Haagel
@Haagel@lemmings.world
- Comment on c o e x i s t 1 month ago:
Modern Mongolia, perhaps. The Golden Horde of Genghis Khan was not so tolerant!
- Comment on What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame 4 months ago:
There is nothing more speculative than evolutionary psychology.
- Comment on What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame 4 months ago:
I’m 38 years old and I think I’ve read a “What We Know About Lucy Is Wrong” article every year.
It’s not surprising, of course, because this is the entirety of the fossil. 1000043424
- Comment on happy world bee day 5 months ago:
One historian described him as an “anxiety-ridden nerd”.
- Comment on happy world bee day 5 months ago:
- Comment on In Canada, bodies go unclaimed as costs put funerals out of reach 5 months ago:
That’s dystopian as fuck
- Comment on No wonder he's hiding 6 months ago:
Is dark matter still a thing?
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 6 months ago:
Not just microbes. HGT has been observed in carnivorous plants as well. It could be much more prevalent than we think.
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 6 months ago:
The discovery of horizontal gene transfer implies that it’s more like a web than a tree.
"Biologist Johann Peter Gogarten suggests “the original metaphor of a tree no longer fits the data from recent genome research” therefore “biologists should use the metaphor of a mosaic to describe the different histories combined in individual genomes and use the metaphor of a net to visualize the rich exchange and cooperative effects of HGT among microbes”.
I look forward to this dinosaur = chicken colloquialism being inevitably discarded.
- Comment on The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco 6 months ago:
Here’s an example of a corporation demonstrating positive socio-economic change:
I grew up in Silicon Valley and I can testify what you already know: venture capitalists and tech CEOs are just dumb kids with a lot of money. Many of them landed in their positions by chance alone. We are not obliged to give them more credence than anybody else.
- Comment on A generation of renters are staring down poverty in retirement unless something drastic changes 8 months ago:
I lived down under for three years so I guess I still have the right to complain.
- Comment on A generation of renters are staring down poverty in retirement unless something drastic changes 8 months ago:
Sorry. I’ve just realized that I’m in the Aussie instance…
- Comment on A generation of renters are staring down poverty in retirement unless something drastic changes 8 months ago:
Just look at this bullshit that they’re advertising on Facebook. This will be the end of the middle class in America.
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 8 months ago:
Yeah, I figured as much. At least they can’t count me as a user when they go public.
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 8 months ago:
I’ve just deleted my Reddit account. That’s the last straw for me.
- Comment on OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it 8 months ago:
I think he means existential problems, like our belligerent lumbering towards the violent self-destruction of humanity.
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 8 months ago:
💍 Will you marry me?
- Comment on Attacking the big problems 8 months ago:
Scientism is the dogmatic belief that empirical science is the only source of knowledge. It’s not arguing in bad faith to say that this is a dangerously flawed ideology.
The inconvenient truth about scientific research is that 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵. Information requires a metaphysical framework in order to be interpreted in way that makes sense.
Lacking a philosophical foundation, scientism produces dangerous results, like when Hitler and his ilk explicitly referred to Darwinism as their justification for the Holocaust.
- Comment on Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article | It's unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review. 8 months ago:
So it’s OK to publish “research” that’s been generated by AI so long as there are no experiments involved? I’m sorry. I don’t understand what you’re getting at.
There has clearly been a massive decline in academic integrity lately, as evidenced by this ridiculous paper and so many others. Why should any of it be excusable?
- Comment on Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article | It's unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review. 8 months ago:
Please read the Wikipedia article about the replication crisis that I’ve linked. This is a widespread problem. Even the most prestigious cancer research institute in the world, Dana-Farber, has admitted to egregious forgery and plagiarism of their formerly published research.
“Publish or perish” indeed…
- Comment on Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article | It's unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review. 8 months ago:
“It’s unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review.”
That’s because the paper wasn’t peer-reviewed at all. In fact, the majority of published medical and psychological papers are never reviewed or replicated.
The scientific method has sold out to the profit incentive, at least in academia.
- Comment on Attacking the big problems 9 months ago:
Interesting read. I’m familiar with the Arthur C Clarke quote…
- Comment on Attacking the big problems 9 months ago:
You know what I mean, brother. There’s a huge scope of difference between applied sciences and natural philosophy. Our technology advancement fails to resolve fundamental questions about the human condition. Scientists rarely study epistemology or philosophy in order to attain our degrees and I think it shows in the public trend toward scientism.
- Comment on Attacking the big problems 9 months ago:
Philosophy > science
Fight me
- Comment on Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo? 9 months ago:
Path of Exile is like Diablo for adults. It’s much more dark and intense in my opinion. It’s worth checking out because the New Zealanders who make it are genuinely good guys.
- Comment on Dude, where’s my self-driving car? The many, many missed deadlines for a fully autonomous vehicular future. 9 months ago:
I bought a Tesla in early 2020 and after four years I can say confidently that autonomous driving seems unlikely. The self driving feature feels like I’m in the car with my geriatric grandpa. It drives like a stoned teenager trying to protect the liability of his rich daddy.
The reason that humans are able to drive swiftly and efficiently is because we’re not thinking about every single thing that could go wrong and every single moment. The car is incapable of such blissful ignorance and therefore the autonomous driving experience is uncomfortable, to say the least.
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 9 months ago:
It’s really hard for me to imagine a scenario where large groups of people are fighting on principle to protect billionaires.
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 9 months ago:
I certainly don’t want civil war. I would, however, like to see a few billionaires fear for their life enough that they would lossen their death grip on the future health and wellbeing of the rest of the world’s inhabitants.
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 9 months ago:
I’m not advocating violence, of course, because that’s illegal both on this platform and in real life.
However, the history of humanity has demonstrated that powerful people need to be publicly executed in order for there to be sea change in economic inequalities. When enough people have nothing to lose, said executions become inevitable.
- Comment on Ketchup alignment 9 months ago:
What a sad life sans ketchup…
