@hex@kolektiva.socialToday, the culturally set goal (via capitalism) for every human is to maximize their accumulation of capital. This goal is killing us all. If you could, somehow, set a different goal, what would it be?
This is perhaps a bit of a #SolarPunk question.
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageWhat Is Your Agent's GPA? A Framework for Evaluating Agent Goal-Plan-Action Alignment
Allison Sihan Jia, Daniel Huang, Nikhil Vytla, Nirvika Choudhury, John C Mitchell, Anupam Datta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08847
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeOK so, I've started cleaning up the PCIe code but also took this opportunity to do some tests.
I'm just writing to a random old SSD I have lying around that I used for some tests a while ago, I have no idea what writing to a random address is doing (I haven't even set a BAR on it so it's probably ignoring me) but the goal is to test the SoC not do anything real.
Here's a 128 byte memcpy to the BAR. It turns into eight 16-byte TLPs, presumably each generated by…
@arXiv_astrophCO_bot@mastoxiv.pageBASILISK III. Stress-testing the Conditional Luminosity Function model
Kaustav Mitra, Frank C. van den Bosch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08421 https://arxiv…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialTL;DR: spending money to find the cause of autism is a eugenics project, and those resources could have been spent improving accommodations for Autistic people instead.
To preface this, I'm not Autistic but I'm neurodivergent with some overlap.
We need to be absolutely clear right now: the main purpose is *all* research into the causes of autism is eugenics: a cause is sought because non-autistic people want to *eliminate* autistic people via some kind of "cure." It should be obvious, but a "cured autistic person" who did not get a say in the decision to administer that "cure" has been subjected to non-consensual medical intervention at an extremely unethical level. Many autistic people have been exceptionally clear that they don't want to be "cured," including some people with "severe autism" such as people who are nonverbal.
When we think things like "but autism makes life so hard for some people," we're saying that the difficulties in their life are a result of their neurotype, rather than blaming the society that punished & devalues the behaviors that result from that neurotype at every turn. To the extent that an individual autistic person wants to modify their neurotype and/or otherwise use aids to modify themselves to reduce difficulties in their life, they should be free to pursue that. But we should always ask the question: "what if we changed their social or physical environment instead, so that they didn't have to change themselves?" The point is that difficulties are always the product of person x environment, and many of the difficulties we attribute to autism should instead be attributed to anti-autistic social & physical spaces, and resources spent trying to "find the cause of autism" would be *much* better spent trying to develop & promote better accommodations for autism. Or at least, that's the case if you care about the quality of life of autistic people and/or recognize their enormous contributions to society (e.g., Wikipedia could not exist in anything near its current form without autistic input). If instead you think of Autistic people as gross burdens that you'd rather be rid of, then it makes sense to investigate the causes of autism so that you can eventually find a "cure."
All of that to say: the best response to lies about the causes of autism is to ask "What is the end goal of identifying the cause?" instead of saying "That's not true, here's better info about the causes."
#autism #trump
P.S. yes, I do think about the plight of parents of autistic kids, particularly those that have huge struggles fitting into the expectations of our society. They've been put in a position where society constantly bullies and devalues their kid, and makes it mostly impossible for their kid to exist without constant parental support, which is a lot of work and which is unfair when your peers get the school system to do a massive amount of childcare. But in that situation, your kid is in an even worse position than you as the direct victim of all of that, and you have a choice: are you going to be their ally against the unfair world, or are you going to blame them and try to get them to confirm enough that you can let the school system take care of them, despite the immense pain that that will provoke? Please don't come crying for sympathy if you choose the later option (and yes, helping them be able to independently navigate society is a good thing for them, but there's a difference between helping them as their ally, at their pace, and trying to force them to conform to reduce the burden society has placed on you).
@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.pageWhat is in the model? A Comparison of variable selection criteria and model search approaches
Shuangshuang Xu, Marco A. R. Ferreira, Allison N. Tegge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02628
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.pageWhat Matters in RL-Based Methods for Object-Goal Navigation? An Empirical Study and A Unified Framework
Hongze Wang, Boyang Sun, Jiaxu Xing, Fan Yang, Marco Hutter, Dhruv Shah, Davide Scaramuzza, Marc Pollefeys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01830
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioHere’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written:
1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them approaches infinity.
2. Efficiency prioritizes the measurable over the difficult-to-measure.
3. Efficiency prioritizes what those in power see (or imagine) over on-the-ground reality.
4. Following from 2 and 3, efficiency reduces the amount and quality of information flowing into a human system.
5. Efficiency foments institutional inflexibility.
6. By removing slack, efficiency causes small failures to cascade more readily and increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
7. Following rom 4, 5, and 6, efficiency trades small costs for massive risks: from failures, from missed opportunities, and from inability to adjust.
8. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value.
9. Thus, although it can be a by-product of evolution, efficiency as a goal in itself strangles evolution.
10. Efficiency as a goal strangles joy.
@cdarwin@c.im“The President has sent agents here to create chaos and riots in Portland,
to induce a reaction,
to induce protests,
to induce conflicts.
His goal is to make Portland look like what he’s been describing it as,”
Oregon’s junior senator,
Jeff Merkley said.
“He wants to induce a violent exchange.
Let us not grant him that wish.
Let us be the force of orderly, peaceful protest.”
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Before we go into what is missing, let us take a moment to understand why this partial story is so popular. Many software engineers do not engage with the broad “software engineering literature” very much: through the act of reading this magazine you are placing yourself at the pinnacle of software engineering curiosity!"
https…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeFinance people: If I have a list of mutual fund symbol names and percentages of each, is there an easy API or data source I can use to calculate what my actual underlying equity exposure is?
The specific goal is figuring out how much of my 401k is actually in companies that are propped up by the AI bubble.
I can look at a single ticker symbol and see at least its top n hodlings easily enough but what if I want to know across ten different index funds I own different amounts of, h…
@restorante@social.linux.pizzaSo, what is the most important thing in my life? What is my life goal?
My family is the most important thing in my life. My most important goals are:
1. The health of my wife.
2. The mental health of our son.
3. Enough money to support their life.
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How to achieve these goals?
Simple, I just need to:
1. Budgetting my income.
2. Saving a portion of the income.
3. Paying all of my debts (hospital debts).
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@rberger@hachyderm.io"The goal of the Nuremberg Trials was straightforward: To punish those who committed these horrific crimes and to deter others from engaging in the same conduct in the future. That is the very reason why Donald Trump along with Stephen Miller, Border czar Tom Homan and DHS secretary Kristi Noem--at the very least--need to be held accountable for their crimes in connection with their mass deportations that have repeatedly violated the law. If what they are doing is not a crime against humanity, then nothing is."
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-stephen-miller-tom-homan-and
@mlawton@mstdn.socialI know what the narrative will be, but it’s inaccurate. #LFC had 2.76 xG versus 1.26 for United. Gakpo hit the post three times. Salah missed a chance he never misses. The referee, I think reasonably, did not blow the play dead on a head injury, resulting in a goal. A handball in the box was correctly not given.
My point is that it took a lot of good fortune for United to win. It’s clear that LFC…
@yaya@jorts.horsemy favorite thing about my vocab app is that sometimes the incorrect answers construct an incredible parallel reality
please I want to live in the football dimension where there's a goal in the church and it's normal for wedding photos to have people in cleats and football kits
@buercher@tooting.chIn the statement he made to investors and media today, Sarandos said, “I’d say right now, you should count on everything that is planned on going to the theater through Warner Bros. will continue to go to the theaters through Warner Bros.” He added, “But our primary goal is to bring first-run movies to our members, because that’s what they’re looking for.” Not exactly a ringing declaration of loyalty to the religion of cinema.
https://variety.com/2025/film/columns/netflix-buying-warner-bros-killing-studio-ted-sarandos-1236601216/
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe impact on health system expenditure in Australia and OECD countries from accelerated NCD mortality decline through prevention or treatment strategies to achieve Sustainable Development Goal Target 3.4
Bibha Dhungel, Jingjing Yang, Tim Wilson, Samantha Grimshaw, Emily Bourke, Stephanie Khuu, Tony Blakely
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10795…
