untorquer
@untorquer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Arts & STEM 16 hours ago:
My first statement was sarcasm. If you learned to write in university you would learn to write in an academic style. Since most people write more in university than the rest of their career there’s simply more writing with that style available. Since that’s all available through journals or more insidious sources it’s likely training fodder for AIs. Therefore someone’s writing being misinterpreted for AI likely just means they’ve used some academic style. I only commented on it because you brought it up in your first comment. I believe I’m in agreement with your original sentiment that it’s a silly notion(?)
The “E:” means “edit” since I edited my post to change the wording from worse language to something i felt was more appropriate.
The “needs more Queen” refers how OP uses the members of the band as examples to make their point. I’m intending to contrast that with your write-up which does not share a similar pop-culture example approach but hinges instead on your personal experience. You said your comment could be a good start to the series requested in the replies in the image. That is what i was meaning to respond to with this critique. I believe the replies in the image wanted more pop-culture based references.
None of it’s a purity test and the last part is just my opinion.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 20 hours ago:
Shocking that someone with a major that requires lots of writing would have similarities with model that simply copies the writing style with the largest sample size.
Your essay needs more Queen. “…most data oriented nerds are at least mildly autistic” might be a bit of a strong statement but they’re at the very least more compatible socially than the rest of the populace.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 5 days ago:
I’ve worked with hundreds of homeless people, usually trying to help them before the cops sweep their camp, or keeping their car rolling so they can keep living in it.
There was a ubiquitous set of conditions:
- can’t afford housing even though they had a job.
- lost identifying documents, usually in a sweep, and working on replacing them. You can’t get work without these.
- no reliable postal address
- no support network
I’ve never met anyone who wanted to be living on the street.
I’m not talking about crust punks train hopping. I’m talking about the people who missed a day of work for whatever reason and couldn’t make rent one month. Now they’re in a tent near available services because the shelter kicked them out after the max stay of a week.
Being a therapist gives you no expertise here and it seems to me that a therapist who sees punishment as a viable means for behavioral change is kind of shit at their job.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 5 days ago:
It’s a political problem. Houseless people are there because there’s no political willpower to create systematic change to support them. So you’re absolutely right when you say:
we must either come up with new resources or reevaluate our investments in the resources we currently employ.
The only problem is the answer to this question is more often on the side of the investment not being worth it, so the problem is left unaddressed.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 6 days ago:
Correction,
liberals: “😘🌈 No”
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 6 days ago:
Shelters, even if there was enough space, can be dangerous for vulnerable people, do not allow pets, and rarely provide medium term housing or transitional opportunity.
Anti-homeless architecture simply attempts to push the houseless further away from urban centers, and consequently food kitchens, shelters, and other resources. This is deadly when extreme weather occurs or acute health problems arise.
It actively makes the city more dangerous to those most fucked by society.
As far as “wanting” to live on the street, this is a narrative made up to victim blame and deny empathy. It only needs one or two examples for the false narrative to be cast on the population writ large.
- Comment on What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends? 1 week ago:
Volunteer in outreach orgs or at events that are related to your interests.
There are also mutual aid orgs. They are almost always accessibility aware. Maybe check in with MADR. They may be able to point to local groups if you’re in the US.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 1 week ago:
I did see them around as a child millenial. Not totally uncommon in older and public buildings until early 2000’s. The airblade dryers seemed to come in right as the last of these were phased out.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
That’s a fair point when these LLMs are restricted to areas where they function well. They have use cases that make sense when isolated from the ethics around training and compute. But the people who made them are applying them wildly outside these use cases.
These are pushed as a solution to every problem for the sake of profit with intentional ignorance of these issues. If a few errors impact someone it’s just a casualty in the goal of making it profitable. That can’t be disentwined from them unless you limit your argument to open source local compute.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
Yes but it did come, and took place as the common usage. So much so that Ms. Is used to describe a woman both with and without reference to marital status.
I’m down with using Mrs. not to refer to marital status but imo just going with Ms. Is clearer and easier because of how deeply associated Mrs. Is with it.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
No, I’m talking about human learning and the danger imposed by treating an imperfect tool as a reliable source of information as these companies want people to do.
Whether the erratic information is from tokenization or hallucinations is irrelevant when this is already the main source for so many people in their learning, for example, a new language.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
Yes but from same source also wife
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
“His property”
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 week ago:
These sorts of artifacts wouldn’t be a huge issue except that AI is being pushed to the general public as an alternative means of learning basic information. The meme example is obvious to someone with a strong understanding of English but learners and children might get an artifact and stamp it in their memory, working for years off bad information. Not a problem for a few false things every now and then, that’s unavoidable in learning. Thousands accumulated over long term use, however, and your understanding of the world will be coarser, like the Swiss cheese with voids so large it can’t hold itself up.
- Comment on Only $50? 2 weeks ago:
They’re grossed out by a little urine I’d be surprised to hear they see women as people.
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 2 weeks ago:
To be clear I’m agreeing with you. I’m saying Ios_chill had a point with executive dysfunction being a symptom of many conditions. So jumping to one of those conclusions based on one symptom without further context nor a systematic approach is wasteful for everyone.
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 2 weeks ago:
Executive dysfunction is a symptom of many other conditions such as depression, stress/anxiety, and autism.
ADHD diagnoses are expensive, intense, and take a long time. You wouldn’t want to spend your time, energy, and money on it if your real problem is something else.
In any case, therapy is the phase to start. Probably CBT/ACT. They should also be able to help you identify whether a diagnosis is with pursuing.
- Comment on Why do I drag my feet when it's time to start a new task even if I know I'll enjoy it once I get started? 2 weeks ago:
Furthermore you don’t diagnose symptoms, those are reported or observed. Definitely still valid to avoid the immediate jump from symptom to one of the many complexes which develop it.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
Alternatively, “And it’s a very nice watch.” Bonus points for riding the line between nonchalance and condescension while still being a compliment.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 weeks ago:
Oveework/burnout being a matter of not thinking straight while grading, especially after a day of working with children.
Not trying to make a steering defense here, just sayng i could see how this could be poor judgment.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 3 weeks ago:
And yet AI has done it at the throw of a switch.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 3 weeks ago:
I think this would more likely be an overworked and underpaid situation.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 3 weeks ago:
It’s unfortunate they stopped subbing…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That you Lance?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
So face-centric. What about a keen bush?
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
I dont think it is. You can avoid being shot on the street by not leaving your house. The blame lies with the shooter but you could avoid it if that was your goal.
Isn’t that just the point again though? Expressing suicidal thoughts is literally reaching out for help while being fully aware of the risk. If we accept those who impose that risk then we stigmatize reaching out for help. If we tell women to dress differently to avoid the risk we tell them the creeps are valid.
Thats not what Im saying at all and I dont think my comment made it sound like that. Im 100% convinced that predators are at fault and should be the ones being punished. Maybe my comment was unclear, Im not a native speaker.
Yeah probably just a wording/text forum/secondary language thing. See below.
Not sure what you mean exactly but I wasnt talking about predators’ freedom.
Probably same confusion as above.
So the talking points you’re making, at least in form and not intent, parallel arguments from evangelicals and other extreme right or fascist types. After talking I know you didn’t intend anything close to those viewpoints. However, I don’t feel it would have been appropriate to leave a statement unaddressed if there was a chance of interpretation in the malignant sense.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No-nutting is bad for mental health. It was a bad choice for a month.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
Womens choice of clothing doesnt excuse predators, but it still puts many in a tough situation by tempting them (not voluntarily but for them its a temptation).
It is voluntary. Being a creep is a learned behavior and can be unlearned. I’ll admit it’s systemic but it’s our(M/Society) responsibility to change that.
Which is in no way saying the women are at fault but unwanted outcomes can be avoided by their chioce.
The sentence part after “but” is in direct conflict with thee first.
So you could live your life making sure others arent influenced in a negative way by your behavior or you could go to the limits of yoir freedom disregarding any consequences for others as long as youre on the legal side. The answer should be somewhere in the middle of the two extremes, but who can say where exactly. (I mean many do pretend they know, but its obviously subjective)
This should have been a separate paragraph, it’s a different idea even if in context. This still let’s predators off the hook by assuming their motivations and behavior are “natural” or “innate” in a way that can’t change. The one thing humans do well is learn. It’s one of our few evolutionary advantages. The “limits of your freedom” don’t have to include predatory behavior if you don’t identify it as part to your autonomy or self.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 3 weeks ago:
Absofuckinglutely not. Predatory behavior is inexcusable full stop.
