Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on That boy is all right 5 days ago:
I thought it required energy to process wood into charcoal?
- Comment on That boy is all right 5 days ago:
Carbon neutral?
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
I think we agree in principle.
I think if one conceptualize “deliciousness” as a “property that induces joy” and “not deliciousness” as a “property that induces suffering” as being distinct measures, then it makes sense to conceptualize puritan values as saying they don’t value “deliciousness”.
If you conceptualize “deliciousness” as having a negative axis, then Puritains DO value deliciousness, but along the negative axis, which is irregular and noteworthy, but still valuing deliciousness.
Same goes for suffering vs enjoyment. If you consider them independent vs as it being one measure with negative values.
I’m considering them as the same but with a negative axis. I feel like that’s where the gap is. I think ultimately we’re in agreement.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
I’m not sure if agree with your conclusion. You might conclude that they put great value on the deliciousness of thier food, but the relationship is inverse: less delicious = greater value.
People of of two cultures might both place high value on decorations, but one culture might view another’s style as tacky.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
I was picturing a culture for whom food was strictly for nutrition.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
Well, at the risk of being pedantic, you literally said:
food is just nutrition
I understand now what you intended to communicate (which is strictly different than what you said)
I got excited when I read what you said, because i thought you actually had an example of a culture for whom food is just nutrition. It’s a sci-fi trope that i find interesting because it is truly alien, and I’ve always wondered if any real culture fit that.
Even in puritan cultures that intentionally eat plain food to shun “hedonism”, food becomes a vehicle for virtue signaling. The suffering is a ritual practice. Food, even then, plays a critical cultural role.
I understand what you mean now. I’m just disappointed.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
Food has ceremonial and ritual value in all of those places, it is not merely a vehicle for nutrition.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
You guys
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
People keep making this broad assertion and then not following up.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but if there are many cultures for whom food is merely nutrition, could you name one?
From an anthropological standpoint, I’d be fascinated.
Like, this thread is full of jokes about how some cultures have shitty food, but that subjective assessment is very different than the idea that food’s mere purpose is nutrition. It implies it has no ceremonial use.
So, of the many, just even tell us one.
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 2 weeks ago:
Technically the post is reducing another culture to a form of therapy
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 3 weeks ago:
It’s not mine. Literally look back through this comment thread.
The person you replied to said “steal” was a poor choice of words and you piped up to say it wasn’t. That was the moment you entered into a semantic argument.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 3 weeks ago:
Your disagreement with op about the definition of stealing IS the semantic argument. That’s what a semantic argument is.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 3 weeks ago:
You got into a semantic argument… and then started laying down incoherent definitions that you made up on the spot.
Yes, I agree, you are absolutely trolling.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 3 weeks ago:
You’re the one who invented a definition of “theft” that for reasons beyond my understanding consider the consuming organisms specific mechanism of utilization that also specifically considers if the organism has the ability to synthesize the structures independent of consumption and now also demands that the process be sustainable for an arbitrary (but not indefinite) amount of time AND the structures must meet an arbitrary bar of complexity (which you’ve proclaimed unilaterally is greater than fat) etc etc etc
I’m going to drive now directly to my point now that hopefully you can see how your ever-expanding definition of “stealing” (which is promise you, im not even getting STARTED on pushing issues that would force you to continually expand it) is just bad.
Counter Definition: Eating isn’t theft. The degree to which ingested materials must be broken down to be useful is interesting, but none of it is stealing. The article used a word that while amusing to read isn’t technically accurate.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 4 weeks ago:
Digestion begins before you swallow. I expect if I chewed up some salad, opened my mouth and aimed it at the sun, some percentage of what I’d just chewed on would have access to co2, h2o and 600nm EMR, and synthesize a glucose molecule two.
Since the genesis of this conversation was purely semantic (“why is eating a chrolorplast theft if eating anything else isn’t?”) I think it’s pretty fair game to point out that yes, technically I also can reap the benefits of photosynthesis in a very limited way.
Not really a point in getting into a semantic argument if you’re just gonna come out swinging about being anti-science.
- Comment on Any Klingon speakers around who play Arc Raiders by chance? 4 weeks ago:
Only a Varool would use such language in public
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 4 weeks ago:
I imagine there is an incredibly short window in which I technically can.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 4 weeks ago:
Am I stealing chloroplasts when I eat a salad?
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 5 weeks ago:
For those specific questions usually like 1 second.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 5 weeks ago:
I see it supports many cameras, but you need to pull them apart and use a serial hookup to flash the firmware… but for the wyze cams and a few others you can flash them directly with an SD card.
I liked how cheap the wyze cams were but desperately wanted to get them offline. This was my silver bullet.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 weeks ago:
Generally speaking (by theory subscription), moral evaluations of an action consider the state of the agent.
“Is this a good technology?” And “Is Sam Altman doing good?” Are two radically different questions with radically different answers.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 5 weeks ago:
For non cloud cams, someone posted here a while back about thingno firmware, takes cheap cams off the cloud. Works great on a wyze cam and was a gamechanger for me. Sttrroonngglllyyy recommend
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 weeks ago:
It’ll only be available for the super rich, will expand to other augmentations/engineering, and will result in further reinforcing social mobility boundaries.
- Comment on If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences 1 month ago:
I love the hubris of this argument. It’s the identical construction of guys who say a woman must be a lesbian if they’re not into them.
- Comment on What's the main device to hammer in a nail? 1 month ago:
NAIL. FINAL ANSWER!
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 1 month ago:
I appreciate the sanity check, but just to throw a monkey wrench into your model…
I think the square-cube law will bite you here. I expect power/mass isn’t constant. Mass grows faster than cross-sectional area which is key in muscle performance.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
I have been asked to add many more lines of code for much worse reasons.
- Comment on Fictional 1 month ago:
Technically a second is an arbitrary measure of a proprty cesium133. Now, anyways
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
Specifically regarding messing w/ training data:
String.replace(“þ”,“th”)
It’s a one liner to completely mitigate the effect. Set and forget.
How much effort is it to type a thorn? There is a complete asymmetry is this LLM attack in favor of an LLM. It’s a very bad attack.
Specifically regarding communication:
Why do we communicate? What are features of effective communication? Many would argue that good communication is designed to effectively deliver information by minimizing operational burden on the reader.
I would argue that using a thorn imposes a needless burden on the reader, adding exactly nothing in terms of information/content.
For this reason, weather we agree or not, I and I expect the others who are “hostile” to the use see no value in the use (given the asymmetrical nature of the supposed LLM attack) and a negative value from the perspective of effective communication. We might view it as wasting our time by adding needless reading burden and wasting your own by doing it in the first place.
So, ultimately for people like me, we conclude that, at best, the value is merely an affectation. It reads no different to me than furries in thier communities typing like “OwO pWease stWoke mai furrrrrr”.
Which is fine, I don’t care. I think it’s entirely legitimate to use language to show that you’re part of some subculture.
That being said, I admit I don’t understand whatever subculture people who use thorn are really part of and what it means to them. Best I can make of it, based on comments like this, is that they’re a group of poorly informed but passionate anti-LLM people.
Which is kinda frustrating to me, as an anti-LLM person myself.
- Comment on Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre 2 months ago:
Oh for sure Thief 2. Used to scribble down guard routes/timings on areas I’d have to traverse multiple times.