ignorethefacts

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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
That's a great resource, thanks. It's what I expected, what the UN predicts follows the agenda of the day. Previous it was the fear of some enemy population and now they are trying to normalise the idea of population reduction.
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
People can often behave similarly to LLMs, not simply regurgitating the data they have but are incapable of imagining anything outside of their dataset. Data in a dataset does not have to be accurate, unique or truthful for an LLM to produc
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
The vile, seething hatred deeply embedded in the hearts and minds of people overcome all rationality. See how many even on this website seek vicious token vengeance against an old man who was not guilty of any crimes they themselves implici
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
> Hypothetically, is there some sort of motive you have for Canada to want to blame India for such a murder? What would they have to gain? Canada is part of the death cult hell bent on world domination. The current plan involves using Uk
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
Rare to see a level head who doesn't just believe everything they are told immediately.
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
Consider a scenario where there were no nuclear weapons, but you had convinced the world that nuclear weapons exist. This scenario has very similar implications to the current world where no body is using nuclear weapons. In this scenario,
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
Another HN user recently offered a term for this: Glossification. It's not just the internet that has gone through this, any endeavor that involves an audience will undergo a commercialization optimization process which will erode the
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
This is a terrible piece of ignore-the-facts advice. The emerging facts about the health impacts from plastics are significant and irreversible. Anxiety is a healthy human response to a threat.
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
Go returning tuples as a norm and a way to handle simultaneously success and failure is the reason I believe go to be a fundamentally unsafe language. With a single binary return value you must successfully handle two cases, every time you
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
Confusing correlation and causality is probably the most effective form of viral propaganda. Most people don't know what causality is and even when they do they can't easily spot when it's proven or inverted. For example in t
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
Foot has an opt-in server mode so that if you are used to running multiple terminals at once, you can save a little memory. Great for a low-end device. Of course, if the server is closed/crashes, you lose all the client terminals which
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
It would be a good idea if biology along with most other sciences weren't rail-roaded down a dead-end. There will be no meaningful medicine to come from this sadly.
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
I agree, the UFO narrative is a psyop. They are shifting the Overton window on us and the questions are to what extent and what purpose. The worst and best conspiracy theory I have heard about this is that there has been a plan to stage an
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
Articles like these exist primarily to shift the Overton window. One day they will convince you aliens are real. They are not real.
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
If NASA puts their satellites in space with their new fancy UFO detectors, and they start detecting many UFOs in the absence of eye witness accounts, do you believe them? It is very dangerous to discredit human accounts and trust a process
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
Consider the techniques being used and only available to players with resources: - employ bots/troll farms to astro-turf comments, blogs, videos and articles at a large scale. - employ more writers to pump out stories on the major news
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
Adding to this, AI gives the common folk a fighting chance in the information war which has already been waged upon us. Up until now only the rich and the powerful had the ability to participate. Now that it is so easy for people to put tog
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
And so it begins. Australia once again leading the charge against freedom and privacy, this will no doubt be accompanied with legislation that makes AI illegal and give rights to police to search any device suspected of containing any AI. O
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
Not everyone who posts here is a coder but I do agree with you the narcissism and astro-turfing on HN is high. I suspect the high-confidence/narcissist combination is especially high here due to this being an industry/entrepreneu
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
That's a bad take. The science mouthpieces (aka media and government speaking on behalf of scientists) were insisting they knew the immutable facts and any questions or doubt in those immutable facts were heretical. Anyone who has an a
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by ignorethefacts 3y ago
It is disturbing to me that this is published in pubmed and written with such an authoritative and definitive position. Looking at the similar articles, there is a lot of activity in the conspiracy space on pubmed. I can not look past the i