I don't understand why they're trying to feed AI everything. There's too much garbage on the internet and elsewhere. If they can't make a good LLM with academic articles, Wikipedia, and non fiction books, newspapers, and magazines then they need to go back to the drawing board.
I like it when people break things.
A non exhaustive list of studies showing racism continues to be an obstacle to success for black people in the USA.
Here is a collection of academic resources outlining the ways that African Americans continue to face obstacles to success from racial discrimination in almost every category of society. This list represents a small portion of my free time. It merely scratches the surface of the available evidence.
A quiet place on the Moon. SETI scientists gather to plan for a listening station on the far side of the moon.
A SETI observatory on the moon was impossible due to costs. Now, commercial spaceflight is dramatically reducing the cost of bringing a payload to the moon and that is beginning to fuel a renaissance in lunar astronomy.
X-post from c/science
Debt the first 5000 years is one of my favorite books. Graeber will be missed. He was so insightful.
Most of them are fine. I'm just particular about Tu Quoque. I bring that one out alot since arguing with climate deniers is a bobby of mine. They love to appeal to hypocrisy.
Exactly. Non profit. I don't recall seeing that in this article. I don't think it matters what the business model is. If your social media is a for profit company their interests aren't the same interests as the user.
We need non profits who will monetize ethically just enough to sustain the operations. Particularly cooperatives. Social media doesn't need to be profitable. It just needs to exist and serve it's users.
I don't really like the explanation for Tu Quoque. Tu Quoque is an appeal to hypocrisy. For instance you want me to believe in climate change, but you drive a car or Al Gore flies private jets.
Whether or not something is true doesn't require the person telling you about it to have a lifestyle that's perfectly aligned with that information. You can be a hypocrite and correct. I would prefer to be a correct hypocrite than an incorrect non-hypocrite. At least the hypocrite knows there's something that needs to be done.
I also prefer false choice or false dichotomy over black and white for that one, but that's just me being picky. Black and white is just as good a descriptor for it. I do really like the infographic. It's nice to have them all in one place.
What specifically about being a Marxist Leninist is so bad that it warrants lumping them in with racists? I'm not an ML and I disagree with them on a number of things, but they're no Nazis. I looked around I didn't see anything particularly repugnant.
If he gets convicted I'm popping a bottle, but I'm not holding my breath. One maga on the jury and the chances of justice go down considerably.
I'd agree, but I think the international publicity will balance out the corruption. They're going to lose a lot of face if the corruption is so bad they can't even deliver justice when the whole world is watching.
Federal public defenders are world class so he's going to get a fair trial regardless.
Only if you drop all nuanced analysis of what fascism is and just define it as authoritarianism. I don't like authoritarian communism, but I don't think it makes sense to describe it as fascism.
All fascists are authoritarians, but not all authoritarians are fascists. It's possible, albeit not very self aware, to be a left wing authoritarian antifascist.
I didn't realize lemmygrad was tolerating hate speech over there. That's fucked up.
I'm glad they see the uselessness of being non confrontational, but I'd like to see them at least implicitly endorse breaking things.
It looks like this year is going to be a stand out year for bad news on climate change.