TempermentalAnomaly
@TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
- Comment on Time to send a message 1 day ago:
ICQ was the best. Didn’t it allow multiple app logins?
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 3 days ago:
Current front page
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- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 4 days ago:
No dating before 14.
- Comment on How To Argue With An AI Booster 5 days ago:
Also worth checking out is his Hater’s Guide to the AI Bubble. I listened to the three part podcast. He’s the only person I have to listen to at less than 1x, but it’s really good stuff.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
Okay, let’s spell it out.
Women don’t benefit from patriarchy. So you are saying that men don’t benefit from feminism.
Male loneliness is a bad thing. Something that doesn’t benefit men. This is caused by feminism which men don’t benefit from. Right? That is what you’re saying … Hard to know. You said so little and so shocked that people misunderstood you.
Feminism advocates for the equality of women and men in politics, economics, social, and interpersonal relationships. If women are treated in these areas (politics, economics, social, and interpersonal relationships), then men have equals to relate to, communicate with, and build community with. This is a benefit to men.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 1 week ago:
Now if it can stab people and drain them of their bioenergy, I can reach my final form!
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Also this.
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I don’t know what a house daughter is, so I can’t answer that.
You’re an adult and so is your father. Have a frank and open discussion about expectations. Be clear about what you do and how long you’ll do it. Your young and have a lot of time, make sure you go out and meet the people who get you and develop some skills that make you shine. I imagine your father wants this for you as well.
I’m glad to hear that the two of you have a loving relationship.
- Comment on Be Fast. Be Spontaneous. Don't Suck. Get Paid. 1 week ago:
Its craigslist.
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- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
Need requires context. “if they don’t have it, they don’t need it to survive”. And survival is conditioned upon the environment. If something emerges that exploited the blindspot, then we’d need it to survive.
What was the evolutionary pressure that caused receptor orientation to be different in cephalopods that vertebral animals didn’t encounter? Or did they encounter it and have other adaptations that allowed it to deal with them.
- Comment on On Black Holes... 2 weeks ago:
The horror for me is someone suggesting the universe is made of math. Are we dualists? Idealists? What do we believe in anymore!
- Comment on A lengthy discussion was had 2 weeks ago:
Its important to take a message you don’t agree with, reduce it to a charicature, and then evicerate that. You get that gooey sense of victory and you’ve terminated any discourse or thought.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 2 weeks ago:
As dense as a vegetarian all beef burger.
- Comment on hey wallmart, this milk went bad 2 weeks ago:
Its 1 gallon or 3.78L.
- Comment on Me too. 2 weeks ago:
I lean toward agnosticism here, because I see real merits and pitfalls on both sides. If I were clever enough, I’d try to devise an experiment that cut between them—but part of me suspects that no such experiment is possible, precisely because the conceptual frame might already bias the outcome.
I’m wary of dismissing strong emergence simply because it ‘sounds like magic.’ That response risks becoming circular: we assume everything unexplained must eventually be physically explainable, since everything explained so far has been physical. But that’s not really evidence—it’s induction edging into dogma.
This is where I find Wittgenstein helpful. ‘Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.’ But silence, to me, doesn’t mean disengagement. It means recognizing that consciousness may resist the clean resolutions science is used to delivering. To turn away from that means not being rigorous. To turn away from that mystery just because it unsettles our frameworks seems to me to miss something vital about living—and thinking—at all.
- Comment on Me too. 2 weeks ago:
Weak emergence has qualities that arise from the fundamental features of the parts and the rules that connect them. For example, the shapes made by flocks of birds can be reduced to simple local interactions among the birds.
Strong emergence has qualities that cannot, even in principle, be reduced to the parts and their rules. These qualities are genuinely novel and bring powers that are not found in the constituents alone.
Strong emergence is like mixing two chemicals in a lab and, instead of producing a new compound, discovering an entirely new fundamental force of nature. Consciousness, in particular, seems to lack any physically grounded ontology. While this is a divisive claim, it is hardly original. Physicalists who appeal to weak emergence have not yet shown—nor may they ever be able to show—that consciousness is physically emergent. If strong emergence is to be taken seriously, it must be framed in a way that avoids looking like something from nothing, which would be indistinguishable from magic.
As of now, the physicalists have to demonstrate weak emergence. Failing that, we cannot dismiss strong emergence so that we don’t close the investigative and theory making space.
- Comment on Me too. 2 weeks ago:
I would be strongly emergent then. And strong emergence is basically magic.
- Comment on Honor student truth 2 weeks ago:
I agree with the bulk of what you’re saying. I think those three points are essential. I’m even a strong proponent of collaborative learning. Hell… I forgot to include a paragraph on it, unschooling, and free schooling.
I think programs like Math Circles focus on creative engagement with the material through collaboration. The instructor engages with the conversation flow and hints in directions when they get stuck. This type of engagement is crucial and requires small class sizes. My kiddo is a talker and gets labeled as an “innovator” or just “a little disruptive”.
And in no way am I suggesting making the race on to another subject, rather, engaging at different depths for subjects they’ve shown competency in or are actually bored with. Hell, this is true for all students. Different depths may be the thing that spark engagement.
I think segregated gifted classes are a mistake. In class acceleration, exploring at depth, compacting, interest led projects, and backfilling with a well educated teacher who, frankly, the kid likes goes a long way. For a while, he wanted to be a second grade teacher because she used to have very little rules and kids wouldn’t get in trouble for being themselves. She was also probably the oldest teacher at the school with the warmest disposition.
He is, to my hesitancy, choosing to accelerate into the next grade for one subject. Normally, I’d be a pretty hard no, but he has genuine excitement to do so. That and a non trivial portion of their math is on a computer. The computer is filled with crap animation and rote engagement that it slows him down which means boredom for him.
I’m a little hesitant to back tutoring especially at this age. He’s so invested in being smart that it gets in the way of being present in the way one needs to be to clarify mistakes and introduce concepts. Hell, identifying where one makes a mistake and how to guide someone back to the core concepts is a skill. And many kids need the repition to demonstrate competency. Getting a kid who just “gets it” to tutor is a mistake until they are a little older.
Kids who are gift still require unique engagement. I met a 12 year old whose math skills far exceeds my kid’s ability. He was, still at that age, trying to get me to light up with his knowledge. And I was happy to. He had the math skills I had at 16 or 17, but emotionally he was a 12 years old. He was in no way suited to teach anyone yet. But he needed to talk with people who were capable and interested in hearing what he was learning. It was a lot of fun for me to do so.
So I largely agree: well fed students with competent, connected teachers who have a class size that lets them actually connect is definitely the starting point. Part of that connection, though, is tailoring the material to the specific child’s needs and helping where they need it. Collaboration and creative exploration is also important. But each kid moves at a different speed and being supported by kids who are moving neither too fast nor too slow will create an exciting atmosphere for learning. At the same time, kids also need to see, for some of the time, how kids move at different speeds and still get the material.
- Comment on that's the question 2 weeks ago:
Proper fucking shitpost.
- Comment on Replace PBS with indoctrination 2 weeks ago:
Stay aware folks
I feel like the last two words should rhyme.
Stay aware bears… No that’s not it.
Stay awake flakes … Bah… I’m all out. - Comment on Honor student truth 2 weeks ago:
I wanted to comment because I’ve seen your comments and thought of you as a thoughtful commentator and I suspect we have similar political alignments.
My child is in an urban school district. For several school board administrations, the focus has been on equity prioritizing black and indigenous peoples. I agree with this. I think systemic racism has led to the deterioration of these communities resulting in a downward spiral that we, as a society, have to work hard and pull out of.
My child performed well enough to be invited to the alternative, accelerated program for highly gifted students. We decided noto send him as he was well integrated into his school, but his performance is an outlier in his cohort. For a number of reasons I won’t go into, his current school is a language immersion school. It is unique because it was started by the language speaking community and has operated for several decades. It takes children from all over the district via lottery. It sounds like equity at first, but there’s a limited number of people who can spare the time to send their kids to a school not in their district (bussing can help) and learn a language that isn’t their primary one. This has helped him not be incredibly bored the entire school day.
His school is a mixture that leans towards the affluent. The language community that supports the program is a “model” minority and it attracts affluent people for the reasons stated above. The school performs well in testing and their funding reflects that. Unfortunately, this has led to the worst class room ratios in the entire district and high performing children are neglected because teachers need to make sure those not meeting the norm or need the help to meet the norm are getting that help. Giving these people that help is very important. Neglecting high performers deprives them of metacognative skills.
High performers need to accelerate and be challenged in a way that is different. Their brain solve problems weirdly, sometimes rigorously, sometimes with leaps that don’t make sense to anyone but themselves. While my kid isn’t in the top ten percent of the top one percent, these kids need special attention that our system can’t provide.
All of this isn’t to say you’re wrong. I think parents perpetuate a system that lets them access the basic education that we all deserve and find perpetually underfunded.
- Comment on Bet you don't remember this 2 weeks ago:
I too remember. Why does everything hurt this morning?
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 weeks ago:
For the longest time, I’d find a tip between 15% and 20% which would result in a final total that was a palindrome. That was about 20 years ago and that’s the first thing I noticed in this picture.
- Comment on farting 3 weeks ago:
We have lost the art of smithing words.
"You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.”
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