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For some who's beliefs are truly #flatearth and #creationist - maybe they should re-think using tech that doesn't conform to their cosmology.
B/C the physics that makes iPhones "go" says that the #cosmos is very old.
I can't believe I answer this question every so often. (Post below.)
#exvangelical #orphangelical #church
https://exvangelical.substack.com/p/the-power-of-political-self-justification
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Which of this nine sexy alternatives to the #FlatEarth ththeory did you like the most?
1) #MontyPython's #banana earth
2) penis earth
3) #Dali earth
4) cat earth
5) #rickandmorty's #plumbus earth
6) middle finger earth
7) #Batman logo earth
8) #MöbiusStrip Earth
9) spherical earth#KätToon #Satire #FlatEarth #FlacheErde #conspiricytheory #Verschwörungsmythos #Verschwörungsideologie #Verschwörungstheorie #Schwurbler*innen #Conspiricymyth
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In a recent post, I perpetrated the fallacy that the notion of a #flatEarth was endemic during the #MiddleAges. Someone correctly pointed out that this was not 100% factually accurate, and suggested that no one actually thought this during the Middle Ages. While "no one" may also be a misrepresentation of how widespread the knowledge of a spherical Earth was at the time, let me explain why my factually flawed lead-in about a putatively widespread belief actually reinforces the original post's central point about the inherent bias caused by large-scale #dataAggregation when training #AI.
Thanks to the Greeks, scholars and the well-educated knew about a spherical Earth since about 500 BCE, and that even during the Middle Ages the educated elite (who were nevertheless a minority) widely accepted it as fact. What the typically uneducated general public thought about it at the time may be a different story, though. Regardless, this inaccurate assumption about the beliefs of the time actually reinforces my original point about how certain factual inaccuracies and data biases, especially when amplified by repetition, negatively impact the usefulness of the current generation of #LLM and #GenAI systems.
In some ways, geocentrism may have been a better example. However, whichever example you choose, in this context its veracity is less important than how often the statement is made, impacting the frequency or weighting of the statement within the corpus used to train an #AI or #ML system.
The references to historical beliefs in a flat Earth or the solar system revolving around the Earth are widely repeated, and that's all that's necessary for it to become a data point within the statistical mean of a large and uncurated #ML #dataset. In other words, if enough separate data sources repeat a given statement frequently enough, that's often sufficient to skew the resulting data set. This problem is closely related to the very human cognitive bias that people have for believing commonly heard statements.
To support the historical points about who may or may not have believed in a flat Earth or geocentrism during the Middle Ages, I've attached some relevant links. Meanwhile, I'll post later about why any "belief in a belief" or frequently-repeated datum actually defines an existential problem with many of today's very large AI/ML systems, and what we can collectively do about it.
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Laut diesem Zeitungsartikel glaubt 1/3 der jungen Amerikaner*innen, dass die Erde flach ist 🤯
#flatearth #flatearthers #Flacherde -
@witchescauldron
In that last post the hashtag #flatEarth refers the the #gaslighting the #corporateState did in 2017 when they purposefully appeared to amplify on #legacyMedia the voices of downright ridiculous #flatEarthers.They were able to conflate the #flatEarthMovement with #Trump support and this #manufacturedConsent to purged hundreds of #independentMedia outlets on the legacy #socialPlatforms.
This was the beginning of the end for them, and they should #dieInTheDarkness they created.
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Wenn ich eine Kugel Eis bei Zimmertemperatur liegen lasse, werde ich beobachten, wie sie mehr und mehr zu einer flachen Scheibe wird.
Wenn die Erde also angeblich eine Kugel ist, wie erklärt ihr euch dann Sommer?
#FlatEarth #Flacherde -
Wenn wir eine Kugel Eis bei Zimmertemperatur liegen lassen, werden wir beobachten, wie sie mehr und mehr zu einer flachen Scheibe wird.
Wenn die Erde also angeblich eine Kugel ist, wie erklärt ihr euch dann Sommer?
#FlatEarth #Flacherde -
Laut diesem Zeitungsartikel glaubt 1/3 der jungen Amerikaner*innen, dass die Erde flach ist 🤯
#flatearth #flatearthers #Flacherde -
Laut diesem Zeitungsartikel glaubt 1/3 der jungen Amerikaner*innen, dass die Erde flach ist 🤯
#flatearth #flatearthers #Flacherde -
I used to study conspiracy theories because -- before social media -- they were *mostly* harmless. However, conspiracy thinking at scale, one form of *weaponized stupidity*, looks to be what will ultimately kill us all.
Still, this video is fucking funny. It is fun to watch anti-science happening in near real time.
https://youtu.be/cLHTe_ORjLc?si=bzSb0SgqG6FpRZWN
#flatearth #flatearthers #idiots #antiscience #science #bullshit #skepticism #scepticism #weredoomed #conspiracy #conspiracytheories #conspiracytheory
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Would there be cross-country skiing
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#flatearth #flacheerde #flatearther
Visibility of Tete de l'Estrop from Pic de Noufonts does not prove flat earth
It is easy to debunk.
Let's assume the mountain before is really Mt Tete de l'Estrop.
The sun is behind the mountains. It is 205 pixels high and 252 pixels wide. So 0.5° corresponds to about 205 to 252 pixels.
The tallest mountain is 47 pixels high, which roughly corresponds to an angle of 0.093 to 0.115°. You can't measure it that precisely.1/2
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Which of this nine sexy alternatives to the #FlatEarth ththeory did you like the most?
1) #MontyPython's #banana earth
2) penis earth
3) #Dali earth
4) cat earth
5) #rickandmorty's #plumbus earth
6) middle finger earth
7) #Batman logo earth
8) #MöbiusStrip Earth
9) spherical earth#KätToon #Satire #FlatEarth #FlacheErde #conspiricytheory #Verschwörungsmythos #Verschwörungsideologie #Verschwörungstheorie #Schwurbler*innen #Conspiricymyth
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Which of this nine sexy alternatives to the #FlatEarth ththeory did you like the most?
1) #MontyPython's #banana earth
2) penis earth
3) #Dali earth
4) cat earth
5) #rickandmorty's #plumbus earth
6) middle finger earth
7) #Batman logo earth
8) #MöbiusStrip Earth
9) spherical earth#KätToon #Satire #FlatEarth #FlacheErde #conspiricytheory #Verschwörungsmythos #Verschwörungsideologie #Verschwörungstheorie #Schwurbler*innen #Conspiricymyth
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Which of this nine sexy alternatives to the #FlatEarth ththeory did you like the most?
1) #MontyPython's #banana earth
2) penis earth
3) #Dali earth
4) cat earth
5) #rickandmorty's #plumbus earth
6) middle finger earth
7) #Batman logo earth
8) #MöbiusStrip Earth
9) spherical earth#KätToon #Satire #FlatEarth #FlacheErde #conspiricytheory #Verschwörungsmythos #Verschwörungsideologie #Verschwörungstheorie #Schwurbler*innen #Conspiricymyth
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Would there be canoe slalom
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I like sifting through thrift-store flatware bins to find fun patterns from the golden age of stainless flatware, 1960s-1980s, and I’ve traded pieces with other people who collect them! There are…a few of us. Not a common hobby.
Anyway, I know a lot of #flatware pattern names now, so if you’re ever trying to identify something, find replacement pieces for a set, or figure out the name of a pattern you grew up with but can’t find, let me know? I might be able to help.
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How to Measure the Earth’s Radius With Legos - https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-measure-the-earths-radius-with-legos/ every #flatearther should be obliged to do this...
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@doboprobodyne I have long suspected that any house without a globe harbors at least one closeted #FlatEarther.
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Waren im Mittelalter alle #Flatearther?
Schon Aristoteles wusste es besser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0AboIXbOU4 -
Flying over Europe to Norway during a winter sunset. I wonder how a #FlatEarther would explain this — or actually, I don’t. #FlatEarth
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#FlatEarther Defeated by an Inability to Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvbt4NmkC4E
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