an underestimated threat AI poses is not convincing you that fake things are real, it’s convincing you that real things are fake

I dunno where it comes from but I get so frustrated when progressive people discuss current world events like they're having an academic discussion about something that happened centuries ago. A kind of detachment from reality that encourages outlandish takes

The gaslighting will continue until morale improves

Вірю, я повірив

When I was TAing for psych courses I always explained cognitive biases and defects in reasoning to the students by reminding them that human beings are emotional creatures capable of reason, not reasonable creatures capable of emotions, and those are very different creatures.

Haven't been wrong yet

I blame the popular misconception of quantum information being impossible to measure without affecting it

People think it means "sentient observation inherently affects the world around us", instead of "shit is so small that the only ways to observe it involve directly fucking with it"