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pona-a commented on IQ tests results for AI   trackingai.org/home... · Posted by u/stared
A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 · 8 days ago
Eh, I wish we could retire socioeconomics as a valid term. It can mean just about any factor and for it to be used it scientific publications and even normal discourse that goes beyond Facebook level discussion, feel a little counter-productive.

What, exactly, did you mean though?

pona-a · 7 days ago
I thought I was being clear. Access to education, which is a function of wealth, race segregation, and/or cultural expectations, or in other words, economic + social factors.

For example, if a family encourages their child to work from the earliest allowed age at the expense of schooling, that's a manifestation of both economic and social pressures.

pona-a commented on IQ tests results for AI   trackingai.org/home... · Posted by u/stared
brabel · 8 days ago
Really? If not genetics then what is it? Just random??
pona-a · 8 days ago
Education? Or more directly, socio-economics.

The many of the subjects tested never had any experience with this kind of formal testing, had little to no education, and of course predictably failed on several abstract tasks. It might be that the very pattern of sitting down and intensely focusing on apparently meaningless problems isn't as innate as expected.

pona-a commented on The new science of “emergent misalignment”   quantamagazine.org/the-ai... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
pona-a · 10 days ago
See previous discussion.

Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf] (martins1612.github.io)

179 points, 5 months ago, 100 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43176553

pona-a commented on South Korea's military has shrunk by 20% in six years as male population drops   channelnewsasia.com/east-... · Posted by u/eagleislandsong
dijit · 14 days ago
Feels weird to call them ethnically French, especially when the context being presented is religion.

The assumption being made is that they’ll ditch the religion after four generations? I don’t see data for that assumption, maybe it is not 100%, but its certainly not as low as 20% apostacy.

Thus I would take serious issue with that statement, it is evidence of an ethnic or religious replacement.

pona-a · 14 days ago
Religion isn’t ethnicity. Did England become less British after Catholics fell from a vast majority to ~10% post-Reformation?

And the actual numbers still don’t show a majority shift. Even if every Muslim in France kept their religion, they’d be ~10% of the population — far from "replacement".

pona-a commented on South Korea's military has shrunk by 20% in six years as male population drops   channelnewsasia.com/east-... · Posted by u/eagleislandsong
wagwang · 14 days ago
That article is full of gems like

> Researchers have variously estimated the Muslim population of France at between 8.8% and 12.5% in 2017, and less than 1% in 2001,[64][65] making a "replacement" unlikely according to MacKellar.

pona-a · 14 days ago
You quoted the number but skipped the part where MacKellar says the whole premise relies on treating 3rd- and 4th-generation citizens as “not French.”

> While the ethnic demography of France has shifted as a result of post-WWII immigration, scholars have generally dismissed the claims of a "great replacement" as being rooted in an exaggeration of immigration statistics and unscientific, racially prejudiced views.[12] Geographer Landis MacKellar criticized Camus's thesis for assuming "that third- and fourth- generation 'immigrants' are somehow not French."[63] Researchers have variously estimated the Muslim population of France at between 8.8% and 12.5% in 2017, and less than 1% in 2001,[64][65] making a "replacement" unlikely according to MacKellar.[63]

pona-a commented on South Korea's military has shrunk by 20% in six years as male population drops   channelnewsasia.com/east-... · Posted by u/eagleislandsong
MaxHoppersGhost · 14 days ago
Same thing is happening to most counties in Europe but they’re “fixing it” with immigrants. But the Germany filled with Germans will be disappearing just as South Korea is.
pona-a commented on The Bluesky Dictionary   avibagla.com/blueskydicti... · Posted by u/gaws
pona-a · 18 days ago
For a moment I thought it would be an AT-Proto based Urban Dictionary clone.
pona-a commented on Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative   luxpdf.com... · Posted by u/PseudoComputer
pona-a · 22 days ago
I don't want this to sound like an accusation, but did you vibe-code this? The site's style is looking very similar to what you might get from Claude.
pona-a commented on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google   reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/Y... · Posted by u/cft
simmerup · a month ago
So the purpose of a hospital is to kill people?
pona-a · a month ago
Does your hospital kill more people than it saves? If so, you might be describing the 19th century Vienna General Hospital, which had two maternal wards: one staffed by trained physicians, suffering up to 30% mortality, the other by midwives, only experiencing 2~10% rates. The difference was so pronounced, local women desperately avoided the first ward, begging to give birth in the streets rather than be admitted there. Ignaz Semmelweis later attributed the disparity to doctors having performed autopsies before attending births without disinfecting their clothes, hands, or tools, dropping to only a few percent with disinfection.

Or if you limit your demographics, perhaps you might be thinking of the Tuskegee syphilis study, where treatment was intentionally withheld for a progressive, life-threatening disease without the consent of the patients, making its purpose to slowly kill the participants by its own admission?

Yes, if your hospital does seem to kill more people than most and there's no alternative explanation like accepting more severe cases, then its purpose might be inverse or orthogonal to its stated goal.

u/pona-a

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