- This story (the demand for Radiologists) really shows a very important thing about AI: It's great when it has training data, and bad at weird edge cases.
Gee, seems like about the worst fucking thing in the world for diagnostics if you ask me, but what do I know, my degree is in sandwiches and pudding.
- I think "insular rural folk" are often literate enough to see highfalutin dick-bags like yourself coming and don't want to be associated with that level of disdainful pretense.
I work in project management for a massive multi-national, about as "businessy business" as you can get, and my moon-shining, hog-raising cousins give me shit for being a sellout (we grew up showing and milking cows together) but we all still can sense a vibe about "certain types from the big city" that's more about respect and shared culture that any sort of financial, social, political, or other illiteracy/incompetence.
- Um, I'm going to go ahead and point out this, probably not super relevant data point
"While trailing Gen Xers for the beginning of their adult lives, younger American households’ average wealth began to exceed that of Gen Xers at about age 30, reflecting historically high wealth levels following the COVID-19 pandemic." I have a feeling that average wealth adjustment falls very heavily on the home owners, which is only just above half of all the cohort. Had a similar thing happened to boomers in 89, almost 70% would have benefitted.
I think it's also worth pointing out: The share of wealth held by boomers in 89 (why 89? Because they didn't have data before that. It's why the graphs start in a weird spot and why it's not a great study unless you're trying to pull out a "gotcha" stat) represented almost 20% of the total wealth in the country. "Millenials/GenZ" has a hold on only HALF that percentage.
Doctors may hate your one weird statistic, but socio-demographists probably don't...
- I have to say, sample size of 2, but as we get older my wife and I get further and further entrenched in our idealism.
I was a center-left socialist as a kid and I'm a full blown anarchist in my 40's so, idk, "people aren't a monolith"?
- "When a thing becomes affordable more people have access to it." nods nods
So is our conclusion "People talk a big game but their morality clearly fails based on how the market has played out" or "People want things but the market has competing forces and sometimes takes a long time to find ways to provide people what they want?"
My rephrasing to your statement is "It took the mass market decades to figure out how to deliver consumers the solar/electric cars they wanted at a price they could afford."
Also, points in the general direction of the established energy providers I think these assholes had some incentive not to let the market get out from under them and make sure they were the ones who continued to profit from it.
- >>"objecting" is not the same as lobbying Visa/Mastercard to ban speech they believe "promotes and normalizes violence against us"
Why not? Like, I'm a full on anarchist, but how do you create any sort of functioning society without out people being able to say "we as a group don't like that shit and are going to do things to stop it from happening"? Like if burger king comes out and says "We sell dogs here now" am i not allowed to say "fuck this, I'm allergic to dogs but I loved whoppers, I'm going to picket outside BK until the king fixes this travesty of hamburgers?"
Again, I'm an anarchist so I have weird views on a lot of topics, but isn't this a problem that "the capital class wants to continue to have profit go up and to the right on their charts, they're cowardly and uncreative so they fear anything that destabilizes this movement on their charts, and large networks of people are the only thing that can utilize this fear to cause them to change their behaviors"?
- That was part of it, as well as the idea of an RPG that represents skills as essentially "shadow work". Very much helped me on my mental health journey!
My pro-fascist brother-in-law with massive social anxiety hated it for some reason..
- ...that...that was his point...
- I believe OP is lamenting the fact that we still need to have the "EV/hybrids's are better the ICE vehicles" discussion in 2025. That there's a segment of the population that needs a mountain of such overwhelming evidence to be convinced of the value.
- Thanks for the correction!
- There's also some bit of (ironically) survivor bias going on here: Most of the people sitting in front of the ditch didn't leave the country. They didn't join up with the resistance. They didn't try to escape 3 weeks prior. This isn't even getting into the Jungian "death drive" where, at a certain point, you'd rather just die than keep trying to struggle.
Some people make bad, illogical choices when the stakes are extremely low, and some do the same when it's life or death. The human mind is a wonder of inefficient perfection.
- So what about the checks notes tens if not hundreds of thousands of religions and religious belief structures that have fallen apart since the inception of humanity?
This is some very weird survivor bias.
Also, philosophically, a the whole of organized religion is "clever stories to entrap people" from a non-believer's standpoint.
- >>The reason the political right is so cohesive (vs the left)
Citation excruciatingly needed. This feels like recency bias imo. The Right (I'm assuming we're going US here?) is a coalition of people all walks just as much as the left. I mean, right now large chunks Trump voters are rioting over the Epstein non-release and all the people who were in it for the tax breaks are trying to convince them to stop.
- Pet Peeve: Pointless Pedantry.
Always Adore: Amazing Alliteration.
- I mean I could have just looked at your post history and assumed a political ideology, but I just wanted to see how unfunny your jokes would be.
My work here is done.
- In your mind, what's a bluesky poster?
- I mean, that's a weak evolutionary argument against all forms of predation/prey. It assumes a level of cultural/shared knowledge that doesn't typically exist. Also, size =\= intelligence/problem solving. Chimps and humans are both smarter than gorillas.
Yes, troop 1 of monkeys have learned about the monkey-eating plants that have evolved overnight, but troops 2-10 haven't. Eventually troop 1 leaves the deadly forest, and troop 2 comes in. After a few seasons, they notice these fucking plants keep eating their babies (again, most predators go after babies for the reason you mentioned, they haven't learned how to avoid death yet) and then they move on. Repeat for several centuries. Behold nature in all its splendor.
I like the article's ideas: If you can grow large enough to eat a person, you're getting enough nutrition that you don't need to eat a person.
- As the article points out: If conditions exist for "high-quality plant growth" (correct light, soil, moisture, etc) then plants don't make weird adaptations like eating things/water-conservation methods.
However, if those conditions DON'T exist, then it's hard for plants to get very big.
There's also this: the larger a moving creature you're trying to capture, the more resources you need to invest in the trap. Bladderwort exists everywhere because it's easy to trap small/microscopic things. Giant bear-eating plants exist nowhere because consistently trapping a bear with just leaves, sap, and stems is really fucking hard.
At a certain point, the plants reach an equilibrium where the effort is worth the end result, but diminishing returns if they got larger.
- holds up 3 fingers Three Old Stoils, please!
So it's both content and communication preferences. HN is a self-selecting group of a certain type, but not everyone on the planet thinks like the average HN dude