Interesting Links for 19-04-2024

[andrewducker]

1. This is how crime reporting feels to me nowadays

(tags:crime comics journalism )

2. The "Gender Game Test" and the distribution of money

(tags:psychology gender equality money children )

3. Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist

(tags:copyright ai )

4. EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy

(tags:privacy facebook europe regulation )

5. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of bitcoin than the building of the pyramids of Giza

(tags:Egypt history )

6. Netflix Accused of Using AI Photos in True Crime Documentary

(tags:fraud documentary netflix crime AI )

7. U.S. blocks Palestinian request for full UN membership

(tags:USA Palestine nationality UnitedNations )

8. Sleeping flushes junk out of the brain

(tags:sleep brain )

9. The Scale of the Universe (zoom in from the largest objects to the smallest)

(tags:universe size visualisation )

10. Sweden passes law lowering age to change legal gender from 18 to 16 and greatly simplifying the process

(tags:LGBT transgender Sweden GoodNews )

Comments

[dewline]

1. No kidding, right? We're in far more danger from the current wave of would-be dictators looking to dismantle our democracies from the inside!

4. Good.

7. *face-palm*

8. I need more sleep, then!

10. Also good!

[cmcmck]

10.

This country of ours is clearly going out on a limb on all this!

[magedragonfire]

2. 100% masculine; I am a cis woman. The 'feminine' options struck me as almost entirely ridiculous (and why on earth are these gendered, anyways??). If nobody's share of the money is going to be decreasing either way you choose, why would you not choose to do good to another person and choose the option with the greater overall payout, even if it isn't 'fair'? Where's the fairness in essentially cheating somebody out of something for no gain?

(...with the caveat of the thought that crossed my mind as I was filling it out, "Tom is the only person getting more money in this particular situation; do I like Tom?")

I think it'd be much more difficult - and be a much more interesting study - to make those decisions if one's own share was decreasing as other peoples' shares increased, though.

[calimac]

1) It's worse than that, because overblown fear of crime is what's driving parents to keep their children under tight control and not allowing them the freedoms without which they'll never learn to be adults.

2) It's like the trolley problem: I find tests like this completely unreal and refuse to take them.

3) I'm supposed to be acquainted with the topic of copyright, but I have no idea what to think about this.

6) I'd been planning to watch that documentary. Now maybe I think I shouldn't.

[greenwoodside]

2) With the proviso that I spent 5 seconds on this after staggering in from work and only read a tiny amount of the page content, I bear out the hypothesis. CIS woman. Chose equality. TBH, I didn't actually look at the different values beyond noticing what was equal and what was unequal.

That said, I don't necessarily think I'd change my answer on further consideration. If there are three of us and $48, why aren't we getting $16 each? There's something inherently suspect about it.

Perhaps the 'me' getting the lower amount in this scenario is black, or a gypsy, or disabled. And then the experiment is repeated 100 times, so that now while we all have more, hypothetical minority me is $400 worse off than Anne.

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[danieldwilliam]

Reasonable chance that you can find some conspiracy nut who is prepared to tell you that the pyramids are actually a BitCoin mining set up.