Windex007 @ Windex007 @lemmy.world

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And what if I called a rose a stinkweed?

I think it's a completely valid criticism, and I agree with the critism.

I just think semantic hang-ups are really... Exhausting and of minimal value. Terrible ratio.

Extend the principle of charity, hurdle it, then get to the meat.

I think there is and always has been massive contention in even defining intelligence. Is it the same as wisdom? What about being smart? Are these all the same thing? How does experience inform success in general problem solving? What even IS a "general" problem?

I think it's still a valuable tool to assess peoples ability to recognize and apply transformations, implications, boolean operators, and arethmetic sequences.

But the idea that it provides some insight into the innate nature of a mind is preposterous. You CAN study for an IQ test: exactly the 4 things I mentioned are things you can study, and once you've mastered you'll be sitting on a 160+ result.

So, the base underlying assumption that these things are not learnable. That is wrong.

But, the idea that mastery of implication, transformation, boolean operators and arethmetic sequences don't provide a foundational system for certain tasks is also maybe not quite right either...

A 100m dash time probably loosely correlates to some abstract measure of "athleticism", which may correlate to success likelihood for certain tasks. IQ correlates to some abstract measure of pattern recognition, which may correlate to success in certain tasks.

To your point that the designers intended it to be a measure of the abstract notion of innate intellectual capacity, yeah maybe that was the attempt. Maybe that's how they pitched it. It isn't. Tough shit.

But that doesn't suddenly imply it's nothing.

Like most things (a degree, years of experience, SAT score, story points, Myers-Briggs etc etc) capitalism has completely fucked them. Business is so fucking lazy they just want to boil down assesment for suitability to enumerable values on a form. Just because metrics are inappropriately used and abused by capitalism doesn't mean they're not measuring something.

So, this was a super lengthy reiteration that IQ tests measure something, but it isn't "innate general intelligence". But to say it's as irrelevant as "freshness of breath" is maybe hyperbolic.

It's a relative measure of performance for narrow and specific set of tasks. It's not BS, that's like saying the 100m dash is BS. It's just that people have wildly overstated the general implications of the measure.

Are you asking because you've memorized the speech and wanna give them a second helping of badassery?

I've read (and have no idea what to google to find a source so take my thoughts here with a heaping grain of salt) that it's not the hardest to be the "first" person to stand up. It's hardest and most important to find the second. After people see the second, it's much more likely to snowball. Some assholes would pucker SO HARD if there was a follow up.

I don't think it's as benign as just trying to get a rise out of people.

It's called "reconnaissance-in-force". Basically you scout by starting a low-cost battle.

Him and Elon do it all the time, but in the political space. They say things as a "joke", and then gauge the blowback. Then they decide if it's a joke or not post hoc.

It's always "a joke to own the libs" until it isn't. You know those "jokes" about how if he gets elected, you'll never have to vote again?

Some redneck spray painted shit like "go home" on a Mosque in my rural hometown. Like, literally illiterate levels of redneck. I think they literally spelled "Canada" wrong in one of the messages.

When people saw it in the morning, the community SWARMED the mosque with cleaning supplies to scrub it off. All the school kids made posters saying stuff like "You ARE home". By noon, the mosque was cleaned and windows plastered with the posters the kids made.

Kinda pissed me off that the national headlines neglected to mention the community response.

Made me realize pretty early on that ragebait sells and the media knows it.

There are probably countless instances of communities banding together that you'll never hear about. Doesn't mean they don't happen.

What nobody foresaw was that the internet allowed these benign isolated idiots to connect and form a super-cell, and begin coordinated recruitment.

Mr Bombastic

You can set up a "personal cloud" on a machine in your house that you can use as a "cloud" from anywhere. There are a lot of free software options to achieve such a thing.

"Nextcloud" it a pretty broad way to do that. You can run it from an always-on desktop.

There are a ton of nerds (myself included) who do this kinda thing, and we have our nerd communities on Lemmy and elsewhere. The general term is "self hosted".

When you're 18 you have a nearly fully developed brain but almost zero experience of the adult world (which was graciously shielded from them by adults who deep down know the adult world fucking sucks).

I love them. I envy them. They absolutely should have the vote. Their perspective is invaluable. They have to be in the conversation and at the table.

But like... They're still incredibly naive, generally speaking.

I mean, there probably is: you can't have trillions of dollars moving through that many hands without something shady happening.

But like, DOGE isn't going to find it. They can't. They're operating as if fraud means money just "vanished". Like they're going to find some account is missing a billion dollars nobody can account for. That's not what fraud looks like at scale.

It'll be more like, contracts awarded (or not awarded) based on listening to businesses say things that they know not to be true, intentionally misrepresenting information and their positions to shape public spending. For example, convincing California to not build transit because you promise you can dig them tunnels, when you know full well you're never going to build them tunnels.

That's what fraud looks like, and there isn't a DB query for that.

Not saying he hasn't tried. "SELECT * FROM government WHERE fraud_flag = 'fraud';"

"Damn, didn't work"

"Maybe the flag is 'secret_fraud'..."

I strongly recommend not disclosing that you intend to use the monthly savings on vodka and gummies

Godot has been making leaps and bounds. Obviously not close to UE, but if it maintains its rate of improvement, I can see it becoming a more and more common choice in the indie space over the next few years

JD is drawing false equivalence, to lead to the conclusion that law doesn't matter.

Does a judge plan a military operation? No. But they can establish if it is legal.

That's their whole job, to establish if actions violate the law. If they violate the law, they can order them to stop.

Judges don't write the law. You don't like the judge's ruling? Change the law. Judges don't write the laws, they just interpret the ones that exist.

JD is arguing that judges (and by extension, the law, and by extension the fundamental concept of the rule of law) don't apply to him and Trump. It's literally an argument for monarchy.

Things have changed a lot since '14.

Like "on the one hand it's a hassle having your husband be president"

"... Buton the other hand... I want my daughters to have rights..."

Ah yes. The "I'm too scared to run against Obama" clause

If the SC allows for a 3rd term as an option, it'll be Trump v Obama 2028.

It's just a show for the benefit of Trump and his supporters.

A few days ago, Putin was repeating Trump's lines of "never would have happened if Joe Biden didn't steal the election in 2020".

These two are for sure just performing their choreographed dance designed to enthrall and delight the MAGA base. It can't be stressed enough how this dance costs Putin nothing.

Ma!