eestileib

@eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Popper is considered an important historical contributor by the field, in the same way that Jacob Lister might be in surgery. Groundbreaking but their methods have been replaced.

  Jeffrey Kaplan is the best current philosophy lecturer on YouTube imo. He focuses more on theories of consciousness but covers epistemology too. Bryan Magee did a fantastic interview series called The Great Philosophers that’s on YouTube.

  I would actually start with sociology of science if you want the most interesting contemporary stuff. Harry Collins is fantastic, check out his recent book on LIGO. Steven Shapin’s book on the Scientific Revolution is good.

  Bruno Latour is a love-him-or-hate-him figure in science studies (I love him). “Laboratory Life” and “Science in Action” are great reads imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do what you love⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used my philosophy of science classwork all the time in my engineering career.

  What constitutes proof? What kinds of questions can you answer with data? When do we consider a pattern of behavior to represent the existence of some entity?

  Being able to think about these kinds of questions with clarity is really helpful in diagnosing problems in large systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are not enough 💯 emoji in the world for this post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨its painful each time (┬┬﹏┬┬)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also entirely possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew it would make you mad but I did it anyway.

  I don’t think you have the guts to do anything about it either, vibe coder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨its painful each time (┬┬﹏┬┬)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He might have thought you were romantically interested in him, wasn’t interested, and didn’t know how to communicate that without being worried he might offend you.

  There’s this concept of a relationship escalator and everybody rightly shits on how much it fucks things up on the back end of erotic relationships.

  But in pretty much every kind of new relationship, whether it’s business, friendship, family, or romance, people expect to increase their commitments gradually, in coordination with the other person.

  Yes, this means that most people looking to make new friends and lovers expect you to act a little less excited about getting to know them than you actually are. 🤷🏻‍♀️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seemed like the llm had decided it was in a brat scene and was trying to call down the thunder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  She knew exactly what she was going to be defending. She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.

  Her presence on a project will raise my eyebrows.

  So I’m assuming she will head to Mozilla or Ubuntu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Size Matters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Touché.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Size Matters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Penises don’t have bones in them, overall body size is a poor indicator of penis size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, working together on something outside might be absolutely the ticket. Genius.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well those sound like people who aren’t good to open up to.

  I do sympathize though, I pretended to be a guy for several decades, and my wife put exactly the same kind of duality on my that men put on women.

  I was expected to be sympathetic and nurturing in some contexts and aggressive, jealous, and demanding in others, and I was just supposed to know when to switch.

  And there was an amount of vulnerability I was able to display, but beyond that I’d get told to suck it up.

  I think somebody needs to come up with an ad campaign that’s Therapy For Men. Big sweaty hairy guys with thick beards looking after each other’s mental health like BROs. It worked to get men to use soap.

  (Seriously, I think counseling is too female-coded for a lot of men to be comfortable with it unless they’re fucking the person, or they start to want to fuck the person because they’re unused to talking about things).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And I only know two chords!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AI slop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of how I read it too.

  But as a side effect it means you’re still allowed to photograph your own books at home as a private citizen if you own them.

  Prepare to never legally own another piece of media in your life. 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was at Google when it came out, I was like “sure this would be fine to use too, but everybody is on chat and Gmail and I kind of need to actually reach people…”

  I think they just figured it would get dogfooded automatically because it was slicker than chat and Gmail, but under time pressure you’re just not gonna do it unless you have to.

  And there was zero chance I was going to get anybody in my personal life to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "We Tried" Award⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They expected me to treasure that bullshit too. Kept my seventh-place ribbons in a box for ten years until I threw them the fuck out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The article says that they are changing their policy so that even if you turn it off it will still be feeding your actions to AI.

  Read the article yo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Try lineage or graphene before jumping into the money pit maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeto devouring his nation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Knuckle too long, yeah, but a human artist could made that mistake too. Probably not one capable of painting that face, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeto devouring his nation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The hand is pretty good for AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jogging is practice for how humans killed pretty much all the megafauna in the world: exhaustion hunting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You really nailed how a lot of trans and poc queer people feel about the Rainbow flag; it mostly represents cis white well off gay men and lesbian women, and implies everybody else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨:-)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This person has never been to a fucking kink party then has he?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t, they just throw up whatever the Internet would be most likely to say in that context. That’s why they are full of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so tired.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice deep cut

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m wondering whether this is a privileged/feels like deserves privilege white guy thing.

  Down here with the queerdos and minorities, I’m seeing people engage more fully with each other, be more willing to take on friends and lovers, in the last few months.

  Some are getting caught by chat bots, yes, but a lot of people are out there trying to grab human connection while we still can.

  I certainly feel like the “I’m the übermensch and revel in cruelty, empathy is a weakness” mentality that the straight basic wypipo have adopted will not only discourage other people from wanting to be their friend, but also discourages themselves from seeking friendship, because they see it as a weakness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna get snooty about being an indie game buyer, then I remembered that I bought a Larian game developed in partnership with Hasbro, so my snootiness will have to wait for another day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Squint your eyes 👀⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you wanna ruck? France says YES!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon says displaying tariff cost 'not going to happen' after White House blowback⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember kids: capitalists are fascists.

  It’s that simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s not trying to act in the interest of the United States.

  He works for Putin.