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by p0pcult 4y ago
I also take issue with the author's assumptions. Consider the case of AIs trained to identify new variables in a system of pendulums: https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/artificial-intelligenc... Different trut
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This has been going on since way before the internet--Texas used to have de facto veto power over public school textbooks, because the Texas Board of Education (or whatever it was named) was the single largest buyer of textbooks. If you&#x
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>But of course that's their function -- to sort. Or, their function is to evaluate macro trends in education.
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Radio and TV didn't have algorithmic feedback loops built to custom-prey on said dopamine receptors, and evolve themselves.
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I liked Termination Shock a lot, but I actually preferred "The Ministry For The Future" (the NGO callout), which is more a political thriller and addresses notions of dealing with climate change from many angles, not just geoengin
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Pinatubo already did this. The side effects have already been observed. We survived. This is not a permanent solution, so much as a hotfix (heh) while we develop more sustainable solutions. If I were a wealthy truck-stop billionaire, I&#
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The criminalization of recreational drug use leads to its selective enforcement: people of color, the poors get fucked by the police. Rich white kids? Not so much. https://www.hrw.org/news/2009/06/19/rac
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Huge variance dependent on geography here. I suspect you don't live in the midwest.
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Meta makes the world a worse place. It always has. The flagship product, FB, was built to creep on women. The sooner Meta dies, the better for our planet.
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An editor or author can, in a biased way, choose to disclose things that are all true, but incomplete, thereby giving a false impression of a larger picture. I think it is absolutely in the consumer's (of any given text) interest to u