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
@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.
@rightardia exactly.
This is a campaign stunt, no more.
People really need to get a sense of context here, people really need to understand how the government works and not buy into this silliness.
@KeithDJohnson The most important reaction to this is, the president doesn't have that authority.
EVEN IF Trump intends to create such an authoritarian state, which runs counter to his campaign promises and the mainstream wants of his voters and everything else they say, even if we accept that extreme claim by his partisan opposition, he wouldn't be able to. Because we don't give presidents that choice.
So this kind of sensationalized talk is just nonsense. It doesn't help us oppose the guy, it just makes you sound like a kook.
@UptownGirl Tuberville is a moron. Nobody should listen to him. He keeps comparing everything to being a coach, because again, he's an utter moron who can't get it through his head that he's not coaching now.
The Senate majority leader doesn't have nearly the amount of power that people believe he has. All of the senators are welcome to override him at any point, so he just reflects what the Senate as a whole wants to do.
Tuberville sees this as a football game, because he's a moron, and so he doesn't understand that the the majority leader isn't a quarterback or something like that. He doesn't understand what the majority leader does and so we get quotes like this.
@sidereal That's not all it does, though.
@TomWellborn@universeodon.com you don't understand, Gaetz is not a loyalist. His history is one of backstabbing and generally screwing things up even for his own side, if he has one. That's not what's going on there.
Mass deportations? Well if the president has the authority to connect such negative things, then he should have had that authority taken away by law. We need to hold Democrats accountable for not having fixed the law.
You say Democrats must regroup, but in the end they screwed us over real bad here. It's not about regrouping, it's about calling them out and firing the whole lot of them for being utter failures to fix the laws that obviously needed to be fixed.
@BrianJopek I mean, putting an energy expert in charge of the department focused on energy...
Here you're promoting conspiracy theories that just don't add up. Somebody is misleading you and you should stop listening to them.
Billionaires bought the Supreme Court? Well that doesn't make sense considering the Supreme Court ruling against billionaires over and over.
Thanks to technology billionaires no longer have to fear angry mobs? Well that's going to be news to the billionaires getting attacked physically and also losing market share to movements coming out of tick tock.
Somebody is feeding you some lies here, and you really should stop listening to those people.
@Legit_Spaghetti The problem is, the alternative was promising to double down on that situation.
I mean, it's a blog post from someone who clearly seems very out of touch with a large part of the country, not understanding them, but feeling very entitled to project assumptions onto them to suit personal cognitive biases.
That's not the way to make for a better life, to make for a better society.
It just doubles down on the stuff that got Trump elected in the first place. It doubles down on the stuff that trolling Trump supporters are making fun of such people over.
It's better to go for understanding than to close back up into the echo chambers that kept the opposition from staging a solid, well, opposition during the election.
@QasimRashid meh. Democracy decided it didn't care.
@geos heaven forbid one engages here on social media.
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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