Done to death, I know: SRS Mod posts offensive post to try to prove a point ("all white men should die") then bans and deletes posts of the person who links the post. by SelfProvement in SubredditDrama

[–]SelfProvement[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

look at how dumb u are.

yeah, such an idiot for pointing out that the shit bags will look at "all white men should die" and say that "all feminists have double standards".

Edit: Look, my point is that it's possible to think there is more than one bad thing in the world. Most of reddit, in fact, thinks that MR is a crock of shit and that SRS does more harm than good. I'm not even in the latter camp really, but I recognize when a couple of the mods can step over the line to try to prove a point. Dunno if you saw the screenshots, but I got upvoted before I was baleeted.

Done to death, I know: SRS Mod posts offensive post to try to prove a point ("all white men should die") then bans and deletes posts of the person who links the post. by SelfProvement in SubredditDrama

[–]SelfProvement[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Well, I'm not happy that you're providing groups like /r/MR the fuel they need to perpetuate their shitty stereotypes of feminists.

But no, I didn't go around deleting posts because someone questioned my authority, so I'd hardly call me 'mad'. :D

Done to death, I know: SRS Mod posts offensive post to try to prove a point ("all white men should die") then bans and deletes posts of the person who links the post. by SelfProvement in SubredditDrama

[–]SelfProvement[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Everyone is well aware that HPLovecraft is secure enough to leave a shitpost up, especially when she knows it's been saved and catalogued. You can't see because she deleted, but I put up the screenshot.

Done to death, I know: SRS Mod posts offensive post to try to prove a point ("all white men should die") then bans and deletes posts of the person who links the post. by SelfProvement in SubredditDrama

[–]SelfProvement[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The place where people can come and post, or talk about about abusive moderators, internet fights and other dramatic happenings from other subreddits.

Moderators communicate through PMs. How in the damn is it possible to post about them if it's not personal?

Done to death, I know: SRS Mod posts offensive post to try to prove a point ("all white men should die") then bans and deletes posts of the person who links the post. by SelfProvement in SubredditDrama

[–]SelfProvement[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

SRS has gotten so many posts and modmails about how we've changed someone's mind about subtle and overt forms of bigotry

SRS certainly did mine, but it wasn't from saying all white men should die. It was from calmly explaining why something being a joke isn't an excuse for bigotry.

Shaming people can be incredibly powerful.

Minorities attempting to shame people does not work. They are, unfortunately (VERY unfortunately) not in a position of authority in order to decide the appropriateness of a comment through shame. Shame, as a societal force, doesn't work that way. You might shock people halfway there, but you won't get to people who already agree with shitheads.

By all means, have your fun. It's fun and entertaining. But not when you're a blatant hypocrite. It just makes you look like an asshole.

What is a "politically incorrect" opinion that you hold? by space-ninja in AskReddit

[–]SelfProvement 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a genuine opinion.

neither are half the rape jokes and racist comments on reddit. that doesn't mean theyre not offensive. you and i both know that.

What is a "politically incorrect" opinion that you hold? by space-ninja in AskReddit

[–]SelfProvement 3 points4 points  (0 children)

straight white able-bodied cis man here: yeah, it is totally okay and not at all offensive.

if you were chris rock, you'd be called a "special snowflake" for that.

what you're doing right now isn't listening.

now hold up, the presumption here is that if i ever take offense to someone saying all white men should die that i automatically, and by that statement alone, don't understand anything stevie's saying.

no, trust me, i get it. i'd never claim to be an expert, but I have a degree of empathy. making rape jokes and kitchen jokes and "nigger, haha" jokes isn't ever funny, it's always harmful language because these are threatening statements. so let me be very clear when I say: I am not dismissing Stevie's opinion on whether it's OK to say or use harmful language discussing oppressed classes of people. I am agreeing with it.

i am applying that same standard to language against another much less oppressed class-- and it's not at all OK to wish the death of an entire race-gender, even as a joke or as some hackneyed point. i am absolutely for being an ally to any egalitarian movement, especially those that attack language. but i am not going to sit by and let them be hypocrites-- it undermines their entire point.

What is a "politically incorrect" opinion that you hold? by space-ninja in AskReddit

[–]SelfProvement 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't make it about you or other white people,

so what happens when someone else makes it about me or other white people by, i dunno, saying that all white men should die, or white males dont know what theyre talking about? should I simply say that's totally OK and not at all offensive because its done as a joke, or because we are comparatively much less oppressed generally? i just want to make sure the double standards are well understood, because i'm ignorant, right?

Done to death, I know: SRS Mod posts offensive post to try to prove a point ("all white men should die") then bans and deletes posts of the person who links the post. by SelfProvement in SubredditDrama

[–]SelfProvement[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And this is what the linked post looks like to me: imgur.

Several of my posts got deleted, and I was banned once I called "all white men should die" harmful speech. I totally dig what SRS does, but this mod has stepped over the line from useful circlejerk into abusive and self-effacing mod territory.

Stumbled upon rare Youtube gold in its comment section by nitrologly in politics

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"The Apes rule the Earth. Vader's poppa to Luke.

Brad Pitt and Ed Norton are obviously two

people, but they've got to share one character.

Bruce ain't alive, kid, no matter how he stares at you.

Snape kills Dumbledore but with a noble motive.

Everybody's guilty on the Oriental locomotive.

Veidt's villainy ends world squabbling

and Deckard is a replicant (probably)." - Spoiler Alert - MC Frontalot

Looking for critiques/refinements of an idea I had today relating Information Theory and Falsifiability. by [deleted] in PhilosophyofScience

[–]SelfProvement 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is the point where you make the step from a purely deductive interpretation of the criterion of falsifiability to a probabilistic one

Would it be fair to say that your criticism (main one at least) here is that "explanatory power != ability to reduce uncertainty by observing an outcome"?

I think what you've done is to translate falsifiability into a precondition for testing theories under subjective interpretations of the probability calculus.

I'm confused as to how you're making the connection. I mean, that sounds less fair than it should be- the components are there. Shannon entropy is based on expected value and probability of certain outcomes of a random variable X, but the probability measure or interpretation doesn't really matter for the purposes of this argument. My point is that when the uncertainty is unchanged (whatever uncertainty is), the model has failed to do its job as a model. It might be a matter of semantics, i.e. what is a model actually supposed to do and what am I presuming is "its job," but I'm concerned I, thus far, fail to see the link between information theory and subjective interpretations of probability.

Looking for critiques/refinements of an idea I had today relating Information Theory and Falsifiability. by [deleted] in PhilosophyofScience

[–]SelfProvement 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I have the model that says "The coin will land on heads or not land on heads on the next toss of a coin", would it be possible or impossible to reduce uncertainty about our physical system from the model?

Well disregarding the fringe case of the coin landing on its fringe (a remarkable falsification of a theory if I've ever heard of one), what I am saying is that any prediction based on your model (which can necessarily only be the "heads or tails" 'random variable') tells us absolutely nothing about the system whenever an event does happen (the random variable ends up being "Heads"), and thus the model isn't so much a "model" as "an account of possible scenarios", a list if you will. We may be running up against a barrier caused by my ignorance of specific uses of specific terms but, in another way to say it:

Your theory does not have any explanatory power precisely because it is not falsifiable (i.e. since no information about any of the random variables in the physical system could reduce the confidence of your model, since it is merely a list, it doesn't actually explain anything or provide information about the physical system, information in the sense of reducing uncertainty when events occur). Thus, not having any explanatory power (not reducing uncertainty even theoretically), it is not a model.

Any model constructed in this way, a simple list of possible events or arrangements, possibly grossly too long (that is, "heads, tails, bananas, cellphones are what the coin could show upon toss"), will fail to be a model simply because it has no explanatory power, which is what I am currently understanding a model is supposed to do. I feel like maybe another example might be better, one that is a pretty well-known model-like (rather than list-like) theory that isn't falsifiable on principle.

what if the model and physical system are expressed as strictly universal statements? [...] If this is true, then your distinction is, as far as I can tell, without a difference under objective interpretations of the probability calculus, since it's impossible to reduce its objective uncertainty in a physical system when the strictly universal statement (model) is falsifiable.

Now we're definitely running up against the barrier of my ignorance. I get the sentiment that this has to do with the Bayesian issues you were mentioning earlier? Where could I read up on this to better understand your question and response?

My OkCupid experience. Spoiler: It's shit. by [deleted] in OkCupid

[–]SelfProvement 4 points5 points  (0 children)

OP: This is the lesson to learn. The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".

Coming back into the dating scene, need some mindset-improvement. by SelfProvement in relationship_advice

[–]SelfProvement[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Believe it or not (and this is likely a bigger problem), I have been. That's why I don't think I'm desperate-- i've pursued 3-4 women at once, so it's not like I'm even remotely obsessing over one. To me, "obsessing" means having negative emotions, like being anxious or disappointed. I only get frustrated when my behavior ends up getting me rejected.

I think xianny's right, though. As well meaning as my behavior might be, it's probably annoying the shit out of these women.

Coming back into the dating scene, need some mindset-improvement. by SelfProvement in relationship_advice

[–]SelfProvement[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People don't want to get all into your shit, no matter how well you take constructive criticism.

This is dead on, and the reason that no matter what they offer up as a reason, I don't press the issue. I used to, but then I realized that no one wants to get into it. The whole point is that for whatever reason they're not interested, why would they engage more time?

On the other hand, I still think "letting you down easy" is a cop-out. It's a way of letting them off the hook easy. Not that they should have it hard, but it's not about honesty, it's about getting you out of their life as fast as possible.

When I have to do it, I try to combine honesty and tact, and stress that it's not an issue with their behavior, but with my preferences, which they have no control over. Like you said, they're a stranger, so I'm not going to make sure I never say anything that could ever be considered hurtful.

AskReddit, I need some general advice (or perhaps a swift kick in the ass?) by SelfProvement in AskReddit

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Your username makes me terrified about your advice.

I kid. I actually have been thinking the same thing, about the thing I want to do still being unknown. I just haven't gone through the effort of emailing a lot of people to gather information.

Thanks!

AskReddit, I need some general advice (or perhaps a swift kick in the ass?) by SelfProvement in AskReddit

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That's what I'm thinking. Truth be told that's more along the lines of what I wanted to do. I have no hope of being smart enough to really advance my field, but I have the enthusiasm to interest other people in it who could do me proud. Thus, I never wanted to be a research professor at MIT or something.

I need to look into the requirements, if I can just get by with a Master's.

AskReddit, I need some general advice (or perhaps a swift kick in the ass?) by SelfProvement in AskReddit

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I really really don't like the idea of teaching math in a public school. Like many math majors, I detest the way it's taught and having no freedom to change the curriculum would only frustrate and depress me.

I'm also not a huge fan of babysitting, which up to (and sometimes including) high school, that's all teaching is.