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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well, there was this German guy who immigrated to America evading the draft in Germany for WWI.

Leaving in [checks notes] 1885 to evade the WWI draft would be some impressive foresight.

(It was to avoid conscription, though.)

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not sure what you are saying. With the order of the meme reversed it doesn’t make it obvious which point is supposed the clearer point of view…

It isn't reversed compared to how this meme format is usually used: the glasses-on image is on the bottom, and associated with the viewpoint OP is saying is correct/better.

If one hasn't seen (or has forgotten) the film, this is the way that makes sense, since glasses (generally) improve the wearer's vision.

This meme's canonical format is however in fact at odds with the actual scene in the 2002 film:

peter parker glasses meme, but reversed so he is wearing glasses in the top frame instead of the bottom. bottom text "In the movie Spiderman, Peter Parker realizes he can see more clearly without his glasses so the order oftthe images should be flipped", top text is the same but blurry

A related meme form which doesn't have this ambiguity is the much older they live sunglasses - here the position of the two images are used less consistently (though as with peter parker, usually glasses-on is the lower one) but the glasses being on showing the truth actually fits with how it is in the film.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

corollaries to Hanlon's razor include:

geordi la forge drakeposting meme, top text "sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice", bottom text "sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence"

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago (10 children)

odd that their username is @icegov.bsky.social instead of @ice.gov... i guess nobody on their social media team knows how to configure a DNS record or create a .well-known textfile.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

obvious solution is to vibe legislate a law to prohibit opening developer tools on other people's websites

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My personal take is that GenAI is ok for personal entertainment and for things that are ultimately meaningless

Were you previously much more pro-GenAI, or am I misremembering?

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

In this slightly higher-res copy, it does appear to be "MS13". (Which makes about as much sense as labeling Uruguay "west"...)

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 96 points 1 month ago (4 children)

for anyone wondering if this actually happened, it did. (in 2019)

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Luckily it was just a chmod

that can still render a system unbootable 😅

 

original source unknown but this attributes this.

previously on lemmy here.

 

source of quote in titlepage 7 of Joseph Weizenbaum's Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation (1976):

screenshot of PDF of page 7: Introductionintimate thoughts; clear evidence that people were conversing withthe computer as if it were a person who could be appropriately andusefully addressed in intimate terms. I knew of course that peopleform all sorts of emotional bonds to machines, for example, to mu-sical instruments, motorcycles, and cars. And I knew from long ex-perience that the strong emotional ties many programmers have totheir computers are often formed after only short exposures to theirmachines. What I had not realized is that extremely short exposuresto a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful de-lusional thinking in quite normal people. This insight led me toattach new importance to questions of the relationship between theindividual and the computer, and hence to resolve to think aboutthem,3. Another widespread, and to me surprising, reaction to theELIZA program was the spread of a belief that it demonstrated ageneral solution to the problem of computer understanding of natu-ral language. In my paper, I had tried to say that no general solutionto that problem was possible, ie., that language is understood onlyin contextual frameworks, that even these can be shared by peopleto only a limited extent, and that consequently even people are notembodiments of any such general solution. But these conclusionswere often ignored, In any case, ELIZA was such a small and simplestep. Its contribution was, if any at all, only to vividly underline whatmany others had long ago discovered, namely, the importance ofcontext to language understanding. The subsequent, much moreelegant, and surely more important work of Winograd in computercomprehension of English is currently being misinterpreted just asELIZA was. This reaction to ELIZA showed me more vividly thananything I had seen hitherto the enormously exaggerated attribu-tions an even well-educated audience is capable of making, evenstrives to make, to a technology it does not understand. Surely, Ithought, decisions made by the general public about emergent tech-nologies depend much more on what that public attributes to suchtechnologies than on what they actually are or can and cannot do. If,as appeared to be the case, the public's attributions are wildly mis-conceived, then public decisions are bound to be misguided and

 

cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/5955034

("mad dental science": Silverbook is the mouth bacteria instead of brushing your teeth guy)

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Note: this lemmy post was originally titled MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline and linked to this article, which I cross-posted from this post in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world.

Someone pointed out that the "Science, Public Health Policy and the Law" website which published this click-bait summary of the MIT study is not a reputable publication deserving of traffic, so, 16 hours after posting it I am editing this post (as well as the two other cross-posts I made of it) to link to MIT's page about the study instead.

The actual paper is here and was previously posted on !fuck_ai@lemmy.world and other lemmy communities here.

Note that the study with its original title got far less upvotes than the click-bait summary did 🤡

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