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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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answering captchas as badly as possible while still not being determined to be a robot is actually pretty fun (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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incompetent half-assing is rarely this morally righteous of an act too, since your one act of barely-competent-enough incompetence is transmuted into endless incompetence by becoming training data/qc feedback

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

If you cut the outliers out of a dataset of whom 30% are bullshitters who are skilled and motivated to bullshit, that doesn't magically make the system more accurate it only makes it more precise since bullshitters have been training their whole lives to bullshit in a convincing way (some went to school for it starting at a very young age) and can often present much more authentic than non-bullshitters and honestly it makes me happy that I know big tech thinks the same way you do on this. It is glorious how poorly positioned it makes these much more dangerous bullshitters to respond or anticipate how these systems will naturally decay.

At a certain point, and it doesn't surprise me in the least that people who think rigidly along the lines of statistics and automation don't get this at all, when misinformation is rampant in a system it is often the outliers that are the critical voices of truth.

If you discard outliers because they are outliers and keep doing it you will get a more refined system precisely because it has gotten better at bullshitting and now everybody always jumps on the bandwagon and meaning collapses into byzantine conformism.

I take my schadenfreude where I can get it : )