shneancy
@shneancy@lemmy.world
just me
- Comment on I never realized this 2 weeks ago:
the concept is only “nebulous” to people who are talking out of their asses, when they haven’t even bothered to look past the word definition and strawman memes about the patriarchy
man, please, stop making yourself look like a fool, go read about it, it’s really not that hard
- Comment on I never realized this 2 weeks ago:
you could swap the subject of criticism with “the devil” in any sentence and it would be the same though?
“the devil (covid-19) caused a pandemic”
“the devil (billionaires) is pushing more people into poverty”
“the devil (adhd) is making me procrastinate doing the dishes”
“the devil (you) has really weak criticisms of feminism, since if only he read about it, he’d realise he can see and feel the effects of the patriarchy everywhere. and the way he talks right now makes me believe he only knows the concept from strawman memes”
- Comment on I never realized this 2 weeks ago:
pointing out how someone’s mother’s last name is just their grandfather’s last name ignores the point the person was trying to make in favour of going “well akschually”.
a woman who feels more connected with her mother and prefers her last name over her father’s last name has made that decision based on her emotions associated with her family relationships. And it was a choice she had to make against the default way surnames are given.
people rarely do things like going through lengthy legal processes to get the necessary paperwork to change your last name for shit and giggles. Instead of “well askchanelyling” people’s choices, think a bit on why they made that particular choice, or you could also ask them
- Comment on I never realized this 2 weeks ago:
mostly laughing at women it seems
- Comment on Just trying my best to make you turds smile 2 weeks ago:
hot
- Comment on Stop wasting money on shrinks and drugs - read this book 2 weeks ago:
tbf, i’ve once met an autistic person who was just an ass, and they excused all of their assholery by saying “i’m not rude to you or anybody, i’m autistic, i don’t intend to be rude, if you think anything i said is rude you’re hallucinating”
and i know for a fact it’s not the autism’s fault, because quite a few also autistic people criticised them for being an ass so
- Comment on Patient gamer badge of honor on the Steam Replay 2024 4 weeks ago:
in my defence of new games, couple of the Early Access ones i’ve seen grow beautifully with meaningful quarterly updates and clear dev maps. i’m especially happy with Enshrouded and i feel like with a full release the current price will double as it’s already a massive world and the map is half filled
(similarly how i got satisfactory in early access in a cheap af bundle and now the game is like double the price of the bundle it was in)
- Comment on >:( rejected vibes 1 month ago:
ah, no i’d rather not be written off as mentally unstable when people read that i in fact looped a 1min 30s track for many, many hours :)
- Comment on brains! 1 month ago:
eh, well my answer is going to be most likely unsatisfying because - that just depends on how you count it, there’s quite a few different IQ tests and some of them use slightly different methods of calculating the scores
practically though? a person so disabled they can barely figure out the most basic puzzles that scores below ~20 would probably have significantly lower survival chances basically anywhere, but especially in developing countries where they’re less likely to get help
- Comment on brains! 1 month ago:
yes, just as IQ tells you close to nothing about the properties of human intelligence! (only how good you are at taking IQ tests).
Consider this - what does being smart even mean? Does it mean you’re able to solve logic puzzles fast? Does it mean having a good memory? Does it mean being able to make good decisions? maybe it means being able to resolve interpersonal conflicts? or maybe being able to cook something amazing from scratch without a recepie?
IQ seems to be seen as some vague concept of the computational power of the brain, but only when it comes to logic puzzles and remembering things. What if someone’s brain’s computational power instead favours considering the interactions of various flavours to create outstanding dishes? or moving their body to dance the most mesmerising dances?
imagine you’re a scientist though! a man of science, logic and reason, living roughly at the same time IQ was standardised. And you are smart, all your friends think you’re smart - so you set the scale of the entirety of human intelligence to be measured with logic puzzles. Nothing else. All the other stuff is just some talent someone has…
but what if someone is talented at solving IQ tests? Does that mean they’re smart? if there is no discernible difference between someone who’s talented at solving logic puzzles, and someone who an IQ tests deems to be intelligent, does that mean only those who enjoy logic puzzles, and therefore have gotten a lot of practice in solving them, are smart?
another question - is it “cheating” if somebody trains for their IQ test? if someone trains their mind specifically to be better at them - will that person become more intelligent, or just more skilled at filling out IQ tests well? how can you spot a “cheater” like that?
where even is intelligence in the brain? where does it come from? your genetics? your upbringing? your environment? everything at once?
how do you measure something you can barely define? and why with logic puzzles? why not an interpretative dance to the sounds of noise jazz? why not the baking of a pavlova cake? or maybe a rap battle?
apologies for the long rant. IQ is not a scientific measurement, it’s a measurement of how likely you’re to do well on logic puzzles. and whoever popularised it and made it seem like the way to prove you’re better than others infuriates me. the above are my personal, more or less subjective, issues with the idea of IQ, i do recommend this video essay to understand how deeply flawed even the history of IQ is. There’s piles and piles of arguments against IQ, and very few in favour
- Comment on brains! 1 month ago:
quora.com/Is-it-even-possible-for-a-human-to-have…
read the second answer to that particular quora question, i believe it outlays what the other guy and i mean pretty clearly
- Comment on brains! 1 month ago:
i have indeed noticed there are people alive on that list. But are you going to trust a source that states someone’s IQ to be literally outside of the possible scale when it also just makes shit up a few people down?
i don’t think they’re trying to prove IQ’s legitimacy, just explain the way it’s calculated
- Comment on brains! 1 month ago:
any article that lists historical figures with even estimates their IQs can be discarded as bullshit. IQ has specific testing criteria and imo the most important part of it is its basis in general distribution - if we don’t know the IQ of the average peasant, we can’t know the IQ of Shakespeare
besides, IQ is a borderline pseudo science to begin with. i was made to take an official IQ tests and the second i stepped out of the test room i started wondering how is this going to accuratly portray my “innate” intelligence when the vast majority of the things on the test can be learnt or otherwise trained to be better at
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 2 months ago:
🥂
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 2 months ago:
how do they get the energy to lay new eggs? or grow into full sized moths?
- Comment on To deter predators... 2 months ago:
many consider it a weed. always make sure to plant your mint in a pot (even if you want it in your garden just bury the pot with a little bit of the edge sticking out), do not plant it directly in dirt, though if you do, you’ll never again not have mint in your garden? and your neighbours’ gardens too! :D
- Comment on Culture Wars 2 months ago:
some bacteria good, some other bacteria bad
- Comment on He protecc 2 months ago:
he attac people with dust allergies, with his poop (i am not kidding)
- Comment on He protecc 2 months ago:
oh so the creature who’s shit i’m allergic to is fucking immortal yeah? cool, great
- Comment on I thought it was an easy question ... 2 months ago:
the cries of alien archaeologists from the far future echo in the distance
- Comment on Feral Science 2 months ago:
oh- oop :)
- Comment on Feral Science 2 months ago:
was that expedition inspired by lovecraft or was lovecraft inspired by that expedition?
- Comment on Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal. 2 months ago:
this is not about wanting this is about companies taking advantage of vulnerable people who should be grieving. This can cause lasting psychological harm
you might as well be saying, if someone came to a drug maker, and wanted some heroine, and provided ingredients for heroine, and agreed to whatever costs were involved, isn’t that entirely their business?
- Comment on Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal. 2 months ago:
and yet, the “genius inventors” keep creating Torment Nexuses
- Comment on Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal. 2 months ago:
wow, so many reasons
- to create a mimic of a person you must first destroy their privacy
- after an AI has devoured all they’ve ever written or spoken on video it will then mimic such person very well, but most likely still be a legal property of a company that made it
- in a situation like that you’d then have to pay a subscription to interact with the mimic (because god forbid you ever get actually sold something nowadays)
now imagine having to pay to talk with a ghost of your loved one, a chatbot that sometimes allows you to forget that the actual person is gone, and makes all the moments where that illusion is broken all the more painful. A chatbot that denies you grief, and traps you in hell where you can talk with the person you lost, but never touch them, never feel them, never see them grow (or you could pay extra for the chatbot to attend new skill classes you could talk about :)).
It would make grieving impossible and take constant advantage of those who “just want to say goodbye”. Grief is already hard as is, a wide spread mimicry of our dead ones would make it a psychological torture
for more information watch
a prediction of our futurea fun sci-fi show called Black Mirror, specifically the episode titled Be Right Back (entire series is fully episodic you don’t need to watch from the start) - Comment on Cognitive Biases 2 months ago:
not all bias is made equal or always something negative. Sometimes it’s good to be biased towards the opinion of a scientist over the opinion of your aunt.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 2 months ago:
“apple” used to be a generic term for fruit. So it’s actually “fruit of the earth”, the French are poetic like that
- Comment on Hmmmm 2 months ago:
that’s because i started writing it and then deleted it lol
hell yeah to that!
- Comment on Hmmmm 2 months ago:
yeah i know, second part of the rant went into how capitalism is shit but i feel like a broken record saying that constantly, it’s true of course, but i want to talk about some other things sometimes too
- Comment on Hmmmm 2 months ago:
lmao that’s the other extreme. I’m just complaining about unnecessary complexity when there is no need for it. It’s tiring to have to keep translating academic back into English, especially when you want to explain the concept to someone who’s having trouble understanding it/is not as familiar with it as you are