Khanzarate
@Khanzarate@lemmy.world
- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 2 days ago:
Honey is questionably vegan because the book that establishes the basic principles of veganism specifically said its people’s choice whether to consider it as acceptable or not because of the lack of harm. If I recall correctly he said something like the debate is worth having but not worth fighting over, because everyone who is even having the debate is trying to do the right thing.
- Comment on The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture. 2 days ago:
I’d advocate for long-term harm reduction, myself.
While obviously it would be better for the cow to have been able to live a full life, but in (I think) 15 years or so that cow would be dead either way.
Something that can be helping new cows regularly, like a Beyond Burger that can appeal to those that would otherwise just pick a normal burger, I basically consider it to be harm-neutral after the lifespan of the animals they’re using for those taste tests is up.
Honestly, this is the trolley problem. On the main lane, we have a bunch of cows about to be run over by our “Meat Industry” trolley. Pull the lever to redirect the trolley and butcher some cows for beyond burger development. I would pull the lever, but it’s not a clear moral win.
- Comment on Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service 5 days ago:
Ubuntu got tired of all the memes, and is taking action.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I’m not sure, so if I were you I’d test the waters before committing to moving in.
Have your girlfriend over more often, stay for dinner, those things. If she’s already doing those things or it goes well, have her stay the night a few times. After that, have her stay for a week. Pay attention to how the kids and your ex react, not just what they say about it. Do they avoid going into rooms where your girlfriend is? Do they seem more annoyed than usual at signs of her presence, like a left-out plate?
When you do all this, treat her like a resident, not a guest.
If all that goes smoothly, I’d give the move-in a shot. If it doesn’t, then you haven’t committed your girlfriend to giving up her current living arrangements, she can go back to them.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 6 days ago:
Wouldn’t the square root just give plus/minus i? Seems correct enough.
- Comment on What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops? 3 weeks ago:
Eat enough that your body gets used to it?
If I had to guess I’d say its based on the amount of water I drink, and maybe coffee poops keeping me regular, less about the diet itself.
Dunno for sure, but I do know I have been so regular it was a surprise when someone told me a bidet reduces toilet paper usage, because I just didn’t believe it could do so. That’s because it can’t in my case. Takes me about as long to poop as it does to pee. Wish I could tell you what exactly I’m doing right but something is right.
- Comment on Magic Rocks 3 weeks ago:
Ignorance might be bliss, but knowledge is joy.
- Comment on What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops? 3 weeks ago:
Always gotta wipe, just in case, but I rarely actually need to. No idea what I’m doing right so here’s some facts about my diet
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I drink a gallon+ between straight water, coffee, and flavored sparkling water (no calorie, aspartame-sweetened)
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My breakfast is usually cereal with 1% milk or bacon and eggs once a week.
Ramen for lunch
Pizza or pasta for dinner, with a vegetable side
Fruits and whatnot are eaten intermittently as snacks.
Hope this helps I guess its not the best diet but I’m always regular.
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- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 weeks ago:
That’s true but anyone agaimt its inclusion would just say it doesn’t add to the story. “Clearly it detracts from the story, as the player would be distracted by the horrific event instead of enjoying the game” -some hypothetical mastercard Exec, right before fining Valve.
It’s not a court, so there’s no appeal from that, unless there’s an appeal granted by the contract itself.
- Comment on Recommendations for games to play on a treadmill (i.e. not too intense) 3 weeks ago:
Another vote for turn based RPGs, but that also includes ones like Pokémon.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 4 weeks ago:
I just learned about one, because of all this. A newer one. Gnu Taler
Also, crypto, technically. Its got a lot of baggage though, and hoops and all that.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
No you don’t give them your pin. They don’t need it. They get your signature afterwards, though.
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 1 month ago:
Plot twist: one guy brought in 3 locked milks.
- Comment on Disney's AI Paradox: Pursues OpenAI Deal While Suing Rival Firms 2 months ago:
*hippochrissy
- Comment on Palworld × Terraria | Tides of Terraria Major Update Gameplay Trailer | Palnews | Pocketpair 2 months ago:
They did already.
- Comment on Hydroponic carnivorous plants - Another update 2 months ago:
This is really cool. It’ll be fun to see how they develop.
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 2 months ago:
A lot of our neurons are with us for our whole life. Early neuron degeneration is what causes Alzheimer’s, Parkinsons, and similar disorders.
Not all neurons last a lifetime, and there are kinds that die off and are replaced, but a good chunk of them aren’t meant to replicate anymore and so won’t be freed of microplastics by bloodletting, and would cause serious problems if microplastics harm their normal processes.
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 2 months ago:
Regular cells die or split regularly. When they die, white blood cells eat them, and they’ll be part of filtering the blood.
Neurons don’t though. There’s still some concerns.
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 2 months ago:
Oh that’s unfortunate. Well I don’t mind not supporting people like that so I’ll give it a go
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 2 months ago:
Do you mean play disco Elysium or is there some drama associated with it?
- Comment on IRS tax filing software released to the people as free software 2 months ago:
Well the IRS says it is accurate.
It doesn’t say accurate to what standard but I think its pretty clear that “tax law” is the default here.
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 2 months ago:
Still feels like a waste. But my spool was just taking up space.
I regret it, it was dozens of disks, and yet haven’t needed a CD since.
Although I do still use DVDs on occasion.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 2 months ago:
Oh dang time flies when you’re having fun exploiting people
- Comment on Tis the way 3 months ago:
You’re missing how a bunch of their friends from their new social class already do drugs and how good those drugs feel.
Easy hole to fall into, but money honestly makes it harder to climb out of, you can always afford the drugs.
So it becomes the norm, whereas someone at the poverty line with an addiction can’t afford them regularly and has to spend grocery money on them and therefore might be addicted but also resents them.
Rich people can afford to normalize drugs and consider themselves fine while they’re on them, because they’re still living within their means.
- Comment on The Collapse of GPT: Will future artificial intelligence systems perform increasingly poorly due to AI-generated material in their training data? 3 months ago:
The difference is, if this were to happen and it was found later that a court case crucial to the defense were used, that’s a mistrial. Maybe even dismissed with prejudice.
Courts are bullshit sometimes, it’s true, but it would take deliberate judge/lawyer collusion for this to occur, or the incompetence of the judge and the opposing lawyer.
Is that possible? Sure. But the question was “will fictional LLM case law enter the general knowledge?” and my answer is “in a functioning court, no.”
If the judge and a lawyer are colluding or if a judge and the opposing lawyer are both so grossly incompetent, then we are far beyond an improper LLM citation.
TL;DR As a general rule, you have to prove facts in court. When that stops being true, liars win, no AI needed.
- Comment on The Collapse of GPT: Will future artificial intelligence systems perform increasingly poorly due to AI-generated material in their training data? 3 months ago:
Nah that means you can ask an LLM “is this real” and get a correct answer.
That defeats the point of a bunch of kinds of material.
Deepfakes, for instance. International espionage, propaganda, companies who want “real people”.
A simple is_ai checkbox of any kind is undesirable, but those sources will end back up in every LLM, even one that was behaving and flagging its output.
You’d need every LLM to do this, and there’s open source models, there’s foreign ones. And as has already been proven, you can’t rely on an LLM detecting a generated product without it.
The correct way to do it would be to instead organize a not-ai certification for real content. But that would severely limit training data. It could happen once quantity of data isn’t the be-all end-all for a model, but I dunno when when or if that’ll be the case.
- Comment on The Collapse of GPT: Will future artificial intelligence systems perform increasingly poorly due to AI-generated material in their training data? 3 months ago:
No, because there’s still no case.
Law textbooks that taught an imaginary case would just get a lot of lawyers in trouble, because someone eventually will wanna read the whole case and will try to pull the actual case, not just a reference. Those cases aren’t susceptible to this because they’re essentially a historical record. It’s like the difference between a scan of the declaration of independence and a high school history book describing it. Only one of those things could be bullshitted by an LLM.
Also applies to law schools. People do reference back to cases all the time, there’s an opposing lawyer, after all, who’d love a slam dunk win of “your honor, my opponent is actually full of shit and making everything up”. Any lawyer trained on imaginary material as if it were reality will just fail repeatedly.
LLMs can deceive lawyers who don’t verify their work. Lawyers are in fact required to verify their work, and the ones that have been caught using LLMs are quite literally not doing their job. If that wasn’t the case, lawyers would make up cases themselves, they don’t need an LLM for that, but it doesn’t happen because it doesn’t work.
- Comment on FCC commissioner writes op-ed titled, “It’s time for Trump to DOGE the FCC“ 3 months ago:
Yes that’s what he’s saying.
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 3 months ago:
Nah thats the government’s ability to regulate.
He hasn’t defunded the courts, so private lawsuits can occur. (At least he hasn’t as of today, maybe he will tomorrow)
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 3 months ago:
But also may they sue for false advertising and cost Tesla legal fees and result in them being obligated to provide these services for free.