Modern_medicine_isnt

@Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is it someone hasn’t modified the dna of grass to give us one that has both deep roots and works like lawn grass on top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case though he said he was in a union. So committing to something sets precedent that can be used against the union. If there was no union involved, then I agree with you. I just suck at lieing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dictators care about how they are perceived because they used skills in manipulating how they are perceived to get into the position they are in. Making it a self selecting group. But when you change “how” they get there to simply be that they were given superpowers at birth, you remove the self selection. So now it is just a random sampling of the population, which in my opinion skews toward not caring as much about how they are percieved if they don’t need to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are certainly people who do. But I think they are the minority. They do sort of bunch up though. So if you are one, you probably don’t realize you are the minority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is too much of a commitment. Should end with I’ll consider that, or I’ll look into that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly, if it is in the cloud, it can get hacked far more easily than on your local. But neither is really safe. And very few people can stomach what they would have to do to improve thier odds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, cause pharmaceutical company would produce a drug that you take for a short time and never need again. Not enough profit. And they would have no actual control over the superheros. In the boys, all of the sups seemed to care what the public thought of them so much, they would do what the corp wanted. In reality, the ones who didn’t care would outnumber the ones who did. And they would just kill whoever they wanted, and threaten to kill others to get what they wanted. Kinda like the oligarchy we have today, but with far less constraint, and no need to even try to hide things like being pedos and racists and such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only workers are expected to be happy with good enough. The elite will never say the balance of thier bank account is good enough. And thus companies always need to grow bigger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, that was the sales pitch. But name one tool in development that actually does what the sales pitch claimed. Knowing how to get useful info out of AI does involve knowing how to talk to it. Just like getting the most out of gitlab means knowing how they intend for you to organize your jobs. So AI is just like every other tool, overhyped, underdelivering, and has “some” use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right I did say easy. In my head I meant that valve pay for it and such, not that it was technically easy. But what I typed didn’t line up.

  And as far as sandboxing, I wasn’t really thinking vm sandboxing, I was thinking they could litterally take a whole pc, run the game and see what it does. I assume they could probably do that in a less labor intensive way like run it in the cloud and watch for the process to try to detect that as well. All in all I was thinking more testing env, and not end user changes. Cause yeah, end user support for isolating processes should be on the OS.

  But in general, they should do a better job vetting publishers and ensuring those publishers can be held accountable. That is hard to do without blocking out the smaller publishers, but I have faith that if they put a few minds to it, they could figure it out. Probably could contract out the planning part to some experts so they wouldn’t have to perm hire a lot. Might even be able to contract out the vetting so they could pass the liability on.

  A crazy thought just hit me. Something like fdic insurance. Won’t happen with this admin in the US, but if the gov setup the vetting guidelines, they could insure the vetters for damages if they followed the guidelines. That would spur vetters into existence that valve and others could then contract. Pipe dream I am sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t say it was easy. The fact is, valve could do it. It is just somewhat expensive. Make a law that game distributors are liable for losses if they distribute malware and you would see how well they could do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I chose not to spell out the full test. The fact is, valve could do it. It is just somewhat expensive. Make a law that game distributors are liable for losses if they distribute malware and you would see how well they could do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I chose not to spell out the full test. The fact is, valve could do it. It is just somewhat expensive. Make a law that game distributors are liable for losses if they distribute malware and you would see how well they could do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly it passed thier test. But it was not undetectable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am decently versed in the game of cat and mouse. The fact is, valve could do it. It is just somewhat expensive. Make a law that game distributors are liable for losses if they distribute malware and you would see how well they could do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam could easily gave automation the installs and runs games in a sandbox. Then watches what they do. The things it needed to do to steal the crypto should be vastly different than what a game should be allowed to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wobble wobble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw birth control -> baby scale -> death. I was like wtf. Lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incorrect?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I am curious, how big is a uterus? Bigger than the average penis? And if we are considering it’s size with a baby in it… no contest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking about that. Do we need to sign up when things are quiet so that we can cancel to protest such stuff. I usually feel left out because I already don’t use most of the things I want to cancel in protest. I got to do it this time because I had forgotten I signed up for my kid a while back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bullet engravings as per WSJ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, they come back up over time. Long term, the US stock market has only gone up.