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New comment by sincerecook in "I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old"

sincerecook — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:01:36 +0000

Intelligence is only good up to a point. The successful people I know were not the best students and their parents were not the most obsessive parents. Those kids generally ended up having more difficult and troubled lives. Trying to make your kids geniuses is a mistake.

New comment by sincerecook in "I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old"

sincerecook — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:57:51 +0000

Yes, we should never teach anyone anything because someone raised a mild and relevant objection.

New comment by sincerecook in "I taught my 3-year-old to read like a 9-year-old"

sincerecook — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:53:30 +0000

Adults don't go to recess or play marbles either, were you mad about that too?

New comment by sincerecook in "ChatGPT Is a Gimmick"

sincerecook — Thu, 22 May 2025 11:42:13 +0000

Those are all gimmicks. Normal people don't care about any of that.

New comment by sincerecook in "Ireland given two months to implement hate speech laws or face action from EU"

sincerecook — Sun, 11 May 2025 12:11:01 +0000

If you don't like the "hate" speech, present a better argument. If you can't do that, the hate speech is simply the stating of inconvenient facts.

New comment by sincerecook in "AfD classified as extreme-right by German intelligence"

sincerecook — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:45:06 +0000

The interesting question is why having a different definition of the German people than "anyone who happened to come here and has lived here for a while" should be considered an extreme position. Throwing out all history and ancestry as a core component of the identity of a group of people seems rather like the extreme view.

New comment by sincerecook in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

sincerecook — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:57:29 +0000

So anecdotes from biased sources?

New comment by sincerecook in "Altman: OpenAI not for sale, especially to competitor who is not able to beat us"

sincerecook — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:45:19 +0000

If you think Elon is a "good guy" at this point, he's got a bunch of self driving cars to sell you. Full self driving should be ready by next year.

New comment by sincerecook in "Altman: OpenAI not for sale, especially to competitor who is not able to beat us"

sincerecook — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:25:59 +0000

Yes, traditionally women would engage in passive aggressive slights and backhanded compliments more than men would, who would more likely engage in a physical fight. That is a pattern based on historical reality and observed and acknowledged the world over. Your attempt to make it a pathology to recognize and affirm the observation is itself a pathology, a rabid ideological one.

New comment by sincerecook in "Words flagged in search of current NSF awards"

sincerecook — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:59:53 +0000

The politics was already in the science. So in the same spirit of being charitable that you afforded me, are you naive or foolish?

New comment by sincerecook in "Words flagged in search of current NSF awards"

sincerecook — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:54:45 +0000

Here's a study that looked at precisely the kind of thing this policy will address: https://www.cspicenter.com/p/increasing-politicization-and-h...

To be clear, I would be in support of this policy even if there was no evidence because it sets a tone that I think is positive.

New comment by sincerecook in "Words flagged in search of current NSF awards"

sincerecook — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:27:19 +0000

I support the purported intent of this policy, not the misuse of it. But that's something that has to be challenged when it happens, and it hasn't happened yet. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to make any policy since it could always potentially be misused. For the record I expect there will be some misuse of it, but broadly I also expect it to curtail the fake woke "science" that was itself a kind of misuse of the system.

New comment by sincerecook in "Words flagged in search of current NSF awards"

sincerecook — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:41:59 +0000

You're not being very charitable, have you considered that you may be letting your biases have an undue influence on your judgement here?

New comment by sincerecook in "Words flagged in search of current NSF awards"

sincerecook — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:35:19 +0000

That's literally what the quote says: "From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled". And then it goes on to quote a long list of words that would be characteristic of woke social science "research".

New comment by sincerecook in "El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nation"

sincerecook — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:25:01 +0000

Oh no, the poor criminals.

New comment by sincerecook in "Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day"

sincerecook — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:26:13 +0000

Back to reality.

New comment by sincerecook in "X, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube sign EU code to tackle hate speech"

sincerecook — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:06:15 +0000

Putting aside the histrionics that Nazis are everywhere and about to kill everyone, does anyone have a good theory on why Elon would do this? Like is he just regressing to a 13 year old troll now? From the last few weeks you'd think he just went full clown. He's a 50 something year old man with 10 or 12 kids who apparently doesn't do much of anything besides troll people on Twitter, what's going on with this man?

New comment by sincerecook in "The Trouble with Elon"

sincerecook — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:58:10 +0000

Yeah, Tesla being a tech company instead of a car company is a con, all the publicity stunts - boring company, Hyperloop, Mars are all cons to attract attention. The crypto stuff is all a con. Elon is very good at getting a hype flywheel going, particularly in this age of man children.

New comment by sincerecook in "The Trouble with Elon"

sincerecook — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 22:55:06 +0000

It's 2025, if you're just seeing the trouble with Elon now you're probably not as smart as you think you are. He's a fake and a con artist, and when he's not those things he's a ruthless tyrant. It's not a credit to Sam's moral character, which he clearly rates very highly, that he was ever friends with the guy in the first place. Sam likes elites, but he prefers them more refined. He's just lamenting that Elon's letting it all hang out now.

New comment by sincerecook in "Mark Zuckerberg says AI could soon do the work of Meta's midlevel engineers"

sincerecook — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:25:55 +0000

This is like one grandparent with dementia correcting the other grandparent with dementia at Thanksgiving dinner.