Xaphanos
@Xaphanos@lemmy.world
- Comment on If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences 1 week ago:
FTL travel implies a mastery over spacetime itself. After that, a practical time machine is a matter of engineering details.
We can be sure that we never get there because we are not flooded with tourists from the future. QED.
- Comment on I'm sure the liberals have a great explanation 3 weeks ago:
Something you may not know is the origin of the word fascist.
The fasci siciliani were peasants and farmers seeking basic rights and reforms before 1900. Fasci refered to the fact that a single straw is weak, but a bundle was strong.
The term was later ressurected in a nostalgic sense to make the new rising popularists look like men of the people.
- Comment on What is the self? 4 weeks ago:
A complex interaction between your unique memories, your unique biological composition, your past and present environments, and the ongoing neurological processes that experience and interpret them.
- Comment on "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class." 4 weeks ago:
Thank you
- Comment on "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class." 4 weeks ago:
Not to be that guy but… Link?::: spoiler Title :::
- Comment on OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December 4 weeks ago:
It can be advertised as “cruelty free”. As in “No humans were coerced into doing these acts.”
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 4 weeks ago:
Most data centers are backed up by generators.
- Comment on Do jingle writers constantly have annoying songs stuck in their heads? Or are they immune? 5 weeks ago:
The first wave of displacement was licensing - all those car commercials with Springsteen tunes.
- Comment on Do jingle writers constantly have annoying songs stuck in their heads? Or are they immune? 5 weeks ago:
My brother used to do this in the 90s. No, but he was always writing and playing something.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 1 month ago:
Enslaved with honor is still enslaved.
- Comment on Cooling stuff does not require any energy! 1 month ago:
It’s good that you think about this stuff. It is a sign of an inquisitive mind. And you are so close to the truth.
But… You literally have the ability to look this stuff up in seconds.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_transfer en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 2 months ago:
They have a huge contract with CoreWeave.
- Comment on bet you can think of more 2 months ago:
You’re welcome. Back at ya. Be excellent.
- Comment on bet you can think of more 2 months ago:
Shooting a cop is the one crime that is rigorously investigated and prosecuted.
- Comment on bet you can think of more 2 months ago:
By removing the cultural respect they have. If they are routinely seen as the bad guys, the attraction to the profession is diminished. We begin to make a career in law enforcement similar to used car salesman and telemarketers. People will routinely disrespect them. Power hungry morons will think twice before going into those jobs.
- Comment on Lidl has succeded in turning magas into mosquito repellent 2 months ago:
No self-respecting bug would touch a MAGA.
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 2 months ago:
Further, he killed all trust in Intel. Now, no one will believe that there are no government back doors into everything they make.
- Comment on AI to cut paperwork to free up doctors’ time for patients 3 months ago:
This makes me think of the movie “Brazil”.
- Comment on White House to Vet Smithsonian Exhibits to Ensure They 'Align With Trump's Interpretation' of US History' 3 months ago:
“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
- Comment on Unexpectedly Beautiful Women’s Fashion in the Soviet Union from the 1960s and 1970s [no, this is not an argument that tankies are right] 3 months ago:
Fashion photography however was (mostly) on par with amateurs.
- Comment on Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means. 3 months ago:
I know some really damn delusional programmers.
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 3 months ago:
My data center has 35MW of generators onsite. No modern DC is designed nor built without backup generators to allow continuous operation during any utility power outages.
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 3 months ago:
I’m sure you’re right. How pre-post-truth of me.
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 3 months ago:
Who is responsible? The SW creator? The trainer? The source of the training data? The hosting data center?
What are the penalties? Who enforces this? Who investigates?
- Comment on Bubble Trouble 3 months ago:
My company is in AI. One of our customers pays for systems capable of the hard computational work to design the drugs to treat Parkinson’s. This is the only newly possible with the newest technology.
- Comment on YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term 3 months ago:
Does that include systems used for “correlation science”? Things like “people that are left-handed and eat sardines are more likely to develop eyebrow cancer”. Also genetic correlations for odd things like musical talent?
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 3 months ago:
But it is quid pro quo.
- Comment on YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term 3 months ago:
Is there a specific name? Or just “non-LLM ML systems”?
- Comment on YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term 3 months ago:
What would you call systems that are used for discovery of new drugs or treatments? For example, companies using “AI” for Parkinson’s research.
- Comment on Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it. 4 months ago:
And folks with ARFID.