sircac

@sircac@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The main point is to be able to handle uncertainties in a normal basis, the greyness of reality, despite the temptation of blacks and whites of our minds.

  For sure it costs a lot. The consideration of the superposition of possible truths and the weight of potential biases is a huge burden without granted full coverage, but allows you to accumulate a landscape of plausibility of things: yes, is not 100% precise and is still built by personal prejudices but, with a systematic acceptance of new bits of information regardless of how comfortable they are, it can grow a mostly reliable understanding of reality with a variable amount of temporary uncertainty on some facts… and you can still convert greys into quasi-b&w once they reach a decent amount of independent evidences, you now, to free a bit your RAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  …at the moment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The wrong migration to IMHO…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “To shoehorn something” is a literal common expression in Spanish, lately often used to indicate a deliberated misdirection of a debate into a different argument at the minimum occasion (usually via any fallacy)… and there are even shoehorns literally with long sticks for the elders…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmh… nope, don’t care, my neurons has already a “twitter” thing in memory, devoting 0 additional effort in anything related to that thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not from that field, and I think it depends a lot of the field, country, etc, but research is not an idilic world at all and deal with huge flaws from the real world, institutions, society and economics, not aside of human being’s flaws, so it can be deeply disappointing in some aspects. I believe is a natural in any guild (there is shit everywhere, e.g. police require internal affairs for a good reason, but not only, they suffer from funding restrictions, metrics for promotion, etc, and the same can be said for medicine, politics, etc) so in the end it may be your ability to deal with real world shit… and luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks a lot for the summary!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, who still is unable to keep in mind that these things exist everywhere and that obviously you must refrain from their influence? How is possible that these things achieve something on people? AI generated stuff will devour that people…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crossing fingers…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another good reason not to open port 22⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good bot!