acosmichippo @ acosmichippo @lemmy.world

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snozzberries taste like snozzberries.

other animals don’t tend to “wrap themselves up in blankets

uh lots of animals are naturally wrapped in blankets, and fat for that matter.

coincidentally we also ruined our web app.

Geographically isolated groups of a single species will show variations of behavior and psychology that is affected by their environment and genetic predispositions – that seems like a pretty reasonable take.

call it reasonable or plausible or whatever you want, but for it to be science it needs empirical evidence and predictive value. Failing that you just have "reasonable" hypotheses, and one person's "reasonable" is another person's racist/sexist/transphobic/whatever, especially when the hypotheses emphasize nature over nurture. That's the problem with evolutionary psychology.

Firstly, I am a different person adding to the discussion.

Secondly, you do have the ability to look into things beyond what you are directly given by others. you have the entire internet at your disposal. That criticism page was one click away from the original article, hardly "spelunking" if you were legitimately interested in criticism of the field. I figured I would help you out with a little more information, and you downvote. So something tells me you aren't actually interested in learning anything here, just burying comments you don't like.

Lastly, as i said, you need to do some reading between the lines. Obviously no one is going to present their field in an overtly racist manner. All the criticism above leads to politiziation in the field, including racism. When you are not bound by empirical science, personal biases fill the void.

well yeah if you cherrypick a two sentence synopsis you can make anything sound ridiculous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psychology

...criticisms include disputes about the testability of evolutionary hypotheses, cognitive assumptions such as massive modularity, vagueness stemming from assumptions about the environment that leads to evolutionary adaptation, the importance of non-genetic and non-adaptive explanations, as well as political and ethical issues in the field itself.

those are all pretty significant criticisms.

regarding the racism specifically, you need to read between the lines. of course they're not going to outright admit they are being racist. But when you are dealing with unfalsifiable/non-empiracle hypotheses, while over-emphasising biology (race/sex), that's not science, that's politics wrapped in a scientific facade.

the real turing test.

cool. but i thought they made a big deal about apple's developer policies when they dropped safari support years ago.

i think you are misunderstanding the point of the no preorder movement. There never should have been an expectation for it to improve the Day 1 quality of game releases.

The main benefit of not preordering is consumer protection, so we can judge a game's quality after people who we trust have played and review it. That protection is worth more than whatever paltry nonsense publishers bundle with preorders.

the principle applies to literally all games anyway, but the youtuber almost certainly did that to get clicks.

but now you get special armor that's relevant for a whole 10 minutes of game time.

for example, say you are waiting to make a left turn, it would be nice to know if oncoming cars are braking or not. if they are stopped and you see their brake lights turning off, you can judge if you should hurry up or not turn at all.

and honestly i have the same problem with that intended use. it often looks like a stopped car is attempting to turn out into traffic. IMO emergency lights should have a faster blink pattern or something to differentiate from turn signals.

okay, pick a different color then. it's a solvable problem.

i don't think that was ever required in the US. it is elsewhere though.

fair point about color blindness, but surely there is some 4th color that would work well with red/amber/white.

How would you do that so it isn’t ugly as hell

same way we do with lights now, design them attractively. It is not always successful and that's on the manufacturers.

and isn’t prone to misunderstanding?

what about it is confusing? green = not coming at you so it's okay to turn left (or whatever).

with computers these days an acceleration based system should be achievable for all types of cars. hybrid/electric cars already do it with regen braking.

and on the opposite side don’t turn on your emergency lights while driving in bad weather. you’re only causing confusion by making it seem like you have turn signals on if i can’t see both blinkers.