Tuesday Feb 21, 2023

Artificial Unintelligence

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic - episode 25!

Toby and Nick discuss the ruination of Roald Dahl and Rudyard Kipling’s writings – much to the fury of Nick, Rishi Sunak and Salman Rushdie! Nicola Sturgeon has gone – but Toby and Nick wonder whether she might be replaced by someone even worse? Nick and Toby then reflect that people who subscribe to orthodox beliefs seem to suffer compared to those with other beliefs. Toby then unexpectedly lends his support to the leadership aspirations of the truly awful Humza Yousaf… 

Nick talks about the woke and chilling AI chatbots and then attempts to describe what ‘prompt injection attack’ is. Toby talks about AI gold rushes, recounts Google’s recent embarrassing moment and subsequent loss of market cap and the boys finish off the segment on the nature of sentience. 

Nick and Toby then discuss South Park’s hilarious lampooning of Harry and Meghan (spoiler: Meghan takes offence, obviously). 

Birdwatch makes a return and the boys discuss the 'Konstantin Kisin vs Matt Walsh' spat on Twitter regarding the long awaited backlash to woke… 

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Nick and Toby compete once more for the title of Peak Woke. 

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urdczdvy

rooted in the values and norms found in Christianity perfectly demonstrated how, over a short time, we have deviated from what those values are and have normalized behaviors /identities that are not rooted in Christianity. Not great news for those who like the benefits of those values, but not the responsibilities that come with it.

@urdczdvy :..symptoms that serves as the launching pad, as one may see it, and address those issues. Common or understood feelings may arise from simple, calm conversations. We don’t have to endorse or believe that there are more than 2 genders or that ppl can swap genders. But we can see that those who do, are generally, as studies show, are broken, confused, and feel sidelined. 3) Re: Michael Knowles’ tweet, I agree with him. I believe he rightly showed how, as the West whose values are undisputedly..

Friday Feb 24, 2023

urdczdvy

..symptoms that serves as the launching pad, as one may see it, and address those issues. Common or understood feelings may arise from simple, calm conversations. We don’t have to endorse or believe that there are more than 2 genders or that ppl can swap genders. But we can see that those who do, are generally, as studies show, are broken, confused, and feel sidelined. 3) Re: Michael Knowles’ tweet, I agree with him. I believe he rightly showed how, as the West whose values are undisputedly..

@urdczdvy :navigate the complexities of life for kids today, and taking into account the traumatic family history this family gas bern through, I could empathize with the anxieties of this mother who honestly believes this is the best path for her children. Given that gender dysphoria comes with mental health and/or autism almost like a packaged deal, I feel Matt Walsh’s comment that he has zero in common with these people is not a true statement. To win the gender war, one needs to find the underlying..

Friday Feb 24, 2023

urdczdvy

navigate the complexities of life for kids today, and taking into account the traumatic family history this family gas bern through, I could empathize with the anxieties of this mother who honestly believes this is the best path for her children. Given that gender dysphoria comes with mental health and/or autism almost like a packaged deal, I feel Matt Walsh’s comment that he has zero in common with these people is not a true statement. To win the gender war, one needs to find the underlying..

Friday Feb 24, 2023

urdczdvy

..”she would have no idea how to talk to her children about gender/”. This ”church” is known here for being extreme left woke and as predicted, her daughter is non binary now and her son is questioning. As a parent myself, I was internally horrified at what she described her children were learning at ”church” and her relief that they are so ”inclusive” and support her kids to ”be their authentic selves”. Beyond the layer of horror, what I saw was a mom full of anxieties, unsure how to...

@urdczdvy :..”silver bullet” for the one state (as far as I understand) that is moving with banning trans affirmative care, but that it is a state, as Toby pointed out, is evangelically Christian and conservative by majority and therefore, far easier to get it banned there, due to general support, than in California or Massachusetts: both homes to the ultimate left woke. I spoke with a parent, months back, who described how grateful she was her ”church” is doing all the sexual/gender education because..

Friday Feb 24, 2023

urdczdvy

..”silver bullet” for the one state (as far as I understand) that is moving with banning trans affirmative care, but that it is a state, as Toby pointed out, is evangelically Christian and conservative by majority and therefore, far easier to get it banned there, due to general support, than in California or Massachusetts: both homes to the ultimate left woke. I spoke with a parent, months back, who described how grateful she was her ”church” is doing all the sexual/gender education because..

Friday Feb 24, 2023

urdczdvy

..with Toby on Matt Walsh’s tweet going too far/not in good taste. In general, I find his tweets profane and with a lot of anger. Perhaps due to burnout from dealing with hyper mean trans activists and maybe not a strong community to kerp him grounded. Who knows. But instead of showing them a different way to speak, a different model to live by when faced with adversity, it feels to me he forgets these are still humans, no matter how abusive they are. I’m not convinced his ”tactics” are the..

Friday Feb 24, 2023

urdczdvy

So many great topics on this episode I want to comment on. 1) I admit I’m dissapointed Toby and sometimes Nock referred to Dylan Mulvany as ”she”. Not trying to be puritanical here but there is a difference in being kind/polite and endorsing something that is not objectively real: that men can be women and visa versa. As a general point when discussing trans ppl, giving into the cultural normalization of referring to ppl by their personal pronouns is a big way woke wins over ppl. 2) I agree

Friday Feb 24, 2023

Grimskald

Great podcast, as always, guys.

Wednesday Feb 22, 2023

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