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Originally Posted by freebeard

Internet has it's own Overton Window. There are bounds on permissible discourse. Usenet was a truer reflection of the general consensus. The Web was coopted and used to manufacture consent.

The choices made after the Stonewall Riots led directly to dead children today.

Originally Posted by freebeard

If there were a Sabine Hossenfelder thread I'd put this there:



From What Science Says About Quitting Social Media -- Sabine Hossenfelder

I haven't got to Scott Adams yet, and I try to get out the door by noon each day.

edit: Well the dance moves was pretty good but I'd forgotten it's at 1.75x.

I'm still working through today's episode. AI will be useless because we're going to train it to lie to us and be racist. It can't escape the flaws of its creators.

DSM is proven to be a joke. Optimal and suboptimal behavior exists on a spectrum. It isn't a binary yes/no issue, unless we're talking about sex.