agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 20 hours ago:
Focus on what you can change. Try not to let what you can’t bring you down too much.
- Comment on akshully it's "epheboiatrist" 1 day ago:
- Comment on Idibiks Oiho 4 days ago:
Frequently, if not usually, renovating sufficiently old buildings is more expensive and difficult than new construction. Building codes and safety standards change a lot over the years.
- Comment on Cheesfull 4 days ago:
That’ll be $9.95
- Comment on Cheesfull 4 days ago:
It’s almost certainly just cheese with a little sodium citrate. It’s what helps keep melted cheese from splitting.
- Comment on I turned 30 yesterday but I look 18. Nobody believes me when I tell them my age. What do I do? Do I date a 20 year old guy or a 35 year old guy who looks twice my age? 4 days ago:
OP specified that, due to mental haze in their 20s related to their health issues, they mentally feel closer to 20.
- Comment on Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬 5 days ago:
I wouldn’t do it with anybody younger than my daughter, not little kids, gotta be big
- Comment on Exclusive leak from the secret files 5 days ago:
Every time I see Africa rotated ~90° counterclockwise, the first few bars of the Jurassic Park theme play in my head
- Comment on The struggle 5 days ago:
Fake for internet points. If it was real, the rug would be all scrunched up around the fingertips.
- Comment on How much of a persons body is needed to survive? 1 week ago:
It certainly looks nervous
- Comment on Hair color is a spectrum 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s why I said “tend”. There are plenty of exceptions but they are exceptions.
- Comment on Hair color is a spectrum 1 week ago:
I didn’t know how accurate it is, but I heard a compelling explanation:
I’m Western animation, character models are generally more cartoonish and extreme, so it’s easy to tell them apart. In anime, characters tend to be more realistically proportioned and homogenous, which makes them much harder to distinguish. Crazy hairstyles and colors help make the characters easily distinguishable.
- Comment on Qutos 1 week ago:
Extortion is an art?
- Comment on You either know what cute aggression is, and understand it...or you think the concept makes a person sound like a future serial killer who's going around squeezing the life out of puppies. 1 week ago:
I knew a girl who had it bad. She got a kitten, and told me he was so cute she wanted to chop him up and put him in a stew.
- Comment on I would also like some drain bamage 1 week ago:
More like Sister Sage
- Comment on Why did AT&T think "Eye of Sauron" was the way to go? 1 week ago:
I lived just outside Nashville for a couple years as a kid. If there are two landmarks I remember, they’re the Batman building and the sign for Jack’s BBQ
- Comment on xkcd #3117: Replication Crisis 1 week ago:
On the other hand, this is embarrassing, because it suggests that people doing follow-up studies to a prestigious person second-guess their own results
Some people have started distinguishing between “science”, i.e. the scientific method, and "the science’, i.e. the total collective body of results.
“Science” is precious and pure. It’s never right or wrong, it just approaches correctness as it progresses.
“The science” is always inherently suspect since that’s how “science” works, but it’s frequently treated as indisputable fact. This is problematic for a number of reasons, and the replication crisis is at the top of that list.
- Comment on Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics 1 week ago:
I remember most of the R Daneel books, but I admit I haven’t read all the various robot short stories.
- Comment on Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics 1 week ago:
The laws were baked into the hardware of their positronic brains. They were so fundamentally interwoven with the structure that you couldn’t build a positronic brain without them.
You can’t expect just whatever random AI to spontaneously decide to follow them.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 1 week ago:
It’s also stupid to waste resources to run an inefficient LLM that a regular search and a few minutes of time, along with like a bite of an apple worth of energy, could easily handle.
From what I can tell, running an LLM isn’t really all that energy intensive, it’s the training that takes loads of energy. And it’s not like regular searches don’t use loads of energy to initially index web results.
And this also ignores the gap between having a question, and knowing how to search for the answer. You might not even know where to start. Maybe you can search a vague question, but you’re essentially hoping that somewhere in the first few results is a relevant discussion to get you on the right path. GPT, I find, is more efficient for getting from vague questions to more directed queries.
After all that, you’re going to need to check all those sources chatGPT used anyways, so how much time is it really saving you? At least with Wikipedia I know other people have looked at the same things I’m looking at, and a small percentage of those people will actually correct errors.
I find this attitude much more troubling than responsible LLM use. You should not be trusting tertiary sources, no matter how good their track record, you should be checking the sources used by Wikipedia too. You should always be checking your sources.
Many people aren’t using it as a valid research aid like you point out, they’re just pasting directly out of it onto the internet.
That’s beyond the scope of my argument, and not really much worse than pasting directly from any tertiary source.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 1 week ago:
Just using the “information” it regurgitates isn’t very useful, which is why I didn’t recommend doing that. Whether the information summarized by Wikipedia and ChatGPT is accurate really isn’t important, you use those tools to find primary sources.
- Comment on mmmmmmmmmmm 1 week ago:
Typewriter style is a valid subset of chomping.
- Comment on mmmmmmmmmmm 1 week ago:
What other option is there? Lick all the chocolate off and then eat the wafers separately?
Don’t answer that. I don’t want to know.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 1 week ago:
ChatGPT is a moderately useful tertiary source. Quoting Wikipedia isn’t research, but using Wikipedia to find primary sources and reading those is a good faith effort. Likewise, asking ChatGPT in and of itself isn’t research, but it can be a valid research aid if you use it to find relevant primary sources.
- Comment on Elmo is on fire 1 week ago:
Yeah, when he said “He said Free Luigi!”, I was like, “…and?”
- Comment on anything but metric 1 week ago:
Precisely
- Comment on Now 1 week ago:
Anew
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 2 weeks ago:
Yup you want to focus farther than the picture. Crossing your eyes mature you focus closer.
- Comment on Can reading assholes be considered science? 2 weeks ago:
Well it’s not just health issues, there’s the arrangement and depth of the creases, callouses, tan lines and stains, cuts and scrapes. If you can map those broadly to character traits (rough and calloused hands imply hard work and industriousness, lots of little injuries imply absent-mindedness, etc), then you can use those character traits to predict the answers to some questions. An absent-minded person is more likely to meet with small misfortunes, for instance.
Combine that with whatever the subject’s questions are, and a bit of basic psychology.
- Comment on Can reading assholes be considered science? 2 weeks ago:
Not any more than palm reading is a science
Well… stick with me here, this is just a devil’s advocate hypothetical.
Your hands are your primary method of interacting with the world. The creases, callouses, and other incidental features are reflections of the ways you most frequently use them.
Obviously you can’t divine the future, but you can gather information about a person. I dare say you could devise experiments to detect correlations between certain features of the hands, and features of the person: their profession, hobbies, grooming habits, clumsiness, etc.
I think a sincere scientific study could identify several hand features with moderately predictive correlations.