This is why nobody use conscripts, imagine an army that is all cops.

But the only thing it's actually good at is generating languages, if they try and pretend to know stuff in fields, they're quickly exposed as frauds.

Nah GPT makes it a lot easier, it's the thing it's actually good at.

Before they were autogenerated with bad English, GPT can generate good English that is equally devoid of content

This is the result of alienation from your labor that capitalism excells at, get hobbies or start organizing as a way to break out of it.

We don't need to change the entire god damn system to be useful, but at least building towards it is infinitely more rewarding than doing nothing IMO

Part of it is the standard crisis of capitalism, the profit you get from doing the same thing always declines, so over time you have to push up revenue (increasing prices, forcing people to pay, showing more ads, gathering more data, etc) & push down costs (fire engineers, run on less hardware, etc)

Part of it is capitalisms natural tendency to create monopolies, and the lack of competition in a given field causing the company to then lose sight of what it's good at to compete in a bigger field.

Part is that interest rates mean loans are no longer cheap, so taking on debt to get customer, to at some point down the line make money, is a less viable plan. Twitter is a special case where the bad loans are because that was the original deal not interested rate related, and Musk is trying to pull all of the enshitification levers at the same time.

Part is that CEOs generally don't have a fucking clue about their products or what they are doing (it's a circuit job about who you know/blow, not what you know), so once one CEO starts firing/enshitifying, the rest just copy them so as to not be left out.

I suspect his "logic" is that most users only read & do not interact or post (IIRC the general rule for socials is 90/9/1), so in addition to whatever technical reason, he thinks this is a genius way to get more subscribers.

Fucking genius move, so glad he's fired everyone who would disagree.

Funny how we addressed the tool that helped black kids first, rather than the one that hurt them.

Maybe it's because this is being pushed by bad people, that you seem to agree with under some fantasy of "100% merit based" reality.

Systemic biases exist, AA compensated for them banking AA is basically pretending this nation isn't racist AF.

Without AA, racism in admissions is illegal.

No positive measure to counteract systemic biases are illegal.

Hereditary admissions when 80% of previous students were not black, is pretty explicitly racist and still very much legal

All the implicit systemic biases in the admission system are very much legal

The only thing you can't do is ensure black kids get admitted.

If you have a system and you know its giving you biases results you can compensate for the bias, without understanding every single component bias, that's what AA was, banning it, is sticking your head in the sand and going back to faux/real Naïvity about how system racism works.

We might as well start asking "why do black people prefer renting?", because as a nation we are commited to pretending to not understand that there are systemic reasons for things.

Fine the mental gymnastics is to justify why hereditary admission criteria are more acceptable to you not "good"

Yes the white kid does.

• The racial biases of whoever runs the admission system
• The racial biases of teachers at the school
• The white kid is still more likely to benefit from hereditary admission and insider information on how to do well in admission tests/letter.

To pretend a white kid in a predominantly black school doesn't have an advantage in "colorblind" admissions is to deny the existence of systemic racism.

You can never change who your parents are, that's some real mental gymnastics to justify how hereditary acceptance criteria is good actually, but using race to identify those underservered by k-12 education, lacking in family connections, not having knowledge of college specific tricks to getting accepted & generally having less resources available to do the extra-ciricular activity to get in, and compensate for that bias is bad.

Affirmative action is only silly if you don't accept that systemic racism exists.

But asking them who their father is is fine?

If people gave a shit about fairness they'd care about legacy admission more than affirmative action.

Subreddits belong to the community of users…

So you're providing tools to allow democratic control of subreddits, right?

Right?