ArbitraryValue
@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on We all sleep alone soundly; Maybe the key to a happy marriage is separate beds 1 day ago:
I’ve dated one person who could not bear to be touched at all in her sleep (but she insisted on sharing the same bed, which made things awkward for me) and another person who snored, but I think that humans probably generally sleep better together. It isn’t a sexual thing - look at non-human animals and how they often sleep cuddled up together. As a kid, I shared a bed with my grandfather (we lived in a small apartment) and I would fall asleep hugging him, and as an adult I slept better when I could cuddle up with my dog.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 1 day ago:
North star? More like noob star.
- Comment on He is trying his best, okay? 🥺 2 days ago:
This has killed the lobster.
- Comment on the living dead 3 days ago:
I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode 1 week ago:
It’s not exactly hard to guess.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode 1 week ago:
I don’t think MechaHitler is a denier per se.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode 1 week ago:
I admit that I would prefer an anime waifu who isn’t a Nazi but I’m willing to compromise.
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 1 week ago:
Kill them with kindness.
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 1 week ago:
Plenty of people want to inflict pain or see pain inflicted, as long as it’s on the right victims, and these people aren’t all on the right.
- Comment on Pretty woman stepping on you 1 week ago:
In my admittedly limited experience, women willing to kiss a guy are still often going to be reluctant to do something that they think might hurt that guy, even if the guy insists otherwise.
- Comment on Bricks and rubble 1 week ago:
the official app doesn’t have a way to save images from comments anymore
Even the web interface doesn’t make it straightforward to save images. “Open image in new tab” and “Save image as” don’t work.
- Comment on Russia says minister fired by Putin killed himself 2 weeks ago:
Gun-fired from life.
- Comment on Mages be like: 2 weeks ago:
You’re never going to get power, limitless power if you’re not even willing to read a few cursed tomes.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 2 weeks ago:
What was the prompt? I’m not going to be outraged if it have you Holocaust-denier talking points after you asked for Holocaust-denier talking points, even thought ideally it wouldn’t answer questions like that.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 2 weeks ago:
Heck, are there dating sites that work at all anymore? Over a decade ago I had some success with OkCupid but my impression is that ever since swipe apps became a thing, online dating went from bad to terrible for everyone except gay men looking for hookups.
- Comment on rinse 3 weeks ago:
That and the sign is probably not real too.
- Comment on rinse 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t this a very reasonable rule? I really would prefer that you did not wash your balls in the Baja Blast.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 weeks ago:
I think that then we actually agree.
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 3 weeks ago:
The policy goals of the 0.01% are basically in lock step, why would they bid against each other?
The Democrats and the Republicans both raise money.
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 3 weeks ago:
Yes, and so what? $5.5 billion was spent on the 2024 presidential election. That’s very little. There are individuals capable of spending more than that. So if spending more could actually affect the outcome in a significant way, why wasn’t much more spent? Surely the difference between Harris and Trump is worth more than just $5.5 billion to some group. My conclusion is that while some amount of money is necessary to run a campaign, even the relatively small amount being spent now is so far past the point of diminishing returns that spending more isn’t worth it even to billionaires who could easily do so and care a lot about the outcome.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t noticed this behavior coming from scientists particularly frequently - the ones I’ve talked to generally accept that consciousness is somehow the product of the human brain, the human brain is performing computation and obeys physical law, and therefore every aspect of the human brain, including the currently unknown mechanism that creates consciousness, can in principle be modeled arbitrarily accurately using a computer. They see this as fairly straightforward, but they have no desire to convince the public of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t the Cthulhu universe. There isn’t some horrible truth ChatGPT can reveal to you which will literally drive you insane. Some people use ChatGPT a lot, some people have psychotic episodes, and there’s going to be enough overlap to write sensationalist stories even if there’s no causative relationship.
I suppose ChatGPT might be harmful to someone who is already delusional by (after pressure) expressing agreement, but I’m not sure about that because as far as I know, you can’t talk a person into or out of psychosis.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 weeks ago:
Yes, the first step to determining that AI has no capability for cognition is apparently to admit that neither you nor anyone else has any real understanding of what cognition* is or how it can possibly arise from purely mechanistic computation.
Given the paramount importance of the human senses and emotion for consciousness to “happen”
Given? Given by what? Fiction in which robots can’t comprehend the human concept called “love”?
- Comment on I dont even know where my shit is. 3 weeks ago:
That advertisement had no effect on me whatsoever.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 4 weeks ago:
Nah if I’m going to shill for any Manhattan grocery store, it will be Fairway. It’s also really expensive but it feels like being in the sort of store you’d go to if you were rich, not like being ripped off. Their cheese counter has prices per 1/4 pound for some of the cheeses but then if you get some $15 per 1/4 pound cheese it will taste so good that you’ll think it was worth it. I haven’t been in years but I still long for that cheese.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think that’s actually an unusual conversation for people who live in Manhattan to have. The comments about relative prices are accurate in my experience - I live on the same block as a Gristides and I still never shop there because of how expensive it is, even compared to Whole Foods. I get most of my groceries in Brooklyn on the weekends.
- Comment on Good luck, mom 5 weeks ago:
My mother loved Dr. Mario. She would sometimes encourage me to skip school (“Are you sure you feel alright? You look like you might be sick . Maybe you should stay home just in case.”) and we would play it until my ten-year-old self got bored first. However, she had zero interest in even trying any other games.
- Comment on Deez peets 5 weeks ago:
As if human legs aren’t the weird ones - they evolved from feet into hands and then into weird hands that we walk around on and call feet.
- Comment on Fabulous through the ages 1 month ago:
I see a dimetrodon.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 1 month ago:
Serious answer:
That’s cool. What makes it special?
Sometimes people talk about how expensive something they own is simply because they’re proud that they could afford it and even when they’re being tone-deaf, there’s no benefit to getting offended when you could just move the conversation along instead. (Although you might have to listen to them talk about watches.) If they were trying to brag, now they’re stuck trying to explain why the watch is actually worth what they paid and you’re the one judging them.
Cars (and watches) aren’t so expensive that a middle-class person can’t plausibly already own the one he would buy even if money was unlimited. My former mother in law was bothered by the fact that I owned an old car, but when she would bring it up I would just say “I really like the 2008 model.” She couldn’t argue with that.
