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- Comment on Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies? 1 day ago:
But that doesn’t explain why some people are way more susceptible to being stuck in a cult than others.
Personally I think it’s genetic. It’s some kind of brain feature that leads to people having beliefs that are extremely hard to change. I say this is a feature, not a defect, because you only have to go back a few hundred years to find a society where not having the right belief system can quickly lead to ostracization and death.
It’s a survival tool that has suddenly found itself in the modern informational environment and it can’t cope. See it in action and it’s incredibly tragic.
- Comment on ACkShuLly iT wAs AbOuT StATEs RiGhtS!! 3 days ago:
What’s the second picture from? A movie?
- Comment on Psychology 5 days ago:
Pure psychology research definitely has its methodological and rigour issues that cast doubt on all its findings. However I think working psychologists in industry have validated psychological methods (A/B testing) and theories (dark patterns) for making profit at the expense of users’ privacy, mental health, time, and attention.
- Comment on Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month). 5 days ago:
Not a woman but I just turned 41 recently. Here’s the secret to life from here on out:
While your body keeps changing (slowly) your mind really doesn’t. So you’re going to feel the same as you always did! This is pretty cool!
- Comment on Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives' salaries as it trims stock awards for employees 5 days ago:
They’re still working for a company that engages in mass data collection and selling people’s private info to the highest bidder. A union at the company doesn’t make that ethical.
- Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 1 week ago:
Yeah I don’t like banging my head into a wall either. What I mean by enjoying getting lost is being in a dangerous area where I don’t know how to get back to safety. It’s a mini adventure within an adventure to figure out how to escape without dying.
One game I play, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, has a built in mechanism to create situations like that: shafts you can fall down that put you into an unexplored level that’s deeper and more difficult than the one you were on. It’s pretty effective at creating these mini adventures though fans of the game complain about them all the time.
- Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 1 week ago:
Does it have an auto-map feature? That’s the biggest difference for me. I enjoy the newer MVs but the auto-map feature makes it impossible (for me) to get lost. I’m used to games without any kind of auto-map.
- Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 1 week ago:
Getting lost is definitely a love it or hate it kind of thing. I love getting lost in games. I wish more games had it as a feature. It’s extremely rare these days. Most games hold your hand like a toddler at Disneyland.
It’s okay to hate getting lost. There are loads and loads of games out there for you. I just cross my fingers for a few more games for me!
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 1 week ago:
Not sure what that means. He’s not Jesus. There’s no need to worship him! We can take the good and criticize the bad.
- Comment on 'Uber for Armed Guards' Rushes to Market Following the Assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO | Are you scared to walk down the streets of NYC and also have too much money? There's an app for that 1 week ago:
Luigi could’ve passed the screening check to become the guy’s bodyguard. Maybe he even would’ve had a better opportunity to escape.
Many, many ruthless tyrants and other nasty people have been killed by their own bodyguards over the years. And these are often guards who have been properly vetted.
How vetted are these Uber rentacops gonna be? No criminal record doesn’t mean you can trust the person if you’re some ruthless bastard with a lot of enemies.
- Comment on US fab construction costs twice as much, takes twice as long as Taiwan 1 week ago:
There’s a big cultural difference. Taiwanese workers, like Chinese, Korean, and Japanese workers as well, have a much higher tolerance for long work hours and less pay.
All of these East Asian cultures have long-standing social norms against complaining and refusing to work hard. It’s a collectivist culture of work that puts the success of the company ahead of the individual’s interests. In return, companies tend to be loyal to workers so it’s very common to stay at one company for your whole career.
We westerners used to have similar values back in the 1950s and earlier. That all changed during the counterculture.
- Comment on China berates US for changing state department language on Taiwan 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 1 week ago:
A lot of FOSS development isn’t rich developers donating their free time, it’s paid developers who were hired by their company to work on an open source project the company deems crucial to their business.
- Comment on Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps 2 weeks ago:
It is enshittification and it’s how they make money. But my point is that fixing enshittification doesn’t fix daring apps in the long term.
- Comment on Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps 2 weeks ago:
I can’t blame enshittification on this one. The dating app model doesn’t work, period. Even in the case of a completely free, non-profit app, you still have the problem that as people pair off they leave the dating pool.
The fundamental problem is that there’s a nonzero subpopulation of people who either have no interest in or are incapable of forming a stable long term relationship. As the dating pool filters over time, these folks get more and more concentrated in the population. This leads to the experience getting worse and worse for people who are interested and capable because they keep matching up with the wrong people.
- Comment on Why do the femcels and the incels not.... date each other? 2 weeks ago:
Incels don’t actually want to solve their problems. They’ve adopted them as an identity and joined a cult.
- Comment on AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them 2 weeks ago:
The issue is if those new singles enter the rough zone (full of people who have not had much success) they’re going to have a very bad experience. Probably the best experience is for then to pair off against other new singles and depart. Some will end up doing that but others will end up stuck in the mud like everyone else.
- Comment on AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them 2 weeks ago:
And that’s the point. When it works, they lose 2 customers forever.
It’s a filtering process that removes all the diamonds in the rough. All that’s left is the rough.
- Comment on AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them 2 weeks ago:
And how much do you use dating apps now?
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 2 weeks ago:
More like a brothel for sex addicts.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. The stereotype of the cokehead is the asshole trader who works at Goldman Sachs. Rookie numbers and all that…
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 3 weeks ago:
You say that now but wait till you’re sleeping in a tree (to escape the dinosaurs) and start to fall and there’s nothing to wake you! Then you’ll be sorry you wished away that “glitch!”
- Comment on Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet 4 weeks ago:
It’s also just common sense: don’t go into your calculus final stoned out of your mind!
Lots of research goes into common sense things though. Sometimes common sense is wrong.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think there’s any guarantee that civilization would rebound. Fossil fuels were a one-shot deal in the geological history of the planet. For all of our efforts to build a sustainable future with renewable energy, fossil fuels remain critical for a lot of non-energy uses: food production (fertilizers), plastics, steel, and even cements for construction.
Another major issue is critical minerals for building renewable energy infrastructure. These minerals are being mined at an incredible rate, processed and turned into technology (think circuit boards full of components), aging out, and ending up as e-waste. Unfortunately our e-waste recycling infrastructure is a total nightmare involving the shipping of this stuff across the ocean to 3rd world countries where it gets picked over, scavenged for valuables, and the rest turned into toxic landfill.
All of that technology lifecycle creates huge amounts of toxic pollution and consumes huge amounts of fossil fuels (in particular for the mining, processing, and shipping). So in fact without fossil fuels we don’t even know how to build any technology, let alone renewable energy.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 4 weeks ago:
We could witness a collapse in our high tech civilization that effectively ends AI research without necessarily leading to extinction. Think of a global warming supercharged Mad Max post-apocalyptic future. People still survive but the population has crashed and there’s a lot of fighting for survival and scavenging among the ruins of civilization.
There’s gotta be countless other variations on this theme. Global dystopian techno-feudalism perhaps?
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 4 weeks ago:
By saying this aren’t you assuming that human civilization will last long enough to get there?
Look at the timeline of other species on this planet. Vast numbers of them are long extinct. They never evolved intelligence to our level. Only we did. Yet we know our intelligence is quite limited.
What took biology billions of years we’re attempting to do in a few generations (the project for AI began in the 1950s). Meanwhile the amount of non-renewable energy resources we’re consuming has hit exponential takeoff. Our political systems are straining and stretching to the breaking point.
And of course progress towards AI has not been steady with the project. There was an initial burst of success in the ‘50s followed by a long AI winter when researchers got stuck in a local maximum. It’s not at all clear to me that we haven’t entered a new local maximum with LLMs.
Do we even have a few more generations left to work on this?
- Comment on The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. 4 weeks ago:
The most baffling thing about it is that Joe Rogan was a comedian for most of his professional life yet his show is not funny at all. The one thing I can say in his favour is that he gives his guests unlimited time and space to talk. So many interviewers talk over their guests and try to be the centre of attention I just hate it. But Rogan’s guests don’t interest me with all the kooky stuff they promote, and Rogan himself eats it all up.
- Comment on High-profile Dems warned Biden against preemptive pardons before giving Fauci, Milley passes 5 weeks ago:
Risking death for a chance at freedom. I admire their courage!
- Comment on High-profile Dems warned Biden against preemptive pardons before giving Fauci, Milley passes 5 weeks ago:
Only if they accept their pardons. I recall some inmates rejected their recent pardons on account of their desire to prove their innocence.
- Comment on LA is on fire. How will Australia cope when bushfires hit Sydney, Melbourne or another major city? 1 month ago:
Just move away from the fire zones? It’s like building sand castles among the reefs at low tide.
