They're tired of gaslighting people into becoming liberals, now they're doing it with machines. Whoever thought of letting misinformation giants like Google "teach" "AI" should be fired ~~at~~.
Me reading this:
It sure is lovely that the "AI" "Revolution" has given hacks a bunch of hard to audit but scientific-sounding metrics for them to apply however they want.
Armchair peer review time: I'd love to see them introducing a control group for their "toxicity" model by including subs from their other identified clusters. How can you know what it means for tankies to be millions of billions toxic if you don't have baselines? I do like how they agree with r/liberal and r/conservative being in the same cluster though. On the domain analysis I'd require them to also include the total number of articles and not just the percentages, which I'd bet would give a fun graph.
Overall, I've read less funny and more informative parody papers. For the AI nerds, this one might be fun.
My comments are so toxic that if you print them and ingest them you'll likely die.
So, by attacking Ukraine to prevent it joining NATO, Ukraine joining NATO can only happen after the war is over (probably, maybe, perhaps)? That's the opposite of your "unintended consequences" claim, even ignoring how Ukraine's entrance in NATO is still not even guaranteed after this war ends.
Also there's the little detail that the "WMDs" were a lie while the Nazification of Ukraine was so obvious even the western media were writing about it, and they are still forced to address it because every time they take a photo of Kiev regime soldiers - surprise, suprise! - there is some swastika, iron cross or SS badge that the western media need to twist themselves into knots to handwave away or justify.
The gaslighting never ends. I have had people badgering me over this war and yet they couldn't even cite the official Russian reasons for the war, despite being incredibly "savvy" on all "secret" objectives.
Reddit has been only getting worse since 2015 when r/politics became the dominant force. I gave up after the admins literally did a coup on even slightly leftwing subs like r/presidentialracememes.
Oh, and to sell meds at 2000x the price it costs to manufacture them, of course.
I was horribly misdiagnosed as bipolar a while back and while the meds had barely any effect on me (positive or negative) their huge costs coupled with no help at all made my mental health worse than it was beforehand. I suspect that the diagnosis was so random for my conditions because it was the most medicable condition the "professional" could find to keep me coming back for more.
I have no issue with psychiatry as a field in the abstract though, just the health profiteering that passes as psychiatry in capitalism. That link there is interesting, thanks!
I had only read his writings and never realised he was also such a good public speaker as well, now he's my exercise companion. Proof that there's no meritocracy in the US is him being less popular than Chomsky.
Like, it doesn’t matter if IT IS BEING REGARDED AS THE MOST EFFECTIVE right now, because it still doesn’t mean its doing the job.
Killing all humans will reduce mental illness to zero, checkmate communists.
I agree that "fixing" people needs the social aspect and CBT by itself hasn't helped me much, but my current therapist is both CBT and a Marxist so it helps. I hope some Marxist therapy branch catches on eventually. As for psychiatry, at the very least the entire process should be free. No person should have to choose between food and meds that may mess with your appetite.
Adding to Boy Boy, one of them has a channel called "I did a thing" which teaches you how to do some things and is very entertaining. Don't have your politics exclusively come from the youtube equivalent of late night showhosts though.
A lot of the early history of psychiatry was explicitly about controlling "deviants" rather than actually helping them integrate. Turns out bipolar people don't need any more of those dubious meds than they actually need the financial security that Kanye West has to not go homeless due to having a crisis. I wince whenever I hear any lib propping up pop positive psychology nonsense such as "gratitude journals" for people who have way more reasons to be angry than to be grateful. But I've ran into some pretty "woke" professionals who actually fully endorsed tackling social issues and focused mostly on dealing with (self-)harmful personal behaviours. Stuff like blaming oneself for external issues or how to deal with irrational stuff like paranoid thoughts. They usually were from the CBT branch, though I've also met some trashy CBT professionals so YMMV. I guess it helps in my country that psychology is usually taught more alongside history and philosophy rather than medicine.
I also have serious issues with anything related to capitalist medicine because no one in their right mind would think that the best solution for vulnerable/disabled/sick/injured people should be to profit from them. Not only it is immoral but professionals then have to fight against their own class interests of income if they want those people to be able to leave the care eventually. Not to mention that so long as private healthcare exists, it will try its darnest to privatise or discredit public healthcare, and there should be no competition on the business of saving lives. This is why the pearl clutching over some imaginary plan from Sanders to abolish insurance in the USA actually made his campaign look even better than it was.
Edit: It's possible you have like-minded comrades even in your classes. Organisation is always the first step!
I was thinking of suggesting some kind of biweekly movie club to watch movies from AES or old countries (USSR). They have some really good movies and most of us out of the USA are already used to watching stuff with different cultural context and subtitles anyway. Lots are also available on youtube since copyright is just Rent of the Concept. Might even find stuff that is palatable to show others.
Please, do! It gets so tiring seeing all of those AI data "scientists" believing they can say whatever they want about fields they know jack about because "the p-value is low." They're the biggest reason I decided to quit.