usernamesaredifficul [he/him]

I think you would call this transductive reasoning. Rather than using information to put together a theory and work off that theory you work directly off the evidence

for example hearing a bell and dinner being ready and coming to associate the bell with dinner without ever learning why the bell means dinner

found pie in the bush, there might be pie in that bush

don’t go there

well my sex ed consisted of a man who would later that year get fired for hitting a student telling us that premarital sex will result in pregnancy and then having us perform a play I can only describe as racially charged about the subject

after being fired he went on to become a far right politician

LLMs are not the aspects of AI that are going to have the biggest impact. It will be AI based tools for evaluating data in the aid of specific tasks that has the big effect

Yeah but it’s about as relevant to running a business as a manual to use a toaster

I think cultural anti-intelectualism to some extent comes from the belief that intelectuals don’t care about their interests or wellbeing. Not helped by the historic lack of accessibility of education

I think the latter is improving somewhat

meant to read it then never actually got around to it

it’s not even relevant if they did read it. It’s an instruction manual for running an ancient chinese army

not solely by the exploitation of laborers but also through the ceaseless march of technological advancement

interesting where does this technical advancement come from?

Capital, clearly. Not a single anti communist has ever read it because they never once refute a single talking point from the actual book

Almost no one has actually read capital it’s like the Bible hugely influential but almost no one is willing to actually read the thing

Really I found them dull 1984 especially

Only one of them really struggled with the difference, and she wasn’t against learning, she just struggled. The rest handled the transition fine and didn’t do a lot of complaining that it wasn’t what they were used to

When my granddad was born everyone in his village made their money doing manual labour for the local lord. Old people have handled a lot of transition in their lives, arguably more than any generation in history. I’m patient with him not knowing how to use a computer he was alive when computers were invented

people shouldn’t have to know how computers work. Computer scientists exist to know that for them

you shouldn’t need to be a radio engineer to use a phone

that show summarised

I still catch up with him occasionally but we both got older and now we don’t have as much in common as we used to

Must have been another country

people literally say in response to police beatings that you should just obey the police. How are you free if at any moment you may be stopped and ordered to perform abitrary tasks under threat of violence

plus americans can’t even legally walk on the street

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also it’s still a disney movie they aren’t going to show gay porn or anything

well everything about american politics makes sense when you consider that the US constitution is just a bad basis for a country

the government just shutting down on a semi-regular basis for example. That’s very disfunctional and not normal