Morten Bay, Philosophiae Doctor.

That's the hole truth and nuthin' but the truth.

It's truer than you think. Look up electron holes in semiconductors.

I think that was the point of your post, wasn't it? 😀

Mediating Plureality In this book, Morten Bay provocatively questions whether or not truth in media is lost and, furthermore, whether humans can perceive objective reality or, as ma…

Well, the timeline isn't clear enough for him to get it right. Trust decline in media/govt. starts much earlier. Also, there IS a clear course correction, it just requires that we all do some very serious emotional and mental labor. I don't know if we are willing to do that, but it's all in here:

I just watched The Age of Disclosure and I am now convinced that we will wake up one day in my lifetime and find movies like Arrival and Close Encounters quaint and cringe b/c it's no longer a mystery that aliens have been here for decades.

Also forseeing a Watchmen-like scenario sans squid.

He's accused of being racist to his school friends... which is the most believable thing I've read in a while.

But the scary part is that Miller, now 40, hasn't changed his positions since he was a teenager. A stunted, developmentally arrested teenager is one of the most powerful men in our government.

I don't know about you folks, but I'm a lot smarter than I was at 16, and most of my views have evolved.

So many things in this letter show a complete ignorance of established social science. Bilingual education ENHANCES understanding of both languages. Free condom availability not only reduced STD/HIV spread, it also reduced teenage pregnancy in the Latin community, which Miller should appreciate?

Well, I googled it, and this horrifying 2092 letter to the editor of a local Santa Monica website from 16-year old Stephen Miller shows up.

I think we can now establish that Stephen Miller simply never got over his need to rebel against his environment as a teenager.

Precisely! But some hateful individuals take the wrong lessons from that experience, and that's why it would be worth finding out if there is evidence of that happening in Miller's case.

Because most peoole understand the principle you describe, it would show Miller as the hateful being he is.

As a former kindergarten teacher, I can emphatically tell you that you are completely wrong on that point.

Socialization in childhood, learning to be around others, is a process of learning the consequences of both negative and positive interactions.

Nigel Farage denies allegations of schoolboy racial abuse The Reform UK leader said he’d never made “hurtful or insulting” comments, but had “probably” misspoken as a child.

Maybe I should have used the word teased rather than bullying.

But what I mean is that if they can dig up 49 year-old behavior on Nigel Farage in the UK, we can do something ssimilar here with SStephen Miller.

www.politico.eu/article/nige...

That sounds exactly like the kind of thing I'm talking about.

Whoa, wait a minute. I'm not saying it was anyone else's fault. Kids are mean to each other. Most of us get into negative entanglements with other children. And, unless it is bullying at a severely traumatic level, we grow up and put it behind us.

But some hateful individuals do not.

I will never forget watching it. Just incredible.

It's clearly personal. While growing up in Santa Monica, he probably ventured east past La Brea sometime and was bullied by LatinX kids. This kind of hate is always psychological and never about generalizable principles.

Someone should FOIA his school records so we can call it out.

1. Should have been a desk rejection.
2. It's one of SO many cases of editors choosing reviewers whose who are poor fits for the manuscript or simply incompetent.
3. This is what happens when the pressure of neoliberal productivity principles are applied to, in this case, researchers and journals.

But of course, I don't know anyone who would IDENTIFY as LatinX. I don't identify as European-Caucasian either. Once we are talking about individuals, they usually identify as, say, Mexican-American, Belizean, Salvadorean-American, etc. etc.

I have - a lot. But mind you, I'm also in an environment (academia) where we talk about the entire social group more often than people normally would. Latina professors get frustrated when you say "Latinos" about both genders. Brazilians don't like to be called "Hispanic".

Good point.

YouTube video by IRamzayI Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question

But U.S. Americans is actually not bad. It just reminds me a little of this classic:

youtu.be/lj3iNxZ8Dww

LatinX does not stink, since that what the group in question prefers, AFAIK? Especially Latinas? LatinE is better, of course, but as a non-Hispanic person, I would feel inauthentic using it.

Generally, I believe in referring to social groups by the label they prefer, not what I prefer.

I think I would get in trouble with my LatinX, locally-born friends here in L.A. if I called any of them a Gringo 😀

How about "Colonialism-descenders"?

I also still like "Uncanadian North Americans"

How about "Uncanadian North Americans?"

Wouldn't it be easier to just accept that people from South and Central America could also call themselves Americans? And if we need to be specific, we could say "People from the U.S.", "U.S. inhabitants", etc. etc.?

I agree with you that this is not a hill worth dying on right now.

Who is suggesting that? And what are they proposing as an alternative?

Given the initiative you've founded, I'm sure you'll agree, but I think people need to gain more literacy about different types of models and AI technologies. In the paper, the successful math results mostly use reasoning models, which rely on both discriminative and generative techniques.

Also, they use LLMs for some things in the paper, but the most impressive results come from reasoning capabilities that rely on both discriminative and generative models and are not LLMs.

LLMs ARE stochastic parrots. That doesn't mean that all AI models are. Let's be precise, we're scientists.

It's remarkable because they think advertising lingo like this will get through peer review: "If we had had these interpretations and the recommended next experimental plan from GPT-5 Pro, we would have resolved or hypothesized the mechanistic insights within 19 minutes upon data analysis."