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  • This?

    if you use a watt of sunlight to power your phone instead of a watt of energy you got from burning coal, this watt of energy instead stays below earth and therefore doesn’t heat up the planet.

    The “watt of energy” is a watt from the coal… And they’re saying to leave the coal buried and sequestered.

    I assumed that was understood, so I explained how burning coal heats up the planet…

    You may have not realized what you highlighted had to do with fossil fuels, but that’s just because you didn’t understand.

    Which is fine, you did the right thing and asked questions.


  • Fossil fuels are carbon.

    That carbon was sequestered from the atmosphere millions of years ago.

    Burning fossil fuels releases that carbon into the atmosphere, which then makes the earth hotter

    Think of oil as dead dinosaurs and coal as dead trees, that’s basically what it is.

    All that stuff was taken out of circulation over an insanely long timeline, and now on a very short timeline we’re digging it up and putting it back into circulation. So fast that species can’t adapt to the change and die out before they can evolve.


  • Nothing.

    Human variation has always existed.

    Conservatives have larger amygdalas so they respond more to that strategy. Liberals have larger prefrontal cortex’s where things like empathy and critical thinking happen, that’s why they’re “bleeding heart liberals”.

    It’s not a small difference. A random person off the street with zero medical training can tell your political leaning from just an MRI scan once someone points out the two relevant parts with like 82% accuracy, which considering some people will be “between” is crazy accurate.

    https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/848363

    Now, the difference isn’t innate, and it can change even later in life.

    But as people’s brains change so the amygdala gets to call more shots, that person is going to want conservative politicians, so Dems move to the right to chase the voters they scared into becoming more conservative…

    Which just further disenfraches the people with a larger left insula (prefrontal cortex) and makes both parties appear the same to them even if one is the “lesser evil”.

    It’s not really new, we’ve known about this since before trump won his first election.

    It’s just the people running the DNC do t care about sociology or even psychology…

    Just money


  • Because not everyone thinks the same.

    Unfortunately both parties have pivoted to chasing voters who are just afraid of “them” and that’s what they both built campaigns around.

    Fear of “them” will always translate to more conservative votes than liberal, so Republicans will win those elections the majority of the time.

    Like, maybe you were just complaining it happened, but if you legitimately didn’t know why, that’s probably the largest contributer.

    Dems gave up on “bleeding heart liberals” because they have standards as voters.





  • it’s not just pure numerical IQ,

    We talk about IQ like it’s a single number, but it’s like SAT/ACT, a bunch of different specific scores averaged into one number. So yeah it’s not as simple as a single number. I was thinking mostly processing speed and associative memory, but obviously you need the general knowledge as well.

    The more variety of life you experience, the more you know of human history, different cultures, ways of thinking and seeing the world - the harder it is for you to get impressed by something as shallow as AI.

    This is a very specific and easily fixable problem. It’s trained by a certain class of people, so it’s going to regurgitate stuff from that class and ignore everyone who hadn’t trained it.

    Tech bros live in a bubble of their own creation and don’t understand the true richness of the human condition.

    Nobody is gonna argue with that tho



  • Everyone’s frame of reference is their own IQ…

    So for some people AI seems as smart as their frame of reference, or even better.

    They assume their frame of reference is everyone’s, so we’re in that weird period where dumb people are super excited about AI, and smart people still think it’s a gimmick.

    Those people who find AI impressive, see it as a means to level the playing field, and it will eventually.

    It just means the smarter you are, the longer it’s going to take to be impressive. Because your frame of reference is just a higher standard.

    They’d never be as creative as a creative person, so to them it’s switching from relying on a person they have no control over or influence on, to a computer program that will do whatever is asked. To them it generates the same quality as a person, don’t forget the most popular media caters to the lowest common denominator, this is the same thing.

    Like, it makes sense from their perspective. You just need to realize everyone has a different perspective.

    It’s human variation



  • It can only tell quality by community engagement and mod pruning.

    What a community finds high quality tho is always going to be the lowest common denominator.

    So the general path is small communities that have members in sync with each other.

    But their quality of content attracts more people, which lowers the bar of the community.

    Like, the lowest common denominator is the natural state of a community. To raise it you need to hold higher standards for the members of the community, which is going to get everyone excluded talking about elitism.

    And they’d have a valid point.

    For profit companies will always choose the one that comes with the most eyeballs. So unless you’re charging people a membership fee, you’ll never see a publicly traded company choose that, and when they do it’s not about quality, it’s about who’s willing to pay the entrance fee to the walled garden.