*kids

That was impossible to watch past a minute. I'm sure she thinks she knows what she's doing, but I'd like to see some kind of proof this is beneficial to the kid. Maybe she has a toddler indoors who is superhuman? Bring me evidence this is healthy for that baby or someone call Social Services!

>> ^gorillaman:

Here we are with our downvotes and promote powers, an elite of an elite, privileged members of the internet class, which is itself already practically superhuman, talking about our democratic website? LOL.

I'm noticing that you aren't really responding to my argument, but instead are trying to declare Videosift...what? An oligarchy? An Aristocracy? Totally devoid of any wisdom of crowds?

I've never really seen downvotes make a difference when it comes to getting on the Top 15. Hell, I can't even remember the last time I saw a video get more than 3 downvotes.

All promote and quality do is increase exposure. They can make a difference between a video "sifting" instead of going to pqueue, and it can pad the number of votes it gets after it hits the Top 15, but I doubt you could get, say, a video of silent blackness into the top 15 purely with quality and promote.

>> ^gorillaman:
The misconception I see in your posts is this arbitrary distinction between the oppressors and the oppressed. The average man on the street is as guilty today as the plutocrat with his snout in the trough, because if their positions were reversed they'd each behave in the same way.

It's not a misconception, it's that I disagree with your assertion. I doubt reversal would make no difference. In any case, my aim isn't to "reverse" their positions, but to equalize them.

>> ^gorillaman:
Accountability to 'the people' is hardly a check on corruption if the people themselves are corrupt.

The theory is, if people vote for politician A, and A does things that fuck them over, they can vote for another politician next time. To use the favorite conservative example, you can't raise taxes with impunity, because if people don't think it's justified, they'll vote you out. Get rid of the vote, and those eeevil government bureaucrats can raise taxes, and spend all of it on palaces for themselves instead of healthcare. The only "accountability" valve then comes in terms of an armed rebellion.

You're vaguely alluding to a tyranny of the majority issue, but in practice every tyranny I can think of has been a "tyranny of the elite".

>> ^gorillaman:
There's a linguistic issue here as well. Over time 'democracy' has become perversely synonymous with 'freedom'. There's an essential difference between taking power away and taking freedom away. Power here means the power to enforce ones will over others, freedom is the freedom from the power of others. Removing power from the majority will actually increase their freedom.

Again, it's not a linguistic issue, it's that you disagree with other people's feelings about democracy. Maybe that's justified, maybe it's not, but it's not that people don't understand what the words mean.

As for freedom vs. power, it's a slippery thing. I'd say they're synonymous in this context in a lot of ways.

Do I have the ability to own a house because I'm "free" to do so, or because I have the power that comes from having the talents to build a decent career for myself? Or am I "free" to have land like this because the government is ensuring that my property rights will be respected? Or am I somehow a slave to the majority because I pay taxes to a democratic government?

>> ^gorillaman:
Look at the progress of this thread. I don't see much ideological territory left to the democrats, squeezed as you are from both sides. While dft lectures blanarchist on the need for a government to protect free men from one another, you want to turn around and give those same men a stake in that same government with all its might and authority. Even on the site of your last stand - the desperate, impossible compromise of constitution, you admit to massive deception and malfeasance and even in the strongest and best designed democratic state an apparently irredeemable collapse. With all this you still believe democracy is moral? It amounts to a kind of political stockholm syndrome.


For all the proclamations of victory, I notice that the vast majority of that paragraph refers to things people other than me have said. I haven't used the word "constitution" until just now, for example.

I do think the US's implementation of democracy is headed for a collapse. Not because people left to their own devices slit their own throats (which you seem to think is inevitable), but instead because a wealthy elite has effectively subverted the mechanics of democracy.

So you say to me, as the elite stands over our wounded democracy, choking the last life out of it, that this is proof that the corruption and stupidity of the people has finally led to democracy's demise, and demand that we empower the elite to rule over us.

That's Stockholm syndrome.

Hell, you have yet to even try to explain what it is you're really suggesting, beyond that you want Superman and the Justice League to come and save us from ourselves. Not only that, you want them to totally ignore what we might say about their edicts, lest our filthy corruptness infect them.

@NetRunner

Here we are with our downvotes and promote powers, an elite of an elite, privileged members of the internet class, which is itself already practically superhuman, talking about our democratic website? LOL.

The misconception I see in your posts is this arbitrary distinction between the oppressors and the oppressed. The average man on the street is as guilty today as the plutocrat with his snout in the trough, because if their positions were reversed they'd each behave in the same way. Where everybody's only responsibility is to their own interest, which it is in a democratic 'believe whatever you want, vote however you want' anarcho-relativist system; the difference is one of chance only.

Accountability to 'the people' is hardly a check on corruption if the people themselves are corrupt. Our goal shouldn't be to defend unsuccessful criminals from their more effective rivals. The great value of government is that it tears power out of the hands of the people, so they can't do as much damage with it.

There's a linguistic issue here as well. Over time 'democracy' has become perversely synonymous with 'freedom'. There's an essential difference between taking power away and taking freedom away. Power here means the power to enforce ones will over others, freedom is the freedom from the power of others. Removing power from the majority will actually increase their freedom.

Look at the progress of this thread. I don't see much ideological territory left to the democrats, squeezed as you are from both sides. While dft lectures blanarchist on the need for a government to protect free men from one another, you want to turn around and give those same men a stake in that same government with all its might and authority. Even on the site of your last stand - the desperate, impossible compromise of constitution, you admit to massive deception and malfeasance and even in the strongest and best designed democratic state an apparently irredeemable collapse. With all this you still believe democracy is moral? It amounts to a kind of political stockholm syndrome.

^ Both. The glitch is part of the game, but it takes superhuman precision and timing to trigger it, thus tool assisted speedruns are the only means, where you slow down the game, record and rerecord thousands of times until you get the result you want. Still, everything is done through controller input. In this case, the glitch is so difficult to trigger that it apparently took hundreds of thousands of attempts by a computer running for several weeks to finally stumble upon a solution.

In theory, this could be done on an original NES-system as well, if you were said superhuman, with perfect knowledge of the inner workings of the game.

And here I thought it would finally be a movie about a computer programmer with superhuman c++ abilities.

A man can dream...

...if it really exists. a control study by another science team with the same data came to the conclusion that there is no real evidence for another planet around gliese, that the signals taken as gravitational effects of a passing planet are so weak in fact that they easily could be just background noise. don't get me wrong, i'm all about hoping to be able to freeze my brain someday and have my mind transferred to a superhuman android travelling space someday but it could well be that this is just some giant ego trip of a small team of astrophysicists.

Basing the algorithms and overall system organization on brain biology seems very cool to me, particularly in light of what he says about the cortex being essentially uniform across its surface.

Think about what we see human brains doing under exceptional circumstances. Someone who is born blind can develop "superhuman" ability to process auditory information and use it in ways that average people scarcely believe possible. Autistic people often have obsessions with some particular system or activity, which can turn into savant-like proficiency in it.

So much of what our brains process is linked to rather mundane human survival and daily life, but if we could make an artificial intelligence like this that takes input only from a very narrow area of interest and focus, perhaps it would eventually display savant-like proficiency in processing, understanding, and predicting that particular field of input.

Very cool!

I wonder how fast they were going.

Running behind a motorbike seems unreassonable for speeds above 10+ mph.

Or maybe.. he's superhuman..

what was that 375?

Judging by his wrestling shoes, and the grip he was taking he dead lifting noob.

You hold one over hand grip and one underhand grip, and you lift with your legs. He should have started from a squat position. The reason these power lifters get so pumped is to tap into their cortisol stores thus amplifying their potential lift weight to 80% of their maximum power.

http://stronglifts.com/how-to-deadlift-with-proper-technique/

Good technique below:



Good Technique can lead to this if you so like: He has that thing stuck in his nose to stop him from bleeding. When I was lifting they called it a bleeder. It's caused by the rise in blood pressure common to weightlifters who hold their breath when lifting. That is why you exhale when the lift is executed. Stimulants can cause the noise bleeds too.

Turn it back on them, Look at the definition of Religion:

re⋅li⋅gion
  /rɪˈlɪdʒən/

–noun
1. a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
2. a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion.
3. the body of persons adhering to a particular set of beliefs and practices: a world council of religions.
4. the life or state of a monk, nun, etc.: to enter religion.
5. the practice of religious beliefs; ritual observance of faith.
6. something one believes in and follows devotedly; a point or matter of ethics or conscience: to make a religion of fighting prejudice.


Through that entire definition, Athiestic views on the subject would be protected, too.
If this passes, no more would Atheists get ragged on by any other type of religious nut because it's illegal. True, to gain that you'd have to give up disproving other religions.. but you could do it so much more tastefully instead.

Instead of going to a christian and saying "Your religion sucks and it's false, here's proof" release it as more information to the Atheist people, and common knowledge. Christians then can't dispute it or else they go to jail.

This being said, I hope this is never even a remote reality in the states or canada, but on the seriously small chance that it ever does happen.. least there's a technicaly up side to it.

This is my (supposed 1000th vote thanks to the debacle that shall not be named) 1000th vote, so you should feel elated beyond all compare: I only vote for works of art, triumphs of human ingenuity, the epitome of human stupidity--and to what lengths it goes, feats that are near superhuman in nature, movies that wrench your soul, music that feeds your soul, and the feces that monkies throw.

May you shine bright in this engulfment of recognition!

Bravo, sir, bravo....

(it would have made a better tribute if it was not krono, as his star points and ego are near super-critical levels already,)

>> ^dag:
Yes.


It sounds like your mammal instincts aren't worried about the whole "Superhuman intelligences may have goals inconsistent with human survival and prosperity." thing. Which is fine. I mean, I wouldn't pray for it. Because I wouldn't pray for an artificial intelligence (that most assuredly will not think the same way humans think) to be in control of anything that might affect humans and wtf .. am I really saying this? Did the communicator on my jetpack malfunction?

Could this actually be a problem for humanity in 50 years? Yes. If humanity exists in 50 years.
In my mind, the "singularity" is just as inevitable as an asteroid impact. It's just a matter of time.

>> ^gtjwkq:
Oh yes, Bernanke is definitely a genius and has been right so often that whatever he predicts must come true one way or another.

Who said that? Certainly not me.

Other people are making that assertion about Schiff though, which is just as silly as someone attributing superhuman powers to Bernanke.

All I said was that Bernanke has tremendous credentials in precisely the area that matters for being a Fed chairman during a Great Depression-style crisis. That doesn't mean he's incapable of making mistakes (or just being plain wrong), it just means he's less likely to utterly screw the pooch on the narrow topic of monetary policy than most people.

>> ^bcglorf:

And yet ever since the mid 90's, when America stopped turning a blind eye, people like you have done nothing but rally for a return to that same policy. I am here declaring it's about time that policy was abandoned.

That's a lie. People like me can see the hypocracy of our country's actions (the USA) and we're brave enough to speak out against it. We imposed a draconian embargo that resulted in the deaths of about a half-million Iraqi children, and said it was "worth it."


I'll bet you were equally opposed to the near decade America spent enforcing an illegal no-fly zone over sovereign Iraqi air space as well. If you even cared enough at the time to know about it.

Yeah, the no fly zones. That accomplished a lot. Another effort to strangle the people to the point where they would do our dirty work for us and overthrow the strongman that the CIA put into power to begin with. Truly brilliant.

This resulted in Saddam "Hitler" Hussain's inability to defend 2/3rds of his own country, yet he was painted as a regional threat of superhuman proportions.

A man who could not control 2/3rds of his own country was portrayed as a regional threat who had to be stopped. Takes and especially twisted mind to see the logic in that.


For someone so eager to stay uninvolved while a whole people was systematically exterminated by a dictator you sure are quick to call other's racists.


It is not a question of quickness where you are concerned, it is a question of accuracy.

Thanks!

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