Not extensive studies.
I would have added some data points to your original comment, but then mods deleted your comment while I typed. Seems they've got to suppress single anecdotes so no one has the bravery to add a second.
Readit Newsphy6 commented on We could have universal Covid vaccines soon slowboring.com/p/we-could... · Posted by u/alihm
phy6 commented on GoFundMe pauses donations to Canada truckers bbc.com/news/world-us-can... · Posted by u/baxyl
If you don't know the truth, at least try not to lie. Nothing I've seen in the dozens of downtown live streams jives with the smearing I've witnessed on places like r/pics and the news. It appears from the commentary that there is such vitriol towards the protesters that I wouldn't put it past some opposition group to fly defamatory flags that have no apparent connection to why they are protesting. A prominent trusted newspaper even ran a cartoon presenting the trucks as fascist... for protesting against a perceived government overreach. What kind of cognitive dissonance is going on there?
> College ID isn't proof of residence
Voter ID generally isn't supposed to be proof of residence, its proof of identity; it exists to prove that the voter is the person registered, not that the registered person is authorized to vote.
Most IDs acceptable for voting do not prove authorization (or even “authorization but for the potential of disqualification by felony”), so not accepting college ID because it doesn't prove authorization to vote is...not well justified, even in the public logic of voter ID.
Of course, voter ID proponents have let out the private partisan internal logic lots of times when they thought only people aligned with their faction were listening, so we don't need to speculate why the rules are inconsistent with the public logic.
Of course, voter ID opponents have let out the private partisan internal logic lots of times when they thought only people aligned with their faction were listening, so we don't need to speculate why the rules are inconsistent with the public logic.
How would you? You register separately and during that process they check your residency. If you aren't registered to vote in another district then when you show up to vote you won't be on the rolls.
When you show up to vote in a non-voter-id state, you only have to give your name. Any one could have shown up in my place and voted in my name, because no ID was allowed to be show. This was made more apparent when I reached for my wallet instinctively as I gave my name, and they gestured with hands out that "we don't check for ID".
The responsibility lies with the company, not the cogs who are there for a paycheck.
"They're just doing what they were told to do"
phy6 commented on Twitter starts to require login to view tweets reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/... · Posted by u/oenetan
The POTUS relying on a commercial entity to communicate with the public seems like a more fundamental horrible practice.
Especially when accounts could be hacked to say anything, like the incidents a couple years ago. Imagine the POTUS account pissing off an unstable dictator in some country, or posting of some sensitive information.
phy6 commented on Twitter starts to require login to view tweets reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/... · Posted by u/oenetan
This is a positive change for world mental health, bravo.
phy6 commented on Why are so many knowledge workers quitting? newyorker.com/culture/off... · Posted by u/irtefa
I'm a software architect and really want to transition to AGI work. I feel like it's the most meaningful area of advancement I can work in. Any advice on how to get involved without being a software developer? I refuse to go back to programming lines of code.
AGI draws upon dozens of fields. The facet of AI Safety and Risk Mitigation consulting is where I started, and I was heavily influenced by Dr. Roman Yampolskiy. By the time we met in person I was already designing a bootstrap. It was a joy to get my hands in the code. When you find your real meaning for being on this earth, you won't refuse anything to go after it.
phy6 commented on Why are so many knowledge workers quitting? newyorker.com/culture/off... · Posted by u/irtefa
I left my lucrative cybersecurity startup job to pursue full time independent research in AGI. Several months in and it's been great progress wise, and I have to live more frugally.
Being on the cyber startup was like being on a cruise ship headed to some destination that was "just okay", all the while seeing an island off in the distance that we were slowly passing by, which is where I wanted to be. I jumped off the bow and started swimming towards the most meaningful goal I could hope to apply my skills toward. Will I advance the field of artificial consciousness? I hope to. There's so much I don't know, and even more no one really knows. COVID was a gift. Political and economic turmoil is a gift. I was already focusing on the goal of AGI, but the strife of the world gave me the will to leap for it.
phy6 commented on Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information” i.postimg.cc/CLBCNx0Q/D4H... · Posted by u/URfejk
This is incredibly off-base.
The truth is they have outsourced fact checking to the "International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter" who has to uphold standards not just freely enforce whatever ideology tickles their fancy.
Knowing one low-level employee of one of the subcontractors involved; it works something like this:
1. An article is posted to Facebook/Twitter/etc and is automatically flagged based on keywords or manually flagged based on user reports of misinformation.
2. Fact checking organizations take up fact-checking of the article for a small fee.
3. In this case for the organization I am personally aware of, the fact checking company has a large number of independent contractors who can research a "batch" of claims/articles.
4. Usually the jobs are broken up into simple questions.
5. You along with many others provide answers and must provide pertinent factual sources supporting the veracity of your assessment that this is either true, partly false, or false along with other categories such as if it is clearly and obviously satire.
6. Your answers are judged vs the final determination. Those who consistently skew in any direction are dismissed from eligibility to participate in the future.
7. The fact checking organization once it has enough answers for confidence has higher-level employees double-check the answer and source information.
8. The fact checking organization submits it's formal assessment on the article/opinion to the IFCN.
9. Companies like Facebook use multiple IFCN assessments and perhaps other fact check assessments to provide pertinent information that corrects misinformation that has spread rampantly over the last year like "Joe Biden wants to defund police departments across the US" with corrections like "After being asked if "We can reduce the responsibilities assigned to the police and redirect some of the funding for police into social services, mental health counselling, and affordable housing." Mr Biden has answered "Yes" to a question about whether he agrees with this redirecting of funding.
I may be slightly off in how this works but the overall program is the same for most social networks that care about misinformation. There is more information in the sources below: Sources:
https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2593586717571940?id=6...
It's worth seeing who else besides Facebook funds the fact checkers. https://www.poynter.org/major-funders/