Atheists aren’t claiming to have positive proof of the nonexistence of God.
The term means that someone has not seen convincing evidence for God’s existence.
Likewise, I wouldn’t say I’m agnostic about Russel’s Teapot or any mythical idea because that terms tends to imply that you find the existence and nonexistence of the thing to be comparably likely.
People will be training AI on their ex’s face to show how unhinged they are. Anyone could make pictures for divorce or custody battles that depict the other party like this.
And if they dismiss it as AI that’s a whole other problem. Actual pictures will mean nothing.
Ted started off as a smart guy, but the MKULTRA abuse he experienced left him with a broken ideology.
Many parts of his manifesto are problematic, and I hope people don’t think it’s good theory.
Some excerpts:
The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.
The leftist seeks to satisfy his feeling of inferiority by cultivating attitudes of superiority. He is not the only one to do this, but he is the one who goes furthest in this direction.
Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good, and successful.
The leftist is not typically the kind of person whose feelings of inferiority make him a braggart, an egotist, a bully, a self-promoter, a ruthless competitor. This kind of person is too eager to seize the initiative and too insensitive to feel guilty for his aggression. The leftist is as prone to manipulating others as the more right-wing person, but his main goal is to avoid straining his own conscience.
Ted also has some jabs at reactionaries, but he’s not a leftist for sure. There’s better literature out there, from an actual leftist perspective that people could be reading instead.
The ACA was the catalyst to many people seeing their hours cut, and those that did get healthcare were often stuck with HMOs that hired doctors directly instead of letting people find independent providers.
The ACA was designed so that people would get a warped idea of what public healthcare was, and ask for a repeal. The whole thing was an OP.
Implementing actual universal healthcare, like every other developed nation, was the right answer. Now that is harder than ever because most people aren’t policy experts and this has made it harder to explain what good healthcare actually is.
Colleges act like Scientology in the states. Equating education with how much money you’ve handed them.
Meanwhile anything can be learned online, but it counts for nothing because corporations treat purchases credentials as the only legitimate form of “education”.
I’ve met more people that simply have the “I don’t know, who cares?” attitude than people who actually ask questions and discuss issues, with some sort of articulateable reason for why something happened.
It’s not an age issue, some people overthink everything when their a kid and older, while other people can’t comprehend why anyone would want to ask questions.
Then why does the National Longitudinal Study of Youth show that people who do well on IQ tests at a young age do so much better later in life? They make higher incomes and are less likely to be imprisoned.
This is after controlling for race, or income. People with higher IQ scores do better than people of the same race with lower scores. Among high-income people, those with higher IQs do better. Among the poor, high IQ people end up better off later in life than those born in the same conditions.
Each time IQ comes up here, everyone ignores that study. The NLSY ahs been done on multiple cohorts, and shows the same results each time.
Usually the response is just to call people names like “racist” despite this factor being show within the same race.
Using that same logic, Hitler was a vegetarian, so vegetarians must be racist.
Or, a more mature response, sometimes real things get misused by racists. IQ test predict performance with the same self-identified racial groups, so what explains that? It can’t be racism, since they are the same race.
The youngest of the cohort in 1979 was 14, since segregation was only officially ended in 1965, it once again seems more likely the legacy of segregation and America’s continued racist culture had a larger impact on outcomes than IQ test scores to me.
Everything in this ignores what I said in my first comment: this persists within the same racial group
Segregation explains nothing about why people of the same race would perform differently based on IQ scores when they were young.
the National Longitudinal Study of Youth doesn’t even test for IQ, this has been a waste of time.
Yes it does, it’s one of the most widely cited studies for IQ research. My uni had the class do a research project based on this study, you might just be looking at the wrong page.
Would it have been too controversial? (startrek.website)
Why does such a large portion of lemm.ee want to block hexbear.net? And, how can Hexbearians improve?
Greetings dear lemm.ee folks,...
Ten points from Griffindor!! (mander.xyz)
Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?
If so, was it polled somewhere?
I heard there will be a fediverse messenger. (lemmy.ml)
Hasn't happened yet (lemmy.sdf.org)
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This public university just announced massive layoffs. Is all higher ed at risk? (therealnews.com)
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i guess sneerclub must just hate understanding things. yes, that must be it. (www.lesswrong.com)
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (medium.com)
Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.