Boomers are truly a unique generation
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There's an annoying tendency for academics to believe that, because they are expertly trained and experienced in one field of study, they are qualified to comment upon every other field of study.
I have no idea where they get it from. I have some passing familiarity with a very broad swatch of the sciences as a result of the needs of my own field of study, so I can generally spot obvious bullshit, but I'll insist I know better than an actual professional expert in the field. I'll, at most, ask questions when something seems to go against what I think I know.
Dawkins is quite studied in biology and moderately good with philosophy, but the man clearly doesn't understand mathematical association pattern logic in the slightest. And it's actually really funny to see him forget everything he's cautioned against vis a vis personifying mechanistic phenomena and go "the beep boop is aware, I know it!".
It’s ego. I’m smart in this field so I’m smart overall.
It’s absolutely ego.
Know how to prove it?
A veteran plumber would never assume to know the first thing about electrical work, and neither would assume to know how to weld or do machine milling. Tradesmen are very smart but also humble because they know people can get hurt and very expensive equipment can be damaged if they don't do their jobs right.
"Academics" and "intellectuals," on the other hand, can say all the dumb shit they want and never see or suffer the consequences of their bullshit ideas. In fact, they might actually get a tenure, a book deal or invited on TV for saying dumb shit.
There is a reason why academia are frequently slaughtered during periods of unrest. They rank as high on the kill list as the media, I'd wager.
True.
Most of them are just SO insufferable. I remember well the "learn to code" nigger shit they were spouting when people were losing blue collar jobs to leftoid policies.
So many educated yet retarded faggots laughed and laughed at the idea of the proles suffering then, and especially during the COVID regime. It's a wonder none of them didn't get done like a healthcare CEO.
And now look at them, they're realizing quickly that AI is actually an excellent replacement for many of THEM, which is why lots of leftoids are running against it.
I saw the other day, that AI was correctly diagnosing medical patients almost 70% better than human doctors. I for one welcome AI into the medical workplace, where it can be useful at least. Anyone with extensive medical history can attest to how shitty the average doctor is at doing their job. Years of hand waving symptoms, years of calling you a faker, years of misdiagnosis. If an AI can do a doctor's job better than let it do it imo. I'm sure there will still be plenty of places a human doc is needed, but something has to change
Yep. Academics live in their own head, and as you said their error in beliefs aren't immediately punished like those who work physical jobs. When an academic believes themselves to be an expert, that ego trip floods into other areas. I, and anyone else that's been in a hopeless but lengthy debate, have come across it quite often. It always, always boils down to one single sentiment.
It occurs when people put themselves in place of God. They elevate themselves to godhood, and tacitly, or sometimes even explicitly, declare "I can't be wrong". It's a complete denial of their own humanity, of the intrinsic nature of what it means to be human, to be finite, imperfect (a sinner), and mortal. We can't know everything, ergo there will always be some information that will upend or change our conclusions. Gödel's incompleteness theorems prove this unequivocally, that no matter how much information we accrue, we can't fully encapsulate and define truth and reality. Therefore, truth (and God) are infinite. We, as humans, can't know everything or be absolutely certain of our conclusions. This doesn't mean we can't find snippets of truth, through sound logic, but it does mean our conclusions will change because we don't know all of the logically sound rules dictating what we're forming a conclusion on.
Good debate requires all parties to prioritize truth above all else, even above ourselves, and to be honest, logical, and civil, to enable that exploration of truth. If we do this, even if we're proven wrong, one party or both, in part or in full, then it's the best outcome for all, as we shed falsehoods and lies, and embrace, abide in, and understand truth more fully. Fools, liars, and egotists never do this, but instead double down on absurdity, to the point of insanity, and tacitly repeat over and over that they can't be wrong. It's the equivalent of a child sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming "nuh uh" in perpetuity, regardless of how profound their refutation.
When someone becomes egotistical, arrogant, and hubristic, no matter how much contrary evidence and logic is presented against their belief, they openly declare "I'm God". They prize themselves over truth, and the only thing that will ever convince them otherwise is reality punching them squarely in the face. Reality is harsh to falsehoods and lies, and the fewer barriers between us and nature, the more quickly that rightful punishment will occur. This is also why academics can propose ideas so contrary to nature that, if they ever attain power, it usually results in the deaths of millions.
There's also a tendency, especially among boomers, to not recognize the limitations of their knowledge and intelligence, and furthermore incapable of recognizing their own failing minds due to age related decline and degradation.
And they've almost always been insanely stupid when it comes to having the faintest understanding of any kind of modern technology and how it works.
They're often worse about it than even older generations were on account of how boomers assume that they understand it simply because some in their generation picked up on a few simple basics. All while failing to recognize that they only managed to grasp things at a surface and rudimentary level.
I think boomers, due to living in a bonobo paradise, have piss poor pattern recognition. Severian from Founding Questions has noticed they cannot tell when a girl has makeup on. Somebody pulled a study where it turns out they cannot tell AI videos and photos from the real thing. There was news a decade or so back of all those retirement communities in Florida built up to look like villages that were faker than fake but boomers ate it up.
I think they've gotten more retarded. I remember many boomers being very capable, but now in their 70's don't know how to do anything anymore. I don't know if it is age-related cognitive decline or decades of eating poinsonous food that contributed to sharp cognitive decline. I know some boomers who were very computer proficient in the 90s and now can barely use the computer. Nothing that drastic has changed with PCs since the 90s. The change in PCs from the 80s to the 90s was drastic. We're pretty much still using the same Windows OS 30 years later.
My father is 80. Back in the 1970s and 80s and 90s he was pretty much a computer whiz. In the early days when he started his business, he had bought these secondhand specialized mainframe computers. He had to re-solder firmware chips on some of them. He set up, terminals to access them. Later, I have very clear memories of him editing autoexec.bat and config.sys on our home DOS computer (386 4mb of ram. A real beast)
Today, I sometimes have to help him use his iPhone and Mac. I don’t think he really understands password managers… to be fair, I think he’s still worlds better than most 80 year olds and he will watch YouTube videos, read Reddit threads, etc to try to figure stuff out.
Definitely has fallen for some ai slop!
Aging is a bitch.
Edit: If he younger, he would 100% be posting on kia2.
Same here. In the 90s my father built our family computers and was the IT tech guy in the family. My siblings and I couldn't be bothered to learn anything about computers and barely used them. Flash forward to today and my father is like, "I don't know what's wrong with it. I'm just gonna buy a new laptop." I'm barely computer literate and I was able to fix his laptop.
I think you may have just hit on a key issue without even realizing it, at least in your fathers case.
Ive been soldering a bit and watching a bunch of youtube tutorials and while we mainly use lead free solder (which wasnt the case back pre 90's), I see many people who still recommend to use it for tinning and whatever since lead has such a low melting point.
I do some basic soldering, and use lead free solder and even then I have to hold my breath for a minute or two at a time because even a whiff of the stuff makes my head ache. I swear ever since that work poisoning, ive become very sensitized to chemicals.
This is in a room with a fan pointed towards open windows.
But yeah lead is terrible stuff, I suspect the little bit I was exposed to is what is causing my kidney->parathyroid issues.
But something society isnt talking about is dementia is exploding (was the case even before covid), no one can really explain why.
What else could it be but fucking chemicals in everything? Planet 9 hitting us with xrays or something? Who knows :/.
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People living longer, thats a good one. I cant imagine people are living their best lives stressed living paycheck to paycheck.
Another good example of lead in the environment, most of you should know exactly why they took lead out of gasoline even though it makes the fuel burn more consistently and efficiently.
I mean, other than the fact that Microsoft just shuffled everything around and made it harder to get to the legacy features some people used all the time that they just didn't remove outright its pretty much the same. However, I could absolutely see someone in their 70's just kinda give up on adapting to the new layout and "features" out of pure "what's even the point" if they're not using it professionally anymore.
Yeah entire decades of neural pathways can be super hard to change, nearly impossible once you hit a certain age.
All that environmental lead coming home to roost.
Intellectuals often mistake knowing for understanding. It's something we first saw with the age of Enlightenment, and then decades later, with the industrial revolution
I used to work with scientists and you are spot on. They they think they are qualified to comment and make decisions on everything, but most them could barely tie their own shoes. And even though many of them were wealthy, they had a lot of chaos in their own personal lives.
When I worked construction, most of our job was trying to figure out what the hell the engineers were thinking when they gave us their blueprints, because not one time were any of their measurements accurate to reality. They were just going off of what was in their records, and never came out into the field and measured a damned thing, leaving us, the lowly peons who work with our hands, to interpret their retardation.
It's been the same with every other field I've experienced or worked in. The academics and "experts" were the most highly educated retards on the planet, that I wouldn't trust to dig a hole in the ground.
Epistemic trespassing. My two favorite words in the English dictionary.
As a car enthusiast, I have had more than what I would call a 'fair share' of these retards blowing in from outside telling me what's going to happen to my industry. Many of them have names you would instantly recognize.
Neil Degrasse Tyson, for one, and his predictions towards society heading towards 99% self-driving cars by 2050. This is laughably wrong in many ways if you even understand the basics into how FSD works and its limitations.
Autopilot works well on airplanes because planes have an entire extra dimension to move about in, plus far less space occupied by other things. You won't find birds 30,000 feet in the air. Or hobbyists in Cessnas and autogyros. The only dangers that exist in commercial airliners at that height are component failure, deliberate sabotage or an ATC fucking it up.
FSD in cars already does not work very well as we saw with the Waymo destructions. A self-driving taxi cannot recognize when it is in danger. A rapefugee can immobilize one by just standing in front of it. Because unlike in a plane, this form of autopilot has to take on-board around 100 other factors on the fly. Traffic signals. Road signals, including temporary ones. Other cars, parked or otherwise. Cyclists. Buses. Motorcyclists. Pedestrians. Animals. It has to obey local rules and speed limits. It has to constantly scan around itself, second-by-second.
Furthermore, nowhere near 99% of people are going to consciously make the switch. Many people enjoy driving, especially older cars. Poorer families won't be able to afford an FSD model, and some conscious to the dangers of FSD won't want it.
This is obvious if you actually understand cars instead of blowing in from a completely different area of expertise and pretending that you do.
The only way FSD could even have a chance to take over is a network of vehicles that work in sync to ensure constant flow of traffic. No jackasses rubbernecking, running red lights, swerving lanes to get a few cars ahead, causing random stops and starts that are the main cause of traffic jams. Effectively you'll have just chained all cars together which would allow for more seamless travel in heavy traffic conditions.
But that's not going to work unless they start heavily pushing for all vehicles to be like this, otherwise you have too many vehicles not on the chain disrupting it, so people don't have a choice to buy what would later be called a manual vehicle, as in one you manually drive.
But also, as you point out, there are massive flaws that we cannot currently overcome with the technology we have. Now, maybe, sometimes in the future that might change, but I don't see it as feasible due to so many factors that can come up on the road that an FSD would not be capable of handling.
I have a friend, the only one i talk to who can drive. He doesn't like it at all. And i bet a lot of youngsters don't too since they grew up in an environment where owning a car and enjoying it is a luxury.
It's like a combination of halo effect and some kind of pride/shame (same emotion, really) in not knowing an answer.
Effectively, they'll hallucinate an answer if they don't know one, because saying "I don't know" when you're supposed to be intelligent is apparently some mark against you. Ironic, given we're talking about AI. Also ironic, given we're talking about a gnostic atheist.
Ignoring the shapeshifters (and there are a lot of those), I've yet to witness a public atheist that wasn't a result of daddy issues. They just trade one god for another. Nietzschean Untermensch.