What are the biases of Lemmy?

[richarddegenne@lemmy.zip]

No, we're left, please pay attention

[fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net]

Yeah, I enjoyed that about reddit at that ave too. As an isolated teen it's all I had

[fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net]

I like both, the new series they're doing in wars have been great

[chunes@lemmy.world]

Unfortunately it's just harder to be a Star Wars fan since Disney bought it.

[partial_accumen@lemmy.world]

Unfortunately it’s just harder to be a Star Wars fan since Disney bought it.

Paramount is trying very hard to create the same difficulty to love Star Trek with their Section 31 movie.

[partial_accumen@lemmy.world]

It’s not hatred of AI there.

I still disagree, but let me create another hypothetical example that may highlight where we might disagreement further:

What if Deep Learning (not Gen AI) was used in missile guidance systems specifically to aim toward "people shaped targets"? Would the hate be for AI or just for missiles? If missiles is your answer, where is the distinction in your mind between that and the self-driving cars example?

[stovetop@lemmy.world]

I think that's a false dichotomy though, because that assumes gender standards and presentations are universally consistent, when in practice it is often highly dependent on social context and individual perception.

What defines someone as masculine in the US is not 1:1 with the concept of masculinity in China, or France, or Kenya, for instance. On top of that, one's personal understanding of masculinity and femininity likely differs slightly (or greatly) from the general standards of the society around them.

The easiest concept of gender is to just trust people when they tell you who they are. It's entirely an internal, personal understanding of identity, and it's mutable.

[deathbybigsad@sh.itjust.works]

The hivemind has a doublethink of "Guns are bad, police should be allowed to confiscate them" and simultaneously "Abolish the police".

Also, purity testing. The Lemmy hivemind has decreed that: if you haven't committed an assassination against a dictator, you're not a leftist, you're complicit, and you deserve to be oppressed.

[deathbybigsad@sh.itjust.works]

I'm more a The Expanse type of person

[hobbitfoot@thelemmy.club]

Lemmy is not neurotypical and it shows up with various discussions. Discussions here tend to assume autism or AuDHD as typical behavior, when it is only typical for the group of people assembled here.

[hawke@lemmy.world]

There is no relevant distinction.

I hate missiles for the damage they do regardless of the technology used to point them at the target.

I hate cars for the damage they do regardless of the technology used to point them at the target.

There’s a difference of intent (missiles get aimed at people while self driving cars hopefully get aimed away from people).

There’s a difference of failure modes (when a self-driving car fails it will often hit a person while a failing missile will miss a person).

But theres no reason to hate machine-learning for that, any more there is a reason to hate gyroscopes or lidar or other tools which are also used in guidance systems.

If someone had decided that a simple accelerometer were “good enough” to unleash self-driving cars on the general public without consideration for the damage caused, people would be upset and rightly so, but not because of the specific technology itself.

Edit: changed AI to “machine-learning”

[maven@lemmy.zip]

In a rare defense of the movie... It was originally intended to be a miniseries but it got cut down to a movie when Michelle Yeoh won her Oscar and quickly became the most in demand actress for everyone.

While I hated the movie and most aspects, it was very much a compromise on the original vision and was in no way what Paramount was intending to make. It's hard to tell if it being a show would've fixed all the issues with the acting and characters being cringe af but at the very least it probably wouldn't have had the same pacing issues and extremely rushed writing.

[schlemmy@lemmy.ml]

I just joined Lemmy and then I discoverd what .ml is. Now I don't care about instances anymore

[partial_accumen@lemmy.world]

I didn't make it past 15 minutes of watching it. I bailed when it became immediately obvious this was an attempt at a Star Trek version of Suicide Squad of quirky misfits. That whole concept is not what Section 31 had been sold to us in the various Star Trek series'. What we were expecting were the best minds recruited across Starfleet performing morally questionable actions in service of their (possibly twisted notion) of the "greater good".

Julian Bashir working for Section 31 had no place in that movie version of the agency of the same name. Nor did Malcolm Reed. The movie version of Section 31 made a joke of 30 years of espionage and political intrigue.

[lumisal@lemmy.world]

You know what? Fuck it. The fascists are leftists and we're far right, because we're the ones who are actually right about things like reality.

Plus it would be completely hilarious to watch happen as we flip the script on them and call them leftys.

[paranoid@lemmy.world]

But what about Star Gate?

[partial_accumen@lemmy.world]

Touché! I would argue 'Gate has better representation on Lemmy than 'Wars. "Would you not agree, Daniel Jackson?" /Teal'c

[partial_accumen@lemmy.world]

I’m more a The Expanse type of person

So say we all! Oh wait, that's a different one too...

[scott_of_the_arctic@lemmy.world]

Also half of all lemmings are transgender. No idea why.

[scott_of_the_arctic@lemmy.world]

I'm on .world, and I'd happily throw all the billionaires into an industrial shredder.