4568 pts · March 29, 2019
I’d be interested in seeing what evidence supports such a strong claim about the effect on book sales in Norway?
Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉
To be clear that someone has an a strong ego is not inherently a bad thing, and is a common trauma response as a survival mechanism through the worst of circumstances.Where considering the impact of ego on self hate is more a step in healing/self improvement where a person is capable of understanding that they have developed parts of themselves that were useful tools for surviving the worst but will need to be recognized for what they truly are if the person wants to work on them.
I can’t speak to what the original artist intended to mean, but more broadly excessive self criticism is a demonstration of ego because to excessively criticize oneself that person is accepting (consciously or unconsciously) that they are so important (ego) that their perceived flaws must be held to a standard that that person would typically never dream off applying to someone else. It’s that the opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference, and accordingly hating oneself requires an ego
Nope, there’s at least 3 of us! 😂
Most AI detectors rely heavily on the assumption that the range of behaviours/mannerisms in a small homogeneous subpopulation are perfectly representative of all humans. AI detectors, particularly writing-based ones, have been repeatedly shown to misclassify people whose native language isn’t English, people with Autism/ADHD, people who use assistive devices to engage with digital tech, etc.Suggesting a purely technical solution to a sociotechnical problem isn’t a generally a good idea
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJld3h1Mnc0NG1rZWttNXN5dDNucWxxMzR3a2ZueGZ5cW1lMnJpMzl3byZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/vcKEsYOdjoCeJRpn95/200w.mp4
He sure was! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett
Where is that definition from? It seems absurd. Even using the outdated BMI standards, the minimum difference between the top range of “normal” weight range for a given height and the lowest weight that would be classified as obese for the same height is >20%
Yeah, same here. I haven’t found anything either :(
Thanks for putting this together ❤️
Exactly, “race” is a culturally defined category, not a genetic thing. Racial categories are also highly dependent on local context. (e.g. consider how broadly the US typically defines being “black”. That definition includes many mixed race people whereas in South Africa the typical definition of being “black” is much, much narrower)
American Left. The same ratings organization classifies Scientific American as being -2.00 (Left leaning). Their justification cites an ‘independent review’ that claims that many articles are written “from the perspective of critical race theory” - a dubious claim that is hardly supported by the articles cited as proof (the review also seems to claim that because studying racism in the US is controversial studying it inherently biased?) https://www.allsides.com/news-source/scientific-american
I love your posts @Sweenerd ! Thank you for sharing ❤️
If the lactic acid stayed in your muscles long enough to cause soreness they would dissolve lol - but in all seriousness it *might* cause *some* of the discomfort during/immediately after anaerobic exercise but is quickly whisked away - many of the examples in the above post are over-generalizations, in this case “lactic acid is produced during intense exercise” and “muscles are sore after exercise” are both true but one doesn’t cause the other to happen :)
^ absolutely they are a game-changer!
Oh sweet summer child…I wish we could live in the world you seem to think we live in
The societal stigma alone makes it impossible to know the “true” numbers but the proportion of people who attempt more than once is likely closer to 33% than it is 5% (https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1">-1317-z">https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-017-1317-z https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/suli.34.1.1.27772)Your point is coming from a good place but unfortunately there are many of us for whom that feeling is very much not fleeting nor does being stopped alter our experience of it.
While their certainly would have been some interracial mixing between indigenous Jamaicans and African folks, the primary reason the Spanish started to bring over slaves from Africa is that the combination of diseases like smallpox and the terrible conditions of slavery the indigenous Jamaicans were put through starting in the 1500s essentially eradicated the indigenous population.If you’d like to learn more this is a decent start https://www.britannica.com/place/Jamaica/History
The IBA is a discredited Russian organization that is probably most famous for its rampant corruption. In this case they have provided no actual evidence to support their claim about the athlete having XY, nor have any 3rd party labs confirmed these findings. Plus even if she does have XY, that by itself doesn’t mean anything - biology is weird! It doesn’t give a fuck about our human desire to sort everything into simple categories
Exactly, applicability (in this case that the orangutan can be seen as symbolic of racism) does not mean the story is allegorical (that the author, Poe, must have intentionally wrote a story about racism). Personally, I love discussing symbolism and different interpretations of stories but I do find attempting to reverse engineer “authorial intent” to be mostly sigh inducing.
You’re quite right, I should have phrased that better. Thanks for the considerate response :)
That quote is a summary of someone else’s critique of a section of one of Zinn’s books. The critique being referenced by that quote here doesn’t support the quoted claims - it argues that Zinn doesn’t use enough qualifiers when discussing historical events between 1930 and WWII - an argument that the critiquer (Plotnikoff) provides little evidence to support (though is a fair criticism regardless).Source + further reading:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn?wprov=sfti1#Reception
??? Large language models and more broadly Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI models are certainly language prediction models, and that is the current way in which most people are interacting with image/video generative AI models, but there’s nothing language-based inherent to those generative models. Just because using crude language prediction as the input for generative models is the current marketing “hotness” doesn’t mean that’s the only way to do things.
I get that people love hating on AI, but come on, “white man robbing …” is not semantically the same as “a white man robbing…” There are actual AI bias issues and it is this absolute nonsense that keeps being perpetuated instead. Just look at botdrawa’s responses to commenters on this post who used did and didn’t use the article “a” clarify the context of what the prompt is referring to. All this post is showing is our own failings in self awareness/care for truth
But it wasn’t “the day he was going to testify” it was a day where he was going to answer follow-up questions related to the testimony he has already given, alongside the testimony he has given in multiple cases over the last 7 years. His death is extremely suspicious and needs to be investigated - that investigation is not helped by ignoring information that doesn’t fit neatly into a spy novel-esque narrative. He deserves better than that
This is a classic example correlation not equaling causation. You accurately point out that these studies found that infants with exposure to animals are less likely to suffer from allergies, etc. But that does not mean that the exposure to animals *caused* the decrease in likelihood. There are too many unmeasured confounding variables to draw causal conclusions here, particularly when the differences in likelihood are relatively small compared to direct causal effects like smoking and cancer
Thank you for finding that, I appreciate it :)
Super cool! @EvilCatCreations do you know where this is from?
If you’re in the mood for more of a horror/existential vibe I’d suggest the sandman comics or if you’re in the mood for a laugh/more lighthearted adventure I’d suggest Good Omens (which he cowrote with Terry Prachett)
I’d be interested in seeing what evidence supports such a strong claim about the effect on book sales in Norway?
Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉
To be clear that someone has an a strong ego is not inherently a bad thing, and is a common trauma response as a survival mechanism through the worst of circumstances.
Where considering the impact of ego on self hate is more a step in healing/self improvement where a person is capable of understanding that they have developed parts of themselves that were useful tools for surviving the worst but will need to be recognized for what they truly are if the person wants to work on them.
I can’t speak to what the original artist intended to mean, but more broadly excessive self criticism is a demonstration of ego because to excessively criticize oneself that person is accepting (consciously or unconsciously) that they are so important (ego) that their perceived flaws must be held to a standard that that person would typically never dream off applying to someone else.
It’s that the opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference, and accordingly hating oneself requires an ego
Nope, there’s at least 3 of us! 😂
Most AI detectors rely heavily on the assumption that the range of behaviours/mannerisms in a small homogeneous subpopulation are perfectly representative of all humans.
AI detectors, particularly writing-based ones, have been repeatedly shown to misclassify people whose native language isn’t English, people with Autism/ADHD, people who use assistive devices to engage with digital tech, etc.
Suggesting a purely technical solution to a sociotechnical problem isn’t a generally a good idea
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJld3h1Mnc0NG1rZWttNXN5dDNucWxxMzR3a2ZueGZ5cW1lMnJpMzl3byZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/vcKEsYOdjoCeJRpn95/200w.mp4
He sure was! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett
Where is that definition from? It seems absurd.
Even using the outdated BMI standards, the minimum difference between the top range of “normal” weight range for a given height and the lowest weight that would be classified as obese for the same height is >20%
Yeah, same here. I haven’t found anything either :(
Thanks for putting this together ❤️
Exactly, “race” is a culturally defined category, not a genetic thing. Racial categories are also highly dependent on local context.
(e.g. consider how broadly the US typically defines being “black”. That definition includes many mixed race people whereas in South Africa the typical definition of being “black” is much, much narrower)
American Left. The same ratings organization classifies Scientific American as being -2.00 (Left leaning). Their justification cites an ‘independent review’ that claims that many articles are written “from the perspective of critical race theory” - a dubious claim that is hardly supported by the articles cited as proof (the review also seems to claim that because studying racism in the US is controversial studying it inherently biased?) https://www.allsides.com/news-source/scientific-american
I love your posts @Sweenerd ! Thank you for sharing ❤️
If the lactic acid stayed in your muscles long enough to cause soreness they would dissolve lol - but in all seriousness it *might* cause *some* of the discomfort during/immediately after anaerobic exercise but is quickly whisked away - many of the examples in the above post are over-generalizations, in this case “lactic acid is produced during intense exercise” and “muscles are sore after exercise” are both true but one doesn’t cause the other to happen :)
^ absolutely they are a game-changer!
Oh sweet summer child…I wish we could live in the world you seem to think we live in
The societal stigma alone makes it impossible to know the “true” numbers but the proportion of people who attempt more than once is likely closer to 33% than it is 5% (https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1">-1317-z">https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-017-1317-z https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/suli.34.1.1.27772)
Your point is coming from a good place but unfortunately there are many of us for whom that feeling is very much not fleeting nor does being stopped alter our experience of it.
While their certainly would have been some interracial mixing between indigenous Jamaicans and African folks, the primary reason the Spanish started to bring over slaves from Africa is that the combination of diseases like smallpox and the terrible conditions of slavery the indigenous Jamaicans were put through starting in the 1500s essentially eradicated the indigenous population.
If you’d like to learn more this is a decent start https://www.britannica.com/place/Jamaica/History
The IBA is a discredited Russian organization that is probably most famous for its rampant corruption. In this case they have provided no actual evidence to support their claim about the athlete having XY, nor have any 3rd party labs confirmed these findings.
Plus even if she does have XY, that by itself doesn’t mean anything - biology is weird! It doesn’t give a fuck about our human desire to sort everything into simple categories
Exactly, applicability (in this case that the orangutan can be seen as symbolic of racism) does not mean the story is allegorical (that the author, Poe, must have intentionally wrote a story about racism).
Personally, I love discussing symbolism and different interpretations of stories but I do find attempting to reverse engineer “authorial intent” to be mostly sigh inducing.
You’re quite right, I should have phrased that better. Thanks for the considerate response :)
That quote is a summary of someone else’s critique of a section of one of Zinn’s books.
The critique being referenced by that quote here doesn’t support the quoted claims - it argues that Zinn doesn’t use enough qualifiers when discussing historical events between 1930 and WWII - an argument that the critiquer (Plotnikoff) provides little evidence to support (though is a fair criticism regardless).
Source + further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn?wprov=sfti1#Reception
??? Large language models and more broadly Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI models are certainly language prediction models, and that is the current way in which most people are interacting with image/video generative AI models, but there’s nothing language-based inherent to those generative models. Just because using crude language prediction as the input for generative models is the current marketing “hotness” doesn’t mean that’s the only way to do things.
I get that people love hating on AI, but come on, “white man robbing …” is not semantically the same as “a white man robbing…”
There are actual AI bias issues and it is this absolute nonsense that keeps being perpetuated instead. Just look at botdrawa’s responses to commenters on this post who used did and didn’t use the article “a” clarify the context of what the prompt is referring to. All this post is showing is our own failings in self awareness/care for truth
But it wasn’t “the day he was going to testify” it was a day where he was going to answer follow-up questions related to the testimony he has already given, alongside the testimony he has given in multiple cases over the last 7 years.
His death is extremely suspicious and needs to be investigated - that investigation is not helped by ignoring information that doesn’t fit neatly into a spy novel-esque narrative. He deserves better than that
This is a classic example correlation not equaling causation. You accurately point out that these studies found that infants with exposure to animals are less likely to suffer from allergies, etc. But that does not mean that the exposure to animals *caused* the decrease in likelihood. There are too many unmeasured confounding variables to draw causal conclusions here, particularly when the differences in likelihood are relatively small compared to direct causal effects like smoking and cancer
Thank you for finding that, I appreciate it :)
Super cool! @EvilCatCreations do you know where this is from?
If you’re in the mood for more of a horror/existential vibe I’d suggest the sandman comics or if you’re in the mood for a laugh/more lighthearted adventure I’d suggest Good Omens (which he cowrote with Terry Prachett)