Oh man, the self-modifying code canard. Look, DNA modifying itself happens, right? It even sort of happens by design.
That doesn't mean mutations are necessarily meaningful. Most are terminal. Code is exactly the same. Most modifications are terminal. None are going to result in substantial changes to the architecture of the system. Not without lots of natural selection.
And you're underestimating our understanding of our brains.
Yeah, okay, they're also a bureaucracy with side projects supported by wikipedia's popularity.
You won't believe this, but if you live in a rich area, and you support your local NPR station, chances are you're subsidizing other stations broadcasting in poor areas. Community supported projects tend to be a bit socialist like that.
Every time we get one of these no AI researchers coming in and saying this stuff, I feel forced to repeat it.
AI isn't magic. It does exactly what it's designed to do: break down and understand problems. It isn't motivated. It isn't emotional. It isn't anti-human. And imaging some "strong AI" nonsense is just like creationists claiming a fundamental distinction between microevolution and macroevolution. It just ignores the reality of what "strong AI" would entail.
AI is not magic. And it won't ever be. It won't be smarter than people, except by whatever arbitrary metric of smart any given application requires.
Yeah, but there's this threshold where you're wrong enough, and shitty enough, that public hatred for your opinions isn't some chilling effect that's going to supress free speech. He has a right to be wrong, but he has no goddamn right not be hated for it when it's this level of awful.
No, this is how I react when racists post unfactual bullshit, refuted by their own supporting citations, to defend beliefs that hurt people in the real world.
Honestly. You are terrible. Stop being terrible, and we can sort out any differences you want.
"Nah, see, racism is okay, cause it's just his opinion maaaaaaaaaaan" isn't a valid defense of untrue shit.
It's not like I'm throwing him in jail. You're just insisting on "politically correct" tolerance of racism. Fuck you. Stop with your thoughtcrime accusations.
Big software projects need developers. Full time, accountable ones with a paycheck and an office. Mozilla feeds theirs with ad revenue, Linux has some corporate supporters who pay the bills.
MediaWiki, that drives Wikipedia, is really complex. And they need new features to support the site better, especially admin tools and backend tech.
But, at the same time, screaming in desperation when you're doing okay and just need support for your functionality means that when you are in trouble, no one can tell.
Africa has made fuck-tons of development. Everything extrapolating from an outright wrong premise can be ignored. Stop pretending you know things based on popular culture, and actually look at metrics.
Look at this: a racist douchebag gets modded +5 insightful for posting a racist screen, and someone points out that his own linked study completely undermines his point, and sits at zero.
Racists are very good at reinforcing their existing beliefs. And very bad at actually being right about things.
Oh look, racist pseudoscience upmodded to +5 informative. Actually read the goddamn wikipedia page this horrifyingly awful douchebag links.
Fuck, the damn Flynn effect has made a 20 to 40 point shift in the last century, and this douche just fucking glosses over environmental factors as "eh, whatever, they can't explain anything"
Fuck you.
Fuck everyone who upmodded you.
Fuck everyone who just became less informed because you spouted of your uneducated racist-ass beliefs.
And fuck those upcoming assholes who will mod this flamebait, racists are the worst people and deserve zero defense.
It's not so much "Taboo" as it is frequently brought up by idiots who have no substantial evidence and a strong history of using made up bullshit to push injustice.
There's very little evidential reason to consider anything said by "racial realists" as anything other than the babbling of childish nincompoops. There is scientific evidence that genetic variation within "races" is greater than the variation between the median genetic profiles of "races".
Suffice it to say, given how much debunked "science" there is in the history of racist fuckery, not expecting any good science from them now isn't unreasonable.
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Oh man, the self-modifying code canard. Look, DNA modifying itself happens, right? It even sort of happens by design.
That doesn't mean mutations are necessarily meaningful. Most are terminal. Code is exactly the same. Most modifications are terminal. None are going to result in substantial changes to the architecture of the system. Not without lots of natural selection.
And you're underestimating our understanding of our brains.
You know what, fuck it. Here's another post for you racists to mod down.
Not one goddamn person has supported his notion that Africa hasn't had progress.
Multiple people have modded me down for calling him out on his racist bullshit.
One of you ignorant fuckers defend this shit.
I mean, just look at the HDI growths, and keep telling me nothing changed.
There's just nothing to this bullshit. And you guys just eat it the fuck up.
What's wrong with you?
What's wrong with you?
Yeah, okay, they're also a bureaucracy with side projects supported by wikipedia's popularity.
You won't believe this, but if you live in a rich area, and you support your local NPR station, chances are you're subsidizing other stations broadcasting in poor areas. Community supported projects tend to be a bit socialist like that.
Oh, unsubstantiated accusations of racism.
I love this.
"Black people are by their nature stupider than whites"
"That's not true and your own damn link undermines you, racist"
"Ha, you called that totally innocent rational person a racist! You must just shout that at everyone."
Oh, I see, you assume because I give a shit about things I couldn't possibly be white or male.
I love when bigots apply their bigotry and turn out wrong.
Except they keep doing it, instead of learning their damn lesson, about making mindless judgements.
Every time we get one of these no AI researchers coming in and saying this stuff, I feel forced to repeat it.
AI isn't magic. It does exactly what it's designed to do: break down and understand problems. It isn't motivated. It isn't emotional. It isn't anti-human. And imaging some "strong AI" nonsense is just like creationists claiming a fundamental distinction between microevolution and macroevolution. It just ignores the reality of what "strong AI" would entail.
AI is not magic. And it won't ever be. It won't be smarter than people, except by whatever arbitrary metric of smart any given application requires.
Yeah, but there's this threshold where you're wrong enough, and shitty enough, that public hatred for your opinions isn't some chilling effect that's going to supress free speech. He has a right to be wrong, but he has no goddamn right not be hated for it when it's this level of awful.
No, this is how I react when racists post unfactual bullshit, refuted by their own supporting citations, to defend beliefs that hurt people in the real world.
Honestly. You are terrible. Stop being terrible, and we can sort out any differences you want.
"Nah, see, racism is okay, cause it's just his opinion maaaaaaaaaaan" isn't a valid defense of untrue shit.
It's not like I'm throwing him in jail. You're just insisting on "politically correct" tolerance of racism. Fuck you. Stop with your thoughtcrime accusations.
And again, you ignorant piece of trash, who ignores refutations and repeats your racist beliefs:
If the difference is so damn heritable, how did the discrepancy shrink by 7 to 14 points in one generation?
Give one goddamn reason.
College dropout, huh?
Good at making things up?
Yes, he's an idiot, explicitly for saying black people are stupid without evidence.
He fucking literally stole his primary evidence for his Nobel, and some world views demand opposition, by sheer inexplicable idiocy and harm.
Any other stupid points to make?
Oh, heaven help me, a racist piece of shit insulted me.
However will I recover from the stinging opinions of awful people?
Seriously, racists are almost not people. Why should I care what ignorant fuckers think of me?
Oh, I'm sorry. Is my tone offending you?
I have a lot of growing up to do, huh?
Fuck off.
Oh no. Swearing.
You're right, he might be an ignorant bigot perpetuating some of the dumbest shit imaginable, but he didn't fucking swear.
No, sorry, I don't speak racist-piece-of-shit.
You gotta be a decent human being before your barbs sting.
Oh, I'm sorry, is calling someone literally decrying another race as inferior on specious evidence a racist off limits now?
How do your white bedsheets fit?
Big software projects need developers. Full time, accountable ones with a paycheck and an office. Mozilla feeds theirs with ad revenue, Linux has some corporate supporters who pay the bills.
MediaWiki, that drives Wikipedia, is really complex. And they need new features to support the site better, especially admin tools and backend tech.
But, at the same time, screaming in desperation when you're doing okay and just need support for your functionality means that when you are in trouble, no one can tell.
Oh look, racist lies to support racist lies.
Africa has made fuck-tons of development. Everything extrapolating from an outright wrong premise can be ignored. Stop pretending you know things based on popular culture, and actually look at metrics.
You backwards, racist, ass.
Do you know what does predict lower IQ more meaningfully?
believing racist shit
Look at this: a racist douchebag gets modded +5 insightful for posting a racist screen, and someone points out that his own linked study completely undermines his point, and sits at zero.
Racists are very good at reinforcing their existing beliefs. And very bad at actually being right about things.
And just to reinforce that this douche is working on imagined extrapolations, if it's so damn heritable, how the fuck do racial IQ disparities shrink almost a whole standard deviation in one generation?
Why did anyone mod ShanghailBill up?
Is this some autistic need to categorize?
What is fucking wrong with slashdotters?
Oh look, a touchy racist piece of shit.
"Oh boo hoo, my horribly outdated, inaccurate opinions that hurt people are so trodden upon"
Oh look, racist pseudoscience upmodded to +5 informative. Actually read the goddamn wikipedia page this horrifyingly awful douchebag links.
Fuck, the damn Flynn effect has made a 20 to 40 point shift in the last century, and this douche just fucking glosses over environmental factors as "eh, whatever, they can't explain anything"
Fuck you.
Fuck everyone who upmodded you.
Fuck everyone who just became less informed because you spouted of your uneducated racist-ass beliefs.
And fuck those upcoming assholes who will mod this flamebait, racists are the worst people and deserve zero defense.
It's not so much "Taboo" as it is frequently brought up by idiots who have no substantial evidence and a strong history of using made up bullshit to push injustice.
There's very little evidential reason to consider anything said by "racial realists" as anything other than the babbling of childish nincompoops. There is scientific evidence that genetic variation within "races" is greater than the variation between the median genetic profiles of "races".
Suffice it to say, given how much debunked "science" there is in the history of racist fuckery, not expecting any good science from them now isn't unreasonable.
It's because kids don't need good graphic design.
And here's a different naive idealist.
Collectivism is an inevitable consequence of society. Society is an inevitable consequence of humanity. Deal with it.