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- Comment on Would AI replacing humans in every workplace eventually make it easier for an advanced civilization from outer space to colonize us? 2 days ago:
No. Because any advanced civilisation capable of sending a colony ship across light-years to another planet is already so far outside of our current technological ability that it matters precious little.
We would be easy to colonise either way. Doubly so if they have some form of FTL technology to make that trip in reasonable time.
But there’s also an argument that anyone who can do so would have a much easier time not dealing with all of that and just colonising an uninhabited planet, or outright using materials for the task.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 2 days ago:
Depending on how they do it, not having to deal with hydrogen infrastructure might be nice, if they keep along with the plan to use refillable cartridges. Hydrogen is a bit more fiddly.
Although this seems much more reliant on humidity compared to a hydrogen fuel cell, which seems like a huge hole if the thing just won’t work if it’s a dry day/environment.
- Comment on I made this instead 2 days ago:
Only sometimes. Other times, you want to add extra entropy, so you can have a nice hot dinner.
- Comment on DeepSeek's distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
The censorship only exists on the version they host, which is fair enough. If they’re running it themselves in China, they can’t just break the law.
If you run it yourself, the censorship isn’t there.
- Comment on I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide 1 week ago:
Not really. Why censor more than you have to? That takes time and effort, and it’s almost certainly easier to do it using something else. The law isn’t that particular, as long as you follow it.
You also don’t risk causing the model to go wrong, like trying to censor bits of the model has a habit of doing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s not a small thing to change. You’re basically overhauling everything if you wish to transition from a monarchy to a republic, because it’s rooted in everything.
The names of the governmental positions, and possibly their responsibilities would need to change, as would official documentation, the money, the flag, the national anthem…
You could hardly call yourself a republic if your passports are still carry the authority of the monarch, and your national anthem prominently features the King.
It only gets more complicated if you’re a former colonial power, since they may also be affected, and have to change everything as well. If the UK decides to ditch the Monarchy and become a Republic, Australia and Canada would need to follow suit, since it would be silly for them to have references to a monarch that no longer exists, or a GG who’s meant to be representative for a position that no longer exists.
Either that, or there will be a political/legal headache deciding whether they become the new inheritors of the monarchy, since the parent is gone, or would they be also need to make the same changes (see above).
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 3 weeks ago:
Only for some things, though. If you host your own e-mail these days, chances are, you’re going to have a very difficult time sending them anywhere without risking them being deleted, or automatically thrown into spam folders.
- Comment on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected 3 weeks ago:
Remind me in 3 days.
Although poison pills are only so effective since it’s a cat and mouse game, and they only really work for a specific version of a model, with other models working around it.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 3 weeks ago:
People have just been doing dumb things for reputation since forever. We had the cinnamon challenge back in our day.
- Comment on ‘How come I can’t breathe?': Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis 3 weeks ago:
Ah, the technocratic solution. “We’re fine leaving things as-is, because someone will invent a thing to fix it soon”.
- Comment on ‘How come I can’t breathe?': Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis 3 weeks ago:
This is why there are so many stories about planes being grounded because someone tossed a coin in, according to superstition, or a nut or something fell into the compressor.
The whole turbine has to be taken apart to get the coin or it might dent something, and the whole engine then does something most exciting when the pilot tries to run it up to service speeds, as a result of the imbalance.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 4 weeks ago:
Conversely, while the research is good in theory, the data isn’t that reliable.
The subreddit has rules requiring users engage with everything as though it was written by real people in good faith. Users aren’t likely to point out a bot when the rules explicitly prevent them from doing that.
There wasn’t much of a good control either. The researchers were comparing themselves to the bots, so it could easily be that they themselves were less convincing, since they were acting outside of their area of expertise.
And that’s even before the whole ethical mess that is experimenting on people without their consent. Post-hoc consent is not informed consent, and that is the crux of human experimentation.
- Comment on Whenever a beast is shown on screen 4 weeks ago:
They are getting quieter though, and there’s concern that they may evolve to lose the rattle entirely, as the loudly rattling ones get sought out and killed off.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
Trying to monetize the piracy of your users. That’s a bold business strategy.
Some time ago, never mind how long precisely, Plex were trying to legitimise themselves, by adding streaming from official sources, etc.
I would be curious if this is meant to be a deterrent, or just to look like one by making piracy expensive.
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 4 weeks ago:
Plus I can’t imagine that a company who is adulterating their milk with chalk dust is going to stop to find and choose a food-safe chalk dust and supplier. They’d just scoop a bunch from whoever’s cheapest, and if they adulterate their chalk dust with bleach or something, that’ll be going straight into the milk.
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 4 weeks ago:
A free market is one that is free of corruption and unfair business practices. Which cannot exist without regulations and the enforcement of those regulations.
We’ve had numerous laws precisely because companies couldn’t play fair, and made things worse for all involved. The government didn’t pass laws against company towns, scrip, and predatory pricing because they decided to ban things for fun.
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 4 weeks ago:
Maybe people should do research on the available milk brands before giving it to their children if they didn’t want them to drink bleach.
Without regulation, the company could also just lie. Nothing would dictate that they would have to tell the truth about their product.
- Comment on The FTC cracks down on an AI content detector that promised 98% accuracy but was only right 53% of the time. 5 weeks ago:
Even if they did, they would jsut be used to train a new generation of AI that could defeat the detector, and we’d be back round to square 1.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 5 weeks ago:
As an example, medical care/inheritance rights are one.
Back before the days of gay marriage, there were no end of horror stories of LGBT people whose partners were dying from HIV, and were forbidden from seeing their dying partners, or for estranged family to swoop in and kick the “friend” out, preventing them from seeing their partner, often taking everything that belonged to the deceased in the process.
A relatively famous art piece has a similar story, where the Boskovitch’s boyfriend’s family swept in and took everything after he died, effectively erasing their relationship in the process. All that was left was an electric fan.
- Comment on The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy 5 weeks ago:
And normalising it is a good thing all-round. You want privacy to be used for trivial, unimportant things, not for it to be seen as something that only most secret vital things need, and thus something most don’t.
People would be more likely to use it that way.
- Comment on Depressed and Lonely? There Could Be a Robotic Sex Partner in Your Future 1 month ago:
Incineration is a terrible idea indoors. At best, you’ve now got the smell of cooking and pyrolised human juices filling the place, and worst, is the house is carbon monoxide poisoned.
- Comment on This is real 1 month ago:
If you were powerful enough, sure. The court is only as strong as its ability to enforce a punishment.
The president is exempt from criminal prosecution for things they did as part of their duties, and if no-one is willing to impeach or impose other punishments, they can be as contemptuous as they like. How would the court stop then?
- Comment on This is real 1 month ago:
This seems unrealistically convoluted, to the level of someone who’s just looking for evidence of a conspiracy.
You could probably poke it enough to get a trifecta of 3s and link him to the Illuminati if you tried hard enough.
- Comment on This is real 1 month ago:
It also enables a few of the older features, like being able to read replies to a Tweet, now that the website formerly known as Twitter bars it if you’re not logged in.
- Comment on Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues 1 month ago:
Paper would fall under that these days, wouldn’t it? You can’t just fit a word onto a punch card like the old days, and you’d need billions of the things go even start matching up to modern storage.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 1 month ago:
He certainly seems to think so, though. When he was sharing his emotions with Picard, he was distraught that he wasn’t as open about his fondness for Amanda, before she died.
- Comment on We are back in sync with lemmy.world! 1 month ago:
Basically, Lemmy works by having a whole.bunch of different servers chitchat to each other. Hence how I can post a reply to you, even though you’re on Aussie.zone, and I’m on Lemmy.world.
The problem was that because Lemmy.world was big, and there were a lot of people in Aussie.zone who had feeds over there, Lemmy.world couldn’t fire stuff off quickly quickly enough.
Analogically, you’re basically getting a telegram to your house every day, saying what’s on the news. Except that there are a lot of people, so the telegraph operator can’t write and send the telegrams out quickly enough, and the message started backing up.
Lemmy.world basically enabled multi-threaded sending, which works like hiring more telegraph operators. While they could now keep up, there was still a huge amount of backlog that they had to send.
It’s only until this post that they finally caught up.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 1 month ago:
At least if Sarek is any indicstor, they are definitely very restrained. He was quite distraught over not being as affectionate with Amanda as he could have been.
- Comment on I want to see Vulcan fail 1 month ago:
Although it is also important to consider that for both Spock and Michael, they weren’t full Vulcans, but were Human, or part-Human, with all the relevant emotional needs and expression.
It is not implausible that the Vulcan method works with Vulcans, but not nearly as well with non-Vulcans.
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 1 month ago:
Plus, like with Marilyn Monroe, their personality on stream is generally a persona of sorts. They’re going to be very different collecting food and paying for it on their own, compared to when they’re in front of an audience.
You’d be more inclined to think that someone who looked a bit like the streamer received the food.