Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2/10/25 10:42 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:00:10 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

    I've always been impressed with things like baby cows and horses and
    even elephants. They pop out and within an hour are trotting around
    and acting all appropriate. Where did human ancestors go wrong ???
    Elephants are smart large-brained critters too - not like 'born
    ready'
    is limited to pinheaded things. NNs should aim at being E-lephants
    when you press the "ON" button, with a lot of How To and How To Do
    Better already burned in there.

 That was one of the historic battles. The department head was an old
school behaviorist so that set the tone. Chomsky though there was some
sort of linguistic framework wired into the brain that was fleshed out by
experience. Skinner thought it was all learned behavior.
 Phylogeny versus ontogeny with culture thrown in on the side. It can be a
minefield.

   Well ... both Chomsky and Skinner were Sort-Of right
   and Sort Of wrong.
   Even in humans, the 'pre-wiring' is already there.
   Four billion years of evo made sure of that. Think
   of it as "field testing". However 'nature' requires
   learning/training to reach its full potential.
   This is what happens when science drifts into
   "idiotologies".
   There were commie-socialists who became dedicated,
   indeed rabid, about the notion that there was no
   such thing as 'human nature' - that the moronic
   proletariat could be molded ANY way you dictated.
   A lot of Evil Stuff was done as a result.
   The flip, equally evil, notion was that 'human
   nature' was immutable. This oft devolved along
   'racial'/cultural lines. 'Blacks' would always
   be 'niggers', Indians always 'wogs', Euros
   always the 'master race' Just Because.
   'Science' can be abused as easily as most any
   other line of thinking/study/theology. The
   trick is to SEE it - and DARE to Say Something.
   The latter may NOT always be so easy ... you
   may 'accidentally fall' from a high window ....
   Maybe the latest idiocy ... "climate change".
   It has devolved into two opposing religions.
   The Truths are scattered in-between, but you
   are EXPECTED to pick a side, an extreme,
   Or ELSE.