zbyte64

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Additionally, AI will only be getting better,

It might get cheaper, but that doesn't mean it's doing a better job.

if the alternative is telling people that are struggling and have no other options that they have to tough it out

That's just it, if you're talking to someone who's is struggling with this there is already a better option: showing empathy. I suspect our perceived lack of empathy is a reflection of how society treats people in general, we are just more honest about it and recognize it's mostly platitudes.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I'll be honest, I find the framing of the study offensive and I'm not sure if I have the words but I'll try.

It's less about this study comparing itself to no intervention instead, but the social & political context of AI being pushed as a way to make care giving more efficient while sacrificing quality.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

half were assigned to use Noora for four weeks and half received no intervention.

If only they gave a control group an off-the-shelf social game like LA Noire or a D&D play group

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

Teachers sell their blood and organs just to get by

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Full title:

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model Book by Richard C. Schwartz

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Lookup internal family systems (a good book would be "No Bad Parts"). It's like you have parts of yourself arguing and putting other parts down. It's all parts of you trying to protect you but they maybe don't recognize the roles each part has. Try to find out what your anger is trying to say, sometimes when the part is heard it is more manageable. The point isn't to make the anger go away but see if it can let other parts help in whatever need it is trying to accomplish.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 16 points 2 weeks ago

Or do what they did in Hong Kong: ship them to another part of the country to stand trial. It's currently illegal, but probably less illegal than removing juries. They'll do it because they can't secure the local jails or something

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As well as one can in these times. Reading Dietrich's 10 years later, and he suggests not judging people by what they do or don't do, but by what they suffer.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Judge not lest ye be judged.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

There are many forms of activism and it is important to keep in mind that everyone exists with different abilities in different contexts. Judging others because they aren't adopting the same strategy as you isn't going to build a winning coalition. Here's a quote from someone who was murdered by the SS and was reflecting on how stupidity is as much a sociological phenomenon:

It will really depends on whether those in power expect more from people's stupidity than from their inner independence and wisdom.

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer, After Ten Years

The idea that the DNC only has a messaging problem is to say we expect more from people's stupidity than from their inner independence or wisdom (ie Voters just need to be educated). A party that respects people would listen and respond to issues like Gaza or wealth inequality. The reason this strategy of educating voters doesn't work is because it isn't a problem with the intellect but of their oppression. Only by liberating fellow voters will they be able to act independently.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, the only positive spin I received is from Newsom dropping ads on YouTube. Got a couple negative flyers as well.

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