DupaCycki
@DupaCycki@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 2 days ago:
Personally I was never interested in GTA 6 to begin with, but this cemented my decision not to buy it under any circumstances.
- Comment on YSK that Chris Hughes, one of the founders of Facebook, says the company must be dismantled 4 days ago:
To have another reason to dream about bombing Facebook’s HQ.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 4 days ago:
I don’t know about this. He’s gotta know that it’s incredibly unlikely that he’ll live to see any profits from Venezuelan oil. It’ll take way longer than he’s got left to actually make a sizable amount of money from it.
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 4 days ago:
You are perfectly free to dislike any country, including China. But to say it’s ‘no better than the USA’ is pure delusion.
How many countries has the American Empire invaded, completely unprovoked? How many millions of civilians has it slaughtered for no apparent reason? How many elections has it influenced and how many potentially revolutionary alliances ruined?
Sure, China isn’t perfect. Perhaps it’s far from it. But there’s absolutely no comparison to be made between it and the USA. America is currently the single major obstacle standing in the way of world peace. There are others of course, but with the current USA either gone or radically transformed, they’d be relatively minor.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 days ago:
My best guess is mass riots/civil war. The main reasons why it’s not happening yet are because Trump still has a good number of supporters and because Americans are - rightfully - afraid of their police (or soldiers) killing them.
Trump is steadily losing his supporters every week, and the number of people at risk of dying due to lack of food or healthcare is increasing. If your life is at serious risk anyway, might as well get a shot at a revolution. And the more people willing to do it with you, the better the chances.
However, I’m not sure how realistic this scenario is. I’m concerned that a change of government for a slightly better one may be enough for most Americans to calm down. After all, they’re very much used to being abused by their elites, whether they realize it or not.
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 week ago:
The most common (and pretty much the only) tests don’t test any specific type of intelligence, since it’s considerably more difficult. For that kind of more in-depth examination you probably need to visit a psychologist, like you did.
As for the test you took itself, I can’t really say too much about it. It might have been personalized for you. So someone with worse access to education may receive an entirely different test. I think this is what should happen, after a reasonably thorough interview.
Hard to say precisely, and this may be beyond the scope of my current knowledge. I took psychology classes and read some books, both of which covered IQ basics in great detail, but didn’t go into specialized tests. What you’re saying is quite interesting, so I may read up on that or ask my psychiatrist.
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 week ago:
A lot of what you’re describing isn’t related to IQ or IQ tests. What I think you may be referring to are some IQ test scams from facebook. Not exactly sure.
First of all, while I personally can’t definitely judge whether IQ is a perfectly accurate measure of intelligence or not, it is one of the best documented and fundamental parts of psychology. It’s covered in great detail in any psychology textbook or class.
There are different types of intelligence, meaning five people with the exact same IQ score may or may not have similar capabilities. Some are great at ‘logic puzzles’, while others excel at more literary puzzles such as debates. Fundamentally pretty much the same concept, but for one reason or another there’s a divide there. It does not appear to be directly influenced by personal background or upbringing.
(at least the tests that have no cultural bits, the ones that include cultures also have some testing of your memory based largely on your country’s school curriculum. more on why that’s a problem later)
IQ tests are supposed to be designed in a way that is accessible to everyone, regardless of ethnicity or culture. That’s why they usually consist of very simple concepts, such as general shapes. A square is a square, whether you’re from Europe or Africa, and doesn’t require any significant knowledge to be distinguished from a circle. If a test relies on any outside knowledge (e.g., you need to know what a cat is vs what a dog is) - it’s not an IQ test, or it’s a very poor one.
what happens when during their schooling years they have to focus on surviving, instead of learning and nurturing their skills? well, they score lower, of course.
The core issue here is not about ‘nurturing skills’, because as countless studies have shown, it does not appear at all possible to raise your IQ (i.e. become more intelligent). All attempts at training people to get more intelligent either brought no results, or turned out to be false.
What’s happening in the situation you described is mostly access to healthy food, healthcare, etc. The biggest predictors of IQ are general health and nourishment. This is basically why poor people score lower. A brain can only utilize all of its capabilities when it’s supplied with sufficient nutrients and is not significantly impaired by sickness.
Of course, as many different traits, IQ can and is being used for eugenics. Basically what you said about poorer groups. It’s nothing inherently to do with IQ itself, but the result is the same.
Also, as already mentioned by some commenters, Mensa is just a degenerate group of soft, wannabe Nazis.
- Comment on I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal 1 week ago:
There’s nearly a 0% chance this ends with Trump dying/leaving office. It’s been going on for far too long and the country is rotten to the core.
To realistically fix it, you’d need several consecutive good, pro-people governments. And even then it would still be less than likely.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 1 week ago:
Will soon begin? My brother in Christ, it’s begun at least 20 years ago.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 1 week ago:
‘AI First’ means AI comes before the users, which can be true for any service. It was never an app for you. Just an app that you happened to use.
- Comment on Trumpers are *still* scheming to overturn the 2020 election 1 week ago:
So if Joe Biden is responsible for all the country’s problems… but then turns out Trump was the president all along - does he become responsible?
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 2 weeks ago:
This wouldn’t be much of an issue if most of the laptops nowadays didn’t come with soldered in ram and no options of expanding.
- Comment on It's the truth! 2 weeks ago:
Leave it to colorblind people to name everything color-related.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
Good enough I guess?
But why spend resources on useless features that nobody asked for and nobody’s going to take advantage of? Instead of, you know, implementing anything that may benefit the users?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
What if they’re bots and we’ve all been fooled?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Can confirm that Gandalf did not lie and the user in question does indeed have 0 posts and 1 comment
- Comment on Capitalism turns countries into businesses to support the lavish lifestyle of capital holders and the government into HR to silence the workers 3 weeks ago:
Hate towards capitalism has priority over rules.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 4 weeks ago:
Personally I tried using LLMs for reading error logs and summarizing what’s going on. I can say that even with somewhat complex errors, they were almost always right and very helpful. So basically the general consensus of using them as assistants within a narrow scope.
Though it should also be noted that I only did this at work. While it seems to work well, I think I’d still limit such use in personal projects, since I want to keep learning more, and private projects are generally much more enjoyable to work on.
Another interesting use case I can highlight is using a chatbot as documentation when the actual documentation is horrible. However, this only works within the same ecosystem, so for instance Copilot with MS software. Microsoft definitely trained Copilot on its own stuff and it’s often considerably more helpful than the docs.
- Comment on How Lemmy users feel when they delete their Reddit account 5 weeks ago:
Weirdly enough they still let you delete your account even when it’s been banned.
They don’t delete your account automatically, because then they can legally keep using all of your data. Once you delete, they have a legal obligation to delete almost all of that data, as per GDPR. Not sure about outside EU, but honestly it may very well be the same or similar. Sometimes it’s cheaper to implement GDPR worldwide, instead of on a per region basis.
- Comment on Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 weeks ago:
Assuming what you’re saying about the harms of consuming pornography, is it the state’s responsibility?
In general, yeah. It’s quite literally what the government is supposed to be for. When there’s a widespread problem affecting a lot of people, it’s precisely the government’s job to step in, regulate and solve it.
Is it a top priority? Do we trust conservatives to implement a solution in good faith?
These two I can agree with the answer being ‘no’. The problem isn’t that it’s not an issue or that the government shouldn’t interfere. The two main problems I can identify here are:
- The current American government (and most of the previous ones) cannot be trusted to handle this in good faith,
- There are several more pressing matters that should be addressed first.
And a bonus issue. There’s currently no sufficient and reliable infrastructure to even implement restrictions on pornography, as we can plainly see from the results of recent attempts. But this ties in to the first problem. If they really wanted to solve the issue in any capacity, obviously they’d start by building the necessary digital infrastructure.
All in all, I think you brought up important points and I pretty much fully agree with you on them. However, to me it seems like they’re not exactly relevant to the discussion. Or at least that’s not what I was trying to address.
My main goal was to refute the previous guy’s theses that pornography has no confirmed negative effects on people, especially the part about children, since it literally takes seconds to find dozens of studies on this topic. I didn’t mean to speak about whether or not the government should do anything, let alone defend the current US efforts to regulate porn, if we can even call them that. In fact, one of the studies I quoted stated that the participants did not feel a government intervention is needed, which I felt was a crucial detail to highlight.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 weeks ago:
Lawmakers don’t watch porn. They prefer to get it straight from the source, right at Little Saint James.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 weeks ago:
No offence to anyone, but this post strikes me as coming straight from a spokeperson for Aylo (formerly MindGeek). A mix of baseless claims and straight up misinformation, that happen to align with the company’s business model.
You speak as if porn sites are analogous to social media and it’s perfectly normal to record your experiences and post them online. Which it absolutely isn’t, anywhere in the world. ‘Expressing your sexuality’ and porn are entirely separate and have very little to do with each other.
It is widely known and confirmed that pornographic content comes with a broad spectrum of negative effects, especially for children and adolescents. The latter really should be common sense in 2025. Watching porn isn’t always bad and can be beneficial in some ways (as some sources below even highlight), but those cases represent a small minority.
Below are some quotes and just a few out of countless sources providing much more reliable information on the topic of pornography’s effects. I strongly recommend reading at least some, because this comment is like ignoring decades of scientific literature and traveling in time back to the 1700s.
Prolonged exposure to pornography is known to lead to habituation, resulting in blunted processing of pleasurable stimuli and greater sensitivity to negative stimuli (21). Continuous use of pornography impairs emotional processing capacity and flattens affect, reducing emotional connection to real-life sexual experiences.
Source: Impact of pornography consumption on children and adolescents
Research shows that frequent porn use hijacks the brain’s reward system and changes the brain’s structure, much like addictive substances.
This means that prolonged pornography use can weaken natural pleasure responses and reinforce compulsive behavior.
A 2014 study found that heavy porn users showed significantly reduced activity in critical areas of the brain responsible for motivation and impulse control, suggesting long-term neurological rewiring.
Source: The Hidden Cost of Pornography: How It Shapes Your Brain and Behavior
Age of first exposure was significantly associated with reported need for longer stimulation and more sexual stimuli to reach orgasm when using pornography, decrease in sexual satisfaction, and quality of romantic relationship, neglect of basic needs and duties due to pornography use, and self-perceived addiction in both females and males. (…) In the opinion of most of the surveyed students, pornography may have adverse effects on human health, although access restrictions should not be implemented.
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- Comment on idk 5 weeks ago:
So let me get this straight.
Tim wanted a better storefront, free of all the ‘slop’ that Steam is filled with.
Then he proceeds to use AI in his main game and argue against AI-use disclaimers.
Am I missing something here?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Binge reading the Bible
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 1 month ago:
Thank you for your service, comrade.
- Comment on Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging 1 month ago:
Technically true, but nobody said the code will be at all functional. I’m pretty sure I can finish about 800000 coffees before Copilot generates anything usable that is longer than 3 lines.
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 1 month ago:
The only onstacle here is ethics, which the human CEOs already lack. So what are we waiting for?
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 1 month ago:
It should be noted that user agent switchers may break some website functionalities. I guess this is true for nearly all privacy protections, though this is the only one that gave me any noticeable trouble.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
Of course, tech CEOs are just gaslighting us to get those last AI bubble dollars. But there can be a legitimate argument made here too.
It’s a classic trap many software and game developers fall into, where they keep adding more and more features to their product/service. At some point it becomes bloat and nobody uses the new features, but from the dev’s perspective they are improvements. If only corporations ever cared about user feedback and not shareholder feedback.