Posts by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
(DIR) Post #ArAxx0x8YJBT9ZktW4 by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-02-16T12:14:17Z
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@kaia Logging sports are dope. One of the benefits of living in a rural area is getting to go see them live at the community college.
(DIR) Post #ArAxx2OpAqvRdjiWJM by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-02-16T12:22:28Z
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@kaia And if you think this is cool, check out Springboard event.
(DIR) Post #ArkNbQJIRB1yGHfODo by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-03-05T14:25:14Z
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@interfluidity When I tried to make these kinds of arguments as an undergrad (though not in quite these terms) I was always told, "no interpersonal comparisons of utility," which meant in practice that it was impermissible to make any arguments about redistributive policies and social welfare, since Pareto Efficiency demands that no one be made worse off & any adjustments to current resource allocations would make at least one person worse off...so growth is the only answer...according to them.
(DIR) Post #ArkOiBc9Zg7AfGH8y0 by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-03-05T14:37:41Z
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@interfluidity Oh, I know (and have read a good bit of your writing), which is why getting a BA in econ was so painful for me. I'm sitting here trying to explain the basics of logic to my f'ing professors (except for my thesis advisor, thank gawd, who was a Marxian).Me: Wait, so you're saying that if we take $50 from Bill Gates and give it to a homeless guy on the street we can't say that overall welfare has increased?!?Them: Yes.
(DIR) Post #ArkPJDDOaOYOLMLn8q by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-03-05T14:44:23Z
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@interfluidity For the most part, I think my State Uni profs were just repeating what they had been taught - i.e. boilerplate neoclassical economics - without thinking too much about it. They genuinely thought that they were being "scientific" and would often tell me that "economics is a positive, not a normative, science. We talk about how things are, not how they should be." When I pointed out that that stance was itself a normative one, they were much confused.
(DIR) Post #ArkQ1nrhgP7IkmT0i0 by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-03-05T14:52:26Z
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@interfluidity Yeah, the other thing that stood out to me was their ability to hold two contradictory ideas in their heads at the same time, eg "real wages are what counts, not nominal wages," "wages are sticky," and "the faculty senate just agreed to two years of pay freezes."Crazy thing was, with only one exception they were all more-or-less progressive Democrats.
(DIR) Post #ArsbrP43n1otecjWqm by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-03-09T12:56:37Z
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@coolboymew well if I had to guess...😂
(DIR) Post #At1rUFd708yqrkg4nY by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-04-12T22:06:20Z
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WTAF?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dIL_Ljro8We are so cooked. This is what societal dementia looks like.
(DIR) Post #At1uSX5rOtVmJOzrIO by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-04-12T23:15:38Z
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@jazzilla the whole thing. Academics who don't write their own papers. Editors that don't bother to read. The AI is just exacerbating the pre-existing disease.
(DIR) Post #At1zRSoQKeXGW09OMK by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-04-13T00:11:25Z
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@jazzilla If an AI is writing the paper, and including made up citations, that no one catches until after they are selling the thing, then no, I don't trust anything in the paper, and I don't know why anyone else would. I don't know what nano cancer vaccines are, but that's kinda beside the point that this is what passes for scholarship nowadays. "As an AI, I cannot give medical advice." That was in the book. That's the problem I'm on about -- I'm an ontologist, not a oncologist, after all.
(DIR) Post #Atpqgc4q5PVUf2cJn6 by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2024-02-28T02:30:34Z
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@yojimbo @molly0xfff It's creepy af. And in case it wasn't clear, this "feature" is the default behavior, so you need to opt-out of having the bot automatically eavesdrop on meetings you're not at.
(DIR) Post #AuFtWskQTW585Xsdk0 by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-05-19T14:52:56Z
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"Our early observation that crypto = prosecution futures is playing out, including along some lines we had not anticipated."https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/05/crypto-crooks-now-eating-their-own-as-crypto-holders-targeted-in-crime-even-violent-coinbase-hack-an-inside-job-and-highly-damaging-to-wallet-holders.html
(DIR) Post #AxA1IDpyGzUWDjSBpg by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-08-14T12:38:17Z
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@interfluidity As Ed Whitfield once said, "Most people think democracy means everybody gets to have a say, and I get to have my way." That said, I do think that there is a lot of validity in the methodology of Gilens and Page (2014) showing the massive disconnect between popular sentiment as ascertained by polling numbers and political outcomes.
(DIR) Post #AxA3LLlvQbbLbgBFp2 by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-08-14T13:01:15Z
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@interfluidity A: Maybe. If that would lead to policies that better serve the general welfare, which I think there is a good argument for, then from a consequentialist standpoint it would seem like a reasonable case to make (tho it would turn polling methodology into a battlefield).For the record, tho, I'm a sortitionist, as I think that random selection from among the voting age population would give us far better outcomes than the system we have now that selects for scruplelessness.
(DIR) Post #AxCFANavtlrvqAUgtM by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-08-15T12:30:30Z
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@N33R They aren't skirts, they're "mini-kilts".
(DIR) Post #AyAVXu4SZi1ryW8iQ4 by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-09-13T15:10:58Z
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Via my mother:"At my age when I say I'm picking up a hottie at the club, I mean I'm getting a rotisserie chicken from Costco."
(DIR) Post #AylWB5ZXsz3PQyMYOO by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-10-01T12:40:43Z
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@interfluidity @jbouie@threads.net As I have been saying for-freakin'-ever!https://threadingthepearls.blogspot.com/2014/11/youre-doing-it-wrong-politics-as-if.html
(DIR) Post #Az1GXAMsFLzBwOIepM by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-10-04T13:08:21Z
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@oddhack @david_chisnall @cstross @laird via: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/
(DIR) Post #B1BgHspXyFMB53TwqO by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-12-12T23:20:43Z
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@interfluidity Is this a Bloom County reference?https://m8y.org/bloomcounty.jpg
(DIR) Post #B1BoNVnRK4LD0qguxc by GuerillaOntologist@social.coop
2025-12-13T00:51:23Z
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@interfluidity Nice. I grew up with Outland. Always the first thing I read in the Sunday paper.