lucullus
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- Comment on Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage? 3 days ago:
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 1 week ago:
Though helicopters are not what was envisioned as flying cars most of the time. Including their usability.
- Comment on How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ? 1 week ago:
I should have mentioned, where I got this from. I’m not an AI researcher myself - so AINAAIR. I’m referencing this youtube video from TheMorpheus (News and Informations/Tutorials about various IT stuff, including AI research)(Video is in german). For example the diagram at 3:00.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The german government had an interesting idea for that. Collecting all the emission taxes into a common fund (like sales tax on each item) and then paying that back to the citizens, the same amount to everyone. If you get the emission pricing right, then rich people (who emit more through their life) will pay more tham they get, while poor people will profit from it.
Though the system is not yet active (because of shit financing tricks that got stopped by the courts and the current inability of the government to actually pay that money out to the citizens)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The optimization in mass production should meet chickens at least roughly for this to work out. Though also interesting would be the health of the insects. I know nothing about that, but maybe we wouldn’t need that much antibiotica as with meat mass production.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t think banning meat will ever happen. Thats not really how that usually works. Though it will get more expensive. And actually currently the meat industry is heavily supported by governments to keep meat cheap enough for poorer people.
And we won’t solve climate change just with eating insects in the same way we won’t solve social justice issues just with keeping meat prices low.
We need to do multiple things at the same time. Finding and developing good food options, that are not as taxing at the climate as meat (especially cattle) is one good step, while doing other things against climate change. And we can work towards social justice by heavily taxing the rich, using that money to fund public goods and services mostly used by the workers.
Eating meat vs insect based products is not the socialist hill to die on, I think. There are better ones.
- Comment on How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ? 1 week ago:
The hallucination rates with current models are quite high, especially the reasoning ones with rates like 70%. Wouldn’t call that accurate. I think most times we are just not interested enough to even check for accuracy in some random search. We often just accept the answer, that is given, without any further thought.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 1 week ago:
Pretty much like everyone expected flying cars to have taken off by now (pun intended)
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
Eh, I’m pretty sure it is. Haven’t had Kodi running for a while, but I used it on a Raspberry Pi with an USB HDD with my content long before I had Jellyfin. Though it cannot stream the content over network, just display it on the machines video output (which is what media PCs do)
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 1 month ago:
Oh, I indeed love this XD Thanks for that
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 1 month ago:
Much like the soon to be german chancellor, who told an interviewer, that he is upper middle class. All that while being a former Blackrock manager and owning (and using regularily) a personal private jet. Thats some kind of chancellor material…
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 2 months ago:
The bee die-offs, that one typically hears about, has nothing to do with honey bees. Honey bees don’t show any signs of going extinct. Its may of the other bee species, which are dying off. And that is bad because of the species liking different specific plants, which often rely on this bee species to be pollinated.
- Comment on If Europe and the rest of the worlds response it to make weapons of war, someone will eventually insure they are all used. 3 months ago:
Surely, this is a this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things situation. Fuck Putin
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Ooohhhh, now I see that it is Ellen. I first thought it was Bernd Höcke, a current polititian for the nazi party AfD in germany XD
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Surely not relevant in this case, but in the german novel “The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear” a Bollock is a giant creature (as in multiple km high), who at some point in his life takes his head of, puts it on the ground and spends the next centuries searching for his head. I think that is funny.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 7 months ago:
Though having cash is not enough. The stores also need to be able to accept cash without internet usage. I think we had a case in germany a few years ago, where some supermarkets could not sell anything, because the servers, to which the local payment system connected (also uses for cash) didn’t work. Not sure, if that was because of a security incident.