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GoofyGoose
22hr ago
Getting the bottom 10-20% over the bar (even if this takes extra effort) is by far more important.
At the risk of sounding unfair, this seems like a rationalization for equality or “fairness.” I don’t see the huge societal problems. I assume most people who can’t read are not very smart, so reading won’t help much.
OTOH, geniuses can use what they learn more effectively. Competition and markets lead to them generating consumer surplus they cannot fully appropriate. Therefore, we should focus on them first.
Except our education system is so bad, I am sure we could fail at that and ruin the geniuses.
quiet_NaN
22hr ago
What is the general state of online dating?
Previously, I left that particular cesspit some 10--15 years ago. Back then, I used various text-based dating websites. The dynamics were what I would describe as toxic. The platforms I used had unlimited messaging for paying users. I think the dominant strategy for guys was to message all the women they considered attractive using canned messages optimized through careful A/B testing. This lead to the women's inboxes to be full of messages which resulted in a very low response rate -- which was frustrating because I would typically put my emotional energy reserves of a few days into writing an initial message. (Today, I would experiment with sending a short comment which requires less energy. "nice shoes/helmet/whatever" or something.)
I think that with the advent of LLMs, text-based dating has probably jumped the sharks completely. If a woman gets texted by a guy who refers to her profile text, quotes her favorite authors and is generally very engaging, then 99 out of 100 times it is just some dude using an LLM who has spent five seconds looking at her profile picture before forwarding her account to his chatbot.
(I still think there is a niche for LLM-based dating where users explicitly engage with the site's LLM instead of each other and clarify their preferences through text. "Yes, I told you that I am into guys who read a lot, but the person you suggested to me just is a big nerd, I am not into that." etc. Not sure if it would offer any advantage over the status quo for women, though. Also, there is probably a cousin to Arrow's theorem stating that there is no dating system where participants are incentivised to state their true preferences.)
So how are the swiping apps these days? (Personally I think it would be more sustainable for me emotionally because swiping right is a much smaller investment. Swiping right on 100 women and not getting any matches would not significantly update my world view, while composing longer texts to three women and not getting any replies would be painful.)
Or whatever is the next hot thing in dating?
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
22hr ago
No, it is not. It's not a formal rule. And no, we're not going to rewrite and rename things just to satisfy autists.
It's a laptop cpu...? Do people buy expensive laptops in order to run local llms on them? Just curious.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
23hr ago
Really? I've defended people I despise against attacks I consider unfair. As for five adults on the planet enjoying her books... what?
anti_dan
23hr ago
Because why? You think its unreasonable to think blacks are bad at choosing candidates?
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
23hr ago
Has anyone here used the new AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 all-in-one chipset for running local AI? Like Apple M, it uses a unified memory model, so you can dedicate up to 96GB to GPGPU/NPU tasks.
muzzle-cleaned-porg-42
1d ago
That is just an attempt at absurd humor, intentionally juxtapositing things that are usually thought unrelated (concept of safe space with , first world citizen Randy wants safe space against charity shaming which feels bad). South Park does it often, sometimes it lands, sometimes it doesn't
The scriptwriters clearly attempted to interrogate wider concept of safe space. Episode starts with Cartman disliking comments about his weight, eventually Butters has to censor all the social media to make it safe from criticism. In the end, Reality almost gets the point, and the adults proceed to comically misunderstand (something that South Park also does often).
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
1d ago
Why do so many people think it's trivially easy for a "new religion" (as opposed to a new church/temple/whatever you want to call it within an existing and well-established denomination) to get tax-exempt status in the US? Because I keep encountering people blithely asserting this, despite it being my understanding that the IRS treats every "new religion" as nothing but an attempted tax-evasion scheme unless and until conclusively proven otherwise.
if you repeatedly defend Tucker Carlson against his critics, I will call him your idol and your pal.
depending on which critics
if you defend his lies, then I am going to laugh at them (did it recently)
if you defend him from lies told about him, then it is a noble thing
I am entirely fine with protesting when someone lies about about harmful people or institutions I hate (partially for strategic reasons, I do not want actual arguments to be damaged)
And for how much "if you defend his lies, then I am going to laugh at them (did it recently)" happens depends on context, there are places where I repeatedly write how XYZ is terrible and bad and places where I repeatedly defend the same XYZ. As in one place people adore it and in other hate it, overdoing both.
Plus he praised the literary value of jk rowling’s books, that’s a level of personal dedication maybe five adults on the planet can muster.
I am also willing to do this, they are not great but much better than average and better than 99% of books (this is not a high praise, I consider >98% of books as trash unfit for any use)
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
1d ago
Ipso fatso
I don't know if this was deliberate, or a typo/autocorrect, but if it was the former, then hats off for a clever turn of phrase.
Tree
1d ago
I don’t know what the big deal is, if you repeatedly defend Tucker Carlson against his critics, I will call him your idol and your pal. Plus he praised the literary value of jk rowling’s books, that’s a level of personal dedication maybe five adults on the planet can muster.
marinuso
1d ago
since the point of standardized testing is typically to measure the performance of teachers, schools, school districts
Partially. It's also just used on an individual level to see if the children are learning. If one of the kids doesn't pass the reading test, you know he can't read well enough and needs more effort. For example by having him repeat the year. If none of the kids pass the reading test, there's something wrong with the school.
Ultimately, the difference is between teaching the kids to read (even if for some kids this takes longer than average), or not teaching the kids to read. Surely we can all agree that the first option is preferable, and if that also leads to the statistics looking better, that just means the measurement is valid (for once).
The bigger problem in my opinion is that standardized testing really emphasizes getting the bottom 10-20% over the bare minimum bar, while ignoring the top 10-20%
Getting the bottom 10-20% over the bar (even if this takes extra effort) is by far more important. You need to be able to read to participate in modern society. If the bottom 10-20% of people can't read, you get huge societal problems.
The geniuses can save themselves - they're smart. Ideally you have tailored education for everyone, but that's not possible.
orthoxerox
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1d ago
If Tsar-bell doesn't ring and Tsar-cannon doesn't shoot, what doesn't Tsar-turd do?
wayfarer
1d ago
The only support I remember was complaining when people blatantly lie about her stance on trans stuff. Like at https://www.themotte.org/post/930/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/200394?context=8#context
softer alternative to the word 'idol'. Your 'pal', jk rowling?
Why you think it is accurate at all? Have you mistaken @Amadan with someone else?
wayfarer
1d ago
If I knew that undignified groveling and blubbering would make my killers feel bad, but not save my life, would I do it? I like to think not.
and I would do
I would prefer to be able to take actions earlier (when they would be more effective) but in such situation I expect that my priority would be to cause whatever damage I can do, even if i would be only a minor annoyance to them
Fighting them and cursing them seems much more dignified than begging and crying.
+1, though not on shame reasoning but because I guess it would be a bit more effective
(hopefully I will not have reason to apply it in practice - but I will not reduce my opinion about someone being unjustly executed and begging/crying/etc, though I would harshly disapprove of offering to turn traitor at last moment)
Corvos
1d ago
Personally I just remember the 10 times table and get everything from that.
7x8 is just 70 with a couple of 7s taken away, ie 70-14.
wayfarer
1d ago
Is it clearly stated anywhere that you can appeal and when?
Why you use "permaban" name?
wayfarer
1d ago
If you consider being executed in comparable to being banned from themotte.org then something went horribly wrong
wayfarer
1d ago
feel like we're losing out
given they got Quality Contribution for long pile of misleading claims about LLM, with lies about supposed credentials as a bonus (OK, maybe credentials were true but worthless), I am less sure about this
they also suddenly had no time to respond to people pointing out falsehoods, and when they replied it was still with LLM-tier hallucinations. Or worse, LLM typically switch to whatever was claimed or at least a novel hallucination.
wayfarer
1d ago
It's viewed as a form of juking the stats by some people, since the point of standardized testing is typically to measure the performance of teachers, schools, school districts, etc. If there are differences in policy on grade promotion, that makes it harder to do a fair comparison.
Depends on how you measure efficiency. Which school is better? With functionally illiterate students released in 3 years or one that releases students actually capable of reading and understanding in 5 years? (obviously in reality that applies to small sample, also threat of being held back encourages to take it more seriously)
quiet_NaN
1d ago
As an INTP, it falls to me to point out that MBTI are basically zodiac signs for nerds.
That is not to say that categorizing people in somewhat arbitrary boxes can not provide useful insights sometimes. Categorizing people by their dominant humour or Hogwarts house or Middle-Earth species can might all lead to true discoveries about how people are different. Astrology is hampered by not categorizing based on personality traits, but personally I would not be shocked if there are minor systemic differences between people born in spring and autumn on which they can capitalize beyond the Barnum effect.
Each of the 16 MBTI personality types is classed as either an "introverted feeler (Fi for short)" or an "extroverted feeler (Fe for short)" (you can check here if you're curious which one is which).
This looks like another mapping from the MBTI. Each MB type gets assigned an ordered list of length four of two-letter types. The first letter is any of N,T, F, S (intuition, thinking, feeling, sensing), the second is either e or i -- extro/introverted. Each first letter appears once in the list. The list is in orders of decreasing priority. Also, suffixes have to be assigned alternately. If your first "function" is -i, then your third suffix will also be -i and the 2nd and fourth suffix will be -e. Obviously.
Naturally, there are 4! ways to arrange the first letters, and for each possibility you can pick the first suffix, so you should have 48 types in total. Luckily, 32 of these are swept under the rug and the remaining 16 are assigned to MBTI signs using some mapping. The first MB letter -- I or E -- decides with what suffix you start for your first function. Your second MB letter (N/S) will end up in one of the first two functions on your list, as will your third (T/F). Your last MB letter (P/J) will determine the order of the first two letters according to something which may or may not be systematic.
So INTJ maps to Ni, Te, Fi, Se, while INTP maps to Ti, Ne, Si, Fe.
Each of these letters then gets a paragraph reading like a horoscope:
Si is the TiNe’s third function, and it allows them to store all the interesting facts and knowledge they gather in their brain in an organized way for future reference. Si also makes the Ti-led internal world fairly structured and detailed in its analysis, and can often lead to a very strong sense of internal stability which can come across as arrogance to others. While they can jump from topic to topic in conversation, internally their thought patterns are more linear. [...]
I would introduce another level on this analysis. Most but not all of these types also correspond to chemical elements.
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Fe is iron, a common element on earth instrumental in building civilization.
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Fi is not a known element.
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Se is selenium, a rare element. In low doses, it is essential for humans, but in high doses it is toxic.
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Si is silicon, another common element, which famously is used in microelectronics.
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Te is tellurium, another rare element, but without a known biological function.
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Ti is titanium, a metal known for its excellent strength to density ratio.
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Ne is neon, a noble gas. The lightest of the personality type elements, it will not easily form compounds.
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Ni is nickel. Another metal, which is commonly used to prevent the corrosion of steel.
So the PSE personality type for INTP aka Ti, Ne, Si, Fe would be:
- First function: titanium. A high-end material with great properties, great for making blades which cut to the core of things.
- Second function: neon. Noble, not prone to (over-)reaction, reluctant to form bonds.
- Third function: silicon. A key element of both bedrock and computers, it represents both stability as well as digital technologies.
- Last function: iron. While not your main focus, you recognize that under layers of high tech, the life blood which oxygenates civilization is ultimately the threat of violence.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
1d ago
I hadn't considered ranking the non-educational motives before. My guess would be:
- Jobs program for leftists/women
- State-funded daycare
- Progressive indoctrination (racism/sexism/Xism bad)
- Liberal indoctrination (individualism good)
- Civnat indoctrination (America good --maybe less true these days)
- Teaching the 3 Rs (readin', 'ritin', reckonin')
- Teaching anything else they claim to teach (science, history, art, etc)
raakaa
1d ago
Huh? Both names (along with a bunch of other cognates, like Ludwig and Luigi) come from the same Germanic source, which roughly means “famous [in] battle”.
Why use MBTI when OCEAN is available and makes better predictions? And how is the Fi/Fe dichotomy different from just Agreeableness?
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