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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
After WWII there was a halcyon era where nearly every adult in America agreed that nerds had been crucial to our winning. That’s why Operation Paperclip came to be where we stole all the former Axis nerds we could find.
It also led to an unprecedented boom in education spending, research spending, etc., mostly aimed at beating the USSR at technological development. Sputnik goosed that significantly, and the Apollo program briefly did as well, until Americans got bored of Moon landings…
That was probably the first major flashing red warning light most of us ignored: Moon landings… boring!!!
Anyway, educated people started doing things that weren’t directly associated with winning the Cold War, like exposing the dangers of lead in everything, the dangers of smoking, the dangers of chlorofluorocarbons, the dangers of greenhouse gasses, etc.
That threatened the ability of grotesquely wealthy hoarders to hoard even more grotesque levels of wealth.
So they started the project to dismantle education in America.
That project kicked into afterburn once the USSR collapsed and the Cold War ended.
And so far, nerds haven’t been successful in regaining their status.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Also the villification of experts as people hell bent on leveraging their expertise to dominate our control non experts.
I recently right that a useful counter to that conspiracy their is to point out that experts should be thought of as tools to be used for different purposes. Like any tool, experts can be misused in a variety of ways, including accidental and purposeful.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 5 weeks ago:
with “hire more” you do run up against the “9 women can have a baby in 1 month” limit, but in this case it’s likely to help.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 5 weeks ago:
it’s a combo of trolling and attention seeking. “there’s no such thing as bad press” and all that.
we should point it out, condemn it, but not engage in arguments with them about what is and isn’t a sig heil.
and when they pop up in other places trying to talk about other stuff, just bring up the fact that they threw a Nazi salute from time to time.
the most important thing is to focus on their evil policies and actions. but we can’t forget their performative evil.
- Comment on AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years 1 month ago:
if this is machine learning and neural networks, I can believe it’s a good thing, maybe even meaningful for the potential of so called artificial intelligence.
if this is an LLM that’s alleged to have popped this “virus tail” theory out of… what exactly…? I’m not buying it.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
I’m really hoping that Churchill’s quote about Americans doing the right thing is evergreen, because this first month (!!!) of Trump has been A LOT.
I feel like we’re really close to having tried every alternative by now, right?..right?
- Comment on You too can destroy the planet at a breakneck pace by buying junk nobody needs 1 month ago:
Not To Much Lead
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 1 month ago:
ncja.org/…/ice-to-review-social-media-users-for-n…
This has a version of the article without the “non paywall” landing page/wall.
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 1 month ago:
WikiTok
Not sure if there’s an app yet, I found one on the Android store by Arakassia…
- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
but what about my precious bodily fluids?!?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Pulling the ladder up behind you is something that happens pretty often in human history.
That’s not to say it’s intrinsic to us or destined to happen. But “hurt people hurt people” is probably what causes that to manifest.
In certain circumstances I bet most if not all of us would do it, too. A full life raft will swamp and kill everyone aboard if one more person gets on, for example. If there’s a guy trying to force his way on, what should the people on the boat do?
There’s a fair amount of that misguided belief among some anti immigrant movements: “we’re full” or equivalent.