agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 2 days ago:
This intersection is the start of my daily commute. Drive to the median, clear of traffic in both directions, then check incoming traffic before proceeding
- Comment on Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot 3 days ago:
Her is set in 2025
- Comment on Hey Evolution! You know that flinch I do when I think of embarrassing things in my past, sometimes accompanied by a groan? 5 days ago:
Reflecting on your mistakes let’s you learn from them and not repeat them. Reducing the number of mistakes you make is good for survival. Sorry, this is a feature not a bug.
- Comment on What's your go-to "Bang for your Buck" filament brand? 5 days ago:
I do everything in black anyway, and 4 packs of Elegoo PLA are like $45. No complaints so far and $11-12/kg is hard to beat
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 5 days ago:
“It would be nice to develop an auxiliary sign language to bridge the accessibility has between the hard of hearing and those who don’t learn a dedicated sign”
“You’re just as bad as the colonizers that decimated native American cultures”
Get out of here with that bad faith savior complex nonsense. Teaching indigenous people English wasn’t the problem, the problem was beating children for using their native language. I guess you think literacy is racist too because literacy requirements were used to disenfranchise black Americans, huh?
Your sanctimonious colonization comments are dripping with irony. I asked a question, directly to another person, about their opinion of the concept as a deaf/hard of hearing person. You interceded uninvited, deliberately ignored the explicitly stated context of the question (gestural languages having unique properties from verbal ones) so you could shoehorn in your opinion about a topic explicitly excluded by that context, which you smugly assumed I wasn’t familiar with, purporting the relevance by referencing authors who wrote very little about the actual topic at hand.
You want to talk about colonizers, look at your own actions here.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 5 days ago:
My goalposts are in precisely the place they started: a collection of basic international gestures to facilitate the most basic communication. Where are you jumping to colonization? Where did I say that my cultural group gets to decide what the signs are? You’re, again, wildly overestimating the scope of my proposal and jumping to ridiculous, unsubstantiated conclusions.
You get a group of signers from around the world to develop an international pidgin (like they already do informally at international gatherings) and come to consensus based on commonality. When the majority agree on a sign, use it. Where there’s little agreement, choose a new sign. No finger spelling, no complex abstract concepts, just a formalization of gestures most people could probably figure out anyway. I fail to see how that perpetuates colonization unless that’s what you’re setting out to do with your methodology.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 5 days ago:
I am familiar with the regionality of language. I don’t understand your point, you’re simultaneously saying that you can’t have universal understanding, but we have gestures we instantly understand instantly so there’s no need to codify them, but they look different.
I think you’re wildly overestimating the scope of my proposal.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 5 days ago:
It would certainly be limited and rudimentary; I wouldn’t suggest a solution exists capable of any broad nuance. But gesture is a unique variety of communication, in that it can convey “innate” meaning in ways verbal language simply cannot, except in the case of onomatopoeia. Pointing is nearly universal, smiling is nearly universal, beckoning is nearly universal. Gesture is a spatial form of communication, centered around our primary means of material interaction with the world.
Grammar and syntax aside, I’d argue that it would be possible to assemble a vocabulary of universal concepts (eat, drink, sleep, travel, me, you, communicate, cooperate, come here, go away, etc). Certainly not a language for extended detailed conversation, but a codification and extension of gestures which are already nearly universal by virtue of their innate implications alone. Enough to communicate that you’re hungry, but not enough to send for takeout.
A universal language, at the level of any other sophisticated language, is obviously impossible. A formal codification of simple gestures to communicate at the most basic human concepts is much more doable.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 6 days ago:
I know this is a point of some contention among the deaf community, but how do you feel about the development of a “standard” international sign? Personally, and I’m speaking as a fully hearing person, I think a basic international sign should be developed and taught to everyone. Not only to facilitate communication with the hard of hearing, but also in loud environments and with those who don’t share a spoken language.
It’s my understanding that a large portion of the deaf community is hostile to the idea of a universal sign from a cultural perspective, since each regional sign has cultural content. However I think it’s a potential solution for numerous issues, with more pros than cons.
- Comment on Why tho 1 week ago:
- Comment on Law of Attraction is just a modern-day religion 1 week ago:
The woo-ey aspects are actually pretty interesting. Since the mechanism relies on focusing your subconscious, belief is crucial. If you don’t believe in your goal, and the efficacy of the method, your subconscious won’t buy-in, and without subconscious buy-in it flat out doesn’t work. Subconscious buy-in is the mechanism. You can’t try to consciously trick the subconscious, it’s in there with the one trying to trick it. You have to really believe.
A lot of people can’t believe that it’s internal. They don’t think that ability could possibly be in then anywhere, so in order to cultivate the requisite belief they have to attribute the mechanism to some kind of external woo. So even if the woo isn’t real, belief in the woo can be integral to the mechanism working.
- Comment on Law of Attraction is just a modern-day religion 1 week ago:
That’s part of it, but not all. The world is a vast and complex place, you cannot possibly engage with, or even notice, the majority of the information available to your senses.
Your subconscious mind filters out information which isn’t significant to you, and draws attention to information which is. This is why when you get a car, it suddenly seems like everyone got that same make and model. That model didn’t become more popular, you just now have a reason to notice what was already there.
The Law of Attraction is one incarnation of the intentional exploitation of this psychological phenomenon. By attaching significance to some goal, and reinforcing that significance, you train your subconscious mind to notice opportunities in service of that goal.
- Comment on orinthologists be like 2 weeks ago:
Bin juice drinking gronks
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 2 weeks ago:
Classically, the meme would be the semantic content in this context or a derivative one (unless we consider this text itself to be derivative). It might re-emerge periodically, but some degree of contextual integrity would be necessary for it to be considered the same meme.
- Comment on New best friend for life! 3 weeks ago:
What strikes me is, how old it is, how close the time stamp is to the precise anniversary of the original.
- Comment on You had no say in being born, but you have the ultimate say in how you're going to live. 4 weeks ago:
This is me trying to explain the difference between “fault” and “responsibility”
- Comment on The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition. 5 weeks ago:
My favorite depiction of time travel tech is Primer. Assuming you figure out the time travel part itself, I can imagine a time machine that can take you all the way back to the moment it was switched on. Any other mechanism has introduces way more issues that time travel alone.
- Comment on Have We Reached Peak AI? 1 month ago:
It takes what, a year minimum to design a chip? I think the iterative hardware-software cycle is just now properly getting a foothold on the architecture. The next few years are going to, at minimum, explore what lavishly-funded, purpose-built hardware can do for the field.
It’ll be years before we reach any kind of maximum. Even if the software doesn’t improve at all, which is unlikely, better utilization alone will make significant improvements on performance.
- Comment on Have We Reached Peak AI? 1 month ago:
You imply that humans cannot be tricked by out of the box thinking? Any hacker would tell you that the most reliable method of entry into any system is just ActLikeYouBelong.
- Comment on If managers are so good at managing things, how come they can't manage to manage themselves? 1 month ago:
It’s a hierarchy. You have a department, or other such division, with a manager to coordinate it. Then you have a manager who manages all the departments, or a subsection thereof, to coordinate them; this is “managing managers” and typically more complex due to the interdisciplinary nature. Then you have managers to manage the manager-managers, who oversee entire regions or similar sectors.
Sometimes manager-manager managers are necessary, but if you need managers to micromanage manager-managers, your organization has problems
- Comment on xkcd #2905: Supergroup 2 months ago:
Tbf, notice the “#2905”. Dude’s been cranking these out consistently, 3 times a week, for 18+ years.They can’t all be great.
- Comment on Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes 2 months ago:
Of course some things will always slip through the cracks, but this is egregious. What does their peer-review process look like that this passed through it?
- Comment on Troll Physics 101 2 months ago:
Didn’t they also use basically rocket fuel as a sealant?
- Comment on Detroit Become Human caught me by surprise 2 months ago:
For whatever reason I I didn’t get that result from Hank, and tbh my bad run Kara refused to break through her programming and that ended her portion of the run pretty quick
- Comment on I'm working on a mechanical seven segment display 2 months ago:
Dang, camshaft + Geneva is really obvious in hindsight, cool.
- Comment on Detroit Become Human caught me by surprise 2 months ago:
Oh, well >!I’m using Sync and have only used Sync!<. Sorry. If you have an alternative I’d love to know
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
“20% minimum” is excessive, I say this as someone with years of serving experience.
15% for competent but unremarkable service
20% for remarkably good service, more for truly excellent service
10% for remarkably bad service, less for truly horrible service
- Comment on Detroit Become Human caught me by surprise 2 months ago:
I was a little underwhelmed on the effects of some of the effects of some of the choices.
!I did a “good” playthrough and an “evil” playthrough.
In one, I played Markus as a a pacifist civil rights leader. He avoided violence at all costs, and his broadcast was about wanting to live in harmony with humanity. In the other, he was fine with murdering humans and his broadcast was about ruling over humanity. I didn’t notice much difference in public response.
In one, I played Connor as a sympathetic and emotionally invested partner who tried to connect with Hank, saved him in the chase, and refused to shoot Chloe. In the other, I played him as a cold detective who repeatedly reiterated that he just had a job to do, ignored Hank on the roof, and shot Chloe with no hesitation. Didn’t notice much difference in Hank’s reactions.
Outside a puzzle-like element of making the “right” choices, I was somewhat underwhelmed with the effects personal decisions really had.!<
- Comment on xkcd #2893: Sphere Tastiness 2 months ago:
Rabbits have two kinds of poop: the hard little Cocoa Pebble looking ones and the soft glossy cluster-of-grapes looking ones. The former have been fully digested, the latter are designed to be eaten again to extract more nutrients.
- Comment on xkcd #2893: Sphere Tastiness 2 months ago:
Rabbits seem to enthusiastically agree as well