BarneyPiccolo
@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
- Comment on 2 days ago:
And guitars.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
We need more cat forums.
- Comment on They're putting millionaires in the concentration camps™ 2 days ago:
First they came for the millionaires…
…and I said, “They’re right over there. Need a hand?”
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 2 days ago:
I’ve never been good at math, but it wasn’t the teachers. I wouldn’t know a good math teacher from a bad one. I didn’t know that good ones were so rare.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 days ago:
That’s because he’s an ogre who has to pay women to be artificially inseminated because, they won’t go anywhere near him, and his weener won’t work anyhow, due to botched enlargement surgery.
Just repellant.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 2 days ago:
You can have all those Trump guitars. Don’t bother leaving any behind for me.
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 days ago:
What you are talking about are Critical Thinking Skills, which is how humans are supposed to think, but it has to be taught to us, and we have to learn it, and we have to practice it until it becomes second nature to just think that way. It starts with just questioning an assertion and picking it apart on its face, to offering sources for your arguments, and insisting on sources for the other side.
If you don’t learn how to automatically apply Critical Thinking Skills, then your brain substitutes a chaotic form of thinking that could settle into anything. It’s like tossing a box of LEGOs in the air, and hoping they land as a fully constructed house.
They become easily susceptible to manipulation, because they never learn how to spot it. So a guy like Trump is easily manipulated by the most insincere flattery, a quality that surprised the Soviets on his first visit to Moscow in 1987, that they recognized his value as a Useful Idiot, and gave him the code name Krasnov.
They also take unrelated facts and connect them, filling in the gaps with “obviously logical” fabrications, and declare them the truth, and a conspiracy theory is born.
Or they become Sociopaths, because they never learned to see the value in empathy or honesty.
Or they become White Supremacists, for the same reasons.
All of them are easily attracted to sophisticated propaganda, which manipulates them by rewarding their Dopamine receptors. Their hate is literally addictive.
The only cure is Critical Thinking Skills. It’s best to adopt them early, and be able to resist the propaganda from the start. That’s the way we are supposed to think.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 3 days ago:
Valid, but that’s part of what I mean. If it finally works the way they want it to, welcome to a 75+% permanent unemployment rate, and the worker is screwed. But if it doesn’t work, the bubble pops, and the entire economy crashes, and the workers is screwed.
We’re screwed.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 3 days ago:
If this actually happens, I will dedicate my life to getting the funding to create a laser weapon that can shoot them out of the sky from Earth.
Then we’ll play Space Invaders for keeps.
- Comment on marriage update 3 days ago:
Thanks, Tom.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 3 days ago:
Valid, but no matter what the timeline, it’s going to improve over time, and companies are already committed to it, so they’ll be prioritizing continuing R&D until it does what they want it to.
It’s coming whether we like it or not, and it’s going to be a bloodbath no matter what the final scenario is. Either the workers take the hit, or the companies do, and if the companies do, then the workers will take the hit anyway.
The workers are screwed no matter what.
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 days ago:
Yeah, sometimes a date is important, and you end up remembering a lot of them anyway, but generally, just knowing the story is all you need, and that’s the fun part anyway.
Date Anxiety has kept more people from enjoying history than anything else.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 3 days ago:
I get what you are saying, but the distinguishing characteristic of the new AI, over the past computer programs, is that it learns, and improves. Years ago, people used to laugh at me for supporting solar, because it was so inefficient. I just said the research will improve it, and today solar is an extremely popular, affordable, and growing option, especially with Trump’s war profiteering.
Apparently in the AI world, they are expecting it’s capabilities to double every 7 months. I saw a list of steps, with the industries that will be impacted with each step, and as each step doubles, it impacts bigger and bigger industries.
It’s learning the basics right now, but humans are training the AI to the point that it will replace them, then the next level of humans will train the next level until replaces them, then move on to the next level to be trained.
In a few years, well all be replaced, except a lucky few who do the maintenance, but those jobs won’t pay much, because if you won’t do it for that pay scale, get out of the way, there are a LOT of unemployed people who will accept it.
- Comment on marriage update 3 days ago:
Everybody knows Father Donovan’s a got thing for Darlene. Word is she’s wild in the sack.
- Comment on marriage update 3 days ago:
Pfft, SHE can, I guess.
- Comment on marriage update 3 days ago:
Yeah, I need a LOT more clarity on this “pile-o-towels” situation. 48 hours? Is there a chamber under there? Or does the pile just press down on him? Isn’t it soggy from the rain? What if you have to pee? Or eat? Or watch TV? How is the wifi reception in there? Does he only do it when she’s getting frisky with random dudes in the house?
- Comment on marriage update 3 days ago:
He understands.
- Comment on marriage update 3 days ago:
GODDAMIT! Here I was thinking that this was a wonderful way to maturely alert the world to their new status, and in the end it just turns out to be nothing but another AD! SPAM!
I’m profoundly disappointed.
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 days ago:
I had one history prof in college who told us in the opening moments of his first class, that he didn’t really care about actual dates, and he’d never ask a date question on a test, which caused an audible sigh of relief in the room. He felt that knowing the CHRONOLOGY of events was better than the actual dates. It was one of the few insightful things I ever learned from a History professor.
Just yesterday there was a Jeopardy question about history, and I didn’t know the answer, but they gave a person’s name, and with that I was able to eliminate guesses that were after that person’s time. I didn’t know the exact dates of those eliminations, but I knew in general that they were after that person. That only left me with a few options left, and I wasn’t sure about one, so I guessed the other, and was right. It was an example of just knowing chronology was good enough.
Besides, if you need to lock down a strict fact like a date, we have a super computer in our pocket holding the entirety of human knowledge. Google it.
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 days ago:
I went to fairly small private college for Music, and all my music professors were really great, every one. Even the couple that were considered the worst were decent teachers, it’s just that some were amazing, and made everyone else look mediocre.
Once you got out of the Conservatory, and started experiencing other subjects, the quality was variable. I had some excellent profs, but also some fairly bad ones. The worst were the adjunct teachers who were only doing it for a side hustle, they generally weren’t too invested.
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 days ago:
Looks like academics should be unionizing.
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 days ago:
My son just had to write a short screenplay for a class, and he has one woman confront another with a photograph, demanding to know who is in that photo, and the accused flippantly says: “Oh that’s AI, look at the hands,” and the accuser glances at the picture and hollers “Their hands are NORMAL!”
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 days ago:
I didn’t like history, until I just sort of discovered it on my own. After that, I wondered why EVERY history teacher I ever had before or after, was so terrible at it. It’s the most fascinating subject, just stories of interesting people doing interesting things, how can you fuck that up?
And yet somehow History has to be taught in the most mind-numbingly way possible.
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 days ago:
My 26 yo son recently went back to college to get a degree that might lead to an actual job, and he is shocked at how awful the younger students are. They watch YouTube and TikTok videos in class instead of paying attention, they are openly hostile to profs’ teaching choices, they think they know everything when they clearly don’t know anything, everything is too hard, etc.
And some of the Profs are just as bad.
Covid blew a big hole in our educational system, and messed up that whole generation.
- Comment on There's nothing stopping an 8 year old child from just taking their parent's ID to do Age Verification... 3 days ago:
IF they find out.
My mom kept her purse by the door, mostly, not in her bedroom. If age verification had been an issue, I would have sneaked downstairs at night, slipped out her DL, taken a photo, and registered on whatever sites I needed.
If they sent some sort of verification to her email, I’d just log in, answer it, and delete the email. Of course I know her passwords, I showed her how to do it, and I’m always fixing some dumb thing she did.
Any kid is going to figure this out faster than me.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 3 days ago:
No, employers will REJECT all those great resumes, because they’re firing their best people, too.
All this uncontrolled giddiness about AI is entirely, 100% because they are so excited about the opportunity to FIRE as many disgusting human workers as possible. They have already declared the human workforce dead, and they are replacing us ASAP, often before our computerized replacements are even ready.
Remember all those racists chanting about being replaced? It isn’t the Jews, or the immigrants, or whatever was in their pea brains, it’s the AI/Robotics that absolutely WILL replace us.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 3 days ago:
Good, they’ll have to sell off all their shit, and we can get lots of fancy stuff really cheap at their yard sales.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 3 days ago:
AND makes life far worse for literally the entire planet.
Imagine unilaterally deciding that increasing your already obscene fortune is more important than every living creature that will ever exist in the future having a sky to enjoy, ever again. To these people, human joy is not something worth preserving.
- Comment on Get stuffed, Millhouse 3 days ago:
Twerp.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 3 days ago:
Kinda missing the point there.