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I am so tired of intellectuals inability to discern what questions are pure garbage and what questions lead to a proper understanding of the world. AI is my favorite example.

Let me preface with a few simple assumptions.

Assumption one:
Our entire society has long ago recognized and accepted that specialization of roles lead to increased effectiveness. Whenever you have one person who specializes on a proffesion, he can reach much better result then 10 people who try to do 10 things each.

Assumption two:
You cannot judge specialized people based on results of other specializations. Let's take 2 specialized people. A smith and a baker. You can judge how good smith a smith is based on how sharp and robust his weapons are. You can also judge how good a baker is based on how good the food he made is. But you cannot judge if a baker is smarter then a smith by eating a sword.

Assumption three:
Even people without talent can eventually learn things they lack talent for, but it will take more time.

So, would ANYONE explain to me why do phylosophers keep on saying that computers are dumb because they don't cry? Computers can not only calculate million times faster then we can (supporting assumption one), but they can also already do things we thoght they will never be able to do better then we can. For instance, the recognition of faked emotions. (1) In short, Computers are seriously specialized, but there is no fucking way, we can call humans inteligent and computer unable to learn at the same time...

(1) cell.com/current-biology/fullt

Don't you just hate it, when the pre-rendered cinematic looks worse then the actual game?

Gonna play Metal gear Revengence. What is the best difficulty to play it at?

@enigmatico but code works anyway, because computers don't care what humans think is possible

Code works.
Code shouldn't work.
But somehow, code works.
And I can't understand how it works.
Because it shouldn't work.
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@camedei456 @matrix They're too stupid to understand anything else about technology, so the only ways they can measure how good a phone is is by its thinness, its screen size, and its price tag.

People melt over smartphone designs, manufacturers sacrifice features just to get that the phone one millimeter thinner and then people just put them into ugly ass 5 dollar cases that make the phone twice as thick.

@georgia@dickkickextremist.xyz It's the same as how colored person is racist but person of color is politically correct. Some upper middle class white woman busted out a thesaurus and swapped a word around, and suddenly racism is defeated forever.

Referring to someone as a "body" is dehumanizing.

@fluffy but ancaps/libright support and encourage charity, to a practically absurd extent.
they treat charity almost as if it's a magical force that will always fix every possible flaw pure free market capitalism has.
more accurate would be the ancap saying something like "OMG this solved literally every single problem in society".

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