I can’t support this blatantly antisocial behavior. I saw the perpetrator and can positively identify him as Benjamin Netanyahu. You will not silence the truth.
I’ve also heard Doctorow claim that there were internal emails that came to light during one of Google’s antitrust cases that showed internal arguments at google about whether they should deliberately make search worse.
Why?
Because they have no competitor. If you don’t find what you’re looking for after a search, what do you do next?
Another search. Which means you get to see twice the ads. It was a thoughtful procedure done to increase the number of searches that people do and therefore ad revenue.
Comparing resource utilization between a chatbot and literal food production is certainly a take. Not that there isn’t plenty of room for criticism of animal agriculture and whether we should all be vegans for multiple reasons. But trying to give AI a pass like this is insanity.
One of the doctors I worked with bought into the craziness and was arguing with the hospital about vaccines and masks even as our ICU was about to burst. Then his wife caught it and ended up in the ICU as a patient. He still did not change his mind despite her being in the hospital, and this was a physician.
I guess what I’m saying is they still probably wouldn’t have learned. I don’t mean to be so pessimistic but propaganda is so powerful.
What the therapist doesn’t understand is that the anger is not just about mom dying. It’s about how everyone around this person failed them in a moment of danger, and as a result of that her mom died a horrible death. And even later, her society was collectively unable to acknowledge its behavior and the consequences it had.
I did not lose my mom but I did work in a hospital as a physician throughout the pandemic. I remember the ICU being full from Covid patients to the point that the hospital had to open new sections up and nurses working overtime to accommodate all of the sick. Then I would leave the hospital after providing care to all of these sick and dying people… and go to the grocery store where everyone was refusing to even mask up and I would see ghoulish politicians who were talking about how it was a hoax. I could see this catastrophe happening in front of my own eyes and everyone around me just wanted to pretend it was fake.
I didn’t suffer the loss this woman did but those terrible experiences and the feeling that my community had completely failed its members forever changed how I see people and the society I live in. So yeah, I get why she is still mad.
Agree it’s probably a harmful stereotype, I simply gave that as an example because it was an experience I had that kind of left me feeling used when it became clear over time what was happening. In that situation it wasn’t that I had set out a desire to police that person’s behavior but after observing it for a long time I felt like I was simply sacrificing from my family’s needs to enable behavior I didn’t agree with. Maybe it’s not my place to judge but we are talking about money I worked for and a decision I have to make about how best to use it. In this situation I decided it was better to use it to help my parents rather than that person. But that’s just one experience that I was generalizing to say maybe this is a part of the answer to your question, idk.
These sorts of mental equations are often under the surface when people have to decide things in the moment and it’s not always a clear, explicit chain of thoughts that leads up to the decision to help in one scenario but not another.
I don’t know if your observation can be universally generalized but I would guess that the short answer is that people may excessively use utilities through carelessness but the margin of error is small. Food however can have a wildly different budget from person to person and is much easier for the giver to feel taken advanatage of.
Example: If someone asks for $200 to pay their electric bill and I later find out that they run their AC cooler than I do, that’s maybe a little annoying but the difference it made in their bill is maybe 10-20%.
If someone asks for that same $200 for food, they may blow through that eating fast food for a couple of days instead of getting a cart of groceries that might have lasted two weeks. It is really easy to quickly waste a lot of money on low quality food. Here I as the giver am way more likely to be upset that my generosity was ‘wasted’ on needlessly expensive junk food instead of making an effort to stretch the funds responsibly (imo). I speak from experience.
The uncertainty that one scenario brings relative to the other is probably part of why people are hesitant to just pour cash into a situation where someone needs food.
Gary’s work has been hugely important to me personally as I feel like this was one of the key pieces of the puzzle that I had danced around but never quite gotten into place. This is at the root of many of our modern problems from falling living standards, rise of the far right, etc. Once someone’s fortune is large enough it becomes a self-sustaining phenomenon like a black hole that has unchecked growth. Eventually they will consume everything unless we unite to change the system that allows this.
I can’t support this blatantly antisocial behavior. I saw the perpetrator and can positively identify him as Benjamin Netanyahu. You will not silence the truth.
It’s ok another commenter positively identified the perp as Benjamin Netanyahu so hopefully the authorities can arrest him.
Binface’s opponent is trash.
Absolutely not.
Not blonde nor brunette, but some third option? Is this implying that all redheads are stoners?
You know, as a treat.
I’ve also heard Doctorow claim that there were internal emails that came to light during one of Google’s antitrust cases that showed internal arguments at google about whether they should deliberately make search worse.
Why?
Because they have no competitor. If you don’t find what you’re looking for after a search, what do you do next?
Another search. Which means you get to see twice the ads. It was a thoughtful procedure done to increase the number of searches that people do and therefore ad revenue.
Comparing resource utilization between a chatbot and literal food production is certainly a take. Not that there isn’t plenty of room for criticism of animal agriculture and whether we should all be vegans for multiple reasons. But trying to give AI a pass like this is insanity.
#BrandNewSentence
Holy hell that is hilarious.
You don’t have ten kids in ten years by lolligagging about taking pictures.
This is everything I wanted to say. Everything. Right down to the John Connor quote.
One of the doctors I worked with bought into the craziness and was arguing with the hospital about vaccines and masks even as our ICU was about to burst. Then his wife caught it and ended up in the ICU as a patient. He still did not change his mind despite her being in the hospital, and this was a physician.
I guess what I’m saying is they still probably wouldn’t have learned. I don’t mean to be so pessimistic but propaganda is so powerful.
What the therapist doesn’t understand is that the anger is not just about mom dying. It’s about how everyone around this person failed them in a moment of danger, and as a result of that her mom died a horrible death. And even later, her society was collectively unable to acknowledge its behavior and the consequences it had.
I did not lose my mom but I did work in a hospital as a physician throughout the pandemic. I remember the ICU being full from Covid patients to the point that the hospital had to open new sections up and nurses working overtime to accommodate all of the sick. Then I would leave the hospital after providing care to all of these sick and dying people… and go to the grocery store where everyone was refusing to even mask up and I would see ghoulish politicians who were talking about how it was a hoax. I could see this catastrophe happening in front of my own eyes and everyone around me just wanted to pretend it was fake.
I didn’t suffer the loss this woman did but those terrible experiences and the feeling that my community had completely failed its members forever changed how I see people and the society I live in. So yeah, I get why she is still mad.
Agree it’s probably a harmful stereotype, I simply gave that as an example because it was an experience I had that kind of left me feeling used when it became clear over time what was happening. In that situation it wasn’t that I had set out a desire to police that person’s behavior but after observing it for a long time I felt like I was simply sacrificing from my family’s needs to enable behavior I didn’t agree with. Maybe it’s not my place to judge but we are talking about money I worked for and a decision I have to make about how best to use it. In this situation I decided it was better to use it to help my parents rather than that person. But that’s just one experience that I was generalizing to say maybe this is a part of the answer to your question, idk.
These sorts of mental equations are often under the surface when people have to decide things in the moment and it’s not always a clear, explicit chain of thoughts that leads up to the decision to help in one scenario but not another.
This is the answer. Tax wealth, not work.
YES! These clowns are pathetic.
I don’t know if your observation can be universally generalized but I would guess that the short answer is that people may excessively use utilities through carelessness but the margin of error is small. Food however can have a wildly different budget from person to person and is much easier for the giver to feel taken advanatage of.
Example: If someone asks for $200 to pay their electric bill and I later find out that they run their AC cooler than I do, that’s maybe a little annoying but the difference it made in their bill is maybe 10-20%.
If someone asks for that same $200 for food, they may blow through that eating fast food for a couple of days instead of getting a cart of groceries that might have lasted two weeks. It is really easy to quickly waste a lot of money on low quality food. Here I as the giver am way more likely to be upset that my generosity was ‘wasted’ on needlessly expensive junk food instead of making an effort to stretch the funds responsibly (imo). I speak from experience.
The uncertainty that one scenario brings relative to the other is probably part of why people are hesitant to just pour cash into a situation where someone needs food.
Where he parked should have been the LAST sign to go up. What was he thinking?
/s
Gary’s work has been hugely important to me personally as I feel like this was one of the key pieces of the puzzle that I had danced around but never quite gotten into place. This is at the root of many of our modern problems from falling living standards, rise of the far right, etc. Once someone’s fortune is large enough it becomes a self-sustaining phenomenon like a black hole that has unchecked growth. Eventually they will consume everything unless we unite to change the system that allows this.
Tax wealth, not work.