For most jobs it’s hard to do a hiring process without in-person interviews, or at the very least video calls. So I’m not really sure how one could realistically get rid of biases. But I completely agree that whenever there are too many applications to interview everyone individually, the initial screening of applicants should be completely anonymized and rely only only technologies where biases can at least be understood.

For the final step I’m afraid we’ll have to try to train people to be less prone to biased decision-making. Which I agree is not a very promising path.

It’s not men against women, it’s people against billionaires.

It’s not the fact that these people are men that I take issue with, it’s that they are hypocrites capitalising feminist sentiments without making any actual effort towards real change.

Edit: Since I wrote my response the comment I responded to was changed into something even dumber. I’ll let it speak for itself.

At least where I’m from, it’s pretty well know that the education system is better suited to girls than boys, probably because it needs a reform

I didn’t say it doesn’t, clearly there’s a problem when half the population is systematically favoured.

To paraphrase: women can get pregnant and can’t work and it’s the man’s fault

Where the fuck did I say that it’s the man’s fault? It’s a societal problem, doesn’t mean it’s anybody’s fault. At least not an entire gender in general. Capitalism as a system, yeah, probably.

What I observe in society are a huge increase in the amount of advertising aimed at women with a feminist message because women are being programmed to flock to such messages

I’m the first to criticize corporate feminism (just like greenwashing and pride washing), but I suspect feminist messaging appeals to women because they are sick of the patriarchy, not because they are programmed by marketing agencies. The fuck are you on about.

That said, I think you’re right that the messaging of companies trying to appear feminist in their communications while nevertheless usually being run almost exclusively by men is a huge part of the source material that produces the bias here. I’m not sure we disagree much in substance, but I suspect we come from different starting points in how we see gender dynamics in society.

At least where I’m from it’s pretty well known that girls outperform boys in school, possibly because their brains develop slightly earlier in some ways useful to perform in a class room.

This could give women a head start and very well lead to them on average performing better in work life, until they are forced to choose between careers and families while they partners continue to advance their careers at full speed not worrying about being pregnant.

But that’s a different discussion. We should avoid biases in hiring because biases suck and make for an unjust society. And we should stop pretending language models make intelligent considerations about anything.

What’s fascinating here is that LLMs trained on the texts we produce create the opposite bias of what we observe in society, where men tend to get preferential treatment. My guess is that this is a consequence of inclusive language. In my writing, whenever women are under-represented, I make a point out of defaulting to she and her rather than he and him. I know others do the same. I imagine this could feed into LLMs. Whatever it is that causes this, it sure as fuck isn’t anything actually intelligent.

the AI considered

Sorry to break it to you, but the “AI” does not “consider” anything. They are talking about a language prediction model.

“misidentified as a suspect” my ass. Correctly identified as a person of colour. I wish they would talk honestly about these things.

Then again it seems battery life is a lot better this time around, so this should ideally be less necessary.

“Creators led this revolution”

The same way cows lead a slaughterhouse.

Sure, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that under this model, small artists with little money seem to have a strong incentive not to put their music up for sale, which will cost both them and Bandcamp potential profits.

Maybe they could offer fans to sponsor a membership for artists if they want to unlock premium features.

Fair enough. But musicians are not really “any type of venture”.

Bandwagon is already taking on a risk by hosting music for free for listening. If they could find ways in which both them and the artists could profit from music published on the platform that lacks the commercial potential to justify a €10 subscription, this would be a win/win. Considering that it seems they are already hosting the music for free.

Thanks. I guess the piglets just represent random Bolsheviks sucking up to the Party leadership. Makes it look a bit like if Death of Stalin was set to Animal Farm.

Could also be two separate things? I have a) dumped Windows and b) installed Lineage.

We’re outsourcing thinking to a bullshit generator controlled by mostly American mega-corporations who have repeatedly demonstrated that they want to do us harm, burning through scarce resources and rendering creative humans robbed and unemployed in the process.

What’s not to hate.

Is this supposed to be Old Major (Marx/Lenin) and Snowball (Trotsky) in conversation, and Napoleon (Stalin) injecting himself?

I’m a bit sceptical for now. I don’t remember this scene from the book, and I don’t feel like I see the characters as I remember them here. I thought Old Major pretty much stuck with his principles until the end, and things turned to shit only after his death? Alternatively, if the adult pig in the trailer is Napoleon, are the piglets just random partisans who had no role in the book?

The film is directed by Andy Serkis, aka Gollum, so that’s interesting I guess.

Notepad++, fucking what hahaha.

And yeah, it really does not take much research online to learn about gsconnect.

I don’t understand the hardware support part, but I also don’t understand “peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice”. If I had to install software to use my keyboard I would riot. Maybe I’m just too primitive.

Not strictly a scam, but there’s a little money to be made creating viral content on Facebook. They receive a tiny portion of the ad revenue from Facebook when they generate engagement.

It’s just Facebook sucking really.

Moreover, given that Hunt and LaBella are members of the performers union SAG-AFTRA, their intimate scenes would also be subject to the labor group’s regulations, which call for prior notice, consent and a closed set.

…so for non-unionized talents the industry assumes it doesn’t need prior notice or consent?

Turns out Sumer Is Icumen In is an absolute banger.

I’m sure you could have a fruitful conversation with the crowd insisting it was written by AI. :)

Maybe the question we should ask is not “how much does Tom Cruise love movies”, but rather “where is Shelly”.