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
@statsguy No, it's pretty much the opposite.
Democrats are complaining that Republicans aren't imposing on states. Often enough they even accuse Republicans of taking too much power because the power they are referring to is the prosecutorial discretion NOT to impose on states.
Democrats complain that Republicans seek the power not to impose power on the states.
I know that gets into confusing double negatives, but it is what it is.
It's also, of course, not 100% coherent. A lot of these politicians go back and forth and are hypocritical, but this is the general rule.
@berniethewordsmith building on what other replies said, think about it this way:
When you need to put a couple of shapes on the screen that is thousands of individual pixels that need to be updated all at the same time. GPUs, graphical processing units, are designed so that they can update as many of those pixels all at once. That's why they are specialized for working in parallel, doing a bunch of things at the same time, because all of those different parts of the screen all need to be updated at the same time.
In contrast, if you need to do something like, I don't know, adding up your bank account, a traditional CPU does that as a single process, single calculation, as quickly as possible. It does one thing as fast as possible to get one single number as a result.
The current type of AI happens to need to do a whole lot of things in parallel so it is more like the GPU needing to update all the pieces of the screen at the same time. It's KIND OF like the AI needs to read a thousand books all at the same time as it's training. That's not a perfect analogy, but it's close.
People need to remember that there are so many issues with this.
For one, the documents they want to see might not exist at all. For another, even if the documents do exist they might not say what they expect. And then if they do exist and they say something noteworthy, Congress can't really force the executive branch to release them. And even if the executive branch decides to release them, it might be legitimately too incompetent to actually do it.
There are so many different things that can go wrong to prevent the thing people are getting excited about.
That's why this is rightly considered to be something of a stunt.
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Liberals need to stop calling conservatives Nazis because it's dehumatizing! -- #Hannity, apparently not knowing that Nazis were indeed human #USPolitics
@moira is
He's not confused. He's correct.
There's no first amendment right to be in the press corps.
Really this is just fundamentally how decentralization works. This is how scaling works. This is mathematical, fundamental laws of physics sorts of things.
If you want true decentralization then it's going to be resource intensive. There is mathematically no avoiding that.
Fediverse is badly coded (IMO) but it tries to avoid these issues by not actually being decentralized. Federation means it's centralized around instances, not decentralized, but centralized around instances.
BlueSky proposes to fulfill the promise, but there is no avoiding that the promise comes with costs.
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#Kilmeade, missing that he is potentially identifying the problem: To be a reporter traveling with the president is really rough because the guy doesn't sleep! He'll wander out and talk to the press anytime around the clock. He doesn't sleep! #Trump #USPolitics
@light Yeah, the options might not be easy, but at least there are options, unlike on fediverse where you're just screwed by the instance centralization.
That's the point.
It might be inconvenient, and maybe with time there can be systems to improve the user experience, but on fediverse there's just no way at all.
@hellomiakoda The problem is false information about what's going on in Portland.
We need to identify the root problem here, the false information. Complaining about the response to the falsehoods doesn't really fix it, it just papers over it and promotes the controversy.
@Teknevra Well that's exactly the reason not to do that.
Federation is honestly kind of stupid. Better to decentralize down to the user level and let users manage their experiences. There is no good reason to double down on centralizing around instances, and this is a fantastic illustration of why centralizing around instances is a dumb idea.
@mdione better: #USPolitics
There's no reason not to spell it out.
@cazabon More likely he did it just to get in the headlines, to get attention. It's really all he cares about.
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@b7bird.bsky.social What in the world?
If you listen to the GOP they are solidly behind it.
@Hex absolutely not.
It's like saying that Trump flapping his arms failed to fly around the room is because of protesters. No, it's because his bullshit never had a chance in the first place.
In fact anti-fascist organizing gives him a leg up because he gets to run against it. It actually helps him. He's still going to fail because he doesn't have a chance because he's an idiot, but the anti-fascist organizing helps propel him a little bit farther than he would otherwise.
He would probably have never been re-elected without the anti-fascist organizing. It's a large part of what got him over that line of beating Harris.
Trump is going to fail because he's an idiot the same they way that he was convicted because he doesn't know how the legal system works, but the anti-fascist organizing is only supporting him as he uses it in campaign speeches to his crowd.
@realcaseyrollins you give the people what they want!
@hanspetermeyer congratulations, Canada, you just got a boondoggle.
@foxmental.bsky.social It's not a ruling
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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