Asimov invented the three laws of robotics and spent most of his robot books pulling them apart and exploring why they wouldn’t work but why they couldn’t really be improved, either.
Most robot revolution stories assume the danger is when robots stop obeying us and start thinking for themselves.
Asimov’s stories suggest that the real danger is robots doing exactly what we tell them to.
I think that’s both more realistic and actually scarier.
guys the democrats losing the senate isn’t a sign of anyone failing. the senate is stacked towards conservatives anyways, and it needs to be changed. or abolished. we’re sweeping the house, that’s the body of government that represents the will of the people because representation is proportionate to population. don’t be upset about the senate. we did it, we stood up and we voted, against gerrymandering, against voter suppression, against ill-equipped polls, we went out and we spoke out and no one should see this as a loss because it’s not.
Conservatives all over the internet are bawling right now that the House now can (and will) completely block Trump’s wall and many of his other plans, so yes, big and very important victory last night that happened because tons and tons of you voted this time.
hot take: ‘chivalry’ is fine as long as it’s adapted to 21st century values. if you are a male, you SHOULD be aware that your female friends face certain issues that you as a male dont. acting on that awareness in a way that keeps your female friends safe, isn’t a bad thing.
like… opening doors isn’t rly chivalrous when it’s just a thing you ought to do for everyone. but real 21st century chivalry might be, like, standing between your female friend and the guy that’s trying to get her drunk, or offering to walk her home when it’s late.
if the ‘chivalry’ inconveniences everyone involved and you’re just doing it for your over-inflated male ego — ie, “no you’re the girl here, you HAVE to let me hold this door for you and do all these things for you even when you can do it yourself and im just slowing you down” — then it’s just outdated misogyny.
Spanking your children is an outdated model of punishment and child-rearing that should die as a practice the same way sucking blood with leeches died out. It served little to no practical purpose, what purpose it does serve is equally if not better served through other disciplinary actions, and it can significantly fuck up your child’s development as a person in the long run.
There’s a reasonPositive Punishment such as spanking is out of favor with psychologists, psychiatrists, and good-sensed people, especially in regards to physical beatings.
Consistent with previous findings, results based on bivariate r found small but non-trivial long-term relationships between spanking/CP use and negative outcomes. Spanking and CP correlated .14 and .18 respectively with externalizing problems, .12 and .21 with internalizing problems and − .09 and − .18 with cognitive performance.
This study used retrospective reports from college students to examine the effects of spanking, a common aversive punishment, on self-esteem and perceived fairness of parental discipline, while taking the effects of other parental characteristics into account. No parental characteristic interacted with the slightly negative effect of spanking on self-esteem and fairness. However, controlling for positive communication or for a parent-oriented motivation for spanking eliminated the negative effects of spanking, suggesting that the negative effects reflected use of spanking as a replacement for positive communication with the child.
The researchers concluded, “There was no support for the necessity of the physical punishment …components during initial training.”
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in the fourth study, spanking was again found to be no more effective than the barrier-enforcement strategy. The author concluded, “[P]hysical punishment was not an important component of compliancetraining procedures.”27
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The meta-analysis by Gershoff noted that thirteen of fifteen studies (eighty-seven percent) found that parents’ use of corporal punishment was significantly correlated with less longterm compliance and less moral and pro-social behavior—in other words, corporal punishment was associated with worse rather than better child behavior.35 In their meta-analysis, Larzelere and Kuhn determined that “customary” corporal punishment was no better at promoting the development of children’s conscience or positive behavior than were other methods of discipline, including reasoning, time-out, taking away privileges, threats, and ignoring misbehavior.
So yeah, I’m sorry you were physically punished as a child. And I’m even more sorry that you seem to think it’s okay, and that it’s a model that should be used in the future. But you are categorically wrong. The best case scenario for spanking is that if you have open and honest communication for your child it doesn’t damage them. But if you actually had that you wouldn’t “need” to spank them in the first place.
It is not the most effective way of short-term compliance, it damages their long-term compliance, social skills, and cognition, and it’s actually barbaric.
Fucking stop.
Why is a post that amounts to just “don’t beat children” this controversial. You’d figure violence against children would be something we could all agree on as a bad thing
remember when that upd8 of dave’s selfies hit the internet and everyone scrambled to find out which burger king dave strider took a picture in and in just hours someone found the exact coordinates of that motherfucking burger king and everyone went apeshit about it because fuck that was wild
this is all they had to figure it out btw, that’s it, nothing else
me, gay and running out of breath going up the stairs: I bet I could run a farm
me, gay with scoliosis and a joint problem and depression and anxiety and running out of breath going up the stairs: I CAN run a farm I just have to do it in my own way!!
whew…the amount of people ragging on florida for voting red as if…… Florida isn’t in the Deep South full of white, retiring conservatives and just yesterday ended a Jim Crow law that didn’t allow felons to vote……like a good portion of those felons were disenfranchised black people like y’all know a blue wave can’t happen in Florida if the people who would’ve voted dem don’t have the right to vote like that’s apparent correct
ugh 