Not_Alec_Baldwin @ Not_Alec_Baldwin @lemmy.world

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The shop had an un-clearable red alert notification any time they released a new skin for your character chat.

The only way to clear it was to open the shop and scroll to find the new item and click on it, opening the store page. Then when you backed out it would go away.

You had to do this for every single item that was released.

Maybe I'm neurotic or autistic or OCD or all three but those stupid red alerts trigger me and I need to clear them all to keep playing the game.

I don't even want the fucking store in my game. Give me an option to turn it off for fuck's sake.

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Gentrification comes from the root word "Gentry" referring to the upper or ruling class.

It's literally the upper class moving in, displacing the lower or middle class. The word is classist by definition.

...but I paid full price for D4 and still got a half baked game with an invasive in-game shop.

So does any single streaming service.

Streisand effect.

It's not "not-quite-self-driving" though, it's literal garbage. It's cruise control, lane assist and brake assist. The robot vision in use is horrible.

There are Tesla engineers bad mouthing the system openly.

Musk is a scammer and they need to issue an apology for all of the claims around autopilot, probably pay a great deal of money, and then change the name and advertising around it.

Oh, and also this guy should never drive again.

It's insane talking to people that don't do math.

You ask them any mundane question and they just shrug, and if you press them they pull out their phone to check.

It's important that we do math so that we develop a sense of numeracy. By the same token it's important that we write because it teaches us to organize our thoughts and communicate.

These tools will destroy the quality of education for the students that need it the most if we don't figure out how to reign in their use.

If you want to plug your quarterly data into GPT to generate a projection report I couldn't care less. But for your 8th grade paper on black holes, write it your damn self.

You need to earn my trust if you want me to pay.

Many of these legacy media outlets are demanding Netflix-level fees for fanfic-level content.

I've started going down this rabbit hole. The takeaway is that if we define intelligence as "ability to solve problems", we've already created artificial intelligence. It's not flawless, but it's remarkable.

There's the concept of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or Artificial Consciousness which people are somewhat obsessed with, that we'll create an artificial mind that thinks like a human mind does.

But that's not really how we do things. Think about how we walk, and then look at a bicycle. A car. A train. A plane. The things we make look and work nothing like we do, and they do the things we do significantly better than we do them.

I expect AI to be a very similar monster.

If you're curious about this kind of conversation I'd highly recommend looking for books or podcasts by Joscha Bach, he did 3 amazing episodes with Lex.

I mean, to be fair, it's also a business strategy on the Internet.

It's not just the material, it's the specific weave too I think?

I'm not originally heat tolerant, personally, so when I visited Cuba I brought a lot of linen clothes and they did wonders. Just pants and tunics, and a brimmed hat. I looked like a drug lord but never overheated.

Yo, this is amazing. Yep I was completely wrong about social darwinism. I either made up the definition myself based on my understanding of Darwin, or had someone explain it to me wrong and never questioned it.

Thanks for the correction!

I agree that people throw terms like smart/intelligent around incorrectly, and often try to "sound smart", and I cringe at those things too.

...but you're also asserting that intellectual capacity doesn't exist and that is incorrect, or at least incomplete.

--TL;DR-- Intelligence is valuable and varies between people but it seems like everyone has the ability to be intelligent given the right conditions. The taboo around intelligence prevents us from getting underperforming kids the help they need.

The important truth is that we don't fully understand what contributes to intelligence.

We know that motivation is enormously important. The difference between being offered $1 and $10 explains something wild like >10 points on an IQ test. https://www.science.org/content/article/what-does-iq-really-measure

We also know that mental health and emotional state makes a big difference. So everything impacting mental health would contribute. https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-020-0372-2

These factors alone mean that our intellectual performance can change from moment to moment.

Another important distinction is that there are two kinds of intelligence, fluid and crystalized. Fluid intelligence is our ability to solve moment-to-moment interactions, and new and novel problems. Crystalized intelligence is the ability to take foundational principles that we've already been exposed to and use those to solve secondary, abstract, or complex problems. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_and_crystallized_intelligence

That second one is almost entirely based on the types of problems we've been exposed to in our lives, meaning that it's impacted by our previous behavior and our circumstances (which are largely out of our control).

We have no reason to believe that intelligence is some kind of immutable genetic trait that some have and some don't - in fact that's largely been debunked as far as I know.

However, the controversial field of behavioral genetics has demonstrated that a large percentage is our personalities and behaviors are impacted by our genetics. This would be an indirect factor. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/201509/what-behaviors-do-we-inherit-genes

Where does this leave us?

A person may be more genetically predisposed to being hard working (trait conscientiousness), which may make them more likely to apply themselves to work and education, meaning that they have a higher intellectual capacity. Or, they may just follow instructions without thinking and have a lower intellectual capacity.

A person may experience an event that makes them highly value health, motivating them to become a doctor. Or they may behind afraid of medicine and avoid the subject altogether.

Similarly, a person may be told that they are stupid and that they will never amount to anything. They may believe it and give up, and never apply themselves. Or they may defy it and work harder to prove it untrue.

Your genetics and your circumstances don't determine what you will be capable of. However, they do have an impact. Ignoring that would be an enormous mistake.

Having two mentally healthy parents in a stable home with many books and many adults that care about you in your community will give you a better chance at scoring higher on IQ tests.

Having a single parent that's drug addicted and bouncing from home to home with no books and no caring adults in your community gives you a lower chance of scoring higher on IQ tests.

Higher IQ is correlated with a whole bunch of benefits, like having higher income and life expectancy.

The original implementation of IQ was to identify which school children needed intervention to help them succeed. It was never supposed to be an indicator of human value. That we've done that to it is a shame. It's basically the best tool that we have to figure out which kids need the most help.

I haven't found research that confirms raising IQ improves outcomes. But I have a hard time believing that helping kids learn (if they wanted the help, at least) would hurt their outcomes.

End rant.

Edit: oh, and the belief in intelligence as an immutable genetic trait is only social darwinism if higher intelligence makes people more likely to reproduce, which it doesn't. That's the premise behind Idiocracy. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25131282/

Anyone that looks at a symbol and assumes what it means to you is an asshole.

People can look at your symbol and be offended, or be reminded of traumatic events (swastika), but humans are fascinating, deep, beautiful and awful creatures and it's always a bad idea to assume you know why someone else is doing what they are doing.

I DO believe that there's a correlation between hyper-patriotism and hyper-aggression here right now, but I hope it's a passing trend.

I don't know if you're understanding that that's his point.

If Google can reproduce the key it's not fully "end to end" unless one of the "end"s is Google.

Signal killing text support killed Signal for me. Sadge.

Graphene is amazing. I regret not getting into it sooner.

Are you suggesting that the amount a person spends on housing doesn't impact their purchasing power? No wonder you don't think it's declining.

Rent has jumped by 100-200% every 20 years since the Great Depression.

Companies have started shifting to shrinkflation because they realized that raising their prices was so unpopular with their consumers.

All of these things need to be considered and don't get measured by CPI.

The way cpi is measured makes it a flawed indicator. It's essentially been designed to minimize the appearance of inflation.

https://www.brightworkresearch.com/how-accurate-is-shadowstats-on-the-understatement-of-us-inflation-with-the-new-cpi/

Pick a period and do a median-to-median comparison of income to expense. Rent/home price, tuition, groceries, direct item-to-item is usually bad.

Then consider the new expenses many people take on. A cell phone every few years, a laptop, the cost of recreation.

Most people are in a horrible position compared to any period in the last century.

Don't get me wrong, many many things have improved. But economic outlook is NOT one of them.