freshhawk

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by freshhawk 5y ago
Our population changed radically when we gained sentience. I don't see how it is reasonable to assume a species will gain sentience and not alter their behaviour in a way that alters their population. That is a "big" threshol
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by freshhawk 5y ago
It certainly uses a logical structure that requires independent variables when we have strong evidence to believe these things are not independent. "if other sentient species exist, we should expect ours to have an unusually high popul
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by freshhawk 5y ago
You live in a society that has some really strong stereotypes of early risers and night owls so there is a large amount of learned values involved here. There might be more to it than that for you, but the learned shame part is real and a v
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by freshhawk 5y ago
Yeah, this just obviously correct. Sure, maybe there is some other biological factor that accounts for some of the increased rates of depression. But it's an amazingly safe bet that the main factor is the part where we treat people poo
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by freshhawk 5y ago
This isn't teenagers, it's adult men. It is situations where if they showed full understanding and said "I don't want it to show scantily clad teenagers to me as I have a lot of loud opinions about sex and sin but I can&
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by freshhawk 5y ago
My Tiktok has a lot of videos of people complaining about exactly this and being responded to by pointing out they are telling on themselves in a hilarious way. Gotta hand it to the algorithm, it is always funny to me.
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by freshhawk 5y ago
Tiktok is "addictive dopamine-f*ing time-sucker almost contentless social medias" perfected more than anything else, by a pretty good margin. It's a good thing to avoid honestly, you miss out a few rare genuinely funny jokes
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by freshhawk 6y ago
But that's really why everyone will always accept them, because they can pay their debts/taxes with them. It's probably a common misconception because it's so close to correct.
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by freshhawk 6y ago
But how good are they going to be at laundering money? I can't imagine they're going to be in the class that contemporary art is in, so they aren't really comparable.
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by freshhawk 6y ago
So the best case scenario for them is to be a part of the worst type of video games? The pay-to-win/microtransaction sector?
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Or, more simply, political beliefs and values are real and the conflict between two specific ones is much more important than it used to be so people are taking it more seriously. Isn't that ... that's the analysis anyone would ha
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by freshhawk 6y ago
They don't. They didn't like being the butt of the joke and so they spun up some bullshit in the voice they felt had the best chance of working. You can tell because leftists aren't offended by vanilla leftism.
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Why, when someone tries to take advantage of you, is your first reaction to retreat?
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Trust or a monopoly position. And in this context trust doesn't scale, you need good teachers for every [class size] students. That means profit only scales linearly with good teachers (the scarce resource). Marketing scales though,
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by freshhawk 6y ago
I don't see how you expect to sell that particular story to a group of people who have likely sat in the meetings where those BS stories were crafted. And most of whom have had more than one "oh damn, i thought we were ironically
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by freshhawk 6y ago
I probably would think it was too. But instead of just guessing I looked it up. It's not. Not even close. It's so far away from being risky, in fact, that having people in the field intentionally lying means I think they are lying
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by freshhawk 6y ago
But those jobs aren't more risky, not by any measurement. What they are are positions of authority. So it's hard to say "first class citizens" isn't the right term. Maybe "rulers"?
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by freshhawk 6y ago
It was a technical question about the predictive power of language models, the biases encoded in them and the results of their use in a large system like all of Google's connected products. But I guess to your particular faith-based id
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by freshhawk 6y ago
The cognitive dissonance is that a huge number of highly respected people in the field, and coworkers, said "yeah, this was racist bullshit", and the actual paper in question has been seen by a lot of people by now. But if you are
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by freshhawk 6y ago
This also seems to be labeling people as "top performers" based on how much code they get done. And then measuring how many commits they do and wondering why those are correlated? Even besides the good reasons you point out ... th
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Leaning on the predictive power of "the dismal science" isn't a strong base to argue from.
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by freshhawk 6y ago
"force" or "coerce", but more "civilized", generally more related to using indirect pressure, probably based on manipulating some larger system. Think how a mobster in a movie might use it, "we leveraged t
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by freshhawk 6y ago
No, they are used because they are cheap, reproduce fast and are legal to experiment on. For mice results in the top journals we're at about 1/3 applying to humans, which includes "has the effect and also starts killing you&q
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Yeah, wow. This is one of the more aggressive examples of "open"-but-unrunnable I've ever seen. I think your opinion is dead on. And if this isn't intentional, then the level of effort is so low how could you trust the s
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Salesforce bought Slack today. For a lot of money. So today is the day everyone talks to their investors about how much like Slack their product is.
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by freshhawk 6y ago
And by cancelled you mean people who previously couldn't/didn't critcize you now criticize you? Like they start questioning your place in society after they questioned your beliefs/values and you re-affirmed them? Sounds
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Yes, you can tell because more of this questioning is happening in the present climate.
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by freshhawk 6y ago
haha ... yeah, that's kinda "the thing" you don't mention to Americans because they get mad. It's incredibly apparent from just outside the bubble (or half-in it like in Canada). Every country with a heavily control
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by freshhawk 6y ago
Definitely! And now a lot of the children of the people it was done too are getting all "political".
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by freshhawk 6y ago
It's a bit weird from the outside, as a non-american. When I was growing up there was a very narrow window of acceptable ideas in the US, anything else was "unamerican". "The two parties are basically the same" was

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