Why this constant motte-and-bailey switcheroo between some Platonic notion of ‘do masks help?’ pursued as an intellectual exercise purely for the love of knowledge, and the *actual experience* of Dumbass Mask Mandates, as they affect actual people
Hooray, yet another snide remark from a Smart Person who ‘doesn’t understand’ anti-mask POV, concedes in-passing (as if this is minor!) that some mask policies are Actually Dumb, as my elementary school age kid is forced to wear a ‘mask’ while running around a soccer field
The local blue state ‘progressive’ fretful helicopter-mothers don’t understand all the finely-tuned journal-informed nuances of Bret Weinstein’s optimal mask policy
All they hear is ‘MASKS WORK!!’ so they force Kids Soccer (and Baseball, and..etc) League to impose them
Worse, because this mask thing is now a Stance that such people have felt the need to Take, it’s a barrier to things like opening schools, because people now think/assume a need to have 5 year olds wear a mask in the classroom for 6+ hours as if that does anything
Typical Teacher: ‘We just can’t open schools now. Do you know how hard it is to get a room full of kindergarteners to keep masks on all day’
um why even try to do that, that’s silly, if they’re in that room for hours exposure is pretty certain
‘...MASKS WORK!!’
lemme get this straight. it’d be ok to be in the room w/kids for hours if they have flimsy blue paper ‘masks’ as long as you could be sure they’d 100% keep them on. It’s just the fact they (admittedly) won’t that bothers you
‘Yes. Masks work. Smart People said so, it’s Science’
the way this mentality has been promulgated by our Expert Class of Smart People, and from there permeated into the brains of normies, has created a situation where we basically can never resume normal life, ever. Not because of 'Science' but because of psychology and delusion.
I'm just saying, maybe Smart People should try to be a little more conscious of that when they say and advocate stuff. Oh who am I kidding
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Using AI, I was able to take some old painting and make it better. First the painting. Notice how you can barely see what's even going on. Where even is this? Who are the people? Huh? You're too far away to really see the setup. Whole left side blank. Nothing here to grab onto.
I had the AI parse the image, & create a full description of it. Using that description, I had it regenerate an image and it was just way better. Instead of night, it's a gorgeous sunny day. It went ahead & moved the people outside. Everyone's smiling; this is a welcoming place.
This was a great start already, but what if we want to look deeper? What's this picture really *about*? That's where AI comes in. We parse the improved picture & create an even better one. Now the lights just pop. Everything more vibrant, modern. Just better all around.
Using AI, I was able to take some old painting and make it better. First the painting. Notice how old and colorless it is. And you can't even see the girl's face. There's just no info to work with here. So blah.
But the AI was able to parse the image, & create a full description of it. Using that description, I had it regenerate an image that was way better. Just look at the vivid colors, and it also went ahead and turned the girl around.
This was a great start already, but still misses some details, smudgy like from a bad camera. So I ran it through the AI again. Amazing use of light now.
I don’t think racism is good or anything but the concept of ‘anti-racism’ as we encounter it is so simplistic/univariate I find it hard to take seriously. Like something an autistic 7yo would come up with. ‘Racism is bad? Ok its inverse must be good. I understand the world now’
When I see Kendi types whose rhetoric is all about ‘anti-racism’, and then the edifice of bureaucracy that’s apparently sprung up downstream of it, it just comes across as So Stupid How Can Anyone Seriously Think This Way.
That is its power, that is why it wins.
'I would simply take all the things that are Racisms and wrap then inside a giant NOT( ) operation. Logically this and only this makes Racism go down'
If a small child were to say this, it would (maybe!) be sort of clever/precocious. You'd pat him on the head
IMHO scientists, politicians & ‘public health officials’ acted out of some combo of: panic, ego-trip, mindless groupthink, China-worship, hubris, simple corruption, & political gamesmanship. But they weren’t ‘purposely trying to make things worse’ so it’s all ok, it’s cool
For example when ‘public health experts’ signed that open letter that, during the absolutely necessary Lockdown, Going To BLM Protests was good actually (public health-wise), that wasn’t ‘trying to make things worse’. Just nakedly politically-motivated nonsense. So it’s fine
When they added the Wuhan Virus vaccine to the childhood vaccine schedule, that wasn’t ‘trying to make things worse’, it was merely to ensure that giant pharmaceutical companies are shielded from liability for any people harmed or killed by the injection. So it’s cool