Posts by Kataphract

  • GROK - AI Assistant.

    Quote from 4NIA4

    GROK, AI CHAT and GPT are online AI. Google searches posts a AI response before search results. Smart Phones integrating with AI. Operating systems pushing background AI monitoring. Does seem a time we have to deal with it.

    In my perspective they've been seemingly lesser evils. GPT, Deepseek, and many AI have not specifically been attached to platforms like grok has to deadbird and reddit answers has to reddit. At the head of grok and deadbird is elon, which has been a severely controversial and problematic figure in recent times.

    Let's say this: Grok's red flags are much more visible compared to other AI models, even if they have the same red flags. The only safe AI model is the one you hammer out yourself, and use yourself.

    It's like a certain period of time where an exodus of users from a certain website happened due to a certain figure that may or may not have owned the website came out and turned out to be somewhat disappointing in terms of beliefs and downright concerning w.r.t. actions, causing users to flee from the certain website into a much friendlier other certain website where a lot of the same community talk, but on that website instead. It's not like the specific users the owner promoted are still as problematic but it's not like a lot of people are coming back. That trust has been broken.

  • 49 schools in Korea set to close this year

    Quote from bartkun

    Well they've created Sejong City with that purpose. You can read or watch some vlogs about it. But apparently they've made some mistakes there with public transportation + there isn't much work there


    Update:


    I think Sejong city might work. It's got a university branch there, and its already a special administrative zone. Things will be slow going and might hinge wholly or in part on development of "human" infrastructure like schools, parks, attractions, whatnot. The only real difference is that shenzhen had whole families moved from the start, instead of those who work there commute there. That and schools, hospitals, and the things needed for self sufficiency, not to mention that those who were "deployed" to Shenzhen were essentially kept there until administrative relaxation on shenzhen and the later privatization of CGN, the company that now runs Daya Bay NPP. That meant that people had to make do with whatever, and the occasional shenanigans that arise from your school teacher being your downstairs neighbor from within the "base" in shenzhen. For sure, I think Sejong city will continue to exist as long as the ministries that were moved there stays there. Its growth would be extremely hamstrung by the officials falling for "smart city" stuff imho. It doesn't take data driven analytics to tell you that the officials have kids and the kids need a school to go to, and a park or community center to play at, etc.


    The jobs there aside from admin work wasn't there from the start, and they might filter in eventually. I think it was a mistake to assume everything will naturally and quickly filter in, including jobs. To make it right, some of it should have been planned for.

  • 49 schools in Korea set to close this year

    that or they pull a ShenZhen and just start moving government offices and military and force them to live there, to attract enterprising people to then fill in the needs like grocery services, restaurants, etc.


    Edit: Shen Zhen had that kind of effort due to the development, construction, and operation of Daya Bay NPP.

  • 49 schools in Korea set to close this year

    I think the more politically palatable solution would be to set up something like california's UC system (university of california) where they set up colleges in some cities, making it a college town. If that works out and the university speccs into something like medical or something, you'd see that startups and spinoffs would come from the college and post up near there, due to proximity to relevant expertise in new workers (college grads), and hopefully that'd bootstrap the "why seoul" thing you were talking about!

  • 49 schools in Korea set to close this year

    I had a weird idea: and its a really long term plan.

    basically its been said that the ROK military's hazing and bullying cycle and pipeline is due to conscription and a heavy top-down structure.


    so:

    1. ROK military should implement a bottom-up review or at least a 360 review (feedback from lower enlisted, or lower, peer, and superior enlisted) system that robustly anonymizes feedback.
    2. The ROK military should invest in its voluntary soldiers to grow a bigger professional army to dilute issues caused by conscription

    3. This would create an opportunity: If capable and professional women enter into the military and climb the ranks (it would be really hard) it would introduce more and more exposure for men to capable, and professional women, diluting twisted views of women passed between men, in an institution where all men pass through (via conscription).

    4. If implemented carefully and with proper protections, this could help erode some of the social issues regarding the perception of women, as well as the treatment of women. (protections like maternal leave, unbiased incident reporting (this means watchdog system!, not just reporting to direct superior!), etc.) so the contracts would need to be able to state, explicitly, the protections that a soldier can expect, as well as the contracts being minimally different to prevent views of unfair favoring of women in the service.


    Its a really half baked idea to erode some of the social issues between men and women in korea and I want feedback! PLS


    natrually the end goal is to reduce some of the societal issues regarding perception and treatment of women, which has long been an issue generally and obstacle to starting families, specifically, among other things.


    edit: for the captain obvious: this plan has an extreme likelihood of failing at every single step, by the way. and I wanted ideas to help reduce that.

  • 49 schools in Korea set to close this year

    Damn you beat me to posting this LOL


    My knee jerk reactions are:

    1. better government protections for maternal benefits,

    2. baby bonds,

    3. converting some schools into cheap housing apartment communities for new families.


    Ultimately, my reactions only address finances, and not cultural issues that may also drive this declining birth rate.

  • IVE Rei slaying your faves

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    I fully expected her to walk down the stairs--

    I thought she was just a mannequin under the stairs until they zoomed in :sweat::sweat:

  • [teens stories] Am I the only one who finds those who expose their skin on Instagram f*cking cheap?

    As a philosophy:

    If they wore it because they like it or from some other reason that isn't affected by external reasons. Sure, by all means.


    If they wore it in order to get some thing like a certain reaction or because of external pressure, that's not good.

    As a rule of thumb for aesthetics, if it fits, it sits. jacked guys get like these tight cut shirts and in the end it looks like they're being squeezed for breath or constantly at risk to ruin nice shirts. If they get a suit and shirt that fit them nicely, they look that much better.