[–] 4 points 1 month ago

Another shitty AI product nobody has asked for? That shits the bed all while it also invades your privacy? Wow what a total surprise! /s

I hate Meta as much as the next guy, but I can't believe that this guy handed over his info, gave the AI full permission to act on his behalf, and then complained that it did the job he asked it to. Albeit differently than he expected, but it did the bloody job. I want to call him an idiot but he's really just ignorant about what AI is, and I suppose that's not his own fault.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The issue is IMO really the underlying casual model. What causes what?

    In the first sentence, it sounds as if vaping causes worse mental health. But later it is stated more softly as a statistical association, i.e. not causal, which is really hard to show on real world data.

    My hypotheses would be that there is an underlying condition that affects both vaping and mental health, namely social deprivation.

    It's disappointing from a premier scientific publisher, but very, very common mistake when interpreting statistics.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    The UK is a surveillance state. I have worked in the HE sector there and participated in mandatory Prevent training. It is a text book mechanism for totalitarian control. It doesn't surprise me at all that they also track negative attitudes towards their thought control machinery.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I mean I agree that AB testing is normal, and not really anything to start clutching your pearls about.

    Yet again Lemmy shows that much of the userbase is young and has little general knowledge.

    But this is a pretty patronising statement, mate.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago

    Wow that is one extremely aggressive response to what I thought was a relatively sensible comment. I'm sorry if I upset you.

    It's not whatsboutism, it's a question of scale. Attention is a finite resource, and I think you should place it where it matters most.

    There is a post-colonial dimension to Grindadráp that is rarely mentioned by the media. And that matters more to me personally than the lives of the whales.

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  • [+] -6 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    It's the same story every year. And it's a bunch of pearl clutching second grade journalism, if you ask me.

    These are animals that have lived free, beautiful lives in their natural habitats. Then they are killed and eaten, with no deliberate cruelty involved. Circle of life.

    If we want to reduce animal cruelty, look towards the massive scale of factory farming, not at the 700 animals that are hunted by a small indigenous community.

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