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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:13AM (#44517480)
I joined it about 6 months ago and absolutely love the ~uncensored free for all nature of it!

And while the format and content varies in many ways from other sites, one thing they all have in common is millions of humans who cannot distinguish facts from personal opinions. I do not know why but I am absolutely fascinated by the phenomenon, and on Twitter/X you can discuss such things fairly seriously, at least with some people.

Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal on Thursday February 06, 2025 @11:30AM (#42963988)
Out of curiosity: in your model, can something be kind and unkind simultaneously?
Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed on Thursday February 06, 2025 @10:46AM (#42963470)
It is very funny how humans experience reality eh? Like, the literal assignment of a word to something can cause the representation of it in a person's mind (aka the reality) to change. Also weird: it is essentially not possible to talk about the phenomenon in a serious way (participants range of possible actions become highly constrained, and therefore highly predictable).

I really wonder if this normative phenomenon will be able to survive in the age of AI.

Re:S1: The $6 R1 Competitor? on Thursday February 06, 2025 @10:06AM (#42963051)
A more parsimonious explanation: consciousness is generative, like an LLM. And, according to cultural conditioning, this generated scenario is referred to as reality.

I like this version for at least two reasons:

1. It is 100% compliant with large quantities of scientific findings (psychology and neuroscience), whreas I believe yours has a conservation of mass problem at least

2. Everyone dislikes it at least in certain scenarios (say, when reference is made to it during an object level disagreement)

Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:41AM (#42962790)
When someone is hired into a professional job, is there something in the laws of physics that prevent them from doing wrong?
Re:Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:34AM (#42962695)
Rare is the individual who does not make numerous errors while engaging in fact checking, in no small part because of our cultural norms of cognition.
Re:Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:23PM (#42956826)
"Now" is a point in time.

I used a very unpopular meme though, so unpopular you may not be able to see it.

Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:20PM (#42956790)
As a fan of irony, many thanks!
Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:20PM (#42956780)
You seem to realize you are making a prediction, at least to some degree, now.

However, that one has the capability sometimes is no guarantee that they can do it at all times, or even on demand.

Consciousness is generally not considered to be a part of the stack, despite it being the majority of it.

Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:19PM (#42954535)
Have you considered the interpretation process within reading?
Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:18PM (#42954516)
>Arguing about the meaning of what Damore wrote, and what he thought/intended, is a huge waste of time. Just about everybody who read it comes to a different interpretation of what he meant to imply.

Studying the literal fundamental nature of reality doesn't seem like a waste of time to me.

Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:16PM (#42954502)
This = hallucinating reality.

Now: in what way will you avoid addressing the point (if you do reply)....will it be in the heart of the distribution as usual, or can you generate an anomaly....

Re:S1: The $6 R1 Competitor? on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:15PM (#42954481)
It may have been in the form of a joke, but I certainly wasn't joking.

I think it is interesting what actions cannot be done by humans.

Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:12PM (#42954460)
>Your post added nothing to the conversation except insults though.

You are describing your experience, but stating it as if it is a universal fact.

A relevant post from this morning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946854

Re:S1: The $6 R1 Competitor? on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:28AM (#42949844)
Is this a clever rhetorical trick to make it appear that your prior claim was correct?

If not: what am I intended to take away from this? What is its relevance to my comment?

Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:21AM (#42949700)
It isn't possible for you to know this.
Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:19AM (#42949675)
The paper "is pedantic" and rejected by everyone except "pedants".
Re:The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:16AM (#42949629)
Your reductionist, pejorative mischaracterization of the details of this situation is also problematic.

But don't worry, there's no requirement for you to improve your cognition, only other people are obligated to do that.

Re:S1: The $6 R1 Competitor? on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @10:04AM (#42949404)
"...there’s no reasoning involved...wait, could I just be succumbing to my heuristic intuitions of what is (seems to be) true....let's reconsider using System 2 thinking..."
Re:Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech on Friday January 31, 2025 @10:01AM (#42888330)
Just now: "Perception is reality".

Now, can you transfer some of that impressive courage toward the task of answering the question I posed to you?

>So, back to the old "white guys only" astronaut hiring policy of the moon landings era?

Do you have any control over this?

Is this based on a quote from management?

How did they measure who didn't want to work with him, did they survey the entire company?

>As things get worse, theres going to be even more incitement with utterly fabricated content.

Speaking of fabricated content, are you describing the actual future or a simulation of it?

Re:Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech on Thursday January 30, 2025 @03:32PM (#42881890)
Have you something even remotely resembling a proof for this set of rather interesting claims of fact?
Re:Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech on Thursday January 30, 2025 @03:31PM (#42881877)
Have you some impressive evidence for that?
Re:Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech on Thursday January 30, 2025 @03:31PM (#42881873)
This is a similar but different statistic.

I suspect "close enough" is adequate here though :)

Re:Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:28AM (#42877984)
How many believe that?
Re:Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech on Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:21AM (#42877907)
>Journalism as a well-funded, independent, competitive market for news is the cornerstone of any democracy.

A cornerstone. Another cornerstone is popular memes like this, our culture is composed of thousands of them, and they control how we think.

And most people "choose" which of the two they will use depending on which best serves them under the given circumstances.
It doesn't surprise me that someone who has this thinking style is also able to outperform those who do not in certain domains.

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