But that's soooo many more words than 'its just like smoking'
@[email protected] @[email protected] ...I think this is, unfortunately, the second time in as many days I've been wanting the "dislike - but agree" button.
just got insulted by a particularly offensive dark pattern: I went to the first online character counter I could find to check the length of something I'd written in a web form, and aside from the character count, it popped up this brazen lie that my completely handwritten post was "obviously" AI-generated. But don't worry, they can automatically "remove AI" and make it "100% human"! By which they mean charge me for an LLM to continuously rewrite it in stranger and stranger ways until it scrapes a "0% LLM" detection score
@[email protected] "Give me money for my AI removal AI" is right up there on the offensively brazen stakes I have to admit.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Hmm. My turn to be on the "other" side: to claim something is true in a formal mathematical sense while not holding complete information seems straight up incorrect to me, even though I have no issue with it being used for "best guess with the information available" in general conversation.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Also, if a slight aside, I'd argue that from a formal point of view if finding out more information changes the answer you can't really claim you had complete information. That's more of a 'my Bayesian priors make it seem most likely that' territory 😊
@mavnn @jay_peper IMO there is no conflict. Truth is based on information available.
In the formal sense, the information available is arguably complete, therefore the answer is immutable. Think mathematics etc.
With incomplete information, the same applies. Truth is still based on information available.
(I am disregarding honesty here - truth is truth regardless)
@[email protected] @[email protected] Hmm. My turn to be on the "other" side: to claim something is true in a formal mathematical sense while not holding complete information seems straight up incorrect to me, even though I have no issue with it being used for "best guess with the information available" in general conversation.
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@mavnn @thirstybear we might fall on different sides of that divide, for I consider that statement to be true
@[email protected] @[email protected] Fair. I suppose I associate a level of intent with honesty, while (maths + programming background) I use true/false in a formal sense all the time. I wouldn't claim to be the one true arbiter of correct use of true however, and I would disagree with anyone claiming that the statement was a lie regardless of whether you consider it 'true'.
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@thirstybear yep, logically false, in relation to human communication: true(ish)
@[email protected] @[email protected] Honest, but not true? Covers a surprisingly wide range of well meaning communication, especially when you start taking unconscious bias into account.
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This is something that has bothered me for a long time. How did we end up in a timeline where we're all continually agreeing to contracts that are allowed to change their own terms and conditions, even while everybody agrees huge swathes of them are unenforceable on either party? We've achieved all of the paperwork with none of the benefits.
@mavnn @hypostase thank you 🫶 it's really not a big deal and also made me laugh. I love studies of evaluation and attribution biases because it's such a fascinating set of mechanisms and working out the contexts on which they arise is a really fun thing in social science, even though the outcomes and consequences are obviously quite serious
@[email protected] @[email protected] The weirdest part of the whole thing is that based on your longer description the headline was really an uncommonly clear and accurate description of the study. And yes, interesting study idea even if a somewhat unsurprising and depressing result.
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@hypostase thank you!! ☺️
@[email protected] What @[email protected] said - I was going to respond with something much more angry and sarcastic, but it's probably more important to reinforce there's people out there who think what you're doing is really valuable, and that I personally have appreciated the couple of occasions you've directly pointed out I'd mis- or partially understood something from your field of expertise.
Also: he was being an arse. Sorry that happened to you 😞
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Next week is the start of our five week online courses courses for 11-16s; one on how to build a #visualnovel in VisualInk, and the other on how to produce your own assets for gaming projects (visual novel focussed, but we'll also be talking a bit about 2D sprite animation).
Find out more at thinkersmeetup.com/scholars/... #gamedev #CreativeWriting
I'd watch that.
@[email protected] @[email protected] The BBC nailed this as a children's show decades ago: "Maid Marian and her Merry Men"
I didn't realise at first it was SF rather than real SF news until I got to the bit where the SF member at the SF competition yelled "Orange! Rising Dragon Fist!" and punched his opponent out of SF.
@[email protected] This, also, is true. That said, while really good strawberries are really good, this technique has the advantage of helping okay strawberries also taste really good 😊
@[email protected] On the third hand, playing with squirty cream is fun. This has very little to do with how good the strawberries taste, but is also a truism of life worth bearing in mind
IDK, they taste quite good by themselves?
@[email protected] This, also, is true. That said, while really good strawberries are really good, this technique has the advantage of helping okay strawberries also taste really good 😊
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Like #strawberries but don't like/can't eat cream? One Italian alternative is to roughly chop them (halves or quarters is fine unless you have huge strawberries) and marinate them for at least an hour in lemon juice and sugar (about 10 grams sugar + the juice of one lemon per 500g/1lb of strawberries).
They'll keep in the fridge overnight, and you can even box them up to take to places where you don't have access to a fridge - you will need a spoon to eat them with though.
(Apparently today is @mavnn posts about food day)
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@hypostase I have had a couple of 'wait, what?!' moments, before I realised I was misreading the context 🤣
@[email protected] @[email protected] I vaguely follow the competitive Street Fighter scene to add an extra one to the list. It feels like it must be possible to write ambiguous sentences with several of them, with bonus points for the more you fit in while still being plausibly coherent.
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Why? Because whatever takes the place of management structure is almost always worse and comes with zero accountability nor paths for advocacy regarding accessing opportunities.. It overwhelmingly benefits white men to the exclusion of everyone else
@[email protected] It's always the simple sounding ideas that sound appealing. Remove management, meritocracy, unlimited annual leave... it's almost like life is a little more complicated than most of us really want to engage with.
Especially because it's always easier to assume things are simple if the problems aren't happening to you.
Of course, it's even more frustrating when we then avoid the simple things that do actually have an evidential basis. Working less than ~35 hours a week is long term more productive? Giving homeless people homes is a (comparatively) cheap and effective way of dealing of dealing with homelessness? Madness! The real world can't possible work like that!
Getting slightly hotter here, so time for my not too bad, not too slow #coldbrew #coffee.
Put coffee in aeropress over your mug (filter down). Tip in cold water, about enough to actually fill your mug. Stir really well (coffee grindings do not like mixing into the cold water). Put press on and set a timer for ~15 mins; some coffee will drip through but that's fine, in fact that's how you normally make cold brew. When the timer goes or you get impatient, skip the rest of the several hours cold brew normally takes and press the coffee. Done.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] One of the side benefits of living in Italy is that at certain times of year they're cheap. Partly pre-nuke, chop roughly and spread at the bottom of the pan before tipping frittata mix on top (plain omelette mix, basically: 2 eggs, ~1tbs milk per person plus salt and pepper to taste). Total cooking time less than twenty, and it's very tasty.
