The vote splitting argument is dangerous.
If we say "don't split the vote", why stop at YP? Why should the greens be allowed to split the vote? Those left wing votes "belong" to labour!
And why should reform be "allowed" to "split the vote" on the right? Those right wing votes "belong" to the conservatives!
Soon you have the US two party system. Vote team red or team blue.
Reality is, other parties are important because those votes don't "belong" to any party. Either the bigger parties earn your vote or some other party does.
Even parties that don't win a single seat can have an outsized influence if voters are indicating satisfaction with certain underrepresented policies or dissatisfaction with certain overrepresented policies. On the right, reform only got like 5 seats in the last UK election, but they've fundamentally changed the discussion on the right, for example.
It's true, reform did split the vote on the right, and they're the reason labour is in power right now, but just as you can't drive a car by saying "left" or "right" every hour or so, you can't run a national government that way. A lot of people on the British right are sick of pressing the "right" button election after election and getting functionally left politicies.
With respect to progressive policies, this sort of feedback is actually essential because progressives are constantly in a process of creating policies, and quietly dropping old policies that end up being bad and pretending they were always right wing. Without a feedback mechanism, perhaps progressives would still be nationalist eugenicists.
If we say "don't split the vote", why stop at YP? Why should the greens be allowed to split the vote? Those left wing votes "belong" to labour!
And why should reform be "allowed" to "split the vote" on the right? Those right wing votes "belong" to the conservatives!
Soon you have the US two party system. Vote team red or team blue.
Reality is, other parties are important because those votes don't "belong" to any party. Either the bigger parties earn your vote or some other party does.
Even parties that don't win a single seat can have an outsized influence if voters are indicating satisfaction with certain underrepresented policies or dissatisfaction with certain overrepresented policies. On the right, reform only got like 5 seats in the last UK election, but they've fundamentally changed the discussion on the right, for example.
It's true, reform did split the vote on the right, and they're the reason labour is in power right now, but just as you can't drive a car by saying "left" or "right" every hour or so, you can't run a national government that way. A lot of people on the British right are sick of pressing the "right" button election after election and getting functionally left politicies.
With respect to progressive policies, this sort of feedback is actually essential because progressives are constantly in a process of creating policies, and quietly dropping old policies that end up being bad and pretending they were always right wing. Without a feedback mechanism, perhaps progressives would still be nationalist eugenicists.
There's a reason why it's taken so seriously in China, Singapore, and so on. They've read a history book.
I was getting some incense cones for this cool 3d printed dragon I bought that breathes incense smoke, and two of the smells were frankincense and myrrh. With christmas coming of course I had to pick up those.
It shocked me how much frankincense smells exactly like women's perfume.
It shocked me how much frankincense smells exactly like women's perfume.
Never ask a woman her weight
A man his income
A politician if they cheated on a mortgage application
Lol
A man his income
A politician if they cheated on a mortgage application
Lol
She isn't a thicko, she's a wealthy, highly educated young woman playing the part of a black wigger because it plays to her base and her opposition.
A lot of things that demo really well fail in practice.
The problem is that demo environments are limited and don't involve your own company data, which tends to be ugly and sloppy. That's where good humans come in, we can automatically carry context no LLM can, at least at the moment.
Since the information you're looking for isn't trained into the llm, it won't be able to just give you the right answer, but for most companies you also don't have enough data to train an LLM. Same problem with the similarly exciting but ultimately largely ignored "big data". Most companies aren't Google with everything on the web saved, and their LLM sucks.
The problem is that demo environments are limited and don't involve your own company data, which tends to be ugly and sloppy. That's where good humans come in, we can automatically carry context no LLM can, at least at the moment.
Since the information you're looking for isn't trained into the llm, it won't be able to just give you the right answer, but for most companies you also don't have enough data to train an LLM. Same problem with the similarly exciting but ultimately largely ignored "big data". Most companies aren't Google with everything on the web saved, and their LLM sucks.
The average income in my house is pretty high, but if you remove me from the question it's zero because most of the people in my house make 0.
It's a fork of pleroma. For a while it had additional features over pleroma such as quote posting but it's been somewhat stagnant for a while so I'm not sure there's actually any advantages at this point or if pleroma proper already has the new features. At some point I'm planning to migrate back to pleroma, but everything works pretty well for me so it's not very high priority.
https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes
Someone ported Windows NT for PowerPC to the Wii. It works, too.
People go "How do people fall for scams on the Internet?", the real answer is "Because a lot of crazy things aren't scams!"
Someone ported Windows NT for PowerPC to the Wii. It works, too.
People go "How do people fall for scams on the Internet?", the real answer is "Because a lot of crazy things aren't scams!"
Every year, it becomes easier to become a millionaire, but every year it matters less and less because a million dollars is less and less. Eventually, a millionaire will be someone on minimum wage.
Patel always looks so surprised. Like "what the shit you guys actually made me head of the FBI?!"
Honestly, even the COVID shot was insanely harsh. I slept a full 24 hours with a fever with it, and my dad had to quit a job he has lined up because it knocked him on his ass for a month. Then we all got COVID anyway!
Neither of us are Americans, I just used it as an example we can both relate to. Unfortunately, as Rammstein sang, we're all living in America, so American politics get exported to every corner of the globe regardless of a national history. You know about it whether you like it or not.
A lot of the work I'm doing is taking my somewhat alien frame, and trying to translate it into something you'd understand. Considering I haven't published meditations on post-metamodern superpositional epistemology yet, it isn't reasonable to use those tools directly without making my somewhat long posts chapter length, so relating it to examples and mental frames we both can understand is the only way we can have a meaningful conversation.
Directly applicable to me, Ottawa wants to blame me for their historic actions, but the truth is I have more in common with my local indigenous friends and neighbors than "my kind" in Ottawa (or for that matter, in Toronto) who rule. Ottawa apologizes on "my" behalf while queuing up the next intolerable acts they'll apologize for on "my" behalf tomorrow. Meanwhile I get to watch the land my grandfathers lived in stagnate and rot. My grandfathers didn't take anyone's kids, they died young of silicosis. Yet because as an aggregate they could throw my grandparents (and possibly yours as well, did they do anything wrong per se?) into a stack of people so they could take personal responsibility for the actions of a ruling class that oppressed everyone in various ways.
Meanwhile, my paternal grandfather died young and bitter at a government who told him he was fighting the fascists in Italy for freedom only to slowly become totalitarian and choke out all the freedoms he fought for.
A lot of the work I'm doing is taking my somewhat alien frame, and trying to translate it into something you'd understand. Considering I haven't published meditations on post-metamodern superpositional epistemology yet, it isn't reasonable to use those tools directly without making my somewhat long posts chapter length, so relating it to examples and mental frames we both can understand is the only way we can have a meaningful conversation.
Directly applicable to me, Ottawa wants to blame me for their historic actions, but the truth is I have more in common with my local indigenous friends and neighbors than "my kind" in Ottawa (or for that matter, in Toronto) who rule. Ottawa apologizes on "my" behalf while queuing up the next intolerable acts they'll apologize for on "my" behalf tomorrow. Meanwhile I get to watch the land my grandfathers lived in stagnate and rot. My grandfathers didn't take anyone's kids, they died young of silicosis. Yet because as an aggregate they could throw my grandparents (and possibly yours as well, did they do anything wrong per se?) into a stack of people so they could take personal responsibility for the actions of a ruling class that oppressed everyone in various ways.
Meanwhile, my paternal grandfather died young and bitter at a government who told him he was fighting the fascists in Italy for freedom only to slowly become totalitarian and choke out all the freedoms he fought for.
I used to run friendica at first, but the php backend wasn't robust enough and messages got lost on my first hardware. Today I'm running soapbox and rebased.
An example of the point I'm is making is Baltimore schools -- the systemic way of handling illiteracy is to just pass everyone regardless of their math or literacy levels. That makes a lot of people "high school graduates" which the numbers say the black school districts are better than they were due to high graduation rates, but it ignores that they're all illiterate and innumerate (as measured by standardized literacy tests which show some entire schools lack a single graduate who is reading or doing math at grade level). Treating people like the system is them is the problem here. The measures get better, but in reality what just happened was global systemic damage to high school education.
The discussion goes "Oh, we need more black high school graduates because high school graduates in aggregate make more money than non-high school graduates". Those aggregates are true, but by systemetizing that, you don't necessarily ensure those students go off to make more money. Instead, you devalue high school educations and get a situation like the US sees where the university degree becomes the new baseline. This ends up harming all high school students as a whole, at the cost of nominally but not necessarily practically improving the lot of the individual students involved.
The person who is harmed the most by this game is the hardworking and diligent black high school student who does the work to earn a high school diploma honestly, only to have their work devalued by a system that hoped to elevate blacks, resulting in individual harm.
(Baltimore just happens to have a lot of majority black areas which is why it ends up being a focus here)
https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/state-test-results-23-baltimore-schools-have-zero-students-proficient-in-math-jovani-patterson-maryland-comprehensive-assessment-program-maryland-governor-wes-moore
The discussion goes "Oh, we need more black high school graduates because high school graduates in aggregate make more money than non-high school graduates". Those aggregates are true, but by systemetizing that, you don't necessarily ensure those students go off to make more money. Instead, you devalue high school educations and get a situation like the US sees where the university degree becomes the new baseline. This ends up harming all high school students as a whole, at the cost of nominally but not necessarily practically improving the lot of the individual students involved.
The person who is harmed the most by this game is the hardworking and diligent black high school student who does the work to earn a high school diploma honestly, only to have their work devalued by a system that hoped to elevate blacks, resulting in individual harm.
(Baltimore just happens to have a lot of majority black areas which is why it ends up being a focus here)
https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/state-test-results-23-baltimore-schools-have-zero-students-proficient-in-math-jovani-patterson-maryland-comprehensive-assessment-program-maryland-governor-wes-moore