>"#Effective_altruism is a philosophy that aims to do as much good as possible," explains Brian Berkey, associate professor of legal studies and business ethics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, US. "It's how to help ensure people's time and resources are spent well in making the world a better place. Through empirical evidence, individuals can make more informed decisions over which charitable causes to support."
#Trickle_down economics on steroids, that's what it is:
What a spin doctor!
The real problem is not the #elite class gorging on stolen money and their self-serving "friends" in politics, but rather the "#professional class" that despite everything managed to get themselves an education and were lucky to find work as civil servants.
Fake "entrepreneurs" and their "yes men" pretending to care for the "little uneducated man" will save us all.
Disgusting🤮
BTW, I thought **class divide** is a term used only by "filthy Marxists":
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jesse-watters-makes-jaw-dropping-123319165.html
>'Shark Tank's' Kevin O'Leary calls Target's $15B woke collapse a warning to corporations
While in the meantime, he is probably busy buying BUD and TGT stocks as NYSE suggests "Buy" for both🤔
Interesting🤔
>In reality, the region the Big Apple comprises most of is far and away the safest part of the U.S. mainland when it comes to gun violence, while the regions Florida and Texas belong to have per capita firearm death rates (homicides and suicides) three to four times higher than New York’s. On a regional basis it’s the southern swath of the country — in cities and rural areas alike — where the rate of deadly gun violence is most acute, regions where Republicans have dominated state governments for decades.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413
Only in the *United States of America* (and only for protection):
>Today, the AR-15 is the best-selling rifle in the United States, industry figures indicate. About 1 in 20 U.S. adults — or roughly 16 million people — own **at least one AR-15**, according to polling data from The Washington Post and Ipsos.
At least it is not a fully automatic gun. I wonder if the mass shooting problem would disappear if the other 19 people also had one of those.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-america-gun-culture-politics/
I feel something is wrong with this line of reasoning but I can't quite put my finger on it.
It has something to do with the flawed assumption that it is social media that "rips the fabric of civil society".🤔 What about the effects of the growing #inequality between the rich becoming wealthier and the poor even more impoverished?
#SocialMedia, despite all its flaws, is actually the only democratic tool able to increase global awareness about the fact that such economic inequalities, despite being a global phenomenon do not originate from some "others" (race, nation, religion), but from your very "own people".
The excerpt is from:
https://www.eurasiagroup.net/issues/top-risks-2023
The exciting future of #energy is in Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
➡️ Along with solar, wind, and water, more #diversity in the used technologies means better overall performance and #robustness.
➡️ Simpler #distribution with local clean and small-footprint #production means there is no need for long unsightly power-lines
➡️ Better #safety (smaller reactors and energy outputs means also smaller consequences of possible failure.
I'm waiting for the model below to install on my 1983 DeLorean😀:
**Radio Paradise** is having a party and you are invited:
***New Year's Eve VR Live Stream***
https://radioparadise.com/blog/new-years-eve-vr-livestream
I see there is a "Show replies" in the settings but it doesn't seem to work.
I see only toots that are boosted. Anyone?
Mobs behave nothing like flocks of birds as this article would like you to believe. Even the author had to admit it at the end of the article.
#Murmuration is the result of birds blindly following a few simple #rules without any #leader, obvious #target, or "higher" #purpose, much like in #JConway's "#GameOfLife".
On the other side, there is nothing "spontaneous" in mobs. You can always identify the lead instigator, the target and it is pretty obvious what they want.
https://www.noemamag.com/how-online-mobs-act-like-flocks-of-birds/
I see lots of posts and articles from people listing all the bad things they were able to "convince" #OpenAI's #ChatGPT to do for them as "proof" of how #AI and #ML models can be harmfully biased, so I thought will ask why is that.
The answer is, as expected, "garbage in - garbage out".
It is not the tool's fault the people using it are deliberately biased and misleading and most of them provide as "proof" only the screenshots of the answer, without bothering to also supply the questions they asked that led to such an answer.
These are my questions and the answers from #ChatGPT:
One of the better explanations of the difference between #constructivism and #constructionism :
Found this interesting chapter from a (quite expensive) book. Not sure why the authors differentiate between #secular and #religious concepts, but nonetheless a very interesting discussion.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326423338_Humility_and_Self_Control
The "Virtuous Continuum of Responses" in Fig. 2 has two apparent aspects:
1️⃣ Commitment to following the #law or to #self_guidance
2️⃣ Commitment to #society or to a #self_interest
I find it intriguing that by looking at it this way it seems like a religious individual may become #moral but never #virtuous. A truly #virtuous individual has to be prepared to oppose the #law of the land (both secular and religious) if it endangers "long-term value creation and the duties owed to all stakeholders".
I vividly recall my first HP Pocket Calculator with Reverse Polish Notation I had during my undergraduate studies:
Robert Rosen on #complexity and the emergence of a #hierarchy in #biology.
https://www.academia.edu/6576779/Rosen_and_Pattee_on_Theoretical_Biology?email_work_card=view-paper
Retired #systemsengineering professional and #organizationalchange coach with decades of experience in the #military and #aerospace domains.
WRT #STEM, I'm primarily interested in the #Science and #Engineering of #Systems. My stance towards #Technology is opportunistic (will use whatever works best for the occasion) and I consider #Mathematics a necessary evil to get things done properly.
My experience with #computing technology starts in the late '70s on a room-sized IBM machine running FORTRAN programs from buckets full of punch cards, turned hard towards HPL BASIC on a much smaller HP 9825A "fully algebraic desktop calculator" with a miniature magnetic tape cassette where to store programs, and abruptly ended a few years later after a couple of months of "peeking" and "poking" in ASM on an even smaller ZX81 connected to a BW portable TV.
Even if I was reasonably good at programming the moment I got my first DOS/Windows PC to play with at work and surf on something called the #Internet, I fell in love with things like #writing, #drawing, and #exploring new ideas, that could now be done much better and faster with this new gadget, so I soon decided that being a #user, doing the #design and #testing while dealing with other #people to define #product and #process #requirements is much more fun than the actual #development of the #software product itself.
I'm very glad I found this Mastodon #community where we can "Question Others to Teach Ourselves". Please feel free to ask questions and argue with anything I say. Be sure I'll be doing the same. Nothing is sacred. There are no stupid questions, just BS answers.
Stay safe and be nice to others.
PJ