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  1. The so-called #audiophile community is famous for the amount of #woo that passes for knowledge or expertise.

    When you look at the DIY audio community - building things up from #electronic components or modules - you add in the cargo-cult processes used by people with no basic electronics knowledge building these things, and the false-but-confident beliefs of those with some knowledge but more assurance of their own intelligence 🙄 - and you get some real doozies in discussion threads [1] on audio/electronics fora.

    I just came across one that will stick with me:

    A: I saw some people are doing <X> to increase the bass from this little amp. Should I do it?

    B (actually knowledgeable): Depends on the design. If it's lacking <Y>, it can help the subjective bass response of the amp.

    C (overly confident): BS! OBJECTIVELY (!) you get more and better boom.
    Boom-boom, you know? Your guts will tell you the objective truth.

    ... that is LITERALLY the definition of "subjective". 🤣

    [1] A.K.A. arguments on the instalment plan.

    #literally #argument #discussion #thread #forum #fora #electronics #audio #hobby #DIY #DunningKrueger #knowledge #experience #objective #subjective #CargoCult

  2. A “thought” experiment for your LLMs:
    Let’s talk about humanoid species a bit. Can a species survive on the “reality is arbitrary” prime directive?
    #subjective
    #extinctClass
    #doublethinkClass

  3. A “thought” experiment for your LLMs:
    Let’s talk about humanoid species a bit. Can a species survive on the “reality is arbitrary” prime directive?
    #subjective
    #extinctClass
    #doublethinkClass

  4. A “thought” experiment for your LLMs:
    Let’s talk about humanoid species a bit. Can a species survive on the “reality is arbitrary” prime directive?
    #subjective
    #extinctClass
    #doublethinkClass

  5. A “thought” experiment for your LLMs:
    Let’s talk about humanoid species a bit. Can a species survive on the “reality is arbitrary” prime directive?
    #subjective
    #extinctClass
    #doublethinkClass

  6. A “thought” experiment for your LLMs:
    Let’s talk about humanoid species a bit. Can a species survive on the “reality is arbitrary” prime directive?
    #subjective
    #extinctClass
    #doublethinkClass

  7. @mjg59

    Unfortunately, that's a fuzzy and #subjective line. Some random Hummer-driving MAGA-loving idiot may very well consider the leader of a "green" party to be a fascist for wanting to outlaw private vehicle ownership or non-EV vehicles or something like that.

    I'm afraid that if you #condone assault on a politician for their views, you are approving its use against all politicians, and I don't like where that leads.

  8. “What I understood is the regulations” #Hur referred to #DOJ policy that says special counsel reports should be #confidential to the AG. But AG #MerrickGarland had made clear BEFOREHAND he would release much of Hur’s report.
    
“You must have understood the impact of your words” Schiff said & accused Hur of injecting “your own personal #prejudicial #subjective opinion of the president, one you knew would be amplified by his #political opponent. You had to understand that & you did it anyway”

    #law

  9. #Objective #morality -- really?

    new.exchristian.net/2024/01/ob

    One difference between believing there is an #objectivemorality to be learned and an alternative view that we have evolved on our own, often overlapping (i.e., #subjective #moral #values based on our genetics, environment, and life experiences) is that the latter comes with more room for compromise, and the former adds fuel to the feeling that only one side is #objectively correct and any opposition to it is #evil.
    #Religion #Atheism

  10. Happy #HumanRightsDay! A good time to remember that #HumanRights are a highly #subjective notion, which means everybody has different lists of human rights.

  11. “… A primary goal of this change is to ensure that the #judiciary operates in a manner that is #objectively #respectful of the individual #identity & personal #pronouns of the members of the #public that we #serve, regardless of the #subjective #viewpoints of individuals working within the #court system,” #Justice Elizabeth Welch wrote in a concurring statement.

    #LGBTQIA+

  12. The opposite of #love isn’t #hate.
    The opposite of love is #fear.

    Bearing this in mind when dealing with #conflict — at both the internal #personal level, and #external #societal level — yields far better #outcomes because we can better explain seemingly #arbitrary actions through #objective external #forces rather than #subjective #internal #states of #mind.

  13. Quick shout-out for one of the nicest, most thoughtful papers I've read in a long time:

    Narrative thinking lingers in spontaneous thought

    'Some experiences linger in mind, spontaneously returning to our thoughts for minutes after their conclusion...our thoughts in the present moment echo prior experiences that have been incorporated into deeper, narrative forms of thinking'

    nature.com/articles/s41467-022

    #narrative #thinking #story #linger #transportation #introspection #freeassociation #subjective

  14. great research project about "AI" uses that treat people as objects based on flawed/biased database :
    socialnui.unimelb.edu.au/resea

    (note the delicious retro GUI style )

    great also this is done properly in a lab, presented as social research, and not in the wild presented as "art experience" ... ;)

    #privacy #AI #datamining #subjective #categorisation #bias #statistics #1984