kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on Punch Time 10 hours ago:
assault
Actually, I think it’s made with a sugar
- Comment on I Quit 1 day ago:
Reminds me of the marshmallow test:
But the marshmallow test is a tricky one. Replication studies reveal important details that are missing from Mischel’s triumphant analysis. On average, the kids who “fail” and eat the marshmallow rather than waiting and doubling their haul were poorer, while the “patient” kids were from wealthier backgrounds. When the “impatient” kids were asked about the thought process that led to their decision to eat the marshmallow rather than holding out for two, they revealed a great deal of future-looking thought.
The adults in these kids’ lives had broken their promises many times: Their parents would promise material comforts, from toys to treats, that they were ultimately unable to provide due to economic hardship. Teachers and other authority figures would routinely lie to these kids, out of some mix of overly optimistic projection about the resources they’d be given to help the kids in their care, or the knowledge that the kids’ poor, time-strapped, frantic parents wouldn’t be able to retaliate against them for lying.
So the kids had carefully observed the world they operated in and concluded, on balance of probability, that eating the marshmallow was the safe bet. At the very least, it foreclosed on the possibility that the adults running the experiment would come back in 15 minutes and declare that, due to circumstances beyond their control, they were taking back the original marshmallow, rather than providing two of them. They were thinking about the future, in other words.
These kids didn’t grow up to do worse in school and life because they lacked self-control: Those outcomes were dictated by America’s two-tier education system, which funds schools based on local property taxes, topped up by parental donations, which means that poor neighborhoods get poor schools. If these kids’ brains show up differently on a scan 20 years later, Occam’s Razor dictates that this is caused by a life of desperation and precarity, whose stresses are compounded by inadequate health-care.
- Comment on Sleep Guide 3 days ago:
sleep just like you stand
Well, my standing posture isn’t far off from fetal position either
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 3 days ago:
Peter Molyneux Studios presents, a Peter Molyneux production: Peter Molyneux’s Masters of Albion, by Peter Molyneux, featuring Peter Molyneux, and special guest Peter Molyneux
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 3 days ago:
Is the IP still trapped in legal limbo?
- Comment on Ohio never sleeps 4 days ago:
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 6 days ago:
Makes sense they bought Star Wars, so they can legally say “I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”
- Comment on PhDebaters 1 week ago:
What about the Kantian view?
Kant believed that animals were not sentient in the same way as man and therefore did not deserve the same moral valuation. Yet, he also believed that we should not harm animals, because if you harm a creature that you can feel empathy for, you’re damaging your innate ability to care about others.
Should a similar argument apply to sex robots?
- Comment on PhDebaters 1 week ago:
Okay here goes: Is it morally permissible to have sex with a robot? Assume that it’s so lifelike that you can’t distinguish it from a human, except for the fact that it can’t refuse.
- Comment on PhDebaters 1 week ago:
“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”
- Comment on PhDebaters 1 week ago:
What is truth?
- Comment on The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ 1 week ago:
Needs an integrated battery and USB-C alt mode for display so you can use a keyboard + AR glasses and nothing else
- Comment on Remember, remember, it's almost November 1 week ago:
lemmyskidmarkpost
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 2 weeks ago:
The vaccine only contains the part of the virus that trigger an immune response, not the parts that take over your cells and wreak havoc on your body.
In addition, the post-exposure version of the hep b vaccine will contain a dose of immunoglobulin that gives temporary immunity to the disease. So it’s like training wheels while your body starts to produce its own immune response.
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 2 weeks ago:
Vaccines can be prophylactic or therapeutic. In this case, it’s a post-exposure prophylactic, because it’s administered after exposure to a pathogen but before the disease.
- Comment on The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams 2 weeks ago:
Had a convo with someone a while back:
Bug report: “The ‘reset password’ form doesn’t show an error if you try to reset an account that doesn’t exist.”
Me: “That would be a security risk. Closed.”
Them: “What? How? You have to click the link in the email before it does anything.”
Me: “Try putting in a bogus email on the login screen. See how it says ‘wrong email/password combination’, and not ‘no such account’? If we tell the user whether we recognize a given email, we’re basically providing attackers a list of users they can try passwords for.”
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 21st 2 weeks ago:
I’ve gone back to Hand of Fate 2 for like… the 15th time. Just such a cool concept. In a world full of card-based roguelikes, I’ve still never seen anything else quite like it.
Your deck isn’t just the equipment and buffs you might gain. It’s also the threats you might face, and the clues that might lead to new quests.
You’re playing against the deck, in many ways. Such a simple inversion, but it opens up the door to so many interesting modifiers.
- Comment on If my first kiss was pre-transition and i am now a guy but i always had a guy brain, does that make my first kiss with a "straight" guy gay ? 2 weeks ago:
Boku no homo
Tap for spoiler
Partially a reply to the comment just below this one, asking if they said “no homo”
- Comment on spidermanpointing.jpg 4 weeks ago:
“You’re not supposed to be here!”
“You neither”
- Comment on A conundrum 4 weeks ago:
Yes, Experian (a company that has had multiple data breaches) is now allowing you to give them more of your personal data for free, and in return they will add your Netflix and Xfinity payments to your credit report.
And then the banks that consider your loan will still do the same process they did before — i.e. not consider your Netflix and Xfinity payments.
- Comment on Internet discourse is wonderful 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for your service
- Comment on Language model 5 weeks ago:
Trough
- Comment on Time to send a message 5 weeks ago:
Trillian was the superior MSN Messenger client.
Imagine deploying such an interoperable client today. Like something that lets you bridge Facebook, Reddit, X, etc. all in one and use the services however you see fit, seamlessly moving conversations between platforms depending on which features you want at a given moment.
You’d get sued so hard you’d discover new exotic states of matter.
- Comment on Time to send a message 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 5 weeks ago:
Huh? I just see a bunch of blue arrows on a blank yellowish square.
- Comment on Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy one of the world's foremost experts on public health. He is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization 5 weeks ago:
Shit is a crucial part of the food web. Please don’t insult shit by comparing it to this fascist.
- Comment on The Biogeography of Lions 1 month ago:
- Comment on Finally found where they store all the excess 1 month ago:
Fun fact: You may think “Tank-No2” means it’s the “number 2” tank. Nope. It’s actually the tank for November 2nd.
- Comment on Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account 1 month ago:
And drains our freshwater reserves in order to do it.
The dumbest timeline.
- Comment on These gender reveals are getting rather ridiculous.. 1 month ago:
The demon core is, at the same time, the dumbest thing I’ve heard someone do, and yet…
“Here’s a vessel containing the most powerful force yet discovered. Nobody’s seen it in person before. A quick peek probably won’t kill you.”
“Hmmm… fuck it.”
