davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on Modern magic unlocks Merlin's medieval secrets 3 days ago:
Wooo!
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 3 days ago:
True. Maybe ‘9 of 10 participants’.
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 4 days ago:
The women are unlikely to think so.
It’s like the reverse of the well known statistic that nine out of ten people approve of gang rape.
- Comment on You Need to Use Signal's Nickname Feature 1 week ago:
" He… He’s a special ops trainer.
What was his name?Yeah. Jack Trainer.
So he’s a trainer named Jack Trainer?That’s how I have everybody in my phone. See, “Janice Mom.”
“Larry Doorknob.” “Stacy Butt Stuff.” "
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I do think it’s interesting that the original case was a person being refused service by companies instead of the other way around.
- Comment on Do I need to choose a language when posting on Lemmy? 1 week ago:
This is one of the things that could have been a nice feature, but the devs never fixed it.
It should let you set a default, and options in the list should include ‘detect from browser settings’, and ‘most recently selected’. (Default should be that one probably, but on the very first post it should detect it automatically.)
If they had done that, and encouraged the same in apps and other clients, then filtering by language would actually work and not exclude the vast majority of posts.
- Comment on When picking location for reincarnation USA is a really popular choice but don't pick it, it's a total bait and switch. 1 week ago:
Empirically it would seem that India is the most popular choice, followed very closely by China.
Amusingly, I think those are two of the places with a high percentage of belief in reincarnation.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 1 week ago:
There are hundreds (at least!) versions of the bible, and that’s just in English. Would have to make sure it’s exactly the same one.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 1 week ago:
It looks like a code even when not trying to.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 1 week ago:
The concept for this is called Steganography and that article has several examples, but most would be difficult without tools/references.
The easiest would be stuff like using certain letters of words or word lengths as mentioned in some other comments here.
- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never liked this explanation because if that was all there was to it, it would still only localize to a slanted line in front of us.
Say for example the right ear is higher (I tried finding which one normally is, but couldn’t find a good answer) in this case it would not be feasible without other clues to tell the difference between a sound being higher up and slightly to the left, or lower and slightly to the right. It’s not a significantly different situation from the ears being the same height.
In reality there are other clues, largely based on the shape of our ears slightly changing the sound in learned ways based on the angle it comes from.
- Comment on How do you feel about someone taking the coins people tossed into a fountain or other public waterworks display for "wishes?" 3 weeks ago:
Toss a coin to your stripper, Oh valley of chintzy
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 4 weeks ago:
That’s obviously not how the billionaires who create it would train it.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 4 weeks ago:
I don’t get it.
Are you perhaps calling all of humanity a dragon?
- Comment on New Apple technology could allow social media apps to tell whether users are under 16 4 weeks ago:
Actually doesn’t sound too bad, just makes it a parental control thing.
The Google system mentioned at the end sounds like a nightmare of false positives and negatives.
- Comment on Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you? - EQL Blog 5 weeks ago:
That’s insane that they apparently replace the subject line. Completely irresponsible.
Should also be labeled as AI regardless. (Or ideally disabled, especially after incidents like this)
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 5 weeks ago:
The GPS ‘time zone’ does not account for leap seconds at all and is currently 18 seconds ahead of UTC. The GPS navigation messages from the satellites do however include the current offset.
- Comment on star bae 5 weeks ago:
Yes. 1/2 c is super fast still and gravity that strong would have effects like noticably bending outgoing light.
Neutron stars are right on the verge of becoming black holes and are incredible.
- Comment on HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit Game Bundle - $25 for 30 games 1 month ago:
For some reason they don’t mention in the description that most or all of these games are not videogames, they are tabletop role playing game manuals. (The digital downloads are .pdf files)
Nothing wrong with that of course, but it certainly seems like an important detail.
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 1 month ago:
Whatever that is, I’d assume it’s a bad idea to drink it.
- Comment on What are the possible ways a computer can kill you? 1 month ago:
The electrocution risk would actually last even after it’s unplugged: Power supplies can have big capacitors in them.
- Comment on 30 active communities which are not politics, news, memes or tech 1 month ago:
There used to be pornlemmy but it died (and was too restrictive in my opinion)
I don’t know why not the one you named, as far as I know it’s the only remaining general porn instance. There’s just a few scattered communities on other instances.
There’s also a bit on Mastodon but mostly reposting from reddit.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 2 months ago:
It also applies to technologies that don’t in fact exist but could. Those are much harder to name (besides sci-fi) since almost by definition we don’t know about most of them. Nor how many, compared to existing tech.
I’m not actually saying it’s impossible, just saying that local maximums (as described by the other users here) are a thing and it’s possible to be trapped for a very long time by them. Potentially forever, but you’re right that odds of breaking out do increase over time.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 2 months ago:
It’s true that I can’t know for sure that they won’t lead to AGI (or like you say give clues) - however it’s definitely a scenario I can imagine, and that’s what I was responding to: The idea that incremental improvements Must lead to a given goal. I don’t think that’s the case. Here in particular I think it’s not only possible that it won’t, it’s even somewhat likely.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 2 months ago:
In this scenario reaching the goal would require an entirely different base technology, and incremental improvements to what we have now do not eventually lead to AGI.
Kinda like incremental improvements to cars or even trains won’t eventually get us to Mars.
- Comment on Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI 2 months ago:
I can imagine it really easily for the foreseeable future, all that would need to happen is for the big corporations and well funded researchers to stick to optimizing LLMs.
Yeah that’s not the rest of human history (unless the rest of it isn’t very much) but enough to make concerns about AGI into someone else’s problem.
- Comment on Long-running tech forum DSL Reports goes offline 2 months ago:
Oh wow, I haven’t thought about that place in ages… Naturally most others who knew about it haven’t either and that’s why it’s gone I’m sure.
- Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 2 months ago:
Also The Hive, just being huge and underground:
- Comment on Honda says the Acura RSX will be the first original EV with the Asimo operating system 2 months ago:
No description at all of the OS itself.
What kernel? Can the user interface do Android Auto? Will it have 3rd party apps?If it’s going in the headline I think at least some details would be nice.
- Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 2 months ago:
I think that is awesome, but the thumbnail image is totally giving T-Virus vibes.
