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- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 6 days ago:
Seriously, what is that supposed to be on it? And what is it supposed to mean? I know it isn’t real, but what were they going for?
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Um… you can always observe the cat by opening the box, same as you can look up the stock value. Observing the cat doesn’t change it’s actual state. It only changes your knowledge of it. Same as value of a stock. No difference.
As for the definition, you hand picked 2 peices from that whole page. The first one when you read the example below doesn’t even fit your case, so you left that out.
Then you had to do mental gymnastics to make the second one fit. But it was a legal definition. None of this is a legal document, so it doesn’t matter. There is a reason that one is so low on the page.
But whatever. You want to consider stocks going down at any given second to mean you lost money in your head… fine. But when conversing with normal people, you will be hard pressed to find people who agree.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 1 week ago:
Something, something, can’t prove a negative… While valuable research, it doesn’t prove no harm is done. It can only provide evidrnce that the harm they tested for didn’t appear to happen. That is a kind of important difference.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
That is basically Schrodinger’s cat. If you don’t open the box, the cat is both dead or alive. So you “could” interpret “lost money” as lost net worth. But if you read it litterally, it wasn’t money. It was an asset. You couldn’t spend it and it doesn’t meet the definition of money. Poorer, I suppose, because you could borrow against that asset, but not as much as before.
- Comment on If autism is a spectrum, does that mean everyone is on the spectrum? 1 week ago:
I very much agree on the don’t take the terms too seriously. They are just labels. Not entirely arbitrary, but still mostly arbitrary. That said, I do think we are due for a medical revolution anytime now. So I don’t think 200 years. But certainly plenty more time.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
But if you don’t sell, did you lose money. My 401k goes up and down all the time. But I didn’t lose any money. Same with my house value.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
At work, the boss recently asked everyone to disclose any voluntary use of AI. This is a very small company (startup) and was for a compliance thing. Nearly all of the engineering team was using some AI from somewhere for a large variety of things. These are top engineers mostly. We don’t have manager, just the CTO. So noone was even encouraging it. They all chose it because it could make them more productive. Not the 3x or 10x BS you hear from the CEO shills. But more productive.
AI has a lot of problems, but all of the tools we have to use suck in a variety of ways. So that is nothing new. - Comment on If autism is a spectrum, does that mean everyone is on the spectrum? 1 week ago:
On the spectrum is short for on the autism spectrum. What that realky means is that there are several characteristics, all of which are spectrums themselves, which have a subset that is associated with autism. There is basically a formula for calculating a score that combines them and if it is in a certain range, they call it autism.
All and all, autism is a syndrom, which means they don’t know what causes it or even what it is. They just take a bunch of people who have similar symptoms and lump them under a syndrome so they can try and study it better. Same as IBS. Most likely there are multiple different causes that may very well be unrelated.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Meh, some people do want to use AI. And it does have decent use cases. It is just massively over extended. So it won’t be any worse than the dot com bubble. And I don’t worry about the tech bros monopolizing it. If it is true AGI, they won’t be able to contain it. In the 90s I wrote a script called MCP… for tron. It wasn’t complicated, but it was designed to handle the case that servers dissappear… so it would find new ones. I changed jobs, and they couldn’t figure out how to kill it. Had to call me up. True AGI will clean thier clocks before they even think to stop it. So just hope it ends up being nice.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Everything is always 5 to 10 years away until it happens. Agi cpuld happen any day in the next 1000 years. There is a good chance you won’t see it coming.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 1 week ago:
Meh, they come back up over time. Long term, the US stock market has only gone up.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 week ago:
I think it was always fucked. They just hid it better, and many people pretended not to see.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 week ago:
Ya’know, it is odd now that you mention it. Out here in oregon we have a lot more “gray” days then out east. Yet I don’t see as many people drinking coffee in the care compared to out east. You would think we would need it more.
Also odd, there is a clear difference in how traditional east coast companies are (and are allowed to be). Tech is my area, and it is very noticeable. Management hierarchies are much more rigid. Clothing/appearance expectations. Still a lot of golf played on company time. Diversity… I think the people are often liberal, but they don’t seem to take much of that to the office. Oh, and more religion in the east than the west. Y’all still have blue laws in many states.
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 weeks ago:
You hit on the core reason. Less rigidity. The east and south are much more traditional. They are slow to change tradition. That also makes them slow to adapt. It’s a mindset. And the people who left those areas to go west did so with a more open mindset. And once it started that way, it was more or less established. If you like peer pressure from dead people, go east and south. If not, go west.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve noticed how poorly gpus are classified, and how it seems every intersting peice of AI software just has a list of gpus it can work on. So I can see customers just locking into one brand so they have less to memorize.
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
There definitely was a “they are replaceable” attitude back then. Now try to imagine the generations before us, when 13 kids wasn’t that abnormal. And that 13 only counted the ones that survived.
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
I have been told I have to go to my room and stay there. I’m like, you promise? Didn’t take long for that threat to stop.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 weeks ago:
If they are old enough to ask, they are old enough to hear “I dunno, ask your Mom”.
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
He’s autistic, and that concept is not something he could grasp yet.
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
In the past people didn’t have access to a device with endless information about how rough it is the raise kids. Instead they had other local parents as a source, and those parents just wanted company in thier misery.
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
There is a reason for declining child birth numbers… it has everything to do with more people knowing what they are really getting into.
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
My son(11) will say, “you can’t do that, I’ll call the police and they will arrest you”. I say, great maybe I’ll get some peace and quiet. He doesn’t know I won’t, so it works. Lol.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 4 weeks ago:
I couldn’t make it work. But I did notice that the spot in the background changed focus a tiny bit at one point. I suspect my brain was tracking the thumb and simply refused to continue to truely focus on the background spot. I tried and tried, but just couldn’t make it happen. Neither eye. :(
- Comment on Looking for a game like "99 days in the forest" to play with my kid, but not on roblox 4 weeks ago:
Well I haven’t actually played it. But you start out in the center of a forest. You have a fire. You collect would to level up the fire. That opens more space in the forest… you collect things, level up things, find things… there is a random deer that attacks you at night or something. And some wolves at some point. But unlike raft, satisfactory or Minecraft it is a shorter overall play through. And the forest is different each time. So you play until you die or win. But it doesn’t let you save, which is annoying for me, even if a play through should only take an hour or so.
I am open to other ideas as well. We have put many many hours into raft. Also satisfactory, minecraft, tf2 (though my wife doesn’t like that one :) ) - Comment on Looking for a game like "99 days in the forest" to play with my kid, but not on roblox 4 weeks ago:
we have put many many hours into raft. Also satisfactory, minecraft, tf2 (though my wife doesn’t like that one :)). I am open to more options as well.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 4 weeks ago:
Not enough people still printing these days to be worth the effort of an opensource printer. But in general, yes. Closed source products are always a ticking timebomb.
- Comment on Looking for a game like "99 days in the forest" to play with my kid, but not on roblox 4 weeks ago:
It’s a tough thing. I let him play on it because that is where the very few friends he has are. I did hold out as long as I could. He is autistic, so any interaction with neurotypical kids is good for him. But he can also be a pretty stringent rule follower, so I setup rules for interacting with anyone not a friend he knows personally. And he follows them. In general he doesn’t like playing with rando’s at all. So it works out to be “okay”. Not great. But “okay”. I just don’t want to make me an account, cause then he will want me to play all the lame money grabbing games with him and such.
All in all. If you kid manages to have social interactions with other kids without roblox. Then there is no need for it. Nearly all of the games on there are just money grab pay-to-play games.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 5 weeks ago:
I always ignore power savings requests. If they really can’t serve the population, they need to make more power. If we all turn down our usage to make it work, they won’t make more.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 weeks ago:
Also, the restaurant probably has no control over those numbers. The software might give them a Yes/No option on showing suggested tips or not at best.