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danmcquillan
danmcquillan
@danmcquillan@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

All the noise about alignment from the advocates of 'AI Safety' is completely specious because AI already aligns with the hierarchical dualisms that shape our society at the deepest levels, especially misogyny, racism and a contempt for nature.

Rene Raggl 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
Rene Raggl 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
@rraggl@mastodon.nl replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@danmcquillan One of my main points against #AI; It is trained by fallible humans, with fallible, false, problematic and often outright wrong or offensive data.

Why do people keep expecting it to be perfect? It's a #fallacy of epic proportions. If humans are misogynistic (or misandric), racist or in other ways biased, how the heck do you expect such a model not to be those things?

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Hacker News
Hacker News
@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy

https://kyo.iroiro.party/en/posts/100-percent-lisp/

#HackerNews #Extensibility #Lisp #Fallacy #Programming #HackerNews

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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Does faulty thinking tend to be faster?

People often fell for lures more quickly (than they realized the correct answer) on cognitive reflection and conjunction #fallacy tests, but this reversed in gambler's fallacy tasks: lured responses took longer.

🔓 https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.70025

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Mouse Cursor Movements in Cognitive Bias Tasks Reveal Underlying Processing Differences

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Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
@rolle@mementomori.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

"So here's the catch. If you have the power of geoengineering to turn Mars into Earth, then you have the power of geoengineering to turn Earth back into Earth."
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and writer

#ClimateChange #Terraforming #Mars #Earth #Billionaires

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Video clip of showing Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and writer speaking, transcript: Climate change will not make earth uninhabitable. Climate change will make earth a living hell. In fact, I live in New York city where in our harbor we have the statue of liberty and she is holding the declaration of independence in her left arm and her right arm has the torch. The melting ice on land? The ocean level will rise to reach her left elbow. So that takes out all of New York city and basically every other coastal that we've spent tousands of years building since the dawn of civilization. So life will be very very different. So the way I look at it there is people who want to colonize other planets, give us an escape route. We trashed earth, let's move elsewhere and hope we don't trash that. Well, there aren't many places to move. You'll vaporize on Venus, so you're not going to Venus. Mars rotates once every 24 hours. That's kind of interesting. It's tipped on its as earth is, which means it has seasons, it has polar ice caps the way we stil do at this moment, and there is evidence of running water on its surface. So there's a chance we could terraform Mars. My favourite word over the past few decades. You turn something that is not Earth to something that's like Earth. Then you just move there. So here's the catch. If you have the power of geoengineering, to turn Mars into Earth, then you have the power of geoengineering, to turn Earth back into Earth.
65dBnoise
65dBnoise
@65dBnoise@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago
@rolle
Yeah, unfortunately that's a #fallacy and deGrasse Tyson knows better, but chooses hypotheticals like "if you have the power". It's like trying to land on Mars but only managing to skid on the outer atmosphere and never entering it.

The #climateCrisis is inherent to the system that's created it. Expecting that the same system that owes its existence to exploitation of resources and people will now act against its own interests and… save the planet, is just very bad #fiction.

#hype

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Johannes Ernst
Johannes Ernst
@j12t@j12t.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

We need to separate identity from servers in the ActivityPub world. It's time. I should be able to have a single identity and use it with lots of servers from Mastodon to Lemmy and beyond.

Then, various instances could reflect different communities with different people in them, different features and policies.

This also would elegantly solve the "instance selection paralysis" in @tchambers 's Deadly Fediverse UX sin #1.

Fortunately @benpate is starting to assemble people to solve this.

Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻
Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻
@mro@digitalcourage.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Hi @j12t @tchambers @benpate,
isn't #discovery without #webfinger (hostnames and dns in effect) a #fallacy and thus #centralisation in disguise?

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doctorambient
doctorambient
@doctorambient@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 12 months ago

"Common sense" is what you invoke when you cannot support your beliefs with either "real arguments" or "real data."

Common sense is the noise that comes out of you when all you've got is the vague sense that you must be right--somehow?--but even *you* don't know why you think that.

Common sense is a slogan for shutting down arguments without having to know or prove anything.

#bullshit #stupidity #apocalypse2025 #uspol #reasoning #reason #trump #conservatives #politics #fallacy #cognitivebias

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