Wow that was an interesting rabbit hole. She straight up premeditated murdered that dude and only ended up serving six years. What was she like in person??

I think I'd trust the AI version of events more than the cops' version of events in most cases.

good god lmao i forgot to address the rest

medical: ever been to your local walk in clinic? or a rural doctor's office? pretty sure i'd prefer a.i. over the ppl there

government: haha you're just trolling with this one aren't you? hmm... biden, trump, or a.i... is it even close???

power: power grid is a step away from a.i. already

weapons: obviously this is first thing everyone is gonna use them for. "banning" weapon a.i. makes about as much sense as native americans banning gunpowder. doesnt make any differenxe if the other side doesnt comply, they'll just shoot your dumb luddite ass :/

lol you been watching the news lately? not sure i want to fly in a plane built by humans...

well it was 20yrs off 50yrs ago so i guess we're making progress :)

We can reduce pretty much our entire lives to gravity and electromagnetism, and together with the nuclear forces this has run the universe for billions of years, with no exception ever registered, and we've been looking.

you might not have been paying attention for a while, but there's things called dark matter and dark energy, which pretty much by definition are registered exceptions, and kind of a big deal...

Alright, let's unpack this. Because this does not make a whole lot of sense. For reference, I teach CS at $LOCALUNIVERSITY

Well that's interesting, let's compare notes. If $LOCALUNIVERSITY is anything like $LARGESTATEUNIVERSITY then you might be seeing the same thing I'm seeing.

Women account for about 1/5 of the intro CS students, but make up about 3/5 of the ppl who come in to office hours. The harder the class, the more girls end up in office hours. The dropout rate is significantly higher. Blaming the dropout on "sexism" is ridiculous. Have you ever spent time outside the university? Police, politicians, lawyers... if you think computer geeks are sexist and offensive, you must have your head in the sand about these other groups. But yet you see plenty of women and minorities in these fields. How do you explain that? Are CS girls just fragile compare to women in every other field everywhere.

No, the reality is, girls just don't *like* to program. There are a lot of guys in CS just for the money to be sure, but the ones who excel and you know are going to make it are the ones who program for fun in their spare time. Like, literally, there are students who enjoy coding and come up with their own projects that they spend their nights and weekends on without any need for a grade or a paycheck to motivate them. These kids are virtually 100% male. I don't know of any girl who enjoys spending her free time time this way. And when you have a bunch of people half-assing it compared to what the people at the top are doing, it ends up getting pretty lopsided. But don't lie to yourself about the reasons for it.

And let's be real, as demanding as med school is made out to be to the common person, it really isn't. If you really work at $LOCALUNIVERSITY (and it's not like community college or something), then stroll down to your $LOCALUNIVERSITY tutoring department and watch how many pre-med students come in for programming/math/physics help vs how many programmers/math/physics ppl come in for help with biology. You have to have a decent memory and the motivation to memorize all the shit, but it's not like you really need to be able to figure things out, solve problems, think fast on your feet, etc unless you're going to be a medical researcher or brain surgeon. 9/10 of the people in med school are just going to end up on the level of local pediatrician, which let's be honest, you could just about train a monkey to do their jobs... So, the fact that there are girls in med school doesn't mean their brain works in the way that is required to do CS at all.

Here's another anecdote: Of the graduating class from $LOCALHIGHSCHOOL 2 years ago, every single girl (~10) in pre-engineering got accepted to $LARGESTATEUNIVERSITY. Not a single boy did, not even the minorities. Most (possibly all?) of the boys who went off to other schools were still in engineering after the first year. Something like half of the girls dropped out. It was indeed sexism that provoked this disparity in dropout rate, but the sexism was in the admissions process accepting people for social justice reasons instead of academic reasons.

haha that study is very revealing. look at the number of people who responded "the work was too difficult". something like 2% for men and 4% for women... lmaoooo.

if ppl were honest with themselves then that number would be like 90%. everybody who makes it through an engineering program knows that the ppl who dropped just didnt have the chops for it. the ones who know they're good coming in can even predict who is or isnt gonna make it after a few months. you can tell pretty quickly who earned the right to be there and who got passed along on a gender/race/spoiled rich kid card.

egos are fragile things at that age. hard to admit that other ppl in the world are just that much better than you after being told you were so good all your life :/

bro have you ever worked in anything even remotely competitive? men belittle other men too ffs. it takes a rare breed in that environment not to belittle the ppl at the bottom (interns, new hires) if not directly, then just through the general tone they take when talking to ppl who are struggling to do things they mastered 30yrs ago.

like women aren't being singled out for belittlement more than they deserve relative to their abilities.

funny thing is, almost all women who actually made it engineering (and competitive iq/athletic fields in general) would agree with the assessment, because they know the sacrifice that they made and they know damn well those others girls didnt make that sacrifice and now they just bitter whiners trying to point the finger at anything except themselves

yes, this is about what you would expect from a survey of young adults who failed in any field. its not like you are looking at a psychology study, you are asking 20-somethings who probably had really big egos coming into college essentially to self-report why they failed at thier major.

how many of these people have the maturity to look at their situation objectively and admit the rather harsh reality that they just didnt have the chops for it. its much easier to point the finger at nebulous things that friends/parents/society kinda gives you a pass for: you didnt fail because of your own shortcomings, but because *random social thing* held you back

the reality, no, you just didnt have the chops for it.

you ever hung out with police? or just watch the freaking news lol? white male cops are among the most racist and sexist ppl in our country, and openly make racist and sexist jokes in front of colleagues. and yet there are plenty of black and female cops...

i can only imagine the mental gymnastics you're going to perform trying to explain this discrepancy, but i'll just tell you the nice simple non delusional answer: it's really fucking easy to be a cop, you need about a 90 iq tops.

the cognitive dissonance is comical. we have women lawyers, women politicians, women doctors... cant speak for the doctors, but having been around laywers and just like, having watched the news, i know the roughly the amount of sexism in those fields, but theres no shortage of women.

having also been around engineers, i can confidently assert that the latter group is far more respectful as a whole toward women than the former two. thinking that banning this image is going to have any measuable impact on the number of women in engineering is delusional on the level of trying to bail out the titanic with a thimble

yes, this is what is keeping women out of engineering... its not the gruelling courseload, its not the rigors of the mathematics, its not the fact that most of the guys are unattractive nerds, its not that the career generally means absolute commitment to excel... no, its the random image of a woman's face in a journal that 0.1% of actual working engineers will ever see, and that you'd have to go out of your way to even know that was ever in playboy. that's whats holding women back :/

if a picture is worth 1000 words, and a video is 30fps, then just have the kid watch .033s of adult video and you make up the difference

In the context of electricity waste in one's life as a whole (which is what started the discussion), whether a wireless charger is 50%, 75%, or 100% effective is entirely irrelevant. More electricity is "wasted" on the average person's annual sugary cold beverage consumption than decades of wireless charger losses. If you want to significantly reduce electricity waste in the world, cut out pepsi products or whatever your personal equivalent is. That would have a bigger impact than using wired over wireless even if wireless was only 10% efficient...

That's kinda the point though. A single weekend of fun can easily consume a decade worth of wireless charger electricity waste, if not a lifetime. And you wave it it off with a nonchalant "well we don't do that all the time"... It's irrelevant cause all it takes is once.

Of all the wasted electricity in the world, being concerned with wireless charging is like bailing out the titanic with a thimble.