volkris @volkris@qoto.org
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
@NBAnthony2k There's so much misinformation about what the SCOTUS has been doing.
Based on that? Sure.
But when you actually sit down and read their actual rulings, it tells a much different, often opposite story, that's actually fairly reasonable.
At this point mainstream #Republicans are saying that they know Biden didn't get all those votes legally when he ran against #Trump not because they have evidence of any particular conspiracy, but because come on, Trump is awesome, how could anyone not have voted for him?
I don't have a dog in the fight between Republicans and Democrats, but geez, I really hate to see how far down the #GOP has fallen in the last couple of years.
That kind of imbecilic argument is fit for drunkards at the bar and fifth rate media personalities, but at this point some of the preeminent conservative talkers are laying that down.
This is going to be a hard four years in media.
@steter That's a weird way to describe a democratic election and your strong opposition to letting people vote, democratically, for the people they want.
I'm sorry voters didn't vote the way that you would have commended them to vote? Is that really what you want to hear?
The Democratic party acted. They ran a worthless candidate. And the people voted to reject her. Democratically. This is democracy. This is how democracy works.
I'm sorry you don't personally like the way that people vote, and you're demanding that we throw democracy out the window to fix democracy, but do you realize how insane you sound?
@europesays forgiving money owed is not giving people money.
Rather, it's depriving the creditor.
I really wish more people would realize that Biden wasn't giving anything to anybody, he was just defunding the US government, whether you think that's better or worse, it is what it is.
@Cochise I mean that's just not true though
@FantasticalEconomics You've known mainstream media is owned by right-wing billionaires? Is that similar to how you know the Earth is flat?
No, that's a dumb thing to say. Anyone who knows that has been listening to the wrong echo chambers, the wrong conspiracy theorists.
@shellsharks I mean you say it's not possible but you link to an article talking about the possibility.
The article says it's possible.
So there you go.
@DoomsdaysCW That's not what the legislation would do, though.
I really wish organizations like this would not spread such misinformation.
@francesfish It's the barest notion of accountability we can have
@hamid Yes the keyword there is instance.
It's not centered around you, it's centralized around instances.
@francesfish it doesn't matter who has influence. It doesn't matter what messenger one might want to shoot. It's not relevant.
The US government is designed with safeguards that we shouldn't ignore.
@takeitev I'm glad you recognize that you don't understand
@francesfish No, that's not how the process works.
The Senate decides when it is in recess, not Johnson, not Trump.
@wendysiegelman It's kind of like how restaurants benefit from having better health inspections than other ones.
@asb It's better technology, unfortunately.
@xtaldave wow, axios has apparently shifted to not even bothering to tell the whole story, devolving into only the processed bullet points that it puts at the top.
Notice very strikingly that it didn't bother with full quotes in context.
Axios is trash. We should all see the red flags when reading this kind of clickbait headline and sensationalized story.
This is not good for the country.
@gkmizuno I'm saying the second.
We have so much data right now that we can't analyze it in time. In fact we're throwing away a lot of data because we don't think it's worth storing because we won't be able to analyze it anytime soon, so it's not worth the cost of storage.
We are currently awash in data that we can't analyze because we don't have enough ability to analyze it. Maybe AI can help fill that gap, finding patterns in the data that humans don't have the time or energy to tease out.
@indivisibleteam Right, because they are not a judicial organization. They should not release the report because that's not their job. They don't have jurisdiction for that.
It's the wrong branch of government.
The executive branch, and that includes executive branches of states, should investigate this and file the appropriate charges.
But the legislative branch has a different job and should not release this. It's the wrong venue, the wrong tool for the job.
@amerika to paraphrase, maybe it's a stupid idea, but then all the other ideas are stupider.
@gkmizuno Well the thing is, there is a lot of signal that we haven't pulled out of the data that we have already.
Even in current methods we employ grad students to sift through old data looking for new ideas, new messages, new processing to figure things out. That's nothing groundbreaking.
So that's not much of a limit for AI. We know there is a lot of gold in the tailings that human knowledge has amassed. There's a lot of information in the data that we haven't pulled out yet. Currently we try to manually find it, and that's a lot of fertile ground for AI to make advancements.
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
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