Dick Wrentham

@EmbitteredHeir

Monitoring the situation

Joined November 2020

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Dick Wrentham
@EmbitteredHeir
11h
One of the reasons for the state to control women’s behavior is that it’s essentially impossible to have a functional military or really any functional organization if you can’t be or remain married while employed therein.
Josh Kaplowitz
@jjkaplowitz
Aug 21
Hard disagree. Try deploying for 7 months on a submarine. I came back from deployment and we had 15 divorces. That’s not hyperbole. Being a business founder is hard but there is no comparison to the military.
Dick Wrentham
@EmbitteredHeir
11h
A huge problem for AI is that the sort of person who defers completely to it (3rd world posters, autists, startup kids, middle mgmt try hards) is so comically unimpressive.
thad
@gumbelcopula
14h
Replying to @eugyppius1
This whole episode was LLM psychosis
Dick Wrentham
@EmbitteredHeir
14h
Have you ever written a post yourself?
DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
15h
I posted this week from a place of stress, and I said more, faster, and louder than the moment called for. I don't regret caring about doing things the right way. I do regret making it a public spectacle before it was understood, and pulling people I respect into the swirl. That
Dick Wrentham
@EmbitteredHeir
Aug 22
Among the other stupidities here, you are using “invariant” to sound smart where what you mean to say is “fact.”
DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
Aug 21
Replying to @DataRepublican
This is an invariant: if I had done as you requested, I would be a criminal right now. It’s one thing to try and fire me. It’s another to rob my children of their mother.
Dick Wrentham
@EmbitteredHeir
Aug 21
Seems basically true. All societies newly permitting women’s employment generally (and ~always wrongly) assume that prevailing social norms will be enough to discourage women from staying single. Not even Iran or wherever is willing to stop that.
Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
Aug 20
Replying to @KelseyTuoc
If a society is sexist, and then it becomes possible for women to support themselves in employment (including via internet jobs, etc), then those women will very often opt out of marriage and motherhood, which in a sexist society is a bad deal for them.