LillyPip
@LillyPip@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? 1 week ago:
I’ve been gaming since the late 1970s, and have never considered any sort of cut off date. I just play what interests me (lately that’s been VR games in various genres).
I can’t imagine ever losing interest in new games or platforms, because there’s always a new experience out there and, for me at least, that’s the point. I can’t play everything, obviously, but I can prioritise my time where I think I’ll have the most fun.
- Comment on Just trying my best to make you turds smile 2 weeks ago:
That’s a really unhealthy colour. You should get that checked.
- Comment on Just trying my best to make you turds smile 2 weeks ago:
Godammit Kevin.
- Comment on bird flu 2 weeks ago:
Well then at least have the decency to stay in your home, rather than subject us immunocompromised to another round of dodging a minefield of disease incubators.
- Comment on brains! 1 month ago:
I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 1 month ago:
I see several specialists. No solutions so far, unfortunately.
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 1 month ago:
Yeah. I move very little now, except for very low-impact PT, because of dysautonomia and autoimmune issues. Something radically changed with my system several years ago, though, so I can’t really eat, yet I don’t lose weight. My body doesn’t tolerate most food now, other than small amounts of rice and meat. I can’t process fruits or vegetables at all.
It’s steadily got worse over the last decade, and yeah, it is slowly killing me, but my doctors haven’t been able to solve it.
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 1 month ago:
I always hated sugar, and ate 3 large meals a day. Huge breakfast, lunch, dinner, midnight snacks. Never gained at all.
That all changed after my pregnancy at 28. Suddenly I seemed to gain weight through osmosis. I mostly lost interest in food, and only started eating sensible quantities twice a day.
Now I can’t lose weight at all, even with nearly a gallon of water per day and one small cup of food every day or two (to be fair, my body now rejects most food because of an autoimmune disorder), but I can actually gain weight on less than 500 calories a day. It doesn’t make sense by conventional logic, yet here I am. I mostly live on Ensure and Pedialyte, yet I weigh more than I ever have. It’s really weird.
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 1 month ago:
When I was younger, I could eat superhuman amounts of food and not gain an ounce (I was even accused of having anorexia by strangers because I was so thin).
Now, if I even think about one serving of ice cream, I gain ten pounds. Oh shit, I’ve done it. Back to the treadmill, I guess.
- Comment on same as it ever was 2 months ago:
What about caring for the elderly and disabled? We see anthropological evidence of many behaviours that can only be explained by compassion and empathy, some of which would have actually detracted from security.
The notion that the early formation of societies was based on security rather than empathy is outdated. Compassion has clear evolutionary advantages, especially in primate species where offspring are born vulnerable. It’s clearly evident in other primates who live in groups (or ‘societies’), as a driving force of cooperation and cohesion.
Here’s a recent paper (2022) by Penny Spikins, PhD at the University of York, Department of Archaeology, that explores how compassion shaped early human evolution and the formation of societies: The Evolutionary Basis for Human Empathy, Compassion and Generosity.
And here’s another from 2011 by Goetz et al that explores in detail the evolutionary advantages of compassion: Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review.
Those papers are both fascinating reads, and I highly recommend them both for a deeper understanding of why and how empathy is crucial to our success as a species.
- Comment on same as it ever was 2 months ago:
Millions of years, likely. The whole reason we’re successful is because our pre-human ancestors were empathetic and cooperative enough to build societies.
We see those same traits in many other primates, and they’re not something it makes sense to evolve, lose, and evolve again. Those traits predate us.
Language almost certainly predates us, since we see it not only in other primates, but in non-primate species, too. And based on the humour we see in many animals, you can bet we were making dick jokes nearly out of the gate.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 2 months ago:
Considering evolutionary time scales, this trait may have been a response to something large and dangerous that’s extinct now.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s what bugs me about this. Dogs deserve for us to treat them better than this. They’ve certainly earned better than this from us.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 2 months ago:
Paying bills is for poor people. Rich people don’t need to do that. How would they stay rich?
- Comment on Dormice 3 months ago:
45 minutes at 350F seems like it will burn these tiny filets to a crisp, but I’ll try. I do love a mayo and garlic sauce.
- Comment on Science Journalism 3 months ago:
I’m pretty vocally atheist, but I watch debunking content, and part of that is anti-Flerf and anti-fascist stuff, so maybe the algorithm picked up on that.
- Comment on Dormice 3 months ago:
It’s so fracking adorable, I could eat it up. Any recipes?
- Comment on Vinegar 3 months ago:
Wait – is this how we prevent our socks committing suicide in the dryer?
Alex Jones screeching
- Comment on Vinegar 3 months ago:
The country with the highest per capita consumption of vinegar in 2018 was the Netherlands, with 3,108 liters per 1,000 people
This checks out. As we all know, the Dutch only inflict depression, they’re never depressed themselves.
- Comment on Science Journalism 3 months ago:
I do, too, and alongside that are articles about how new discoveries in cosmology are upending all of science, and alongside those, thinly veiled creationist articles about how that means science has been totally wrong all along, therefore god. The Hubble tension has spawned a lot of these, with at least one article in my feed per day from the Discovery Institute, PLOS One, and the like.
- Comment on Science Journalism 3 months ago:
I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend lately, and I wonder if the way these headlines are written is feeding it: creationist articles have been slipping into my science news feed, usually riffing off whatever bullshit alarmist/exaggerated headlines spread through the popsci realm the day before.
If you don’t know what you’re looking at (and most people don’t), you’ll wind up reading creationist propaganda when you think you’re reading a science article.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 3 months ago:
Have you tried doing this? I have, for 6 months, on the more ‘advanced’ pro versions. Yes, it will apologise and try again – and it gets progressively worse over time. There’s been a marked degradation as it progresses, and all the models are worse now at maintaining context and not hallucinating than they were several months ago.
LLMs aren’t the kind of AI that can evaluate themselves and improve like you’re suggesting. Their logic just doesn’t work like that. A true AI will come from an entirely different type of model, not from LLMs.
- Comment on Important information 3 months ago:
Slotted spoons don’t hold much soup.
- Comment on Quick Chat 5 months ago:
Good on you. Thank you for seeing reason. That was objectively awful.
- Comment on Quick Chat 5 months ago:
Been saying this for years. I’m supposed to be fine when someone wakes me up on a Saturday morning to shove Jesus up my orifice, or sends my preschooler home from school with bible pamphlets, but if I did that to them with atheism, they’d riot.
And yet somehow they’re being persecuted. Fuck them.
- Comment on Ive bought two 5 months ago:
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- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 8 months ago:
Yeah, the fossil record and dna analysis is such a gradient, any lines we draw are arbitrary. To be fair, those lines were always for our own convenience, in much the same way it’s useful for print designers to specify Pantone 032, but if most people look at the full colour chart they couldn’t even tell you where ‘red’ becomes ‘orange’.
It’s definitely rabbits (or turtles) all the way down.
We’re prokaryotes, and vertebrates, and mammals, and from there some people get bent. Are we apes? Genus homo? Where must we draw the line to ensure we’re not actually animals like other living things and were divinely inspired special creations?
I like simplicity. Life is a beautiful prismatic projection and it doesn’t matter that much what our Pantone swatch turns out to be.
(Sorry, /mini rant)
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 8 months ago:
Not-quite-a-chicken laid an egg containing a definitely-chicken. Actual chicken egg was first.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 8 months ago:
Slightly larger file size, which mattered in like 2002, but it’s only a few mb, which doesn’t matter at all now.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 8 months ago:
It made Fox News in 2015.
A biology paper that same year..
Biologists have been talking about it.
I didn’t pull this out of my arse.
And re: that citation you asked for:
God created mature birds with the ability to reproduce. So the bird was first, ready to lay eggs.