Boddhisatva
@Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
- Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work? 15 hours ago:
You can learn to consciously control a lot of things that various ‘lie detectors’ monitor. I took a stress management/biofeedback class in college where we learned to raise and lower galvanic skin response, heart rate, and blood pressure. It was a fun class, and in learning to control them, you can also reduce the chance of getting a false positive by keeping any of those variables from drifting to far from the expected range.
- Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work? 1 day ago:
“There’s no unique physiological sign of deception. And there’s no evidence whatsoever that the things the polygraph measures — heart rate, blood pressure, sweating, and breathing — are linked to whether you’re telling the truth or not,” says Leonard Saxe, a psychologist at Brandeis University who’s conducted research into polygraphs. In an exhaustive report, the National Research Council concluded, “Almost a century of research in scientific psychology and physiology provides little basis for the expectation that a polygraph test could have extremely high accuracy.”
The real question is, why do people think that they work? Why do government agencies use them to grant clearances when there is no evidence that they can reliably detect falsehoods and ample evidence that they are known to give false positives when people are actually telling the truth?
Go take some classes on stress management and biofeedback and learn to control all those things they are testing for. Then you won’t need to worry about what the questioners mean when they ask you something.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 3 days ago:
To confirm your identity…
Yeah, bullshit. This is to help train their facial recognition AI.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I tend to heat fer-uh-ner
- Comment on Can you put a ship inside a Klein bottle? 1 week ago:
Either that or everything is in every Klein bottle.
That would still be a no because no ship can be put in a Klein bottle if every ship is already in the Klein bottle.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Against Epic Games Due To A.I. Darth Vader 1 week ago:
A little more than that, actually.
The company says Llama Productions chose to replace human performers’ work with AI technology but did so “without providing any notice of their intent to do this and without bargaining with us over appropriate terms.” As such, SAG-AFTRA has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the company with the NLRB.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Fair point but I’m not sure that naming every permutation is possible. We might be better off trying to make do with charts or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think trying to define it is fairly pointless. We love what we love and we lust what we lust. Rather than defining it, I wish we could all just accept that and stop hating people for having different preferences.
- Comment on The original Technoviking video 3 weeks ago:
Here is an article about it.
After three years of wrangling, a decision was reached in court: Fritsch was forced to agree to only use the video if he manipulates the images in such a way that he can’t be identified. Despite this, there’s a sense that the horse has very much bolted. Fritsch might have been gagged, but there are hundreds of other artists who have made derivative works that will remain online. “It’s too late. That’s the whole absurdity of the trial.”
In addition to censoring the video, Fritsch must pay the plaintiff €8,000 – the vast majority of the money he made from the video. That’s on top of the €7,000 in legal bills. He says that the trial will bankrupt him.
- Comment on The original Technoviking video 3 weeks ago:
Wikipedia does, or at least as is publicly available.
- Comment on what are the chances of irreparable damage due to obstructed blood circulation during sleep? 2 months ago:
Don’t ask Lemmy, man. This is a time to see a doctor.
- Comment on WTH is going on with the price of a quart of Hydrogen Peroxide? 3 months ago:
Hydrogen peroxide is not the same as bottled water. Water is H~2~O. Hydrogen Peroxide is H~2~O~2~. Don’t drink it.
- Comment on What do people who promoted the "FEMA camps" conspiracy theory think about Trump's mass deportation? 5 months ago:
They don’t hate the idea of concentration camps. In fact, they like them if they’re for the people they’ve been trained to hate.
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 6 months ago:
I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that people who cannot be bothered to vote shouldn’t really count.
- Comment on What is Trump going to do to social security since he is now going to be president? Just wondering because my mom gets SS and she does not want me to support here? 6 months ago:
Trump has refused to say what he’ll do because threatening Social Security during an election would cost him a lot of votes from seniors. On the other hand, now that he has won, Republicans have started freely admitting that Project 2025 is the plan for this administration. Project 2025 has this to say about Social Security.
Project 2025’s 900-page Mandate for Leadership fails to propose any solutions for Social Security and says, on page 710, that its proposals for the program could not be “covered here in depth.” Notably, that line was co-authored by economist Stephen Moore, who has advocated to slash and privatize Social Security, once calling it a “Ponzi scheme” and encouraging students to burn their Social Security cards. Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, has also gone on record to say the Mandate for Leadership manifesto is just the basis of their plan and “there are parts of the plan that we will not share with the left.” Last month, his organization called for raising the retirement age, and the author of that analysis, Rachel Greszler, is listed as a Project 2025 contributor.
I would hazard to guess that the incoming administration will, at the very least, try to raise the Full Retirement Age to 69. I will be pleasantly shocked if they don’t try to privatize it as well.
- Comment on Donald Trump's sentencing was postponed to after the election to avoid any assistance of election interference. Can he be sentenced while he is President Elect? 6 months ago:
You better watch your mouth or he’ll send Seal Team 6 to delete your ass. It’ll be an official act so it won’t be illegal for him to do so.
- Comment on Really? 1 year ago:
Not very quickly. How many of them are multimillionaires? Go ahead, guess. Here’s a hint.
More than half of those in Congress are millionaires, data from lawmakers’ most recent personal financial disclosures shows. The median net worth of members of Congress who filed disclosures last year is just over $1 million.
They won’t care if they miss a year’s worth of paychecks if they can hurt poor people by doing so.