yesman

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[–] yesman 4 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I read the abstract, and the connection to your title is a mystery. Are you using "grock" as in "transcendental understanding" or as Musk's branded AI?

[–] yesman 1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

So, horseshoe theory?

[–] yesman 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So they do the minimum required by law?

[–] yesman 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IQ is eugenics. It was developed by eugenicists to do eugenics. It's not just a matter of controlling for bias, the whole endeavor is a logical fallacy (reification).

It's a bad instrument and should be abandoned.

[–] yesman 2 points 1 month ago

The biggest difference between Joe Rogan and Sam Harris is that Harris ought to know better. Platforming scientific racists like Charles Murry is the opposite of intellectual inquiry.

It's motherfuckers like him who've turned the skeptic community into safe spaces for open bigotry. And worst of all, he's known to impersonate a philosopher.

[–] yesman 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Considering the level of protection the Secret Service provides, candidates are safer riding in an osprey than giving a speech.

[–] yesman 61 points 1 month ago (8 children)

There is nothing more American than being in traffic. You're never more in touch with a systemic failure, yet we blame it on the choices of individual drivers, all the while unaware that we're part of the problem.

[–] yesman 27 points 1 month ago

People are focused on how Vance's comments are insulting to women, but I haven't seen much talk of the sick combination of Catholic doctrine, free market ideology, and psudoscientific bio determinism that underlies this "mystery" of how women don't just die at menopause.

The core assumption for these people is that human worth is determined by how much one contributes to society. When you think of it, this is totalitarianism that would embarrass Stalin, enslaves everyone to the State, and is straight out of Mein Kamph. Peeling away the layers of euphemism and plausible deniability, this is the concept of the "useless eater", something necessary if not sufficient to building death camps.

[–] yesman 33 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Microsoft flamed out of the mobile OS space precisely because they insisted that Windows not fork, but be identical software running on all devices.

So now, there is no such thing as a windows phone, but every time I wake up my computer I see a vestigial lock screen that I have to dismiss before I log in.

They designed their phones like a company entitled to 85% of the market share. Something tells me they're not going to reform just to capture that mobile game space.

[–] yesman 81 points 2 months ago (5 children)

During the cultural Revolution, the Chinese army adopted a pistol with a smaller caliber because constant use of the standard issue was causing wrist injuries to the executioners.

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