Scubus

@Scubus@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL on your first point, i thought the exact same thing until just now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Detective Conan' and 'Mission: Impossible' Release Surprising Collaboration Visuals and Video You Simply Have to See⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t tom cruise a huge piece of shit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yeah, that wasnt what I was trying to imply. I think honestly the main reason that I didnt agree fully was because you were using a lot of terminology in ways that i wasnt sure i understood, and id like to familiarize myself with more of the topic before i formed a distinct opinion of the less clear aspects of issue. Obviously i want everyone to get the help they need though, and I don’t think we were ever seriously in disagreement about that. I appreciate the clarification btw, im not familiar with that usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, fair. The difficulty comes in because i’ve never been diagnosed with any digestive issues somehow, so historically ive always just attributed it to the “fast metabolism” everyone tells me about. Honestly this conversation is about the first time ive ever put that sort of thought into it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, the moral hazard is from the doctors side. What can a doctor get away with without risking them losing their job or putting themselves in a dangerous position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy fuckin shit actual racism is the best description i’ve ever heard. Where can i sub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely anecdotal, but I have to assume that is incorrect, or that I have a fundamental misunderstanding. I have done tests and found that my body processes(in one hole->out another) food in about an hour. Which is absolutely insane and results in most of my evacuate being unprocessed. I’ve read that for other people in similar tests, they tend to average around 12 hours. Im guessing that means my understanding of what contitutes metabolism is incorrect?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your first two paragraphs i agree with 100%. Your final paragraph i feel is accurate but id want to really mull over that before I really form an opinion. Obv in an ideal world it’s pretty easy to assign blame, but our legal and cultural issues are so fucked that topics like that really have to be analyzed in depth under the lens of how that would actually effect reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure your second point works, or maybe I just don’t understand it. It’s not like the doctor is making judgements that people are fat outside a hospital- they’re doing their job. You’ve got a car and it’s starter goes out every year, last time being a year ago. Your car wont start. Whats the first assumption?

  It’s not ableist or bias to assume that the most common issue is the most likely issue. They see a ton of people whos problems are irrefutably due to their weight. It’s not the doctors job to make judgement calls on whether that person is wholly responsible for their situation, it’s their job to doagnose the problem and help take steps to fix it. The problem being their weight, the steps include: burn down capitalism and replace it with a system that doesnt incentivise companies to use the cheapest least healthy ingredients, or tell the patient unless they lose weight they’re going to die. One of these is completely pointless to tell the patient, the other gives them an unfair opportunity to potentially save themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but your doctor cant prescribe you burning down capitalism, they can prescribe you lower your caloric intake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, unfortunately this kinda only goes one way. No matter your metabolism, if you starve yourself you will lose weight. It’s literally physically impossible for you to not. It’s just difficult and wildly unhealthy to lose weight that way.

  Whereas the opposite is not neccassarily true, depending on your metabolism you very well might be able to eat as nuch as you want. You might even have to eat more than you are comfortable with just to maintain your weight, which is what I deal with. With the right metabolism, there could be a situation where there is no upper limit on how much you could eat without gaining weight.

  Caveats include: obviously if you eat a pound of food your weight goes up by a pound, but assuming you are similar to me, after that passes through you your weight goes back down to effectively the exact same as it was before you ate. Im not glorifying a fast metabolism here, in fact my metabolism is no fast that I don’t get most of the nutients i eat and am therefore perpetually malnourished no matter what or how much I eat. I spend more on food to maintain my weight than i do on literally everything else combined, excluding rent, and maybe gas.

  Oddly, although scaling my food does not seem to scale nutrients from my food, scaling my caloric burn does seem to impact my appetite. When I was working a physical job, i was consuming about 4000 calories/day and most of the time i felt like I was on the edge of passing out from never ending fatigue. I’d wake up and spend every moment of the day starving. Now, i work a very relaxed job and my appetite has vanished. I often go days without eating and dont seem to be losing a significant amount of weight, unlike back when. Although when I do eat I tend to eat multiple huge meals in a day, often about once/twice a week, and my weight afterwards doesnt seem to go up, it just stops going down for a day or two. The only way for me to gain weight seems to be to lose it first, I literally cannot get above 160lb at 6"2’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a decade or so ago the longest word was supposedly the distance between a place of worship and something else. I can’t remember the word but it was supposed to be longer the the poppins one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not difficult to understand⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “I cannot answer any of those except the last one, which is that I learned how to avoid questions like these”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not difficult to understand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “I legally cannot tell you what I was doing from 20xx-20xx”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨May the 4th be with you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy crap that came out in 2015? Thats wild

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Marlon Brando in Heat?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know who he is, other than now that he is an actor in a movie called “heat”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Marlon Brando in Heat?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, despite having read all of the comments, it took me reading yours to finally understand the joke. I thought the joke was just googling if random people were in heat to fuck with ai. Never heard of the movie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so vegan I could eat a burger and still be a vegan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also factory farming is responsible for i think 10% of the total greenhouse gas emissions yearly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meow_irl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What anime is this from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best starter hands-down⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But was he inflammable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might even get a T boost by the same logic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dont worry about your retirement plan...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats the worst part, the couch was turning tricks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My computer deserves to get high. It works harder than i do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mobile drone lighting system uses 288 LEDs to turn night into day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The killbots will just use thermal, way harder to hide from and relatively cheap if you care about quanitity and netoworking more than quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Pervert"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is this from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Show more pls⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I must go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I am not impressed by A.I.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats because it wasnt originally called AI. It was called an LLM. Techbros trying to sell it and articles wanting to fan the flames started called it AI and eventually it became common dialect. No one in the field seriously calls it AI, they generally save that terms to refer to general AI or at least narrow ai. Of which an llm is neither.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I am not impressed by A.I.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So youve never used it as a starting point to learn about a new topic? You’ve never used it to look up a song when you can only remember a small section of lyrics? What about when you want to code a block of code that is simple but monotonous to code yourself? Or to suggest plans for how to create simple sturctures/inventions?

  Anything with a verifyable answer that youd ask on a forum can generally be answered by an llm, because theyre largely trained on forums and theres a decent section the training data included someone asking the question you are currently asking.

  Hell, ask chatgpt what use cases it would recommend for itself, im sure itll have something interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition to this, the current state of AI is basically just advanced algorithms. Id would be extremely difficult, but in theory you could still trace the connections between bodes and run the optimization calculations yourself.

  Soon enough, we will have AGI. Im not a big fan of LLMs, because theyre a fundamentally flawed idea. The only way to get that much data is without consent, and they will always be prone to hallucinations. AGI on the other hand is fundamentally different. It’s capable of learning just like a human, and capable of doing tasks just like a human. By all measurements it will be able to do anything a human can do, and by most measurements, it will do it better.

  The issue most people have is that they do not understand that the current state of AI is like the OG printing press. It’s crazy to a layperson, and it has its uses, but since most everyone is illiterate farmers, its not that useful. But to claim that transcribing text is pointless is ignoring an entire world of possibilites, to the point where people who rail against AI almost seem malicious or willfully ignorant. Why do you not want us to be able to almost instantly diagnose new diseases? Or have a nursebot babysitter that is literally a better parent than you are, and doesnt have to sleep or eat? Whats the issue with making cars safer, making construction more efficient, and taking corruption out of the government? Why do people hate the idea of people no longer having to be alone, or having a therapist that is available at all times, perfectly tailored to help you with your specific issues and no biases?

  Yes, these things are impossible with modern AI. But to claim that AI is useless… It’s either malice or ignorance.