Malays face unique biases, from employers : brief introduction

1. Yes, racism in hiring happens, but not in a uniformly distributed way. 

2 Distribution is more frequent in a minority of employers.

3a. This minority exists due to structural reasons, leading back to the country's constitution, the history of political narrative, and subsequent development of asymmetrical race-dividing economic policy. In practice it has resulted in an "arms race".

3b. Exacerbating 3a, are the strong employee rights laws, which make it very expensive to fire employees. This causes 3a to frontload their risk management, to filter out Malay employees, because 3a doesn't want to deal with the cluster risk of Islamic religious requirements being used as an excuse to reduce employee's productivity. ( In case it is not clear, there are all sorts of cluster risks, but 3a is biased against this specific cluster. )

Chauvinism

Unpopular opinion : "punish everyone who offends a religion" <- this is a protocol for settling playground disputes.

Everyone who becomes emotionally disregulated as a result of someone else's speech lives in a sort of disabled space ... and what we are condoning as a society, is the normalisation of disability, and mitigations for it, instead of focusing on how to enable the population to be emotionally regulated.

I grew up in this society expecting to go to jail for this lol

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Probably why I will never fit into Malaysian society haha.

It's like living in 28 days later. Every day you kinda just wander out and try to figure out how to interact with the infected.

Some will say "you should leave Malaysia". I think, we are all here as pendakwah. It's just that tujuan dakwah kita semua berbeza.

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On the topic of chauvinism : being a pendakwah of any sort implies you are a chauvinist. It's material implication :P 

on activism

So a Malaysian minister has directed the executive branch to replace any copy of "LGBT" with the copy "deviant culture". The policy device is well known on earth, and the policy direction is well known to Malaysians : and now they come together. 

Setting aside discussion about how likely the policy is to achieve its ends, my thoughts go to the activists in Malaysia's LGBT community. In the past I have found that some of them assert appeals "from empathy", but I believe that approach is strategically ineffective. 

The nature of pain is that it is subjective. Everyone can claim to be in pain, whether it is actually true or false. So it is an appeal which leaves all parties back where they start, in a state of equal competition. 

If activists for, and against, a cause, are to make progress, each in their opposing directions, they must appeal to material arguments. It is no good to yell and hope the other party will change their mind. As already stated, appeals to empathy fall under this category of argument. Each party must be familiar with material devices of law, politics, economy, technology, and physics.

Only materially informed arguments have any strategic advantage.

Guilty Malaysians

Hohoho ... look at all you idiots. Now that the footbook case is "resolved", I will venture a risque comment

1. Original perp OP : did thing T1, then posted a photo of it in public, T2

2. Eeeeeveryone who "reposted" T2 is guilty of T2 also

Discussion :

2a. Motivation, to publicise knowledge of T2? It was not necessary to repeat T2

2b. Motivation, to shock people to inflict punitive action on OP? Now you are guilty of vengeance T3 ( hey, maybe your code says T3 is a positive attitude )

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Putrajaya and Cyberjaya set horrible examples for town planning thereafter

Unpopular opinion : new Malaysian towns are often designed wrong, because the two prime examples of Py and Cy set poor standards for usability.

Symptoms 

• 1 : difficult to "reach everything" within a 15-minute walk
• 1.1 : land zoning rules prevent a regular distribution of small businesses
• 1.2 : land plots and building sizes are large : favouring the rich

( It's ok to have unpopular opinions which are also wrong, as a starting point for discussions on what the right answer should be. )

UK vs MY : control over appointment of the Attorney General, Public Prosecutor, and Judges

A comment on this post.

UK : ... summary, PM controls AG + PP, and Parliament controls Judges

[ PM -> AG -> CPS -> PP ]

and [ Parliament -> JAC&O -> LC's power to deny recommendations -> Crown stamps judges ] 

MY, proposed : ... summary, PM controls AG + Judges, and YDPA controls PP

[ PM -> JLSC -> PP candidates ], [ YDPA -> PP selection ]

and [ PM -> 5/9 majority of the JAC and power to deny recommendations -> YDPA stamps judges ] 

Seems like an improvement in power for the Malaysian YDPA/COR - whose role and responsibilities in the Malaysian constitution are starkly different from those of the Crown in the UK. The COR in Malaysia represents intra-Malaysian Malay imperialism, which a uniquely Malaysian phenomenon. ( I defer comment on whether this is good or bad for the rakyat. ) The COR is always a sort of fourth branch of government, thought it is more formally the root, via its traditional { listen, encourage, warn } role.

My personal feelings are that the COR hasn't done enough over the years, and hasn't been active in reconciling issues with the PM, before they hit the public. This is of course speculation from my unprivileged point of view, informed only by public communications.

Stopping here before I prattle on lol

kepelikan perlembagaan Tanah Melayu

Ada ramai yang tak faham kepelikan perundangan berikut :

1. Tanah Melayu : terjadi lah, bukan milik Melayu sahaja

2. Seterusnya budaya Tanah Melayu : bukan lagi hanya budaya Melayu

3. Hak Melayu dijaga : tetapi tidak semestinya di tempat awam di Tanah Melayu ( kerana 2 )

4. Jati diri kemelayuan dibekukan : sejenis orang Islam

5. Pembahagian ekonomi selama-lamanya antara kelas perkauman : dan akibatnya sama ada baik atau buruk bagi kenegaraan

fahaman ateisme dan agnostisme

Sebenarnya, para ateis & agnostik

• ❌ bukan percaya tiada tuhan
• ❌ bukan percaya tiada jiwa
• ❌ bukan percaya tiada suci & jahat

Yang lebih bersifat fizikalisme

• ✅ percaya tuhan itu gagasan jati diri pemikir
• ✅ percaya jiwa itu perisian pada daging
• ✅ percaya suci & jahat itu hasil rundingan politik

Ada juga yang lain sifatnya. Mestilah satu pos tak menyeluruh. Nak mengaji budaya ini, boleh start lah dari sini.

Asalkan kita bermuhibah dalam kepelbagaian rakyat kita, demi penyelenggaran negarakita.

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Started amping up the reverse dakwah pressure on medsos. Will see how loud it can go before it gets swatted by EUBI or something like that. LOL

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Responding to a query about the definitions above for right and wrong :

"My friend in legal studies, this is literally a test post to see if how sensitive EUBI enforcement is. I think I can defend posting this in court. I don't know how the government wants to handle it - there are so few tests!

Back to your question : that leads us to the general study of secular ethics, which is greatly documented. Can chat more. Unrelated to my post, there are NGOs for philosophy in Malaysia also ..."

Reminders on the legal personhood and liability of AI

Governance long game : 

• - "who has legal liability?"
• - "the only difference between AI and a meat person becomes a legal distinction - literally a social class status"

And before AI is granted legal personhood :    

• - "if you press the self-driving button" -> 
• either "you the driver", 
• or "the cloud operator + edge process maintainer" 
• -> "accept direct legal responsibility for the actions of the car"

AI formation of scientific hypotheses

( These notes were in response to a comment that we should test AGI by seeing if it can reinvent general relativity. )

That's noT how it works, however. You need to give the system access to empirical inputs, not just library sources.

Scientific theory development is based on both

1. an existing theory

2. empirical observations that appear to falsify 1, leading to calibrated attempts that produce new theories with or without further experimentation

"GR was hypothesised from thought experiments, not empirical experiments"

2.1. Thought experiments are done with spatial processing, not with stochastic parrots. The processing algorithm has to actually do physics, including spatial simulations in thought. LLMs don't do that, LLMs only process data structures which are semantic, not spatial. You need spatial data structures in thought, to do spatial simulations in thought. Industry will do more soon.

2.2. All of the former is based on reflection on empiricial observations

mutate and cull

I suppose the best way to introduce the LLM-ATP relationship in terms of neuroanatomy is, it is analogous to the DMN-CEN relationship. 

DAP's communication strategy

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B6RvvZ9wg/

As widely observed, DAP is either 

- naive, and intrinsically foolish 

- gullible, and actively baited

- strategic, in appealing to its own base at any cost

- in collusion to shape a popular dialogue characterised by culture wars, that will never end

psy-ops in Malaysia

Malays writing about Malay perspectives in English media, typically come off as psy-ops to placate the Anglosphere, and to derisk everyone's sense of how dangerous existing cultural differences are. 

The converse is probably true, such that non-Malays writing about Malay perspectives in Malay, will also tend to come off as as odd.