You’re embarrasing yourself. The authors claim that their hypothesis was supported in their conclusion.

In clinical settings, it may serve as an intervention to increase emotional awareness and empathy among individuals who have engaged in harassment, with the aim of modifying their behavior.

This is in contrast to your statement:

They don’t say this can be used to fix catcalling or improve society on it’s own, just that the results seem to indicate there is a basis to believe that VR can elicit varying emotional responses between different scenarios and that we can measure the differences in reaction.

Now quit your bullshit and fuck off.

This is you:

Genuinely, I’m not sure how you come to that conclusion from reading the paper, […]

So you’re talking about my reading on the paper, not the paper’s conclusion.

You continued to to make this claim:

They don’t say this can be used to fix catcalling or improve society on it’s own

Which is exactly what they in fact said in their hypothesis.

Oh and your disrespectful tone doesn’t do you any favors. Lack of understanding of the scientific method my balls, try learning how language works.

Ok lol not sure where this is going, but we’re done.

Here’s how I came to that conclusion.

We hypothesize that this embodied experience will elicit morally salient emotions like disgust and anger. By inducing this moral discomfort, the intervention aims to foster self-awareness and encourage a reconsideration of the behavior’s impact, serving as a potential strategy to promote behavioral change.

Talking about neurology doesn’t automatically validate their method though. I’m not an expert in this field but my impression is that the researchers make a lot of assumptions that I’d describe as shortcuts; gloss over the differences that they found between the experimental and control groups; and then reach a lot with their conclusion.

One thing that stands out to me is the identification of feelings of disgust and anger to support that the VR setting can be used to elicit social change. This implies that the participants would not have felt disgust or anger had their avatar been male; or if it was a normal videogame; or if this wasn’t a game at all but a film instead; or if this wasn’t audiovisual but a book instead…

I don’t think they did anything to substantiate that line of thinking, and I’m not convinced by the various psychological scales that they used to support the connection they made. As far as I’m concerned these same men could have responded with disgust just by hearing a retelling of a similar event by a random stranger. The study at least does nothing to lead me to assume otherwise.

The disgust, fear and anger responses are at the core of the argument to support their central thesis that “first-person virtual embodiment of a female target of catcalling is a useful method for eliciting morally salient negative emotions in male participants”. But my understanding of their methodology leaves me unimpressed and unconvinced.

There’s also a thing called dual sim. Which is standard in the Asian market and used to be common in Europe.

Why do you need Toyota specifically to make EVs?

There are many advantages to hybrids over EVs, especially plug-in hybrids. In many scenarios PHEVs are not only more convenient/viable than EVs, they’re cleaner than EVs over the vehicle’s lifespan too. Think: shorter daily trips, mostly runs on electricity but with a smaller battery, in a scenario where electricity production comes from combustion.

For a majority of the world hybrids simply make way more sense, and that will continue to be the case for a decade at least. While I personally would prefer an EV for myself, I’m glad that Toyota is prioritising hybrids.

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Front passenger seat only.

Alright, you’ve convinced me that a window breaking tool in the glove box might not be the worst idea. Got any recommendations for good ones or is this just a generic item?

I think that most people just don’t think about such details. Personally I wouldn’t. I’d think about the ergonomics of the unlock mechanism when it works as intended, which sucks, by the way.

But I wouldn’t really think about safety. It’s not my job. I would assume the industrial designer did their job, and that the regulator did theirs.

15 deaths directly as a result of doors failing to unlock, not because the door was smashed but because of electronic failure, is not THAT much of a danger?

Some of these incidents aren’t even crashes. It’s just battery malfunction, causing a fire and trapping the passengers.

And for nothing. Teslas do have a mechanical emergency release latch. It’s just hidden.

The real issue is that they can’t be opened from the inside. Unless you locate the mechanical latch, which involves peeling off the rubber lining of the cupholder.

For real. Mechanical handle hidden under the rubber cupholder is wild. As a European I’m amazed that it’s legal.

Let’s have a look at how it works now, so we don’t need to speculate.

When I configured Firefox for AI, I got to choose my LLM of choice. I chose Claude. Now, if I select some text, I get a context menu option that says “Ask Anthropic Claude”, which branches into these options:

• Summarize
• Explain
• Quiz me
• Proofread
• Remove Anthropic Claude

Notice the last one? That’s not a “buried” option. That’s as front and center as the options to use it. Mind you, if I decide to not use it, then nothing happens. The only thing that’s changed is that I now have an optional shortcut for LLM features that open in a sidebar instead of a new tab.

Oh, the humanity.

No, you don’t have to trust anything. It’s open source, you can read the code.

And if you’re feeling paranoid, you can compile it yourself.

Yeah, basically a nothingburger.

Actually having tried it a bit now I can see that it does add some value. I like that it’s aware of content boundaries. Still don’t think I’d actually ever use it, but it’s cool that it exists.

I agree. They’re quite vague about what the feature would actually do, and I have a hard time believing that I would use it.

I think it would probably be wiser spending time and effort on other things (like a really good built-in Dark mode or better memory management), but I don’t fault them for experimenting. Worst case scenario they make something that sucks and either remove it later, or you can fork it off.