Politically_Normal_Work_Account [hy/hym]

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Cake day: May 7th, 2024
  • Politically_Normal_Work_Account [hy/hym]tochapotraphouse•Doing everything I can to convince myself that AI is not slowly becoming a religion
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    20 days ago

    This actually isn't that rare or as dire as it sounds -- when people ask me Science Things that are out of my purview, i often say that my stem degree is mostly not about Knowing Stuff or being able to do infinite complicated math off the top of your head, its about knowing how to figure out how to do the math, how to derive the Knowing Stuff from first principles, and where to go looking for and how to understand the information that you need to have to do that.

    how to conduct an effective web search

    I was also given courses that could be described as this; it was about how to find scientific journals, which ones to trust and which ones not to, when and how to contact a researcher directly instead of going through their company/journal/department, how to access papers 'legitimately' and for free, how to find and ethically use digital information that is permissible in peer reviewed papers, navigating the guts of NASA's old websites, how to scrape data, etc etc. Like, yes, sure, i suppose that that is just a very detailed and specific set of web-searches, but also, they absolutely would have had similar stuff in the pre-internet era, but it was just about library use, archival systems, and getting data physically posted to you instead.

    These days, to not predicate modern science on access to the internet/worldwide data systems/computers would be like not assuming you'll have access to a fucking microscope or a library. Like yeah sure, at some point you might not, but i guarantee that then you will have much bigger problems. Scientists don't just know stuff, because that would require knowing almost everything in your field and that's not humanly possible. We know how to find it out, either through figuring it out or looking it up

    EDIT: i'm not saying that this ai shit isn't shockingly and aggressively stupid, i'm just trying to make it clear that what your friend was talking about 10 years ago is almost certainly nothing like what's happening now. This is new and insane.

  • Politically_Normal_Work_Account [hy/hym]tosino•The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China - New General Megathread for the 25th-27th of October 2024
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    2 months ago

    My current "paladin" (zealot barbarian) is an extremely thinly veiled Fantasy Catholic and i fully encourage you to go that way when you can, its great. You can use it for comedy, commentary, tragedy, or all of the above, whatever. My guy is an ignorant spoiled prissy bastard but he's been raised and educated explicitly to fill the precarious position of model minority within the church. His privilege hinges on supporting empire and desperately believing unserious contradictory shit that hurts people (including sometimes him). His dumbassery is funny but becomes crushingly depressing whenever we accidentally think about his circumstances for more than 30 seconds 🥰 the rest of the party's reactions when he occasionally gets his leash yanked is always great fun

    If you do a more serious interpretation, the mental gymnastics and willful ignorance you get to play with are genuinely wonderful, and if you want to take it in more of a jokey direction then you have a great real-life foundation to build comedy on that everyone else at the table is familiar with. i love your 2nd christian "hey check out this hot new thing my buddy mike invented - its called 'papal supremacy'. yeah, he's the papal, why do you ask?" thing too, very fun.

  • Politically_Normal_Work_Account [hy/hym]toThe Dredge Tank•what wtf is DEI chin?
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    3 months ago

    when hades 2 dropped everyone was freaking out about how Aphrodite must be trans because of her jawline, i assume its more of that. even when they do get the half naked skinny woman they say they want, they'll still invent shadows to jump at. its not about whats actually happening, its about how chuds want to feel (persecuted and righteously furious)