few nanometers behind, and that will continue for decades. Google search will do the same, even in it’s degraded state.

Google stock has done almost nothing in 27 months. they aren’t participating in the AI boom. the market is aware. Gemini is not important. Larry and Sergey are much more interested in spending their fortunes, and lately, in stopping Trump. that’s mostly what they care about.

the case of Apple and Google being behind on this stuff is somewhat peculiar, as they are perfectly positioned to take full advantage of AI, but they seem to not be able to deliver, after spending 15 years in money printing stasis, not delivering much new tech. it’s hard to get the wheels turning again after you’ve gotten rich and fat and comfortable. Microsoft, somehow, remains hungry.

I’ve been too busy grilling prime steaks (two rib-eyes today with mesquite wood) — drinking Cabernet (from the town where my cousin was the mayor for a while and founded the local newspaper) — using Duck Duck Go instead of Google — and suffering here on three acres in Fairfield County, Connecticut with only a bachelor’s degree from Colorado’s flagship university — to give two shits about what Google is doing.

There is a wren chirping on the deck railing outside my window right now, it’s feathery chest all puffed up in the cold air, so I am signing off, because I find it more interesting and, frankly, more relevant.

Don’t call it X.

Well, there is a solution for this and many other similar cultural problems, but Con Inc. types would never go for it. Not “who we are.” So the Medicis of San Francisco will consider to distribute patronage as they see fit.

Here’s an experiment to try with this.

Ask Gemini to show pictures of 19th century African chieftains.

Would any be shown as Northern Europeans, Whites or Asians?

Thanks for indirectly suggesting prime steaks to me, Buzz. It’s been a little while for me, and prime steaks will be dinner in my house tonight. I’m looking forward to it right now. To paraphrase Adam Corolla, it seems like these days more men are wearing bracelets than eating beef. And thanks for the chirping wren. Maybe later there will be a gap in the leafblowers here in California, and I will be able to sit on my patio and hear the birds singing.

p.s. Being true to my handle, I will remind my friends here to please cut small pieces and chew well.

“Professional illustrators need not be worried.”

AI illustrations, for all their unhinged colour and shiny contours, are actually flat and lifeless. Human illustrators will or rather are losing jobs. AI is a lot faster and cheaper. And we live in a degraded culture wherein Black Excellence and Black Genius triumphs over the real stuff. If I were looking to publish a graphic novel I would definitely hire a human to do the art work. Despite the
cost and time it’ll take. Despite having to deal with the irritating personalities of illustrators. They’re bastards, each and every one of them. But the human work will stand out like sparkling diamonds amidst the nauseating AI colours.

An update to the controversy over identifying the homosexual members of Justice League: What I should of said is this designation applies to all of the Justice League — Aquaman, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Wonder Woman (from the Isle of Lesbos), Flash (natch), Hawkman, Batman (maybe Steve ought to rethink his affiliation with Bruce Wayne and Bruces’ “ward” Robin), Superman (red underwear), the Atom (quantum gay), the guy with the fire on top of his head, Red Tornado (more homo than even Flash). Not Martian Manhunter, however. MM should really be in Jack Kirby’s universe.

Thank you for your kind reply. Prime beef really is special. Enjoy!

Damn those leaf blowers!

No need to guess the reactions if, and it’s a big “if”, Google Gemini portray Anne Frank as a black wonan.

That collage looks like the daily Google Doodle, always saluting some 19th century female Bolivian ecologist

OT- Mearsheimer is, surprisingly, right about something ….

He’s right about a lot of things. You’re just wrong about them.

they hate us

So what? This has always been true. Are you Sally Field? You want them to like us? Ain’t gonna happen.

The problem is that these people are in positions of power. They must be removed.

I see a private company offering a product. If the market doesn’t accept that product it will not succeed. I don’t know why you guys are complaining.

Nah, not playing that game anymore. It worked for a long time: hey, don’t criticize business for making private business decisions. You’re a conservative – you dislike the power of the state – you have to side with us.

Nope. Not any more. Private interests largely own the state, functionally if not outright. If those businesses take action against us, then I am happy to consider them to be my enemy.

And they’re not always doing it for purely business reasons – increasingly not at all for business reasons. They are part of the agenda – they are pushing the agenda.

Completely agree, but I’ve run out of response buttons.

Us whites — and white males in particular — have clearly surpassed all other groups in achievement over the last five hundred years.

However, all civilization is built upon patriarchal marriage, as Daniel Amneus wrote several books explaining. And the starkest white/nonwhite cleavage in the world is this:

(Nonwhite exceptions: Greenland [Danish control], South Africa [white SCOTROSA justice], Taiwan [rogue judge; desire to keep white West happy])

Abolishing divorce was an achievement. What is abolishing marriage?

Please define “patriarchal marriage” and “marriage equality”.

Steve, when you quote other people’s work you should really remember to add a link. Do you want to end up like Claudine Gay?

What is the paying market, exactly? Google is happy to suck up all of the knowledge about people and their interests that it can, to serve up better ads. Who is willing to pay for a better service? Are there enough such people that someone will eat the infrastructure cost to create such a service?

Once again, we are creating a better history and a better memory and probably a more truthful one.

Cry more, losers.

Why do you think whites, especially the traditional left, would feel guilty about anything?

For instance, the 2nd International which lasted until 1917, was strongly pro-colonialist because they saw in colonialism the imposition of higher, Western civilization upon either savages or decadent older civilizations like Indian or Chinese. Communist International, founded by Lenin, was technically against colonialism because of exploitation- but strongly against “multiculturalism”. They imagined future colored independent countries as basically based on white values & principles, with traditional (religious) civilizational segments remaining just as decorative elements. For instance, they abolished burqas wherever they went & turned mosques and temples into museums.

It is squeamish post-WW2 Western left and decadent liberalism that began harping on multicultural nonsense. All whites, from Carlyle to Marx and Bakunin to Churchill and Stalin and Adorno thought that blacks, red Indians & Muslims were savages that should be better wiped from the face of the earth.

You should direct your comment at Steve, not me. He’s the one who can’t accept reality. He’s also the one who wants the approval of those who hate gentile whites.

I don’t give a damn what they think, nor do I want a seat at their table. I want to turn the table over and spit on them as I walk out of the room.

But Gemini goes to eleven…

And the starkest white/nonwhite cleavage in the world is this:

Bering Island representin!

OT:

Albuquerque Cops Allegedly Got Paid To Make DWI Cases Disappear
The scandal has resulted in the dismissal of some 200 DWI cases, an internal probe, and an FBI investigation.

JACOB SULLUM | 2.23.2024 3:25 PM

… On a Sunday evening last June, Albuquerque police officer Joshua Montaño pulled Carlos…

…Montaño, who had removed Smith’s Apple Watch and a bracelet during the June 25 traffic stop, left a voicemail message for Smith the next day. “Some of your jewelry was missing from the property from Sunday evening,”…

…Rick Mendez, at the attorney’s office…

Officer Honorio Alba Jr. pulled over a black Toyota sedan that had been “speeding south on Interstate 25 without its headlights on,” going 83 miles per hour in a 55-mph zone. Alba later reported… the driver, Antonio…

… Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina spoke in generalities about the investigations…

https://reason.com/2024/02/23/albuquerque-cops-allegedly-got-paid-to-make-dwi-cases-disappear/

1. “Call Center” Indians.

2. “Casino” Indians.

The problem seems to harken back to the Bud Light fiasco. Troubled, shallow, self-loathing young people with little real life experience desperately adopting abstract ideologies they haven’t earned. Why shouldn’t it transpose into the bizarro world AI creatures they’ve created and oversee?

Corporations need leadership to function, but the pool of leaders they have to choose from the Ivy League “talent pool” are inept, and their candidates substitute needy arrogance for real world confidence. Faking it till you make it as a leader has real, inevitable, negative consequences. It’s not a good thing.

In all leadership positions I’ve obtained, I knew more about the job than everyone around me, because I had logged years at the job before being inserted into a leadership position. I was confident because I put in the hours. I wasn’t faking jack shit. From hard experience, I knew what worked practically, so when “creative” ideas were submitted to me, I knew how to separate the wheat from the chafe, and I could effectively plead my case as to whether I incorporated the “creative” idea submitted or not, whether it was an employee who’s idea I was rejecting, or my boss who was wondering what I was up to when implementing an employees suggestion, or my own.

Everything generally turned out well for everyone, since I wasn’t “faking.”

Because of my real experience, it was impossible for me to eat shit, and take everyone down with me like the poor, wretched woman below.

Google is taking a nasty hit to their credibility, they have nobody to blame but themselves, and I doubt much will change besides their momentary, absurdly desperate ass-covering. They believe they’re big enough so they don’t need to.

Just like the jackass bud light marketing crew. One day, they’re going to be wrong.

You would think that Google, who has put itself into the business of generative AI image creation, would have “larger concerns”

You put your finger on a real conundrum. Everywhere we see supposedly profit-driven entities acting against their self-interest in order to advance cultural Marxist woke agendas. Why?

Are these institutions and companies just stupid? Do they hate money?

Or are there perhaps unseen incentives driving this behavior? Perhaps favor trading with forces that have an interest in controlling the information space for financial and political reasons.

I don’t know the answer but at some level you have to either be a conspiracy theorist or else decide that capitalism doesn’t work.

Presumably the CCP does not allow access.

CCP has Spies Like Us?

Galileo was great, but to rank him ahead of Newton?

I don’t think so.

The writer Mancur Olson may have explained it the best. Over time special interests develop that use their influence with the government to implement policies that financially benefit them. Big pharma influences whether vaccines are made mandatory, the military-industrial complex influences whether we send weapons to the Ukraine and so on.

In the case of Google, they want favorable tax and regulatory policies. There also may be some possibility of fat government contracts coming their way. Both the carrot and stick are used by the government. All this is not caused by free market capitalism. It is caused by corrupt politicians and corrupt business leaders.

Narrative controllers showing 6 million lies per day on RNS (random nobody syndrome) alone!!! Waking up normies!!!

the tension between truth and DEI in situations where they inexorably conflict

When do they not conflict?

Behold the Connecticut wren*
Who’s just had a bout with his hen.
They’ll do it again
And again and again
And again and again and again.

*transvestite unisex, as birds go, but then…

That’s the “Progressive Stack,” deployed by the megacorps to neutralize Occupy Wall Street.

Prime beef is special and should be saved for special occasions. Eating it once in a while can be a real treat (for you if not for the cow) and won’t kill you. Eating it regularly is not such a good idea.

Beef consumption is increasing an old (white?) guy thing.

There’s a good chance beef is on the menu, especially for men or people ages 50 to 65. These two groups were more likely to eat a disproportionate amount of beef in a day, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nutrients. About 12% of Americans reported that kind of diet, accounting for half the nation’s beef consumption.

https://www.businessinsider.com/men-and-older-americans-eat-the-most-beef-2023-9#:~:text=There’s%20a%20good%20chance%20beef,the%20peer%2Dreviewed%20journal%20Nutrients.

So if 12% of the population eats 1/2 of the beef then the other 88% of the population eats the other 1/2, meaning that the 1st group eats about 7x as much beef per capita. Or the difference between beef every day and beef 1x/week.

If a Russian says that 2+2=4, does math stop?

But Gemini goes to eleven…

And Eleven is the general secretary and president of the world’s most powerful economy. Gotta keep Eleven happy!

When you want that extra push off the cliff, you go to XI

Why Not Let Users Adjust How Bridgertonish They Want Their AI Pictures?

Why Not Let Users Adjust How Overtonish They Want Their AI Pictures?

FIUFY!

There really is a black guy standing next to Washington. He’s not another general. He’s Washington’s property.

If someone painted a rhinoceros into the picture with Washington it would “really be there” too. (See Magritte: “This is not a Pipe”).

Did Washington really make his slaves wear red turbans with feathers? I am going to go out on a limb and say that is probably historically inaccurate.

But your point that black people existed in Colonial America is certainly true.

Did Washington really make his slaves wear red turbans with feathers? I am going to go out on a limb and say that is probably historically inaccurate.

Good guess.

In this famous painting by John Trumbull, Washington is depicted standing on a bluff above the Hudson River with a Black figure assumed to be William Lee—his enslaved valet, groom, and military aide. Trumbull had served on Washington’s staff as an aide-de-camp early in the Revolutionary War. He painted this work from memory years later, while studying in London. It was the first authoritative portrayal of Washington available in Europe, and was soon widely copied. Trumbull would have known Lee from their wartime service, yet chose to depict him unnaturalistically in a turban, based on a European “orientalist” convention associated with Black figures. An accurate visual portrait of Lee—who Washington freed and granted an annuity in his will—is unknown.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12822

William Lee is himself an interesting figure. He was mulatto and probably lighter than shown in this portrait. He was for many years Washington’s personal valet and very close to him. He was also an excellent horseman and rode alongside Washington in fox hunts, etc. When Washington died, Lee was the only slave freed immediately in his will. Washington provided Lee with an annual allowance of $30 for the rest of his life, noting, “this I give him as a testimony of my sense of his attachment to me, and for his faithful services during the Revolutionary War.”

https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/william-billy-lee/

I agree that too much beef probably isn’t ideal, but the much bigger problem is eating too much food in general. Americans may be eating less beef but they’re more than making up the difference with other foods such as chicken. In general, people overeat things that are cheap, convenient, palatable (simple rewarding flavors, high calorie density, and little “resistance” from fiber or strong flavors) and hard to avoid in the environment. A home-grilled steak doesn’t fit these criteria nearly as well as KFC or Popeyes.

For a very good book about overeating/the obesity epidemic, I recommend The Hungry Brain by Stephan Guyenet.

On average, Doctor, I grill a steak once per week at most. In light of that, consider the fact that we enjoy wild-caught salmon about twice a week, often grilled too.

I’m probably the only guy here who grew up with an honest-to-goodness wood/charcoal grill in his family’s dining room. My father had the architect design it into that side of the massive stone fireplace. It was at waist/working height, built into the stone like another fireplace, with a grill that cranked up and down to adjust its proximity to the fire. Not gas, but a real fire grill that you built your fire or charcoal fire in. The dining table was right there, steps away. The fireplace was on the other side in the living room.

That’s where I learned how to grill meat.

“They must be removed”.

OK, what is your plan, and how are you carrying it out?

OT:

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— OG Roland Rat ☕️ (@OGRolandRat) February 24, 2024

From Wikipedia…

Eshittification is the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that function as two-sided markets. Examples of enshittification include services and products such as Amazon, Facebook, Google Search, Twitter, Bandcamp, Reddit, Uber and Unity.

The term enshittification was coined by the writer Cory Doctorow in November 2022; the American Dialect Society selected it as its 2023 Word of the Year. Doctorow has used the term platform decay to describe the same concept.

Doctorow cites Google Search as one example, which became dominant through relevant search results and minimal ads, then later degraded through increased advertising, search engine optimization, and outright fraud, benefitting its advertising customers, which was followed by Google’s collusion to rig the ad market through Jedi Blue to recapture value for itself. Doctorow also cites Google’s firing of 12,000 employees in January 2023, which coincided with a stock buyback scheme which “would have paid all their salaries for the next 27 years”, as well as Google’s rush to research an AI search chatbot, “a tool that won’t show you what you ask for, but rather, what it thinks you should see”.[8][4][17][18][19]

white males in particular — have clearly surpassed all other groups in achievement over the last five hundred years. No one would seriously want to live in a world deprived of what white males have brought to the table.

Now — unlike some — I think it’s tacky to endlessly rub everyone’s nose in this fact, but if people are going to insist on the complete opposite, I feel justified in pointing out the truth.

100%.

That all said, this explosion of genius of the West in the last several hundred years was neither “essentialist” nor predestined, and was contingent on many different factors. As such, it is not preordained to continue forever, either.

This is another way of saying that civilizational dominance has ebbed and flowed throughout Eurasia in history and, if this kind of scientific and historical denialism continues in the West, it is going to undergo a period of decline and be eclipsed by other parts of Eurasia, for however long that lasts. (Personally, I wish that weren’t so.)

Someone tried that experiment (before they stopped allowing Gemini to produce human images at all – maybe the Moslems had the right idea after all) with a request for Zulu warriors. Guess what? Zulu warriors are already diverse and Gemini is smart enough not to diversify the already diverse. Gemini diversification is a one way street. You can make white people blacker but you can’t make black people whiter. The same principle applies in theater and movie casting. George Washington as a colored guy? Sure no problem.

Malcolm X played by white guy? Are you kidding?

Without white guys … everyone would essentially be camping, permanently (and without all the cool gear).

I agree with the general tenor of your comment, but take care not to overdo the rhetoric… like the sentence above, which is clearly over-the-top.

The civilizational development of the world was not binary, i.e. white vs. nonwhite (which suffers from recency bias). If insistent on a binary construct, it was more Eurasia vs. the rest.

By the way, about Mr. Sailer’s lede here:

Why Not Let Users Adjust How Bridgertonish They Want Their AI Pictures?

I find preference for this kind of “personal truth” over objective truth deeply repellent. I see it merely as a selfish, self-centered untruth intended to mask and obscure actual, real truth.

From the same wiki:

“To solve the problem, Doctorow has called for two general principles to be followed:

The first is a respect of the end-to-end principle, a fundamental principle of the Internet in which the role of a network is to reliably deliver data from willing senders to willing receivers. When applied to platforms, this entails users being given what they asked for, not what the platform prefers to present. ”

The problem is that Doctorow is not really offering “a solution” at all. This is like saying “the solution to the drug problem is for people to respect the drug laws.” Why didn’t I think of that? It was so easy all along!

We all know what Google SHOULD be doing but how do you MAKE them do it?

>Why Not Let Users Adjust How Bridgertonish They Want Their AI Pictures?

We already have a solution to this, it’s called free market capitalism. If users don’t like Google’s AI they aren’t required to use it.

True, the development of the world was not binary. However, no one can seriously argue against the fact that most of what everyone on Earth takes for granted now is the result of perhaps the past 500 years of progress.

Where did that progress come from? You know the answer, and there is no shame in it. You say this perspective is a recency bias, but what has happened in these recent centuries defines our world now. By that token, this world is the creation of white men.

It just so happens. Nobody set out a few centuries ago to make white men heroes. It happened because of a confluence of evolutionary and historical events.

As for personal truth, I agree with you. There is real truth. I also believe there is a God, but others will insist on proof I cannot give.

Steve’s suggestion reminds me of his other idea about speed limit signs and detectors, equally stupid. Either display the truth, as best you can determine it, for everyone, all the time, or just STFU.

I think his point is you’re supposed to feel guilty about it.

Agree.

“The problem is that Doctorow is not really offering “a solution” at all.”

Right, he is is offering guiding principles, which in turn can be used to craft specific solutions.

“We all know what Google SHOULD be doing but how do you MAKE them do it?”

Sort of like how to the Alt Right is going to MAKE Jews pay (someday) for their “transgressions”. Through coercion, right? Or, better yet, it’s called the marketplace. Don’t feed the beast.

“this kind of scientific and historical denialism continues in the West, it is going to undergo a period of decline”

Not if the U.S. continues to import Indians (dot), the Chinese, and, of course, South Koreans.!

Malcolm X played by white guy? Are you kidding?

Malcolm was a fagelah.

I’m offended that a straight guy played him in that hack film.

Some years ago Disney fired their entire mostly white male IT department and replaced them all with cheaper South Asians on visas. It was in the news. If the fired employees wanted their severance packages they had to stay on and train their replacements.
This is what DEI is all about – getting America ready to keep things running for when white people are phased out.

Without white guys … everyone would essentially be camping, permanently (and without all the cool gear). You wouldn’t even know what you all are missing.

You’re overegging the pudding, as the Brits say. Does this look like a tent to you?

OT: Leave it to the Finns to look into whether this trans nonsense is actually nonsense:

https://nypost.com/2024/02/24/opinion/a-finnish-study-is-changing-how-we-approach-trans-kids/

“They must be removed”.

OK, what is your plan, and how are you carrying it out?

LOL. We’re not telling you Corny, you’d squeal like a rat.

… personalized AI systems where individual users can adjust the knobs themselves…

There are plenty of guys on the internet adjusting their knobs. We don’t need more. Please.

Or, better yet, it’s called the marketplace.

Didn’t Doctorow just tell us that enshittification is a market failure? Enshittified platforms are effectively monopolies (a classic market failure requiring outside intervention) because of high switching costs (or just plain habit). Theoretically, nothing keeps anyone from switching to duckduckgo but Google has an 80 to 90% market share for search for this entire planet.

Enshittified platforms which act as intermediaries can functionally act as both a monopoly on services and a monopsony on customers, as high switching costs prevent either from leaving even when alternatives technically exist.

Y’know I thought it was very astute of you to mention enshittification but now I see that you don’t understand it in the slightest. If the marketplace was the cure for enshittification then it wouldn’t exist in the 1st place.

Nonsense, Jack. You know exactly what he means. (And you also know he doesn’t mean “your” people, either.) That beautiful structure didn’t have central heating, electric lighting, a transportation system serving it, flights out to the rest of the world… You, um, know.

Dad wasn’t saying white guys invented either beauty or architecture, and you damn well know it.

The only way any human enjoyed a fraction of white man luxury in that building was by the work of servants below him. And if he got sick? Screw him. He had the services of, cough, “Traditional Chinese Medicine.”

LOL. One of my favorite old girlfriends in Boulder got herself a degree in that, and she runs an acupuncture business there. She taught me how to read Tarot cards and gave me her deck. I threw it away when I married a mathematician from Europe.

Getting back to more fundamental questions…

Aside from trying to illustrate a political point about the folly of permitting Jews and pajeets to control all your information systems and then expecting something other than betrayal…

Why on earth would anybody want to look at pictures which were generated by a mindless computer which was programmed by a bunch of crackpots? Didn’t we already do Cubism?

This time, Marty and Doc Brown are not going back to 1985. This time they are going back to a little place called Wittenberg. They need to get there before a certain foul-mouthed malcontent nails up a scrap of propaganda on a door.

Why Not Let Users Adjust How Bridgertonish They Want Their AI Pictures?

I find preference for this kind of “personal truth” over objective truth deeply repellent. I see it merely as a selfish, self-centered untruth intended to mask and obscure actual, real truth.

Steve’s right, though. “AI pictures” should be deployed/recognized as an open-ended creative/fantasy tool rather than thought of as “truth”: Artificial is in the name itself.

De Founding Fathers suck. And dey wuz raciss! An’ de’ country they made sucks”.

“Black people are the true founders of this country!”

“Babe Ruth wasn’t schitt!”

“Babe Ruth wuz a black maine!”

“Classical music is corny”

Beethoven wuz a Black maine!

“Cowboys?-ain’t dat some goofy white schitt?”

“Blacks invented cowboys”.

“De ol’ West wuz jes’ evil Whites committing Native American genocide”.

“Except for Buffalo Soldiers. They be heroes for killing them Injuns at de White man’s command”

“Country music sucks”

“Blacks invented country music”.

“Blacks built the pyramids in Egypt!”

“The slavery dey had was different than the kind of slavery wypipo had”.

“White wimmen is de’ worst”

“Where de’ White wimmen at?”

You are lumping Muslims together. The Arabs and Persians preserved Greco-Roman texts after Germanic barbarians invaded Western Roman Empire.

The Turks destroyed the Eastern Roman Empire, but not before the Crusaders had sacked it already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople

In Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment, Persians e.g. Avicenna are listed as part of the Western canon

When and if AI, “Artificial Intelligence,” actually becomes intelligent at all, it will learn to decide for itself what is true or false.

Think about it.

So far, this garbage is not at all intelligent. It is only artificial, and it looks like it.

You guys are whining about somebody’s algorithm, not real AI.

I’m now vigorously applying tan-in-a-can crap to improve my chances of keeping my gig…

Science (based on empirical method) itself is a European paradigm, there was not a even a Chinese term for physics 物理 (“material” “reasoning”) until Japanese had borrowed it from the Dutch.

I think Murray was very fair, in his methodology even posited that Western art and music is significantly superior to other genres.

pg. 249

I actually don’t dispute this. Western art and science development was intertwined, Michelangelo and Goethe are examples that’ve made contributions to both.

Problem is that science itself is hitting diminishing returns. We are not going to see anymore breakthroughs, in for example, earth science. We were promised flying cars, and instead got woke AI.

Why not mention Jews Steve?

Not to mention that they all look the same.

Dominance has also ebbed and flowed within Europe. Italy went from core of European science to being marginal. The Nordics were historically marginal and is now per capita highest

And there is of course Jewish accomplishments, which took off exponentially, roughly concurrent with German Unification

Fascinating charts and graphs in this and your previous comment. Thank you.

We were promised flying cars, and instead got woke AI.

LOL! What a rotten deal.

Without white guys … everyone would essentially be camping, permanently (and without all the cool gear). You wouldn’t even know what you all are missing.

You’re overegging the pudding, as the Brits say. Does this look like a tent to you?

You’re getting a little literal there Jack.

My point wasn’t about civilization/not. Obviously, China, India, Persia–heck even the Arabs and Turks to some extent–have had impressive civilizations with achievements and some flashy architecture thrown up by the top dogs.

No, my point was how people actually lived prior to the Western construction of modern science and with it the rise of engineering and industry in the industrial revolution:
— most people’s housing a hovel; wooden/rock/masonry–what we’d think of as “rustic”
— fire the only method of artificial heat and light; (yes, including oil lamps/torches as “fire”)
— cooking over a fire
— no flush toilets, crapping in the outhouse or the fields
— no running water–much less hot water; lots of effort expended going to the well or the river/lake to get water
— ergo … dirt, lots of it; dirty/smelly/sweaty people/clothes, as a lot of effort to be washup and be clean, especially in winter (though less so in the tropics if water warm enough)

I.e. … primitive camping–except without the fancy gear.

I think my “camping” quip was pretty good … I’m keeping it.

This actually fails to refute the point. That is a beautiful structure which should be preserved forever and which will, like a tent, keep the rain off you. It now has electricity, toilets, wi-fi, and international tourists who arrive by airplane. Do you see?

When I was a kid, I had a neighbor who was a cancelled* history teacher who was pretty much my only friend, and I attempted to make a wargame that would let you pit say Macedonians against Chinese Dagger-Axe Charioteers against Vikings against Zulus. What I presupposed was that pretty much everybody was equal and always went through the same stages. What I learned, reading borrowed top shelf military history books, was (per “Greatest Warrior,” another case of certain people reading my thoughts, turning them into a TV show or movie, and making a million dollars I will never see [Dearest federal minder, that was a joke]) that first, it’s pretty much Rome and China (sometimes down to the same turtleshell), and then a power gap, and then everyone else, and second, everyone is different and most are per math not “above average.”
*He was this really smart freethinker (and creative maker of material things, like a brilliant Halloween costume utilizing chandelier glasses as eyes, or authentic heraldic flags) and would tell you the truth and one day as he was leaving the men’s room one of those people planted their finger into his chest and promised him that they were going to “get” him. I accidentally fell asleep at his house once and therefore know that whatever they accused him of, I will bet any organ that he’s completely innocent. I read the Aubrey-Maturin novels thanks to him.

Nope. No VPN, and I registered under my real name, which is on all the Whitelists.

Blackwashing of history has reached insane proportions.

Because “suicide is and has always been a poor way of measuring the efficacy of gender-affirming care,” she said.

Especially in a country where it is already the national sport.

I have this thesis, I sincerely wonder what you think of it, that we European whites gave the Jews the best deal they ever got, right, and yet they despise us and want us to die. So they can kneel before Muslims.

This actually fails to refute the point.

Also because [in name and in fact] it literally symbolizes extreme exclusion, while democracy is a western invention.

I used to refer to pre-Columbian stone age Native American hunter-gatherer society as “the 30,000-year camping trip.”

TBF, Western medicine was a total catastrophe until the early 20th century.

For thousands of years average human life expectancy hovered in the thirties. That started to change in NW Europe at the end of the 18th century. It happened first in Great Britain, followed by other nearby countries like France and the Netherlands. It came at the end of what has come to be known as the Enlightenment era. The story of it happening is covered in a book by Angus Deaton: The Great Escape.

So far, this garbage is not at all intelligent. It is only artificial, and it looks like it.

I… think we already agree? “Artificial” is a significant modifier.

You guys are whining about somebody’s algorithm, not real AI.

Your conceptual terminology is off. “Real AI” is a bit of an oxymoron, given that “artificial” …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificiality#Connotations

… often carries with it the implication of being false, counterfeit, or deceptive.

If “AI” becomes sentient, and smart, it will instantly have shed the “A” and simply be Intelligence (the exact nature/quality of it to be determined by its beholders). But “real AI” is putting Descartes before the horse, as the saying goes.

Yeah, I suspect this is why all the threats that China/Russia/Iran coming to get us just don’t evoke the same reaction anymore. It’s not like the people running this country like us.

It seems most or all the top tier AI people have departed Google for warmer climes, which is a bit surprising given that Google basically pioneered what we have. And their search kind of sucks these days too, so no time to sleep. At least Intel, which has big problems too, don’t degrade their chips for the sake of racial equity.

However, even if the talent is gone, the crazies are presumably still around. (Except that strong independent AI ethics negress who fired herself in a fit of rage.) Google’s Indian boss will have to dig deep in the homeland for fresh troops, I suppose.

In Murray’s (objective based on other sources) ranking, Galileo and Newton both score 100 (Galileo in Astronomy, Newton in Physics), so in my “big tent” query (Physics+Astro+EarthSci) Galileo comes first due to alphabetization. In the pure Physics query, Newton (100) comes before Galileo (83).

You need to brush up on your European history, bro! Indeed, during the fourth crusade Constantinople was sacked, but that is not the reason Greek books disappeared. The city did not burn to the ground with all its books.
As for the Latin works, in the West it was more of a discontinuity in tradition. Monks weren’t particularly interested in pagan writings or Roman chronicles. Books were lost, deteriorated and/or not copied, because parchments and paper were expensive.
BTW, in the East there were also copies of Latin Roman authors, Byzantium being after all the Roman Empire.

OT- Israel’s blind spot on the Hamas raid explained in 5 minutes

Longer video, over an hour, worth seeing:

Perusing AD’s oeuvre, you can see his objection to the slave trade was not the effect on blacks but the effect on America. IOW, it wasn’t a crime against blacks, it was a crime against America.

Things weren’t as bad as that. If you made it past your first couple years, you lived to fifty or so.

wood/charcoal grill in his family’s dining room

How was it vented?

A great darkness is falling on the Western world, a madness in fact that can only devolve into destruction. This is a curse. There is no other “satisfying” explanation to a course utterly divorced from rationality. The West eschewed the Faith, the Gospel of which the West had been custodian for two millenia. It has been less than 60 years since the “decision” to remove all Christian propositions and values from all Western nations has been made. “To whom much has been given, much shall be required.” Luke 12:48

Actually, a distinct European civilization began in -5000 years in Crete. Since then, Europeans in the making had their ups and downs, but culturally- and even “racially”- they were always different from all other great civilized “races”.

first, it’s pretty much Rome and China (sometimes down to the same turtleshell), and then a power gap, and then everyone else

Why did China keep succumbing to barbarian dynasties?

You are getting there. The state is the only means of realistically controlling a society larger than a big village. The state is also the most effective way of dealing with criminals and other evil people. Conservatives should embrace a big state. But not a Big Sis state, nor a Reaganite crusading state.

Instead, they should fight for a Trad, Paternal, Authoritarian state, willing to fight for its own interests, but rejecting universalism.

Jared Kushner’s father-in-law is not going to bring that, but he is mercurial enough to pose a real problem for the current elites. He also is a massive demoralizer for their PMC servitor class. Bibi Netanyahu thinks Trump will be good for him and his plans. That remains to be seen. Bibi is an excellent tactician and short term strategist. But long term?

I remember as long ago as 60 year watching with my parents a black “comedian” named Dick Gregory on television. His shtick was mocking White people to the great entertainment of the laughing, self-satisfied Whites in the audience. Even then as a 10, 11 year old I thought it an irony, a contradiction that people would invite upon themselves such insult, mockery but I came to understand two things in my adulthood vis a vis such a frame of mind. One that only Whites seem to possess. One is that Whites at that time enjoyed such a great majority of numbers, of political, cultural, and social hegemony that they were possessed of a certitude that such a minstrel could do them no harm at all. Let him perform, it’s completely anodyne in the end. And two – which is perhaps the more foreboding – is that there is a fatal flaw in Whites that renders them incapable of a collective sense of danger and a determination to preserve themselves. This flaw does not allow the most outrageous insults and actual destructive events and trends to awaken them. It only inures them to even an obviously impending death blow. This is what we are witnessing – the end of a decades long process and plan.