Deconceptualist
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- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 2 days ago:
You could maybe just share a meme like this one.
Some folks in the comments there share actual LLM results, a few of which are sensible but plenty that aren’t far off from the joke.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Exactly. It’s even easier for me to put their games on an Ignore List than for them to insert ads.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
Huh, I’ll have to read the rest of this bizarre story. I never knew the cultists shot and killed a congressman!
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
Sort of? My understanding from reading a handful of articles is that Neptune has a bluish haze later that’s absent on Uranus, but it’s fairly subtle and the overall color of both is pretty similar. So it’s not just that it got oversaturated but that that particular hue got applied to the whole planet and not just as a thin layer.
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
How long has this guy been staring at Uranus?
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
Honestly it’s the shitpost community so kinda fitting. Too bad your miners won’t find much stinky sulfur after their decade+ journey.
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
A pip and a peep? You flatter me sir/ma’am.
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
Yeah so maybe both planets look hazy and dull in visible light. So what?! They’re both entire worlds, significantly larger and vastly different in climate and tilt and composition and weather phenomena than our own, and we’re lucky enough to have seen them up close with probes. They have layered structure that can be seen in other wavelengths (e.g. infrared) and so many mysteries we haven’t yet conceived. Plus a ton of moons each that are weird and fascinating in their own right. They’re not the least bit boring to a curious mind.
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
My anus is not.
NASA-grade pics or STFU
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
Serious answer: the sensors in telescopes and probes don’t work exactly like human eyes. They pick up a different range of frequencies than our cone cells in the first place, and don’t have the same sort of overlapping input curves. There’s a lot of tricks and techniques in converting an image into the same sort of thing we’d see with the naked eye. You can sorta think of it like translating Japanese into English; there’s no perfect formula and it requires some creative interpretation no matter what.
The popular images that get published all over are simplistic composites and never really reflect the actual data astronomers rely on, so that was never a hindrance to scientific progress. It suddenly made the news because a research group decided to reevaluate the old data and reinterpret it against calibrations from other equipment (e.g. Voyager probe vs. the Very Large Telescope here on Earth). There’s a general interest factor in “wow that looks so much different than the old pictures”, when the underlying data really hasn’t changed.
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 2 weeks ago:
is there actually any rule against using gatorade for a baptism?
It’s better, cuz it’s got electrolytes.
Does it even have to be liquid water?
So like, ice X at 60 gigapascals and -120 °C?
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 2 weeks ago:
If a Catholic AI won’t officiate my wedding, at least Taco Bell will host it. So we’re still not far from Idiocracy!
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
I forgot it was a direct quote but yeah I had J.P. in mind lol
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
Cost? With the awesome Kung-Fu powers programmed into your mind you can manifest epic clothes like these at will. You just have to cross your arms into a super rad X-shape while you do it.
- Comment on The more air conditions in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Talk about infinite money glitch. 2 weeks ago:
Infinite environmental destruction glitch
FTFY
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 3 weeks ago:
It’s intentionally an odd number so votes don’t end in ties. And it’s a small number because nominations can take a long time due to political BS.
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 3 weeks ago:
Sort of? I’m sure Congress could change it. They likely won’t because their members are almost entirely from the two major parties. But IIRC there was talk of it when Republicans blocked the nomination of Gigi Sohn for months.
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 3 weeks ago:
This is the FCC = Federal Communications Commission. I don’t know the origins but as long as I’ve been aware they’ve been a 5-member panel; 3 commissioners from the president’s party and 2 from the opposing party. They’re supported by hundreds of staff members.
FTC = Federal Trade Commission, a completely separate body. They recently made headlines for banning non-compete agreements.
- Comment on Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine 3 weeks ago:
What are you suggesting? What is the alternative?
- Comment on Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare | Quanta Magazine 4 weeks ago:
The fundamental mechanism is still unknown, however we do know some important details about consciousness:
- It’s not a simple binary all-or-nothing
- It can change naturally or artificially
- It’s divisible and perhaps even additive
We know this due to a number of phenomena:
- Natural variation in states like awake, alert, groggy, asleep, comatose
- Altered states due to alcohol or drugs
- Disorders such as Body Identity Dismorphic Disorder (BIID - thinking a major limb doesn’t belong to your body) or Phantom Limb (sensing an limb that isn’t there)
Together these and other observations suggest that consciousness is an emergent phenomena (not present in simple organ structures alone) and occurs along a scale, likely proportional to brain size. And just as your daily state can change (between sleep and wakefulness at minimum) it seems a reasonable hypothesis that other creatures experience something similar, though perhaps with a lower maximum awareness in their most alert state.
- Comment on New Yawkers Be Like "But It's True Doh! You haven't LIVED Until you HAD DAT PIZZA..." 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never been to NYC but I’m pretty sure I’ve had this experience somehow anyway. It also sounds absolutely fantastic right now. Much better than the sad vegan pizza in my freezer.
- Comment on PROOF 5 weeks ago:
No, sorry for the mixup. I don’t know who labeled this. The shadow here was from my massive dong.
- Comment on Honest question 1 month ago:
Probably smoke and good weed with her.
- Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa 1 month ago:
I bet these sentences sound super weird if you try to pronounce them without using any schwas.
- Comment on How to import Steam Wishlist onto GOG? 2 months ago:
It’s just wishlist data and in exchange you can set custom alerts for the best game deals. I think it’s worth the tradeoff personally.
- Comment on How to import Steam Wishlist onto GOG? 2 months ago:
Forget that and import both to a site like isthereanydeal.com
- Comment on I'm Heading to Phoenix Can Anyone Recommend Anything Cool To Check Out While I'm There? 2 months ago:
GO. TO. THE MIM! it’s the Musical Instrument Museum. It’s huge, it’s incredibly well organized and informative, and it’s fun for anybody (unless you kick puppies and have no soul).
Their collection is crazy impressive and spans the whole world and pretty much all time. I never knew how many cultures had bagpipes and accordions. Or how many weird types of horns were even possible.
- Comment on You made this, what else is in your lab? 2 months ago:
What chicken? Who mentioned chicken? 😏
- Comment on You made this, what else is in your lab? 2 months ago:
Wait, you name the back end first? Not cockhorse ?
Mermaid
Ok, checks out.
Also, obligatory: would you rather fight 1000 cock-sized horses or one horse-sized* cock?
- Yes the entire horse