Interesting to see how that changes the dynamics of people in the field. Phenomenology as a ”hard science” has always been a slightly problematic concept.
With different types of people now starting to wrestle with the same topics, we might get some incontestable replicatibility onto the field. Or maybe not, but interesting times nevertheless!
@TruthSandwich@alberto_cottica In quashing extremism two parties are indeed better than one. The two parties instead are most often preferred by your first-past-the-post voting system. Fractional representations are indeed at risk of one-party results, like has happened in Hungary. Generally though, the result is a more balanced view where minorities tend to get representation also.
Well, the advantage of a parliamentary system is that people get to vote for a party that closes matches their views, even when those views are extreme. This keeps the lunatics happier, even though their fringe parties wind up with minimal power.
The disadvantage, as shown by Hungary, is that parliamentary governments can be very unstable and the extremists can take over.
@gimulnautti
Nope, he is not eligible for the #DarwinAwards because of the first rule and the definition. He already contributed to the gene pool by having two children.
@gimulnautti My hubby says the guy was wasted by his own hubris, like Icarus, and that he literally went down in a crushing defeat.
I.e., the submersible would have imploded and crushed everyone into little bits. I have no idea if this is how ocean depths work, but it is certainly gruesome to imagine.
Tässä oikein mainio näkökulma ja raikas tuulahdus tähän nykyiseen yhteiskunnalliseen keskusteluun.
Kulttuurisodan taustalla on oikeasti todella pahaan jamaan kurjistuva USAn työväestö.
Mutta vallankumouksellista sisältöä ei tule heiltä, vaan eliitiksi eliitin paikalle pyrkiviltä.
Historiassa vallankumoukset toteuttaa aina eliitti. Kansalle jää välineen rooli, niinkuin nytkin, jos USAn eriarvoistuminen jatkuu ja kakka tosiaan osuu tuulettimeen.
Kyl alkaa mennä aika lailla liian pitkälle, että rokotevastustajat alkavat stalkkaamaan tiedemiehiä ja ilmestyvät kotiovelle vaatimaan debaattia, ja sen perään maailman toisiksi rikkain mies sekä maailman kuuluisin podcastaaja kaatavat bensaa liekkeihin. Sanoisin että this is not fine. 🤬
Do you want to live in a world where true satisfaction and sense of meaning belong only to the exceptional? I, for one, do not. What a miserable world that would be.
Greenpeace issues statement about potential danger to depleted nuclear fuel storage area from dropped water levels due to Nova Kakhova dam destruction.
In my opininion here is the real power of current-level #LLM’s: Declarative #programming via close-to-natural language type prompts.
It’s not just productivity, so many more people can get into programming now! No need to understand loops, branches, conditions! It’s all doable by natural language.
You only need to dabble a bit in states and data storage structures. Just wonderful!
I do think it’s fair for companies like #reddit and #twitter to get their money back on what it costs them to provide access to their data. They normally monetize that when you access it through their own app.
But how much is appropriate? This is still data they didn’t create. The users created this data and to have it locked behind paywalls is morally questionable.
It also hurts the network effect, because links to that data become costly.
@gimulnautti
Estimates seem to say that the loss of per-person revenue would require an API price of ~1% of the level they have set.
I bet also that a disproportionate share of their prolific contributors access through third-part apps. Cutting off app access will impact content creation.
@jannem By charging more than it costs them, ie making a profit, on #api access, it seems the companies are building walls around their data.
They are afraid of third party developers circumventing the #advertising they run.
But in the long run it also hurts them, because having that data be a fortress on the hill with tollbooths on the way, less people are going to go there.
Their play is to stay giants.
”F**k the i#nternet, we are it”, is what they are essentially saying.
@websick of course, perfect privacy requires no information to be collected to begin with.
There is no way to square that circle.
But the same meganetworks already collect vast amounts of information on us, and are able to infer that knowledge nevertheless, even if we don’t give it directly.
So it becomes a question of balance: Do we have direct control, or does the network have indirect control?
@websick The age of perfectly fakeable human relationships is just around the corner.
Strong identification might be a small price to pay for being able to tell apart man and machine, when the machines can tell you for who you are just from the data you leave laying around.
Mary-Jane Rubenstein gets super deep in the proverbial weeds here. And it’s very clear, even if we forget it most of the time:
To #exploit the #environment as ”resources” is ultimately a #christian thing to do. The #theologism that prepared us to think that way is right there in the first book of the #bible, Genesis.
#God gives the earth to humans to do as they please with, and places humanity above the rest, separate from it.
More on the importance of religion in how societies & moralities are built here. The case I often make myself is made also:
To become Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and Democratic, we really had to go through a long pipeline of first #abrahamic religion to give us the axis of destiny, and then from catholicism to protestantism to move us to the primacy of intent and the individual.
Trusting the stranger is at the root of what enables large-scale co-operation.