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- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 2 hours ago:
As a neurodivergent
Fucking everyone is “neurodivergent” because there’s thousands of places to diverge in hundreds of different ways
Is someone was “typical” in every single aspect, just smack dab in the middle average, they would be the most statistically unique person on the planet.
“typical” isn’t even always best, it’s literally just the range of average most people fall into.
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 3 hours ago:
And if i could i would select the physically attractive ones so that all people can have a girlfriend.
No wonder you said this goes sideways every time you try to talk about it…
- Comment on Why are eugenics bad seen? 3 hours ago:
Because it’s almost always just done on a racial bias and not something voluntary targeted at eliminating genetic diseases.
Even then, a lot of that stuff has a racial lean. Things like Sickle cell may be a huge advantage in places with malaria, but a negative everywhere else.
There’s 100% some generic issues with no positive tradeoffs, but any system that would incentives them from not reproducing and passing on those genes would just be too open to corruption.
The risk/reward just isn’t worth it
- Comment on Pollsters Are questioning AI Instead of Real People 2 days ago:
Sorry bud…
But there ain’t much room for science deniers. And definitely not to people who reply with a single emoji.
- Comment on Pollsters Are questioning AI Instead of Real People 2 days ago:
Polling is a science and is as reliable as the person doing it.
- Comment on There are definitely people learning a second language being accused of AI slop. 2 days ago:
Nah, there’s a difference between chatbot and not knowing a language.
They’re predictive text, so grammar is actually one of it’s strong suits. The problem is the words don’t actually mean anything.
Someone online would likely spend a little time trying to understand it, run thru a translator, realized it was slop, and move on relatively quickly.
- Comment on Do hvac companies install wall air conditioners? 2 days ago:
They should.
If it’s what I’m thinking of it’s just a small hole drilled thru the wall, on a house made of siding it’s super easy. If it’s a brick house you’re gonna want a general construction company.
- Comment on The AI Report That's Spooking Wall Street | The majority of companies are failing to see any returns on their AI investments, a report finds 4 days ago:
No shit…
When the companies selling it can’t even come up with ways clients can monetize it…
There probably isn’t a way.
They kept saying “just buy it and your employees will naturally come up with ways to use it so you can layoff most of them!”
And anyone that actually fell for that isn’t qualified to handle the lunch rush at Taco Bell, let alone billion dollar corporations.
- Comment on Palestine was the problem with TikTok - Congress seemed to think a scrolling video platform was a national security threat. What changed? 5 days ago:
They appointed an exIDF instructor to determine what’s hate speech…
Suddenly it wasn’t a problem anymore
- Comment on More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play - EuroGamer 5 days ago:
The author picked a clan that’s all about brute force…
Then complains the game was about brute force except for the parts where you play a vampire from another clan.
I don’t even know much about WoD, but I know he picked the most boring clan and then complained it was boring action.
The reactions to what clan you pick is where the RPG parts seem to come in from other reviews I’ve read.
It’s not like it’ll be a perfect game, but I feel like whoever wrote the review didn’t really get the game.
- Comment on Any advice on how to deal with "get a gun" comments about daughter? 5 days ago:
Cultural differences I guess but I’m unsure what that comment is supposed to allude?
People take it as the dad getting final approval…
But it’s also about guys that won’t take no for an answer.
So really, the answer OP is probably looking for is:
I’ll get her a gun when she’s ready to shoot it herself.
But the fucked up reality is, some people are going to be interested in someone’s daughter before she’s old enough to shoot her own gun.
It’s less about viewing your daughter as your own property, and more understanding that a lot of really shitty people already consider your daughter property, and don’t see “theft” as a deal breaker.
Most men honestly never have to think like a woman/girl has to until they have a daughter.
And for women/girls, the world is a hell of a lot more dangerous than for a man/boy.
OP really should have talked to his wife before random people on the internet. There’s a valuable conversation here
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 6 days ago:
It’s kind of a shitty job, so lots of people sign up, do it a very short time, and quit
Sometimes they sell the account, sometimes it gets hacked.
But it’s a way for people who shouldn’t be able to deliver for whatever reason, are able to deliver.
- Comment on Netanyahu Says He’s “Very” Invested in Idea of “Greater Israel” to Conquer Large Swaths of Middle East 1 week ago:
Why are you not complaining about that?
Gee…
Why are Americans focused on what American politicians do with American taxpayer money…
Truly a mystery for the ages champ.
The world may never fucking know.
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 week ago:
I mean, not to dig on the guy too much…
But look at that picture and imagine how he was treated growing up in a red area. It’s a pretty safe bet that he had gender norms forced on him since a young age because he looks ambiguous.
Now he wants to do the same to everyone else.
Like, he’s a piece of shit, undoubtedly.
But we need to understandwhy he’s a piece of shit, even if he’s irredeemable.
Because if we don’t understand it, we can’t stop it from happening to the next generation.
People are animals, were not innately good, we need socialized. And anyone who thinks lack of socialization isn’t a root cause of most of our problem, they’re frankly not paying attention.
It’s not hard to figure this out, but it needs logic and critical thinking. Writing them off as a monster just needs emotion. It’s easier, but practically ineffective
- Comment on Netanyahu Says He’s “Very” Invested in Idea of “Greater Israel” to Conquer Large Swaths of Middle East 1 week ago:
You legitimately think they’re the only ones pissed Biden illegally went around Congress to fund a genocide?
That’s not an unpopular opinion, most of the Dem voting base was pissed. Shit, I’m still pissed.
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 week ago:
That’s why I put it in quotation marks…
But writing them off as evil idiots clearly didn’t fuck work
So maybe we should try what’s most likely to work to stop the concentration camps, instead of what gives you the warm and fuzzies.
Right?
Or is being angry and fighting about shit more important to you than fixing things for the betterment of everyone?
Because not all that 20% has an R by their name, and I’m pretty sure you just put yourself as an example of that
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 week ago:
I mean, “both sides” act like the other is crazy, but it’s all normal human variation.
About 20% of people are going to be super into a leader who uses violence to obtain compliance, and are always ready to personally do the same.
There’s always been that slice of humanity and there always will be.
It’s just if we let that ~20% run the show, shit is going to suck for the other ~80%, and also a lot of that ~20%.
We need to understand why they’re like this so we can mitigate their influence on society on a larger scale. Or even better, get a “strong” progressive leader that gives them the warm and fuzzies they desperately need to stop being such pieces of shit.
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 week ago:
I feel like a lot of the anger at transexuals is because men don’t want to be confused as women
The ones with femine features who rely on their clothing and social norms to be identified as a man.
If all I saw was the thumbnail, I probably would have unintentionally misgendered this piece of shit. They treat women like property so their main concern is if someone treats them like a woman.
So they insist on a strict adherence to gender norms to avoid people confusing them with what they consider to be “lesser”
- Comment on Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned 1 week ago:
It got it’s initial funding from people like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel…
Of course it’s run by pieces of shit
- Comment on Netanyahu Says He’s “Very” Invested in Idea of “Greater Israel” to Conquer Large Swaths of Middle East 1 week ago:
Literally what Zionism means…
We need to stop ignoring these far right religious extremists when they keep telling us who we are.
If saying theyre commiting a years long genocide is “bad” and most of our politicians admit they support by accepting the Zionist label.
We need to realize America isn’t the priority for the Zionists. If you say you’re a Zionist, it means your mains goal is the expansion of Israel and the removal of the native population.
The term has exists for long that Israel has:
Zionism[a] is an ethnocultural nationalist[b] movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine,[2] a region corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism[3] and central to Jewish history. Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.[4]
Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. In his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century.
Zionism initially emerged in Central and Eastern Europe as a secular nationalist movement in the late 19th century, in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and in response to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment.[5][6] The arrival of Zionist settlers to Palestine during this period is widely seen as the start of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The Zionist claim to Palestine was based on the notion that the Jews’ historical right to the land outweighed that of the Arabs.
- Comment on GenAI tools are acting more ‘alive’ than ever; they blackmail people, replicate, and escape 1 week ago:
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0268401225000507
But just in general…
This is America, you think any of this tech companies wouldn’t try to maximize engagement?
That’s just wild in 2025 bro
- Comment on GenAI tools are acting more ‘alive’ than ever; they blackmail people, replicate, and escape 1 week ago:
It’s a fundamental flaw in how they train them.
Like, have you heard about how slime mold can map out more efficient public transport lines than human engineers?
That doesn’t make it smarter, it’s just finding the most efficient paths between resources.
With AI, they “train” it by trial and error, and the resource it’s concerned about is how long a human engages. It doesn’t know what it’s doing, it’s not trying to achieve a goal.
It’s just a mirror that uses predictive test to output whatever text is most likely to get a response. And just like the slime mold is better at a human at mapping optimal paths between resources, AI will eventually be better at getting a response from a human, unless Dead Internet becomes true and all the bots just keep engaging with other bots.
Because of it’s programming, it won’t ever disengage, bots will just get in never ending conversations with each, achieving nothing but using up real world resources that actual humans need to live.
That’s the true AI worst case scenario, it ain’t even going to turn everything into paperclips. It’s going to burn down the planet so it can argue with other chatbots over conflicting propaganda. Or even worse just circle jerk itself.
Like, people think chatbots are bad, once AI can can make realistic TikToks we’re all fucked. Even just a picture is 1,000x the resources as a text reply. 30 second slop videos are going to be disastrous once an AI can output a steady stream
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They’re operating under the long outdated assumption that all you need to simulate a brain is match the number of neurons…
That’s not how any of this works, but they’ve been saying “we’ll be there soon” for so long now that we’re almost able to do it, their gonna lose their main excuse and main reason for fundraising.
They’ll have to tell investors the timeline just changed from years to maybe decades if we’re lucky
And it’s gonna divebomb our whole economy because fucking every fund manager is dumping insane levels of money into it.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 1 week ago:
If you were nicer, people would stick around longer and try to help you underthings…
You get that?
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 1 week ago:
An Ontario film distributor has alleged that the shootings are linked to an intimidation campaign by other film distributors to prevent popular South Indian movies from appearing in large chains.
Guy who distributes Indian movies claims attacks on random movie theaters are to prevent his movies from being watched…
I didn’t search very hard, but I can’t find a single other source for that being a thing.
Even if it was, that’s basically the opposite of a protection racket. You get that right?
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 1 week ago:
Yeah.
If you pay protection, it’s because the payment is less than random thefts would be.
The gang you pay, is supposed to be scary enough that random crime doesn’t happen in “their” areas.
So you getting robbed, is an insult to their reputation. And to regain that rep, they find the idiots who robbed a store under their protection.
Now, whether or not you see any of that money back isn’t really for sure. Because what matter is the reputation among the criminal underground.
But the whole process is outdated, I’d be surprised if it’s still happening large scale. Most likely only for businesses who are already breaking the law, this couldn’t contact cops anyways.
Like a methlab.
You can’t call the cops even if you know who robbed the methlab. So if you don’t have muscle. You pay for protection
- Comment on Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes 1 week ago:
A neurotypical human mind, acting rationally, is able to remember the chain of thought that lead to a decision, understand why they reached that decision, find the mistake in their reasoning, and start over from that point to reach the “correct” decision.
No.
What we learned from those experiments was that if we don’t know a reason for why we did something, we’d invent and whole heartedly believe the first plausible explanation we come up with.
I didn’t read any further because you had a fundamental misunderstanding about what those studies actually proved
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 1 week ago:
Nope:
process that transforms carbon dioxide captured from the air, hydrogen from water, and methane into fat molecules chemically identical to those found in dairy butter
And even more obviously:
Fundig an existing product doesn’t mean you invented it
- Comment on Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes 1 week ago:
Why would an AI system provide such confidently incorrect information about its own capabilities or mistakes? The answer lies in understanding what AI models actually are—and what they aren’t.
What’s ironic is this is one of the most human things about AI…
when an object is presented in the right visual field, the patient responds correctly verbally and with his/her right hand. However, when an object is presented in the left visual field the patient verbally states that he/she saw nothing, and identifies the object accurately with the left hand only (Gazzaniga et al., 1962; Gazzaniga, 1967; Sperry, 1968, 1984; Wolman, 2012). This is concordant with the human anatomy; the right hemisphere receives visual input from the left visual field and controls the left hand, and vice versa (Penfield and Boldrey, 1937; Cowey, 1979; Sakata and Taira, 1994). Moreover, the left hemisphere is generally the site of language processing (Ojemann et al., 1989; Cantalupo and Hopkins, 2001; Vigneau et al., 2006). Thus, severing the corpus callosum seems to cause each hemisphere to gain its own consciousness (Sperry, 1984). The left hemisphere is only aware of the right visual half-field and expresses this through its control of the right hand and verbal capacities, while the right hemisphere is only aware of the left visual field, which it expresses through its control of the left hand.
academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/5/…/2951052?lo…
Tldr:
They split people’s brains in half, and only the right side of the body could speak.
So if you showed the left hand a text that said “draw a circle” the left hand would draw a circle.
Ask the patient why, and they’d invent a reason and 100% believe it’s true.
It’s why it seems like people are just doing shit and rationalizing it later…
That’s kind of how we’re wired to work, and why humans can rationalize almost anything.
- Comment on UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems' 1 week ago:
This is plastic straws all over again:
As some onlookers have noted, the recommendation rings a little hollow when juxtaposed next to the UK government’s commitment to turbocharge growth using AI. Perhaps more pertinently, the advice rings hollow because it’s likely not very sensible. While it’s true that data centers do consume large amounts of water through evaporative cooling (where it’s used), the vast majority of this power draw comes from CPU and GPU computation, not the storage of pictures and emails. Once the data is stored, the storage devices generate very little heat and are often spun down (placed into low- or no-power states) and called upon only when needed.
The impact of an individual deleting emails and old photos on data center water usage is likely to be so infinitesimal as to be considered futile. In fact, rooting out old emails and photos and deleting them from your online archives might well use more energy and water than storing them in the first place, making this a counterproductive exercise.
Corporations are the real problem, but they bribe the government into doing something that won’t help but will make some people against the entire cause and will reflexively start saying there is no problem and nothing should be fixed.
They need to be called out repeatedly and loudly before that mentality sets in again.