Jensen Huang lays out his plan to create a digital earth model to forecast climate in this press conference. If it’s successful in predicting climate and weather patterns accurately, do you think it’ll be enough evidence to convince climate deniers?
Andrew is approaching it the wrong way. It’s usually an emotional and psychological problem. I’ll explain a common angle I’ve experienced by being a good listener. Not everyone will have this opinion and mental path, but I found that this is a common one.
It typically starts with religion. God created Earth, and to think that we can change the climate is a way of playing God. Not only would that be blasphemous, but if God created Earth, how could we even approach the idea of being mighty enough to change the climate? God made it, and it is one part of God’s miracles. We have no business thinking that we can play God like this.
Then, there’s the doubling-down patterns. Scientists have determined that climate change is happening. But this means that scientists seem to know more than God. The Earth was given to us to live on by Him, so how could they possibly be right? “Scientists are ridiculous, and they should put faith in the Lord.”
Rinse and repeat, and they double down harder and harder. While doing so, they find more mental gymnastics, talking points, and other rhetorics that they drum to prove their points. How could they be wrong? They’re putting their faith in the Lord, and to affirm the scientists is to deny their faith.
Then come the echo chambers. They wall themselves off from scientists, because scientists keep repeating the same things that they already debunked, and they decided that they’re ridiculous. The people they surround themselves with know what’s good for them, and they have their own support groups with their own opinions that feel like their own facts.
No amount of software or hardware is going to change this problem. The first step, if you even want to venture into the minds of people who have walked this path, is to be a good listener, and challenge them with their own rhetoric and their own talking points to disprove them. But half the time you’re doing that, you’re going to be challenging their faith and the validity of God, so… good luck.
From a psychological view, the best we can do is provide the information and hope that they come to the right conclusion themselves. You’re almost never going to convince a person by telling them that they’re wrong, and surely not by talking how their children are going to suffer and their house is going to get flooded.
I just saw the video, of Mitch McConnell's "frozen moment" on Capitol Hill. I'm definitely not Republican and not a fan of Sen. McConnell, however, my opinion may be somewhat unpopular.
Though, I do not agree with his party or views, I also do not agree with mocking someone who appears to be having a medical situation. Regardless of my feelings about his politics, the humanitarian in me feels sympathy for him and his family.
Take for example, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin who collapsed last fall on Monday night football. The other "team", did not celebrate the unfortunate event suffered by another human being, they felt compassion. Human life is much more important than politics or a game, just my opinion. To mock McConnell for this, seems no different then when John Fetterman was mocked in regard to his stroke.
In March, Mitch had a fall and suffered a concussion. Often times, Brain injury (TBI) and postconcussion syndrome does not manifest immediately and, may develop over the months or years following the injury. TBI survivors are also susceptible to early onset Alzheimers. Given the Senators age, this may also play a role. I can't participate in mocking a another human being's "cognitive malfunction", that may be a result of TBI or another serious health issue. This doesn't mean I agree with his politics or want him in office, it just means I'm a compassionate human being.
If you're going to come at me with partisan venom because I show human compassion for another individual, save it for someone else. I've already had to block someone.
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I kind of feel like it’s a bit overwrought - and not supported by current tech anyway. I could predict where the tech will go, but I don’t think that’s possible to do in a reasonable way over a useful time-span for this.
Lets look at the proposed affected jobs(I’ll leave out the ones I just don’t have enough knowledge about to even hazard a guess):
Interpreters + Translators: I haven’t tried GPT for this, but I imagine it’s likely not too much more affecting than google translate. For people and situations where machine translation is good enough - this has been happening for quite a while. I have my doubts that this will change the trajectory of that field. Translation seems like something that you can’t “edit after the fact” - you have to do the whole translation anyway to see if the machine translation is right or missing important non-literal parts.
Writers and Authors: I can see this speeding their work up, and enabling people who might have story ideas and be a decent editor but not a good first draft writer to become authors. However, writers have been dealing with both lowered standards for technical writing and content glut for many years - I don’t think this changes that appreciably.
Public Relations Specialists: I feel like this is massively devaluing the psychology and experience in PR. It might well replace press release writing, but I just bet there’s more there than is obvious to everyone.
Tax Preparers: If you’re doing fine with TurboTax - you’ve been doing this for decades now. If you can’t solve it with existing traditional tax software, it’s often because you just aren’t sure about vague tax rules, or complex tax rules. And you usually want someone else to take on some liability and ability to represent you if you’re audited. I don’t see how GPT changes this fundamentally.
Mathematicians: Really? It’s horrible at math.
Proofreaders and Copy Markers: Also really? I feel like for a while at least there’s going to be more proofreading of the output of GPT for factual content and style.
As musicians, politicians and fans remember Sinead O’Connor, some Muslims are disappointed that the Irish singer and lifelong activist’s religious identity is not being highlighted in tributes....
Muslim here, so I can reply to the question as opposed to someone who only knows about Islam from what the media or the predominant islamophobic content we find on the internet tells them about what to think about it. When you have a question about the Mercator projection, you normally don’t go to a flatearther…
She was a theologian, so she studied religions and left Islam to the last, which she ended up accepting based on the scripture once she studied it.
As to the stance of Islam with regards to being gay, the sexual act is forbidden as in one should abstain from actually doing it. Thinking about it or having the desire without acting upon it is not considered a sin. There are punishments in the Islamic law for when a person has been seen by 4 eyewitnesses performing same-sex fornication. To my knowledge this has never been followed through by a judge in the Islamic state of the 4 caliphates as the prerequisites are, intentionally, hard to come by: spying invalidates the testimony, the act should take place out of the privacy of their home etc. So it’s really if the person is doing it in the open… Now I don’t speak about what western media uphold as THE Islamic states such as Iran and Saudi Arabia which are not following strictly the law (and its prerequisites). They have laws that are quite… theirs. Also being gay and being Muslim are not incompatible, since a Muslim is always striving to submit to the divine will and overcome one’s own desires. As long as a person is sincere and keeps repenting for his/her eventual shortcomings and never disbelieves in God they remain a Muslim.
About why would a feminist accept Islam, if you study it you’ll know that it is not misogynistic (ie. considers women as lower than men or is hateful against women). Rather it has a fundamentally different and more factual stance: women are psychologically and physically different from men. So it is about equity and not equality: women do some things better than men and men can so some things better that women; women desire different things than men. To each their role in a family and in society as a whole. Both are honoured in what they do, and you’d even find women are even more honoured, revered and protected.
“Openness” has less to do with sects and as another person commented is more about the society. Muslims, +90% of which are Sunni, have the same source of law but the differences do not come from the religion but are societal.
Such restrictive local regulations have appeared and spread rapidly over the last two decades, compelling millions of girls and women in Indonesia to start wearing the jilbab, or hijab […] Human Rights Watch interviewed more than 100 women who have experienced abuse and often long-term consequences for refusing to wear the jilbab. […] The 2021 report documented widespread bullying of girls and women to force them to wear the jilbab, as well as the deep psychological distress the bullying can cause. In at least 24 of the country’s 34 provinces, girls who did not comply were forced to leave school or withdrew under pressure, while some female civil servants, including teachers, doctors, school principals, and university lecturers, lost their jobs or felt compelled to resign.
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a deadly illness with no proven treatments to reverse core symptoms and no medications approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Novel treatments are urgently needed to improve clinical outcomes. In this open-label feasibility study, 10 adult female participants (mean body mass index 19.7 kg...
Most uses of the misnomer “transphobia” are actually incorrect, because the people involved aren’t actually suffering from an irrational medical or psychological fear of transgender people.
What they actually are doing is more accurately called “transmisia”, because they are transmisic. This means they are heavily prejudiced against transgender women and believe that they shouldn’t be involved in the competitions.
Their reason for this is not because the transgender women don’t meet the beauty standards, or aren’t passing the judging categories, but because they just don’t want them there purely due to their trans-mysogynistic preconceptions.
I suspect the argument is that capitalism is fueled by desire, which is psychologically insatiable. Some would probably say that any system allowing capitalism will eventually be corrupted by it and lead back to the infinite growth capitalism we currently live in. It’s the belief that we have to totally extinguish it or it will come back stronger.
I don’t know that your counterpoint makes much sense either. Just because the web has devolved into a centralized ad-powered mess doesn’t mean that’s how things should operate. And I do mean mess, consider the many overlapping, sometimes competing rules each advertiser has the right to impose on the location their ads may appear.
I personally consider advertisements to be psychological warfare, an unfortunate requirement for business today. If we allow the “local maximum” that advertising is to fester, the number of spaces and the amount of time occupied by ads pretty much is required to steadily increase.
Let’s just… Not do it. AdBlock, open-source browsers and services to promote privacy, while making it clear that the money to run the servers has to come from somewhere.
I donate to Wikipedia every year. Signal, proton, several git projects… If you can help, please do. If you can’t/won’t, we’ll try to keep the ship moving along anyway.
100% this. I wish I had… I’m only confronting it psychologically now, 20 years later, and I have to face the fact there’s no chance of getting justice.
He thinks that lawsuits are great publicity. Plus he apparently has some sort of psychological defiance disorder, so he would love to say “oh yeah? Make me!”
‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools::Major UN report issues warning over excessive use, with one in six countries already banning the devices
The thing about adopting the “live and let live” philosophy with children is that children are psychologically incapable of understanding the consequences of their actions, or exercising proper impulse control. If their parents have failed them then it is the moral obligation of the rest of society to make up for it.
I think it was always the same psychology of making a number go up makes people get dopamine or something. Otherwise, it was a system to try and filter out bots used for astroturfing that I felt didn't really do a good job. There were always plenty of karma farming bots that would literally just copy and paste a different comment to create a fake post history.
With any question, why is it always so helpful to know why the answer is the one that is? In another words, which principle of thinking and learning is most closely tied to question “why”? Or is it purely social act of expressing deeper interest? Is questioning for reasons mandatory?...
Seeking Understanding: Humans are naturally curious beings. We want to know the reasons behind events, behaviors, and circumstances to make sense of the world. Asking “why?” helps us gain insight into the causes and mechanisms behind various phenomena.
Problem Solving: In many situations, asking “why?” is the first step in finding solutions to problems. By understanding the underlying reasons for a problem, individuals can devise appropriate strategies to address it effectively.
Identifying Motivations and Intentions: When people ask “why?” in interpersonal interactions, they are often trying to understand the motivations and intentions of others. This can help with empathy, communication, and building better relationships.
Challenging Assumptions: Questioning why something is done a certain way can help challenge existing assumptions or norms. This critical thinking process can lead to innovation and improvements in various aspects of life.
Gaining Knowledge: Asking “why?” is a fundamental way to acquire knowledge. It encourages exploration, research, and learning. It’s through questioning that people expand their understanding of the world and its complexities.
Encouraging Dialogue: In discussions and debates, asking “why?” invites others to provide reasoning and evidence to support their claims. It fosters constructive dialogue and helps clarify different perspectives.
Stimulating Curiosity: Asking “why?” is a way to keep curiosity alive. It sparks interest in exploring new ideas and leads to continuous learning.
Establishing Cause and Effect: “Why?” questions often seek to establish cause-and-effect relationships. Understanding these relationships is crucial in various fields, including science, history, and psychology.
Enhancing Decision Making: When facing choices or making decisions, questioning why certain options are better than others allows individuals to make informed and rational choices.
Why are people still on Twitter/X? I don’t get it. The X on the building reminds me of a certain other letter on buildings in a certain country. People must be mad to still be carrying on as usual on there.
The difference here is that it’s not marketing intended to deceive and make money, it’s just happy consumers that want to help the project and make it known.
Corporate marketing people though are paid to abuse psychological vulnerabilities of the target audience, over-exaggerate the pros of the software and hide the weaknesses under the carpet. I’m not saying that it’s an inherently evil job or that they’re not needed in a business, I’m just saying that as a developer I’m tired of software being a product and a business, when I simply want to create good software that solves some kind of problem and not be a cog in some corporate machine.
I don’t think there will be much of a difference, as far as the mass entertainment production is concerned - it’s already soulless and driven by divisions of marketers analyzing every single line to maximize the amount of people it will be entertaining for. It’s not creative, it’s just psychologically designed to exploit years of psychology research about engagement, and create something that is mass-appealing and entertaining, without care about any kind of artistic value.
By replacing the poor writers who are forced by marketing executives to dumb down their script to engage as large audience as possible with AIs, they will have a change to start building a new indie scene instead of getting their passion for the art sucked out of them by marketing research. That is a good thing, because they will have more freedom to create, not driven by the only goal of making as much money from as much people as possible. Let the mass entertainment create the same soulless bullshit with AIs, which they will definitely do to reduce costs, and let’s hope that it will be the starting point for larger independent scene. It will keep the people who enjoy the kind of content for the masses entertained, so they will keep generating money, but without ruining the passion of so many artists by forcing them to create such content.
I believe this is a great example of a “straw man argument”. A false and easy to knock down claim is made and said to represent your opponent, then it’s knocked it down and said, “see how weak your position is?”.
What was my false claim? That those identifying as trans are going through psychological stress because they’re uncomfortable with their bodies? If someone identifies as trans and it isn’t because they aren’t comfortable with the body they were born with and truly believe they belong to the opposite sex, I’m pretty sure that’s just cross-dressing. If the trans community truly wants acceptance and support, they need to distance themselves from those who are just “trans” for a kink or internet and social points.
Minors are almost never offered permanent physical modification …
Almost never isn’t never. It should be never.
That’s the whole point of puberty blockers, they delay potentially horrifying changes to allow a few more years to for such a major life decision.
That’s propaganda. Do you seriously believe stopping a normal biological process has no lasting effects? Even if it was true that a biological process could simply be paused, if a child is uncomfortable with their current body, would “pausing” it in that state not further make them hate themselves? Sounds like abuse to me.
I didn’t become trans because a drag queen read me a book or trans lady made a bud light video, that’s the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard.
I don’t think anyone ever has. Also, who’s straw-manning now?
Besides all that, my comment was that if you’re having psychological stress, seek psychological help, not surgical. I don’t see how that’s controversial.
Besides all that, my comment was that if you’re having psychological stress, seek psychological help, not surgical. I don’t see how that’s controversial.
Besides all that, my comment was that’s already the case, if you think otherwise stop getting your news from Fox.
Will ultra high-res climate modeling finally convince climate deniers? (youtu.be)
Jensen Huang lays out his plan to create a digital earth model to forecast climate in this press conference. If it’s successful in predicting climate and weather patterns accurately, do you think it’ll be enough evidence to convince climate deniers?
Disabilities in Syria: A 'hidden' crisis (www.dw.com)
The al-Hassan family have been victims of Russian-launched cluster bombs twice in Syria now, both times with horrific consequences....
Han Kuang: Taiwan conducts drills to repel a Chinese invasion (www.bbc.com)
The first sign of invasion comes with a group of attack helicopters flying low over the northern Taiwan coast....
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‘Media outlets are erasing Sinead O’Connor’s Muslim identity’ (www.aljazeera.com)
As musicians, politicians and fans remember Sinead O’Connor, some Muslims are disappointed that the Irish singer and lifelong activist’s religious identity is not being highlighted in tributes....
A trial finds that a dose of the psychedelic psilocybin administered with psychological support is a safe and acceptable treatment for patients with anorexia nervosa and may decrease eating-disorde... (www.nature.com)
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a deadly illness with no proven treatments to reverse core symptoms and no medications approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Novel treatments are urgently needed to improve clinical outcomes. In this open-label feasibility study, 10 adult female participants (mean body mass index 19.7 kg...
Trans men enter Miss Italy contest to protest anti-trans ‘women from birth’ rule (sh.itjust.works)
More details: thepinknews.com/…/miss-italy-trans-men-trans-wome…
Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
Kevin Spacey cleared over all sexual assault charges (www.bbc.co.uk)
Elon Musk takes over @x Twitter account without paying owner (www.telegraph.co.uk)
‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools::Major UN report issues warning over excessive use, with one in six countries already banning the devices
stop asking for a karma system (lemm.ee)
‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
I personally think that responsible smartphone use should be learned and practiced, rather than outright banning them....
Why do we want to know why?
With any question, why is it always so helpful to know why the answer is the one that is? In another words, which principle of thinking and learning is most closely tied to question “why”? Or is it purely social act of expressing deeper interest? Is questioning for reasons mandatory?...
The hellsite
Why are people still on Twitter/X? I don’t get it. The X on the building reminds me of a certain other letter on buildings in a certain country. People must be mad to still be carrying on as usual on there.
Up the Ridge: an in-depth look at the United States prison industry and the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-city minority offenders to distant rural outposts (piped.video)
Really fantastic documentary everyone ought to watch, a bit more about the film from Wikipedia...
If Lemmy code is written by people who love to code, Lemmy marketing can be made by people who love to market
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