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- Comment on Ancient skeleton unearthed in France is latest to be found sitting upright 48 minutes ago:
Glad to see the youth getting involved with science…
Children at a primary school in eastern France found a strange attraction next to their playground this week: a skeleton sitting upright, peeking out of a circular pit.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Spider-Man Fans Are Trying To Work Out Who Keith David Plays In Brand New Day 50 minutes ago:
The president, duh…
If Keith David is in something, he’s probably playing the president.
As long as it’s not a gagool
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 1 day ago:
, I don’t think it can hurt any more than a calculator hurts your ability to do math.
Because using AI atrophies the part of your brain that handles critical thinking…
The more you use it, the less you notice how you can’t do things without it.
If AI worked, that would be normal. The problem is it’s just good at conning people into believing it.
That’s why you can’t realize if it ever takes off and people start using it, they’re going to make it shittier and more expensive.
But again, the people already relying on AI have lost the critical thinking to see that coming. It’s like a bus driver closing their eyes because a bridge is closed. The bridge is still closed, they didn’t solve any problems. They just don’t see it coming now.
What you’re doing is asking all the passengers why they’re still screaming if all they need to do is close their eyes…
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 1 day ago:
It’s burning the environment down, destroying the shambles of the global economy, and being constantly shoved down everyone’s throats even though it’s only impressive to people who don’t understand it
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 day ago:
It’s worse…
People are saying it’s AI slop filter, and he won’t shut the fuck up that the slop isn’t a filter, it’s a main ingredient.
When enabled it fundamentally changes how it works.
Developers will be stuck with the default version we’ve seen, or have to devote a shit ton of money to do twice the work for the people who use this, and they won’t see the other version.
Like, this shit is going to get worse and worse the more people understand it.
- Comment on Somewhere out there, there may be an alien life form imagining how terrible a planet with molten dihydrogen monoxide in the atmosphere might be. 2 days ago:
Wrong on both counts actually…
Left hand bacteria would have no predators, especially including viruses unless they brought their own. They’d outcompete natural bacteria, and crash the entire food chain wiping out all life. It wouldn’t be anything that right handed biology could learn to fight.
Like, it would be lovectafttian horror and with zero evolutionary pressure it would involve insanely fast not that it would matter.
But for European settlers, most of the Indengious North Americans (especially on the east coast) has already been wiped out by European disease brought over earlier by vikings.
Vikings gave up, but then disease won anyways.
Then some slightly less northern Europeans showed up and just assumed the land was empty.
If Vikings had kept up more of a presence they’d have noticed and been able to return and easily fed off what “middle” Europe was willing to send. Ironically enough the Vikings had tried and pivoted to conquering those countries over North America.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 days ago:
Not really,
Nvidia just calls everything DLSS…
Like, it’s basically an anthology label at this point. If they think it’s a good idea, they call.it DLSS #
For example DLSS 4 was frame generation, nothing to do with super sampling.
- Comment on CNN: Republicans release AI deepfake of James Talarico as phony videos proliferate in midterm races 3 days ago:
They were counting on being able to get Crockett, and to be fair she flat out said she even entered the race was the polls Republicans pushed.
Talerico has a really good shot of actually winning, and it scares the shit out of Republicans.
A charismatic candidate with good policy helps swing a lot of down ballot races too in the state government
- Comment on Is there a software method to "rotate" music around my head? 3 days ago:
Yeah, it’s a thing.
Was always a gimmicky part of speaker software back in the day.
Like, a page in setting was a picture of a generic room and you can drag and drop an icon for the picture to change how 3d sound was displayed.
So you could likely find something like that and co-opt it for headphones.
Search for something like “3d audio setup” or “positioning software”.
That being said, this isn’t a problem with how you’re processing sound. It’s more likely an inner ear thing, but it’s impossible to say if it’s a “problem” or just weird variation. So anything you do with the headphones is just going to compensate for it, not actually solve it.
It’s probably also weird watching TV or a screen from an angle either, fixing the inner ear thing would likely solve a lot of stuff for you, especially if you consider yourself clumsy
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 4 days ago:
Do you think it is likely for voting to create a difference?
Yes, be ause I understand our political system…
There is nothing constitutional about the US and how it operates anymore.
You don’t seem to even understand the meaning of the words used to describe out political system…
Stop asking rehrorical questions like you’re teaching people, start asking real questions so you don’t remain ignorant of how society actually works.
Just ask someone else
- Comment on Rotating home owners boast of 360-degree views and energy benefits 4 days ago:
building something novel and cool is arguably a better use of it than just spending it on luxury goods.
Actually the opposite.
Taking up contractors time on this stuff means less making affordable housing which makes housing less affordable for everyone else.
In general.its happening to our entire economies. Only the wealthiest can afford things, so man hours and resources go into a small amount of luxury products rather than what the masses need.
Raising the prices at all.price points.
- Comment on Rotating home owners boast of 360-degree views and energy benefits 4 days ago:
Someone who actually did it recently:
“In all, to rotate this house [cost] roughly $350,000 extra on top of the land and the house itself.”
The guy who’s 26 year old plans were used:
Mr Everingham estimated his design would cost approximately $150,000 on top of a normal house build.
This is a case of an elderly person drastically underestimating inflation of housing construction…
It costs 350k
- Comment on Rotating home owners boast of 360-degree views and energy benefits 4 days ago:
Mr Everingham said being able to position the house to capture or avoid the sun or breeze saved an estimated 50 per cent in energy costs.
They keep saying that, but logically it doesn’t make sense…
With energy efficient windows, you’re not getting much free heat/cooling even if you were constantly rotating for optimal position.
And with the $350k price tag, even with 50% savings you’d have to reach 350k paid just to break even.
This is a rich person’s waste of money and they’re back rationalizing why the waste of resources is worth it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
OP gave some surface level details that are pretty much all existing tropes…
If someone read it and said they didn’t like it, the issue probably wasn’t any of the things OP said.
But writing is a skill, you don’t start out good at it, you get good by doing it a lot. Every author’s first stories suck
- Comment on Punters 'unlikely' to see millions in ticket sales refunded as long-running festival shutters 4 days ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on US/Israel: Investigate Iran School Attack as a War Crime 4 days ago:
Both the US and Israeli militaries possess and have used advanced and expansive multi-domain intelligence collection methods in their conduct of many combat operations, which allow for enhanced monitoring, assessment and verification of targets.
Something that isn’t talked about often, is how these “failures” of intelligence are often used to justify permanent increases in surveillance. Even if something slipping thru is organic, it’s almost always due to missing something in existing data, more data won’t solve anything because the problem is going thru existing data and making the right people aware of it.
They just always look for any excuse to increase surveillance
- Comment on Punters 'unlikely' to see millions in ticket sales refunded as long-running festival shutters 5 days ago:
UK usage of “punters” is someone that gets grifted…
Is it the same in Aussiland? Or is it just used for someone who spends a lot of money on something?
It’s hard to tell if this was a scamfest that was never going to happen considering it was long-running. Unless the production company changed, I don’t see how “punters” works, but I’ve never heard an Aussie use the phrase before.
- Comment on Somewhere out there, there may be an alien life form imagining how terrible a planet with molten dihydrogen monoxide in the atmosphere might be. 5 days ago:
Ironically it doesn’t matter what the form looks like, there’s a 50/50 shot everytime life develops if it’s right (us) of left (not us) biochemistry.
It literally doesn’t matter which happens, functionally the life could be 100% same except a mirror image.
Anytime two actually separate lines of life encounter each other, there’s a fight on the bacterial level of the ecosystem, and the “new” one will win 100% of the time due to stuff that would make this comment too long to read.
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 5 days ago:
This is like asking if you have faith in plumbers…
But no, I don’t have “faith” in anyone or anything.
That’s why I vote and advocate for others to do so, because lots of informed voters mitigates the threats from bad politicians.
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 6 days ago:
AI is shit.
Facial recognition is shit.
But none of that was really the issue here:
Lipps spent nearly four months in a Tennessee jail without bail - classified as a fugitive, she had no hearing, no interview, nothing. North Dakota officers didn’t retrieve her until October 30, 108 days after the arrest. October 31 was her first court appearance and the first time police spoke to her, reports InForum.
Arrested and thrown in jail for 108 days before seeing any sort of judge is a constitutional violation.
We hear about this because it’s an obvious wrong case to an old innocent grandma…
But it’s not the only time it’s happening. And if this happened to her, it can happen to anyone.
A lazy/dumb cop or ICE agent can just declare you’re someone they’re looking for, and by the time it’s settled your life is destroyed.
We can’t keep kicking police reform down the road.
We can’t settle for moderate politicians who say they’ll try on a few issues.
We need politicians who understand that everything is fucked and desperately needs fixed across the board.
- Comment on In the English dub of American Dad’s «Aw Rats, a Pool Party!» episode, Avery says he doesn’t speak Spanish. What does he say in the Spanish version? 6 days ago:
And it would be 100% funnier too, and still on brand for Bullock to say he can’t speak the language he’s currently speaking.
- Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation 6 days ago:
It’s been a minute, but I thought the tokens represented compute time
But then they realized people valued the idea of compute time more than the compute time.
So it became similar to crypto, where it was just used as a currency.
The part about gaining control I thought was something else, where Pied Piper didn’t have 50% of accounts on an app, just a majority. And due to the decentralized nature of their software, whoever had the majority controlled the code. So the Chinese and Gavin set up a zombie network of bot phones to gain 50% in a hostile takeover once the boys were switched from independent accounts to an organization.
But like I said, it’s been a minute and sometimes I’m wrong.
But I think they were two separate iterations of what the company was at the time
- Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation 1 week ago:
AI companies who can’t find anyone to buy their product, swear their employees would rather have their product in exchange for labor rather than money…
Which could easily be used to buy the product no one outside the company is buying.
This is just a way to juice metrics and claim this “compensation” as sales on the books.
And I’m almost positive the “per user growth” they’re talking about is just how brain rot addicts will use chatbots for everything once their brain atrophies from not using it. But just by mentioning that they had to admit that overall use wasn’t a metric they wanted to talk about.
It’s like how a small percentage of drinkers (the alcoholics) buy the vast amount of alcohol. Less people drinking is bad for the company, and a few alcoholics can’t sustain the company without being replaced by new addicts.
- Comment on This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes 1 week ago:
Silver lining:
Conservatives have learned absolutely nothing from the failures of the D.A.R.E. program…
- Comment on Betting on nuclear Armageddon means you don't think it will happen. 1 week ago:
Plot twist:
People are betting it happens so the corrupt assholes will prevent nuclear war so they can win the long odds that it won’t happen.
Welcome to America.
- Comment on AI companies turn knowledge into a proprietary asset. Share your knowledge openly and freely. 1 week ago:
I can’t tell if the author is ignorant or really think “posting knowledge” to social media isn’t just handing it to AIs…
Like they even take a break in the article to defend people who take low paying jobs training AI and that how it’s actually a good deal for people who don’t have a job.
It’s like when a 9 year old learns what reverse psychology is and does a shit job at it.
Everything the author said just gets AI free or cheap training.
- Comment on Women’s brains lose nearly 5% of their gray matter on average during pregnancy 1 week ago:
Volume doesn’t matter, it’s surface area.
And shrinking may actually increase the surface area.
What’s going on with memory, is likely different and would have more to do with staying more present in the “now”. Babies are fickle, it’s hard to plan ahead, and better to have a constant idea how the baby is doing
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
And the Old Testament is not recontextualized. It’s just the Torah
Technically they removed every “Yahweh” in most English versions of the Bible when they turned the Torah into the Old Testament. They just replaced it with “LORD” or “GOD”.
It’s the one major change, because Christians weren’t supposed to use God’s name. Spelled Yahweh in the Torah and Allah in the Quran.
And as a result a shit ton of people who consider themselves experts in their own religion, don’t understand it’s all the same God all the Abrahmic religions pray to.
Similar with Jesus, who is called Isa in the Quran.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Sounds a lot like antivacxers screeching everyone gets chickenpox…
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
Yahweh is used to describe God like 7,000 times in the Old testament (written before Christianity by Jews) and used 0 times in the New Testament written by Christians.
Depending bible, all the Yahweh’s may be replaced by the all caps “LORD” because they literally went back and scrubbed the name out to obey “don’t use my name in vain”.
Not sure how good of a source this is but I mean you can literally compare the Old Testament to the Torah and see that it changed:
In actuality, God’s personal name is in your Bible . . . sort of. The editors have chosen not to transliterate God’s name, like they do every other proper name in the Bible, and have instead chosen to replace God’s name, Yahweh, with the upper-case LORD or GOD. That’s right, all 6,828 times God’s personal name Yahweh is written in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament have been replaced with the English LORD or GOD in your English Bible. Let’s look at Psalm 117 as an example.
“Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples! For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!”
PSALM 117
The word “LORD” in all upper-case letters is God’s personal name, Yahweh. God’s personal name is used three times in Psalm 117. So, in a way, God’s personal name is in all modern English Bibles; the translators and editors have simply chosen not to transliterate it, but to use the word LORD or GOD instead. Most Bibles explicitly state what they are doing in the preface, but let’s be honest, most people do not read the preface to their Bible.
biblicalculture.com/why-is-gods-name-not-in-the-b…
To be clear I don’t believe any of this stuff, it’s just always bugged me that the biggest modern religious conflict is three groups all praying to the same God they all swear is peaceful, and just constantly killing Innocents over minor details without even realizing it.
So I’ve looked into how they different they really are. And most of the conflict is semantics that no one fighting over actually understands.