polonius-rex

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (10 children)

i've given two examples where i think the average person would come down on the side of "let's do some eugenics" until being told "haha you just agreed to do some eugenics"

the problem with the post is that if you boil it down, it becomes "things that sound good on the surface are automatically good", which doesn't hold

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (49 children)

if you want to use the sentiment expressed in this post as an argument for marxism being good, which seems pretty transparent in this case, then that same sentiment being used to justify eugenics isn't a good thing for said argument

i'm not that concerned with the precise definition of "opposite", but i am concerned with whether or not the post's logic is sound

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (52 children)

but that's literally what the comment's saying? and you're saying "that's an example of the opposite?

e.g., there's a pretty good argument that pre-natal screening is a form of eugenics

if you describe the mechanics of pre-natal screening to somebody, i suspect most would be in support of that, but wouldn't be if you described it using the term "eugenics"

like, if you were to notice that completing tertiary education makes it more difficult for people to have children, and you decided to create some form of government aid to offset that, then oopsie daisy you just did a eugenics, but you could absolutely package that idea in a way that most people would instinctively go "yeah that sounds okay"

also to preempt pls nobody do the intellectually dishonest thing of pretending me following this line of argument means im in love with eugenics and am here to argue for more eugenics or that i just dont think eugenics is such a bad thing after all thnk u

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

yes and i'll be surprised if the gop manage to extricate him from their party

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (54 children)

i'm baffled as to what's going on here

  • if you describe the mechanics of eugenics, people like the idea
  • if you label the mechanics of eugenics as eugenics, people do not like the idea

versus

  • if you describe the mechanics of marxism, people like the idea
  • if you label the mechanics of marxism as marxism, people do not like the idea
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (56 children)

but that's not what the comment said?

Lots of people promote eugenics

people sometimes end up accidentally talking themselves into eugenics and promoting eugenics before somebody points out that they're talking about eugenics

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (58 children)

how is that an opposite?

an opposite would be something everybody thinks is a bad idea until you name it

unless you're saying people disagree with the concepts and goals of eugenics until you say "but that's just eugenics" at which point they're fully on board?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

skill issue

word is fine if you know how to use it

none of its direct competitors have the same feature set, and a word processor that can give me compile time errors is not one i'm going to use with much enthusiasm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

i'd be shocked if they didn't update it but i just timed myself doing it and it took less than 10 seconds

[–] [email protected] 266 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)
www.youtube.com##+js(json-prune-fetch-response, playerAds adPlacements adSlots playerResponse.playerAds playerResponse.adPlacements playerResponse.adSlots, , propsToMatch, /player?)

Click on uBO icon > ⚙ Dashboard button > Add the filter(s) in "My filters" pane > ✓ Apply changes > Open new tab and test again.

from the reddit page idk if it works but most comments say it does

and if it does, that's fucking hilarious

this will have taken a team months of work and one ublock dev just threw it in the toilet within an hour

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

researchers were able to defeat reCAPTCHA v2 image challenges 70 percent of the time

that doesn't answer the question?

researchers devised a reinforcement learning attack that breaks reCAPTCHAv3's behavior-based challenges 97 percent of the time

i'd argue "bespoke system, deployed in a very limited context, built by researchers at the top of their field" is kind of out of reach for most people? and any bot network scaled up automatically becomes easier to detect the further you scale it

 

the cost of just paying humans to break these already at or below pennies per challenge

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