67IsTheNew69
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67IsTheNew69
10d ago
Another factor is that benefits are only sent out on certain days of the month. (Looks like in California it's the 1st through the 10th depending on your account number.) So you're more likely to see people using EBT on those days, or the weekends after those days, especially if people are doing the responsible thing and planning out a single big shopping trip to get all the stuff they need for the month.
67IsTheNew69
14d ago
I followed the citations, and the "sexual aggression scale" the researchers used in their questionnaire involves asking questions with five possible answers ranging from "not at all likely" to "very likely". However, they got that 30% statistic by re-coding the answers as either "yes" or "no".
So this seems like the classic social-science trick where you inflate the number of "yes" responses to a question by providing one answer choice that means "no" and four answer choices that all mean "yes". And because they asked about both "rape" and "forcing a female to do something sexual she didn't want to", you get the bias where people want to answer that one is less likely than the other.
(The "Materials and Methods" section of the paper makes clear that the "something sexual" wording was what they actually asked on the questionnaire. The researchers seem to have paraphrased that as "force a woman to sexual intercourse" in their results, which also seems kind of misleading.)
67IsTheNew69
14d ago
The dates given in the Wikipedia article for the incident suggest that the victim was about 59 years old at the start of the incident, and it continued until she was about 68.
Where I'm from, I think that'd be called "old age". And to @ActuallyATleilaxuGhola's point above, it seems like a stage of life where it'd be pretty normal to have a lot of unexplained aches and pains.
67IsTheNew69
17d ago
I'm not a lawyer, but your proposed workflow sounds a lot like "CC a lawyer on an email conversation that you don't actually need to involve a lawyer in, solely so that you can claim attorney-client privilege on the whole conversation". That's something that big companies like Google have tried, but judges don't look very kindly on it: https://www.reuters.com/technology/landmark-google-ruling-warning-companies-about-preserving-evidence-2024-08-06/
67IsTheNew69
17d ago
I do suspect Scott himself leans quite a bit further to the left on this issue (after all, he's managed to survive living in the San Francisco Bay Area), but the post does a good job describing the "bailey" version of the position that's more palatable to moderates.
67IsTheNew69
18d ago
Indeed, the core argument of https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/ is that using preferred pronouns is something you should to do to "make a little effort to be nice to people," in the same way that you might tell a little white lie to spare your friend's feelings (or, in the example that Scott uses, humor someone who jokingly declares himself Emperor of the United States).
A journalist reporting on a mass murderer probably doesn't owe them the same level of social nicety.
67IsTheNew69
18d ago
I think OP is trying to recount his impressions as someone who stumbled onto Gamergate in, say, 2016 or so. Especially if you're a kid with a poor sense of time who hasn't looked into the details, I think it's fair that you might've gotten the impression that it had been going on for longer than it really had been.
A bunch of stuff that happened prior to The Zoe Post, like the backlash to the 2012 "Tropes vs Women" Kickstarter, kind of ended up getting rolled into "Gamergate" in retrospect -- people on both sides saw value in either joining the popular/trending movement, or painting all their critics as members of the same hate group.
I think this gets to the heart of the argument that the original tweet is making: the "egg cracking" movement also carries the same sort of implicit assumption that transitioning will turn you into someone attractive. It only takes a bit of scrolling through /r/egg_irl/top listings to find memes about how trans is when you want to be a hot anime waifu or pretty video-game princess.
This fallacy works even if people's perception of what a "woman" is is more realistic. If you're in the half of men that are below average attractiveness, and you imagine that transitioning will make you more like some composite image of what a typical woman is like (i.e., average attractiveness), that's still a positive change.
Those same men would also buy a button that magically transformed them into a man, if not for the fact that they are already men, and thus the expected outcome of the button is "nothing happens" rather than "I become what you'd get if you look up 'man' in a stock photo library".
Your first problem is that LLMs are bad at counting, so trying to get them to count is a waste of time. Instead you should ask it to assign a category to each row, so that you can then use Excel or something to count how many times each category appears.
Depending on how many rows you've got, this might require a multi-step process where you first get the LLM to come up with a list of categories, then assign each item to a category one by one. (Or some other process, such as going one by one through each item and deciding whether it fits in any existing category or requires a new category to be created.) You may need to write a script that calls the LLM's API and uses features like "tools" or "structured output" to force it to follow the process.
You should be prepared to try lots and lots of times until the LLM produces results you're happy with; a good rule of thumb is to spend at least as much time as it would've taken you to complete the task manually.
I think if the government gave out a few standardized food items to every benefits recipient, that would actually heavily encourage trading. They'd basically be minting a currency, except instead of coins that all contain the same amount of silver, it's bags that all contain the same amount of Kraft cheese product or whatever. There'd be big opportunities to take those items and smuggle them back into the regular supply chain en masse for cash, or sell them to people who want a reliable source of cheap Kraft cheese product.
Ideally, if you want to prevent trading, you want to give people stuff that seems valuable to those people, but worthless to everyone else. So they're incentivized to consume the items themselves rather than try to sell them. The mushroom "superfoods" described in OP actually seem like a excellent example of this principle in action.
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