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by systemstops 25d ago
That was devastating to a summer camp that do so volunteer IT work for. By the time they called me, the data was long gone.
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by systemstops 11mo ago
Maybe it will be a shot in arm for Wikipedia to make some needed reforms.
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by systemstops 11mo ago
Yeah, I guess you're right - came out last night while I was sleeping.
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by systemstops 11mo ago
I hope so, but that would require of rolling back some changes they made that led to ideological biases, which would be fought tooth and nail.
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by systemstops 11mo ago
Grokipedia literally just came out a few hours ago. So this article was already in the can before they could even test it.
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by systemstops 11mo ago
It's got some obvious bias right now, but some articles are already better than Wikipedia - for example on the origin of Covid. I'm not really going to trust either one of them for the foreseeable future.
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by systemstops 11mo ago
It will get better. This is only version 0.1.
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by systemstops 11mo ago
It's fine it this was some blog, but this is supposed to be "serious" journalism. It comes off as childish and unprofessional.
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by systemstops 11mo ago
Calling people "Silicon Valley freaks" is really trashy.
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by systemstops 1y ago
Something similar that collects news from various sources, plus it adds social media context: https://truenorthnews.app/
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by systemstops 1y ago
Public policies were made (or justified) based on some of this research. People used this "settled science" to make consequential decisions. Stereotype threat for example was widely used to explain test score gaps as purely enviro
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by systemstops 1y ago
Those things were not done by awful people though - they all thought they were serving the public good. We only judge it as awful now because of the results. Nearly of these ideas (Lysenkoism I think was always fringe) were embraced by the
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by systemstops 1y ago
Is anyone tracking how much damage to society bad social science has done? I imagine it's quite a bit.
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Justin's Idea Catcher(ideas.jwest.org)
2 points by systemstops 1y ago|0 comments
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by systemstops 1y ago
THOUSANDS of young girls were sexually exploited for YEARS and the government did nothing about it because they didn't want to appear to be racist. There is no equivalence with any of the "average" sex crimes that happen in m
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by systemstops 1y ago
Personally, I would rate the grooming gangs scandal as one of the worse things that happened to a western nation in decades. It literally made me sick to stomach when I read the details. I think the obsession is somewhat justified.
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by systemstops 1y ago
> I started working with folks from the UK right at the start when social media really took off, and I personally think that what ails the UK is the same as what ails the world. Too much social media. There have been a number of public s
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by systemstops 1y ago
Healthcare coverage generally comes with any fulltime job. It's cheap for individuals (I pay about $150/month) but gets more expensive with families, which is a real problem. Most medications are cheap. The only medications I&#x27
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by systemstops 1y ago
It's a social construct in the way that all categories are. The question is whether or not a category is useful. I'm saying there are genetic differences between groups, but our structuring of these groups is pretty flexible. Ther
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by systemstops 1y ago
Race is a social construct, but one loosely based on biological reality. As we unravel the mystery of human origins using ancient DNA, we are starting to get a better understanding of the how different groups came to be. The idea what we ar
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by systemstops 1y ago
Sorry, not my intent to flamebait. I'll drop it.
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by systemstops 1y ago
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by systemstops 1y ago
How would you know when the problem is solved though? If you look at average earnings of groups and correct for IQ, the gap disappears. If you want all groups to score the same on tests of cognitive ability, we've been trying to do tha
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by systemstops 1y ago
Both things can be true. That fact is that some groups that were discriminated against now thrive, and some don't (even after trillions of dollars in public spending). That is why cognitive testing is helpful at figuring out what is go
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by systemstops 1y ago
Based on the theory that gaps between groups are caused by systemic factors. The gaps exist, so an explanation and fix is needed, which is morally commendable. The problem is that the theory is far too overconfident and completely ignores t
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by systemstops 1y ago
People still argue what things made a small city state (Athens) suddenly become the cornerstone of western civilization. That fact is that we have these explosions of human potential where certain groups of people in certain environments ma
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by systemstops 1y ago
"If these are the conditions under which passionate creative problem solving thrives, then of course we must recover them to make software great again. But they are not." This doesn't make any sense. Obviously those condition
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Show HN: The Wikle – Improve quality of AI answers with human source curation(thewikle.com)
1 points by systemstops 1y ago|0 comments
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by systemstops 1y ago
Perhaps instead of fact checking, we could compare the previous narratives with known public knowledge of the events, to determine if the narratives provided an accurate view of reality. It is easy to distort the truth and still tell no lie
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by systemstops 1y ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted. Here is summary of numerous articles warning that political advocacy by scientists would backfire. https://open.substack.com/pub/unsafescience/p/we-tried-to-wa...

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