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If someone touching your golf club is the final ‘shot from the universe’ that makes you knock them down, the problem isn’t golf etiquette

But he didn’t depict the other way around, they depicted a man shoving a woman down on the ground over a golf club. Nothing is funny about that and perpetuates the idea that this is ok for younger generations

Why did it have to be his partner he pushed down helpless? Why couldn’t he push down a friend guy?

That’s no excuse for violence

And to add, we know modern astrology isn’t astronomically accurate (though people practice sidreal rather than tropical.) Ptolemy (2nd century) knew the equinoxes precessed relative to the stars, but he argued that the zodiac should remain anchored to the equinoxes and solstices because the meanings of the signs derive from the seasonal cycle rather than the constellations.

I think the comparison is that both fields are often misunderstood through oversimplified descriptions. “Astrology is just Sun signs” and “LLMs are just stochastic parrots” are both reductionist summaries that leave out a lot of the interesting discussion. Whether either ultimately succeeds at what it claims is a separate question.

As for astrology itself, I became interested through Carl Jung, who viewed astrology as a symbolic system that reflected recurring psychological patterns and wrote about it in relation to archetypes and synchronicity ( Man and his symbols .) Astrology provides a symbolic language for thinking about cycles, temperament, motivation, and meaning.

I see, and what makes you the decider of bullshit?

Astrology is a millennia-old discipline built from the systematic observation of planet and star cycles and their perceived correspondence with earthly events. It developed alongside astronomy, mathematics, calendrical science, agriculture, medicine, and political forecasting across several civilizations. You don’t have to accept its interpretive claims, but reducing it to newspaper Sun signs is a bit like reducing literature to a fortune cookie

Thousands of years of research into a short interpretation

Real what? If you believe in seasons, you believe in astrology

And how much research have you done into astrology? Point made.

Yeah this article is already outdated and poorly researched

Man I swear, AI is like astrology, people have strong opinions about it but haven’t done any research into what it actually is. So much more nuanced than ‘AI bad!’

Fantastic

I’m an engineer and I don’t have a beard

So don’t buy ford, got it

Also implies they didn’t re-hire women

Use AI to augment learning, not replace learning. Also most people hate AI slop, not AI.

They first had a blank space, not mathematical zero

The Maya invented zero

If anything, it increased my threshold for complexity and I’m tits deep in some very cool projects. The concern is they are going to have to make it super expensive if they can’t get any meaningful efficiency gains.