ToastedRavioli
@ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
- Comment on Nearly a Third of Tuvalu Residents Seek Climate Visas to Australia as Sea Engulfs Their Home 1 day ago:
Its also in pretty bad taste to talk about people losing their home as an advertisement to “tune in for the next episode”
- Comment on "Someday" is either much sooner than you think, or never 1 day ago:
Soon could mean anything, soon could be three weeks…
is that what soon means to you?
Sometimes…
then come back soon
- Comment on Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars, 2 days ago:
WW1 really was a different story. The US adopted the standards of its allies when possible, or otherwise just couldn’t use stuff from their allies. We produced things for our own use, but not for everyone on our side of the conflict. Plus WW1 was kind of a massive resource pit for everyone involved bc of trench warfare.
The fact that we couldnt share resources among allies is part of where the push for adopting a standard came from. And the reason it ultimately became the US’s standard is because the US production was removed from the conflict. Meanwhile European factories were getting bombed. Before the adoption of our standards, our allies were actually paying to establish factories in the US that would build to European standards
- Comment on [JS Required] Boeing’s Inadequate ‘Training, Guidance and Oversight’ Led to Mid-Exit Door Plug Blowout on Passenger Jet 3 days ago:
Alaska Airlines flight 1282, was climbing through 14,830 feet about six minutes after takeoff from Portland, Oregon, when the left MED plug departed the airplane
Something about the phrasing giving agency to the door plug is hilarious to me
- Comment on Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars, 4 days ago:
Without WWII the US would hardly be a relevant world power like it is today. The US minted its financial dominance in WWII by producing so much and pushing the world to adopt its standards in the aftermath. Of most everything, from goods to language. If it weren’t for that, diplomacy would probably still be conducted in French, and screws wouldn’t have 60° angle threads
- Comment on LLMs factor in unrelated information when recommending medical treatments 4 days ago:
ChatGPT is not a doctor. But models trained on imaging can actually be a very useful tool for them to utilize.
Even years ago, just before the AI “boom”, they were asking doctors for details on how they examine patient images and then training models on that. They found that the AI was “better” than doctors specifically because it followed the doctor’s advice 100% of the time; thereby eliminating any kind of bias from the doctor that might interfere with following their own training.
Of course, the splashy headline “AI better than doctors” was ridiculous. But it does show the benefit of having a neutral tool for doctors to utilize, especially when looking at images for people who are outside of the typical demographics that much medical training is based on. (As in mostly just white men. For example, everything they train doctors on regarding knee imagining comes from images of the knees of coal miners in the UK some decades ago)
- Comment on One of the big dangers of getting romantically involved with AI is the cost 4 days ago:
If it loves you, it will come back (possibly with malware)
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 week ago:
How would the methodology of the assassination be secret if they had bombed an entire apartment block? Also bombing innocent lives isnt something the Israeli government tends to be concerned about hiding
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 week ago:
My bet is on small assassination drone. People like having windows in their bedroom. Small drone flies to house, has some mechanism to break window, then blows up once inside the bedroom.
I bet it’s unpublished not because its technology of any particularly impressive degree. Its unpublished because everyday people could easily design the same thing with enough minor technical expertise
- Comment on AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You 1 week ago:
Most people work for terrible bosses, but AI in its current state would only be better than a terrible boss honestly. A good boss isnt some asshole bossing people around. A good boss is someone who knows how to lead people and get the most out of each constituent part of the team, while also helping each person theyre leading be the best they can be. A good boss is someone who has empathy, but can also be firm when appropriate, and knows how to read people well. A good boss is someone who can successfully plan work in such a way that it is most successful while simultaneously putting the least strain on each member of the team as is possible.
The problem with bosses isnt the concept of bosses. The problem is that there are 10x as many managerial roles as there are people competent and selfless enough to actually do the shit in the previous paragraph. Leadership is a position of service, not self servitude, but 9/10 people use leadership in self interest and, unsurprisingly, fail in the end. They want the check and they want to be the boss so they can put work on others. A truly successful boss can never be someone like that, because no one respects working for someone who asks them to do work that they themselves would never do (unless talking about highly specialized work where few are competent).
No one wants to work the weekend for a manager who always takes it off. Nobody wants to know that they know more about how to do their job than their boss does. All of that kind of stuff eats away at people until they go work for someone else.
I think an AI boss would obviously be better than a bad boss. But it cant replace working for someone that you highly respect and that helps you be the best you can be, which is something that often motivates people to continue working in the same job. AI would be such a neutral force that it couldnt really do that part of the job. And obviously it cant read people
- Comment on Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building? 1 week ago:
I was going to joke that Id prefer to live in a Jarlsberg, but when looking up Jarlsberg to spell it correctly I discovered its named for Jarlsberg Manor, which is in fact a building
The more you know
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- Comment on New Zealand coroner raises alarm over 'perilous' collision sport 1 week ago:
This just in, people are stupid and bloodthirsty, more at eleven…
- Comment on Right to Repair Gains Traction as John Deere Faces Trial 1 week ago:
For one, there is no such thing as a “free” market in this world that is not a controlled market. Every market has controls placed on it.
“Free market” ideology is just anti-regulation ideology, which again is antithetical to how every market in the world actually operates. Which is why being against regulation and market controls wholesale is generally very stupid
There is nothing wrong with being against certain regulations for specific reasons, thats not what Im talking about. But rather being against regulation in general and imagining all regulation as inherently bad for the economy.
In this case, consumers having right to repair would be a regulation, and therefore doesnt fit in the ideology of people who jerk it to the idea of a “free” market because they dont understand how the economy actually works. Right to repair does not exist in a free market
- Comment on If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich. 1 week ago:
If poptarts are ravioli, but also a sandwich, does that mean that all ravioli are sandwiches from the ingredient/structural rebel perspective?
- Comment on Mudita Kompakt 1 week ago:
If it was this size but thinner I wouldnt even mind. Although slightly longer and skinnier would be better.
Over $400 is a ridiculous price point though and makes the whole thing a non-starter. I get that its a minimalist product and inherently not going to be the most popular thing, but its OS barely looks better than a mid 2000s palm pilot
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- Comment on US moves to protect all species of pangolin, world's most trafficked mammal 1 week ago:
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Well I’ll be darned
- Comment on Deficit Between Minimum Wage and Annual Cost of Living of US States (OC) 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely! Plus taking zero time off whatsoever in most states, as minimum wage or near min wage jobs almost never have high quality time off benefits
- Comment on Deficit Between Minimum Wage and Annual Cost of Living of US States (OC) 2 weeks ago:
It is based on the state minimum wage, although about 10 states still have their minimum wage matched to the federal $7.25 per hour
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- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 2 weeks ago:
It’s because of that new update where they fucked up the task bar. Look what youve done, Bill
- Comment on Plato got virtually everything wrong 2 weeks ago:
Im still waiting for a link to proof we understand the origin and function of the human consciousness, since its so easy to find. Go ahead, throw me one since I cant find it myself.
Since you have no clue what youre talking about, here is a clear cut example of how we are still just beginning to understand the brain:
livescience.com/…/star-shaped-brain-cells-may-und…
Scientists are beginning to confirm that our massive capacity for memory is due to astrocytes, which we previously thought had nothing to do with memory.
Maybe you ought to question shit a bit more instead of being confident in things that experts arent even confident in. The more you know the more you realize what you dont know. And we dont know quite a few things
- Comment on Plato got virtually everything wrong 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I didnt realize scientists finally cracked the case of exactly where within the mind our consciousness resides, and the mechanisms by which it functions.
Please, by all means, link me to that info. I cant believe I missed such a critical discovery
- Comment on Plato got virtually everything wrong 2 weeks ago:
Less concerning to me is the magazine than the fact that this dude is a philosophy research fellow at the University of Kent. I cant imagine working under a guy whos arguments dont hold up to the scrutiny of anyone with an introductory philosophy education
- Comment on Plato got virtually everything wrong 2 weeks ago:
The hell is this article?
For one, he really fails to prove his main argument
on virtually every point that mattered he was disastrously wrong, and his errors entrenched fundamental mistakes that would hamper philosophy and intellectual culture forever more
Proceeds to critique the concept of the duality of mind and body as if its some kind of settled science rather than an open question. Which is really annoying considering he is trying to hammer Plato for being too rigid in thought.
Plato also established the method of defining terms by necessary and sufficient conditions (although that terminology came later). So, for example, he considered the idea that knowledge is justified true belief, meaning that for a belief to count as knowledge it is both necessary and sufficient that it is true and justified. This kind of search for strict definitions has dominated western philosophy but we now know that this is not how language works. In different ways the psychologist Eleanor Rosch and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein both described how words are far more indeterminate and that the only way to understand their meaning is to understand how they are used. The philosophers’ search for precision in meanings is like trying to draw a clear line around a fuzzy object.
It feels like this author, despite writing about philosophy, has never taken a basic course on logic. Their conclusion is hardly relevant to the argument. Could the use of words not be a fundamental perspective of what definitions it can have? In some Latin countries they have a phrase “cutting dicks” which is like “coming in hot”. Obviously there is a literal and a metaphorical interpretation to the idea of cutting dicks. The contextual use of the phrase would convey the meaning. Either way, that leaves us with no confusion as to the very clear definitions of the phrase. Despite the fact that the literal and metaphorical use are completely different, the coexistence of the different meanings does not undermine Plato’s perspective of knowledge in any way, as far as I can see.
If we wait until we all agree on precisely what justice means before trying to create it, we’ll be here until doomsday. Nor should we expect there to be one, single ideal of justice anyway. It has many dimensions, not always compatible with each other. But although we may not agree on what perfect justice looks like, we can easily agree on what counts as manifest injustice here and now. And that’s what we should focus on.
Again, this guy is killing me here. If we can “easily agree on what manifest injustice” looks like in the moment, then ipso-facto we can easily agree on what manifest justice looks like as well. I dont even agree that it is so simple for everyone to agree on what manifest injustice looks like, which would actually further his original point. But instead he shoots his own argument in the foot by not considering the inverse statement he is implying must be true. He ends up arguing basically in favor of Plato’s rigid perspective of justice. Ill also note its frustrating that he again is overly rigid in his own criticism of someone else’s logical rigidity. Did Plato argue we should sit around arguing over justice ad infinitum and never do anything, or did he argue that we can define, at least momentarily, and ideal of justice by which to enact decision making right now?
The original Socratic method is for Socrates to dictate the terms of the debate, explicitly or by cunning orchestration of the discussion, with the merely destructive goal of shredding whatever hypotheses his interlocutors propose.
While this is a fairly dramatic interpretation, a more common perspective would see the intense scrutiny of arguments as beneficial, considering it very quickly exposes logical inconsistencies. Although it is quite clear that the author is not a fan of logical consistency, so I can see why he detests a method renowned for rooting it out.
This dude should sue for a refund on his PhD program or whatever. Maybe he is better in long format, idk. But this article would hardly make good toilet paper, let alone any decent arguments
- Comment on Plato got virtually everything wrong 2 weeks ago:
Freud was just a guy who failed at finding eel genitals and moved on to the simpler task of defining the human condition
- Comment on Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
ChatGPT must adhere honorably to the rules that its making up on the spot. Thats Dallas
