![]() ![]() We've mischaracterized Eugenics and allowed it to fester by other names or as Maurice Bardèche, the french neo-fascist observed about fascism in the 60s, "With another name, another face, and with nothing which betrays the projection from the past, with the form of a child we do not recognize and the head of a young Medusa, the Order of Sparta will be reborn" That these adherents tend to be revealed as secretly racist and thus subscribe to the part which was removed, should be of no shock. It is a dangerous psuedoscientific epistemology - a practice with a bunch of faulty logic and ways of knowing that can lead to disasters and it's alive and well - for instance, assuming a social structure in lobsters applies to humans. Probably the best succinct description for how they thought of themselves can be summarized in this 1921 diagram. We focus on the part that was removed (race science) and leave mostly unexamined the parts that were reinvented or repurposed as say, "The Power of Positive Thinking".Įugenics books, for the general public, were a different beast. Here's "The Road to Success" for "The Young Man". ![]() Maybe you've seen those diagrams where they have 2 life paths depicted from the Victorian era. One of them was for the general public and how to get them to have a proscribed conduct and behavior. There were multiple points of interest for the Eugenicists. Look at the table of contents of this book titled "Eugenics". Everyone's freaking out (in both the "scared" and "excited" sense) over AI's ability to replace creativity, but I'm focused on it's ability to replace toil. To me that kind of thing is going to be the most useful application. ![]() I was dreading having to do this because it's such a pain in the ass. It did it almost perfectly, and fixing the little errors was trivial. I wondered whether ChatGPT could help me out, so I briefly described the fields I needed, their format and data type, the type of information they contained, etc etc. Normally not a big deal, but these records need to have foreign keys pointing to one another. I think a lot of overly-eager and under-informed people are jumping on the bandwagon and shouting half-baked proclamations from the rooftops to get clicks and views.īut underneath all the bullshit is something truly useful, so I wouldn't necessarily say that Confidently Incorrect™ is ChatGPT's primary ability.Ĭoincidentally, over the past few weeks of this ChatGPT craze, I've needed to create a lot of fake data to seed a database. ![]()
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